I’ve been slacking on the Free Shit a little bit. There’s a perfectly valid reason for this though – I’ve been… picking up some CDs here and there for very cheap. I have a few dozen I still haven’t even listened to yet, so I will have to set the netlabels aside for a while before I start paying full attention to them again. Also, there’s been a general lack of really standout, solid, and interesting releases lately. At least within my scope here. However, the two big electronic netlabel heavies Mono211 and Kahvi have finally put out releases after a bit of a dry spell.

#242a-242i Meso / Tunga [stream] A new guest artist – Meso – arrives today with a nine track ep. A little more hardcore idm in places than previous kahvi releases, Meso brings out the colder and darker side of life in Eastern Europe with the arovane-esque ‘around 492’, a classy imitation of lackluster style in ‘canadian 2’, and my personal favorite for its curious composition ‘jenapart6’ (check out the percussion!). Brusque, exciting and interesting, ‘Tunga’ is an intriguing and well produced ep, a worthwhile addition to the kahvi collective. leave feedback download whole ep as ogg (.zip) whole ep (.ogg) mirror download album art download whole ep as mp3 (.zip) whole ep (.mp3) mirror

around 492 [main download] [mirror] boab [main download] [mirror] canadian 2 [main download] [mirror] crnk [main download] [mirror] into winter [main download] [mirror] jenapart6 [main download] [mirror] sakartvelo [main download] [mirror] sava [main download] [mirror] 574 somnambulists [main download] [mirror]

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Date		Release Id		File info		Artist		Title
06/04/08		mtk.mp3.200		8 tracks, 30 minutes, 31.3mb]		Chromatic Flights		‘Heavy Stars Will Fall’
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Monotonik has made it to its 200th MP3-based release (and probably somewhere over its 400th overall release, counting sublabels and .MODs), and this milestone comes in the form of Chromatic Flights’ second release for the label, ‘Heavy Stars Will Fall’.Florida-based Kyle Wyss follows up his ‘Memories From The Audible Color Wheel’ Monotonik debut with more vaguely psychedelic, beautifully phrased idm, strangely strung out but wonderfully put together. It starts with ‘Found Glow’, all spaced out groove and smiling pauses. Other standout tracks include ‘Fish Follow Shine’, with pulsating top notes and a strangely offkilter groove, and the echoing strange beauty of ‘Blue Supergiant’, although any of the 8 tracks can be sampled on its own for much enjoyment. A fitting release for the milestone!
Download Chromatic Flights’ ‘Heavy Stars Will Fall’ from:
1. “Found Glow” – (d/l support.nl archive.org scene.org) 2. “Moon Heated” – (d/l support.nl archive.org scene.org) 3. “Fish Follow Shine” – (d/l support.nl archive.org scene.org) 4. “Heavy Stars Will Fall” – (d/l support.nl archive.org scene.org) 5. “Blue Supergiant” – (d/l support.nl archive.org scene.org) 6. “Star Hop Pt. 1” – (d/l support.nl archive.org scene.org) 7. “Star Hop Pt. 2” – (d/l support.nl archive.org scene.org) 8. “Preparation Anxiety…” – (d/l support.nl archive.org scene.org)..or download the entire release [.ZIP link], stream, or review the track at its Internet Archive release page.

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Honestly though, even these releases fail to interest me, though you [DEAR READER] may enjoy them, as they are actually good, just nothing totally fresh in my opinion.