Tag: Monotonik

Vim! – Remixconsonantthing EP {mtk120}

Artist: Vim!
Title: Remixconsonantthing EP
Label: Monotonik
Catalog #: mtk120
Release Date: 2003/10/25

It’s been a while since semi-reclusive, wholly-gifted English electronica wonk Vim! has graced us with his presence. In his absence from Monotonik, he’s remixed Machine Drum for a Merck release, had that track released on vinyl and on a Japanese mix-CD from Joseph Nothing’s label, and, we hear, eaten a lot of baked beans and sausages. So, to help celebrate the launch of his brand-new CDR, ‘A Random Collection Of Consonants’, we’re proud to release this EP, with two tracks from the CDR, and two bonus exclusive remixes of his earlier work – hence the title.

Startin off on the good foot, ‘Trivial Machine’ uses Vim’s trademark, obtuse sinewave melodies along with weird counting-down effects, pixelated explosions, and general madness. On the other hand, ‘Exists In Bad Sectors (FuzzDrop)’ is a beguiling loopy piece of ambient style, whereas ‘Could Cut Keys’, the second piece from the CDR, has washes of static, beautifully strident dischord in the leads, and a sound which still sounds like absolutely nobody else. For a coda, we get ‘1994 Gold (via Ratners)’ ordered up, all mordant and precise and hollow and just right.

So, in summary: listen to Vim!’s EP, go and buy his CDR in scrambling, insane delight (http://www.vimster.demon.co.uk/cdr/), and thank us later. And believe us rightly, you will thank us.

Credits:
cover by vim!

Tracklist:
01 – Trivial Machine
02 – Exists In Bad Sectors (FuzzDrop)
03 – Could Cut Keys
04 – 1994 Gold Via Ratners

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Lackluster – You Are On My Mind EP {mtk119}

Artist: Lackluster
Title: You Are On My Mind EP
Label: Monotonik
Catalog #: mtk119
Release Date: 2003/10/07

He released one of the first ever Monotonik .MOD releases, all the way back in 1997, and over 6 years and several highly acclaimed CDs later, Finnish electronic wiz Lackluster, aka Esa Ruoho, fresh from live sets in Ireland and Russia and his recent ‘Showcase’ compilation CD on Merck Records, has handed over the keys to his mind and returned to the net.label fold with this sublime 5-track EP.

Right off the bat, ‘Cut1’ comes out with a tremendously complex blend of Lackluster’s signature smooth melodies, with a newer, almost dubby edge, before the languid ‘Ambling On’ shows off rocksteady beats and a drifting, just gorgeous lead. Up next, ‘Cut2’ sneaks up with an almost ‘CDR#2’ or ‘Container’-like simplicity of spirit and purity of thought, before ‘Tumbling Along’ shows up, all perfect drum programming and lolloping breaks. Finally, ‘Ender’ ends things off subtly with reversed sounding loops and a humming bass, a fitting finish to a simply beautiful EP that Monotonik is proud to be hosting for free.

Credits:
cover by lackluster

Tracklist:
01 – ll260303 (Cut1)
02 – ll030503 (Ambling On)
03 – ll260303 (Cut2)
04 – ll080702 (Tumbling Along)
05 – ll120702b (Ender)

Artwork:
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Octopus Land – Suck My Temple Moan Trumpet EP {mtk118}

Artist: Octopus Land
Title: Suck My Temple Moan Trumpet EP
Label: Monotonik
Catalog #: mtk118
Release Date: 2003/09/28

From the depths of the Straits of Atlantis, the artist known as Octopus Land has surfaced, and with him he brings, entangled in his nets, a veritable bounty of sweet, jittering idm melodies, and dark, underwater fruits of the sea.

For starters, ‘Tortoise Catch’ twins the random stomp with the sweet orchestra of the dolphins, epic and joyous, before ‘Voave222’ hesitantly taps out a morse code of undersea distress, all plaintive against the blackness of the deep, dark ocean. Next, Octopus Land tries to imagine what having a room would really be like in the perky, pirouetting ‘Cleaning My Room’, before sinking back among the moray eels and the inky blackness with the plain dangerous ‘Komputer Going Into Sleep Mode’. Embrace the ocean, now.

Credits:
photo by mcbuttah

Tracklist:
01 – Tortoise Catch
02 – Voave 222
03 – Cleaning My Room
04 – Komputer Going Into Sleep Mode

Artwork:
Front Cover

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Oveloe – Maddi EP {mtk117}

Artist: Oveloe
Title: Maddi EP
Label: Monotonik
Catalog #: mtk117
Release Date: 2003/09/12

The debut release from Canada’s contemplative, indielectronic Oveloe, aka Charles Bisaillon, who’s previously released an excellent EP on net.label Kikapu, shows a beautifully phrased grasp of strangely retro-sounding, but absolutely not bleep heavy electronics. Soulful, considered, and intelligent, it makes the weirdest sense to us.

As for the individual songs, ‘Transistor Love’, the first track, allows a throbbing backbeat drift and a plaintive, multi-tiered lead, before seguing into an elliptic ‘Mostly Misty’, almost reminiscent of Monotonik cohort Anders Svensson in its looped approach to linearity. Next, the beautiful ‘Petit Serpent’ allows faster, more pattering beats, before ‘Madeleine’ locks thing down with a mellow, angelic final track. It’s all about the feeling that you’re where nobody can touch you, and Oveloe provides four very good reasons to feel that way, right here, right now.

Credits:
picture by oveloe

Tracklist:
01 – Transistor Love
02 – Mostly Misty
03 – Petit Serpent
04 – Madeleine

Artwork:
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Crashed By Car – Fictions And Fires EP {mtk115}

Artist: Crashed By Car
Title: Fictions And Fires EP
Label: Monotonik
Catalog #: mtk115
Release Date: 2003/08/07

This time round, a debut release from Oregon’s Crashed By Car, recent founder of the beautiful Pleasedosomething net.label, and indielectronic star in the making, with net.releases on Kikapu and 8BitRecs, amongst others.

The “Fictions And Fires EP” is a spectacularly well-crafted piece of organic electronics, with highlights including the smooth drift of “Full Speed Dead”, the muted triumph of “Bees”, and the almost Harold Budd-esque ambient beauty of “Skylight Facing Myself”.

It’s a sign of the changing electronica scene, maybe, that more and more good artists are coming out of the States to meld organic waveforms with the pure Scandinavian tones often released on Monotonik, and Crashed By Car’s idyllic sounds are another blissful step towards unity.

Credits:
picture by crashedbycar

Tracklist:
01 – Oswald’s 47
02 – Full Speed Dead
03 – Dollars In Our Jeans
04 – Bees
05 – Milk Of Amnesia
06 – Skylight Facing Myself

Artwork:
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Anders Svensson – Run Anders Run EP {mtk114}

Artist: Anders Svensson
Title: Run Anders Run EP
Label: Monotonik
Catalog #: mtk114
Release Date: 2003/07/23

A return to Monotonik duties from Swedish artist Anders Svensson, formerly a Scandinavian indie band stalwart, and following up his debut Monotonik EP with another 3 tracks of wonderfully elliptical, genuinely original takes on the whole electronic music thing.

First up, ‘Making It Personal’ does that almost-cylical gorgeously crystallic thing than so many of Anders’ tracks seem to, before ‘Facing Trouble’ drifts beautifully around the question, all coy and drifting. Finally, ‘Sooner As Well As Later’ patters the percussion and pitters your heart with pure tones and delicate drums.

Credits:
watchcam photo by h0l

Tracklist:
01 – Making It Personal
02 – Facing Trouble
03 – Sooner As Well As Later

Artwork:
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Blisaed – As Time Passes EP {mtk113}

Artist: Blisaed
Title: As Time Passes EP
Label: Monotonik
Catalog #: mtk113
Release Date: 2003/07/10

We’re delighted to showcase the first Monotonik EP from American artist Matt Centonze, under his Blisaed moniker. Matt’s released on smaller netlabels and his own site as Echion and Mistrial before, but the “As Time Passes EP” drifts through some beautifully produced indie electronic moods, alternately sophisticated and restful.

First off, it’s “Megan’s Guitar”, with some serene spoken word and strummed guitar melding wonderfully, before “Far From Home” works up the percussives into more of a understated frenzy. Then, newest track “Connect” let everyone connect into Blisaed’s superdelicious blissful world, before Matt’s remix of (previous Monotonik releaser) Darkhalo’s “Analog Snow Bunny Girl” gets all orchestral and lushly analog on our collective eardrums. Good stuff indeed.

Credits:
photo by h0l

Tracklist:
01 – Megan’s Guitar
02 – Far From Home
03 – Connect
04 – Darkhalo – Analog Snow Bunny Girl (Blisaed‘s Blue Remix)

Artwork:
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Pretty Boy Crossover – 17 Steps {mtk112}

Artist: Pretty Boy Crossover
Title: 17 Steps
Label: Monotonik
Catalog #: mtk112
Release Date: 2003/06/26

We’re delighted to get the chance to release a new track from Australian electronica royalty and oldtime Monotonik releasers, Pretty Boy Crossover, aka PBXO. Previously, we released a couple of their tracks related to their excellent first Surgery CD, “The Building And Formation”, and since then, they’ve released another EP, “Any Number Can Play”, on Clan Analogue, and are gearing up for new releases on Surgery and C0C0S0L1DC1T1, as well as new tracks from the group they share members with, Other People’s Children, on 555 and Morr Music.

Anyhow, “17 Steps” is all gorgeously languid, slow motion melodies, a breath of fresh air when only stuffiness and restriction rules the roost. The curiously hypnotic percussion buzzes, the almost shoegaze-styled melodies hum, and all is good with the world, if only for those four minutes and thirtynine seconds. Hurrah for the pretty boys and their crossover skills, eh?

[Thanks to Tony @ Kinglux for the excellent cover-art.]

Credits:
cover by tony@kinglux

Tracklist:
01 – 17 Steps

Artwork:
Front Cover

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Ernesto Aeroflot – Oll Tolk’n’ no Ding atcheev’d {mtk111}

Artist: Ernesto Aeroflot
Title: Oll Tolk’n’ no Ding atcheev’d
Label: Monotonik
Catalog #: mtk111
Release Date: 2003/06/05

Thanks to a tip from a Finn in the know, us here at Monotonik stumbled across the material of Finnish maverick Ernesto Aeroflot online, and we’re delighted to be able to release his 4th album, “Oll Tolk’n’ no Ding atcheev’d”, on Monotonik.

Mr. Aeroflot is a mysterious fellow who’s released on net.label Commie and a host of smaller labels under names/groups such as TranceYlvania, Sky Wide Jazz, Oodi & Elegia, High Grade Multi Purpose Intelligent Terminal (!), and more. This 10-track album showcases his unpredictable but riveting style excellently, as ’80s bleep sounds and stuttering electro mix up with distorted unrest, sweeping electronica, and a wholly surprising bonus cut to create something truly different.

Highlights? Well, tracks like “We Wish You A Merry Ca” evokes Yellow Magic Orchestra, all smooth and retro, whereas “Be Real, Rysto Byls IV” is almost a widescreen movie soundtrack, and “Lost Data” is the most delicious of pseudo chip-tunes. Plus, the final superextrabonus track, “Afterburner”, well.. Finnish.. surf guitar.. epic.. need we say more?

[There’s also a release text from Ernesto himself for this release, giving some more info into the Teemustan language that the album was created in – all the current song titles are translations from this (invented? crazed!) language which is used for the name of the album.]

Credits:
cover by ernesto aeroflot

Tracklist:
01 – Kesäsade
02 – Format C:
03 – Forever Endeavour
04 – We Wish You A Merry Ca
05 – Lost Data
06 – Unpurposal
07 – Tiritomba
08 – Anttipentti
09 – Be Real, Risto Byls IV
10 – Afterburner

Artwork:
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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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