Month: October 2006

Manziping – Valpo {YKYK008}

Artist: Manziping
Title: Valpo
Label: Yuki Yaki
Catalog #: YKYK008
Release Date: 2006/10/30

Having the Andes mountains as natural reverberation device it’s no surprise that Alisu (= girl) and Rolancho (= boy) spend a good deal of time to blend ravine-deep textures with intense rhythms – playing hide and seek somewhere in the grey urban area between minimal techno and glitchy experimentalism. Get caught by the beat, take a breath and back-pedal its meaning in your own neuro patterns, get caught again, and so on and so forth.
The concept of Manzping’s first EP for Yuki Yaki – after numerous releases and compilations for Chilean netlabels – is a refreshing dive into a sea of blue hypnosis, a splendid ride between captivating beat pulses, sparkling electric discharges and floating ambient carpets. This is a taste of South America that will wipe off even the most flagrant omen of winter depressions in these days.

Credits:
original coverphotos by darwin
tracks mastered by Daniel Niet

Tracklist:
01 – Despertando [MP3] [OGG]
02 – Tarde al Sol [MP3] [OGG]
03 – Samsara [MP3] [OGG]
04 – Despertando (Transistor Remix) [MP3] [OGG]
05 – Samsara (Choenyi Remix) [MP3] [OGG]

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Thumbnail
Front Cover
Back Cover

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Transient – Hexual Ceiling {mtk174}

Artist: Transient
Title: Hexual Ceiling
Label: Monotonik
Catalog #: mtk174
Release Date: 2006/10/29

We’re delighted to debut the fourth Monotonik release from prodigious U.S. idm veteran Transient, in the form of the 20-track ‘Hexual Ceiling’ album. He’s previously released on multiple major netlabels such as Kikapu, Ogredung and Miasmah, as well as debuting remixes and other tracks on labels such as Darla and TBTMO, plus his own Noisy Vagabond, and this longform effort doesn’t disappoint.

Anyhow, there are all kinds of highlights to the album, from the delightful drift of lead-off track ‘Cloudwalk’, through the intriguing, almost booty-based remix of Bay Area idm freak Mochipet, all the way through the impeccable sway of the title track.

Things finish up with ‘Magical Creatures’, a totally weird but smart vocal blast: ‘I got no motivation… to make these magical creatures’, before it’s brought home with the absolutely sublime ‘RPG’. He’s still one of the smartest artists out there on the electronic scene, on the sly, and we still love releasing his material – long may it continue.

Credits:
pic by transient

Tracklist:
01 – Cloudwalk
02 – Don’t Sweat It
03 – Summer Rain
04 – Head Full Of Stars
05 – Mochipet – Disco Donkey (Transient Palmix)
06 – Backporch
07 – Cute Vision
08 – Finality
09 – Dubble Bubble
10 – Hexual Ceiling
11 – Ghouls
12 – Shatter
13 – Ending Began
14 – Sine Experiment
15 – Cute People And God (Bad Comfort Remix)
16 – Magical Creatures
17 – Just So I Don’t Have To Hate It
18 – Masking Interlude
19 – We Don’t Exist
20 – RPG

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Emil Klotzsch – Feinquisit {[one028]}

Artist: Emil Klotzsch
Title: Feinquisit
Label: One
Catalog #: [one028]
Release Date: 2006/10/28

Emil marks his return to One with more of the material in which we first got to know him – a spazzy blend of experimentation, disjointed rhythms and instrumentation. His playful but melanchoic spirit brings half-smiles to its listeners through an equally schizophrenic approach to mood and style as perhaps displayed best with his return to vocals on ‘geteiltes sein’.

Feinquisit (while offering glimpses of what will and what was to come on Sandkorn) manages to follow roads we haven’t witnessed from him before – occassionally stripping down to the roots of his off-kilter rhythms and synthwork. In form true to Mr. Klotzsch we also find him collaborating again. This time through the lyrics of Dirk Becker and an accompanying gallery by his father, Manfred Klotzsch.

Credits:
gallery: manfred klotzsch | lyrics: dirk becker

Tracklist:
01 – Der kühlschrank brennt
02 – Geteiltes Sein
03 – Snakes Reachin the Ballroom
04 – Who are you to put me under water?
05 – Rauschen

Artwork:
Front Cover
02A
05A
06A
11A
13A
29A
32A
34A

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nigul – nocturna {netdj009}

Artist: nigul
Title: nocturna
Label: Oír Para Creer
Catalog #: netdj009
Release Date: 2006/10/25

Y para celebrar este primer año…. Una netdj especial! Como había prometido ya tenemos aquí la nueva sesión. El “ente” Nigul ha estado rebuscando en las profundidades de sus más oscuros directorios en busca de una selección especial para las mentes más retorcidas. El resultado es este, “nocturna” es una hora de oscuridad sonora.
No tengo mucho más que decir, hace un par de semanas que esta grabada y no paro de escucharlo en mi mp3, le he cogido mucho cariño, es muy David Lynch.
Escuchadla, habrá quien le guste y quien no… pero todo es cuestión de dejarse llevar.

Dj set especial para celebrar el primer aniversario de “oír para creer”. Nigul nos trae una sesión muy muy oscura.

Notes:
TRACKLIST ………….

1. djinnestan (wh073) – rusted loves
2. dark and silence (ffs087) – part ii
3. huw roberts (ser010) – a dolce in sun
4. laboratory fabrik worms (net.p002) – tekton
5. …no comment (ffs100) – carnival
6. ahasverus (protoplazma006) – epilogue
7. ivlab (ffs100) – toxic society
8. cd-r (exc001) – tivoli
9. the figurehead (bkk015) – darkness falls
10. antanas jasenka & skaira jancaite (exc001) – 9 sanariai
11. roto visage (ffs100) – the purro
12. koloumkilli (pan022) – the evening earth part 2
13. laboratory fabrik worms (net.p002) – swell
14. akashic crow’s nest + saluki regicide (wh073) – quisquiliae + coach and six
15. dark and silence (ffs087) – part vi
16. dark and silence (ffs100) – sacrifice
17. invector (net.p001) – vium03
18. koloumek (fld004) – ànima

Tracklist:
01 – nocturna

Additional Files:
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tracklist [TXT]

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Christopher Waley – 10 Years Of Monotonik – The Mix {mtk173}

Artist: Christopher Waley
Title: 10 Years Of Monotonik – The Mix
Label: Monotonik
Catalog #: mtk173
Release Date: 2006/10/15

So, we made it – ’10 Years Of Monotonik – The Mix’ is testament to that. It’s hard to believe that it was in early 1996 that we first started up our net.label Mono – initially as a .MOD-only label, since this was before the days of MP3s (and, indeed, of very wide use of the Internet.) What a long way we’ve come since then.

The first couple of years, for those who recall it, actually had individual Commodore Amiga-based BBSes distributing our material as ‘official distros’, before FTP sites such as Aminet kicked in and made spreading material much easier, then Scene.org started helping out and a switch to PCs and MP3s was made (in around 1999!) From then on out, there was a dalliance with sublabels, including the now defunct Mono211 and Monoraveik, before Monotonik was standardized on and we carried on publishing the best Creative Commons-licensed, freely distributable MP3s we could find right to where we are now, halfway through the ’00s.

So many people deserve thanks for helping us keep on keeping on – from Tommy (Support.nl admin) through stalwart Monotonik releasers such as Vim! and Lackluster, and more recent supporters like Ossi (Planet Boelex). I’d like to thank my family and my wife Holly for giving me the inspiration to continue Mono, but most of all, it’s the Monotonik artists – you’re the label, not me, and it would be nothing without you.

It’s hard to estimate exactly, but millions of music tracks from hundreds of Monotonik artists have been downloaded in the last ten years, and thus, we commissioned a special mix from Christopher ‘Whalefish’ Whaley to honor some of our favorite Mono artists and moments. Here’s the full tracklisting (and there’s some danger of a part 2 mix, since we had to leave so much good stuff out, btw):

1. bliss – life on the rooftop
2. secede – seafold
3. planet boelex – paprikas from deep
4. vim! – whirlwind snooker
5. braces tower – king of rock
6. ramone – back to the oldskool
7. super science – sometimes we’re happy
8. whiskas – as in cockroach
9. dreamfish – twisted riddim
10. fun tourist – ddd
11. beak – amoral mayor earwig
12. twilight – crystal rain
13. distance/lackluster – starcell u.k.
14. aleksi virta – outer edge intro
15. thug – obatem by night
16. jiva – sous l’eau au pied
17. luminfire – bananadittydub
18. esem – thinmute
19. sense – icy l tap
20. sleepy town manufacture – lain say you care
21. grandma – strawberry rhubarb oppai
22. transient – trashybin
23. idmonster – the force may be with you

Spread the mix, and we love you all.
– Simon Carless, Monotonik – October 2006

Credits:
pic by h0l

Tracklist:
01 – 10 Years Of Monotonik – The Mix

Artwork:
Front Cover

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alphatechno – staehlerne flexible leute {010}

Artist: alphatechno
Title: staehlerne flexible leute
Label: Kellerloch
Catalog #: 010
Release Date: 2006/10/11

Tracklist:
01 – b0rderlin eacid
02 – t0m j0anze 4 satan
03 – l0ra zepam
04 – kinz0kinder

Artwork:
Front Cover

Additional Files:
kl_010_alphatechno_-_staehlerne_flexible_leute [TXT]
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Flutterspot – Labmat {mtk172}

Artist: Flutterspot
Title: Labmat
Label: Monotonik
Catalog #: mtk172
Release Date: 2006/10/01

This time, a Monotonik debut for Finnish graphic artist and musician Flutterspot, and pretty much his first music release anywhere, with the gorgeous electronic tones of ‘Labmat’.

What do we like about this? Well, for starters, ‘Daily Sway Of Everything (That You Touch)’ is satisfyingly chunky, before ‘Sky So My’ segues into some smartly rotating beats. Then, there’s ‘Liihko Hymn’, which is layers and layers of sound in an almost shoegaze fashion, but with firm rhythms layered on top, before ‘World End Ballad’ brings things to a close in an unnaturally fluid manner.

And why do we like this? Because it’s the kind of gorgeous music that doesn’t get played in enough places, but we’re perfectly positioned to bring to our loving audience via the handy method of Creative Commons-licensed free electronic distribution. Flutterspot’s music deserves to flutter around the world – only you can make it happen.

Credits:
pic by llwya

Tracklist:
01 – Daily Sway Of Everything (That You Touch)
02 – Sky So My
03 – Liihko Hymn
04 – World End Ballad

Artwork:
Front Cover

Additional Links:
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Various Artists – Masters Of The Green Insects {CANDY029}

Artist: Various Artists
Title: Masters Of The Green Insects
Label: Candy Mind Records
Catalog #: CANDY029
Release Date: 2006/10/01

While other labels focus more and more on artist who are “excellent musicians” and “instrumental geniouses”, Candy Mind is taking another perspective of view.

So let´s set this straight: We only want “real men” (disregarding gender) on our label. To be included in the Candy Mind rooster you must be skilled in both stone cutting, welding and hunting.
We refuse to work with nerds who swarm, like insects, around computers and books. No, what we want is the strong, the brave and the fit.

When we put together this compilation we didn´t look that much on whether the music was outstanding or not (you know, even nerds can make music), instead we choose to look at the artist´s military records, mixed martial arts career and years of work in the industrial sector.

It´s with great pride we at Candy Mind can assure you listeners out there that all the music you are about to hear is composed by hard working men of blood and steel who stands up for their label and fights to the end. Failure is not in their vocabulary and they will never give up!

01. LIQUID STRANGER – JAKTEN PÅ GULDPOKALERNA
Even called Lickan by his friends. This lean and muscular fellow enjoys big game hunting and bone collecting. On his sparetime he likes to go to the shooting range or hang out around the cemetary, just waiting for things to happen.

Strenght: 11
Age: 10
Stamina: ?
Height: 5´10″
Wits: 3
Weight: ??? lbs
Charisma: 1
Reach: 72″
Gender: Alfa-male
Special power: Liquidification

02. GOTO80 – HAPPYDAZE (VERSION 2005)
More hard-working than anyone else, truck drivin´, gold minin´ and cave divin´ Goto80 never says no to a job.
Despite what many people might think, goto80 (almost) NEVER uses computers. He is not really touching them when playing live and when he comes home he just throws them in a closet in his basment.

Strenght: 6
Age: 24
Stamina: 9
Height: 6′
Wits: 8
Weight: 144 lbs
Charisma: 4
Reach: 74″
Gender: Male
Special power: Writing recipes

03. BINÄRPILOT – POKY (FO RIZZLE)
Growing up under hard circumstances on the Norweigan west coast, Binärpilot is nowadays a rock-hard gangster rapper. With a mind of steel and two iron fists he is ruling the rumoured gangster crew CCP. “It must be west coast,” Binärpilot says, “I would never, NEVER team up with any east coast rapper. I’ll kick their asses instead. I’ll really do it dawg!”
And we can all see from the look on Binärpilots face that he’s really serious, as always, about the asskicking-bit…

Strenght: 9
Age: 25
Stamina: 9
Height: 6´8″
Wits: 3
Weight: 188 lbs
Charisma: 2
Reach: 78″
Gender: Male
Special power: Glock .40

04. THE KORVSTOPPERS – SANE
As one of them is the lost son of Count Dracula, and the other grew up in the woods with wolfs as parents, the korvstoppers makes a deadly duo. You better watch out…

Strenght: 5+6
Age: 46+23
Stamina: 6+8
Height: 5´10″+6’3″
Wits: 7+3
Weight: 133 lbs+200 lbs
Charisma: 2+1
Reach: 68″+70″
Gender: None
Special power: Stopping korv

05. DOROTHY’S MAGIC BAG – KUSTURICA
Not much is known about what’s inside the magic bag, and therefore we can’t tell you much about it. It may be this, it may be that, but let’s hope that it’s something nice at least.

Strenght: ?
Age: ?
Stamina: ?
Height: ?
Wits: ?
Weight: ?
Charisma: ?
Reach: ?
Gender: ?
Special power: ?

06. PAZA – HURRYBOJS
Beeing the only ninja in the candy mind-crew, Paza is never relaxing. Day and night he’s dressed up in black, armed with special (and secret) ninja weapons, guarding the Candy Mind HQ.

Strenght: 7
Age: 26
Stamina: 8
Height: 6′
Wits: 9
Weight: ?
Charisma: 5
Reach: 73″
Gender: ?
Special power: Shinryuken

07. PSILODUMP – ANTTI THE ELEPHANT
Most charismatic and best looking of all the candy miners, Psilodump is getting all the girls. Tricking them with his sweet-talk and magical love potions, they all fall into his possession. “I can get every girl I want,” Psilodump says, “Just show me girl, and I’ll show you!”

Strenght: 2
Age: 25
Stamina: 4
Height: 144 lbs
Wits: 3
Weight: ?
Charisma: 9
Reach: 72″
Gender: All of them
Special power: Love potions

Tracklist:
01 – Liquid Stranger – Jakten På Guldpokalerna
02 – Goto80 – Happydaze (Version 2005)
03 – Binärpilot – Poky (Fo Rizzle)
04 – The Korvstoppers – Sane
05 – Dorothy’s Magic Bag – Kusturica
06 – Paza – Hurrybojs
07 – Psilodump – Antti The Elephant

Artwork:
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