Artist: unknown artist
Title: composition iii
Label: Ansiform
Catalog #: ansi031
Release Date: 2005/12/19
just in time for the nadir of winter (at least in the overpopulated northern hemisphere which most of us call home) is ‘composition iii’, a chilly, cyclic drone. it shares a name with a classic work by piet mondrian: coincidence? probably not…
Tracklist:
01 – composition iii
License:
Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0)
Artist: Transient
Title: Work/Play EP
Label: Monotonik
Catalog #: mtk157
Release Date: 2005/12/18
U.S. veteran idm artist Transient is practically an old hand at Monotonik releases now, since this is his third for the label, quite apart from some stunning EPs and albums for netlabels like One and his own Noisy Vagabond Recordings.
And ‘Work/Play EP’ is a wonderful, aptly named split album, since it was composed both on work breaks with a Palm handheld (the ‘Work’ half) and at home using Impulse Tracker (the ‘Play’ half), and both halves show inspired mastery of melody, vocoded vocals, and bleep idm.
Starting with the ‘Work’ half, ‘Direct’ is tremendously smart idmpop, happily proclaiming that ‘the things you desire will destroy you’. Other highlights of the ‘Work’ side include the loping, considered ‘I’m Going To Explode’, as well as the witty ‘Trashybin’. As for ‘Play’, it’s more clipped, and almost more retro, but just as lovable, with ‘Toasted’ sounding almost like it’s being played backward, and ‘Chip Ship’ layering on layers and layers of layers, before ‘Play’ slides and slithers around melodic wavelenghts that make us all happy to be alive. It’s more transforming transience from Transient, and we thank him profusely.
Credits:
pic by transient
Tracklist:
Work EP:
01 – Direct
02 – Oblong
03 – Minty Fresh
04 – I’m Going To Explode
05 – Trashybin
Play EP:
01 – Toasted
02 – All You Can Do
03 – Chip Ship
04 – Sporty Flute Spoof
05 – Play
Artwork:
Front Cover
Work Cover
Play Cover
License:
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 Generic (CC BY-NC-ND 2.5)
Artist: Liquid Stranger
Title: Dead Or Alive
Label: Candy Mind Records
Catalog #: CANDY016
Release Date: 2005/12/10
We decided to pay Liquid Stranger a visit.
He has been hiding in a graveyard ever since Shuggoman tried to put him on fire during a performance in Wien. Apparently Liquid Stranger owed him loads of royalty $$$ from their kinky-ragga-days but refused to pay back. “The money is gone yo” he said when we asked him.
Now our Stranger is on the run and had to sell eight of his tracks to Candy Mind just to get some money for food…and beer…and woman…and guns and such…whatever.
What will happen to mr Liquid only the future can tell. Is he going to survive? Will he flee to an exotic island and disappear forever?
We don´t know, but anyway, we are happy to get the tunes and here they are:
1. THE BATTLE OF MAGALON
As the story opens, the battle of Magalon is about to take place. We join forces with the Liquid Strangers and get to know the dazzing Dragonhawks.
2. VODKA PÅ DAGEN OCH TEQUILA PÅ KVÄLLEN
Most people drink whatever they can find at any hour of the day.
However, Liquid Strangers brother knows there is a perfect time for everything and that goes for drinking aswell…so when is the time for some Tequila and when should you use large amounts of Vodka instead??
3. BEAUTIFUL
They say that beauty is in the eye of its holder, but it can actually also be in the ear of its holder or even the mouth of its holder.
4. TROLLDEG
When Liquid Stranger is tired he enjoys playing with his 43 Tons of Trolldeg. He does all kinds of things with it but most of the time he makes hats for the Candy Mind crew.
5. EXFOLIANT
When the Stranger is in a really good mood after a gig he always puts on some of his finest Exfoliant before he goes to bed. Ok, well, perhaps it is a bit sticky but he likes it anyway.
6. FISKGRÄDDE
It is tasty, nutritious and has a nice colour. Our Stranger use it as often as possible and even invited the Pope over for a fashionable Fiskgrädde-dinner once.
7. ARMADA
Rumours say that in 1987 the Liquid Stranger was abducted by an armada of (illegal) aliens and had to travel all over the world for 3 long years in a dirty trailer filled with Gypsies.
8. PEG
Now, try to clear the board by jumping pegs over other pegs, in either the horizontal or vertical dimensions. The “jumped” peg will be removed from the board. The objective of the track is to have only one peg remaining. Good luck!
Tracklist:
01 – The Battle Of Magalon
02 – Vodka På Dagen Och Tequila På Kvällen
03 – Beautiful
04 – Trolldeg
05 – Exfoliant
06 – Fiskgrädde
07 – Armada
08 – Peg
Artwork:
Front Cover
License:
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 Generic (CC BY-NC-ND 2.5)
Artist: unknown artist
Title: ten minutes of progress
Label: Ansiform
Catalog #: ansi030
Release Date: 2005/12/04
if you’re actively listening to ‘ten minutes of progress’, you’ll likely find it as an exercise in patience. as its title might suggest, it begins with virtually more silence than sound and gradually builds to a gorgeous chorus of sculpted tones. you could play it 144 times a day and never grow tired.
Tracklist:
01 – ten minutes of progress
License:
Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0)
Artist: Paul Farrington
Title: Lana
Label: Natural Media
Catalog #: NM002
Release Date: 2005/12/??
Lana is a great sound-toy from Paul Farrington a.k.a. Tonne, one of the most original multimedia artists around the world, well known for his works for Depeche Mode, Klitekture and many others. Designed for Simon Fishers Turner’s album LANA LARA LATA on Mute rec Lana allow you the manipulation of colours and sounds through your computer. We present a version with tonne’s own music. Enjoy mixing glitches and tones with this complex and funny virtual instrument!
Artwork:
Front Cover
License:
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0)
Artist: Dead Eros
Title: When
Label: Monotonik
Catalog #: mtk156
Release Date: 2005/11/25
Another debut, then, and this time an American practitioner of the dark idm arts, in the form of Ann Arbor, MI-based Dead Eros. Monsieur Eros has run his own Music Is For Assholes label for some time, hangs with the Ghostly International chaps, but produces a distinctly contrasting output to anything they might put out – from light, sinewave-strewn idm to dark, foreboding ambient.
Thus, ‘When EP’ is three pieces of brightness and one chunk of shadow, with lead track ‘When We Are Home’ characterizing the whole kit and caboodle, meandering and majestic all at once. Even more precise is ‘When We Are Scared’, a choral call to microchips everywhere, before ‘I Don’t Need To Wake Up’ goes deep into the recesses, somewhere near Biosphere territory, and things end of the offbeat, quirky, found-itself-again stylings of ‘When We Are Lost’. But we’re not lost – we’re very much here, and happy, and now.
Credits:
pic by h0l
Tracklist:
01 – When We Are Home
02 – When We Are Scared
03 – I Don’t Need To Wake Up
04 – When We Are Lost
Artwork:
Front Cover
License:
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 Generic (CC BY-NC-ND 2.5)
Artist: Pagalve
Title: Universe
Label: Knobs
Catalog #: KNOB004
Release Date: 2005/11/24
Usually a lover of a harder techno sound, Pagalve probably suprised himself after he made this special release for Knobs netlabel. Why “Universe”? Well, when your speakers will start to play this beauty, you’ll understand that is all about. Really deep tech stuff! Containing tracks built of TB-909 drums, beautiful stabs, lightly distorted basslines, clicks & cuts, various string structures together with stomping beats are doing a great job to make a feeling like you are somewhere in the universe…
Tracklist:
01 – Free
02 – Amino
03 – Free (Mookid Remix)
04 – Universe
Artwork:
Front Cover
License:
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 Generic (CC BY-NC-ND 2.5)
Artist: Pushiro
Title: Drop the Kontrabas
Label: The Art of Realistix
Catalog #: AoR004
Release Date: 2005/11/22
The Art of Realistix presents yet another blast from the past; Pushiro (aka J.Panic / Psilodump) keeps bothering us with his third release, “Drop the Kontrabas”, including two previously unreleased tracks, the hyperactive superacid titeltune “Drop the Kontrabas” (1996) and the housey yet heavy “Bad Ass” (1997), aswell as an acidrejv remix of “Collecting Sonic II” by Bobbygunnar (original on AoR003)!
Credits:
Pushiro – Drop the Contrabas
Track 1 composed by J.Panic 1996.
Track 2 composed by J.Panic 1997.
Track 3 remixed by Bobbygunnar.
Remastered by Psilodump 2005.
Cover art made with stringspin
on http://www.zefrank.com
Tracklist:
01 – Drop the Kontrabas
02 – Bad Ass
03 – Collecting Sonic II (Bobbygunnar Remix)
Artwork:
Front Cover
Full Art
License:
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 Generic (CC BY-NC-ND 2.5)
Artist: overthruster
Title: anal lord
Label: mp3death
Catalog #: m3d,040
Release Date: 2005/11/20
conquer the love: chill in the ‘i’ll
melancholic and arcane vocals
this should come to explode
in a journey throbber ball
an amazing drips and swaying release
born of a samples from evered
by the last dancefloor
each rewards a more ending
wet with another listic
carefull of potential nu-chill
and better compositive recyclings
looping from soundtrack you to sound
absolutely defunkadelic jazz
produced elevator true desire.
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during with defend of assenterprising.
Tracklist:
01 – one
02 – two
03 – edit blind
04 – three
05 – knighrt riefen
License:
Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)
Artist: Perky Chap
Title: Soulshit
Label: Candy Mind Records
Catalog #: CANDY015
Release Date: 2005/11/20
Ladies and gentlemen, let us all be very quiet when our new artist, Perky Chap, plays his songs. With a repertoire of all from housey pop music to introvert and sensfull drill’n’bass, this release is something special.
He is showing us how to smash in a happy “Badminton Song”, gives us a vampire drum’n’bass scare in “Nosferatu” and ending it all with the bigbang self-examinating noisy meditation “Soulshit”. The chap is really taking us on a journey to remember, a journey you’ll never forget…
We’ve said this before and we say it again: Fasten your seat belts, close you’re eyes and… open up your ears.
1. MUSIC IS MUSIC
Some things are hard to grasp. Sometimes it can be difficult to feel if your senses are telling the truth. And to tell what’s right and what’s wrong can also be tricky. Sometimes it can be impossible to know WHAT IS.
But one thing is always true: music is music!
2. BADMINTON SONG
Wanna join Perky Chap for a Badminton game? But be careful, the chap is a trickster, our guess is you’ll never beat him…
3. MAGIC RINGS
On a field trip to the future, the chap is finding a magical ring that can help him change his skin colour. And most fantastic of all: it’s a true 16-bit ring!
4. NOSFERATU
All vampires are scary, they are sucking blood and they tend to spend most of their days inside horrible castles. But most scary of them all are the imitated vampires… Watch your steps when you’re meeting with Nosferatu!
5. STOLEN GOODS
Perky is going funky. Let’s dance along to this break-ghost-funk-party-yeah-stuff.
6. SOULSHIT
Darkness and light, happiness and sadness.
This perky meditation takes you on an excursion to all the areas of your soul, a journey you’ll never remember and therefore never forget…
Tracklist:
01 – Music Is Music
02 – Badminton Song
03 – Magic Rings
04 – Nosferatu
05 – Stolen Goods
06 – Soulshit
Artwork:
Front Cover
License:
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 Generic (CC BY-NC-ND 2.5)
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