Month: June 2002

Mark VIII – Presents Action Replays {nmomp2}

Artist: Mark VIII
Title: Presents Action Replays
Label: No’Mo’
Catalog #: nmomp2
Release Date: 2002/06/29

We were hoping this day would never come. That is, the day our copyright-ruffling cousins at No’Mo’ moseyed back into town. But sadly, they’re here. And they have a new champion, a Mark VII. And they absolutely insist that we release this 5-track piece of perverse.. well, quite frankly, c64.gametune.hiphop.mashup.evilness.

So, if you’re the type of sicko who dreams of Rob Hubbard’s classic Commodore 64 videogame theme to “Commando” with Outkast’s “Ms.Jackson” over the top.. they gave us that. Martin Galway’s “Comic Bakery” besmirched by the dulcet tones of Chuck D? Check. Jeroen Tel (Maniacs Of Noise)’s “Children’s Song” splattered all over with vintage Brithop-per MC Duke? Got it. Kathy Brown and Matt Gray fighting in a corner? Sure. Chris Huelsbeck’s “Spherical” theme all crunged up with Busta Rhymes? We’re afraid to admit it.. but we got that too.

So, they’ve got our Flat Eric doll, and they won’t give it back until we release this. What’s a selfrespecting label to do? Go cry in a corner, that’s what. And then unleash the dragon on you. And, dear friends, consider this dragon unleashed (and tell them if you play it out anywhere cool!).

Credits:
cover by mark vii

Tracklist:
01 – Spherical Rhymes [Chris Huelsbeck vs. Busta Rhymes]
02 – Duke Of Noise [Jeroen TelMON vs. MC Duke]
03 – Comic Enemy [Martin Galway vs. Public Enemy]
04 – Brown Vs. Gray [Kathy Brown vs. Matt Gray]
05 – Commando Jackson [Rob Hubbard vs. Outkast]

Artwork:
Front Cover

Download
← Back To Netlabel

Hoffman – Future Thief {mtw027}

Artist: Hoffman
Title: Future Thief
Label: Mono211
Catalog #: mtw027
Release Date: 2002/06/22

Just to mix things up a bit, and to prove that Mono211 itself isn’t entirely dead in its guise as our breaks/freestylin’ sublabel, we’re proud to present another track from the recently elusive DJ Hoffman.

He’s still hiding out in the South-West of England and providing us with dangerously good, dangerously unclassifiable breakbeat-ish tunes which help us hark back to the classic, more beat-leaden days of Mono .MODs which he was a big part of under his Dreamfish pseudonym 🙂

This time round, “Future Thief” takes its cues from the harder techno that Hoffman loves, and applies some of the looping, phasing, and layering facets to a much more breakbeat track. So, take a mini-sonic pan-sonic journey with us, flip to the pulsing bass, helicopter to the nimble drum programming, and headspin to the cut-up lead synths, wontcha? Then watch it all fade away like a really daft skinhead and hit you back up, hard. Wham?

Credits:
cover by h0l

Tracklist:
01 – Future Thief

Artwork:
Front Cover

Download

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

← Back To Netlabel

Mosaik – Among Plants {mtk081}

Artist: Mosaik
Title: Among Plants
Label: Monotonik
Catalog #: mtk081
Release Date: 2002/06/13

We gladly return to the gorgeously lush hunting-ground of ex-demo-sceners, with this sublime ambient release from the artist formerly known as Radix/TPOLM and additionally known as Rymdlego, Sinespree, and his pseudonym for this release, Mosaik. Originally from Sweden, but last heard of heading to Holland, his last two Monotonik releases (as Radix and Mosaik respectively) were sinetastic in the purest way.

So, having caused at least a minor buzz on the idmlist with his confusing multiple pseudonyms and refreshingly pure sound, and with much love from demo-scene denizens for his perfect ‘chiptunes’ (he’s currently voted 3rd best of all time at chiptune.com), we decided to crassly attempt to shove his subtlety in your face some more. if you don’t mind, of course. But it’s just too yummy to pass up.

Anyhoo, “Among Plants” starts off with haltingly swelling synths and an almost Eno-esque repeated piano riff, and kicks in bubbling bass and almost imperceptible heightening through gyrating arpeggios and sound swells and eddies. For us, it sounds swell, mighty swell, something like the most blissed out eddies of an Apu-impelled Squishee coma.

Credits:
cover+photo by h0l

Tracklist:
01 – Among Plants

Artwork:
Front Cover

Additional Links:
[Bandcamp]

Download

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

← Back To Netlabel

Mori – Sk {od047}

Artist: Mori
Title: Sk
Label: Ogredung
Catalog #: od047
Release Date: 2002/06/12

Long time since I fell in love with a track, indeed.
The more our minds get complex, the more we need pure semplicity, need to wake up and kill all vacant and pensive moods, and be able to be astonished by the smallest thing.
Minimal cute melancholy electroliberism, constant pure beats of joie du vivre and azurine illuminated landscapes of virginity make us open hands and wish kissing the world.
Life is experimentalism, and love. :~) sniff

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

Artwork:
Front Cover

FLAC
MP3

*FLAC & MP3 zips also include the original versions.

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

Download

Tim Koch – Thug:Remixed Sampler {mtk080}

Artist: Tim Koch
Title: Thug:Remixed Sampler
Label: Monotonik
Catalog #: mtk080
Release Date: 2002/06/02

To coincide with the release of the long-awaited Aural Industries CD, “Thug:Remixed” (go to their page for info on how to order!), us here @ Monotonik are proud to release a 3-track sampler with a taste of the re-interpretations of Tim Koch/ Thug [Defocus, AI, Surgery] available on the disc itself.

Although the CD contains remixes by a whole bunch of other supercool idm types (Pimmon, Aspen, Superscience, Octopus Inc, Sense, and more!), we picked three of the most intriguing to put out there.

First up, Swedish duo Boulderdash, best known for their landmark 2000 release on RUC, “We Never Went to Koxut Island”, re-interpret Thug’s “123Heart” in heartbreaking style, all irregular drum gorgeousness and soulfelt layered shuffle.

Secondly, we find Sydney, Australia-based Quark Kent re-editing Tim’s “Let Us Chip” into an almost dub-sharp drum idm pot-pourri, with Orb-ish Pepperpot weird-ass vocal samples sneaked into the mix too. Eerie.

Finally, Finland’s Lackluster, not a stranger to Monotonik release-lists himself, contributes a typically pure-of-heart remix of “Quasipede”, starting out all coy and shy, before slipping in a marvellous sine-bass and allowing it to skip all around our head for the final part of the song. All in all, a satisfying conclusion.

Credits:
cover by thug/friends

Tracklist:
01 – 123Heart (Boulderdash Remix)
02 – Let Us Chip (Quark Kent Remix)
03 – Quasipede (Lackluster Remix)

Artwork:
Front Cover

Download

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

← Back To Netlabel