Tracklist:

Something Like Astral

Zutto Mae

Atmosphere

Oka

Motion

Air To Spare

New Lights

Cosmic Being

12th Isle returns to familiar downtempo, club-adjacent ambient and analogue house stylings with eight tracks from Japan’s sprawling metropolis. Following a series of split releases and dancefloor-focused EPs over the past decade, Tokyo-based producer Igaxx joins the label with their debut full-length album, closing out the year.

Igaxx (Shota Ikawa) works with multi-tracked hardware synthesisers manufactured throughout the 1990s and 2000s, embracing the subtle variations and unexpected moments that emerge through performance. Chance and unpredictability become integral to the music. New Lights exists somewhere between the dancefloor and focused listening, carrying a sense of weightlessness and quiet humour. It balances immersive sonic environments with moments of sly, unexpected detail and improvisation.

“To date, I have released several EPs on my own label in Japan, as well as on labels across Europe. I am truly happy to finally present my work in the form of a full-length album. It has allowed me to express and unify a broader musical world than was possible within the format of an EP, and that, to me, is one of the album’s greatest meanings.”