B12

Електронічна музика, Techno | B12 are a British electronic music duo consisting of Mike Golding and Steve Rutter. First appearing in the early 1990s under a variety of monikers, including Musicology, Redcell and Cmetric, the duo were often mistaken as hailing from Detroit, their sound being comparable to the so-called second wave of Detroit techno. This was compounded by the signature style of their initial releases on their own imprint B12 Records, limited editions, and the fact that Golding and Rutter tended to shy away from the press, and rarely gave interviews.

Their sound is usually categorised as techno, ambient techno, and IDM. Recurring themes of science fiction and futurism can be found in nearly all B12 releases and track names.

Golding and Rutter met in the late 1980s sharing a mutual appreciation for Detroit's techno sound. In 1991 they founded the B12 Records imprint as an outlet for the music they and their friends were producing. Under various monikers they released a series of vinyl records each with a limited edition in colored vinyl.

A full-length album on Electro Soma followed in 1993, a compilation of tracks from the early B12 Records releases as part of Warp's Artificial Intelligence series. In 1996 their second full-length album, Time Tourist, was released on Warp. After the release of B1215 in 1996 no records appeared through B12 Records for more than a decade, until the two artists decided to restart the label in 2005. They began playing live shows again, their third album and first album in twelve years, Last Days of Silence, appeared in 2008.