Category: Transient

Transient – Hexual Ceiling {mtk174}

Artist: Transient
Title: Hexual Ceiling
Label: Monotonik
Catalog #: mtk174
Release Date: 2006/10/29

We’re delighted to debut the fourth Monotonik release from prodigious U.S. idm veteran Transient, in the form of the 20-track ‘Hexual Ceiling’ album. He’s previously released on multiple major netlabels such as Kikapu, Ogredung and Miasmah, as well as debuting remixes and other tracks on labels such as Darla and TBTMO, plus his own Noisy Vagabond, and this longform effort doesn’t disappoint.

Anyhow, there are all kinds of highlights to the album, from the delightful drift of lead-off track ‘Cloudwalk’, through the intriguing, almost booty-based remix of Bay Area idm freak Mochipet, all the way through the impeccable sway of the title track.

Things finish up with ‘Magical Creatures’, a totally weird but smart vocal blast: ‘I got no motivation… to make these magical creatures’, before it’s brought home with the absolutely sublime ‘RPG’. He’s still one of the smartest artists out there on the electronic scene, on the sly, and we still love releasing his material – long may it continue.

Credits:
pic by transient

Tracklist:
01 – Cloudwalk
02 – Don’t Sweat It
03 – Summer Rain
04 – Head Full Of Stars
05 – Mochipet – Disco Donkey (Transient Palmix)
06 – Backporch
07 – Cute Vision
08 – Finality
09 – Dubble Bubble
10 – Hexual Ceiling
11 – Ghouls
12 – Shatter
13 – Ending Began
14 – Sine Experiment
15 – Cute People And God (Bad Comfort Remix)
16 – Magical Creatures
17 – Just So I Don’t Have To Hate It
18 – Masking Interlude
19 – We Don’t Exist
20 – RPG

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Transient – Work/Play EP {mtk157}

Artist: Transient
Title: Work/Play EP
Label: Monotonik
Catalog #: mtk157
Release Date: 2005/12/18

U.S. veteran idm artist Transient is practically an old hand at Monotonik releases now, since this is his third for the label, quite apart from some stunning EPs and albums for netlabels like One and his own Noisy Vagabond Recordings.

And ‘Work/Play EP’ is a wonderful, aptly named split album, since it was composed both on work breaks with a Palm handheld (the ‘Work’ half) and at home using Impulse Tracker (the ‘Play’ half), and both halves show inspired mastery of melody, vocoded vocals, and bleep idm.

Starting with the ‘Work’ half, ‘Direct’ is tremendously smart idmpop, happily proclaiming that ‘the things you desire will destroy you’. Other highlights of the ‘Work’ side include the loping, considered ‘I’m Going To Explode’, as well as the witty ‘Trashybin’. As for ‘Play’, it’s more clipped, and almost more retro, but just as lovable, with ‘Toasted’ sounding almost like it’s being played backward, and ‘Chip Ship’ layering on layers and layers of layers, before ‘Play’ slides and slithers around melodic wavelenghts that make us all happy to be alive. It’s more transforming transience from Transient, and we thank him profusely.

Credits:
pic by transient

Tracklist:

Work EP:
01 – Direct
02 – Oblong
03 – Minty Fresh
04 – I’m Going To Explode
05 – Trashybin

Play EP:
01 – Toasted
02 – All You Can Do
03 – Chip Ship
04 – Sporty Flute Spoof
05 – Play

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V.A. – L’Arbre d’un Train {BKTR007}

Artist: V.A.
Title: L’Arbre d’un Train
Label: Backtrack
Catalog #: BKTR007
Release Date: 2005/10/17

_L’Arbre d’un Train_, a compilation.

Pretty. Sad. Lovely. There’s just enough variation to both make you want to fall asleep to it and make you want to open your ears up in amazement. With the first sign of autumn, we use music to remember our lost years, and we do not forget our happiest days.

Featuring netaudio legends Grandma (Monotonik, Khonnor of Type Records), Proswell (of Merck Records), Sense (Neo Ouija and Eem records), Transient (Monotonik, Miasmah, Camomille), Xerxes (Hellven, Camomille, Apegenine), a slew of other netlabel popstars (Valisproject, 143, Kaneel, Imtech, and Blisaed) and brilliant rising talent (Xtatic, Mike Shusta, Troupe, Nil, Valzi, Fah, Mister Cat, Sunburn, Malmen, Nick Beman, and Insektr.)

Nearly eight months in the making, _L’Arbre d’un Train_ is well worth the wait.

Credits:
Cover art by 143.

Volume balanced by Atlantis at Atlantean Records –
http://atlantis.plastiqueweb.com

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01 – Valisproject – Saturnine
02 – 143 – Goodbye Whisper
03 – Xerxes – Lo-fi Beauty
04 – Xtatic – Brothers
05 – Transient – Droplets
06 – Sense – Happy New Tears
07 – Kaneel – Et je Danse Seul
08 – Grandma – Holy Moon
09 – Mike Shusta – My New Toric Lenses!
10 – Proswell – Dorkqs
11 – Imtech – Hipa
12 – Troupe – This Is
13 – Nil – Cha
14 – Valzi – The Bad Feeling Is Gone
15 – Fah – B5
16 – Blisaed – Post Card Sent From A Plane Crash
17 – Mister Cat – On The Verge
18 – Sunburn – Contemplation
19 – Malmen – Just Like You
20 – Nick Beman – The Grain Of Truth
21 – Insektr – An Encouragement Won’t Change Anything

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Transient – Be EP {mtk145}

Artist: Transient
Title: Be EP
Label: Monotonik
Catalog #: mtk145
Release Date: 2005/04/17

First things first – American artist Transient’s ‘Over The River And Through The Woods’ on the One netlabel was probably our favorite netlabel release of 2004 – gorgeous laidback electronics that deserve approximately a million listens. And, since we loved the ‘Ancient EP’ he put out on Monotonik a couple of years back, we asked him nicely for an exclusive new EP for us. So he delivered, and now we have the beautifully mixed-up melodics of the puntastically titled ‘Be EP’.

Starting out, we have ‘Ice’, a great stepping-off point for the experience, with pin-sharp percussion and dreamy melodies firmly to the fore. Then we get gratifyingly choppy, with ‘Pinocchio Jazzhands’ a strutting, funky electronic melange. A brief pause, with ‘Treelighting Ceremony…’ and its constant ambient waves, and ‘The Triumphant Return Of The Vigorous Chipmunk’ blasts up a continuation of a theme on Transient’s last Monotonik EP with aplomb. Finally, ‘Ace’ provides a counterpoint for ‘Ice’ and ends things off in style, all pulsing, almost Steve Reich-tinged swirling, repeating melodies with strange, wondrous complexity – marvellous.

Credits:
pic by Transient

Tracklist:
01 – Ice
02 – Pinocchio Jazzhands
03 – Treelighting Ceremony From A Distance
04 – The Triumphant Return Of The Vigorous Chipmunk
05 – Ace

Artwork:
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transient – rotation {dt003}

Artist: transient
Title: rotation
Label: Dewtone
Catalog #: dt003
Release Date: 2005/01/10

melancholy ambient-style piece by transient. lush rhodes and soft, easy progression.

Tracklist:
01 – rotation

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Transient – Over the River and Through the Woods {[one016]}

Artist: Transient
Title: Over the River and Through the Woods
Label: One
Catalog #: [one016]
Release Date: 2004/11/17

Transient has developed his own niche blend of downtempo mixed with, well, everything else. Often sample heavy, he skitters around in time conjuring images of worn vhs home videos, dark rooms and smoke filled lounges — yet manages to salvage a modern and personalized sound by refusing to surrender to the confines of the retrospective..

Each song is a unique experience, but the release remains coherent as a whole. Most likely this is through the use of scattered vocals on songs like “look” and “my last goodbye” — a welcome addition that seems to provide the motif for the rest of the record. A theme that sits well with the dirty breaks, jazz, ambience and even theatric moments that also appear throughout.

Tracklist:
01 – electronic data
02 – basks
03 – so fine
04 – railroad flying machine
05 – no friends, no enemies
06 – hoagie hound
07 – look
08 – everything dub
09 – macrame
10 – forest zone
11 – my last goodbye
12 – muse
13 – adk thunderstorm

Artwork:
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Transient – Whole Symesta EP {od064}

Artist: Transient
Title: Whole Symesta EP
Label: Ogredung
Catalog #: od064
Release Date: 2004/02/04

After his remarkable appearance on the Cucina Vagabonda compilation, Transient gently steps again into the lovable world of sweeping synths and melodious rhythms ‘n arpeggios. Tough at parts, yet mellow and expansed, always fading in beauty; an exemplar taste of melodic idm, synth-pop flavoured and so much poetic. As if in a tale where little fairies cure ill mini-robots. One of the best releases of 2004 already.

Tracklist:
01 – The Hypno Brothers
02 – The Ping Pong Warriors
03 – Whole Symesta
04 – The Iceman Dance
05 – Safe Passage Through That Storm

Artwork:
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V.V.A.A. – Cucina Vagabonda {od061}

Artist: V.V.A.A.
Title: Cucina Vagabonda
Label: Ogredung
Catalog #: od061
Release Date: 2003/11/08

A year after the releasing of the first compendium, Ogredung proposes you a release even more surprising and passionate than the succesful Snowsky. Without replicating modules and strategies, our audacious experimentators reveal themselves as endowed with an outstanding creativity. The tasty carnet of contributors spaces in a variety of styles and tendencies that go from Paolo Veneziani’s (Tibprod, Cobalt) neo-cosmic sounds to Puyopuyo’s (19-t, Gagarin) fierce weirdo-synthpop, without losing sight of the common path that leads the whole work: autumn. Enwrapped by the delicate parfumes of Imtech’s (Observatoryonline) autumnal whispers, Urkuma, Phobode and Strinqulu’s (MikMusik, Merck, Saag) sonorous poetry and Kaneel’s (Camomille, Kikapu) nostalgic dronebeats, we are kicked up by Makunouchi Bento’s (Retinascan, Inpuj) subtle elaborate of obscure flows and the hypnotic hug of Luca Confusione; and still, Iermoç and Transient’s (Koept, Hippocamp, Monotonik, Skylab Operations) quasi-obsessive IDM-intricacy, Vizion’s (Monotonik, Camomille, Wikkid) determined melodic moments and Proswell’s (Merck, Civik, 19-t) top electronics. A live recording of Corkzal’s (Commie) perfectly closes the circle.

Credits:
Artwork: waka x

Tracklist:
01 – Paolo Veneziani – Twin Lakes
02 – Makunouchi Bento – Rokurokubi
03 – Urkuma + Phobode + Strinqulu – Susuma sweet nightmare
04 – Transient – How to center yourself
05 – Proswell – Scone ponce de leon b
06 – Iermoç – Fiveweeks
07 – Luca Confusione – Ameditatio
08 – Imtech – Autumnal whispers
09 – Kaneel – Nostalgie d’agoraphobie
10 – Corkzal – Tietokone [live]
11 – Vizion – Fissures: phase one
12 – Puyopuyo – Nice day in perspective

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Transient – Ancient EP {mtk110}

Artist: Transient
Title: Ancient EP
Label: Monotonik
Catalog #: mtk110
Release Date: 2003/05/24

We’re delighted to present a debut EP from US artist Transient, in the form of “Ancient EP”. With previous releases on Darla, Skylab Operations, and TBTMO, his enchanting electronica has been wandering happily around the world for a while now, and we’re happy to hasten its passage with this release.

The debut track, “Gypsonic”, sets the mood perfectly, with sweeping synths, complex and beautiful rhythms, and a gorgeously floating end product. The rest of the tracks on the EP only continue with that tradition, with “Tiny Flame”, all complex beats and smooth, smooth melodies, plus the guitar inflected “Self Validating Chipmunk” remix other highlights of this EP. So remember, if you want to stay happy for the permanent, choose Transient.

[Also, Transient released a 20mb trailer video for this release, featuring the song “Vigorous Chipmunk” plus some really nice cut-up, treated ambient video footage which reminds us of the cool Transambient TV/DVD series. Go grab it, if you haven’t seen it.]

Credits:
cover by transient

Tracklist:
01 – Gypsonic
02 – Tiny Flame
03 – Vigorous Chipmunk
04 – Gypsonic (3 Yr Remix)
05 – Self Validating Chipmunk

Artwork:
Front Cover

Video:
Vigorous Chipmunk

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