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Pliant – Musical Endeavor {mtk196}

Artist: Pliant
Title: Musical Endeavor
Label: Monotonik
Catalog #: mtk196
Release Date: 2007/12/31

Monotonik rounds out 2007 with a bit of a gem – a free digital release of the super-rare Pliant mini-CD ‘Musical Endeavor’, the quirky video-game inspired electronica blast originally released on New Yorkbased label Systorm Technologies back in 2000.

What do you need to know about this? Well, the super-perky 9 track, 18 minute release is chronicling a fictional video game of some kind, and from the dynamic, spider-bass infused ‘Title’, it’s clear that you’re being taken through the game in aural form, thanks to previous Monotonik release Pliant’s bleep-pop stylings.

Some highlights? ‘Options’ is funked-up loping, slightly sinister pseudo-game music, and ‘Forest’ conjures up previous Monotonik release ‘Maruera Gum’ with some aplomb, before the super-weird waltz-ish ‘Volcano’ and the reprise of ‘Credits’ finish things off in dischordant, intriguing form. Bravo.

Credits:
pic by pliant

Tracklist:
01 – Title
02 – Options
03 – Village
04 – Forest
05 – Hills
06 – Cave
07 – Volcano
08 – Boss
09 – Credits

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Planet Boelex – Live At Virus Festival ’07, Lithuania {mtk195}

Artist: Planet Boelex
Title: Live At Virus Festival ’07, Lithuania
Label: Monotonik
Catalog #: mtk195
Release Date: 2007/12/10

We’re delighted to welcome back multiple Monotonik releaser Planet Boelex, who’s provided us with an awesome 60+ minute live set, featuring all self-composed Boelex material (much of it new!) recorded at the recent Virus Festival in Lithuania.

Boelex, whose tracks have also appeared on Kahvi and Ogredung in recent years, has a beautifully layered pure idm sound, and the mix showcases the downtempo, chilled nature of his sound briefly, starting out with ‘Forever And Always’ and moving on through several untitled tracks.

All in all, it’s a wonderful, cleverly mixed set of all Boelex, all the time – and it’s particularly notable because the entire hour-plus is completed without Mr. Boelex ever raising his voice, but it’s authoritarian nonetheless. He who composes quietly carries a big impact stick, we’re guessing? Bravo.

(Track order is as follows – ‘Forever and always’, ‘Untitled’, ‘Shower Curtain’, ‘Seagull Scene’, ‘Untitled’, ‘Suunta’, ‘Blinded Of You’, ‘Sim Ten’, ‘Direction Backwards’, ‘100kn’.)

Credits:
pic by boelex

Tracklist:
01 – Live At Virus Festival ’07, Lithuania

Artwork:
Front Cover

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[Bandcamp]

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choplin – netlabels mix 11-07 {netdj014}

Artist: choplin
Title: netlabels mix 11-07
Label: Oír Para Creer
Catalog #: netdj014
Release Date: 2007/12/02

La nueva sesión nos la presenta Qeqo, que tiene la insana afición de quedarse dormido aquí donde le veis, creando muchas veces, pads infinitos dignos del más purista del minimal.
Un nuevo set para mover el esqueleto con 17 temas de referencias que han pasado por este blog.

Notes:
Vámonos con el tracklist!

1. [inoquo038] Waveform – City Vibes 1
2. [ccrec003] asférico – cinco cactus
3. [inoquo036] Saccobros – Jalapeño
4. [front007] Hermético – An Old Tale
5. [undnet003]Juan Munera – Dulce…Maria Original Mix
6. [did011] dr. Nojoke – Tonedrom ( Charles Tone Rmx )
7. [im010] Funzion feat. Dilo & Gurtz – tule
8. [thn100] Laura Palmer – Borderline
9. [mnb002] Jason Hill – My Days
10.[im010] JHK – H2
11.[ma036] Markus Masuhr – Making Only The Dreamer
12.[ir003] Reflexno – Carcomitosis
13.[ma036] Wes Rock – Die Kleine Von Der Afterhour
14.[front007] Hermético – Ríos De Tinta
15.[im010] Someone Else – shoop loop
16.[itanet027] Llufol – Any Given Friday
17.[clqnet009] Iena Saw – In Riu’

Tracklist:
01 – netlabels mix 11-07

Additional Files:
netdj014 [CUE]
tracklist [TXT]

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Distruc – Junctions EP {mtk194}

Artist: Distruc
Title: Junctions EP
Label: Monotonik
Catalog #: mtk194
Release Date: 2007/11/25

A Monotonik debut from UK-based electronic music artist Distruc, whom you might know from releases on Hippocamp and his co-founding of Japanese electronic japesters the Freeta Corrective, as well as his debut physical album ‘Clip & Glide’, released on Australian label Artists Known As.

In any case, his debut EP for us, ‘Junctions’, is a satisfyingly crunchy set of almost electro-tinged, pure headphone listening idm, which we continue to cherish like we’re Gollum, and ‘Path’ sets it up beautifully, all loops of life and whooping drums.

All of the long, flowing tracks work wonderfully, but ‘Unlock’ is another highlight, with mechanical percussion and sweeping chord repetition, plus a surprisingly funky robotic bassline at play. Things finish out with ‘Crossings’, another bass-heavy jam through Detroit vs. idm super-pure sine wave skronk – and we are happy.

Credits:
pic by h0l

Tracklist:
01 – Path
02 – Unlock
03 – Slumber
04 – Crossings

Artwork:
Front Cover

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Animal Style – What Is Species {FF-003}

Artist: Animal Style
Title: What Is Species
Label: File Freakout
Catalog #: FF-003
Release Date: 2007/11/20

Credits:
released 11.20.01
music and art: joey mariano

Tracklist:
01 – living distance
02 – primæval boltz
03 – prehistory [Cm707stuff]
04 – what is species
05 – chemical markup language

Artwork:
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Various Artists – Level Up {[DWD-005]}

Artist: Various Artists
Title: Level Up
Label: DarkWingDuck Records
Catalog #: [DWD-005]
Release Date: 2007/11/20

After a big delay we are finally back with a little gift!
This release is dedicated to the 1st anniversary of DWD,
that was at November 3rd, when our 1st release was out!
I know that i’m late, but better later than never, right? 😉
So get it, and celebrate this cool holiday with us!
Be mad, happy and dance with a white bear around your flat!

Tracklist:
01 – Cornbeast – Acid Rock
02 – Stu – Electrox
03 – Eat Rabbit – Dig Your Own Tomb
04 – Goto80 – Honolulu
05 – Uoki-Toki – Gorilka Dance
06 – Paza – Damnfool
07 – Datassette – Where The Hell Am I?

Artwork:
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Mookid – Bubble {KNOB008}

Artist: Mookid
Title: Bubble
Label: Knobs
Catalog #: KNOB008
Release Date: 2007/11/08

Already a home artist of Knobs netlabel, Mookid brandishes a fresh and tasty album “Bubble”. Long player lasting more than an hour will smooth your ears like a velvet. “I’m very fond of this release actually”-Mookid says, “This is the best what i have ever done in music”. A trademark of Mookid is a cristal sound quality and it reflects again with “Bubble”. All tracks contain lot of basslines, strings, pads, massive synth lines with simple and effective percussion. Relatively slow BPM of 127 to 130 leaves the album on the border between techno and tech-house, but the most accurate description of it could be a deep techno. In order to give Knobs netlabel listeners maximum pleasure headquarters of label decided to make all future releases a 320 kbps quality starting from this album. So have a good time ..

Tracklist:
01 – Bch
02 – Haywire
03 – Presence
04 – Lifelike
05 – N2p
06 – Fantasia
07 – New Way
08 – Elastic
09 – Night at New York
10 – Leaving

Artwork:
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African aka ctrl – DATA FLOW {RFA006}

Artist: African aka ctrl
Title: DATA FLOW
Label: Retrofuturism
Catalog #: RFA006
Release Date: 2007/11/??

This album made my day. The perfect soundtrack for driving home from work. Take 50% ambient and 50% drum and bass, add the smoothness of the folder album and you may have something like this.

Tracklist:
01 – Earth Child
02 – Moonlights
03 – Inside The Mind
04 – Mind Travel
05 – RemoteAccess
06 – Symphonics
07 – Dream World
08 – Roll Through

Artwork:
Front Cover

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various artists – p3pper picks m3d {m3d,050}

Artist: various artists
Title: p3pper picks m3d
Label: mp3death
Catalog #: m3d,050
Release Date: 2007/??/??

Tracklist:
01 – Sascha Müller – Amok Time
02 – Rabato – Chorson Dival Jr
03 – Mister Density – Coppertopmix2
04 – Vim! – D-lux 2ch
05 – The Sober Cobra – Enslaved Ruff (feat. P3pper)
06 – Commodore 64 Orchestra – Flatbeat Covered
07 – Sidney Frost – Flight 1
08 – M-.-n – Freabbit
09 – Bankie Phones – Glory Hole
10 – Random – Jordan Is On Drugs
11 – Gert 3000 – Krieg Total
12 – Lisas Raynos – Loser + 1
13 – x|k – Meet Me At Midnight
14 – Gijs Gieskes – Pauze
15 – M-.-n – Psyborot
16 – Flegmatical – Roadrage
17 – Nicemoooves – Six Plus 1
18 – Overthruster – Standard727
19 – Blowfins – Tanz
20 – Hertzcanary – The Heroin Canary
21 – Lisas Raynos – Train To Rotterdam
22 – Get Married – Two Killas

Artwork:
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Ocbalt – As Is {mtk193}

Artist: Ocbalt
Title: As Is
Label: Monotonik
Catalog #: mtk193
Release Date: 2007/10/27

A debut on Monotonik, then, for Finland-based electronic music artist Ocbalt, with some delightfully bubble, vocoded tracks from his upcoming ‘Vintage Art’ album.

The full album should be out on a physical label pretty soon, but we, luckily enough, get a digital EP to precede it, with the brief spoken word ‘What Is Art?’ seguing swiftly into the surprising bleep-pop of ‘Bribe’, which showcases sweet multi-tracked vocoded singing and super-catchy synths, all stutter-step.

The other two tracks are dead-on, too, with ‘As Is’ blasting a little tarantella on drums before spooky synths wander in and looped spaceman vocals wander across the top somewhere or other. Finally, ‘Okno’ has an odd spoken word loop to start out before some absolutely delightful idmpop wanders into view, catchy and smart. ‘Ok yes’, Ocbalt – and thanks for sharing with us.

Credits:
pic by h0l

Tracklist:
01 – What Is Art?
02 – Bribe
03 – As Is
04 – Okno

Artwork:
Front Cover

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