Category: Ckid

Ckid – Down With Ghosts {mtk188}

Artist: Ckid
Title: Down With Ghosts
Label: Monotonik
Catalog #: mtk188
Release Date: 2007/08/05

We’re delighted to welcome back René ‘Ckid’ Margraff, the German electronic artist who released on Monotonik back in 2000 (as Crashkid) and 2001, and went on to notable physical releases on Becalmed and Duotone Records, back to the label with a beautifully formed, evocative full-length album, ‘Down With Ghosts’.

Full of chanted and whispered vocals and an evocative, almost shoegaze-centric attitude to idm/electronics, ‘Down With Ghosts’ starts with the semi-conscious drawl of ‘From A To Z’, before the title track crosses subtle beats with drifting vocals, and things flow swiftly on.

Some of the other highlights include ‘Even Smaller’, which verges on decidedly funereal, paranoid pop music, and ‘Blink’, which swirls in layers and layers of vocals, melodies, and indecision, and multiple switches back to the ‘Ghosts’ formula, with the final one adding vocals, guitars, and vocoders to the mix. This is a mature, sophisticated, and wholly formed album, and we’re very pleased to put it out.

Credits:
pic by ckid

Tracklist:
01 – From A To Z
02 – Down With Ghosts
03 – Empty Carpark
04 – Ghost 3 (Yurei)
05 – Even Smaller
06 – Time Monsters
07 – Backwards
08 – Mulch
09 – Blink
10 – Closed
11 – Ghost4

Artwork:
Front Cover

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License:
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0)

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Ckid – Where’s My Parka? EP {mtk065}

Artist: Ckid
Title: Where’s My Parka? EP
Label: Monotonik
Catalog #: mtk065
Release Date: 2001/11/27

In his second release for Monotonik, German artist Ckid (also known as Crashkid) expands on his chilled but warm style that’s marvellously close to the indie side of electronica, and all the better for it. We can only stand the beeps for so long, you know.

So, lead-off track “TV-People” tickles you under the chin with drifty organ and crispy percussion action, before phasing in and out some nifty melodics. See, drifty, crispy, nifty? At which point, “Speaksoon” takes organic sounds and skips around with them quite dreamily, all August afternoons and sunny meadows. We like sunny meadows.

With all this evocative evocation going on, it’s not surprising Ckid has a 12″ forthcoming on smart indie label Becalmed Records at the start of 2002, plus multiple remixes and compilation projects (Couchblip, Simball, et aliis..) forthcoming. Eez good, yah?

Credits:
cover by rents

Tracklist:
01 – TV-People
02 – Speaksoon

Artwork:
Front Cover

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

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