Relief+Skizo – D-Tour {REL#114}

Artist: Relief+Skizo
Title:
D-Tour
Label:
Mono211
Catalog #:
REL#114
Release Date:
1997/11/15


I think the word is ‘magisterial’. Or thereabouts. Fat beats, hype scratches, dark synth licks, and an excuse to blow your eardrums. Which it’s never a bad idea to turn down. Or, as the Gravediggas so eloquently put it – “bang your muthaf***ing head’. 😉 heh. 😉 In any case, sometimes no words correctly describe a tune, and this one speaks for itself. Enough.

[please note, MOD4WIN mangles the playing of this track somewhat – try to replay it in MikIt or FastTracker.. or something that plays it right, heh!]


Tracklist:
01 – D-Tour [XM] [FLAC] [MP3]

Artwork:
Front Cover

Additional Files:
FILE_ID [DIZ] [PNG]
M_1997 [REL] [PNG]
M_DTO [NFO] [PNG]

*FLAC & MP3 zips also include the original versions.


Vim! – 100% Sh*t {REL#113}

Artist: Vim!
Title:
100% Sh*t
Label:
Mono211
Catalog #:
REL#113
Release Date:
1997/11/07


Vim! is currently wandering about in the garden painting flowers. Well, at least, he’s gone to uni to do something arty. But that’s what we suspect he’s doing. In the meantime, here’s a dangerously dangerous dangerous thing showing what he’s like when he’s mad. Vim! smash. You fear Vim! 🙂


Tracklist:
01 – 100% Sh*t [XM] [FLAC] [MP3]

Additional Files:
FILE_ID [DIZ] [PNG]
M_100 [NFO] [PNG]
M_1997 [REL] [PNG]

*FLAC & MP3 zips also include the original versions.


Dreamfish – Retro DNA {rel#o7}

Artist: Dreamfish
Title:
Retro DNA
Label:
Monotonik
Catalog #:
rel#o7
Release Date:
1997/11/03


Oh. My. God. Just as we feared we were getting down to the last of Dreamfish’s tunes and wondered when new material was going to turn up, here it is. And here’s the first fruits – and it’s out of this world. Driving, complex, funky, sussed – it’s enough to make you sick, innit? Well, for now, just put away the bucket and enjoy. 🙂


Tracklist:
01 – Retro DNA [MOD] [FLAC] [MP3]

Additional Files:
FILE_ID [DIZ] [PNG]
M_1997 [REL] [PNG]
MT_DNA [NFO] [PNG]

*FLAC & MP3 zips also include the original versions.


Ramone – Sneaky Graffiti {REL#112}

Artist: Ramone
Title:
Sneaky Graffiti
Label:
Mono211
Catalog #:
REL#112
Release Date:
1997/10/29


The ever blunted Ramone returns with this absolutely excellent hiphop track, dope fly freshness permeating every byte. 😉 Of course, Mono would like to take this opportunity to remind people that graffiti is officially a ‘bad thing’ and is just mindless vandalism, not cool urban artwork. And don’t you forget it. 😉


Tracklist:
01 – Sneaky Graffiti [XM] [FLAC] [MP3]

Additional Files:
FILE_ID [DIZ] [PNG]
M_1997 [REL] [PNG]
M_GRAF [NFO] [PNG]

*FLAC & MP3 zips also include the original versions.


Mortimer Twang – ..Plays With Himself EP {REL#111}

Artist: Mortimer Twang
Title:
..Plays With Himself EP
Label:
Mono211
Catalog #:
REL#111
Release Date:
1997/10/21


Mortimer Tee returns to play with himself – and in public, too. 😉 Yup, this excellent remix EP sees him revisiting and remixing a couple of his classy tunes from a while back. And there’s going to be more original Mortimer tracks coming up soon. In the meantime, enjoy..


Tracklist:
01 – S-W-E-E-T (king mix) [MOD] [FLAC] [MP3]
02 – Velvet Disko (rmx) [MOD] [FLAC] [MP3]

Additional Files:
FILE_ID [DIZ] [PNG]
M_1997 [REL] [PNG]
M_UTH [NFO] [PNG]

*FLAC & MP3 zips also include the original versions.


Dharma – Ponziani Opening {REL#110}

Artist: Dharma
Title:
Ponziani Opening
Label:
Mono211
Catalog #:
REL#110
Release Date:
1997/10/13


Our Finnish jazz-freak returns with an absolutely wicked track, complete with flute played by himself, and triphop atmospherics blending into some freestyle d+b… as jazzed-down and tripped-up as it gets. Don’t stop (don’t stop.. don’t stop.. don’t stop..)

[Oh, this was meant to be a 4-channel MOD, but it doesn’t play correctly on the Amiga (‘cos some of the channels get too high, octave-wise), so it’s being released as an XM instead. Hope nobody minds, it sounds identical.]


Tracklist:
01 – Ponziani Opening [XM] [FLAC] [MP3]

Additional Files:
FILE_ID [DIZ] [PNG]
M_1997 [REL] [PNG]
M_PON [NFO] [PNG]

*FLAC & MP3 zips also include the original versions.


Relief+Skizo – Sizeable Chunk Of Beats {REL#109}

Artist: Relief+Skizo
Title:
Sizeable Chunk Of Beats
Label:
Mono211
Catalog #:
REL#109
Release Date:
1997/10/08


Take the rough with da rougher, courtesy of da Splif Productions guide to sonic trickery. Or, as it says in the song-text – “Prodigy – we ****ed em” 😉 Ok, so this is hardly comforting home listening for first thing on a Monday morning, but it’s certainly dangerously funky. More to come from the dangerous Danish duo, take heed and take check.


Tracklist:
01 – Sizeable Chunk Of Beats [XM] [FLAC] [MP3]

Additional Files:
file_id [DIZ] [PNG]
m_1997 [REL] [PNG]
m_siz [NFO] [PNG]

*FLAC & MP3 zips also include the original versions.


Soup – Paradise {REL#108}

Artist: Soup
Title:
Paradise
Label:
Mono211
Catalog #:
REL#108
Release Date:
1997/10/05


A guest release from Soup/Illogik this time round, and it’s some scarily cool d+b action, perhaps a little less twisted than a lot of Mono tracks – but it’s good for us to be suave every now and then. The name’s Mono – you know the rest. 😉


Tracklist:
01 – Paradise [IT] [FLAC] [MP3]

Additional Files:
FILE_ID [DIZ] [PNG]
M_1997 [REL] [PNG]
M_PDS [NFO] [PNG]

*FLAC & MP3 zips also include the original versions.


TheFoxII – Cokal {REL#107}

Artist: TheFoxII
Title:
Cokal
Label:
Mono211
Catalog #:
REL#107
Release Date:
1997/10/01


Sadly, it’s just about time to say goodbye to TheFoxII, as he quits tracking in favour of MIDI stuff and DJ-ing.. but it’s nice to go out on a funky note, and this one’s typically kicking – disco cut-ups rule. In fact, this one reminds us of somewhere between The Bucketheads and The Goodmen (anyone remember them?) 🙂 In any case, da track fits pretty well into the wide gospel that Mono preach – as long as it’s eklektik and funky, it can make it. 🙂 Aaaaamen. (Oh, and this tune appears to get stuck in endless loops in MikIt, although MOD4WIN plays it fine.. doh!)


Tracklist:
01 – Cokal [MOD] [FLAC] [MP3]

Additional Files:
file_id [DIZ] [PNG]
m_1997 [REL] [PNG]
m_cok [NFO] [PNG]

*FLAC & MP3 zips also include the original versions.


Subi – Post-Subi Comedown EP {REL#106}

Artist: Subi
Title:
Post-Subi Comedown EP
Label:
Mono211
Catalog #:
REL#106
Release Date:
1997/09/22


A new EP from the always interesting Subi, and another example of his dense, breakbeat-led style. 🙂 Curiously oldskool but somehow new at the same time – straange. You may, if you wish, try to decode the titles of the tracks too, but we have enough trouble even when he explains them to us. Oh, and doesn’t the first track sound curiously like the tune by Static from the Rebels demo “Total Triple Trouble”? And that was about 1991. 😉


Tracklist:
01 – Aandaorsyrodinon [MOD] [FLAC] [MP3]
02 – Thyduntaalwuk [MOD] [FLAC] [MP3]

Additional Files:
FILE_ID [DIZ] [PNG]
M_1997 [REL] [PNG]
M_POST [NFO] [PNG]

*FLAC & MP3 zips also include the original versions.