Category: Dead Eros

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

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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.

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

Artwork:
Front Cover

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License:
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 US)

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Artist: Dead Eros
Title: Cycle EP
Label: Monotonik
Catalog #: mtk192
Release Date: 2007/09/30

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We first released Michigan-based foreboding idm superstar Dead Eros on Monotonik back in 2005, and are delighted to welcome him back with this 4-track release, ‘Cycle EP’, all slightly spooky, overlapping electronics in a distinctly regional, but distinctly original way.

We start out with ‘Specific Ocean’, which is fuzzed-up angular metal funk, in a laid back way, before going on to the keyboard-flecked, downtempo ‘Ignite Alarm’, which is heavy on the shuffle, almost halfspeed drill and bass rhythms. It’s like if you got Squarepusher a bus pass and made him reminisce about the old days of cloth caps, innit?

Following rapidly on, ‘Idyll’ is incredibly ambient, smile-inducing melodic haze, and closer ‘Respite’ drifts almost into Biosphere territory with some powerful drone overlaid with some strong, catchy loops, while the radio chatter jerks up and down, and eventually overwhelms the piece for a blissout, dubladen ending. This is, my friends, original electronic music, while is why we’ve released it on Monotonik. End.

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Credits:
pic by Dead Eros

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Tracklist:
01 – Specific Ocean
02 – Ignite Alarm
03 – Idyll
04 – Respite

Artwork:
Front Cover

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License:
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 US)

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Artist: Dead Eros
Title: When
Label: Monotonik
Catalog #: mtk156
Release Date: 2005/11/25

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Another debut, then, and this time an American practitioner of the dark idm arts, in the form of Ann Arbor, MI-based Dead Eros. Monsieur Eros has run his own Music Is For Assholes label for some time, hangs with the Ghostly International chaps, but produces a distinctly contrasting output to anything they might put out – from light, sinewave-strewn idm to dark, foreboding ambient.

Thus, ‘When EP’ is three pieces of brightness and one chunk of shadow, with lead track ‘When We Are Home’ characterizing the whole kit and caboodle, meandering and majestic all at once. Even more precise is ‘When We Are Scared’, a choral call to microchips everywhere, before ‘I Don’t Need To Wake Up’ goes deep into the recesses, somewhere near Biosphere territory, and things end of the offbeat, quirky, found-itself-again stylings of ‘When We Are Lost’. But we’re not lost – we’re very much here, and happy, and now.

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Credits:
pic by h0l

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Tracklist:
01 – When We Are Home
02 – When We Are Scared
03 – I Don’t Need To Wake Up
04 – When We Are Lost

Artwork:
Front Cover

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License:
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 Generic (CC BY-NC-ND 2.5)

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