Purusha – Visuddhi {od016}

Artist: Purusha
Title:
Visuddhi
Label:
 Ogredung
Catalog #:
od016
Release Date:
2001/07/31


before leaving for the 1-month-long holidays, purusha says hello to us with this visuddhi.
according to the indian traditions and symbolism, visuddhi is the 5th chakra (energy point placed along the human body), the throat; it means, in the human being, creativity and self-expression.
and, according to this, the boy tracks down a ceramics melodic bstates-like piece, with an onnipresent tempo hihat binding us to the reality, thus not allowing our minds to be taken away by casual harshing beats and the final hard and deep bdrums fading out.
indeed, a short track. but we really want to know where are our boundaries, and how open is our throat, don’t we?
and oh please, use the headphones!


Tracklist:
01 – Visuddhi [XM] [FLAC] [MP3]

Artwork:
Front Cover

*FLAC & MP3 zips also include the original versions.


Idmonster – My Human Side {mtk059}

Artist: Idmonster
Title:
My Human Side
Label:
Monotonik
Catalog #:
mtk059
Release Date:
2001/07/29


The second mtk.release (third release over both mtk and m211!) for UK-based Pendle, aka Idmonster, and his output seems to just keep getting better. After his previous Idmonster track we put out, ‘The Force May Be With You’, attracted attention from the verycool Neo-Ouija (Lee Metamatics/Norken’s label!), we’re pleased to note that track’ll be on the “Cottage Industries 2” compilation with Funckarma, Novel23, EU and more, wheeee.

Anyhow, “My Human Side” is Idmonster’s new track for us, and it’s another dense, lush, humansided piece of electronic listening music, with a curiously pulsing bassdrum leading into all manner of gorgeously fluctuating accompaniment, and finally to a sorta indecipherably vocoded lead-line whichrocks the track like Mr.Roboto stuck in a clockwork toy factory making lush stuffed fluffy clouds for  hanging out in limbo with flying monkey sheep. Or are we just stating the obvious?


Credits:
cover by rents – ROCKS 🙂


Tracklist:
01 – My Human Side

Artwork:
Front Cover


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


M2 – Dream beats {od015}

Artist: M2
Title:
Dream beats
Label:
 Ogredung
Catalog #:
od015
Release Date:
2001/07/27


i can’t even believe this.
after more than a month of absolute inactivity, we have _four_ great releases in only ten days!
and yes this time we have another greeeat member from (guess) japan.
and he has a gift for us, that is, this thing called dream beats.
the boy takes the piano and puts down a perfect melody to be heard with some speedup d’n’b breaks and beats.
maybe a little bit oldskool, but we love it anyway, and -yes- we dream when we look at this!


Tracklist:
01 – Dream beats

Artwork:
Front Cover


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


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Oto – Empty {od014}

Artist: Oto
Title:
Empty
Label:
 Ogredung
Catalog #:
od014
Release Date:
2001/07/24


two days and here is the virtuoso again!
wellwellwell.
we were announcing his entrance as a new member a few days ago, now here he is with his first freshrelease on ogredung!
empty is, indeed, something different from his usual style -he says-, an experimental track. anyway, we really like it!
a deep-synth meditative ambient track, this one, mostly broken and melodically impressive. chippychoppy pieces of dark-mechanical goa strike down the listener with unusual and unexpected movements.
the air gets hi (or heavy?), and the tough get tougher.
something to listen to, absolutely not to hear.


Tracklist:
01 – Empty

Artwork:
Front Cover


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


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Sushi Brother – Let’s Cruise {mtk058}

Artist: Sushi Brother
Title:
Let’s Cruise
Label:
Monotonik
Catalog #:
mtk058
Release Date:
2001/07/19


A return release from Sweden’s excellent Sushi Brother, another ex-demo-scener who’s really kicking things with an unique elektronik style, this one even more indescribable and intriguing than a chocolate potato (or a deep-fried Mars Bar).

Sushi Brother has his excellent ‘Shadowfighter’ former mtk.release out on 7″ about now, courtesy of Bop Records, btw – it also includes the Frank and Bill remix we also released, and with Bill (Yard) apparently featuring on the new Brothomstates EP on Warp, it couldn’t be a better point to release it.

But Meester Sushi is the _real_ star this time out, and “Let’s Cruise” is sorta extrasupamutated electronic scr0nk, with an almost P-Funk groove and stab chords over lots of sliiiiding bass and syncopated percussion effects. So, it’s a little bit like the Star Wars Cantina Band meeting Bootsy Collins at a LAN party, right? Riiiight.


Credits:
cover by sushi’s supertalented friend


Tracklist:
01 – Let’s Cruise

Artwork:
Front Cover


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


Purusha – Ma petite kkot {od013}

Artist: Purusha
Title:
Ma petite kkot
Label:
 Ogredung
Catalog #:
od013
Release Date:
2001/07/16


two days and here is the virtuoso again!
something like the sad squirrel, this little flower (kkot in korean), but much more synthpoppish, if you know what i mean.
based on an old chiptune by radix/tpolm, purusha puts down a deep nuchip fall-in-love song, maybe a little bit commercial but that’s it when you make such an use of the frequencies.
definitely to be listened to. every day.


Tracklist:
01 – Ma petite kkot

Artwork:
Front Cover


Hotcakes – Zombie Shuffle {‘007}

Artist: Hotcakes
Title:
 Zombie Shuffle
Label:
 Noiz Phaktah
Catalog #:
 ‘007
Release Date:
2001/07/13


Well I said it was coming and by jove I meant it. Havn’t done a right good old hardcore track for a while – I almost feel like I’ve been neglecting my roots – but with some inspiration from the likes of The Simpsons and The Bugs Bunny Show, well, you know what happens =] This stuff. By me. It’s good. It’s nothing original but it gives you a jolly good romp ’round the living room, eh? Eh???

Since 90% of this tune was composed from other ppl’s samples, some credits are most likely in order:

2 – Arrest – The Simpsons (and a damn good line it is, too:)
4 – bad – The Simpsons (Halloween Special)
5 – BassyExtro – Sony (PSX boot sample pt 2, reversed)
A – BOING – Could be from anywhere =]
C – camel – Again, anywhere =] Sounds like a Zombie murmur
G – bass drum1 –
I – giggledy.snd – From a song played on Big Brother recently =]
K – good – The Simpsons (But it comes with frozen yoghurt!)
N – puppy2 – Beats me
O – puppy1 – Beats me
P – raspberry – I -think- it’s from Wizkid ;]
Q – Tropfen.8svx – From the BlueEyes distribution
R – Twang! –
S – SteOpus1 – From Stefan’s Directory Opus Theme – -so- corny
T – Clap4 – Beats me
U – drums20 – Beats me
V – jaws.snd – JAWS, of course!
10 – SteOpus10 – Corny bassline thanks to the same DOpus Theme
11 – FirstBlood.3 – Sounds like something Warners Bros came up with!
12 – – Sample 2 cut up and pingpong looped
13 – SteOpus02 – Stefan’s DOpus Theme
14 – ZombieShuffle.iff – This one is actually mine =]
15 – square.wav – Moog Roland
1H – Fire.5 – Everyone knows the Road Runner ;]
1K – FirstBlood.2 – Beats me (found in a WORMSDC sample set)
1T – – From sample 15 but with some effects I put on it

Can’t hear it? Well try DeliTracker v2.32 on Amiga, DeliPlayer, WinAMP or the provided player (OctaMEDPlayer.exe) on Windows, but you really just can’t go past the OctaMEDPlayer v7 for the Amiga – still the only thing that plays ’em right!


Tracklist:
01 – Zombie Shuffle [OSS] [FLAC] [MP3]

Additional Files:
NP_ZShuf [NFO] [PNG]
np_2001 [REL] [PNG]
OctaMEDPlayer [EXE]

*FLAC & MP3 zips also include the original versions.


Super Science – This Is Over By Inches {mtk057}

Artist: Super Science
Title:
This Is Over By Inches
Label:
Monotonik
Catalog #:
mtk057
Release Date:
2001/07/11


Another release from Australia’s darling, and no, we don’t mean Dame Edna, rather Super Science, whose Surgery Records album, “Love Like Life In Miniature”, is a Gulliver-like masterpiece of melody, vocals, and beautifully fractured beats – as we’ve said before, something with the crossover appeal and unique angle of an artist like Capitol K.

This time round, “This Is Over By Inches” loops up the distinctive Super Science sound – delicate synths, snatches of repeated phrases and unique-sounding hums of melody, and puts a gorgeously twisty sheen over the top. There’s so many layers of cosmic+melodic debris in there, we’re going to have to go ahead and call it the asteroid belt in the mote in God’s eye.


Credits:
cover by rents


Tracklist:
01 – This Is Over By Inches

Artwork:
Front Cover


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


loke – ninjat rannalla {#059}

Artist: loke
Title:
ninjat rannalla
Label:
 Voodoo
Catalog #:
#059
Release Date:
2001/07/10


the day has come! finally we are able to bring you new material from loke who has completed his military service and moved in the same city than me. we hope to be able to give out some fruits of this co-operation to you sooner or later.

this time we’re representing simply fabulous orientally moody tune titled ‘ninjas on the beach’ which combines the great electronic textures to the cheap sounding mall synth fibres. just imagine the ninjas with their black suits on a thai beach with oriental sun rising on the back. i hope that loke’s absense has only made you miss his music more!

.substance


Tracklist:
01 – ninjat rannalla [XM] [FLAC] [MP3]

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

*FLAC & MP3 zips also include the original versions.


Published
Categorized as Loke Tagged