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Artist: Pliant
Title: Musical Endeavor
Label: Monotonik
Catalog #: mtk196
Release Date: 2007/12/31

Monotonik rounds out 2007 with a bit of a gem – a free digital release of the super-rare Pliant mini-CD ‘Musical Endeavor’, the quirky video-game inspired electronica blast originally released on New Yorkbased label Systorm Technologies back in 2000.

What do you need to know about this? Well, the super-perky 9 track, 18 minute release is chronicling a fictional video game of some kind, and from the dynamic, spider-bass infused ‘Title’, it’s clear that you’re being taken through the game in aural form, thanks to previous Monotonik release Pliant’s bleep-pop stylings.

Some highlights? ‘Options’ is funked-up loping, slightly sinister pseudo-game music, and ‘Forest’ conjures up previous Monotonik release ‘Maruera Gum’ with some aplomb, before the super-weird waltz-ish ‘Volcano’ and the reprise of ‘Credits’ finish things off in dischordant, intriguing form. Bravo.

Credits:
pic by pliant

Tracklist:
01 – Title
02 – Options
03 – Village
04 – Forest
05 – Hills
06 – Cave
07 – Volcano
08 – Boss
09 – Credits

Artwork:
Front Cover
Back 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: Pliant
Title: Maruera Gum LP
Label: Monotonik
Catalog #: mtk073
Release Date: 2002/02/25

When we were approached by US idm-er Pliant, who you may know as the label-boss of the superb videogame.elektronik.otaku peeps, Systorm Technologies, and the mastermind behind the experimental idm-ish video label, Frogbomb, and he said he had an entire album available for release on Monotonik.. well, needless to say, we jumped at the chance.

And actually, we’re still jumping now. “Maruera Gum” takes the acclaimed “Zelda’s Windmill” from the Pliant/Bokatsu “1UP” 7-inch as a starting point, and cuts up 11 tracks of pure, rhythmic, video-gameinspired electronics. If you want a good starting point, then try the acoustic guitar + quiet storm percussion of the first track, “Rye Toast”, the ‘piercing clear melodies’ of the afore-mentioned “Zelda’s Windmill”, and the spot-on tribal steel drum harpsichord breaks of “Forest Cake”.

And with many of the tracks mixing into each other, you’ll want to grab the whole caboodle just to check out the hidden majesty of spook blink luck “Toothpowder” or the plain dysfunctional “Latch Esis”. You’ll find that, the more you listen to this album, the more its intricacies draw you in and swirl you around the sketched-up pliability that is Pliant’s (s)nes.hop world.

Credits:
cover by pliant

Tracklist:
01 – Rye Toast
02 – Zelda’s Windmill
03 – Atro Pose
04 – Snarkpit
05 – Yard Mouse
06 – Toothpowder
07 – Forest Cake
08 – Kloe Thoe
09 – Cyclonic Upright
10 – Pig With Caution
11 – Latch Esis