Cream Dream - Love Letter EP

Stumbled upon this young lad's Soundcloud just days ago, and was quite stunned. The quality of his work is one thing, but the quantity... dang. He doesn't just produce good stuff. He produces a lot of good stuff. His debut LP Love Letter has been out for a month now and is a free download over at his Bandcamp-page. A little lighter on the house but very heavy on the funk this is one you don't want to miss. If you're short on time be sure too don't leave this page until you listened to "Jungle Master" and "Hot". Also be sure to check out "Ooh Baby" featuring 12-3 pal Flubba.



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Claude VonStroke - Hardfest Mix

Genious good guy bass-house don Claudy VonStrokez with a dope, dope, dope mix for Hardfest!

So worth your time!



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Le Babar - On The Low EP

Belgian disco maestro Le Babar serves up an incredibly groovy two tracker + DJ Pha5e on remix duty. I can tell you that this release is just SOOOO Andy.

Free trivia:
If the sample on "Love Thang" sounds familiar, it's been previously sampled by Ian Pooley on his fantastic "Higgeldy Piggeldy". Originally it's from the disco song "Love Thang" by First Choice (and yeah, I did just now look that up, beacuse I ain't no disco savant).



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Richard Rossa - House Of House Megamix!

Tasty mix coming from super productive Stockholm-DJ Rossa! Check it!



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One from the 12-3 vaults: Shigeru - Cloudy

New section everybody! Starting today, every monday we'll highlight a tune from the 12-3 back catalog. It's growing fast and chances are you might have missed some gems.

Let's go back to release no. 5, Shigeru's (Martin Berge) two tracker Cloudy/Sen Timma. Up to that point the releases had been, more or less, pretty straight forward house (well... more or less). Then this deep techno-house-whatever-behemoth comes along and *smack*. Heavy stuff.



Buy on:
Beatport
Itunes

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Doomwork - Club Abduction

I had no idead that Doomwork had released an LP. Dang. And it's hot. Apart from the solid tech house bits (no surprise there), there are some down-tempo gems as well bordering the line between funk and italo. Jazzy, groovy and lot's of fun, this one!



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Nowakowski - Mix for Roxy

Turns out I got a namesake living in Gothenburg (to be fair, Nowakowski is a pretty common polish surname), Martin Nowakowski. Or simply Nowakowski as it's the name he's used when releasing music. Anyway, the tracks he's put out are pretty darned solid, and here's a great mix he has just uploaded, for polish radio station Roxy.



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Dark Sky - Ruk

Hot off the latest Modeselektor comp. comes this little gem by Dark Sky. Nice and raw techno.



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Drake feat. Lil Wayne - The Motto (Adam Port Edit)

Sweet jesus in heaven this is good - Adam Port drops a GREAT edit of a drake/weezy-track, free dl and all, bomb!



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Moon Boots - Sugar

Silky soft funk. Just sliiiiides into your ear.



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Leon & Pirupa - Bassline Ep

Leon and Pirupa in a dope colab, and you got to appriciate what you get from Pirupa: extremely well crafted, competent house music, every time - this is no exception.

Cop it!



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Tony Quattro - Out On The Floor EP

Fun, crazy, heavy. This release is 'effin relentless!



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12-3 Spotify List #12

Yes y'all! Brand fresh Spotify-list right here - ten tunes to get you bouncing! Enjoy it music lovers!



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Homework - 2020Vision Podcast

Fantastic indeed!

Homework drops a magic podcast for 2020Vision, enjoy!



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Dale Howard - Some Other Guy EP

Some really classy stuff, courtesy of Dale Howard on OFF Recordings.



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Jon Rundell - Reminisce EP

Not a bad tune on this release. It get's the job done, with flying colours.



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Released today: Sticky Stockholm - Good Thing EP

We're back! Three fresh house tracks for your enjoyment, right here: one pounding, one raw, one deep!

Buy the release on iTunes!



About:

We're back with our first release after a sweet and well needed summer break - more well-crafted house music for your heart, feet and mind!

As always, we're all about the good things - inviting you to follow our lead with three fresh house tracks: one pounding, one raw, one deep. All in celebration of the fat kick drums, the relentless shakers, spicy food and righteous music, drinks and dance, guaccamole and nachos, the clean stabs and the dirty samples.

A good way to lead y'all in to the second part of 2012 indeed, where we keep producing weekly mixshows of the highest standard, throwing dope parties, producing and releasing more fantastic music. Leaving you with a promise that we'll keep working hard to provide you with the overwhelming feeling that the future might actually be really, really bright.

Tomas Barfod - Came To Party

Super fat track, with a fiting vid, from Danish producer-wiz Tomas Barfod!

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Kutcorners - Summer Song

In desperate need of some summer vibe, I put on this gem to remind me what season it actually is in Stockholm.


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Urulu - Sincerely 91 Ep

It's been a great year for Exploited with stellar releases from Homework, Claptone and Shir Khan to name a few. And now Urulu has his sophmore release ready to unleash on the world. And the Exploited machine just keeps on rollin'.



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12-3 Mixshow 011 - Sticky Stockholm

Yes, new week, new Mixshow, old tracks, new tracks and stuff from the 12-3 Catalogue! Two unreleased tracks in this one - one from me and one from Orphans, both coming soon.

Enjoy!



Tracklist:

1. Tim Green - The Quiet Hour
2. Rampa & Hollis P Monroe - Look Out Feat. Overnite
3. Sticky Stockholm - Fake Records
4. Claptone - Shook
5. Sticky Stockholm - Lockdown
6. Dog Days - '92 (Pol_On Edit)
7. Orphans STHLM - Let You Go
8. Tim Green - Rust

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H.O.S.H. - EGO Ep

Nice piece of downtempo tech house.



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Orphans STHLM - God is an Accordion mix

Yet another old mix that I've now put up on our Mixcloud. This one's from 2009 and was a submission for a Let's Mix (remember when that page was a thing?) contest. We didn't win or anything but the mix turned out pretty good in the end.

God is an accordion mix by Orphans Sthlm on Mixcloud

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Kid Culture - Visions EP

Dreamy new release from Sincopat. Visions just puts you in a really good mood.



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Olderic - Slot Shot

How about thos Italians huh? Olderic to drop a dope EP on Terminal M, and the Slot Shot-track is a rollercoaster-techhouse-track on a Pirupa-trip, of the nicest kind!



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The Knight Cats - U have 2 house

Dope, dope, dope.



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Douglas Greed - I Like It When A Man Sings On A Track

Being a fan of tounge in cheek vocals on house tunes, this one is right up my alley. Why haven't I noticed it earlier? It's not like it's released on some obscure label. I'll have to tip my hat for Mr Laurent Garnier's tweet about it earlier this week.



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El Mundo & Satori - We Can All Groove EP

The title track is a killer, but don't underestimate the rest of the release. Trance inducing "Trumpet Tool" is a wall of sound to smack your head against.



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Maya Jane-Coles - Getting Freaky

Concidering how much I loved the Jackathon remixes that dropped earlier this year, and the fact that the always amazing Maya Jane-Coles provides a track like this, I guess you can figure out just how much I love this rendition of the series.



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Hermanez - Drone Deal / Gen EP

A delicious two meal course cooked by Hermanez. The 11 minutes (and counting) long Gen is the star of the show here.



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Prince Club & Poupon - Technique EP

Yes! Two of my absolute favs are back! Cheers to that! Prince Club and Poupon with a nice two tracker on Snatch - sounds fat and dance floor-ready, as always, and I'll be playing these a lot! Especially Technique!



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Matthias Vogt - Wake Up Call (Ian Pooley Remix)

Nothing against the original, it's a dope track in it's own right. But the Ian Pooley mix really struck a chord with me. Nice.



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O&A - July mix

Over an hour of funky house goodness. Nice mix to put on and chill to when you're having as fine a day as we did over i Stockholm today (after 4 hours of rain that is).



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Announcement: Sticky Stockholm - Good Thing EP

First release on 12-3 after a well deserved summer break will drop the 25th of july! Three dope house tracks to look forward to!

Bon Iver / Peter Gabriel - Come Talk To Me (Sticky Stockholm Remix)

Boom! I uploaded this bootleg yesterday, enjoy!



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Homework - Ask Yourself (video)

The latest Homework release is beyond awesome. And here's the video for "Ask Yourself".

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Orphans STHLM - Brost (Am Nice To Her)(dj tool)

Time for a free track! That's right: it's the title track from our next release Brost EP. Actually it's little more than a dj tool. But whatever. Why isn't the title track on the EP? And why is it one of those awful parenthesis titles? Well because it's free and that means we get to call it whatever we want and we have a similar track on the release. Also, it's a little confusing which is fun.



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12-3 Mixshow 010 - Sticky Stockholm

It's Monday, the start of a new week, and with that - a brand new 12-3 Mixshow! This one's made by me, as usual, new stuff, old stuff and some stuff from the 12-3 Catalogue.



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Jamnights & Daniel Parra - French Boat

Bouncing and filtery disco goodness. Loving this as hell!

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Loopalike - Midnight Trip EP

Two relentless effin' bangers. Still reeling from "Midnight Trip" and *SMACK* "Ninja" hits you like a speeding Lamborghini!



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Penner + Muder - Presence of Another Man EP

Deep and groovy original with complementing remixes by RTK and Noir. Yes please!



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Flubba - Darling

Super talented New York-DJ/12-3-artist Flubba just uploaded this clip on his Soundcloud. I have no idea when or if it's coming out - but it sounds like a proper master piece!



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Montevideo - Horses (Discotexas Remix)

Classy remix, that's also free! The break at 4.50-ish is pure brilliance.



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Justice - New Lands (video)

Without a doubt, this is the coolest video I've seen in a long time. Beautiful cinematography and scenography that puts you in the right frame of mind; the bleak future outlook of 70:s/80:s sci-fi romps. The costumes, the sets, the plastic props, the vector computer graphics. It just has the right "feel", for a lack of a better word. Even the lens flares are spot on.

Every cynic knew that the world would be a dark place in the year of our lord 1997. Sports as we know them would replaced by violent spectacles to distract the growing population from everyday problems (some would probably argue that this is indeed the case today). And don't get me started on the penial system. Let's just say the streets of Manhattan aren't safe unless you're packing a baseball bat wrapped in barbed wire. But hey, over at MegaSuperCorp Inc. it's business as usual. Just don't ask what they put in those food cans.

The letterbox format is just icing on the cake and the Snake Plisken lookalike doesn't hurt either.

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Preston San and Mojek - Community Service

Producer talent and 12-3 core member Chris Mojek released his hip-hop-project with colleague Preston about a week ago. Basically real dope rap over som amazing productions.

And it's free! Check it ppl!



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Sticky Stockholm - Free Tracks Volume 4

I'm back!

Been working with these tracks for a while, all basically started out as a main idea about a track concept and a voice sample I really wanted to work around. Took me a while to finish them all up, but i finally got around to do it last week.

So voila! Here's the end result, freshly mastered, free to download.

Enjoy!



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Monkey Safari - Hi Life (Ed Did It)

I'm sure this has allready reached you, the Monkey Safari opening track of Fusion 2012 is becoming a huge internet thingy, well deserved, it's a perfect outdoor dance track the two put together. One excellent house-tune!

The fact that they're sampling a magic Bon Iver-cover (original by Anais Mitchell) only makes it better of course. So if you haven't heard it yet. Listen to the track, enjoy their brilliant Fusion-set, and finally, listen to the fantastic Bon Iver-original/cover, and the sweet Anais Mitchell original, brilliant as well.









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12-3 Mixshow 009 - Orphans STHLM

As usual, we'll start off the week with a mega dope Mixshow from us at the 12-3 camp. Kasper and Andy back with one hour of tasty house!



Tracklist:

1. Green Velvet - La La Land
2. Orphans STHLM - Limbo (Orphans STHLM VIP mix)
3. High Powered Boys - The Bim Bam Song
4. Stinj - Christina (Sticky Stockholm Remix)
5. Cajmere feat. Daje - Brighter Days (John Made Remix)
6. Sebo K & Metro - Saxtrack (Reboot Twisted Fist Remix)
7. Fabian Argomedo - Tabique
8. Armand Van Helden - The Funk Phenomena (Remaster)
9. Aldo Cadiz - Zaze Klap
10. Jesse Rose - Fatman
11. Victor Berghmeister - Mara
12. Pirupa - My Trainer
13. John Made - Play
14. Down Right Rude - Sofia
15. Florence + The Machine - Drumming Song (Sticky Stockholm Remix)
16. Sébastien Léger - C4N Y0U R34D 7H15
17. Amer - Cog In The Machine (Dub mix)
18. Orphans STHLM - Floored
19. The Buffalo Bunch - Music Box
20. DJ Sneak - Fakers
21. Orphans STHLM - Brost (Am Nice To Her )(DJ Tool)

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Matt Veloce - Rainy Days EP

Let's have a smooth sunday together withs this new fantastic Groovetraxx release.



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Mazu - Bass Temple EP

I feel like some quality tech house would be nice today. Mazu is here to provide it.





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Way2Bobo - June 2012 mix

A nice little mix by our friends at Way2Bobo. Some stellar tracks + a little sneak peek at upcoming Orphans material. Nice!



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Flubba - Downtown Funk EP

12-3 had the privilege of releasing Flubba's Can't Wait EP earlier this summer. But this is one productive guy. Next up are four tracks with some serious groove on Scuffed Records. Don't miss out on this one, this is a guy to keep your eyes on.



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Homework - Conversation Piece EP

Great new stuff from 12-3 favourites Homework! Conversation Piece opens up with a title track full of keyboard madness and then gets down to serious business with "Ask Yourself". The tempo drops down somewhat in "Spinning Top" and then "Redondo Beach, CA" rounds of the EP.



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Shlomi Aber - Tough Steps EP

Some tripple A house, why thank you very much.



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Surkin & Todd Edwards - I Want You Back EP

Word about this release started to float around early this year when Surkin annonced he was going in to the studio with an, at the time undisclosed, personal idol of his. Some while later this secret person was revealed to be none other than Todd Edwards. So, here it is, their highly anticipated colab for SP:s crossover series. "I Want You Back" is maybe a little to mellow for my tastes but in the context of the EP it works great, between the jumpy "Mighty Love" and the chugging beats of "Your Way".
 

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Crowdkrushers - Life Just Got Better Mix

Life Just Got Better by Crowdkrushers on Mixcloud

Sweet summer-vibes coming from our friends in Crowdkrushers! Mix-season is here!

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12-3 Mixshow 008 - Sandy Loops

12-3 Mixshow 008 - Sandy Loops by 12-3 Recordings on Mixcloud

New Mixshow, new week, and Sandy Loops has put together 40 dreamy, magic mins of excellent house music!

Enjoy it house-lovers!

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Mike Jules - Denim Hi-Tops EP

New fun and funky music from Mike Jules. Still waiting for Crack Ass to be relesaed. This will have to do in the meantime.
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