In-Tune: Fevertech

Style: Electronica

"Fevertech is the world infamous cross-humanized brand name capable of fighting impulses and freezing the soul. Slays corporate demons and liberal panty waists alike. Opinionated in the morning, rarely gives a damn after lunch. Fond of people as long as they are far away and accessible via ethernet. Produces breakbeat, trip-hop, electro, audio-trash hybrids, and bastardized pop. Influenced by everything, informed by nothing. Insular, jaded, friendly, and excited to be here. Mom says: 'Think Fischerspooner meets The Prodigy!'" - Fevertech

Visit the website:
www.fevertech.com

Available at:
www.cdbaby.com

Highlights:
Be a Machine
Like a Million

In-Tune: Such Broken Glass

Style: IDM

"The boy (unimportantly named Patric Fallon) did have a beat ever so strong in his heart. After discovering the beat he began to refer to himself as Such, Broken Glass. It was a silly name, but he found it to fit quite well. The beat has been in him since the 23rd day of February in the year 1983. It took some time, but he did bring it out to share. He shared as much as others would let him from California to Chicago back to California, Chicago one more time, and away he went to Portland, which was it. The travelling was over. No, infact it wasn't. Back to California again, with so much inbetween and maybe even more later. The boy looks around, along the wide, long, endless, and open road, continually looking in every dark corner for exciting sounds and inspiration. He has found it in books that were lent to him, on the streets of his many cities, in the flims he discovered, and even in the music of people he does or does not know. When it all comes together in a brilliant, pulsating light our statues will finally move, the waters won't remain placid or frozen (always running, renewing), the sleeping dogs will lie, their teeth safely hidden from our children (wide eyed and smiling), who slowly learn day after day to be the trustworthy fathers for a new generation of tireless marathon winners. We all live better with the sounds of the boy and his Such, Broken Glass." - Such Broken Glass

Visit the website:
www.isingagain.org

Available at:
www.c67.org/binkcrsh/

Highlights:
My Broken Teeth
Portland or the Wasted are Young on Youth

In-Tune: S. Zeilenga

Style: Electronica

"S. Zeilenga takes you on a trip through nature. We take off at dawn, along with our minimal yet uplifting beats. Also, we wouldn't want to forget our relaxing melodies while we're chilling along the 30th parallel. And after almost 30 minutes of pure bliss, you really ask yourself... Is The Journey Ever Really Over?" - S. Zeilenga / Cardamar Music

Available at:
www.cardamar.com

Highlights:
The Journey Begins at Dawn
One Thousand Landscapes

In-Tune: Alta Infidelidad

Style: Electronica

"For this release, Alta Infidelidad team up to compress their associative, trippy sound on and on, with continously compact melody fragments over soundeffects. At times they let sound effects run against each other and have the sample elements communicating with each other in a virtuose way. While the tracks of Receptor are clean and sparse they appear as almost static motions inside wooden, yet driving minimalist patterns. On the other side we have the antagonist tracks by Christian Dittmann, which are full with minimal percussive spinneries in a rich versatile mix that make you wonder how he manages to develop a track out of the pumping seizing intro huddles. An endless stream, apparently not vehemently aligned on purpose, slowly develops frequent dreaming undertones, that absorb oneself within the strangest area, where tension won't reduce to a lesser extent, no matter if the end is a wafted pad or simply the most reduced grooves. Start and finish are hardly recognizeable and the dancefloor barely is in sight, but apparently the intoxicated drifting thereafter becomes visible. The arrangements are fragile, volatile and less than ever appear to obey linearity as a flux of jammed ideas, shortly shifted sound explosions and rhythmic displacements. The tracks pulsate like in an endless flush aimlessly through the rooms in the broadest sense. Worlds and intensities, at times they are textures and again, haunting. The peculiar attention roams above the tracks and gets stuck here and there, takes an immersion bath and engrosses from the popping sounds. You might think: Odd descriptions. But this is how these tracks interact - A bipolar team play, an allegory similar as the reach from north and south of the chilean country. Although it feels dry and dusty by times, the soul within is deep and emotional." - Alta Infidelidad / Thinner

Available at:
www.thinner.cc

Highlights:
Oeste
Onda (Deep Mix)

In-Tune: Yuppster

Style: Electronica

"After his previous bleepish releases on the wondrous 8BitPeoples, as well as remixes on real-life labels like Zod and Carpark, we're delighted to welcome Matt Kuebrich, aka Yuppster, onto Monotonik with the 7-track 'Ambition EP'. Things start with the eloquent 'Alaska', all plink and plonk and deft melodics, before 'Retry Me' radiates an almost mellow Aphex vibe, with shuffling drums and a keen sense of wonder. The rest of the EP is just as good, with some of the higlights being 'The Draft', which is practically jogging on the spot with irrepressible squoinks, and the humming 'Ends', which is practically glowing with contentment. Overall, seems like 'Ambition EP' is a tight, intense, neat piece of electronic music, and we thank Yuppster for allowing us here at Monotonik to release it - such dreaminess on his part has led to much dreaminess on our parts while listening." - Yuppster / Monotonik

Available at:
www.mono211.com

Highlights:
Retry Me
The Draft

In-Tune: Tamim

Style: Electronica

"Although his styles cross barriers, Tamim (Rami Krayem) has developed a sound which casts images and emotion in one's mind. Scenes, landscapes, scenarios, characters, plots, and stories. Tamim's sound encourages the listener to create along with the music. Drawing from a range of musical backgrounds of acoustic instruments to digital productions, Tamim's sound provides the light of the projector. The Listener provides the film. The blending of musical elements to create a soundscape of imagery." - Tamim

Available at:
www.myspace.com/tamim

Highlights:
Hidden
Fragments

In-Tune: Zofa

Style: Minimal House

"Is it the abrasive sensation of the megalopolis Mexico City or is it more the shivering awe in the shadows of an ancient Aztec temple that keep the tunes of this Mexican Electronica craftsman confidently on the edge between beauty and bit reduction. Just envision an immaculate House tune being fragmented into a thousand shiny dazzling splinters and then being recomposed by the artist showing an unconcealed indulgence for tiny little flaws and scratches. Zofa keeps a moderate pace on his 5-tracker for Yuki Yaki which appears to underline the comfy furniture reference of the name itself. Zofa seems to be more after the slightly abstract dim-lit glamour of an artisan bar than after floor-breaking excitement. This minimalist cocktail has to be served chilled!" - Zofa / Yuki Yaki

Visit the website:
www.yukiyaki.org

Available at:
www.archive.org

Highlights:
Avi Sccot
Jane Darling

In-Tune: Little Plastic Pilots

Style: Electronica

"Little Plastic Pilots is the self-titled debut release from Kanpai Records' latest recording artist (a.k.a. Sam Nelson). This uniquely crafted album is an intricate blend of electronic and organic elements, with delicate, intimate sounds paired in just the right proportions with warm, enchanting melodies and glitched out beats. Both atmospheric and rhythmic, Little Plastic Pilots is reminiscent of early Boards of Canada and Aphex Twin - but full of fresh, new, multidimensional sounds and individual sonic aestheticism. The rhythmic use of non-percussive sounds weaves in perfectly with panoramic aural landscapes, resulting in a beautiful and contemplative musical journey. Little Plastic Pilots is a complex interplay between sound and abstract thought, all the while retaining an authenticity and intimacy that listeners can grasp a hold of and enjoy over and over again." - Little Plastic Pilots

Visit the website:
www.kanpairecords.com

Available at:
CDBaby and iTunes

Highlights:
Courtyard Full of Sun
Love Song

In-Tune: Jan Jelinek

Style: Electronica

"Since his early childhood, Jan Jelinek's life has centered on music, collected records and immersing himself in their seductive sound. In love with the unique, genre-specific sounds of dub, jazz, funk and soul, it took the discovery of house music to trigger his own musical awakening: he discovered a new, playful approach to his musical knowledge, allowing him to distil those special sounds without stooping to straightforward recycling. Instead, Jelinek's approach is all about the transformation of sounds, about devising a method for translating the pathos of old Motown records or the excesses of funk into abstract, reduced electronics. At this point in time he also began to work with loops, with slight modulations that convey the gist of a piece of music, even help to define it more clearly, yet mask the actual source. In all his various guises, Jelinek's attitude to music has always been and remains unfettered by stylistic constraints, but targets the style-encompassing essence of specific sounds. This equally sensuous and from a style and epoch-defined pop perspective abstract approach corresponds to its interdisciplinary counterpart: when it comes down to it, Jelinek is always striving to vanquish hierarchies. (Martin Besser)" - Jan Jelinek


Visit the website:
www.scape-music.de

Highlights:
Universal Band Silhouette

In-Tune: Khoiba

Style: Downtempo

"The band, found in May 2002 and at home in the Czech capital Prague, is completed by Petr Samal (bass) and Jan Malich (drums). The lyrics are from Ema Brabcova. The name Khoiba is a fictional creation of bassist Petr Samal. The sound of Khoiba is an inspired interplay of electronic music and clear, melodious guitar tunes, a creative down-tempo mix full of ideas, that creates an exceptional and special atmosphere. A great part in this surely has Ema Brabcova with her distinctive and expressive voice that immerses you in the partly spheric and catchy Khoiba tunes. Khoiba describes their style as "pop and atmospheric music, full of melancholy and positive emotions, sometimes very dynamic, somtimes soft". Each track has its own history and its own inherent emotions. Khoiba are not only convincing studio musicians, but very approachable with live performances all over Europe, which they meticulously prepare and enjoy. Whether in their home country the Czech Republic or in France, Germany, the Netherlands or Austria, they have impressed the audience at more than 50 gigs and festivals. "Live performances are very important to us and always very special events full of emotions. We are pleased when the audience gets carried away and when we get their positive feedback", the band says, and one can tell that music plays a big part in their lives." Khoiba

Visit the website:
www.khoiba.org

Highlights:
Pathetic

In-Tune: City Wide Walkie Talkie

Style: Electronica

"In the spring of 1999, Jamie Tait, Daryl Askey and Brian Longhurst formed City Wide Walkie Talkie, intending to combine sequenced electronic elements with live improvisations. They released the City Wide Walkie Talkie EP in August 1999. The four cuts outlined the group's lo-fi electro-dub soul production values. Composition and recording of the follow-up to the EP began. Unlike the frenzied production that characterised the EP, CWWT spent months improvising and refining tracks, and improving the recording process. The result was 2001's "Keep The Killing Up" album, a landmark in R&D music. CWWT continue their exploits from the Villa Shangri-La studio. A new album called, "Planet Of The Superspeakers," is in the works." - City Wide Walkie Talkie

Visit the website:
www.isonautmusic.com

Available at:
music.download.com/citywidewalkietalkie

Highlights:
Coco Bolo

In-Tune: Walter Meego

Style: Vocal Electronica

"We are Walter Meego, a Chicago-based mutant dance band, of sorts. We're a three-headed monster of musical mayhem. We're a freakish, axe-slaying, beat-crushing pack of disco ninjas. We all like spicy food... and fun. We like to dance like muthafuckaz. Seriously though, we're just a group of young guys having fun and making music. If that somehow allows us to travel and do some cool things with our lives, we're all for it. We have been doing this for a handful of years now and are constantly evolving. We are inspired by sounds new and old and like to absorb everything into our pop-cultural b-boy bouillabaisse brains." - Walter Meego

Visit the website:
www.waltermeego.com

Highlights:
Weekday
OneFive

In-Tune: Foscil

Style: Electronica

"Foscil is Tyler Swan, Ryan Trudell, Anthony Moore and Adam Swan. Foscil is a representation of Seattle, meaning urban flavour peeking through dense organics. All composition is done with an Atari ST computer system. Foscil is an attempt at duplicating these pieces through the use of hardware and organic instruments. One of their aims is to encourage creative usage of equipment in both the studio environment and live setting." - Foscil

Available at:
www.fourthcity.net

Highlights:
Coelacanth

In-Tune: Everest

Style: Electronica

"Everest are matu and meienberg. they record everywhere and always, tapeing whatever sounds they think is necessary for their music. everest merge everyday-noises into dark soundcarpets and put delay-troubled beats under it. shreds of conversation are hundet by spherical shimmer. their work is ambient-driven electronic music, with a distinctive love for organic sounds. The atmospheres everest create have two slopes, a dark and a more melodic one. The later genre will be celebrated on this ep. Since the previous album "heimlich maneuver" introduced by everest, they developed sounds towards a more detailed song structure. Each track is carefully constructed to sound deceptively simple whilst being heavy on rhythms, clicks and dreamy emotions, shifting further towards the territory occupied by the likes of melodious intensed strings and waves. Using simple but warm fm-melodies alongside thudding beats, assorted blips, scratches and samples. The four tracks on peakEP are taking the listener on a journey through a range of feelings and emotions, peak gently shifts moods and portrays feelings subtly but effectively, switching from relaxed to explorable - simply e-v-e-r-e-s-t!" - Everest / Maetrix Solutions

Visit the website:
www.everestrecords.ch

Available at:
www.maetrixsolution.com

Highlights:
Tiflar
Rods

In-Tune: New Delhi FM

Style: Electronica

"New Delhi FM is a project that evolved out of other projects in the past. It originally started as a threepiece consisting of Sandro Boege, Paul Krege and Marc Hofling. Today, after a long period of quite loose cooperation with Paul, Sandro is the only real member of New Delhi FM as Paul's focus went on to more club-oriented Music (in which he's doing a great job, btw. check Schallschnelle and look for "Ellwart und Krege"). The intention behind New Delhi FM is basically to create tracks with strong atmospheres, and make the listener want to travel 'through' the sounds and let him, even after listening to a track for the 10th time, discover something new in the music. It's a very personal and intimate sound, but it's all still about the music, not about who's making it. Some have asked if there were any messages in the tracks itself. Well, of course there are, but they aren't necessarily political, religious or whatever. They are there because they need to be there. Same goes for the origin of a lot of the sounds used in the music. Sometimes they are just tiny snippets of field recordings used as percussive elements and sometimes they are even complete conversations that can be heard if listened very closely. It's the world that makes us what we are, so why shouldn't we take what influences our daily life and make something out of that?" - New Delhi FM

Visit the website:
www.newdelhifm.de

Available at:
www.mono211.com and www.archive.org

Highlights:
Under Major Influence
Daylight Confusion

In-Tune: Phour Trakk

Style: Electronica

"In the face of the fact that his first ep on iD.EOLOGY was entitled "Detour", one could get the idea that Phour Trakk is now trying to tell us with "Lost in transition" that he's gone astray. On the intro already, though, our virtuoso of quiet sounds makes it pretty clear that he's about something entirely different. Transition is an inbetween-state, neither fully one thing nor entirely another. To view this state merely as the way from A to B would mean to Phour Trakk to strip it from its assets, to rob it of its nature and its inimitability. In the eyes of Phour Trakk, transition is a state in which something new and fascinating can develop out of the merge of different elements. Lost in this thought, Phour Trakk makes it a principle in style and content on "Lost in Transition". Nothing changes abruptly and yet nothing stays the same for more than the blink of an eye. Nothing is definite, yet nothing is arbitrary. And stylewise, the tracks are neither classic lounge nor typical ethnobeat, neither generic ambient, nor official breakbeat, neither entirely sequenced and electronic, nor totally handmade and acoustic - and yet they're all that simultaneously. The only thing missing now is a good transition to a final punch line. But instead of that, we simply recommend this ep to you. As you know, it's got a lot to say on the topic of transition. And that it's good, you'll find out right away." - Phour Trakk / iD.EOLOGY

Available at:
www.ideology.de

Highlights:
A Forest
Apsara

In-Tune: Sort of Expression

Style: Electronica

"SORT OF EXPRESSION is: downtempo, triphop, big beat, ambient. poland." - Sort of Expression

Visit the website:
soe.pm-fx.com

Highlights:
Hearts in the World
Evolva

In-Tune: Tommorow's Noir

Style: Electronica

"Tomorrow's Noir is a collection of orchestral trip-hop sounds created by artist and composer Joseph Schell. Each track is crafted with tones and melodies inspired by dark Noir style trip-hop, a genre defined by artists like Massive Attack. Expanding his musical repertoire, Joseph Schell (DJ-DC) is striving to reach out into the depths of today's most cutting edge sounds." - Tommorow's Noir

Available at:
music.download.com/tomorrowsnoir

Highlights:
The Hope She Brings
Death of a Sophisticate