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Ramone – Unreleased Works Part 2 – The Firehorse Sessions {mtw026}

Artist: Ramone
Title: Unreleased Works Part 2 – The Firehorse Sessions
Label: Mono211
Catalog #: mtw026
Release Date: 2001/11/14

As you may know by now, Andi Horvath, aka Ramone/Mono, passed away very unexpectedly and prematurely in June of 2001. He was a source of the most amazing hiphop jungle tracks and ascii/graffiti art, as well as possessing an amazing spirit, and he’s fondly remembered by all of his online and offline friends.

So, we’re proud to be able to present the second part of our tribute to him, a full CD album he recorded back in 1998, originally for a release on German-based Firehorse Records, though this didn’t end up panning out. Thus, “The Firehorse Sessions” languished in the vaults until now, when his friends back in Germany were kind enough to pass us on a copy for release online as mp3s – they will also be releasing it on limited CD, as originally intended, in further tribute to Andi.

What to say about the music? Well, it’s the .MOD/.XM Ramone style writ large on a larger canvas, stripped down to the bone, and it sounds amazing for it. All the way from the terse loops of “Intro”, through the two-step funk of “Weapon Assassinator”, to the radio cut-up (featuring Mono .MOD releases in the radio mix, *sigh*), right up to the pure class of “Til We Come” and crazed multi-layering of “Number One”, this record oozes class, and epitomises the breaks-heavy sound Ramone and Mono was renowned for and Mono211 is still pushing in yr area. So burn this on a disc, put it in yr car CD player, and, well, shake yr booty, darnit.

Credits:
cover by rents

Tracklist:
01 – Intro
02 – Weapon Assassinator
03 – Radio Mono
04 – Ah Yeah
05 – Til’ We Come
06 – Boomin’ The Funk
07 – I Hear Things
08 – Smooth Operator
09 – Work It Out
10 – Keep Funkin
11 – Number One
12 – Interlude
13 – Dope Jam
14 – We Like

Artwork:
Front Cover

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Skybax – Marmelade dream {od027}

Artist: Skybax
Title: Marmelade dream
Label: Ogredung
Catalog #: od027
Release Date: 2001/10/30

well after more than two weeks we come back with another track from finland!
our guest brings a new fashion by releasing some foodish music, yes, sweet sugar-synthpoppish marmelade, fast and happy i should say, with some commercial dance inflections broken by mechs.
what we need is some butter, and we can taste it in all its flavour.
slurp 😛

Tracklist:
01 – Marmelade dream [IT] [FLAC] [MP3 (New)] [MP3 (Original)]

Artwork:
Front Cover

_{*FLAC & MP3 zips also include the original versions.}

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Phasmid – Petting Zoo EP {mtk064}

Artist: Phasmid
Title: Petting Zoo EP
Label: Monotonik
Catalog #: mtk064
Release Date: 2001/10/29

For some reason, we sat on the demos Phasmid sent us for a few months. Then we listened again and smacked ourselves upside the head for not putting out the US idm-er’s material, like, _immediately_. Why? It’s the missing link Monotonik may have been needing, a bridge between laid-back traditional melodics and something a little more unconventional and new.

So, welcome to Phasmid’s skewed world-view courtesy of “Heroine Of Goat Bells”, all Plone-ish weird instruments and out-there multi-tracked melodies, moving on to “The Smallest Ghosts”, which encompasses subtle klangs, crashes, and childlike leads, whilst “Cheeky50” finishes off in crazily mechanical style, all whistles, rattles, and wheezes. Gotta love the Phasmid style.

Credits:
cover by rents

Tracklist:
01 – The Heroine Of Goat Bells
02 – The Smallest Ghosts
03 – Cheeky50

Artwork:
Front Cover

License:
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loke – ro-bott {#063}

Artist: loke
Title: ro-bott
Label: Voodoo
Catalog #: #063
Release Date: 2001/10/25

this track has been waiting for a proper moment to be released; the time has come 🙂 absolutely wonderful working on the melody from loke. it’s also a bit different tune from the typical releases since this one has four on the floor rhythm. once again, it’s an electronic masterpiece from our favourite artist. loke has been in voodoo from the very beginning and i hope we all can hear lot more of this music in the future.

.substance

Tracklist:
01 – ro-bott [XM] [FLAC] [MP3]

Additional Files:
file_id [DIZ] [PNG]
vdo_robo [NFO] [PNG]
vdo_robo [README] [PNG]

_{*FLAC & MP3 zips also include the original versions.}

Heẍa – C O [Dub] {od026}

Artist: Heẍa
Title: C-o [dub]
Label: Ogredung
Catalog #: od026
Release Date: 2001/10/11

the 31st of july we released visuddhi (ogredung #16), composed by our virtuesman purusha, before leaving for the summer vacation. it was a weird ambient d’n’b track, with some trigging inflections brought by a style he would define as ‘ceramics’.
well our new musician hexa, from japan, is a master of idm/ambient/breakbeats, and seems to compose his music by reminding the track named above, with great deepness and emphasis, that is.
xpecially this c o [dub], astonishes us, as if a deep, melancholic melody slowly grows up from the very depths of our hearts, and once in our head, we can’t do anything but let it take us to the heavens.

Tracklist:
01 – C-o [dub]

Artwork:
Front Cover

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Hoffman – Unreal 2001 {mtw025}

Artist: Hoffman
Title: Unreal 2001
Label: Mono211
Catalog #: mtw025
Release Date: 2001/10/09

It’s been 10 years (at least) since Hoffman, aka Dreamfish, aka Hydlide, was hanging out on the UK Amiga .MOD scene with h0l, Subi, Twilight, and a whole bunch of the other Mono founders. It’s been 5 years since the first ever release on Mono was a remix of “Time Slip” by Hoffman. It’s been 4 years since the release of the original “Unreal” .MOD (grab here), a truly kickin piece of supa.loop.led d+b action on Mono211.

And now, the present day, whereby the still.got.it Hoffman gives us “Unreal 2001”, a radically gorgeous break-filled reworking of his ’97 .MOD classic. Nine minutes of madness later, you’ll see why we wanna be releasing stuff by Hoffman in another ten years. God, did we mention we feel really old about now? We’re going for a little sitdown whilst you witness the smartness of the music doing the talking. Yum. Yum. Yum.

Credits:
cover by rents

Tracklist:
01 – Unreal 2001

Artwork:
Front Cover

License:
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kerx – colorado beetle {#062}

Artist: kerx
Title: colorado beetle
Label: Voodoo
Catalog #: #062
Release Date: 2001/10/06

as i’ve announced, we’ve got some fresh blood to our group again. and by this i mean kerx of course. this is his first release and surprisingly the one that really got me interested of his music. it sounds awesome to be done with ft2 but in the same time sounds of an old track from autechre called ‘crystel’. i still wouldn’t say it’s a bad sign but you better judge it by yourself. it’s a great track and expect more from him soon (i know i will 🙂

.substance

Tracklist:
01 – colorado beetle [XM] [FLAC] [MP3]

Additional Files:
file_id [DIZ] [PNG]
vdo_colo [NFO] [PNG]
vdo_colo [README] [PNG]

_{*FLAC & MP3 zips also include the original versions.}

AY88 – Console-Related Depression EP {mtk063}

Artist: AY88
Title: Console-Related Depression EP
Label: Monotonik
Catalog #: mtk063
Release Date: 2001/10/02

Continuing our interest in where the crunchy retro of videogame music meets the now and future of life away from your Nintendo, the mysterious AY88 (no name, no packdrill) delves deep into the innards of his primitive sound creation devices, and comes up with the exquisite tangent of “Console-Related Depression”.

Thus, whilst the first part of the EP bounces solid analog bass with metronome-style backing and gorgeously smooth arpegiating to infinity in an almost .SID style, the second track really cuts up the drums to a shuffle and showcases more of the “L.E.D Storm”-ish cosmic arpeggios, and the final part blends cheeky leadsynth action with echo after echo.

All in all, it’s almost as much euphoria as we’d have if the Konix Multisystem had actually got released, and as such, it’s a result, a definite result, mon ami.

Credits:
cover by AY88

Tracklist:
01 – Console-Related Depression V1
02 – Console-Related Depression V2
03 – Console-Related Depression V3

Artwork:
Front Cover

License:
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Stonda – Codename: Axia {od025}

Artist: Stonda
Title: Codename: Axia
Label: Ogredung
Catalog #: od025
Release Date: 2001/09/30

proudly ogredung releases its first track from a european country (apart italy), that is, the finnish stonda and his codename axia.
hmm if i’m not wrong we already released some noise, with leaving the candygirl by purusha (ogredung#08), and now noise is back with this great tune!
harshing breakbeats, dark noise ambients, recycled grooves… hmm we love it, definitely honey for our ears!
tschum-tu-prshhh ta-shhhh-tshum-kssssss 😛

Tracklist:
01 – Codename: Axia [IT] [FLAC] [MP3 (New)] [MP3 (Original)]

Artwork:
Front Cover

_{*FLAC & MP3 zips also include the original versions.}

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