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Beak – Bishop Whitney EP {mtk180}

Artist: Beak
Title: Bishop Whitney EP
Label: Monotonik
Catalog #: mtk180
Release Date: 2007/02/18

The latest release for guitar and beat-strewn idm artist Beak on Monotonik, following the ‘Amoral Mayor Earwig EP’ back in 2004 and ‘El Hacedor EP’ in 2005, the ‘Bishop Whitney EP’ continues his extremely unique mix of strongly played guitar, acoustic noises and cut-up percussion in fine, fine style.

This time, we start out with the characteristic plucked freneticism of ‘Context Clues’, before seguing into the languid crawl of ‘Teach Texas Manner’, further showcasing his totally individual, beautiful melodic stylings. ‘Buggy Ride’ almost sounds indie pop to start out, before layering delicate melodies on top of the plucking.

We finish out with the extended drawl of ‘Cakes’, all waiting for the sun to rise, and the downright funk of ‘Essines’ Hair’, bopping around like a crazy man, and we come to the conclusion that the unique guitar funk of Beak should never be forgot, at least not in this house.

Credits:
pic by beak

Tracklist:
01 – Context Clues
02 – Teach Texas Manners
03 – Buggy Ride
04 – Cakes
05 – Essines’ Hair

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Various Artists – Anniversary Compilation {NM007}

Artist: Various Artists
Title: Anniversary Compilation
Label: Natural Media
Catalog #: NM007
Release Date: 2007/02/06

To celebrate the first year online we invited some of our favourites artists to participate into a huge anniversary compilation. Alejandro Mosso, Bizz Circuits, Electrip, Gaston Arévalo, Gustavo Lamas, Ismael Pinkler, Joshue Ott, kenneth Kirschner, Morgan Packard, Pablo Reche Pablo Verón, Pren Lezrod, Punkteins and Tilman Ehrhorn replied to the request and finally we got this amazing top-notch release! Go directly to our releases section to download it!

Credits:
Cover by : Angeles Casares

Tracklist:
01 – Pablo Veron – fraile
02 – Tilman ehrhorn – across
03 – Alejandro Mosso – cerodos
04 – Gaston Arevalo – luz
05 – Electrip – 0704
06 – Pren Lezrod – cc
07 – Bizz Circuits – unfinished apathy
08 – Gustavo Lamas – encontrando
09 – Morgan Packard – live (excerpt)
10 – Punkteins – solfar
11 – Kenneth Kirschner – 090203
12 – Pinkler & Reche – declive
13 – Morgan Packard & Joshue Ott – sculpture 6

Artwork:
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choenyi – Defervescence {YKYK009}

Artist: choenyi
Title: Defervescence
Label: Yuki Yaki
Catalog #: YKYK009
Release Date: 2007/02/01

Choenyi kicks off his Yuki Yaki debut with a 6-track EP. This is his third appearance after the remix on YkYk008 and his compilation track on YkYk005.
He has created cold and dark tracks oscillating between Minimal Techno and Soundscapes. Profound beats are playing a main part in the conception of the tracks. The swinging “Doma Fourth” and the stomping hymn “Tri Ling” can be located near Dance floor music. Spheric helicopter flights through a dark night.
Choenyi’s other issue is Dub. He has made it up of little, reduced reverb-rooms and the selective use of delays. No element is being pushed in front and klicking drums leave a lot of room for the dark dub of choenyi.
The remixers took a certain element of the track and moved it in to the fore. Lao and Nicolas Aguero aka Sumergido pushes “Pollen” more into the classical Dub scheme. Daniel Carew changed “Doma Fourth” into a dreamy and happy tune. Manziping puts some extra funk to “Mime Dub”, making it ready for peaktime dance floor.
Last but not least Dr. Nojoke use samples from “Pollen”, “Taurean Storm”, “Tri Ling” and “Monophase” to create his “Defervescence”-extract.

Credits:
original coverphoto by Aaron Logan

Tracklist:
01 – Doma Fourth [MP3] [OGG]
02 – Mime dub [MP3] [OGG]
03 – Pollen [MP3] [OGG]
04 – Taurean Storm [MP3] [OGG]
05 – Monophase [MP3] [OGG]
06 – Tri Ling [MP3] [OGG]
07 – Mime dub (Manziping Remix) [MP3] [OGG]
08 – Pollen (Lao Remix) [MP3] [OGG]
09 – Doma Fourth (Daniel Carew Remix) [MP3] [OGG]
10 – Pollen (Nicolas Aguero Remix) [MP3] [OGG]
11 – Dr. Nojoke – Choenyi Defervescence Potpourri Mix [MP3] [OGG]

Artwork:
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Troupe – It’s Really Pretty Simple After All {mtk179}

Artist: Troupe
Title: It’s Really Pretty Simple After All
Label: Monotonik
Catalog #: mtk179
Release Date: 2007/01/28

A long, long time in the making, U.S. artist Troupe presents his first EP for Monotonik, ‘It’s Really Pretty Simple After All’, a plain spectacular mix of demo-scene inspired electronica, soaring melodies, and beautiful vocals.

Imagine, if you will, an American who has grown up and been musically influenced by the greats of the Amiga demo-scene – which this label itself was birthed from in 1996. Then mix in transcendent vocals reminiscent of favorite Monotonik releases like Bliss, and you get to…. a great place. You may know Troupe from his early EP for Backtrack, or, indeed, from his recent guest vocal appearance on the Seathasky release for Monotonik, but this 5-track EP from the teenager showcases why it makes perfect sense that he release with us.

So, what do we have? ‘It’s Complicated’ has a multi-layered synth start, before blasting in to a ridiculously lush melodic vocal bridge. Then we get to the even more demo-scene or even oddly jazzinfluenced tracks, like ‘The Way Things Would Have Been’, with super syncopated lead lines hissing in and out of view like snakes of melodic justice.

Perhaps the highlight is ‘At Least We Have Friends’, which is as close to a pop song as we’ve ever released here, in the best way, but then ‘Not Much Else’ blasts beautiful electro-pop to amazing effect, and the EP’s title track is drifting on layers of sound, and… I know Monotonik is all over the place stylistically of late, but you see the thread, right, listeners? I know I do. And this right here is the golden one.

Credits:
pic by h0l

Tracklist:
01 – It’s Complicated
02 – The Way Things Would Have Been Another Time
03 – At Least We Have Friends
04 – Not Much Else
05 – It’s Really Pretty Simple After All

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Goto80 – Zyndabox {CANDY033}

Artist: Goto80
Title: Zyndabox
Label: Candy Mind Records
Catalog #: CANDY033
Release Date: 2007/01/28

Ahhh! Goto80 is back in candyland with another killerpiller release! Goto80, or Gottan as he prefers to call himself, has really surpassed himself this time and deliver a fullblown-c64-smörebröd for the entire nuclear family. Danish madman Je Mappelle Mads joins in for a serious talk about cars and Dubmood kickstarts his atari and dishes out an awesome knarkar-remix.

Tracklist:
01 – Barking at the Wrong Dog
02 – Rofon
03 – Killer Piller
04 – Je Mappelle Mads – Bilerne de er Farlige (Goto80 Remix)
05 – Kingston Data Traveller 2
06 – Imun (8580 bugfix)
07 – Killer Piller (Dubmood‘s Atari Jihad)

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Ollie Cram – Rai-Ken {mtk178}

Artist: Ollie Cram
Title: Rai-Ken
Label: Monotonik
Catalog #: mtk178
Release Date: 2007/01/16

Something different, this time out, with the part nu-chill, part world music, part live-played album, ‘Rai-Ken’ from Bristol, UK native Ollie Cram – it’s pitched somewhere between the chillout of previous Monotonik releaser Izmar and something much further out than that, and that’s why we dig it.

Things start out with ‘Over Yonder’, all interplay with the live-played organ – there’s also guitar, keyboards, synth, bass, and mandolin played live on the album by Mr. Cram himself – before we move on to the funky guitar interplay of ‘Whatever You Say’, and far beyond that.

Some other highlights? The positively glorious strut of ‘Peace In Our Land’, and the almost elevatormuzak chill of ‘Rai-Ken’ itself. Again, this may not quite be our normal speed, but I think that’s why we like it – it’s good to be different, and the album, which was previously available on a number of paid music download portals, is all kinds of out there.

Credits:
pic by Ollie Cram

Tracklist:
01 – Away Over Yonder
02 – Whatever You Say
03 – It Could Have Been Me
04 – Down Quietways
05 – Blame
06 – Hey Mama
07 – Peace In Our Land
08 – Maya
09 – Awaiting Alanna
10 – Rai-Ken
11 – There’s Something To Be Said
12 – Magic

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Glander – Yuki Yaki Netaudio Mix 2006 {YkYkMix001}

Artist: Glander
Title: Yuki Yaki Netaudio Mix 2006
Label: Yuki Yaki
Catalog #: YkYkMix001
Release Date: 2007/01/13

This collection presents some high quality netaudio tracks 2006 mixed with music of the Yuki Yaki netlabel.
Our respect goes to the musicians and the people operating the netlabels trying to keep the netaudioscene rollin.
Thank you for the inspiration.
Yuki Yaki, Winter 2006.

PLAYLIST

01. Pellarin – Dependency 5 Cigarette [ykyk001]
02. Move D – Jo Interlude [apl035]
03. Move D – FM Heaven [apl035]
04. Absolute Time – Circle and Spiral [Filtro017]
05. Scaff – Concrete [ykyk004]
06. Rivel – Ruff Bizzness [Filtro019]
07. Adapt – 10pint wobble on [ykyk005]
08. Plaktonman – Sauzal [cy01]
09. T-Polar – Procession [thn089]
10. tekdev69 – Warsaw Soul (Ruxpin RMX) [lego005]
11. Emmerichk – Abner [ykyk006]
12. Daniel Carew – Lonithan Ward [ykyk unrlsd]
13. Choenyi – Mime Dub (Manziping Remix) [ykyk009]
14. Xoki – Redirection (Daniel Stefanik edit) [instabil_08]
15. Glander – he calls it heavyweight (edit) [ykyk010]

Tracklist:
01 – Yuki Yaki Netaudio Mix 2006

Artwork:
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02
03
04
05
06
07
08
09
10
11
12

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choplin – netlabels mix 12.06 {netdj010}

Artist: choplin
Title: netlabels mix 12.06
Label: Oír Para Creer
Catalog #: netdj010
Release Date: 2006/12/31

Bueno, pues esta es mi despedida del año, volvemos a las netdj y aquí os traigo la número diez. Comenzamos algo suaves, y vamos cogiendo el ritmo, sin llegar tampoco a nada duro.
Dieciocho temas con lo último que hemos comentado por aquí, y alguna sorpresa, un avance de lo que será el inoquo025, firmado por 0l, y tres temas que formaran parte del inoquo026, de hermético. Espero que disfruteis de la sesión y de esta noche!!!

Feliz año nuevo a todos!!!

The last mix of the year, with a selection of the best tracks published recently on the netlabel scene.
The netdj is a serie of mixes for http://netlabels.blosit.com

Notes:
tracklist.
1. martin schulte (tro029) – in the morning
2. el farouki (did001) – interaction
3. project swirl (tube061) – alpha centauri
4. yrack (tro030) – stone jungle
5. claudio (ouzo015) – bateries
6. oira (lnz004) – hypochondria (easy changes rmx)
7. hermético (inoquo026) – a de antiguo
8. negvahr (lam001) – the 8th seduction
9. keinzweiter (arch023) – step focus dimense
10. alessandro crimi (brq027) – afterhuettn (stefan tretau rmx)
11. dreiton – 35 attack
12. rich.vom.dorf (inoquo026) – zapping around (hermético rmx)
13. omar salgado (unfound025) – escarcha en el césped
14. dandi e ugo (itanet009) – rotten trip
15. 0l (inoquo025) – cream room
16. modul (nore011) – under
17. barem (unfound026) – sticky
18. hermético (inoquo026) – garmonbozia

Tracklist:
01 – netlabels mix 12.06

Additional Files:
netdj010 [CUE]
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Gaza F*gg*t – Welcome To Softbo {mtk177}

Artist: Gaza F*gg*t
Title: Welcome To Softbo
Label: Monotonik
Catalog #: mtk177
Release Date: 2006/12/30

Not necessarily one of Monotonik’s most ‘normal’ releases, but heartily welcomed anyhow, this unconventional glitch-electronic 7-track EP is from the oddly named Gaza F*gg*t, who can best be described as, well, an alter ego of a previous Monotonik releaser.

It all starts off with the gentle organ of ‘Horse With Gold Teeth’, before the latter end of the track gets all warped and Japanese-speech sampling, before the completely awesome ‘Rotten Fruit Messageboard Apology’ arrives, all explicit heartfelt sung apology for getting out of hand on some Internet messageboard or other – and eating babies. A more angelic apology has never been received, we reckon.

From then, it gets pretty far out, with ‘Softbo’ flipping up double speed and halfspeed electronic weirdness and ‘A Night After A Night After’ cutting up speech and erratic percussion into some kind of weird melange. Like we said, a break from the norm – but we can’t be calm and serene all the time, right? Call it our freak-out period.

Credits:
pic by h0l

Tracklist:
01 – Horse With Gold Teeth
02 – Rotten Fruit Messageboard Apology
03 – Titfarts
04 – Softbo
05 – Testb
06 – A Night After A Night After
07 – Softbo (Reprise)

Artwork:
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