In-Tune: CMY

Style: Electronica

"Cmy are: Milton Waukee (producer) & Jorge Saxon (DJ). "Cmy" is Polish for "moths" or "barflies". IMPORTANT: Polish pronunciation of our names: "milton loki" & "yorge sakson" and the album's title: "fogi stajl" We cannot provide you with any further details. Information classified." - CMY

Visit the website:
www.cmy.pl

Highlights:
E.T. on the roof
Irina Vsevolodovna

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In-Tune: Milieu

Style: Electronica

"Milieu has a special way with making sounds unique to his style. abusing his drum lines with rigorous trips to and fro old, dusty, obsolete tape decks, sipping tea, petting cats, that sort of thing. Stray Trains is a warm and pleasant listen from a happily magical Milieu." - Milieu / Earstroke

Visit the website:
milieu.alexyoung.org

Available at:
www.earstroke.com

Highlights:
Mahogany
Smokestacks

In-Tune: I.L.I.

Style: IDM

"New album, Sighes of the Broken Guitar, by Russian experimental IDM artist I.L.I. This time exploring guitar cuts." - I.L.I.

Available at:
www.archive.org and Enough Records

Highlights:
Vostoka Tok
Mini Fonno

In-Tune: Transient

Style: Electronica

"U.S. veteran idm artist Transient is practically an old hand at Monotonik releases now, since this is his third for the label, quite apart from some stunning EPs and albums for netlabels like One and his own Noisy Vagabond Recordings. And 'Work/Play EP' is a wonderful, aptly named split album, since it was composed both on work breaks with a Palm handheld (the 'Work' half) and at home using Impulse Tracker (the 'Play' half), and both halves show inspired mastery of melody, vocoded vocals, and bleep idm. Starting with the 'Work' half, 'Direct' is tremendously smart idmpop, happily proclaiming that 'the things you desire will destroy you'. Other highlights of the 'Work' side include the loping, considered 'I'm Going To Explode', as well as the witty 'Trashybin'. As for 'Play', it's more clipped, and almost more retro, but just as lovable, with 'Toasted' sounding almost like it's being played backward, and 'Chip Ship' layering on layers and layers of layers, before 'Play' slides and slithers around melodic wavelenghts that make us all happy to be alive. It's more transforming transience from Transient, and we thank him profusely." - Transient / Monotonik

Visit the website:
www.monotonik.com

Available at:
www.archive.org

Highlights:
Toasted
Oblong

In-Tune: KaZooo

Style: Electronica

"There are different ways of dealing with fall/winter depressions. We present probably one of the most pleasant ways: kazooo turns them into totally beautiful, dream-like downtemp-tracks to share them with us. Though the tracks are meditative they stay away from "new age" magniloquence through kazooo's keen sense for beats even in colder climates. Meandering but not monotonous, stress-reliefing but not drowsy. The positive proof that kazooo does master more than the dancefloor." - kAzooo

Available at:
www.archive.org

Highlights:
Daft Days
Ice Flowers

In-Tune: Dorothy's Magic Bag

Style: Electronica

"Time to grab your fancy rods, baits and fishing licenses, boys and girls! While with The X-Dump's last release (XD-NETS-005) Lithis really showed us the everyday benefits of having snails as pets, Dorothy's Magic Bag is back to show us how to catch some fine fishes to become life lasting pals with!!! Even though fishes tend to smell bad, they can be very useful: not only as company, but also they are great fun to stare at for a while, and once you get bored, they can become lovely doorstops, dress-up dolls or delicious meals even. Only the imagination sets the limits!" - Dorothy's Magic Bag / X-Dump

Visit the website:
www.x-dump.com

Available at:
www.archive.org

Highlights:
Dig Dug
A History of World Societies

In-Tune: Ryo Miyashita

Style: Minimal Electronica

"Ryo Miyashita of Tokyo, presents his debut release with unfoundsound -- featuring four delicious numbers that are gritty, tastefully minimal and chockfull of found sounds. "bellydance at ebisu" is a deep and heady number where goofy found sound percussion taps its way through high-pitched atmospheric tones and lighthearted frolic. "subway line" playfully offers bouncy organic percussion, chirpy quirkiness and watery tones. "cafe de brasil" shuffles and plunges deeply with a submerged kick drum, gurgling oddities and snippy hi-hats -- all very reminiscent of matthew herbert. finally, "surf" is a short-winded joyride through clanky rhythms, herbert-like swing and more mind-numbing tones. bird's eye view is simple and direct -- perfect for both home-listening and the dancefloor." - Ryo Miyashita / UnfoundSound

Visit the website:
www.unfoundsoundrecords.com

Available at:
www.archive.org

Highlights:
Bellydance at Ebisu
Subway Line

In-Tune: B. Fleischmann

Style: Electronica

"The Humbucking Coil is a schizophrenic apparatus. A pick-up that eliminates the guitar's usual interferences, its white noise, just by means of doubling them. Two electromagnetic coils turn each other mute. What solely remains is the pure sound of the vibrating string. And that what is done with this single sound. Bernhard Fleischmann named his latest album after the roughly 50-year-old Humbucking Coil. As old as modern pop music: the pick-up, not the artist. And Bernhard Fleischmann has taken an electronically amplified guitar. This happened for a first, a curious time. The Humbucking Coil has become an open, breathing album. Rather soundbox than hard disk. Being part of a process that has become visible in different moments on his previous album Welcome Tourist already. In between, and last year, there was the project duo 505, developed together with Herbert Weixelbauer. There the groovebox (Roland 505), here the amplified guitar (Humbucking Coil), there the micro levels of clicks and cuts, here the warmth of an old valve driven microphone. Vibraphone, piano, guitar, they all come together in a still electronic context. The album's cover, this graphic strictness on an ivory fond; a visual quotation of jazz that gets on very well with the music inside. Eight songs came out of this process, songs especially in terms of melody. Of melancholy perhaps. Songs that linger, that indulge. Songs that allow a halt as well. "Aldebaran Waltz" is a slow farewell in three-four time. According to the background sounds it seems as if one can hear the door squeak softly. Static grate is a smooth piano miniature, garnished with the slightly distorted, rustling rhythm structures that one knows of Bernhard Fleischmann yet and that he carries on using on The Humbucking Coil. The opening song broken monitors, euphoric pop in slow motion, carefully arranged around a guitar's slowed down melody." - B. Fleischmann

Visit the website:
www.bfleischmann.com

Highlights:
Phones and Machines

In-Tune: Summer

"Summer presents 19 Loops of diffenent styles and same speed...from Downtempo to Abstract and back. Just download and play the whole release in shuffle mode, so there are (nearly) unlimited possibilities of combination and every time you listen it sounds different! Enjoy...." - Summer

Visit the website:
www.taktalsmittel.com

Available at:
www.archive.org

In-Tune: K.D. Expression

Style: Electronica

"An enigmatic EP from an enigmatic artist. The breaks and melodies are slick and flawlessly produced, never dirtier nor cleaner than they need to be. The overall atmosphere is compelling and uplifting, but it can get rather dark in the shadows." - K.D. Expression

Available at:
www.archive.org

Highlights
MC Encounter
Vain Beauty

In-Tune: Bazz Barr

Style: Minimal Electronica

"Bazz has been inspired by artists such as Richie Hawtin, Mike Shannon, Bruno Pronsato, Pheek, Matthew Dear, Jay Haze & the Textone/Contexterrior collective and many others. His productions centre around a wide variety of minimal & glitch filled stutters and scrapes created using a bedroom PC and lots of software." - Bazz Barr

Visit the Website:
www.electrotoxic.com

Available at:
www.archive.org

Highlights:
Snowball
Dimensional Injection (Edit)

In-Tune: Sense

Style: Electronica

"Australia's Sense, aka Adam Raisbeck, an artist on Monotonik since early 2000, and responsible for some of the label's most beautiful, serene classic idm moments has been borderline prodigous over the last couple of years, including releases on U-Cover, Neo-Ouija, and Merck, plus a tour with fellow mtk.artist Tim Koch and Ontayso, he's still found time to dig around in some of his 2003-era material and present us with the 'Further EP', which goes, well, further. So, from the starting-point of 'Onel', all deep, deep tones and straightahead depthcharge beats, we go through the surprisingly uptempo, groovy 'Korma' (previously released on Kahvi and on a Merck Records mix-tape), then the amazingly vibrant, textured deep ambience of '203p2', the playfulness and clear tones of 'Plink', and finally, the almost Orb-like 'Church Song', building and rising and gliding inexorably out of the sea as the sun bakes, the waves lap, and great Cthulhu surveys his empire. And he is happy." - Sense

Available at:
www.archive.org

Highlights:
Plink
Onel

In-Tune: Seventh Swami

Style: Electronica

"There is a place that exists in your mind... a temporary autonomous zone where music, dance, and the life experience become one... where you and everyone around you become one living, breathing, singular entity... Where your mind begins to kindle neurotransmitters, created by the alchemy of your brain eons ago... calling to the ancient tribal ritual of transformative dance as you are guided by the hypnotic music of the techno-shaman leading the party. This is the realm of the SeventhSwami... Your spirit-guide through the archaic revival... bringing you a fusion of techno, breakbeat, and downtempo, with psychedelic overtones inspired by the unifying vibe found at nor-cal outdoor psytrance parties. His mission: To help raise more people's awareness through the sacred trance-dance experience. His purpose: To turn human-doings into human-beings, if not just for a moment..." - Seventh Swami

Available at:
www.myspace.com/seventhswami

Highlights:
Ladders
Axis Mundi

In-Tune: Lomov

Style: Electronica

"First you need to know that in Germany second choice cigars are called: 'Fehlfarben'... "Long time ago my father smoked that kind of cigars and thus I had a lot of wooden boxes to keep odds and ends within. Later I smoked cigars myselfe (but more imported Havannas) accompanied with an excellent red wine while I was listening with friends to good sixty years jazz. The first tracks I made for the 'Fehlfarben'-EP were more jazz-related and I named it this way. Later I drifted a bit away from this approach, but the name remained..." - Lomov. However Fehlfarben is more first class than second choice... Lomov gives us here a smooth, deep and slightly melancholic music. Midway between atmospheric electronica and etheric deeptechno with subtil and hypnotic changes. The micromecanic and organic clics of the rhythmics carry us delicately into his universe where each sound really radiates." - Lomov

Available at:
www.archive.org

Highlights:
Obvist
Lamin

In-Tune: Ecoform

Style: Minimal Electronica

"These are the sounds of kindergarten life at forenoon, noon and afternoon time. Somebody experiences euphoric calm, somebody thinks he is doing something really important for all human beings by launching nearly dead teddy bear towards the sun. Sit still and watch your alter ego falls into the pink swimmingpool. Drive your small, remote controlled car between dishes and cups on the kitchen table. Anyway batteries wont die this time." - Ecoform

Visit the website:
www.fragmentmusic.net

Available at:
www.archive.org

Highlights:
Hackers Delight
Encrypted

In-Tune: Adapter

Style: Electronica

"Adapter is a new project of Igor Wilkonski (the crazy mind behing I:gor). After his last I:Gor album "Barwy kolorow" he decided it was time to keep I:Gor for violent breakcore and dark d'n'b and to create a new project for his more melodic and IDM / electro creations, so here is how Adapter is born. We are proud to release the first steps of Adapter. This debut album entitled "Life is Math" is a masterpiece, from rythmic IDM to jazzy moods a la Squarepusher and hypnotic electro a la Haujobb/Architect, Adapter creates a unique sound that is going to be remembered for a long time. This album comes out in a beautiful digipack and includes a nice collaboration with the trumpet player Grzegorz Matys and exellent remixes by Richard Devine (Sublight / Schematic) and Bibi (a new talented female project from Poland)." - Adapter / M-Tronic

Available at:
www.m-tronic.com

Highlights:
Its Me

In-Tune: M Nebulus

Style: Electronica

"M Nebulus is music project of Matthew Jennings. Heminsync is very translike electronic album, hypnotic rhythm is foundation of each single track." - M Nebulus

Available at:
www.archive.org

Highlights:
Tesseract
Astrolabe