MonotypeRec.

Music:

Member Since: 3/22/2006
Band Website: monotyperecords.com
Band Members:
Sounds Like: Arszyn
(Krzysztof Topolski) - drummer, sound artist. He cooperated with many musicians, music bands and musical projects: RogulusXSzewelas Project, Kobiety, Emiter, M.bunio.S., Mikolaj Trzaska, Tomasz Szwelnik, Muk, Beatrix von Shreader, Hoec, Dj Wojak. He is a cofounder of band Ludzie (Folks) and Pracowni Ludzie Gdansk (The Folks Workshop). Arszyn is Krzystof Topolski's solo project, till today there appeared following CDs: 'Z werszkow pierwszy' (the first of werszkow) (nefryt '02), 'Unitas Multiplex' (tns rec.rxs/plg rec. ' 04). His main interests are sound and everything which is connected with it.

Ben Zeen
Audiovisual project by Marcin Ozog and Pawel Cieslak, acting from 2005.
Music of Ben Zeen is a mixture of analogue modular sythesizer sound controlled by theremin and and ribbon controller, laptops which generate deconstructed, transformed loops and samples from combined sources which are basis for additional effects, external sound sources, prepared instruments and field recordings. The whole setup is controlled by numerous knob, touch and optical controllers.

Bordo
Band estabilished in 1995 in Krakow, Poland. It's hard to describe their music by one musical style. Most appropriate is to label it as post-rock. In music by Bordo you can find echoes of rock avant-garde, psychedelia, new wave of 80's, space-rock, illustrative music. One can fin even more references and influences. Music of Bordo is accompanied by texts being at the same time poems of leader of the band - R.S.

Brasil and the Gallowbrothers Band
Brasil and the Gallowbrothers Band is a second, after One Inch of Shadow, headquarters of t.e.r., Rafal Michalowski and Tomek Mirt. Since 1995 they've created music together and solo. As One Inch of Shadow, Mirt, Dominic Savio and Brasil they had recorded for numerous labels (Perun, Nefryt, MonotypeRec., Digitalis Industries, Last Visible Dog) including their own, Cat Sun. On stage they collaborated e.g. with Black Forest/Black Sea and Stwory. They performed, among others: at Wrocaw Industrial Festival, Muzyka w Krajobrazie in Inowlódz, Audio Art in Warsaw,Temple of Silence in Miedzybórz and Apostazja Festiwal in Poznan. Many of their compositions were placed on compilations among such artists as Legendary Pink Dots, Tony Wakeford, Hybrids, Tor Lundvall, Birchville Cat Motel, My Cat is an Alien, Fursaxa, Francisco López or Bardo Pond.

Dawid Szczesny
Sound artist located in Wroclaw, Poland. His sound works are based mostly on samples of old vinyls and tapes.
As a solo artist he played live in Poland, Germany, Latvia, Spain (Sonar 2006), Austria, Slovakia, South Africa (RBMA 2003)...
During his solo performances he works with laptop and turntable.
Currently collaborates with Ignaz Schick (Berlin), Sofie Loizou (Sydney). Also he's a part of a duo Earpeace (with raper NonGenetic, of Shadowhuntaz, LA).

Ecstasy Project
Band established in 1998 (Bydgoszcz/Poland) is one of the bands connected to Club "Mozg" (Brain; eng.) named by top european newspapers as "the most creative place of recent years".

Emiter
Solo project of Marcin Dymiter who played earlier in bands: ewa braun, MAPA and presently he plays in a band MORDY. He cooperated with musicians from various areas like jazz, electronics and avant-garde: Le Quan Ninh, John Butcher, Paul Wirkus, Axel Dorner, Rosa Arruti, Mikolaj Trzaska, Tomasz Gwicinski,a poet Marcin Swietlicki, Raphael Roginski, Marek Chloniewski, Tomasz Chloniewski, Matthias Mueller, Peter Eisod and Chlupot Mozgu formation. He has recorded 13 albums, cooperated and composed for off theatres moreover he is also a producer of music. He has played in many different European countries and in the USA. As emiter he edited 5 CDs: '1' (2000), ' 2: static' (2002),'3' (2003), emiter Krzysztof Topolski '16.03.2003' (2003), emiter/Tomasz Gadomski '4' (2004). All the albums received very good reviews in music magazines; their unusual musical climate and eclecticism was emphasized. He leads also his own printing house sojuz emiter rec.

P Jorgensen
Composer & sound artist based in Copenhagen, Denmark. His current work is primarily based on heavily computer processed acoustic instruments and field recordings which are turned into luminous textures, crystalline tones and vibrant ambient drones.

Patryk Zakrocki
Born 22 XI 1974 in Warsaw, Poland Graduated for Polish philology at Warsaw University. Took lessons of composition from prof. B. Schaeffer. Violinist, drummer, composer of original scores for movies and theatre plays. Founder of Galimadjaz project - two year long series of concerts which consolidated Warsaw improvised music scene. His other projects were bands meoma, EA, Tupika. Collaborated with Mitch & Mitch band, Nonstop string quartet, Plain Music and Improvisersensemble. Released 9 albums in Poland and abroad and many solo pieces for compilations. Recenly is managing Zaklad Produkcji Dzwieku (Institute for Sound Production).

Sing Sing Penelope
The band established in Bydgoszcz (Poland) in 2000 by young musicians playing in important polish and european jazz, free jazz, avant-garde and postrock formations. Connecting their experience and musical background, they created a new and interesting modern electro-acoustic style and musical language. Band comes from the legendary polish modern music club Mózg (Brain). Their debut album was released by Tone Industria in March 2005. The second one "Music for Umbrellas is out now by Monotype Records.
Recently, In Summer 2005, the band has been invited to present its music during Warsaw Summer Jazz Days - the biggest international modern jazz festival in Central Europe. Also invited to Oxford University, CamerImage Festival, Polish Year in Germany 2006, etc. Sing Sing Penelope has been classified by the biggest Polish newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza to the most important new bands of 2006 in Poland next to: Leszek Mozdzer, Mikolaj Trzaska, Oles Brothers, and Simple Acoustic Trio from Tomasz Stanko Quartet. Sing Sing Penelope has been classified to 10 the best jazz/impro albums of 2005 by the London Radio Station Last.fm.

Wolfram
A former member of trio Neurobot, since 2000 a solo artist who also performs in spontaneously created lineups (eg. with Thomas Ankersmit, Alexei Borisov, Xavier Charles, Phil Durrant, Facial Index, David Galbraith, Janko Hanushevsky, Martin Koller, Robert Piotrowicz, Ignaz Schick, Andrew Sharpley, Torben Tilly, Viön & Mem). He has played in Poland, Germany, Austria and France. He made 3 records with Neurobot: Normal Subjects (1998), Tarcza 9800 (2000), l.i.v.e.v.i.l. (2001) and 6 solo records Projekt Drei (2000), Mind Locations (2001), Atol Drone (2002), Superrecombination_sys (2002), Habitat (2004), Thinking Dust (2005). Neurobot's music explored the areas of improvised noise and power electronics, however, Wolfram's solo projects incline towards ambient music mixing blurred sounds in the foreground with the noise elements receded into the background. His slowly developing, mostly minimalistic compositions are based on ambient and noise. The result of this fusion is music seems calm, but is a full of tension underneath. Wolfram's latest album "Thinking Dust" has received enthousiastic reviews from music critics in Poland.
Record Label: MonotypeRec.
Type of Label: Indie