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Songs   : Releases mtk.mp3.041 through mtk.mp3.080 from net.label Monotonik.
Date    : Songs originally released November 2000 to June 2002

This second set of 40 MP3 releases from our net.label Monotonik dates from
the more recent past, when we were both breaking out the retro beep releases
and continuing along the same chilled idm path.

Some highlights might include Idmonster's beautifully delicate 'The Force May
Be With You', Fun Tourist's epic Jenkinson-ish 'DDD', some superquirky goodness
from Phasmid, retro but gorgeous techno from Tweeter, amazing beepiness from
both Aleksi Eeben and Virt, more seminal chill from Lackluster, and much more.

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

http://www.monotonik.com

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

[NB - release #56, the Vibrants best-of, is in .SID format, which requires
a Commodore 64 .SID music player - you can get plug-ins for Winamp or 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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