Month: February 2004

Blisaed – Hopeless Falling From EP {mtk127}

Artist: Blisaed
Title: Hopeless Falling From EP
Label: Monotonik
Catalog #: mtk127
Release Date: 2004/02/29

Returning after his debut ‘As Time Passes EP’ of last year, US electronic artist Matt Centonze, aka Blisaed, who’s been continuing to release excellent material on netlabels such as Camomille and Ronin Collective, graces us with another gently beautiful 4-track EP of vocal-specked, emotion-tinged electronics.

This time round, debut song ‘Photo’ starts things off with casually gorgeous melodies, all multi-layered and shimmering and oxidizing slowly as it’s exposed to the air, before ‘A Silent Walk In The Park’ kicks in, whisper-sung vocals, longing, and odd beauty to the fore. From there on, ‘The One You Thought You Knew’ hits up a stop-start, almost Super Science-like groove of understated splendor, before ‘Showing Her What You’re Made Of’ ends up with an even more herky-jerky, hyperreal mix of attractive keyboards and gently caressing synths.

So, ‘Hopeless Falling From EP’ makes a lot of sense, both as another document of the resurgence of melodic electronic music in the U.S., and as a Monotonik release that fits into our sekrit agenda of releasing ths most gorgeous headphone music we can possibly find, and then spraying it out to the general public in a machine-gun fashion. Catch this one in your teeth, willya?

[Thanks to Eduardo Sousa for the great cover-pic.]

Credits:
Cover by Eduardo Sousa

Tracklist:
01 – Photo
02 – A Silent Walk In The Park
03 – The One You Thought You Knew
04 – Showing Her What You’re Made Of

Artwork:
Front Cover

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Leenak & Makunouchi Bento – Miopedi : Errata EP {[one04]}

Artist: Leenak & Makunouchi Bento
Title: Miopedi : Errata EP
Label: One
Catalog #: [one04]
Release Date: 2004/02/28

Leenak (kaneel) and Makunouchi Bento have once again put their minds together and created ‘Errata’, under their Miopedi collaboration. Often split releases come across with a fitting split persona, though Miopedi : Errata has strong personalities reminiscent of the ambience and sound that seemingly existed in memory long before you heard them.

As surreal and haunting as the accompanied artwork, it’s tempting to hunt down the relation and reason behind this caustic ambience.. only no deduction could bring it justice. This is the very essence of the Miopedi project that got us asking for more. Familiar and mysterious at the same time — while retaining the desire of enjoyable and repeated listening.

Tracklist:
01 – makunouchi bento – cariul c
02 – leenak – nuits d hiver , neige et radio reveil
03 – makunouchi bento – lentila dracului
04 – leenak – tintamarre

Artwork:
Front Cover
Image One
Image Two

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Joko13 – Success Denied {COM02}

Artist: Joko13
Title: Success Denied
Label: Comatronic
Catalog #: COM02
Release Date: 2004/02/27

Alright! Comatronic is back with number two in the catalogue: the three tracker ‘Success Denied’ by Joko13.
‘Probe Sixty’, a kinda spacy, pleasant and mellow dub tech track with some clicks and bleeps is followed by ‘Harter Plateau’, a somewhat darker pumping tune with a slightly spooky atmosphere. Track number three is more or less a dj tool (hence the title) and slowly evolves from hip-shaking funkiness to become a driving minimal tech-house stomper. Enjoy!

Tracklist:
01 – Probe Sixty
02 – Harter Plateau
03 – Tool

Artwork:
Front Cover
Back Cover
Front & Back Cover

Additional Files:
Info [NFO]

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Unit21 & Neurotron – Lain {od065}

Artist: Unit21 & Neurotron
Title: Lain
Label: Ogredung
Catalog #: od065
Release Date: 2004/02/25

Seemingly inspired by knowing what a ballad to a virtual girlfriend would sound, Unit21 from Russia approaches the listener with piano motions and electronic tapestries, a portion of life captured in a soundtrack-ish space of sounds. And way captivating is Neurotron’s re-mix of the song, drifting in a melodic and composed approach to techno, and combining the soft beats with the layered, moody atmospheres of Unit21’s proposal; intended more as a listening experience than a dancefloor smasher.

Tracklist:
01 – Unit21 – Lain
02 – Neurotron – Lain

Artwork:
Front Cover

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Randomajestiq – Deepmove Mode EP {[one03]}

Artist: Randomajestiq
Title: Deepmove Mode EP
Label: One
Catalog #: [one03]
Release Date: 2004/02/24

His mixes are solid, well thought out and it shows almost instantly. ‘Deepmove Mode’ is less ecclectic and more melodic groove than his previous releases with kahvi, kikapu, autoplate, here and more.

However, he doesnt fully detach the listener from those releases as he picks up as abrasively as he left off (penikolada) then glides in with a song from Evolver (now a part of randomajestiq) which seemes to set the pace until hitting the groove’s ground floor with gravity 0 and taking off with this sound even further on Island 4d (easily the stand out track). The feel this time around is more at home on a dance floor than on stage with a laptop, but remains genuinely equal inside the headphones.

Tracklist:
01 – penikolada
02 – jazzmachinn(evolver)
03 – gravity 0
04 – island 4d

Artwork:
Front Cover

Additional Files:
randomajestiq_one03 [TXT]

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the honorable worm – fear of numbers {m3d,005}

Artist: the honorable worm
Title: fear of numbers
Label: mp3death
Catalog #: m3d,005
Release Date: 2004/02/22

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Tracklist:
01 – Fear of Madness (and Clouds)
02 – 123456789

Artwork:
m3d005
the honorable worm

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Sleepy Town Manufacture – For You & For Me {mtk126}

Artist: Sleepy Town Manufacture
Title: For You & For Me
Label: Monotonik
Catalog #: mtk126
Release Date: 2004/02/14

In the form of a Valentine’s Day gift to all from Russian idm maestro Sleepy Town Manufacture, which Monotonik has sneakily re-packaged and re-gifted to the entire world, we’re proud to present ‘For You & For Me’, an entire double album picking some of the best from STM’s unreleased output from 1999 to 2002, with a number of tracks specially updated and remastered for this compilation.

Sleepy Town, formerly a duo/trio, and now down to a single member, are particularly known for their association with Lee ‘Metamatics’ Norris, having released a track both on his NeoOuija’s ‘Cottage Industries 3’ compilation and on the excellent Metamatics ‘Rewired In My Manor’ remix CD on Hydrogen Dukebox. They’ve also released several times on Monotonik, most recently the borderline gorgeous ‘Latatoo EP’ in late 2002.

So, it’s a pleasure to be putting out such a glacially dreamy double album for free – there’s so much great material on here that it’s difficult to pick out highlights, but let’s start with ‘Lea Chind’, all ethereal synths and looping melodies and soaring into the future, before picking up on the ultra-dense ‘Noil’ and its rolling waves of sound, before moving on to the almost mechanical, tragically catchy ‘Polygon’, and the closing drift of the truly serene ‘Ambient Forms N4’. All in all, a wonderful experience, and a beautiful thing to just give away just like that – for that, we thank Sleepy Town and their beguiling ways.

[Thanks to Rinnli for drawing the wonderful cover-pic, and Names for coloring it.]

Credits:
cover drawn by Rinnli, colored by Names

Tracklist:

CD 1 – For You:
01 – QR25
02 – Million Rooms Distorted
03 – Wired
04 – Are Child
05 – Comet
06 – Die Tomorrow – Day Together
07 – Lea Chind
08 – You Format Me
09 – Romantic Asteroid
10 – Noil
11 – Pitz1212
12 – Eyes Like Heaven
13 – Mais

CD 2 – For Me:
01 – Eirolizer
02 – Polygon
03 – Bio [MP3]
04 – Out Of Digital Squareheadz
05 – Hi Tech Sisters
06 – Ambient Forms N5
07 – Ice
08 – Steam
09 – Brutal
10 – New Brain For Mad Clone
11 – Sily Prirody
12 – Ambient Forms N4

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500 internal – line in slash aux {m3d,004}

Artist: 500 internal
Title: line in slash aux
Label: mp3death
Catalog #: m3d,004
Release Date: 2004/02/11

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Tracklist:
01 – line in slash aux

Artwork:
m3d004
a
personal

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Transient – Whole Symesta EP {od064}

Artist: Transient
Title: Whole Symesta EP
Label: Ogredung
Catalog #: od064
Release Date: 2004/02/04

After his remarkable appearance on the Cucina Vagabonda compilation, Transient gently steps again into the lovable world of sweeping synths and melodious rhythms ‘n arpeggios. Tough at parts, yet mellow and expansed, always fading in beauty; an exemplar taste of melodic idm, synth-pop flavoured and so much poetic. As if in a tale where little fairies cure ill mini-robots. One of the best releases of 2004 already.

Tracklist:
01 – The Hypno Brothers
02 – The Ping Pong Warriors
03 – Whole Symesta
04 – The Iceman Dance
05 – Safe Passage Through That Storm

Artwork:
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Various Artists – Sound Of Subnatura EP {mtk125}

Artist: Various Artists
Title: Sound Of Subnatura EP
Label: Monotonik
Catalog #: mtk125
Release Date: 2004/02/04

Since we’ve previously released sparkling retro bleeps from Sweden’s Goto80, it was a natural progression, much like 50 Cent and G-Unit, to expand our focus to encompass his whole posse, the Subnatura collective. Thus, we get ‘The Sound Of Subnatura’, a 5-artist, 5-track EP which shows off the varying style of the Subnatura artists and their ‘good vibrations’.

So, we start with the quirky electronic breaks of Dorothy’s Magic Bag, all contrite but strident on ‘Syltpuss’, before breaking into the odd, striking triphop uneasiness of Liquid Stranger’s ‘Onda Ogat’, and then hitting up some pure, sinewave-inflected calm with Goto80’s alter ego Extraboy, and ‘Botch Tuck’. Then we hit the difficult but rewarding obtuseness of Slem’s ‘Tansa Disko’, before the beautifully poised finale of Inkinen, and the truly awesome cosmic drift of ‘Sensual’. All in all, the EP has an odd sense of whole which shows why the Subnatura boys came together in the first place, and why Monotonik is proud to be showcasing their talents. Let’s join together and wish them a good trip sub natura ad infinitum.

Credits:
cover by Extraboy

Tracklist:
01 – Dorothy’s Magic Bag – Syltpuss
02 – Liquid Stranger – Onda Ogat
03 – Extraboy – Botch Tuck
04 – Slem – Tansa Disko
05 – Inkinen – Sensual

Artwork:
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