Tag: Milk

daze – ilooklikeesasowhat? {rel#64}

Artist: daze
Title: ilooklikeesasowhat?
Label: Milk
Catalog #: rel#64
Release Date: 1999/09/17

This is a very much drum n’ bass influenced tune, with a nice drop bass & dnb comp.
Again the drum comp is worth mentioning, because it sounds so great, with filters and retrigged fills.
The melody is mellow, a little distorted, boosted up with those little metallic-sounding noises, which gives an good edge to this track.

Imho, very good dnb, download and decide yourself.

– tuomas.r

note (S.Louhela):

I especially love those warm slightly distorted melodies. The end part is nice too (I didn’t expect that).

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Tracklist:
01 – ilooklikeesasowhat? [XM] [FLAC] [MP3]

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daze – kalx {rel#63}

Artist: daze
Title: kalx
Label: Milk
Catalog #: rel#63
Release Date: 1999/09/17

Kalx starts with hi-freq “strings” [or something], then rolls on with ever-changing idm comp. in 1:50 idm noises join on, proceeding on with the drums and bleeps, which create the melody.
This track is focused on the drums, but that’s not a problem, since the drums are very well done. and the melody is spiced up with mellow, beautiful bleeps. [especially in the end.]

i liked this one very much.

– tuomas.r

note (S.Louhela):

The track begun to get a little boring somewhere at 5 minutes mark but then came the other part with a really nice melody. I loved that.

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Tracklist:
01 – kalx [XM] [FLAC] [MP3]

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H.Kyllönen – ciproxin ep {ep/lp release #7}

Artist: H.Kyllönen
Title: ciproxin ep
Label: Milk
Catalog #: ep/lp release #7
Release Date: 1999/08/30

The album starts with “qap19”. A very powerful track which instantly introduces Kyllönen’s style to the listener. Fast complex beats and high tuned distorted bleeps with clipping treble make your ears bleed. Sweet and relaxing pads and the harsh beats together as contradictions build up a very efficient tune. I love this one.

“Iteca liqer” is a very hard distorted track with tricky beats and distorted speech samples. Not much melodies here except the distorted sweeping bass and almost random like bleeps. There’s nothing radically new in this I think but a great track for hunger of fast and hard beats. Reminds me of AFX’s older works (the harder ones).

The third track “waterworks” is smooth ambient and fits in just perfect after two harder tunes. The filtered watery rhythm effects and effected child-like vocal samples run along with the minimal strings just nicely. To me this certainly isn’t the best track on the ep (well, this is one of Kyllö”nen’s older tunes).

“Qap19” and this fourth track “Threethree” are my favorites on this ep. I just love those pads on “threethree” – the pad sample itself is a very nice humming sample and the melody is really really nice (the best I’ve heard for a while). The comp again is very fast in Kyllö”nen’s style. The track is just too short – if you asked me it could go on for over twice it’s present duration. I was really positively surprised when this one came 6th at assembly music compo. I really love this one.

“Celedo” is something that I had heard long before the rest of the tunes. The melody played with strings, female voices and an ethnic like instruments got to me then and I still think it’s very catchy. Again in this track is a fast beat played with many kinds of percussion and other effects.

The ending track “lost” is FSOL like ambient with reversed pianos and different over reverbed sounds and other effects. Smooth strings and flutes come along playing melancholy tunes. There come different loops of samples like ring modulated rhythmic noises and a nice wind bell loop at the end of the song. This is a great chill out track that suits nicely the end of a great ep.

Although this album would do very nice without some of the older tracks like “iteca liqer” and “waterworks” there are some pearls here too such as “qap19”, “threethree” and “lost”.

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-S.Louhela

Tracklist:
01 – qap19 [IT] [FLAC] [MP3]
02 – iteca liqer [IT] [FLAC] [MP3]
03 – waterworks [IT] [FLAC] [MP3]
04 – threethree [IT] [FLAC] [MP3]
05 – celedo [IT] [FLAC] [MP3]
06 – lost [IT] [FLAC] [MP3]

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Front Cover

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ylikulju & kyllönen – yllinkyllin EP {ep/lp release #5}

Artist: ylikulju & kyllönen
Title: yllinkyllin EP
Label: Milk
Catalog #: ep/lp release #5
Release Date: 1999/07/25

The EP starts with crazy “twotwo” with it’s complex beats and rhythmic effects. This track has no melody. And if it doesn’t have it then it doesn’t need it. This is probably the fastest and weirdest of Kyllönen’s tunes I’ve heard.
You can hear some jungle influences in Ylikulju’s “—“. The drums and percussions play the main role in this tune. Occasionally there come little pauses for some sine bleeps. A quite simple bass plays the melody. Not very much more instruments playing any tunes here. Some little effects and sounds are dropped in at times (without them this song could be a little boring).
“Karu” starts with spooky pads and occasional percussive hits. The beat is very much effected and distorted. A quite weird the beat is too. I know it isn’t stick to 4/4 and it’s changing all the time. There is so much happening all the time in this tune. Hear Kyllönen at his best in this crazy chaotic piece of art (though I still think that “no xivic – no pherm” and “bags 2 and 4” are his best works ever).
“lehtone” has probably the most understandable rhythm of the tracks on this EP along with “—” but that’s not a bad thing. I especially love the paranoid melodies.
The drums on “metsäserla” remind me of Autechre’s work. This tune again is mostly based on the drums and speeches and vocals of Ylikulju.
“durum” has a very bouncy beat with lots and lots (yllinkyllin in finish) of crazy tricks. I’d call it dark ambient with a vanilla twist on a hot icy day with a bikini goin afe+++78e some hot dogs we don’t know it do we?4w0.

This isn’t quite as good work as I would have expected from Kyösti and Henkka but defeneately worth a listen (or two) and it really isn’t a pain to download. And don’t you get me wrong, I like the album.

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Tracklist:
01 – Kyllönen – twotwo [IT] [FLAC] [MP3]
02 – Ylikulju – — [IT] [FLAC] [MP3]
03 – Kyllönen – karu [IT] [FLAC] [MP3]
04 – Ylikulju – lehtone [IT] [FLAC] [MP3]
05 – Kyllönen, Ylikulju – metsäserla [IT] [FLAC] [MP3]
06 – Ylikulju, Kyllönen – durum [IT] [FLAC] [MP3]

Artwork:
Front Cover 1
Front Cover 2
Middle
Back Cover

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