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Malty Media – Bracken Bed EP {mtk189}

Artist: Malty Media
Title: Bracken Bed EP
Label: Monotonik
Catalog #: mtk189
Release Date: 2007/08/18

There’s nothing like a little collaboration, and in this case, it’s thanks to a couple of dangerous New Zealand natives – previous Monotonik releaser Aquaboogie and long-time electronic musician and Japanese resident Jet Jaguar.

They’ve kindly formed the special duo named Malty Media (I believe they played some shows together in Japan earlier this year), and this nostalgic 4-track EP plays off childhood memories of TV shows and advertising in their native land, with odd samples and strange angles throughout, almost like a much more surreal, Antipodean version of The Orb.

But what exactly do we have? Well, the title track, ‘Bracken Bed’, is all dub and squeak and extremely odd samples, before ‘Flakiest’ weaves in a little bit of subtle drum and bass across a chocolate commercial that echoes childhood thoughts. Then we have ‘Twiki’, which sneaks in a sci-fi robot beep or two, before we end out with the positively serene ‘Goodnight Kiwi (Beyond The Infinite Mix)’, possibly the Orb-iest of them all, with sped up and slowed down themes and chirp dub wonders galore.

(Watch out for a solo Jet Jaguar EP on Monotonik later this year, too, following his earlier LPs for Involve and Capital Recordings.)

Credits:
pic by h0l

Tracklist:
01 – Bracken Bed
02 – Flakiest
03 – Twiki
04 – Goodnight Kiwi (Beyond The Infinite Mix)

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unknown artist – qetoret (gong fog) {ansi038}

Artist: unknown artist
Title: qetoret (gong fog)
Label: Ansiform
Catalog #: ansi038
Release Date: 2007/08/14

at 39 releases and counting, we’re still considerably young in the scheme of things, and we’re glad to slowly broaden our collective’s aesthetic scope with tracks such as “qetoret (gong fog)”. this superficially sparse but fascinatingly layered piece is one of a select few in our catalogue to feature discernible vocal elements, however incomprehensible.

Tracklist:
01 – qetoret (gong fog)

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ASUP – .kleine Revolution {RFA004}

Artist: ASUP
Title: .kleine Revolution
Label: Retrofuturism
Catalog #: RFA004
Release Date: 2007/08/09

A small revolution. Asups adds a different flavour to the sound of retrofuturism. Less samples, more electronic sounds. But distinguished from other producers he knows how to do electronic music with soul.

Tracklist:
01 – Une expérience solo
02 – Memorable V.2
03 – They do NOT know me
04 – Destination Unknown
05 – NDSTWTRST Interlude
06 – Audio Sermon V.2
07 – 600ML
08 – Gil speakin over a sloppy beat
09 – Zone out
10 – Test Icles
11 – N’zeto
12 – Toxic dust (Instrumental)

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Ckid – Down With Ghosts {mtk188}

Artist: Ckid
Title: Down With Ghosts
Label: Monotonik
Catalog #: mtk188
Release Date: 2007/08/05

We’re delighted to welcome back René ‘Ckid’ Margraff, the German electronic artist who released on Monotonik back in 2000 (as Crashkid) and 2001, and went on to notable physical releases on Becalmed and Duotone Records, back to the label with a beautifully formed, evocative full-length album, ‘Down With Ghosts’.

Full of chanted and whispered vocals and an evocative, almost shoegaze-centric attitude to idm/electronics, ‘Down With Ghosts’ starts with the semi-conscious drawl of ‘From A To Z’, before the title track crosses subtle beats with drifting vocals, and things flow swiftly on.

Some of the other highlights include ‘Even Smaller’, which verges on decidedly funereal, paranoid pop music, and ‘Blink’, which swirls in layers and layers of vocals, melodies, and indecision, and multiple switches back to the ‘Ghosts’ formula, with the final one adding vocals, guitars, and vocoders to the mix. This is a mature, sophisticated, and wholly formed album, and we’re very pleased to put it out.

Credits:
pic by ckid

Tracklist:
01 – From A To Z
02 – Down With Ghosts
03 – Empty Carpark
04 – Ghost 3 (Yurei)
05 – Even Smaller
06 – Time Monsters
07 – Backwards
08 – Mulch
09 – Blink
10 – Closed
11 – Ghost4

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c4 – DEMOSCENE ADDICTION {011}

Artist: c4
Title: DEMOSCENE ADDICTION
Label: Kellerloch
Catalog #: 011
Release Date: 2007/08/01

Tracklist:
01 – memories
02 – supple simple sample
03 – organinc
04 – vgtbl+garden
05 – little enjoyably
06 – sounds of future

Artwork:
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V.A. – Pantoufle Tagada {pj001}

Artist: V.A.
Title: Pantoufle Tagada
Label: Petite&Jolie
Catalog #: pj001
Release Date: 2007/09/19

As said on the website, it’s been a moment we were thinking about it.
The definition of petite&jolie is clearly in the title, we want to set a cosy place for cute music.

We’ve been taking our time to contact artists we appreciated to be sure to deliver some lovely tunes that would definitly give the artistic line of this netlabel.

So here we are with our first release named “Pantoufle Tagada”, a nice launching compilation for the sake of cuteness

The cuteness will transport you on a pony ride from Purusha’s (Ogredung) progtoytronica to papercutz’s (Apegenine) childtronica, from Doroasako’s progressive folktronica to El zoológico’s pizzicato , passing by Original Recipe’s (Vinyl Republik) fresh pianopop to kaneel’s (Camomille, Ogredung) “joie de vivre” glitchtronics, vim’s (Monotonik) spring melodies to fah’s (Ronin) analog cute-acid without forgetting surasshu’s (Apegenine, Camomille) electro music with video game gimmicks while balùn people (Aerotone) are coming up with their cutey electropop and dot tape dot (spar.RK, NatureBliss) rejoins with his toy harp and trumpet experiments. In the meantime, makunouchi bento (Camomille, Ogredung, One) will delight your ears during a sweet and tender music box interlude for your christmas parties while Nej will come up with some sweet electropop and treacle (BEE Records) will bring back the groove to some cutetronica.

this compilation will act like the exact time-travel machine you needed to bring you back some childhood reminiscences, so we hope you’ll enjoy this 55 minutes long launching compilation as much as we enjoyed setting this all up.

❤

Tracklist:
01 – Purusha – Rabirabi
02 – dot tape dot – farpa (toy harp & plastic trumpet serenade)
03 – Doroasako – Je reviendrai
04 – Makunouchi Bento – Two Mechanical Snowghosts
05 – Original Recipe – Puppy
06 – Nej – Tell You
07 – Balùn – Alicia
08 – El zoológico – Penguin and Sea Lion
09 – Vim – That Smell of Spring Rain
10 – kaneel – Pyjama Lapin
11 – Surasshu – 5 a.m.
12 – Treacle – Stereotape
13 – Fah – I Hope You’re Happy With Me
14 – :papercutz – Lembras-te?

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Machinefabriek – Stuip/Staar {[one031]}

Artist: Machinefabriek
Title: Stuip/Staar
Label: One
Catalog #: [one031]
Release Date: 2007/07/17

Machinefabriek’s Stuip and Staar are two minimal drone performances captured at the Cross Street Chapel, Manchester (UK) and the Toneelschuurm, Haarlem (NL). Running just under an hour his processed guitar textures rise and fall, stretching their substance through etheral minimalism, slowly evolving epic heights, and moments of sublime symphony.

Rutger Zuyderveit’s work has gained much attention over the past few years through performance, his self-titled imprint, and releases at labels such as Type and Lampse. We’re pleased to have him join our ranks and carry forward the ambient series of One releases previously visited by past alumns such as Loscil, Makunouchi Bento, Kaneel, and Kwook.

Credits:
artwork by adrian leverkuhn

Tracklist:
01 – Stuip
02 – Staar

Artwork:
Front Cover
Cover (Print)
CD Tray (Print)

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Renzu – Reiha EP {mtk187}

Artist: Renzu
Title: Reiha EP
Label: Monotonik
Catalog #: mtk187
Release Date: 2007/07/21

We’re delighted to debut the first Monotonik release from the Chicago-based Renzu, a professional 3D animator and self-described ‘animation nerd’ and composer of rather deliciously lush IDM soundscapes. And the ‘Reiha EP’ is just a sampling of his layered, deceptively complex electronic music stylings.

Renzu explains of his background: “My story is very typical of my generation of IDM artists in that I got inspired by BBS/internet computer music and started with trackers from an early age (10) and went from there. Following the artists of that general lineage and/or demoscene-relation like Lackluster, Sense, Esem, MD, Proem, Brothomstates and so on — it’s no surprise I’m a fan of Monotonik.”

Well, it certainly makes a lot of sense on the label, with the opening ‘Serifu’ showing cascading rivulets of sound, before the title track ticks along beautifully with an almost Blade Runner-esque alien tinge to the electronics. Other highlights include ‘Akihabara Time-Lapse’, with voices sampled from Japanese talking calendar software, counting up the hours of the day and the days of the month. And ‘Leviathan’ is an epic boom bip of an ending lament. Thanks again to Renzu for providing the noise.

Credits:
pic by renzu

Tracklist:
01 – Serifu
02 – Reiha
03 – Xephon
04 – Akihabara Time Lapse
05 – Leviathan

Artwork:
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