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This second collection features tracks written for the Katipo shows and the MM show.

Some links:

• Monotonik's releases page
• Archive.org
• Whole EP download (zip format)

Or you can listen to the business on this page:

About the tracks

If you're sufficiently interested, I've written an exciting commentary on all the tracks on the EP. Self indulgent cobblers? You bet!

Chicken Nocturne

Michael and his wife Amanda keep chickens, and they make these intriguing noises when bothered in the middle of the night. Michael duly recorded these signal-generating chooks and added to them some record crackle, sampled synth wibbles, and computer-generated strings. The resulting confection introduces us gently into the EP.

Hilbert Space

Hilbert Space is an extension of Euclidean geometry into higher dimensional spaces. It also has nothing much to do with this track, but plenty to do with a physics book Stuart was reading when he came up with the first version of the track.

A more integral component of Hilbert Space (the track) is Patrick, a Chinese tour guide in Beijing for HK-based Wing On Travel in Beijing. Heard here on the final day of the tour, he exhorts the group to make sure they haven't forgotten anything, by reciting that famous Chinese proverb, "you can't eat dinner without your false teeth". The rest of the track features numerous phasings and skittery boingings, and the entire mix is periodically wrenched through some computerised tape delay to create an appropriate sense of wooziness.

See to her

This stygian techno, featuring swirls of reversed guitars and vocals sampled from a well-known pop group from Liverpool, demanded some Serious vocal samples, and, deciding that there's nothing more serious than Greek tragedy, we went YouTubing for an English translation of Sophocles' Oedipus Rex. Sure enough, we found something of surpassing fruitiness, and introduced it forthwith.

Butcher

This track features spiralling Chinese drumming, a snippet from a Vaughn Williams oboe concerto (transposed down to make the oboe into a saxophone), MELLOTRON STRINGS, and a poem by New Zealand poet Vincent O'Sullivan, "Butcher on Life in General". While elsewhere rather droll, the poem's final line speaks quite semi-seriously of the comforting, purifying (and perhaps a little stultifying) isolation of our fair country. Michael went on a bravura vocal sample gathering spree to spell out each word of the poem in a different voice.

My little aircraft

Despite commencing from the potentially glum combination of the groove of John Lennon's 'Mother' and some Bauhaus vocals, this EP's final track turns out fairly uptempo and good natured. The vocal samples come from personal heroes of ours, Tim Hunkin and Rex Garrod of the immortal 1980s British TV show, the Secret Life of Machines, a documentary series about how everyday machines are made. These samples come from the episode on radio, with Tim waxing almost mystical about radio waves, while Rex extolls their practical application in aviation.

Enjoy the experience of Malty Media mit Glitzerstrahl!

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We in-crowd it with our friends. Again. Look, it will be tolerable.

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This show promises to get to the nub of things, to identify the root elements, and distill out only the most fundamental ingredients, all without being in any way unnecessarily reductionist. (Positivism has been a blight on the scientific process.)

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This show promises to get to the nub of things, to idenitfy the root elements, and distill out only the most fundamental ingredients, all without being in any unnecessarily reductionist. (Positivism has been a blight on the scientific process.)

If you're not in Wellington, you can stream the show via Radio Active's taciturn website.

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This show will feature remixes by ourselves and others.

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Reflecting on one year since we shifted our show from a cafe gig to radio, this show will be in the style of ye olde clip show - sifting through our favourite bits where we got our hands dirty and did something more than just DJ someone else's tunes.

I remember Happy Days and Family Ties being particularly bad for clip shows.

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Jet Jaguar and guest Bignificent D are going to trade 15 minute mini-mixes for this one... Aquaboogie sends his regards.

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If you're not in Wellington, you can stream the show via Radio Active's comprehensive website.

If you're not in New Zealand even, check your local time zone too.

This post will be updated with MP3 and tracklisting after the show.

If you're not in Wellington, you can stream the show via Radio Active's fulsome website.

If you're not in New Zealand even, check your local time zone too.

This post will be updated with MP3 and tracklisting after the show.