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Loki & Marek – Dirty Flirt {DOM3-002}

Artist: Loki & Marek
Title: Dirty Flirt
Label: Weltherrschaft
Division: Dominion
Catalog #: DOM3-002
Release Date: 2003/05/28

representing the dominion “was raus muss … muss raus” squad, marek and loki smash the floor with this hardstep killer. trashed breaks vs a massiv bassline .. what else do you need ?! maybe a little bit more psychedelic b-side-whatever … done.

Credits:
Coverartist: Loki

Tracklist:
01 – Dirty Flirt
02 – Flirty Dirt

Artwork:
Front Cover

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All the music in mp3 format is free for download. Be aware that all music / graphics on this site is (c)copyrited by Weltherrschaft and should not be used for any commercial projects without our permission.

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Transient – Ancient EP {mtk110}

Artist: Transient
Title: Ancient EP
Label: Monotonik
Catalog #: mtk110
Release Date: 2003/05/24

We’re delighted to present a debut EP from US artist Transient, in the form of “Ancient EP”. With previous releases on Darla, Skylab Operations, and TBTMO, his enchanting electronica has been wandering happily around the world for a while now, and we’re happy to hasten its passage with this release.

The debut track, “Gypsonic”, sets the mood perfectly, with sweeping synths, complex and beautiful rhythms, and a gorgeously floating end product. The rest of the tracks on the EP only continue with that tradition, with “Tiny Flame”, all complex beats and smooth, smooth melodies, plus the guitar inflected “Self Validating Chipmunk” remix other highlights of this EP. So remember, if you want to stay happy for the permanent, choose Transient.

[Also, Transient released a 20mb trailer video for this release, featuring the song “Vigorous Chipmunk” plus some really nice cut-up, treated ambient video footage which reminds us of the cool Transambient TV/DVD series. Go grab it, if you haven’t seen it.]

Credits:
cover by transient

Tracklist:
01 – Gypsonic
02 – Tiny Flame
03 – Vigorous Chipmunk
04 – Gypsonic (3 Yr Remix)
05 – Self Validating Chipmunk

Artwork:
Front Cover

Video:
Vigorous Chipmunk

Additional Files:
file_id [DIZ]

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Attribution-NoDerivs-NonCommercial 1.0 Generic (CC BY-ND-NC 1.0)

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Makunouchi Bento – Mipoetri (Triedan mix) {od059}

Artist: Makunouchi Bento
Title: Mipoetri (Triedan mix)
Label: Ogredung
Catalog #: od059
Release Date: 2003/05/21

Our very constant-releasing chill duo Makunouchi Bento is really making us fall in love with lusk and crunchy atmospheres. Remixing one of their best net-releases ever (Mipoetri, out on Miasmah), they let us take our hearts again with this unique piece of electronica for young lovers. Throughout the beats and the IDM melodies we’re learning to know probably the best IDM/chill artistic duo in Romania -and we want more. The track is also goin to be released on the fothcoming CD compilation Apegenine Vol. 1, which will feature works by the likes of Vizion, Xhale, Tao, Epoq, Kaneel, Mv, Xerxes, Rs3, Grandma, Echion, and voices say the well-known David Kristian from Alien8 rec.

Tracklist:
01 – Mipoetri (Triedan mix)

Artwork:
Front Cover

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Super Science – Me EP {mtk109}

Artist: Super Science
Title: Me EP
Label: Monotonik
Catalog #: mtk109
Release Date: 2003/05/10

We’re delighted to present the final release in a trilogy of ‘virtual 7-inches’ from Australian Mark Mitchell, aka Super Science. These tracks were originally released on the super-duper-limited Splashdown CDR series in 1999, and we’ve picked out the best unreleased tracks for Monotonik, to put out for free.

As mentioned before, Clue To Kalo, Mark’s new project, has had its ‘Come Here When You Sleepwalk’ album picked up by Mush Records in the US and The Leaf Label in Europe, and we HIGHLY recommend checking that album out if you want to hear the evolution of his vocal-blended, lush style that has the guys at Leaf comparing him to early Badly Drawn Boy and Folk Implosion.

This time round, “Take The Time To Take A Trip” is a lush, keyboard-led ramble through indie-electronic eddies of sound, with a beautifully sung refrain and a marvellously laidback feel. The second track, “Greenwich Mean Time Machine”, starts with birdsong and recordings of a summer’s day, and then drifts through a nirvana of melody and pure sound. Good, good stuff.

Credits:
photo by h0l

Tracklist:
01 – Two Planets In Twenty Days
02 – Greenwich Mean Time Machine

Artwork:
Front Cover

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Bliss – Life On The Rooftop {mtk108}

Artist: Bliss
Title: Life On The Rooftop
Label: Monotonik
Catalog #: mtk108
Release Date: 2003/04/26

Another new artist that turned heads immediately at Monotonik HQ, the Swedish-based Henrik ‘Bliss’ Jose, has been releasing tracks on net.label Fairlight Music for a while now, and when he came to us with this lushly produced, vocal-dotted electronic track, originally composed back in 2001, we snapped it up.

“Life On The Rooftop” starts out with some carefully placed organ, and segues into a full vocalmanipulated, densely produced track reminiscent of some of the earlier Super Science or Idmonster vocal experiments on Monotonik, and somehow cleaner and more glorious in its own right. In a search for electronica that sounds noticably different and strays from the same old norms, Bliss definitely comes up trumps.

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

Credits:
cover by tony@kinglux

Tracklist:
01 – Life On The Rooftop

Artwork:
Front Cover

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Bliss – It’s Not The Sweetness We’re After, It’s The Sugar EP {mtk116}

Artist: Bliss
Title: It’s Not The Sweetness We’re After, It’s The Sugar EP
Label: Monotonik
Catalog #: mtk116
Release Date: 2003/08/24

The second release from Sweden’s Bliss, aka Henrik Jose, and this lovingly crafted 3-track EP cements his reputation as creator of some of the lushest, most beautiful electronics around. With his previous net.label releases on Fairlight Music and success at the Assembly demoparty last year, his vocalblended, multi-layered, live instrument-appropriating angle creates, well, just sublime results, welldeserving of a record deal any time now, we reckon.

This EP starts out with ‘Transportation Is Bliss’, all delicious melodies and tonal interplay, before seguing into the plain beautiful ‘Free At Least’, with pure-sung vocals and surprisingly hard-driving drums. Finally, ‘It’s Not The Sweetness..’ is all pitched-up voice and spiralling piano, subtle and inspiring, almost too good to give away. Thanks again for Bliss for doing so, anyhow – it’s a gesture everyone can appreciate.

Credits:
picture by bliss

Tracklist:
01 – Transportation Is Bliss
02 – Free At Least
03 – It’s Not The Sweetness We’re After, It’s The Sugar

Artwork:
Front Cover

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Speedranch^Jansky Noise – This One Didn’t Make It Like Most Of The Others {mtk106}

Artist: Speedranch^Jansky Noise
Title: This One Didn’t Make It Like Most Of The Others
Label: Monotonik
Catalog #: mtk106
Release Date: 2003/04/13

When Jansky Noise lobbed us this tiny, but perfectly distorted exclusive mp3 to help promote the forthcoming Planet Mu release of Speedranch + Jansky Noise‘s ‘Migrate’ album, we were delighted to help unleash it on the unsuspecting public. Hence.. here it is.

A little background: Speedranch is the veteran noisemaster who recently collaborated with Venetian Snares on a Planet Mu album, and with James Plotkin and others for the Phantomsmasher release on Mike ‘Faith No More’ Patton’s Ipecac label. Jansky Noise is one of the people behind the shadowy and always genius V/VM collective and their myriad of releases, and together with Speedranch they released the ‘Welcome To Execrate’ album on Leaf in 1999. Now they’re coming out with ‘Migrate’ on Planet Mu, and you can check out sound samples on the Planet Mu discography page. But if you’re looking for something that didn’t make the album, but had every right to, here’s 30 seconds of noise, maniacal cutup burbling, and general goodness, showing a brief interlude of insanity does everyone the power of good.

Credits:
front cover of Planet Mu album
back cover of Planet Mu album

Tracklist:
01 – This One Didn’t Make It Like Most Of The Others

Artwork:
Front Cover
Back Cover

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Paolo Veneziani – Quadramusic {od057}

Artist: Paolo Veneziani
Title: Quadramusic
Label: Ogredung
Catalog #: od057
Release Date: 2003/04/05

And this is musical impressionism. White nights darkened by ligetian pure brushes, a mental-audio continuum: this is how the solar system would sound, if it ever sounded. Our research ends between solar pads and metal drops on the floor, between the joy of the return to home and the consciousness to have left something in the space.

Tracklist:
01 – Part A
02 – Part B
03 – Part C

Artwork:
Front Cover

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Izmar – Aze {mtw031}

Artist: Izmar
Title: Aze
Label: Mono211
Catalog #: mtw031
Release Date: 2003/03/31

So, we continue with the Mono211 sublabel tradition of releasing ‘good, but unclassifiable’ material that takes both breaks and chillout influences on-board. And this time, we were delighted to get “Aze”, an unexpected submission from the mysterious Izmar, and a whole album of delightfully groovy, beautifully programmed jazzy techno/chillout.

Right from the slow build of “Aze-01”, it’s clear that there’s something different going on here, with possible comparisons to the divine Fila Brazillia and a little of the new-wave UK chill-out of Lemon Jelly or Zero 7. Other highlights include the super-jazzy funk of “Aze-03”, the haunting melodies drifting around “Aze-05”, and the beautiful flute-led groove of the album-closer, “Aze-08”, alongside the wonderful improvised keyboard riffs flecked sumptuously all over the album.

And with another recent Mono211 artist in the same vein getting major-label interest, seems like hazing over with “Aze” is a great alternative to too much bleep in your diet for our ‘breath of fresh air’ sublabel. Better don your headphones and prepare to be enchanted.

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

Credits:
cover by tony@kinglux

Tracklist:
01 – Aze-01
02 – Aze-02
03 – Aze-03
04 – Aze-04
05 – Aze-05
06 – Aze-06
07 – Aze-07
08 – Aze-08