Tag: Monotonik

Darkhalo – Nexus/Drones {REL#166}

Artist: Darkhalo
Title: Nexus/Drones
Label: Mono211
Catalog #: REL#166
Release Date: 1999/05/11

A guest release from that rarity on m211, someone from a continent outside Europe. This time Darkhalo steps in to show us what an interesting reading the Americans are taking on the whole d+b thing, encompassing Californian breakbeat, acid b-lines, and even some Transeau shaken up in there – just the right side of catchy, we fear, and fully compatible with the breaks and beats that m211 insists on releasing in such a hipflask lackadaisical fashion..

Tracklist:
01 – Nexus/Drones [XM] [FLAC] [MP3]

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Viinikala+Distance – Sundial Jam (Suntrap Edit) {rel#32}

Artist: Viinikala+Distance
Title: Sundial Jam (Suntrap Edit)
Label: Monotonik
Catalog #: rel#32
Release Date: 1999/05/06

Wandering and wondering at the same time, artists such as Distance and Jiva define the unique Monotonik style, and this interpretation by Viinikala (of an unreleased Distance track) glides slowly along the same heavenly path. We’ve got the deliciously pure synthsounds, we’ve got the pulsing atoms pulsing the atmospherics, and it all adds up to the smallest slice of chilled serendipity. Comparisons? Naaah. 🙂

Tracklist:
01 – Sundial Jam (Suntrap Edit) [IT] [FLAC] [MP3]

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Vim! – Whirlwind Snooker {mtw007}

Artist: Vim!
Title: Whirlwind Snooker
Label: Mono211
Catalog #: mtw007
Release Date: 1999/05/02

Time for Vim!’s second mp3 release, and it’s a stand-out piece of totally original ‘electronic music’, poised anywhere between breakbeat, idm, and triphop. Definitions really don’t make sense in this case – let’s just say this wouldn’t be out of place on Rephlex or Skam. Watch the trademark Follin-esque oblique Vim! chords too.. mm, retrocreamygoodness..

Credits:
cover by mortimer twang

Tracklist:
01 – Whirlwind Snooker

Artwork:
Front Cover

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Distance – Untitled Bonus Track {REL#165}

Artist: Distance
Title: Untitled Bonus Track
Label: Mono211
Catalog #: REL#165
Release Date: 1999/04/27

Wowee, a first release for Distance on the breakbeat-ish Mono211, and this time it’s a real interesting blend between his conventional unconventionality and a new sub-bass and sharp breaks style. Original, I warrant, and pretty clever with it. And the name is.. well, it makes sense to you, doesn’t it?

Tracklist:
01 – Untitled Bonus Track [XM] [FLAC] [MP3]

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Prob. – Head Eyes Blow, Why? {rel#31}

Artist: Prob.
Title: Head Eyes Blow, Why?
Label: Monotonik
Catalog #: rel#31
Release Date: 1999/04/12

Whoaa. Prob. steps up to bat with this viciously chaotic slab of noise, kicking and punching its way to an early grave. But fortunately, it stops just short and reels furiously into the ambient abyss for the last part of the track, where it stays suspended in limbo, as ineffectual as a little kitty with filed-down claws.

Tracklist:
01. Head Eyes Blow, Why? [XM] [FLAC] [MP3]

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Prob. – Iflai {mtw006}

Artist: Prob.
Title: Iflai
Label: Mono211
Catalog #: mtw006
Release Date: 1999/04/07

Just feel real. Mono211 kicks back into the realm of the seriously chilled for this beguiling piece of ambient, with the faintest of triphop breaks in it, courtesy of Finnish junglist Prob.

Mm, the beautifully serene chords mixed with just the dreamiest acoustic break put this somewhere around the most ethereal end of Global Communication, with further nods to Pete Namlook and Dr.Motte on a less electronic tip. As Mixmaster Morris might ask, is it tomorrow already?

Credits:
cover by hotwire

Tracklist:
01 – Iflai

Artwork:
Front Cover

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3818919/w – 702 {mtk004}

Artist: 3818919/w
Title: 702
Label: Monotonik
Catalog #: mtk004
Release Date: 1999/04/03

Something distinctly different, this mp3 release is from the English artist 3818919/w, of which little can be revealed – other than the fact he works in computer games as a graphics artist and is also responsible for the rather cool mp3-cover to this release, which you can see above.

This track was done with a cacophony of cantankerous old analogue synths and drum machines and is distinctly influenced by a number of Warp and Rephlex artists. But we like to think the beguiling melodies and intriguing percussion bring a markedly different approach to the whole idm conundrum – if, indeed, it should be called idm. Listen to the fluttering synths and the layers upon layers and the little flourishes and enjoy..

Credits:
cover by 3818919/w

Tracklist:
01 – 702

Artwork:
Front Cover

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Prob+Ebb+Tek+Substance – Benedict (Stylez Remix) {REL#164}

Artist: Prob+Ebb+Tek+Substance
Title: Benedict (Stylez Remix)
Label: Mono211
Catalog #: REL#164
Release Date: 1999/04/02

More rewording and reordering as Substance takes elements from two previous releases (Tek’s mp3 “Benedict” and Prob+Ebb’s “Stylez”) and merges and melds to come up with this mellifluous hybrid. It’s fun to play with sounds, isn’t it? Watch out for a simultaneous/near-simultaneous Malik remix of “Stylez” on Theralite (http://pigforce.warande.net/theralite), incidentally.. mmm, synchronicity can be so constructive, hm?

Tracklist:
01 – Benedict (Stylez Remix) [XM] [FLAC] [MP3]

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Hoffman – Deep Impact {mtk003}

Artist: Hoffman
Title: Deep Impact
Label: Monotonik
Catalog #: mtk003
Release Date: 1999/03/29

We return once more to the Monotonik fold with the mp3 debut from Hoffman, who’s currently DJ-ing a number of techno nights in the SouthWest of England, and shows he still has the goods on the composition side, too, with this great piece of phasing minimal techno. We were initially thinking this didn’t fit in with Monotonik-style, majestic though it is – but then we realised, of course it fits – Hoffman’s a massive part of Mono (he had the first ever release, for one), and Monotonik’s aim is simply to kick it with the electronic beatz – “Deep Impact” does that with ease.

Comparisons? We’re not so well-versed in that particular area, but the muffled-to-sharp funkiness of the bassdrum and hihats and the almost acid tube-bass make it sound a bit like a deeper, nastier Daft Punk, don’t you think?

Credits:
cover by hotwire

Tracklist:
01 – Deep Impact

Artwork:
Front Cover

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Bay Tremore – Four77 {mtw005}

Artist: Bay Tremore
Title: Four77
Label: Mono211
Catalog #: mtw005
Release Date: 1999/03/15

Another day, another m211 mp3 release, and this time it’s the mp3 debut of that funk soul brother Bay Tremore. He hits us with one of his intriguingly original drum and bass tracks – sorta somewhere towards the techstep that so dominates d+b nowadays but then shying away towards the melodic underratedness of artists such as Arcon2 or even Springheel Jack.

In fact, it’s different again, and, much like the Tek tune we’ve previously put out on mp3, it offers a different perspective to a well-worn formula. Different perspectives, we’re sure you’ll agree, are good. And the ticktock-zooming-to-bass effect partway through the track is damn original to boot…

Credits:
cover by hotwire

Tracklist:
01 – Four77

Artwork:
Front Cover

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