Month: December 2001

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Hotcakes – Song of the Siren {‘009}

Artist: Hotcakes
Title: Song of the Siren
Label: Noiz Phaktah
Catalog #: ‘009
Release Date: 2001/12/21

What happens when you take a normal tune, give Ravebusters the chance to remix it twice (www.ravebusters.de), then let it sit on the shelf for a few years before getting Hotcakes to massacre it?

Oh, you know where I’m heading with that…

Masssiiiiiiive thanks to Quiklite for some help structuring this one (we
end up cutting two whole sections out and the tune GREW by 3-4 minutes! Go figure) and Pioneer for the drums (I finally managed to use them!)… Nice one bruvva!

And as a special treat for Amy users, a little ARexx script to help the tunes’ performance. Just strap Siren.omed onto your REXX: directory and feel the G’s!

Can’t hear it? Well try DeliTracker v2.32 or OctaMEDPlayer v7 on Amiga and WinAMP, DeliPlayer or the provided player (OctaMEDPlayer.exe) on Windows.

Tracklist:
01 – Song of the Siren [MED] [FLAC] [MP3]

Additional Files:
NP_Siren [DOC]
np_2001r [DOC]
Siren [OMED] [PNG]
OctaMEDPlayer [EXE]

Original

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Subi – Trying 2 B Hardcore {mrv005}

Artist: Subi
Title: Trying 2 B Hardcore
Label: monoRAVEik
Catalog #: mrv005
Release Date: 2001/12/19

Quite frankly, there is only one person who could possibly open the proceedings of monoRAVEik as a self-propelled entity, and that is the old fart himself. Subi brings it back after nearly a year (was it?) away from the tracker with the nearly understandable title “Trying 2 B Hardcore”.

If anyone thought that the cheesemix of “Serendipity City” was representative of Subi’s new direction, they are proved wrong by this jet-propelled slice of D&B&Rock&Roll. What new direction? 😉 Heavy on the distortion and the dynamics, and featuring vocals unwittingly provided by Christina Aguilera and Messrs Highpitch and Lowpitch, this one will have you whistling yet another of those irritating lead-lines for weeks. And quite possibly permanently damage your stereo.

He’s finally got total control of monoRAVEik. Do we hear the words “monkey” and “banana plantation” being uttered? Well… we _are_ talking about the man who used to do thrash metal covers of Kylie Minogue songs. No, really.

Credits:
cover by subi

Tracklist:
01 – Trying 2 B Hardcore

Artwork:
Front Cover

scop – orecon {nubi.008}

Artist: scop
Title: orecon
Label: Nubiproof
Catalog #: nubi.008
Release Date: 2001/12/17

scop found the orecon, they drove and drove. sienna dust on the dashboard, scanning the horizons.

Tracklist:
01 – orecon

Xhale vs Furious Anger – Stapephilia {od031}

Artist: Xhale vs Furious Anger
Title: Stapephilia
Label: Ogredung
Catalog #: od031
Release Date: 2001/12/16

the well-known artists xhale and furious anger present a definitely tactical co-op track on ogredung.
stapephilia melts dark trippy flavours with synths and minimalism as we’re used to love, and -yes- my friends, this new releases-cup couldn’t start in a better way.
a new life spring, for the angry casual listener but also for an open-minded xhaling lover; intelligent, as always.
ethereal vocals and deep basses bring us in the bbeat hell, superb. 😀

Tracklist:
01 – Stapephilia

Artwork:
Front Cover

License:
Attribution-NoDerivs-NonCommercial 1.0 Generic (CC BY-ND-NC 1.0)

Starmode – Thoughts Blend To Dreams (Zyad’s Magic Carp Ride) {mtk067}

Artist: Starmode
Title: Thoughts Blend To Dreams (Zyad’s Magic Carp Ride)
Label: Monotonik
Catalog #: mtk067
Release Date: 2001/12/15

More vital links back to the oldskool Mono connection, with this remix. The original track (as yet unreleased?) was done by Maleek, aka Starmode, a Dutch citizen of Moroccan descent who’s affiliated with the infamous+obscure Mortimer Twang + Disciples of Ageema organisation.

But the remix was performed by Zyad, a Finnish musician who’s released stuff on Mono since way back in the .MOD days – this is actually his first release on Monotonik since 1998 (or is it? heehee.)

Anyhow, “TBTD (Zyad’s Magic Carp Ride)” is a beautifully washed-out piece of perma-sustain echolocation, with the original, slightly harder electro-influenced track having watercolors splashed all over it, softening lines and chilling out even the hardiest observers. Beat the pre-Xmas chill with a magic carp ride?

Credits:
cover by _ and the secret formula

Tracklist:
01 – Thoughts Blend To Dreams (Zyad‘s Magic Carp Ride)

Artwork:
Front Cover

License:
Attribution-NoDerivs-NonCommercial 1.0 Generic (CC BY-ND-NC 1.0)

Purusha – f~ {od030}

Artist: Purusha
Title: f~
Catalog #: od030
Label: Ogredung
Release Date: 2001/12/12

basing on an original module by the japanese tracker nik, purusha tries to extirpate what he mostly likes and re-track it according to his own mind.
so that he seems trying to pronounce that letter (‘f’, that is) with his own pitch, his own volume, his own musical apparatus.
the result is a dnb-ish track, to loop, quite faithful to the original, and quite different to be what people call a remix, even if it is mostly like a review.

Tracklist:
01 – f~ [IT] [FLAC] [MP3 (New)] [MP3 (Original)]

FULL DOWNLOAD:
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a/oc – see through dreams {#064}

Artist: a/oc
Title: see through dreams
Label: Voodoo
Catalog #: #064
Release Date: 2001/12/06

allright. back on the track again (radalla 🙂 i’ve been really busy during the last month fixing my computer and internet connection, as i turned a page and got myself a faster connection. however now i’m ready to give you one great new track from a/oc.

this is a bit older, still unreleased track from a/oc in where he has made the guitar chords and melody combinations with his good friend timo blues. timo is also responsible for playing the guitar and this co-op seems to work out well. i usually don’t give much thought on guitars in electronic music but of course there are always differences. i hope you enjoy this nice piece of music again.

.substance

Tracklist:
01 – see through dreams [XM] [FLAC] [MP3]

Additional Files:
file_id [DIZ] [PNG]
vdo_seet [NFO] [PNG]
vdo_seet [README] [PNG]

Original

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Mosaik – Rubik {mtk066}

Artist: Mosaik
Title: Rubik
Label: Monotonik
Catalog #: mtk066
Release Date: 2001/12/06

Having previously released for Monotonik under his famed demo-scene pseudonym, Radix, we’re delighted to present a new track by this Swedish idm.bot under his new pseudo, Mosaik. And with the idm ‘scene’ getting plenty of input from ex-demo-sceners (BStates@Warp, Lackluster/TimKoch/Esem@DeFocus, you know the score), here’s another talented scene-ster who should really be getting lotsa attention about.. now.

Mosaik’s demo-scene work was renowned for its lush, synthesised, melodic nature, and “Rubik” is no exception, with ultra-ultra-smooth production and gorgeously dense synth lines intertwining to produce a beautifully sparkling, pure drumsynthbass idm.melange.

So, there’s the world of glitch up the wazoo, and then.. there’s this one. Keanu may have been right to choose the red pill and have everything go glitchmungous, but we choose the blue if it means lying in the sun above the rabbit-hole, and looking up at the gorgeous, gorgeous, fake sky.

Credits:
cover by dj.nova

Tracklist:
01 – Rubik

Artwork:
Front Cover

Additional Links:
[Bandcamp]

License:
Attribution-NoDerivs-NonCommercial 1.0 Generic (CC BY-ND-NC 1.0)

Goukun – Tulip watermill attack in dutch tulipplant mix {od029}

Artist: Goukun
Title: Tulip watermill attack in dutch tulipplant mix
Label: Ogredung
Catalog #: od029
Release Date: 2001/12/02

goukun reviews a song for children giving it a bleequid flavour, a pleasure for our sleepy minds, maybe a lil’bit too attacking but we think it’s okay.
the track it’s worth than a visit, for only 450 bucks. =)

Tracklist:
01 – Tulip watermill attack in dutch tulipplant mix