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Songs   : Releases mtw.mp3.001 through mtw.mp3.031 from net.sublabel Mono211.
Date    : Songs originally released November 1998 to April 2003

This set of releases, on Monotonik breaks/eclectic sublabel Mono211, span 
almost 5 years, and include everything from understated triphop, through a
concentration on harder techno and drum and bass influences, right through
to the current solidifying of style on UK-influenced 'nu-chill' and eclectic.
Basically, if it's not beep or idm enough to go on Monotonik, but still rocks,
it gets shoved onto Mono211.

Highlights might include Vinyl Matt's super-mellow 'From The Education', an
amazing dirty oldskool d+b album from the sadly passed away Ramone, Dharma's 
super-funky (as featured on 'Dope On Plastic') 'Dance To The Drummer's Beat', 
and newer classics from Braces Tower and Izmar.

Don't forget to check out the Monotonik/Mono211 website at:

http://www.monotonik.com

..for the latest releases, more info on these tracks, messageboards, updates,
and assorted other fun.

[NB - release #23, the Ramone Best-Of Volume 1, is in .XM format, which should
play fine in Winamp or certain stand-alone players, check the Mono website for 
more details.]

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[LABEL?]

Monotonik is a net.music.label that _exclusively_ releases music online in the 
mp3 format. All of our releases are freely downloadable and distributable, and 
we've been releasing .mp3 and .mod files online since May 1996. The label was 
founded by Simon 'h0l' Carless as an outlet for talented electronic musicians 
who weren't getting the attention they deserved.

Since then, Monotonik has released over 800 tracks from a variety of talented 
idm-ish electronic musicians from all over the world, including such artists as 
Lackluster (DeFocus/Merck), Bogdan Raczynski (Rephlex), Sense (Neo-Ouija), Tim 
Koch (Surgery/DeFocus), BrothomStates (Warp), Proem (Merck/Hydrant), Fun Tourist 
(Worm Interface/Sony Finland), Vim! (Surgery/Oggum), and many more.

Monotonik and its sister breakbeat sublabel Mono211 have been through a lot 
since '96. We've been featured in "Spin" magazine, have soundtracked a Sony 
Playstation game, were invited exhibitors at the Ars Electronica festival in 
Austria, have been played out on radio stations from Australia to Slovenia, 
featured on a Webby-nominated weirdass radio station, and have had hundreds 
of thousands of downloads of our tracks.

If you like the music we release, please support the real-world (CD/vinyl) 
releases of our artists, or if you're a label owner, sign them up to a deal.
And obviously, please don't commercially re-release or use these tracks without
our consent. 

If you're interested in releasing music on Monotonik (or need to get hold of us 
for any other reason!), then mail us at mono211@mono211.com with details of how 
we can get hold of your music, and we'll check your material out and at least 
give you constructive feedback.

We do this for fun. Music is great, and giving great music away for free is even 
better. Hope you dig it.

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