12/12/2009
Monotonik is now on (permanent?) hiatus - the final 6 (!) releases are on the releases page at the bottom - read label creator Simon Carless' blog post on the subject for more information.

09/08/2009
Delighted to present an awesome UK jazzy drill&bass album from Bitbasic, 'Sprinkling Rainbows'. (h0l.)

14/06/2009
Continuing to catch up on backlog with a gorgeous U.S. electronic album, General Fuzz's 'Soulful Filling'. (h0l.)

03/05/2009
Slowing down a bit, sorry, ,but we're back again with Chromatic Flights' third release, the excellent 'Favorite Cat EP'. (h0l.)

28/02/2009
A special double release on Monotonik, thanks to two great artists - Same Nice Lamb's 'Prechi' and Jap Jap's 'A Resonant Discovery'. (h0l.)

03/01/2009
A new year, and some new sounds, thanks to old friends Sleepy Town Manufacture and the 'Hello And Goodbye EP' - beautiful Russian electronica yay. (h0l.)

29/11/2008
Funking things up with the fourth release from the magisterial Beak, in the form of 'Hard Nights' - the more difficult the better, as far as we're concerned. (h0l.)

05/10/2008
Some beautiful electronics from Ilkae, with 'Lighter Industry EP' - the best of the best is yummy here. (h0l.)

24/08/2008
Not giving up, not ever giving up, thanks to a debut from Project 5am, with 'Quixotes Of Moons Fight The Windmills Of Brixton' - yee haw yee haw yee haw. (h0l.)

29/07/2008
Delightfully enough, a return from Coax, with 'Wobo Jomodo' - enjoying how this one resonates around the braaaaain. (h0l.)

22/06/2008
More UK goodness thanks to Risch, with 'Synesthesia' - briefly, let's enjoy! (h0l.)

26/05/2008
A debut from a Brighton-based UK electronica artist with Northcape's 'Some Bright Valley' - lots of fun for everyone. (h0l.)

27/04/2008
Time for another Aleksi Eeben release, Finnish jazz-electronics to the fore, with Aleksi Eeben's 'The Four Tales' - yay hooray. (h0l.)

06/04/2008
Amazingly enough, Monotonik's 200th release, thanks to Chromatic Flights' 'Heavy Stars Will Fall' - here's looking forward to another 200 or 200,000 or so. (h0l.)

16/03/2008
Ah yes, some crunchy Danish electronics, with 'VCOs or DCOs EP' from Delayscape - bloop bloop blooooop. (h0l.)

24/02/2008
Back again, with some minimal dubby idm from New Zealand, of all wonderful places - thanks to 'Biddy Bids' from Jet Jaguar - super duper dubby fun. (h0l.)

26/01/2008
Ah yes, the first release of a new year, and some marvelous ambientness from Muhr and the 'A Lonely Gust Of Wind' EP - this one will make you drift away. (h0l.)

31/12/2007
The end of 2007, then, and we whiz all the way back to 2000 or so to re-relased a super-rare mini-CD, Pliant's 'Musical Endeavor' - gotta love the stylings. (h0l.)

10/12/2007
You've got to love the live idm 60+ minute gorgeous mix with Planet Boelex's 'Live At Virus Festival '07, Lithuania' - it's just so damn smooth. (h0l.)

24/11/2007
Awesome Detroit vs. idm action here with UK-based Distruc and his 'Junctions EP' - guess we'll grab the junction into your soul. (h0l.)

27/10/2007
Some cute, adorable vocoder-based idm-pop thanks to Ocbalt and his 'As Is' - and we'll take it, as is. (h0l.)

30/09/2007
Slightly spooky, overlapping electronics in a distinctly regional, but distinctly original way, with Dead Eros' 'Cycle EP' - big cathedrals of sounds, here. (h0l.)

15/09/2007
All kinds of funky laidback fire and brimstone, of the subtle variety, with Bird Lantern's 'DuD' - sold their funk bone to who, again? (h0l.)

02/09/2007
Some beautiful ambient/electronics from a Malaysian duo, with Muxu's 'Show Us Your Weak Side' - zooming around and around and around in our heads. (h0l.)

18/08/2007
Aquaboogie and Jet Jaguar team up, tiger style, with Malty Media's 'Bracken Bed EP' - dub the controls to the heart of the bass. (h0l.)

05/08/2007
A beautiful indietronic German return from a former Monotonik release with Ckid's 'Down With Ghosts' - yep, we hate 'em too. (h0l.)

21/07/2007
Chicago's finest IDM action is in full effect with Renzu's 'Reiha EP' - delightful. (h0l.)

01/07/2007
Yikes, some wicked drill & bass style jazzy action with the UK's BitBasic and his entirely excellent 'Grating Rainbows' - shredding up beats in new and lovely ways, daily. (h0l.)

17/06/2007
Back again after a good 5 years away, we have Idmonster and his eclectic electronics, in the form of 'Preloved EP' - all kinds of shades in here. (h0l.)

19/05/2007
Straight out of Florida, we appear to have the teenage goodness of Chromatic Flights and his 'Memories From The Audible Color Wheel' - it's all gone a bit ROYGBIV. (h0l.)

24/04/2007
Obtuse oddness is in full effect, and we adore him for it, thanks to Aleksi 'Heatbeat' Eeben and his latest magnum opus, the strange 'Three Times The Music' - operating on a completely different tonal scale. (h0l.)

01/04/2007
Yum, some of the stuff that we're known for, this is, in terms of lushly layered idm electronic and Same Nice Lamb's 'Lack Of Lamb' - certainly plenty of meat on this for us. (h0l.)

11/03/2007
Another corker this time out, thanks to Finnish mysterian Flutterspot and the oddly named idm jaunt 'Suitable For A Desire To Share' - out to the races and in for a score. (h0l.)

18/02/2007
Yay for the guitar idm stylings of U.S. artist Beak and 'Bishop Whitney EP' - all in favor of naming EPs after important church folks, we are. (h0l.)

28/01/2007
Long long long awaited, this particular bundle of sound would be U.S. artist Troupe and his 'It's Really Pretty Simple After All' - but isn't it? (h0l.)

16/01/2007
First release of 2007, innit? And that would be with Bristol, England's Ollie Cram and something a little unexpected, the live-festooned chill-out album 'Rai-Ken' - gentle and delicate, yum. (h0l.)

30/12/2006
Good lord, we're weirding the heck out, with a very strange end to 2006 in the form of Gaza F*gg*t and the mini-album 'Welcome To Softbo' - odd odd odd, with side helpings of odd. (h0l.)

17/12/2006
Getting up to Christmas, and we're delighted to present an EP from the artist formerly known as Blisaed, in his Seathasky alter ago, and 'Exist EP' - delicious, heady stuff. (h0l.)

20/11/2006
Delighted to see a little Belgian ambience drifting around the place - ta to Sonmi451, and his 'The Quiet EP'. Listen carefully, and you can hear the air. (h0l.)

29/10/2006
A felicitous welcome to 20 tracks of goodness, thanks to the 4th release from U.S. idm maestro Transient and his 'Hexual Ceiling'. Consider ourselves ceiled. (h0l.)

15/10/2006
Looks like we made it, to the end - or the end of the beginning, at least. This has been well documented by Christopher Whaley with his '10 Years Of Monotonik - A Mix'. Here's to another 100? (h0l.)

01/10/2006
Yet more Finns, for some reason, but hey, it's the smart Flutterspot and his 'Labmat', so that's all OK, right? (h0l.)

10/09/2006
A debut for a Finnish band and some marvellous nu-chill, in the form of the aptly named Northbound and 'Landscapes Of Late' - yoikes, we totally totally like this one. (h0l.)

27/08/2006
Hey, more returns from beyond, thanks to Substance, aka Kuu, and his super-smart 'Ioplus EP' - my compliments to the space chef. (h0l.)

06/08/2006
An old, old friend comes back to stay, thanks to Aleksi Eeben's absolutely excellent bleep electronica album 'Spaceman Away From Home' - unconventional, unconventional, gorgeous. (h0l.)

16/07/2006
Bonjour to a new Danish electro EP with a difference, in the form of Delayscape's 'Everybody Drops EP' - we're dropping our cool and admitting this is cool. (h0l.)

25/06/2006
Delighted to welcome Japanese ambient star Akira Kosemura, and his 3-track shimmer of calm, in the form of 'In A Distant Forest Somewhere EP' - summer is summery, and the ambience is supreme. (h0l.)

05/06/2006
Another veteran, Tim Koch, turns up again with the rather smart 'Elk Meadow EP' - we're grazing, and the grass is sweet. (h0l.)

14/05/2006
Eureka - a delightful return from Izmar, a long-time Monotonik releaser, who is continuing to bring the gorgeous with 'Secular EP' - up in heaven, somebody is smiling. (h0l.)

16/04/2006
Another yummy debut, thanks to Dutch electronica don SinQ, and his extremely gorgeous 'Passage' - you see, the Dutch have great music as well as great clogs. (h0l.)

19/03/2006
Third time is a charm for our Finnish friend Planet Boelex, thanks to the most excellent 'Misplaced EP' - it's not misplaced in our hearts. (h0l.)

05/03/2006
Holy Japanese ambience, Batman, long-time Monotonik releaser Sabi returned with the rather lovely 'Unsui EP' - subtle, wonderful stuff. (h0l.)

19/02/2006
Once again, something a little different, thanks to Santa Cruz duo Wavespan and their wonderfully produced, Robert Rich-mastered ambient album 'Wavespan LP' - we can feel the waves rushing over us now. (h0l.)

04/02/2006
Back for a little more, following his 2002 album for Monotonik, we're delighted to re-welcome Ernesto Aeroflot and 'Strogloy - Everything Within' - what, like a ham sandwich? (h0l.)

14/01/2006
Often he releases on the excellent 8BitPeoples, but now he's come over to say hi to us, and we're delighted to debut Yuppster's 'Ambition EP' - it's our new ambition to release more of his work! (h0l.)

01/01/2006
Sometimes people approach us and give us sweeties, and since we're not a small child, we accept - hence New Delhi FM's 'Daylight Confusion' - it feels yummy in our tummy. (h0l.)

18/12/2005
We liked him so much that we had him back for a third time - that would be Transient, with the split and rather gorgeous 'Work/Play EP' - give him a big big big big big big hand. (h0l.)

25/11/2005
Yes indeed there is some keeping going towards the Christmas of the time with Dead Eros' 'When' - I wam very nappy in speed to prelease dis. (h0l.)

03/11/2005
Go quite crazy with the just completely wonderfully odd stylings of Psilodump's 'Jag Och Psilodump' - no idea what this style is, other than stylish. (h0l.)

15/10/2005
No need to get too classic, but we're getting quite classic enough, with Swedish artist Qeshi's 'The Eudemonic Homunculus' album - nine tracks of nice, innit? (h0l.)

25/09/2005
Just one track, but a choice track, with oldskool Monotonik star Lackluster's 'Zero Million Barrels Of Oil Per Day' - we can certainly afford that many. (h0l.)

10/09/2005
Struggling along quite well in the autumn breezes, thank you very much, with Japanese techno superstar Tatsu's 'August EP' - please go enjoy in a multitude of different locations. (h0l.)

17/08/2005
Oh my, we have electro and idm and retro video game sounds all hustled into a bundle, thanks to Coax's 'Blackened EP' - enjoy the pure, pure tones. (h0l.)

31/07/2005
We stumble our way to release number one hundred and fifty, thanks to guitar-idm honey Beak and his 'El Hacedor EP' - bzzzzt, bzzzzzt, bzzt bzzt, bzzzzzt. (h0l.)

10/07/2005
Gorgeous sitar-based nu-chill thanks to Holland's Izmar and his rather smart 'Conscious EP' - very conscious that this is very good, what-ho? (h0l.)

19/05/2005
A little UK-based idm smoothness with the return of Aereal and his 'Moved Moment EP' - moving around, getting a lock on goodness (h0l.)

29/05/2005
A return to opulent idm roots with the wonderful Planet Boelex and the serene 'Second Thoughts EP' - smooth, seductive, and generally seditious. (h0l.)

08/05/2005
Something different - we mine the Japanese bleep-funk scene for the beguiling duo Kplecraft and their 'KNMS-001' - more beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep. (h0l.)

17/04/2005
Rather gorgeous melodic electronics with a returning master, and Transient's 'Be EP' - beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep. (h0l.)

20/03/2005
Absolutely astounding chip bleep vs. metal grind and insano catchiness with Machinae Supremacy's 'Jets 'N Guns OST' - jet, jet, jet, gun, gun, gun. (h0l.)

27/02/2005
A debut of a sharp digifunk variety, with robots and retro stylings heroically to the fore, with Datassette's 'Maintenance Werk' - we maintain that it's great. (h0l.)

05/02/2005
Winter, spring, summer or fall, all you have to do is call Vim!, and he will provide the 'Perpetual Autumn EP', forthwith. (h0l.)

08/01/2005
A change of name, but still the same sunny disposition and smooth, original techno, that would be Planet Boelex with 'Sinking In The Soup EP' - we're not sinking, we're rising, rising. (h0l.)

19/12/2004
First with the electronic last year, and now with the indielectronics this year, we have ST with 'I'll Meet You There EP' - and you're always the first to know. (h0l.)

05/12/2004
Sometimes we lapse into bleepiness, and it's so very necessary with Aleksi Eeben's 'The White Box' - especially if it includes a dizzying Dizzy coda. (h0l.)

20/11/2004
We falter, but we don't fall, especially with Sense to hold us up, with his delightful 'Further EP' - look closer, and you'll feel happier. (h0l.)

17/10/2004
Holding back like an angel, and surging forward like a devil, that would be Bliss with the glowing, flowing 'Goodbye Brain, Hello Heart EP' - bonjour, salut, and hello dolly to that. (h0l.)

26/09/2004
In negotiations for a while, and now finally voted onto the island, we have the splendiforous Beak with his transmagical 'Amoral Mayor Earwig EP' - we didn't think the earwigs in charge had morals, either. (h0l.)

03/09/2004
Transitioning onto the main Monotonik label this time round, Izmar lets us further into his world with 'Stuff EP' - snapshots of somebody's paradise, and it seems like it could be ours. (h0l.)

09/08/2004
Sneaking around and then materializing long enough to present us with plus sonics, that would be Gschmidt and 'Time Tolled EP' - courtesy of the machine that goes ping. (h0l.)

16/07/2004
Darn his obtuseness and his marvelousness, it's Ilkae and his sonic boom of 'Stained Glass Confetti EP' - even medieval monks dig it. (h0l.)

27/06/2004
Popping round for tea, that'd be the wondrous Vim! and his equally wondrous 'A Random Selection Of Consonants' - and what a selection concoction selection. (h0l.)

03/06/2004
Yow, time to laze in the languid nu chill air and skank out in the starlit evenings with Braces Tower's 'Pasteism EP' - skank and chill, skank and chill. (h0l.)

14/05/2004
We're all about telling you how much we love you, especially if your name happens to be, well, Lain - so if it is, go ahead, take Unit21 and Sleepy Town Manufacture's 'Lain: We Care EP' - go on, go on, take it. (h0l.)

18/04/2004
First we hit you with one track, then we hit you with a whole hour's worth, thanks to Monotonik's longstanding companion Lackluster, and his rather marvellous 'Live At Freeflow, Helsinki 16/07/03 ' - we suggest you just let the music play. (h0l.)

30/03/2004
We went quiet, and then we remembered where we were, and we went less quiet, with the timeless idm of Tweeter's 'Planet Boelex' - damn, we love happy endings. (h0l.)

29/02/2004
A little further down the spiral of resurgent, beautiful American electronic music with Blisaed's 'Hopeless Falling From EP' - everything new is new again, and everything old is withered away. (h0l.)

14/02/2004
A Valentine's Day surprise courtesy of Russian idm maestro Sleepy Town Manufacture, and the lovely 'For You & For Me' - it's for everyone who knows and wants and cares. (h0l.)

04/02/2004
Back with a super-smart Swedish collective dispensing electronic wisdom to all, with Various Artists' 'Sound Of Subnatura EP' - sounding rather good from here. (h0l.)

18/01/2004
Keeping things going with a little bleep, courtesy of Japanese videogame musician Blasterhead and the rave GameBoy stylings of the marvellous 'Killbots EP' - come on, bots, kill us if you think you're hard enough, we're ready already. (h0l.)

01/01/2004
Welcome to the New Year, thanks to cosmic secret agent of the moment Aleksi Virta, who goes on and '..Meets Torsti At The Space Lounge' - can we come along as well and take some pictures of the fateful moment for, like, posterity? (h0l.)

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