blissed out heatbeat...

Nearing the end of this mammoth posting catch-up, wanted to point out a couple of recent things related to our net.label Monotonik which I haven't actually talked about here.

First, the new Monotonik release by Bliss, 'It's Not The Sweetness... EP', is honestly one of the most beautiful things we've ever released, and we're really proud of it. Henrik 'Bliss' Jose is a Swedish musician who's an old demo-scener, I believe, and his affecting, vocal-flecked take on idm-ish electronics reminds me of another of our old artists, Australia's Super Science, who's subsequently been picked up by some really good electronica labels as Clue To Kalo. Here's hoping Bliss goes in a similarly stratospheric direction..

Secondly, it's worth pointing out a video of the Assembly '03 performance by the CNCD posse, masterminded by sometime Monotonik releaser Aleksi 'Heatbeat' Eeben, who was an Amiga .MOD-scene music legend in the early '90s when insanely young, and nowadays works on music for Nokia in his native Finland, as well as tinkering with some amazing Commodore 64/VIC 20/Gameboy 'tracking' music software. Anyhow, the action actually starts about 10 minutes into the video, and it's Aleksi with VIC20 and various other machines, plus a trumpet player, clarinet player, bongo player, and joystick player (!) at various times - really odd but innovative chiptune vs. jazz action, actually, and well worth checking.