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B12

Profile:B12 Records was founded in 1990 by Mike Golding and Steve Rutter as a vehicle for themselves and other like minded individuals to release electronic music for listening and dancing. Many thought the duo hailed from Detroit, as their sound fused many of the elements of techno coming from the Motor City, alongside labels such as Transmat and Plus 8. Every record was hand-engraved in the run out grooves, with cryptic clues and messages, recurring themes of futurism and science fiction.

Releasing under a series of monikers, such as Redcell, Cmetric, and Musicology, their connections with Kirk DeGeorgio’s A.R.T. Records are well documented, each artist featuring on the others label, and even a pair of split 12”s with a label taking each side of the vinyl. The pair were also snapped up by Warp Records, featuring on the seminal Artificial Intelligence series and releasing two albums and an EP on Warp under the umbrella name ‘B12’

Then in 1996, with test pressings of B1215 in their hands, they disappeared without warning or reason. B1215 never made it to release.

Forward to 2005. Illegal bootlegs of old B12 material are circulating – poor quality, without the engravings in the run-out grooves. Mike & Steve return to play a live show in London to a sell-out crowd (the bouncers had to stop queues inside the building). B12 absolutely blew everyone away, a decade away hadn't dampened their sound one bit. The applause at the end was so overwhelming that the following act was shouting at the crowd to shut up and stop cheering so he could begin his set. They announced there was new material to come, and their intentions of re-mastering the back catalogue for release on a 12 CD box set, with bonus unreleased materials.

Now, in 2007, B12 Records has exactly the same goal it did in 1990, to provide quality electronic music for futuristic feet and forward thinking minds.

B1213D was released as T-Shirt.
Contact Info:label@b12records.com
URLs:http://www.b12records.com
http://www.myspace.com/b12records
http://www.obsolete.com/b12/1st.htm
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Discography:
B12CD1 Redcell : Stasis Untitled (CD, Ltd) 1993
B1201 Musicology Musicology ◄ (3 versions) 1991
B1202 2001 Space Age EP (EP) ◄ (3 versions) 1991
B1203 Future/Past / As One / Zee# Untitled ◄ (2 versions) 1991
B1204 Musicology Outlook ◄ (2 versions) 1992
B1205 Redcell Redcell ◄ (2 versions) 1992
B1206 Musicology Hall Of Mirrors ◄ (2 versions) 1992
B1207 Redcell Retreat From Unpleasant Realities ◄ (3 versions) 1992
B1208 Redcell Interim Outerim ◄ (2 versions) 1993
B1209 B12 Prelude Part 1 (Cass, Ltd) 1993
B1209CD B12 Prelude Part 1 (CD, Ltd) 1993
B1210 Cmetric Cmetric ◄ (2 versions) 1994
B1211 Stasis Point Of No Return! ◄ (3 versions) 1993
B1215 Redcell Untitled (12", W/Lbl, Promo) 1996
B1215 B12 Practopia ◄ (3 versions) 2007
B1215SE B12 Practopia (12", RM, RP, Ltd) 2007
B1216 B12 Slope ◄ (2 versions) 2007
B1216SE B12 Slope (12", RP, Ltd) 2007
B1217 B12 32 Lineup ◄ (2 versions) 2008
B1217X B12 32 Lineup ◄ (2 versions) 2008
B1218 Kirk Degiorgio I Do Not Exist (Single) ◄ (2 versions) 2007
B1218X Kirk Degiorgio I Do Not Exist (12", Ltd, Cle) 2007
B1219 B12 Last Days Of Silence (CD, Album, Promo) 2008
B1219 B12 Last Days Of Silence (2xCD) 2008
B1219LE B12 Last Days Of Silence (2xCD, Ltd, Met) 2008
B1220 B12 Last Days Of Silence (Remixes) (12", Ltd, Pic, Smplr) 2008
B1220CD B12 Last Days Of Silence (Remixes) ◄ (2 versions) 2008
B1212.1 B12 B12 Records Archive Volume 1 (2xCD, Comp, RM, Dig) 2008
B1212.2 Various B12 Records Archive Volume 2 (2xCD, Comp, Dig) 2008
B1212.2 B12 & Kirk DeGiorgio B12 Records Archive Volume 2 (CD, Promo) 2008
B1212.3 B12 B12 Records Archive Volume 3 (2xCD, Comp, Dig) 2009
B1212.4 B12 B12 Records Archive Volume 4 (2xCD, Comp, Dig) 2009
B1212.5 Various B12 Records Archive Volume 5 (2xCD, Comp, Dig) 2009
B1212.6 B12 B12 Records Archive Volume 6 (2xCD, Comp, Dig) 2009
B1212.7 Various B12 Records Archive Volume 7 (2xCD, Comp, Dig) 2009
B1214.1 Various ART 7.1 / B1214.1 (12") 1995
B1214.2 Various ART 7.2 / B1214.2 (12") 1995
User Reviews:
toedawg, Aug 31, 2003

B12 to me was the essence of DEEP!!! These 2 fellows, some say, spawned IDM (for lack of a better word) music and their records will go down in history for being some of the most legendary timeless music of the modern music age.

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