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17/12/2003 A little conspiracy theory in time for Xmas, with the shady Gschmidt and his 'Nibiru Coming EP' - just watch out for Planet X, alright? (h0l.) 01/12/2003 Time for a debut, from Swedish artist Stefan Ternemar, aka S.T., and his strident, super-catchy 'Emotions In A Box EP' - pack it up and move it on out with you, why don't you? (h0l.) 15/11/2003 A second album from Dutch jazzchill expert Izmar would be nice, we thought. So, along came 'Aze2', and lo and behold, we were happy again. (h0l.) 25/10/2003 Someone else who's been with us at the Monotonik retirement home for Paula enthusiasts for some time, the return of Vim! with 'Remixconsonantthing EP' - mm, obtuseness and specialness all intertwined. (h0l.) 07/10/2003 An unexpected but very welcome return from the original, the indelible, the combustible Lackluster with the sublime 'You Are On My Mind EP' - now we want to go all Lackluster, all the time. (h0l.) 28/09/2003 Straight outta Atlantis, the aquatic mishaps of Octopus Land come to the fore, with his alternately pirouetting and dark 'Suck My Temple... EP', and sounding good even when played above the water line. (h0l.) 12/09/2003 We like it when we like a tune, and we like it now because we like Oveloe's 'Maddi EP', all melodies and nice sounds and good thoughts. (h0l.) 24/08/2003 We take this opportunity to damn Bliss for being blessed with talent enough to create 'It's Not The Sweetness... EP', thereby leaving us speechless and unable to write anything better than this intro. Whee. (h0l.) 07/08/2003 More significantly gorgeous indielectronics, thanks to Crashed By Car and his beautiful 'Fictions And Fires EP' - there's nothing fictional about our fire for this release. (h0l.) 23/07/2003 This time, a little taste of elliptical electronics, courtesy of Anders Svensson's marvellously phrased, endearingly obtuse 'Run Anders Run EP' - we're running towards, not away. (h0l.) 10/07/2003 A new permanent mirror of Monotonik content, complete with messageboards/review feedback/lots more, is now available at the Internet Archive in their audio section - MANY thanks to them. But we have a new release for you too, thanks to Blisaed's idyllic 'As Time Passes EP' - indietronica at its best. (h0l.) 26/06/2003 Two important things this time out. Firstly, don't forget to check out the BitTorrent downloads of the entire Monotonik catalog here, yay. And secondly, a new, non-Torrented release from Australia's divine Pretty Boy Crossover in the form of '17 Steps' is up - mm, shoegazelicious... (h0l.) 05/06/2003 A little unconvention from mysterious Finn, Ernesto Aeroflot, and his express drinks service into our mind, 'Oll Tolk'n' No Ding Atcheev'd' - watch out for damaged neurons. (h0l.) 24/05/2003 Time for the summer relaxation phase event in full, and for this we thank Transient and his sublime 'Ancient EP' for smooth, beautiful, sunbeaten electronics. (h0l.) 10/05/2003 The trilogy is now complete, thanks to the third in a series of virtual 7-inches from Australia's Super Science, and the 'Me EP' - halcyon beats for halcyon days. (h0l.) 26/04/2003 Stealthily stealing into view, the pure electronic of Sweden's Bliss with the super-melodic, superb-vocalled 'Life On The Rooftop' - we like it up here. (h0l.) 13/04/2003 A double release after a brief drought, with some gloriously pure chiptones courtesy of Geir Tjelta and 'AHX To Excess', plus a 30-second burst of prolonged viciousness from Speedranch^Jansky Noise's 'This One Didn't Make It Like Most Of The Others' - wow. (h0l.) 31/03/2003 An unexpected submission from the mysterious Izmar, and a whole album of delightfully groovy, beautifully programmed jazzy techno/chillout, in the form of 'Aze' - succumb to our lazy, aze-y days. (h0l.) 21/03/2003 A return from Dutch artist Secede, with the dense, building grooves of 'The Whistler' - something a little different from your average sinewaves vs. glitches geektronica tussle? (h0l.) 10/03/2003 Finally, the third release from Grandma, and another 4 tracks of genius geektronica, guitars, vocals, and spoken-word to the fore, with the exquisite 'For Your Broken Heart EP'. Mine is healed, thanks to Grandma. And Chaki. (h0l.) 02/03/2003 Seems like Logreybeam has a handle on a different style entirely, so for those of you tired with the word 'glacial', a release that could never be called that, the deft+evocative 'Chaki Is No Help' - but Chaki, you helped us learn.. to love again.. (h0l.) 18/02/2003 There's always time for material like Blamstrain's resolutely classy 'Etkno44/Human' - deep and dark and skyscaper-loving to a tee. We like it here, over the rainbow... (h0l.) 08/02/2003 The second in a series of 3 'virtual 7-inches' from Australia's Super Science, it's the melodious 'Ray EP' - lush and beautiful to the end. (h0l.) 30/01/2003 Somehow, we got to the 100th release on Monotonik, cause for celebration, f'sure, and it's Anders Svensson's ruminations on the sublime melody, 'Keywords EP' which usher in the next 100 Monotonik releases with a luminous gliding motion.. (h0l.) 22/01/2003 A return from an old friend, with Dice, aka Prob.'s remarkable retooling of his 1998 .MOD release, 'Skyline Remix' - it's a spiritual thing, a body thing, a soul thing.. (h0l.) 04/01/2003 Heavenly server move begets lovely new messageboard - use well, gaijin! And new release brings more Scandinavian abstractelectronic ecstacy - what, you were expecting Kaamos' 'Agony' or something? And we FINALLY get to updating artist news with about 3 months of missing info. Gotta say yes to an update excess, m'dear. (h0l.) 04/01/2003 And, come to that, a Happy New Year. And what better way to herald the, uhh, midwinter, than with the even more hazy summer sounds of Mosaik's sun-drenched 'Sunreal'. The weather _inside_ is delightful. (h0l.) 23/12/2002 An opportunity to wish everyone a very happy Christmas? Yes, and an opportunity for a little glacial thawing, courtesy of Vizion's warm 'Autumnstillness Deadwinter'. Thanks again for everyone who's helped make 2002 a great year for Monotonik (about 250,000 tracks downloaded, over 300,000 webpages viewed domain-wide?) We love you ALL - and long may it continue. (h0l.) 09/12/2002 Let's go back to skool, to the.. newskool? The bleep comes to the fore as Monotonik investigates the _AMAZING_ and thoroughly slept-on AHX chiptune sound in 'Best Of AHX Vol.1:Dexter's Pinkboratory'. It's SID++ for the '90s/'00s, innit? Also, and this is VERY important - those gasmask-donning Charleys at Mono-Rave-Ik have returned with an educative DJ mix for all those not into the '91 proto-hardcore scene - and if you're not, WHY NOT? :P (h0l.) 26/11/2002 A second EP from our new favorite artist Grandma was eagerly awaited, and although it's just the tip of his skewed iceberg of gorgeous material, go check out 'Bopping Around In A Skin Car EP' before your skin car withers away entirely. Doctor's orders, don't be tardy. (h0l.) 17/11/2002 Some times, going all beatless and making it sound peerless is a feat in itself. And that's something that Sleepy Town Manufacture and myriad remixers have thankfully accomplished in 'Latatoo EP' - sublimely chilled stuff. (h0l.) 08/11/2002 Always good to have an old friend back, especially when it's Super Science with the first in a series of ultra-rare early material - ladies and germs, the sonorous 'Doh EP' is now sashaying seductively down the runway, and into your hearts. (h0l.) 01/11/2002 Time to switch to the unclassifiable mono211.sublabel, and we're starting to get our groove on with Luminfire's supersunny 'Kudremukh Environmental EP' - move those hips. Or eyebrows, for the terminally lazy. (h0l.) 17/10/2002 A little encore on the delicate, delicate idm tip, with Esem's lovely 'Thinmute' - everything you know is right, as long as you don't squash it. (h0l.) 09/10/2002 We're proud to present Australian duo Toby1's soulfelt, mellow, whispersung 'European EP' - yet another reason to love the Aussie electronica scene, and how. :P (h0l.) 30/09/2002 Please, brethren, bare witness to an amazing piece of.. symphonic heavy-metal C64 goodness (?!) in Aleksi Eeben's astounding 'The Grand Rules' - Aleksi, as always, is pretty much single-handedly redefining 'maverick' for the retro crowd. And how. (h0l.) 22/09/2002 The return of Australian superstah Sense, with a beatifully chilled piece of idm named 'Ruminous (Ambient Mix)' - everyone should be doing the horizontal thing to this track, or your money back. Oh, and also watch out for oodles of new artist news, yay. (h0l.) 14/09/2002 As summer blends into autumn, we break out the ethereal ambience with the beautifully restrained minimalism of Sabi's 'Four Thousand Years EP' - perma-repeat in Winamp beckons. (h0l.) 07/09/2002 A significantly prodigous debut from the too-young Grandma mashing up idm/drill+bass/guitar/vocals/improv beautifully with 'Spinach Gas Room Spaghetti Straps EP', and no returns. (h0l.) 29/08/2002 One retro masterpiece may be luck, but two? That's not pure happenstance, young feller. Virt returns to re-score classic Konami-developed NES games in his own image, and 'fx 2.0' has us sucking in our guts, combing our hair over, and wishing we were handsome enough to make music like THIS, dammit. (h0l.) 24/08/2002 Our honourable friend Vim! has returned, with the Gameboy-composed retro goodness of his 'Time For The Squares'. My, we must be totally in-SINE not to have got this release SQUAREd away in the previous WAVE of mtk releases. umm.. ohdear. :P (h0l.) 15/08/2002 The debut from the really-rather-kickin' Dutch musician Secede on Monotonik would be.. well, it'd be the 'Mommylove & Daddypride EP', wouldn't it? Sit up straight at the back, we'll be taking a quiz at the end of this sentence. Or.. not. (h0l.) 07/08/2002 A _long_ time in the making (thanks to rebecca@low-fi and messageboard regulars for encoding help!), here's the first Monotonik DJ mix for over 2 years, ~aD's exceptional 'Pharis Wheel' mix. We're delighted to put it out - now try not to leech our servers dry, bandwidth vampires. giggle, oh go on, then... ooh, that tickles :P (h0l.) 28/07/2002 Now for a complete change of pace from our Mono211 sublabel, with the unclassifiable but damn gorgeous sample-voyage of Braces Tower with his 'Psshh EP' - now we're emerging, and floating, and rising from layers and layers of... (h0l.) 20/07/2002 A measured piece of orchestral ambience from Australia's Epoq continues our foray into the ides of July, with 'Simpel' - and we like it that way. (h0l.) 10/07/2002 After the exit of those No'Mo' reprobates, we return to normal programming with Idmonster vs. Stina Nordenstam's sublime 'Wittle Star' - take one and relax as an antidote to the summer heat. (h0l.) 29/06/2002 They're heeeere. The No'Mo' posse mosey back into town with the most evilvilest c64.hiphop bootleg mashup _EVER_, Mark VII's 'Presents Action Replays' - and some common and garden artist news to finish things out, phew.(h0l.) 22/06/2002 A mini-reawakening from the breaks+stuff Mono211 sublabel, with Hoffman's delightfully subtle breakbeat trip, 'Future Thief' - and, ohno, what's this we feel, impending doom in our bones? Could it be.. the re-return of those ruffians at No'Mo? Watch this space.. and be afraid, be very afraid. (h0l.) 13/06/2002 Wonderfully, transcendentally beautiful ambience floods our tiny little brains with Mosaik's superb 'Among Plants' - darn, should have waited around to use the Swamp Thing reference, huh? In any case.. yum, and we rest our case. (h0l.) 02/06/2002 To coincide with the release of Tim Koch's "Thug:Remixed" album on Aural Industries, we present a special 'Thug:Remixed Sampler' release with supa-smart remixes by Boulderdash, Quark Kent, and Lackluster. And also, we get a NEW non-advert-infested messageboard - post lots! (h0l.) 17/05/2002 We manage to keep on keepin' on, thanks to the Monotonik nexus sublimation of the most excellent Ilkae, fresh from their "Pistachio Island" album on Merck, with the sublimely light-touched 'Jump Math Cupboard EP'. It ain't what you do, it's the way that you do it.. that's what gets results? (h0l.) 05/05/2002 A little more retro flavor, courtesy of Aleksi Eeben's divine C64 experiments in his 'Music Box' series. Future classics excavated from the past, we claim cheekily. (h0l.) 14/04/2002 Always good to welcome a midfield dynamo back to the side, and the ever-stupendous Vim! delivers the ambient goods with '_ EP'. Plus, a spot of artist news, and everything's squared away for the night. (h0l.) 04/04/2002 We're pleased to present an exclusive track from the US artist Machine Drum, with a pretty darn original notion, that we should probably 'Floss'. Well, if you insist.. (h0l.) 17/03/2002 Traversing the ether from Russia, the glacially cool Sleepy Town Manufacture have kindly enveloped us in their 'Miss EP'. It's like eating from Swamp Thing's plant heart, only more special still, and as we listen, we slip into the green, pausing only to inhale some artist news.. (h0l.) 06/03/2002 The re-appearance of Phasmid magically eventuates, with the dreamy melodies of 'The Sun Pictures' permeating our om with some sly omph. Is your chakra freakier already? Hmph, you don't need no Carlos Castaneda to know that this rocks. (h0l.) 25/02/2002 As promised, a full album from Systorm label-boss and videogame-influenced sinewave master, Pliant, with the sticky and sumptious 'Maruera Gum'. More soon, we're off to work out the end of "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency". (h0l.) 13/02/2002 Another track from the magisterial Idmonster, giving us the pleasure of his succulently chilled 'Low Flying Planes'. And next up, an entire _album_ from a new and smart contributor - contain yerself, roight? (h0l.) 04/02/2002 It's time for a little unclassifiability with Luminfire's intriguing and loping 'Bananadittydub'. Somewhere between Java and Krakatoa, there's a laptop with this track's name on it? (h0l.) 26/01/2002 This time round, the UK's Xela hits just the right ambience vs. guided static ratio with the beautiful 'Rainy Afternoons'. He's the operator with his rained-on calculator? UPDATE - also just added, a whole bunch of new artist news about Lackluster/Vim/Tim Koch/Phasmid/more, plus a fix to a miscredited song (the Hoffman remix of Willbe, actually a Hoffman remix of a Willbe remix of Smash!) (h0l.) 17/01/2002 Mixing up the idm.sid.d+b.videogame action, as we are wont to do, here's an astounding C64-authored mix by Goto80, 'Monkeywarning'. Ohboy, it's like a super-evolved beats octopus who's been transported back to the plasticine era, innit? Later.. (h0l.) 10/01/2002 Oh boy, we've got a payload of goodstuff to drop on you over the next few weeks, and it starts off with DJ Nova mixing up 60 minutes of classic .MOD cult hero Mortimer Twang for our beats-heavy sublabel, Mono211, in 'Twang Thang: Mortimer Twang Mixed Up'. Look for increased Monotonik frequency in the coming weeks, too, as we jettison our super-sonic cargo (we were gonna say who, but.. just wait and see!) (h0l.) 01/01/2002 We start 2002 on a high note with Sense's gorgeous ambient.idm serenade, 'Icy L Tap', much kudos to him for providing the lovely melodic goods - check out his recent releases on Neo-Ouija for more loveliness. New year, new danger of mtk.whirled.domination? Not on your nelly :P (h0l.) 23/12/2001 We were hoping to get one more release out this year, but we're gonna leave that creamy goodness for 2002, and say a _very_ happy Xmas and most excellent New Year to _everyone_ who's supported Monotonik and friends over the past 365 days. See ya in 2k2! (h0l.) 18/12/2001 We interrupt this website for an important newsflash :P The crazed Subi-helmed Monotonik sublabel, Mono-rave-ik, has gone completely independent! It's still hosted on our site, but Subi himself will be running it as a standalone label+page, releasing his own take on breakbeat music for the '00s, cuing off the '90s, and hopefully some guest stuff too. Go check it out here, like, now. (h0l.) 15/12/2001 A link to the past, albeit the more recent past, with Starmode (aka Maleek/Ageema) providing the original and oldishskool Mono warrior Zyad watercoloring the eversosmart remix for us, all adding up to 'Thoughts Blend To Dreams (Zyad's Magic Carp Ride)'. How'd you like _them_ apples? Have also updated _all_ release pages with new mirror sites to download mp3s at. These be our 'premiere' site, support.nl (thanks Tommy!), a new scene.org http link which has 5 or 6 different locations for each file, and as a backup, a direct link to the nice+fast scene.org mirror at sunet.se. (h0l.) 06/12/2001 Formerly releasing under his demo.scene name, Radix, a new pseudonym and release for Mosaik with the mercurial 'Rubik'. Dive, float, it's all in the mind.. (h0l.) 27/11/2001 Another release for German indie-idm-star C(rash)kid, in the form of the snappy 'Where's My Parka? EP'. Also, rejoice in the joy of Peelie vs. Tim Koch's name, and more Ckid vinyl/remix info in the artist news vault. (h0l.) 14/11/2001 The second part of the tribute to the amazing Ramone, who tragically passed away earlier this year, with an amazing unreleased full album from 1998, 'Unreleased Works Part 2'. Also some branded newly artist news for yr perusal and edification, wot. (h0l.) 29/10/2001 A different, fresh angle, klangs and bells to the fore, courtesy of Phasmid's wonderfully quirky take on idm, 'Petting Zoo EP'. Oh, and check out a new page from Monotonik's toxic twins, h0l and Vim!, with the collected nes/snes/amiga/ay/c64/etc. works of the _amazing_ Tim and Geoff Follin. That'd be the the follin drome, then.(h0l.) 09/10/2001 Mono has evolved a lot (not least to Mono211 and Monotonik) over the past 5 years, and it's great to bring back the oldskool, but all buffed up for some '00s action. Which we can now do with alacrity, courtesy of Hoffman's re-take on his '97 breaks masterpiece, 'Unreal 2001'. Yum. Yum. Yum. (h0l.) 02/10/2001 Difficult to argue with a little alternate universe videogame soundtrack action, as tangentially provided by AY88's excellent 'Console-Related Depression EP', isn't it? Yes, we rather thought so too. (h0l.) 22/09/2001 Some kind of double-pronged attack, with the 'Artificial Intelligence' hum of Aereal's 'Transitions EP' and the proto-breakbeat Mono-RAVE-Ik comeback of Mistress Nine's 'State Of Anxiety'. Oh, and that's triple-pronged if you count the artist news with all kindsa new loveliness. (h0l.) 12/09/2001 We'd like to say hazy summer days captured us, as opposed to eye-strain and VDU screens in darkened rooms, but hey, c'est la vie. Fortunately, hazy redolence is what we find in Proswell's gorgeous '0EO' - sometimes, thinking about lying in the sun is almost as fun as doing it. But not quite - quick, go outside before the weather disintegrates altogether, willya? (h0l.) 22/08/2001 It's amazing what you can find when you trawl around enough, and in this case, we've dredged up DJ Fish Finger, whose 'Gone Fishin' EP' is a masterpiece of skewed old jazz samples and Japanese people passing gas. No, really. (h0l.) 14/08/2001 We're going crazy (like a fox, no?) over the beautifully crafted retro stylings of that genius Virt, with his amazing debut Monotonik recording, 'fx EP'. Sprinkle in a little artist news, and we have a result, a palpable result.. (h0l.) 06/08/2001 We're back with the first of the archives of previously unheard material from the amazing, and so sadly no longer with us, Ramone - 'Unreleased Works Part 1'. Nuff said - enjoy and remember via the music. (h0l.) 29/07/2001 It's all about the, oh, you know, thingies.. and nobody demonstrates this better than Idmonster's sublime new mp3 release, 'My Human Side'. Add this to a healthy new slice of artist news and you have a light snack fit for a king. Or maybe a pretty important baronet. (h0l.) 19/07/2001 A tactical release strike, in and out so quick you'll still be wondering where the breeze came from. Neatly left on yr bed (next to the Milk Tray), it's Sushi Brother's funktastic 'Let's Cruise', and placed next to it would be the artist news love-letter, with full info about the Brothomstates EP on Warp, whee.. don't you love it when a plan comes together? (h0l.) 11/07/2001 Some more rather pleasant audio stimulation, courtesy of Australia's Super Science, and the litheness of 'This Is Over By Inches', which has actually been measured to be seventeen feet, three crowns and a ha'penny ahead of the competition. so there. (h0l.) 30/06/2001 Back, y'know, like that, with an officially sanctioned + yummy Commodore 64 .SID collection courtesy of Laxity, Drax, JCH, and Metal - 'Smack My .SID Up - Best Of Vibrants'. Ah, and also updated, some artist news with Vim!/PBXO/Lackluster vinyl+CD availability. Oh, and we got some of Ramone's final, brilliant tunes, tribute coming soon.. (h0l.) 21/06/2001 An upside, but then a massive downside. Firstly, you'll be pleased to know that there's a whole new and long-awaited 6-track mp3 release from Lackluster, 'One-Offs EP'. Yet it's rather overshadowed by the news of the very unexpected death of Ramone/Mono in Germany earlier this week. Ramone was one of the former mainstays of Mono211 with his genius hiphopjungle tracks, and to say we're all surprised and upset would be a massive understatement. We've set up a tribute page where you learn a little more and, hopefully, remember him happily through his music. But damn, life's a bitch sometimes.. (h0l.) 17/06/2001 You don't even _want_ to know how much good stuff we have coming up (including something later this week that will make you drool all over yr Microsoft Natural Keyboard), but in the meantime, lookee, good stuff now. Thanks again to Darkhalo for passing our way some super-gorgeous Californian breaks in the form of 'Stratosphere Sniper'.. a bit of a super sharp shooter, eh? (h0l.) 28/05/2001 Jeez, a massive update to artist news with a veritable plethora of information, including where to get Surgery and Merck releases and tonnes of other mtk-related artist news, and even a brand new mp3 to boot, from the saintly Vim! in Soundtracker(Melontracker?)-tribute mode, that'll be '8-Bitten Break Smitten', then.. (h0l.) 17/05/2001 Since a lot of people have been asking where our .MODs got to - they're still on the site, and Luminfire has knocked up a rather fine mix of them to highlight the early days of Mono, more than 5 years back (youch!), with 'Mono BPM Vol.1'.. download the original .MODs too and dig the mix _plus_ the unmixed originals.. (h0l.) 08/05/2001 Nice to see another release from someone who released a .MOD on Mono waaay-back, and that person would be the inimitable Basehead, who's supplied us with the superlative new click-houseness of 'Beacon'... (h0l.) 26/04/2001 A little more etherea with your tea, Alice? We ignore the rabbithole entirely and drift upwards over Wonderland like a big idm blimp, courtesy of PBXO's sublime 'Autumn Week'. More artist news, yummy releases, and a supa-cool retro surprise - soon. (h0l.) 15/04/2001 After his first release as Pendle on Mono211 a few weeks back, this rather smart UK musician returns again on Monotonik as Idmonster, with the truly lush 'May The Force Be With You' - and may we be the first to agree with him? (h0l.) 08/04/2001 The sidelabel that is Mono211, serving up breaks+eclecticism in equal measure, strikes back with French hiphopmeister Willbe, featuring the scratchadelic Sear, with 'Back, Back, Back' - hope you dig. Also, we update the artist news section with info about Dharma @ "Dope On Plastic", Leafcutter John remixes from Vim! and XLLV, plus mp3s of Monotonik on German radio.. but check it for yourselves. (h0l.) 27/03/2001 It's not Monty Python's Flying Circus, but it does appear to be the magical 50th Monotonik release, md's 'Sweaty Palms'. Is that an acceptable alternative for you? It'd better be, 'cos otherwise we've only got bloody albatross.. (h0l.) 16/03/2001 You'll be comin' round the mountain when you come, yee-hah, and if you happen to have a portable mp3 device on this mountain traversal, it should contain, as a mandatory safety measure, Pendle's string-filled and gorgeous 'Caffeine Low' mp3-release on Mono211. End of 'Sound Of Music' public safety announcement.. (h0l.) 10/03/2001 Do you feel real good? We seem to share these emotions about Aereal's debut on Monotonik, the classy-as-feck 'Connect'. And for the stalker-level interested, or just those whose attention has been mildly piqued, try the Mono+friends bumper issue of artist news regarding gigs, albums, shiny things.. (h0l.) 03/03/2001 We're mad as the proverbial March hare about the Antipodean delight that is Aquaboogie's dreamily spaced-out 'Little Star EP', plus a new info page about Monotonik's appearance at the Ars Electronica net.culture festival in 2000.. (h0l.) 21/02/2001 Having vowed absolutely _not_ to be self-congratulatory for the duration of these update, we are resolutely stoic to present the objectively neutral mp3 from DJ Nova, 'Starshipoetry', which is, incidentally, kickass.. (DOH!) Plus a new "Tank Racer" info page added.. (Sony Playstation + PC game Mono211 scored in '99..) (h0l.) 14/02/2001 A very special Valentine's update, with a truly romantic mp3 to chill out to on this V-Day with your loved one. A wistful thankyou to DJ Cowbell for his dreamy 'Bumpshaltr'. And a very special Valentine's greetings to everyone from the Monotonik clan. :) (h0l.) 08/02/2001 More mp3 goodness courtesy of the fantasmagorically Finnish musician Tweeter, and his new Monotonik release, 'Me And My Friend Lobstah'. Note to self - must chill out with more crustaceans. Get _down_ with your segmented self. (h0l.) 28/01/2001 Due to public demand, a return for the breakbeat Monotonik sublabel known as Mono211, for some really kickin' + _different_ breaks action, first off with Willbe (remixed by Hoffman) giving us 'Separate Ways (Hoffman's Hardware Remix)'. Forthcoming Mono211 releases by DJ Nova, Darkhalo, and Willbe feat. Sear only cement the sublabel's new blastoff - we'll still be hitting the quirky downbeat action on Monotonik (with Aquaboogie, MD, Tweeter), just mixing it up some! Also, mentions of a cool .MOD cd, an audiogalaxy.com article about us, and the mtk-artist-prone frogbomb ambient.tv show in artist news... (h0l.) 17/01/2001 Welcome to the information megahighway, with a lickable new mp3 release from Worm Interface-bound Finnish artist Fun Tourist - 'DDD'. Also there's info+flyer about an Australian gig featuring Mono-related artists and a net.tv feature on Monotonik in artist news. Finally, all cover-pictures for releases are now properly credited, just move your cursor over the picture to see who did it. [Extra-special thanks to Rents for the majority of recent covers and Hotwire for most of the older ones, plus anyone else who's contributed graphically.. rawk on.] (h0l.) 11/01/2001 Safely esconced in decent.hosting heaven, but.. what's this? A ransom note saying someone's kidnapped all our best musicians? From our evil cousins at No'Mo'? They'll torch them all if we don't release No'Mo' new and 'excellent' copyright-f*cking EP, 'The Comeback EP', on our pages? Even tho it features Cedders(UK), Dr.Theophilius(NZ), and Gun Purist(FI) butchering Slimboy Fat, Ari Tomos, and War Stars vs. Kubrick Enemy? Damn you, No'Mo'. Damn you all to hell! (h0l.) 27/12/2000 Still haven't moved, but updating anyhow, since everything still works, with the buckfunk smoothery of Vae's new duckie mp3, 'Sing, Silverduck Sing' :) Also a word about Sense's new record deal (yaay!) and our new hosting of the Lackluster live-set in artist news.. happy nu year! (h0l.) 21/12/2000 Moving web-providers, so no update for now. when we're back, vae will hit us duckie-style, and, ohno, ohno, it's the return of no'mo'!! While waiting, check out the recent updates on the rest of the mono211.com domain, that'd be Dr Fetid (xmas, 'minder'-style, not tiger-style!), .MODs In Memoriam (subi/subculture + h0l/hollywood complete .MOD-ographies!), and emusic.com unofficial-guide with links to more cool subscription mp3s. remember - trackin' ain't easy - but it sure is fun! we may or may not update again before xmas, but happy.xmas from Monotonik anyhow! (xmas-card in messageboard - now go listen to last year's Vim! '4-Bit Xmas EP' and then wash your ears out with soap!) (h0l.) 07/12/2000 Another rather.virtuoso mp3 release magically appears, courtesy of ex-scene-legend and now plain mysterious Please Annihilate Oulu. Soon up, return appearances from md and Vae, also new artist-profiles and maybe even some 'best-of' compilations of our somewhat neglected old .MODs. In the meantime, i get all the ladies? ('no, you don't!').. (h0l.) 01/12/2000 A lightning-swift update to spread the news that Subi's latest missive from mono-RAVE-ik land, to be known as 'Serendipity City (2K Remix)' is now available.. (h0l.) 24/11/2000 Hello, the Savoy Grill? Our special this week is the delicious new mini mp3 EP from Prob., emotionally called 'Emotion EP'. And our soup of the day is a specially downloadable live set from Lackluster, plus Vim's alter-ego being queried by John Peel in artist news.. will that be all? (h0l.) 13/11/2000 Carry me home! And whilst you're doing that, perhaps you could log on to the nearest Internet terminal and download the rather spiffing 4-track mp3 EP from Proem, 'Too Many Cookies EP'. There's a good chap.. (h0l.) 07/11/2000 Cripes, it's Crashkid, new German addition to the Monotonik fold, with the acoustically yummy 'The Art Of Falling Down EP'. And then there's so much artist news about everybody that we may well burst. More soon.. (h0l.) 22/10/2000 Even from the mothership, we manage to keep on truckin' with Sense's divine 'Kieko'. Yaay. And stuff. (h0l.) 13/10/2000 On the quality end of things would be the new mtk.mp3.release from Super Science, 'Sometimes We're Happy', direct from his newest CD on Surgery Records. Niiice. Plus a quick artist news with full tracklisting for Monotonik-studded Surgery 2xCD compilation, and a new look and regular new updates for the mtk-affiliated classic Amiga-MOD page MODs In Memoriam [if you used to dig Audiomonster and MTX+TIP back in 1991, you'll know what we're on about.. ohdear.] (h0l.) 05/10/2000 Who _was_ that masked musician? We're not sure, but he goes under the name of _ And The Secret Formula, and he gives us the cut-up-weirdass-electro-phonk of 'Powerman'. Thank you, mystery man! Oh, and info on recent and upcoming Lackluster gigs, plus the new Dharma+Dice 12", and Vim! getting played out by John Peel @ the ubiquitous artist news page. until next time - keep it unreal? (h0l.) 28/09/2000 An excellent farewell mp3-album from Binary, and fortunately available for free download (in a C64-electro-boogie stylee) on Monotonik - 'Binatone'.. enjoy it. Plus watch out for new releases coming up from Super Science, TheCrashKid, Subi, Aquaboogie, and plenty more... stay tuned. (h0l.) 18/09/2000 We'd officially like to recommend you buy some kind of restraint for your chair before downloading and listening to Vom's new 'Untitled000' mp3.. it'd really be for the best. (h0l.) 11/09/2000 After the long, lazy summer, we edge into autumn mists with something slightly harder, Duann's robotically funky (and we mean _funky_, gawdawnit!) 'Domestic Scilence' mp3.. In other news, a new CD from Thug and compilation appearance from Vim! beef up our artist news.. (h0l.) 03/09/2000 Lookee here, Subi and Distance are updating a special page with photos and info live(-ish) from Monotonik's appearance at the Ars Electronica festival in Austria. Go check it. :) (h0l.) 27/08/2000 Now pay attention, 007, and listen carefully. Your latest gadget is Aquaboogie's Monotonik debut mp3, and a little beauty, too.. 'Woozy Dog'. But take heed - the ID3 tag converts into a deadly laser! And what's more, check out the razor-sharp label news page, with news of Monotonik's appearance in 'Spin' magazine. You could take a rival agent's head clean off with that.. understood? Good. Oh, and 007... do be careful? (h0l.) 20/08/2000 Back for the briefest of moments with a new update to the mono.net.radio content, with lots more classic .MODs to listen to in streaming audio, woo.. (h0l.) 19/08/2000 In truth, Sirs, forsooth, in the wide world of sports, nobody's mixed up the old mono211 drum+bass releases as well as Hoffman's 'mono211.do.d+b' - virtually supreme. also check out the artist news with info about webcasting for our Ars Electronica festival-appearance in a coupla weeks, and a new contact page for those who want to contact the label itself, or just send emails to your favourite monotonik-related musicians..(h0l.) 13/08/2000 That new Hoffman mix in a coupla days, just a quick plug for a new page we did, tho, emusic.com coolstuff, a guide to the best electronica/hiphop you can find on the subscription mp3 service emusic.com - go check it! (h0l.) 07/08/2000 A swift re-addition to our roster, 4 years since he first appeared, with a new mp3 from 4T Thieves, 'Dreamtime'. More loveliness soon. (h0l.) 30/07/2000 Yoiks, Shraggy! A taster from the forthcoming Monotonik mp3-album with a swingin' remix, too, Binary's 'Fusion EP' makes all the right nuclear-derived moves. Aussi? A new messageboard, a little more artist news, and.. a partridge in a pear tree? (h0l.) 22/07/2000 We like the beats and the breaks on the side, and Hoffman has temporarily sated our need for them with the second DJ-set release on sister-label Mono211, 'Nu-Skool Rules'. Yum. Also added: a few bits of new artist news, a re-mention of our kinda quiet egroups discussion list, and the start of the unmentionable, unstoppable links page (just the essentials added for now). Au revoir.. (h0l.) 16/07/2000 Straight outta Compton (the one with all the antique stores in it near Godalming), another piece of divine ambience from Sense@Oz, '220500'. Charmed, we're sure.. (h0l.) 12/07/2000 The electronic pet craze continues apace. Firstly Tamagotchi, then Furby, and now.. Vim! That's right, you can now get Vim! in all good department stores, he comes housetrained, and he will compose great comeback tracks like the 'Timecrunch EP' completely free of charge. Who's next for robotic recreation? Only time will tell.. (h0l.) 09/07/2000 Elementary, my dear Florian. A new mp3 release on Monotonik for Vae, 'Harry Slazenger', is on the yummy elektro-pop side. Oh, and good news on the readership front, what-ho! Monotonik+friends had nearly 25,000 pages read, and over 11,000 tunes downloaded (from just support.nl!) in June alone. Stay tuned for more nice things to spontaneously, uhh, download (new stuff from Sense, Binary, Vim!, et aliis..) Later, opium-smokers..(h0l.) 03/07/2000 Yoips, once more unto the breach with maybe the best mix yet, DJ Nova's 'Oldskoolmonotonikantiks', plus a new playlist for monotonik fm net.radio, and updates/revamps for affiliated drfetid and hol-loves-you sites.. (h0l.) 26/06/2000 A very brief update, San Francisco's gd gives us the relaxing to the n-th degree mp3 chill-out mix 'Space Bar - Session 1', and we thank him graciously for doing so. Lots more mixes coming up, notably some excellent ones from DJ Nova/Elektroblef and Hoffman.. stay tuned! (h0l.) 20/06/2000 Fresh from remixing the new Lackluster 12", new Monotonik artist Sense gives us the divine mp3 'Bubble Blower' , and tune in to the newswire for info about that Monotonik Ars Electronica festival appearance and more 'real-world' releases from Monotonik alumni.. (/h0l.) 11/06/2000 And what we predicted hath come to pass. A spiffy new DJ mix from Rents is available, the MOD-tastic 'Really Underground' , plus there's some new artist news about new CDs with Monotonik artists on them and some new Bogdan Mono-related mp3s.. (/h0l.) 04/06/2000 Woo, the 'Supermariountwirled EP' is released - for those not in the know, it's 8 glitchy/catchy idm remixes from the soundtrack to the best computer game of all-time, Shigeru Miyamoto's SNES classic "Super Mario World". Oh, and since we kept forgetting to tell you, here's all about the monotonik announcements list, where we email you every time there's a new release out. In any case, over and out, new DJ mixes later this week.. (/h0l.) 28/05/2000 Yikes, the inevitable has finally come to pass. It's the catastrophe we all feared, a best-of Subi mp3/mod album, 'The Rave-O-Lution Has Been Terrorised', spanning over 10 years of.. well you know Subi, right? Right. In other news, some new artist news regarding Lackluster's new remix 12" and h0l's music+video ninja-clip-thingies, plus sweet .jpg covers for a couple of the new releases. And that covers that. Til next time, you ain't seen me, roight? (/h0l.) 23/05/2000 A veritable plethora of new schtick, with Thug's idm-ish mp3 'Werdan', Vim!'s genius .MOD chip-album 'Chip Van Winkle' (only 250k, too!), tres bon new covers courtesy of Rents for the Super Science and Md Showcase releases, and some artist news about Monotonik and the Ars Electronica Festival. Sho-nuff. (/h0l.) 17/05/2000 Do we continue to intrigue? We'd hate to think otherwise. Meet new Skam signings and new Monotonik-contributing duo, Pretty Boy Crossover, with the lovely mp3 'Oranje Bloom'. Also try out a new DJ-mix from Elektroblef, showcasing a certain Monotonik collaborator, with the hour-long realaudio 'Md Showcase'. Fangs for the memories. (/h0l.) 07/05/2000 A slight return for Hoffman with a smart breakbeat mp3, 'Dark Fool', and a dark-ish scary-ish cool-ish idm mp3-mix from sys(2074) called 'Cwatch Mix1', plus new h0l-related artist news.. oh, and lots of Britney Spears songs to listen to at h0l's own Net-radio station, 'h0l loves you'... (/h0l.) 02/05/2000 A brief hiatus while we got blissed out and squirted water at unsuspecting baboons, but the return of the mack is inevitable, and with it a beautiful new Monotonik mp3 from Super Science, 'We're Like Air..', plus a special new sublabel, Mono-rave-ik, just for Subi's own.. genius. First fruits? That'd be 'Mnotmo'Vo'Non', then.. (/h0l.)