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Project 5am – Quixotes Of Moons Fight The Windmills Of Brixton {mtk205}

Artist: Project 5am
Title: Quixotes Of Moons Fight The Windmills Of Brixton
Label: Monotonik
Catalog #: mtk205
Release Date: 2008/08/24

This time round, a Monotonik debut for Project 5am, aka Jason Haye, with the distinctly trippy ‘Quixotes Of Moons Fight The Windmills Of Brixton’. Verging into deep house, electronic, and chillout, the fulllength album is a delightful mix of trancelike and straightforward.

Starting out, we’ve got ‘Angelou’, all thudding guitars and phasing synths, before we move into ‘Polar Stratospheric Clouds’, chunked up sounds to the fore. Some of the other highlights include the swooshing, almost soundtrack-ish ‘Crepuscular’, and the echoing ‘Ochanimizu’.

Overall, a delightful start, we fear – and something that will echo in our dreams for a good few months to come. Congratulations, Sir.

Credits:
pic by 5am

Tracklist:
01 – Angelou
02 – Polar Stratospheric Clouds
03 – As The Ears Weep, The Eyes Hear
04 – The Stars Are Beautiful
05 – Crepuscular
06 – Wet Ashtray
07 – Quixotes Of Moons Fight The Windmills Of Brixton
08 – Ochanomizu
09 – Some Kinda Wonderful
10 – Mirror

Artwork:
Front Cover

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CatchyNameMusic – testphase {CatchyNameRecords001}

Artist: CatchyNameMusic
Title: testphase
Label: CatchyNameRecords
Catalog #: CatchyNameRecords001
Release Date: 2008/07/31

pure gameboy music.

Tracklist:
01 – ntro
02 – hhello
03 – atomic 4bit airplanes
04 – microwave
05 – zitronensure
06 – drock v2

Artwork:
Front Cover
Back Cover

Additional Files:
testphase [TXT]

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Risch – Missing monsters {pj004}

Artist: Risch
Title: Missing monsters
Label: Petite&Jolie
Catalog #: pj004
Release Date: 2008/07/29

“Your perfect soundtrack for this hot summer.”

That could be the perfect quote behind this release made of bouncy wild beats and warm adorable leads.

After a release on “nothing less” than the well-known Monotonik netlabel, Risch pays a visit at petite&jolie and we have to admit he definitly knows how to cook this very particular electronica up, evoking a lot of early year 2000 influences by mashing up breakbeats and pop-esque melodies.

Drills’n’pink, here’s what you ask? here’s what you get and we don’t have that bad habit to lie to yourself, do we?

No need to be a synesthete to see these monsters appearing in front of our eyes, jumping, hiding, pulling your legs and making grimaces.
Sometimes quiet, and then mad, they all have their own personnal stories to tell you when walking downtown and here, at the petite&jolie treehouse, we hope you’ll be listenning at them hopping down the streets, because we love when people are enjoying life this way… after all, isn’t all about enjoying the moment?

Of course, this release is best enjoyed burnt and dragged into its cute cover, designed with love by Emi whose first appearance on petite&jolie will be, for sure, remarked.

So now let’s go! Catch these missing monsters!

Tracklist:
01 – A raindow in the brain
02 – Nap time at the robot factory
03 – Driving in circles
04 – Welcome home
05 – And then morning came
06 – Stickx
07 – Freesychzfeyev

Artwork:
Front Cover
Case

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Coax – Wobo Jomodo {mtk204}

Artist: Coax
Title: Wobo Jomodo
Label: Monotonik
Catalog #: mtk204
Release Date: 2008/07/29

Another, long in coming Monotonik release from Scandinavian artist Coax, and ‘Wobo Jomodo’ is a charming set of music in the classic sense of laidback electronica.

Starting out, we have the rolling, sharp ‘Balloon Funk 1’, with all kinds of sustain being built up as the bass burbles along happily in the background, before we roll into ‘Gion’, all sine beeps and happy camping.

Elsewhere in the EP, highlights include the glimmering, almost futuristic ‘Apple Beat’, with its frantic bleeps and breakbeats, before a second ‘Balloon Funk’ and a final, triumphant ‘Gecta’, all stately exit. Bravo.

Credits:
pic by h0l

Tracklist:
01 – Balloon Funk 1
02 – Gion
03 – Nomina
04 – Apple Beat
05 – Balloon Funk 2
06 – Gecta

Artwork:
Front Cover

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Emmerichk – 4th {YKYK014}

Artist: Emmerichk
Title: 4th
Label: Yuki Yaki
Catalog #: YKYK014
Release Date: 2008/07/25

Simply titled “4th” – Emmerichk is back on Yuki Yaki. The aesthetics of the single sound, its destinctiveness and presence are more present than on its predecessor. But nonetheless, the sounds do not seem to be forlorn. Every track is its own microcosm of noise, click and motion.
Always one leg on the dancefloor, the other in the lab, Emmerichk shows us his own definition of rhythm, groove and melody.

Credits:
original coverphoto by Nils Clauss
The cover is part of the Nils Clauss ShowCase on Yuki Yaki.

Tracklist:
01 – A1 [MP3] [OGG]
02 – D7 [MP3] [OGG]
03 – H0 [MP3] [OGG]
04 – L1 [MP3] [OGG]
05 – N2 [MP3] [OGG]
06 – Ganid [MP3] [OGG]

Artwork:
Thumbnail
Front Cover
Back Cover

Additional Files:
Flash [SWF]
Info [TXT]

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Risch – Synesthesia {mtk203}

Artist: Risch
Title: Synesthesia
Label: Monotonik
Catalog #: mtk203
Release Date: 2008/06/22

A Monotonik debut from UK electronic music artist Risch, who brings an almost Ninja Tune-esque cut-up electronics aesthetic to us with his debut EP, ‘Synesthesia’ – a delightfully flippant mix of voice samples, funky beats, and beauteous melodies.

The whole caboodle starts out with ‘Doppelverstraker’, which grooves along to a relaxed beat while also popping in samples about the pressures of modern life, before ‘Observing Fractals In Clouds’ tries the spikier, glitchier beats with great results.

Meanwhile, it ends out with ‘Under A Starry Sky’, epic guitars vs synths, and ‘5.08AM’, a chilled closer drifting off into the distance. Another example that this style of electronic music is far from dead in 2008 – 12 years after we started – and reason for us to be happy to still be here. Yay.

Credits:
pic by Risch

Tracklist:
01 – Doppelversträker
02 – Observing Fractals In Clouds
03 – Under A Starry Sky
04 – 5:08 AM

Artwork:
Front Cover

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Counter Cosby – Don’t! Don;t! Don!t! {f3_003}

Artist: Counter Cosby
Title: Don’t! Don;t! Don!t!
Label: Firteen Records
Catalog #: f3_003
Release Date: 2008/06/11

originally released in 2006 by Ann Arbor’s premiere progthrash lunatics

Tracklist:
01 – Camping
02 – Prettlude
03 – Hippies in the Woods
04 – Macedonia (traditional)
05 – My Change
06 – Galactic Postal Dude
07 – Hogsmilk
08 – Dorx Rulz
09 – O’Brion
10 – I am a Samurai
11 – Rickets on the Crotch
12 – Wahmbulance
13 – Androgenous Beaut
14 – Deposit

Artwork:
Front Cover
Booklet – 1
Booklet – 2
Back Cover
Inside Tray

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NL 2X COMP – A SELECTION OF NANOLOOP 2 TRACKS {CatchyNameRecords002}

Artist: Various Artists
Title: NL 2X COMP – A SELECTION OF NANOLOOP 2 TRACKS
Label: CatchyNameRecords
Catalog #: CatchyNameRecords002
Release Date: 2008/06/02

i wondered what the gameboy advance music program nanoloop 2 can do. since there where nearly no tracks available on the net i organised a compilation. now i know, and you can too.

Tracklist:
01 – Rhinostrich – Freetown
02 – rbtr – Yourdogbitme
03 – Tetris Hold’em – Behavior House
04 – CatchyNameMusic – Nirob Variations
05 – Flashbob – Memory Remains
06 – Marcus Rafferty – The Electron Theory
07 – rbtr – Regalfrog
08 – Little-Scale – Systematic
09 – LoBit – Ninja Disput
10 – Flashbob – Midnight Bloodshift
11 – LoBit – Shuriken
12 – 8bit-Meta – Boing
13 – Tetris Hold’em – Cog Off

Artwork:
Front Cover
Back Cover

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