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Maps And Diagrams – The Giant Woods {YKYK019}

Artist: Maps And Diagrams
Title: The Giant Woods
Label: Yuki Yaki
Catalog #: YKYK019
Release Date: 2009/12/12

It started out as a 4 track EP-isode and has finally grown into a fully-fledged album.
Maps And Diagrams’ latest strike on classical electronica is also his first release on Yuki Yaki, which marks a little beatless respite after a number of more rhythmic outputs recently. Warmly droning ambient-textures with plenty of endless space echo, like in the good old days, dominate the album.
Melancholy, contemplation and calm prevail – nicely wrapped in mysteriously shining soundscapes with a kiss of lo-fi noise. “The Giant Woods” seems to be rather predestined for the dark Winter days to come.

Credits:
original coverphoto by Tim Martin
The cover is part of the Tim Martin ShowCase on Yuki Yaki.

Tracklist:
01 – Duplicate [MP3] [OGG]
02 – Eleemosyn [MP3] [OGG]
03 – Gauche [MP3] [OGG]
04 – Last Train Home [MP3] [OGG]
05 – Navel [MP3] [OGG]
06 – Savannakhet [MP3] [OGG]
07 – Shuffel [MP3] [OGG]
08 – Spirals [MP3] [OGG]
09 – The World And You [MP3] [OGG]

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Mike Kidd – Impermanence EP {mtk219}

Artist: Mike Kidd
Title: Impermanence EP
Label: Monotonik
Catalog #: mtk219
Release Date: 2009/12/06

It’s fitting that the final release on Monotonik, perhaps for ever, will be from someone new, because we’ve always tried to promote new and interesting artists. Mike Kidd brought the ‘Impermanence EP’ to us and we thought it right, and good, because it combines the melodies we crave with the deep happiness of a well-crafted tune.

Take ‘Haunted Raves’, for example. We’re not really sure which raves have been haunted by it, but the abstract power shown here may well enchant a few party-goers in the future, and as for ‘The Grind’, with its powerful, almost dubstep backing notes – oh my.

Then we have ‘Bilocation’, all triple-triggered strangeness, before we end up with ‘Over Crowds’, an evocation of what could be in the future with strong drums and good hopes and happy cycling. And we’re out.

Tracklist:
01 – Haunted Raves
02 – The Grind
03 – Bilocation
04 – Over Crowds

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Dead Eros – Bone Mountain {mtk218}

Artist: Dead Eros
Title: Bone Mountain
Label: Monotonik
Catalog #: mtk218
Release Date: 2009/12/06

Another stalwart Monotonik releaser over the past few years, Dead Eros returns one last time with the noisy, triumphant ‘Bone Mountain’, climbing that pile of dead things with little regard to safety, snare fills, or life and limb.

Really, when you start with ‘Breadbox’, you can go on with happiness, given the amount of almost Aphex-ish convulsions the drums bring to the table, and things continue from there with marvel, given the sheer depth of ‘Inside Sunshine’.

It continues, up and down, and by the time we get to the final track, we feel like we’re really at the top of ‘Bone Mountain’, looking down on the poor souls who didn’t make it, and now comprise the whole of the thing that – well – you just climbed up. Snare rush.

Tracklist:
01 – Breadbox
02 – Inside Sunshine
03 – Rucksack
04 – Crothers
05 – Bone Mountain

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Kuu – Pixels EP {mtk217}

Artist: Kuu
Title: Pixels EP
Label: Monotonik
Catalog #: mtk217
Release Date: 2009/12/06

Everyone who likes Monotonik at least a little should know Kuu, aka Joonas Vähämäki, from his Substance releases that date back at least ten years on the site. But he’s also released under his more uptempo Kuu alias at times, and it’s fitting that one of the last releases (for now?) should be under that alias.

‘Pixel EP’ is surprisingly large, and mixes some of the things that Monotonik holds dear – melodies, cutup drums, and swishing noises – in carefully contained cylinders of sound. From the upcoming ‘Xib I’, which is almost cheeky in its straight ahead happiness, through tracks like ‘Voxel’, which cut the heck out of beats, it all makes sense.

Things end up good, too, in ‘Horizontal Pitch’, a blissed out finale to a story that’s lasted for a long time. Just look at the pixels on that thing, won’t you?

Tracklist:
01 – Xib I
02 – Bits N Bytes
03 – Rectangle Dots
04 – Voxels
05 – Horizontal Pitch

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Clark Vent – Scene Sexshun {mtk216}

Artist: Clark Vent
Title: Scene Sexshun
Label: Monotonik
Catalog #: mtk216
Release Date: 2009/12/06

Finnish musician Olavi Inha has previously released on Monotonik with two memorable releases under his Flutterspot alias. But he returns here with another pseudonym, Clark Vent, and with it brings a charming full album of bleepy, semi-abstract uptempo electronic deliciousness in the form of ‘Scene Sexshun’.

Sure, ‘Pardon Me, Clark Kent’ is a sensible start, all up and down and around the houses, but the amusingly named ‘Hello A Lot And Yes Disco’ is a much better statement of intent, crazy spiralling sine waves and almost random-sounding bleep goodness stamped all over the place.

Other highlights include ‘Mimosa’, with an almost Beak-like guitar deconstruction at play, and ‘Fake Marriage Interlude’, which almost sounds like a lost Mario level end theme. It’s that all of the place, and it’s that gorgeous, folks. Enjoy.

Tracklist:
01 – Pardon Me, Clark Kent
02 – Hello A Lot And Yes Disco
03 – Village Loco
04 – Hobo
05 – Mask
06 – Mimosa
07 – Fake Marriage Interlude
08 – And Something Else Again
09 – This Common Flower From The Street Is For You
10 – Satenka Reprise
11 – Sunday In Casuals Except This Sunday
12 – Little Antey
13 – Serious Lovin’
14 – Childhood And Maybe Tomorrow And Some Other Happy Times
15 – Some Part Of A Plane Crash

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Casimir’s Blake – The Silence In Fragile Space {mtk215}

Artist: Casimir’s Blake
Title: The Silence In Fragile Space
Label: Monotonik
Catalog #: mtk215
Release Date: 2009/12/06

UK artist Chris Wigman is Casimir’s Blake, and this intriguing Monotonik release, ‘The Silence In Fragile Space’, plays out like a planetarium soundtrack to end all soundtracks, echoing all kinds of gorgeous sustained chords through history.

Following up a release on Kahvi, this full-length album starts as it means to go on with ‘Achird Supernovae’, flittering strings and depths of space to the fore. It certainly gets darker elsewhere, with ‘Rich’s Feyd’ one of the more edge-wise, skuttering tracks in the gaps between the planets.

As the album continues, the bliss builds, and it’s only with the final track, ‘Eavesdropping On Eternity’, that you get the full picture of the place that Wigman and his project has created through careful musical manipulation. It’s out there, somewhere…

Tracklist:
01 – Achird Supernovae
02 – Launch Leto
03 – Rich Feyd
04 – Crossing Achell
05 – Ketts Feyd
06 – Silence And Fragile Space
07 – The Wall Storm Shuffle
08 – Prairie And Starlight
09 – Plaskett’s Caenosphere
10 – Brash Feyd
11 – Eavesdropping On Eternity

Artwork:
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Malty Media – Buk Buk Buk EP {mtk214}

Artist: Malty Media
Title: Buk Buk Buk EP
Label: Monotonik
Catalog #: mtk214
Release Date: 2009/12/06

Malty Media is, of course, previous Monotonik releaser Aquaboogie and long-time veteran idm artist Jet Jaguar, creators of the ‘Bracken Bed’ EP on the label a while back, and they kick off the final set of MTK releases with this fine piece of frippery.

The New Zealand-based group’s style is best described as ‘whimsical Orb-like soundscapes with an Antipodean twist’, perhaps, and these four-track pulses through gently chicken-clucking debut track ‘Chook Nocturne’, before settling on gently glowing tracks like ‘See To Her’.

It all ends up with the practically funky ‘My Little Aircraft’, and all goes to show that sampling, while a little silly, is never bad for your health. Good health to you, Malty Media!

Tracklist:
01 – Chook Nocturne
02 – Hilbert Space
03 – See To Her
04 – Butcher
05 – My Little Aircraft

Artwork:
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Boba Fettuccini – Love, The Universe, And Everything EP {PGR-006}

Artist: Boba Fettuccini
Title: Love, The Universe, And Everything EP
Label: Power Glove Records
Catalog #: PGR-006
Release Date: 2009/11/28

Credits:
Produced and mixed by Boba Fettuccini
Sticker and sleeve design by Boba Fettuccini

Tracklist:
01 – A Woman To Love
02 – Queen Of Hearts (80’s Mix)
03 – Perfect Chemistry
04 – Together Forever
05 – Do You Understand
06 – Love Can Last

Artwork:
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YKYK.VA – Selfmade {YKYK018}

Artist: YKYK.VA
Title: Selfmade
Label: Yuki Yaki
Catalog #: YKYK018
Release Date: 2009/11/11

Yuki Yaki’s 4th anniversary –
four years, three peoples, two cities, one idea.

Tracklist:
01 – ’82nd ave – Heavyweight [MP3] [OGG]
02 – Dimitar Dodovski – Particle System [MP3] [OGG]
03 – Humeka – Cycle Cycle [MP3] [OGG]
04 – Absolute Time – Aristotle [MP3] [OGG]
05 – Scaff – Jacke wie Hose [MP3] [OGG]
06 – Stuub – Loow Ered [MP3] [OGG]
07 – Josif – A.D.D [MP3] [OGG]
08 – Zzzzra – Sans Foi Ni Loi [MP3] [OGG]
09 – Glander – Woolen Thoughts [MP3] [OGG]
10 – Emmerichk – Teseracto [MP3] [OGG]
11 – choenyi – The International Room [MP3] [OGG]