Without Simon Carless many of us wouldn’t be here. He’s been managing Monotonik since 1996, which seems far far away within the netaudio scene. He’s also been moderating the archive.org netlabel community, granting us permission to host our files there, something like being our ‘godfather’. ;)

Some words from Simon: ‘To be honest, I think my netlabel experience has run into a little arrested development – not that there’s not insane amounts of good music out there, but a lot of my netlabel points of reference seem to have peaked somewhere around 2004-2005, in terms of fellow netlabels doing the electronic headphone listening thing. So, from my sadly limited field of influence, here’s a sorta ‘Monotonik greatest idm hits vs. some classics from other labels I admire’, partly cribbed from a ‘best of 2004′ pick I did a while back (!). It’s all totally serene, and should make you happy.’

Monotonik’s netlabel head chooses his personal cherries between 2000-04. Awesome headphone IDM. Hats off.

1. Sense – ‘Bubble Blower’ (monotonik027)
2. Transient – ‘Electronic Data’ (one016)
3. Grandma – ‘Why The F*ck Did You Eat My Babies?’ (monotonik087)
4. Evan Valentine – ‘Lone Beep’ (lifeform011)
5. Sleepy Town Manufacture – ‘Latatoo’ (monotonik094)
6. Bad Loop – ‘Mmin’ (one018)
7. Super Science – ‘Soft Like Fingertips’ (monotonik101)
8. Text Adventure – ‘I’m A Shoe I Miss You’ (observatoryonline036)
9. Grandma – ‘Are We Dead Yet?’ (monotonik104)
10. Psilodump – ‘Ensam’ (eclectro001)
11. Bliss – ‘Life On The Rooftop’ (monotonik108)

VBR M3U

VBR ZIP (71 MB)

http://www.archive.org/details/op3n029

http://www.op3n.net/op3n/home.htm