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Octopus Land – Suck My Temple Moan Trumpet EP {mtk118}

Artist: Octopus Land
Title: Suck My Temple Moan Trumpet EP
Label: Monotonik
Catalog #: mtk118
Release Date: 2003/09/28

From the depths of the Straits of Atlantis, the artist known as Octopus Land has surfaced, and with him he brings, entangled in his nets, a veritable bounty of sweet, jittering idm melodies, and dark, underwater fruits of the sea.

For starters, ‘Tortoise Catch’ twins the random stomp with the sweet orchestra of the dolphins, epic and joyous, before ‘Voave222’ hesitantly taps out a morse code of undersea distress, all plaintive against the blackness of the deep, dark ocean. Next, Octopus Land tries to imagine what having a room would really be like in the perky, pirouetting ‘Cleaning My Room’, before sinking back among the moray eels and the inky blackness with the plain dangerous ‘Komputer Going Into Sleep Mode’. Embrace the ocean, now.

Credits:
photo by mcbuttah

Tracklist:
01 – Tortoise Catch
02 – Voave 222
03 – Cleaning My Room
04 – Komputer Going Into Sleep Mode

Artwork:
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Oveloe – Maddi EP {mtk117}

Artist: Oveloe
Title: Maddi EP
Label: Monotonik
Catalog #: mtk117
Release Date: 2003/09/12

The debut release from Canada’s contemplative, indielectronic Oveloe, aka Charles Bisaillon, who’s previously released an excellent EP on net.label Kikapu, shows a beautifully phrased grasp of strangely retro-sounding, but absolutely not bleep heavy electronics. Soulful, considered, and intelligent, it makes the weirdest sense to us.

As for the individual songs, ‘Transistor Love’, the first track, allows a throbbing backbeat drift and a plaintive, multi-tiered lead, before seguing into an elliptic ‘Mostly Misty’, almost reminiscent of Monotonik cohort Anders Svensson in its looped approach to linearity. Next, the beautiful ‘Petit Serpent’ allows faster, more pattering beats, before ‘Madeleine’ locks thing down with a mellow, angelic final track. It’s all about the feeling that you’re where nobody can touch you, and Oveloe provides four very good reasons to feel that way, right here, right now.

Credits:
picture by oveloe

Tracklist:
01 – Transistor Love
02 – Mostly Misty
03 – Petit Serpent
04 – Madeleine

Artwork:
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Antimateria vs Paolo Veneziani – Ice Geometry {od060}

Artist: Antimateria vs Paolo Veneziani
Title: Ice Geometry
Label: Ogredung
Catalog #: od060
Release Date: 2003/09/11

Up until now Paolo Veneziani is certainly the biggest deal here at Ogredung (face to face with Makunouchi Bento): he scored 1300 downloads with just a release (Perpetual green), and the counter increases day by day. Following an EP and another mp3-single (on the Snowsky & no Ink compil), this coop with italian soundmate Antimateria is certainly another big shot in the hole. Ice Geometry features Paolo’s virtuosisms on the analog synthesizer and Antimateria’s tracking and mastering skills into a very trip into the new (for me) world of neo-cosmic icepop. Sharp, slidy and extremely catchy, this two-tracks EP shows us that fresh musix is always coming to us -and to you. And fresher than ice there is only Paolo Veneziani.

Tracklist:
01 – Ice Geometry
02 – Air Geometry

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Crashed By Car – Fictions And Fires EP {mtk115}

Artist: Crashed By Car
Title: Fictions And Fires EP
Label: Monotonik
Catalog #: mtk115
Release Date: 2003/08/07

This time round, a debut release from Oregon’s Crashed By Car, recent founder of the beautiful Pleasedosomething net.label, and indielectronic star in the making, with net.releases on Kikapu and 8BitRecs, amongst others.

The “Fictions And Fires EP” is a spectacularly well-crafted piece of organic electronics, with highlights including the smooth drift of “Full Speed Dead”, the muted triumph of “Bees”, and the almost Harold Budd-esque ambient beauty of “Skylight Facing Myself”.

It’s a sign of the changing electronica scene, maybe, that more and more good artists are coming out of the States to meld organic waveforms with the pure Scandinavian tones often released on Monotonik, and Crashed By Car’s idyllic sounds are another blissful step towards unity.

Credits:
picture by crashedbycar

Tracklist:
01 – Oswald’s 47
02 – Full Speed Dead
03 – Dollars In Our Jeans
04 – Bees
05 – Milk Of Amnesia
06 – Skylight Facing Myself

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Ronny Pries – Through the Fog {T-001}

Artist: Ronny Pries
Title: Through the Fog
Label: Weltherrschaft
Division: T-
Catalog #: T-001
Release Date: 2003/07/30

A1, “Through the fog”, burns itself into the listeners memory. The offensive bassline is coming along like an earthquake.

The b-side continues seamlessly and shows with “Harvester” through striking hi-hats and a compressed beyond belief synthpad.

Although with smoother sounds, but by no means less floating the second track of the b-side “Orang Utan” represents itself and the artist Ronny Pries with his wide Spectrum of understanding his music. Sharp drums and soft spheres combined into a melodic and rhythmical sophisticated track, which is not only ambient..

Credits:
Coverartist Nullvoid (www.nullvoid.net)

Tracklist:
01 – Through The Fog
02 – Harvester
03 – Orang Utan

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Books on Tape – Man Alive EP {od058}

Artist: Books on Tape
Title: Man Alive EP
Label: Ogredung
Catalog #: od058
Release Date: 2003/07/23

Todd Drootin from California, also known as Books on Tape, has a plethora of releases on so many labels (and netlabels) and runs such cool projects (he’s b0ss of the Subverseco netlabel as well) that we actually had no few troubles in drawing a somewhat evolutionistic line of his work; one thing we are sure of: he’s certainly one of the greatest working minds under the ground of the underground electronics nowadays. His music is savagely cyber-piratesque, holding at times a particular hard-exotic touch that renders a very unique (and maybe evil) scene. Riff-loops and obscure acidity, noise-rock sampling and sometimes danceable rioting melodies make Todd’s work a new, unique and well-defined musical experience for the intelligent headnodders.

Tracklist:
01 – Pirate radio child
02 – Son of what went wrong
03 – Sediert
04 – Crackton
05 – Auction stand for personal hatred
06 – Revolver illmatik

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Anders Svensson – Run Anders Run EP {mtk114}

Artist: Anders Svensson
Title: Run Anders Run EP
Label: Monotonik
Catalog #: mtk114
Release Date: 2003/07/23

A return to Monotonik duties from Swedish artist Anders Svensson, formerly a Scandinavian indie band stalwart, and following up his debut Monotonik EP with another 3 tracks of wonderfully elliptical, genuinely original takes on the whole electronic music thing.

First up, ‘Making It Personal’ does that almost-cylical gorgeously crystallic thing than so many of Anders’ tracks seem to, before ‘Facing Trouble’ drifts beautifully around the question, all coy and drifting. Finally, ‘Sooner As Well As Later’ patters the percussion and pitters your heart with pure tones and delicate drums.

Credits:
watchcam photo by h0l

Tracklist:
01 – Making It Personal
02 – Facing Trouble
03 – Sooner As Well As Later

Artwork:
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Blisaed – As Time Passes EP {mtk113}

Artist: Blisaed
Title: As Time Passes EP
Label: Monotonik
Catalog #: mtk113
Release Date: 2003/07/10

We’re delighted to showcase the first Monotonik EP from American artist Matt Centonze, under his Blisaed moniker. Matt’s released on smaller netlabels and his own site as Echion and Mistrial before, but the “As Time Passes EP” drifts through some beautifully produced indie electronic moods, alternately sophisticated and restful.

First off, it’s “Megan’s Guitar”, with some serene spoken word and strummed guitar melding wonderfully, before “Far From Home” works up the percussives into more of a understated frenzy. Then, newest track “Connect” let everyone connect into Blisaed’s superdelicious blissful world, before Matt’s remix of (previous Monotonik releaser) Darkhalo’s “Analog Snow Bunny Girl” gets all orchestral and lushly analog on our collective eardrums. Good stuff indeed.

Credits:
photo by h0l

Tracklist:
01 – Megan’s Guitar
02 – Far From Home
03 – Connect
04 – Darkhalo – Analog Snow Bunny Girl (Blisaed‘s Blue Remix)

Artwork:
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Pretty Boy Crossover – 17 Steps {mtk112}

Artist: Pretty Boy Crossover
Title: 17 Steps
Label: Monotonik
Catalog #: mtk112
Release Date: 2003/06/26

We’re delighted to get the chance to release a new track from Australian electronica royalty and oldtime Monotonik releasers, Pretty Boy Crossover, aka PBXO. Previously, we released a couple of their tracks related to their excellent first Surgery CD, “The Building And Formation”, and since then, they’ve released another EP, “Any Number Can Play”, on Clan Analogue, and are gearing up for new releases on Surgery and C0C0S0L1DC1T1, as well as new tracks from the group they share members with, Other People’s Children, on 555 and Morr Music.

Anyhow, “17 Steps” is all gorgeously languid, slow motion melodies, a breath of fresh air when only stuffiness and restriction rules the roost. The curiously hypnotic percussion buzzes, the almost shoegaze-styled melodies hum, and all is good with the world, if only for those four minutes and thirtynine seconds. Hurrah for the pretty boys and their crossover skills, eh?

[Thanks to Tony @ Kinglux for the excellent cover-art.]

Credits:
cover by tony@kinglux

Tracklist:
01 – 17 Steps

Artwork:
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Ernesto Aeroflot – Oll Tolk’n’ no Ding atcheev’d {mtk111}

Artist: Ernesto Aeroflot
Title: Oll Tolk’n’ no Ding atcheev’d
Label: Monotonik
Catalog #: mtk111
Release Date: 2003/06/05

Thanks to a tip from a Finn in the know, us here at Monotonik stumbled across the material of Finnish maverick Ernesto Aeroflot online, and we’re delighted to be able to release his 4th album, “Oll Tolk’n’ no Ding atcheev’d”, on Monotonik.

Mr. Aeroflot is a mysterious fellow who’s released on net.label Commie and a host of smaller labels under names/groups such as TranceYlvania, Sky Wide Jazz, Oodi & Elegia, High Grade Multi Purpose Intelligent Terminal (!), and more. This 10-track album showcases his unpredictable but riveting style excellently, as ’80s bleep sounds and stuttering electro mix up with distorted unrest, sweeping electronica, and a wholly surprising bonus cut to create something truly different.

Highlights? Well, tracks like “We Wish You A Merry Ca” evokes Yellow Magic Orchestra, all smooth and retro, whereas “Be Real, Rysto Byls IV” is almost a widescreen movie soundtrack, and “Lost Data” is the most delicious of pseudo chip-tunes. Plus, the final superextrabonus track, “Afterburner”, well.. Finnish.. surf guitar.. epic.. need we say more?

[There’s also a release text from Ernesto himself for this release, giving some more info into the Teemustan language that the album was created in – all the current song titles are translations from this (invented? crazed!) language which is used for the name of the album.]

Credits:
cover by ernesto aeroflot

Tracklist:
01 – Kesäsade
02 – Format C:
03 – Forever Endeavour
04 – We Wish You A Merry Ca
05 – Lost Data
06 – Unpurposal
07 – Tiritomba
08 – Anttipentti
09 – Be Real, Risto Byls IV
10 – Afterburner

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