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Hoffman – Dark Fool {mtw017}

Artist: Hoffman
Title: Dark Fool
Label: Mono211
Catalog #: mtw017
Release Date: 2000/05/07

Showing that he can still put out rolling breakbeats with the best of them, this Hoffman release showcases the kind of marvellous funky breaks that led De:Bug magazine in Germany to call us ‘the Ninja Tune of the Net’.

Mind you, this time round, ‘Dark Fool’ is somewhere between BT-esque progressive breakbeat, harder techno, and Incredible Bongo Band-style freestyling. Definitions are always on the tricky side, but rest assured you’ve got a treat in for you.

Credits:
cover by fthr

Tracklist:
01 – Dark Fool

Artwork:
Front Cover

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Subi – Mnotomo’Vo’Non {mrv001}

Artist: Subi
Title: Mnotomo’Vo’Non
Label: monoRAVEik
Catalog #: mrv001
Release Date: 2000/05/02

It may not surprise you to know that Mono and associated labels continues to cherish Subi. As mentioned before, if we were John Peel, he’d be The Fall, and now he even gets his own custom sublabel for this, his first all-new single in a year or two, preceding his forthcoming _blockbuster_ bestof mp3 album, “The Rave-O-Lution Will Be Terrorised – The Best Of Subi 1989-2000” 🙂

He’s English, he makes videogames for a living, he still honestly believes it’s 1990, and “Mnotmo’Vo’Non” (decode it at your peril) is a horribly addictive breakbeat call to all those who still think The Prodigy should stick to the matching green+white checked outfits and that Urban Hype should forever stay at No.1 with “A Trip To Trumpton”.

Credits:
cover by subi

Tracklist:
01 – Mnotomo’Vo’Non

Artwork:
Front Cover

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Super Science – We’re Like Air, Everywhere At Once {mtk023}

Artist: Super Science
Title: We’re Like Air, Everywhere At Once
Label: Monotonik
Catalog #: mtk023
Release Date: 2000/05/02

Another debut on Monotonik, and this wonderful multi-layered idm-ish vocal-scattered track is by another of the new skool of Australian electronic talent, Super Science. Famous idm labels have been showing interest in this particular man, and I think we can see why from this busily static-flecked, almost robotically beautiful piece.

You can find out more info about Super Science, the artist himself, by surfing to his website at http://www.superscience.net – and watch out for his forthcoming album, ‘love like life in miniature’, on Surgery Records out of Oz. Hopefully we’ll be featuring some more of his tunes soon – stay tuned, Monofans.

Credits:
cover by rents

Tracklist:
01 – We’re Like Air, Everywhere At Once

Artwork:
Front Cover

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Amon – Droids Killed My Audio Ep {ep/lp release #15}

Artist: Amon
Title: Droids Killed My Audio Ep
Label: Milk
Catalog #: ep/lp release #15
Release Date: 2000/04/29

* Released earlier as a single release (the version on this ep is slightly edited)
** Released earlier as “Gaylab (Tilt Goddess)” on Gaylab CD
*** Released earlier as 1/4 on ep1 by [unknown artist]

Amon’s Droids Killed My Audio is an over 40 minutes long ep. Droids Killed My Audio’s music switches between genres of dark ambient and noise terror. Most of the tracks are mainly dark ambient with occasional noise bursts and short minimal melodies. The r ich sound world of synthetic effects, sub bass lines or flute melodies form an interesting collage of sounds. That’s the best word to describe this ep: a sound collage.
The first three parts (Droids Killed My Audio, Revive and Kiro) and the 8th part (Divinator) are maybe the most easy to listen to tracks though the occasional clipping bursts really can make you wonder what the hell is going on. The rest of th e ep is something most of people won’t understand but will be a heaven to those who like noisy stuff and especially noise made by intelligent usage of the technology available.
The 4th, 5th and 6th part (Tilt Goddes, Evil and Shaquan) are probably the weirdest tunes here with fast altering of effect parameters and heavy filtering combined with heavy distortion. The 7th part (Droid-Comm) links the noise of Shaquan (dk maudio6) to the smooth floating ambient of Divinator (dkmaudio8).
The best bits on this ep are the 1st, 3rd and 9th tracks. They all have a certain identity that differs them from the rest of this ep. They all are crafted very well and the layers are combined so that they can be thought as whole entities. I would say these three tracks give you the best image of this ep.

[89%]
-S.Louhela

Tracklist:
01 – Droids Killed My Audio*
02 – Revive (dkmaudio2)
03 – Kiro (dkmaudio3)
04 – Tilt Goddess (dkmaudio4)**
05 – Evil (dkmaudio5)***
06 – Shaquan (dkmaudio6)
07 – Droid-Comm (dkmaudio7)
08 – Divinator (dkmaudio8)
09 – EOF (dkmaudio9)

Artwork:
Front Cover

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S.Louhela – vetac [tantan] (excerpt) {rel#80}

Artist: S.Louhela
Title: vetac [tantan] (excerpt)
Label: Milk
Catalog #: rel#80
Release Date: 2000/04/20

the first 20 seconds made me think that this is again some random-generated bleeps, without any logic, for me, atleast. but this is something different. pin-point -sharp bleeps and eerie background. fastlychanging rhythm and high frequencies. something very different from the usual style of s.louhela, i’d say. hope that vetac cd2 is going to be the same quality as this is.

[86%]
-t.ristioja

Tracklist:
01 – vetac [tantan] (excerpt)

Additional Files:
FILE_ID [DIZ] [PNG]
MILK0080 [NFO] [PNG]

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H.Kyllönen – Personal Gain Vol.1 (Promo) {ep/lp release #14}

Artist: H.Kyllönen
Title: Personal Gain Vol.1 (Promo)
Label: Milk
Catalog #: ep/lp release #14
Release Date: 2000/04/20

H.Kyllönen’s milk-promo for Personal Gain Vol.1 contains 2 tracks from the original 7 track ep. Henkka goes back to the noisy and distorted sound world of no Xivic CD1 with tracks Lika and Little Sister 2. Althought these tracks sound very much like the nxCD1 tracks they have a cleaner, crispier and a bit punchier sound.
Both Lika and Little Sister 2 are fast tunes with the distorted hard core idm beat playing the main role. The drum beats are effected with filtering and heavy altering of EQ settings. Lika has probably a bit more variation in the sound selection with telephone speech samples (distorted, of course) and different kinds of effects (the reverbed machine ambience at the end completes the track perfectly). Little Sister 2 has a more recognizeable melody (as Lika’s melody is in the background as a distorted bass line) but the sound world is a bit poor and there’s not much of happening.
If you like fast intelligent hard core then you should get this.

[87%]
-S.Louhela

Tracklist:
01 – Lika
02 – Little Sister 2

Artwork:
Front Cover
Back Cover

Additional Files:
02_h.kyll�nen_-_lika [DIZ] [PNG]
03_h.kyll�nen_-_little_sister_2 [DIZ] [PNG]

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Radix – Counting Stars {mtk022}

Artist: Radix
Title: Counting Stars
Label: Monotonik
Catalog #: mtk022
Release Date: 2000/04/16

The first release on Monotonik for Radix, the Swedish artist who’s been making a lot of waves in the PC ‘demo-scene’ over the past couple of years with his perfectly crafted melodies and beautifully smooth stylings. “Counting Stars” is the sound of a man who’s clearly been listening to Boards Of Canada, but has seen fit to put his own spin on their innocent electronica.

What with the beautifully pitch-bent lead and the hypnotic voice drifting in and out of the background, Radix seems to have created a thing of beauty. Hopefully it’ll be a joy forever, and in digital binary form, too. Do remember to keep it for your virtual grandchildren..

Credits:
cover by rents

Tracklist:
01 – Counting Stars

Artwork:
Front Cover

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Rents – End Of The Halcyon Days {mtkdj02}

Artist: Rents
Title: End Of The Halcyon Days
Label: Monotonik
Catalog #: mtkdj02
Release Date: 2000/04/11

Another Monotonik DJ-mix wanders brightly your way, and this time it’s from long-time Portugese Mono associate, Rents, who’s mixed up this rather lovely 73-minute cut-up, featuring everything from the obvious but gorgeous Aphex remixes and Kreidler to the inspired (Snooze – “Your Consciousness Goes Bip” – a forgotten classic, for one!) With environmental effects cleverly mixed in, and real-time tracklisting and graphics on the streaming version, courtesy of Realplayer G2, this is overall officially a ‘good thing’ – listen at once!

Intro: At the backseat of a bus
Bochum Welt – La Nuit
Soft Ballet – Sand Lowe (The Aphex Twin remix)
Massive Attack – Napoli Trip
Juno Reactor – God is God
Goran Bregovic – Underground Cocek
The Mike Flowers’ Pops vs Aphex Twin – Debase
The Aphex Twin – Flim
Interlude I: Plaza Boavista
Kreidler – Au Pair
Orbital – Are we Here? (Who Are They?)
Autechre – Weissensee (Tribute to Neu!)
Air – Talisman
Baby Fox – Johnny Lipshake
Bob Marley – Zion Train
Interlude II: Walking
Autechre – Arch Carrier
Dip – Glands
DJ Spooky – The Terran Invasion of Alpha Centauri 2974
Bubbah’s Tum – Dirty Great Marble (Boards of Canada mix)
Simon V – Rainclouds
Lamb – Gorecki (Global Communication mix)
Autechre – Montreal
Autechre – Clipper
Hati Monji – Black Lightning
The Aphex Twin – Aphex Airlines
Interlude III: Arcade machines
Bogdan Raczynski – Boku Mo Wakaran Trk.12
Seti – Photism
Tortoise – The Source of Uncer
Deep Space Network – Eleven Bars
Snooze – Your Consciousness Goes Bip
David Holmes – Gone
Bochum Welt – Phaedra
Bola – Forcasa 3
dEUS – Roses
Outro: Guernica Caffe

Credits:
cover by hotwire

Tracklist:
01 – End Of The Halcyon Days

Artwork:
Front Cover

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Sleepy – Foob {mtk021}

Artist: Sleepy
Title: Foob
Label: Monotonik
Catalog #: mtk021
Release Date: 2000/04/11

Alaskan ambient maestro (and artist behind the first ever Monotonik mp3 release) Jiva, returns for this gorgeous piece of ambient-drone-rock-idm under his Sleepy alter-ego. This track features sampled and processed guitars by the man himself, along with a healthy dose of background noise and beautifully shuffling percussion.

Perhaps a little reminiscent of Budd or Eno, but a little more contemporary than that, this is the kind of track you can put on permanent repeat play and not notice for hours, in a good way. Monotonik is now, more than ever, music to fall asleep to.

Credits:
cover by rents

Tracklist:
01 – Foob

Artwork:
Front Cover

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Thug – Sudafed x2 {mtk020}

Artist: Thug
Title: Sudafed x2
Label: Monotonik
Catalog #: mtk020
Release Date: 2000/04/03

Australian idm wonderboy Thug lets us borrow some more of his latest and greatest tracks for exclusive mp3 release on Monotonik, and boy, are we glad he did. This particular tune weaves the dense idm melodies (that has him compared to early Black Dog) with complex rhythms and hues to create something rather original.

“Sudafed x2” continues to delight on multiple listens, not least because of the strange static impacted undertones, but in the main because it’s just beautiful techno music.

[Incidentally, dial up http://www.oninoz.com/thug for more info about the man himself and his lovely CD/LP/weirdmedia releases..]

Credits:
cover by rents

Tracklist:
01 – Sudafed x2

Artwork:
Front Cover

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