The Monotone Files

The Monotone Files is a group created to explore and provide a future home for new underground music.

Please submit your music to the group ! - we are listening to everything but preferably to the styles mentioned in the description above which are in the disco-dub-deep house-breeze-dance genres.

The aim with The Monotone Files group is to release electronic music on the Internet.

The Monotone Files is an digital content sub label to Sublime Exile Recordings.

Sublime Exile Recordings up 50% !

Due to our latest sales figures we have an increase in digital download sales and streams.

Since we joined the fabulous french aggregator Believe Digital in October last year (2008) our sales figures has seen a dramatic increase of 52% in the latest quarter.

Additionally we have signed another aggregation service with the leading Chinese R2G/Wawawa digital distribution provider which means we are amongst the first entering the unexplored huge market (over 350 mill.)

Furthermore we have made several licensing deals, due to our recent cooperation with youlicense.com, and all our music is getting more and more attention all over the Internet.

We are now ready to take the label to the next step and we are on the look out for possible acts to take on board. Artists can now upload their demos on our website !

Sublime Exile Recordings

The Youlicense feature !

Again we are featured on one of the greatest music industry websites youlicense.com
Recently we signed up for a private label store and the offers came instantly. Because of this we are currently negotiating several offers. More about that in our next blog and as soon as everything is in place.

The Animoto feature !

We are still featured on the highly acclaimed video creation website animoto.com [2009 Webby Awards Winners]!



Throughout 2008 the remix version of 1.2.3.4 by Fake has been featured on the indie rock music lounge and now in 2009 the song and video is still and featured on the main music page too.

Please support us !

Our debut release in 2002 with Kira and the kindred spirits is the foundation of the label and obviously of highest importance.

Since 2005 we are in a dispute with Copenhagen Records due to their copyright infringement by selling the same recording to the public audience. In 2008 Kira and the people at CPH REC again left for the new label Mermaid Records which is represented by Sony/BMG in Denmark and now they are releasing the same album too [http://ping.fm/NdKCR].

Needless to say, we're pissed !, please support us by buying the original recordings. We are of course pursuing these filthy big brother methods but a trial costs money and so are lawyers so for the time being we are unfortunately unable to take Copenhagen Records, Mermaid Records, Sony/BMG to trial.
But believe me we're closing in and soon we will probably be rich.

Thanks dear listeners !

Sublime Exile Recordings

http://ping.fm/FLBJX

Buy Basiru Suso - The World Alive

Grammy - Nominated Basiru Suso release "The World Alive" on Sublime Exile Recordings !
The World Alive  is released on May 11/2009 and includes a great number of prominent guest appearances. The album is recorded in Denmark and mixed and produced by David Hennessy, Mikael Nordsø and Basiru Suso. All music is composed by Basiru Suso.
Basiru Suso plays the Cora, which has been a part of the African music culture for more than 600 years, a 21 string body and neck instrument sounding similar to a harp. In the past the instrument was used for social cellebrations such as weddings and christenings. The Griot is the name of an African cora musician and storyteller and an important advisor for the kings and priests.

 

Secrets of the forest $0.99 Synchronicity $0.99 The learning process $0.99 Journey $0.99 The distant song $0.99 In and out $0.99 Find the way $0.99 Connection $0.99 Peace $0.99 Energy $0.99

Basiru Suso received his initial teachings from The Griots of the Suso family in Gambia and continued his musical studies at Institut National des Arts in Bamako, Mali. Basiru came to Denmark in 1997 and has played with renowned musicians such as Jorge Degas, Palle Mikkelborg, Moussa Diallo...

Basiru Suso has performed live at festivals in Denmark (Roskilde 2003, 2005 and 2006) and throughout Europe, in eastern countries like Indonesia and Pakistan to name a few. With his previous album "Kouma" Basiru Suso was nominated for the Danish World Music Awards in 2007.

China Distribution

We have today signed an exclusive agreement with China's biggest independent digital content distributor bringing our music to China's 253 Million Internet users. R2G is the leading music distribution service provider in China. Its commitment to provide a legitimate music service in China is unparalleled and its efforts have been widely recognized by the industry with licensing deals across more than 200 Service Providers combined with rights from more than 50 Content Providers, and as the strategic partner to the Music Copyright Society of China (MCSC) and China AudioVideo Copyright Association (CAVCA). It continues to develop the smooth delivery of music content to the China marketplace with transparent revenue accounting mechanisms while meeting customers’ needs.

R2G provides the first centralized music distribution platform in China promoting the consumption and monetization of legitimate digital content through a transparent licensing and monitoring system.

Media Coverage

The World Alive released !

The new album by Grammy Nominated Basiru Suso is now released. Currently the album is available through the following digital outlets.

emusic | fnac | amazon | deezer | musicme | klicktrack | itunes

Secrets of the forest $0.99 Synchronicity $0.99 The learning process $0.99 Journey $0.99 The distant song $0.99 In and out $0.99 Find the way $0.99 Connection $0.99 Peace $0.99 Energy $0.99

We are still awaiting Rhapsody, Napster and lots of others to come soon.

New Licensing Store

We have a brand new music licensing marketplace. Please visit here: http://ping.fm/5W8Ir

"The World Alive" by Grammy Nominated Basiru Suso is now available through most digital outlets. For more information, please visit: http://ping.fm/LWqKX

The myspace answer !

So our complaint's been answered. Below the official MySpace answer.

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Hello,

Thank for contacting the MySpace Music support team.

We can understand your concern regarding your song�s play counts and apologize for any impact this may have on your music endeavors. MySpace recently made a site-wide correction to play counts in order to accurately reflect the play data for the songs in question, and the new totals are the correct numbers accumulated during the time each song has been hosted on MySpace. For this reason you�ve seen a decrease in the amount of total plays your songs have accrued. We assure you these new numbers are accurate and do apologize again for any inconveniences this may cause you and your band.



Thank you,
MySpace.com
Music Support

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We'd like to thank MySpace for the answer. There's absolutely nothing we can do about it and all our previous visitor/play - counts seem to be a mistake, by MySpace, due to their answer above.

Wonder whether the same answer is sent to the major label executives ?

Since myspace is not answering we need to talk to others to find out.

How come a popular profile on myspace suddenly got no views nor plays ?

My record label first entered myspace in March 2006 and ever since, until approx. October last year, the profile has been surprisingly popular with sometimes over 500 views and plays per day (currently over 390.000 profile views). But it seems, since the myspace remake in 2008, that our profile all of a sudden fell into some kind of a vacuum. Presently no one is hardly ever visiting the profile nor playing our music ? - how come ? - what happened ?

We have sent several inquiries to myspace but so far no answers and we are getting more and more annoyed and we are certain that there must be many others facing the same problem.

Because of this we hardly use our myspace profile for promotion any longer and that's really sad because myspace is necessary.

Maybe Tom just got greedy ?

Grammy - Nominated Basiru Suso release "The World Alive" on Sublime Exile Recordings !

The forthcoming album "The World Alive" is released on May 11 and includes a great number of prominent guest appearances. The album is recorded in Denmark and mixed and produced by David Hennessy, Mikael Nordsø and Basiru Suso. All music is composed by Basiru Suso.

Basiru Suso plays the Cora, which has been a part of the African music culture for more than 600 years, a 21 string body and neck instrument sounding similar to a harp. In the past the instrument was used for social cellebrations such as weddings and christenings. The Griot is the name of an African cora musician and storyteller and an important advisor for the kings and priests.

Basiru Suso received his initial teachings from The Griots of the Suso family in Gambia and continued his musical studies at Institut National des Arts in Bamako, Mali.

Basiru came to Denmark in 1997 and has played with renowned musicians such as Jorge Degas, Palle Mikkelborg, Moussa Diallo...

Basiru Sosa has performed live at festivals in Denmark (Roskilde 2003, 2005 and 2006) and throughout Europe, in eastern countries like Indonesia and Pakistan to name a few. With his previous album "Kouma" Basiru Suso was nominated for the Danish World Music Awards in 2007.

"The World Alive" includes 10 meditative and chanting tunes and will be available on digital outlets around the world.

More...

New Video !

Proudly introducing the brand new video to The MeMeMe's. "The Skin Between Us" is taken from the forthcoming OC/DC album to be released in 2009 (TBA).

The Fakes released in Japan ! (picture taken from HMV Japan instore display) - Their debut album "I know you are smiling because you are asleep" is released on February 18 in Japan by Happy Prince. The album is previously released in 2008 in Australia by MGM and digitally by us.

License our music

There are three ways of licensing our music. You can contact us by sending us an email with your inquiry and you can give us a phone call or you can use our licensing store widget below to listen and send us your offer. To speed up the process, please describe as accurat as possible your project in which the music should be used. - Note; we are currently updating the playlist. For more music/artists, please search our profile.

Kira wins award!

Last Monday Kira won the prestigious danish film academy "Robert Award" for best score with "Riders of the freeway" taken from her latest album released in 2008.

Catch him live in Europe !

Petur Hallgrimsson (guitars and lapsteel in Pondus) currently plays live throughout Europe with Icelandic band Lay Low. Catch him live at the following dates and venues:

Feb 2 2009 8:30P MOD // Opening for Emiliana Hasselt
Feb 3 2009 8:00P Den Atelier // Opening for Emiliana Luxebmourg
Feb 5 2009 8:00P Kulturkirche // Opening for Emiliana Cologne
Feb 6 2009 8:00P Passionskirche // Opening for Emiliana Berlin
Feb 7 2009 9:00P Freihez // Opening for Emiliana Munich
Feb 9 2009 8:00P Szene // Opening for Emiliana Vienna
Feb 10 2009 8:30P Bierhubell // Opening for Emiliana Bern
Feb 12 2009 9:00P Magazzini Generali // Opening for Emiliana Milan
Feb 13 2009 9:30P Corallo // Opening for Emiliana Scandiano
Feb 14 2009 8:45P Sala Sinopoli (Auditorium della Musica) // Opening for Emiliana Rome
Feb 16 2009 7:30P Mascotte // Opening for Emiliana Zurich
Feb 17 2009 8:30P Les Docks // Opening for Emiliana Lausanne
Feb 18 2009 10:15P La Laiterie // Opening for Emiliana Strasbourg
Feb 20 2009 7:00P Paradiso // Opening for Emiliana Amsterdam
Feb 25 2009 8:00P Linja Helsinki
Feb 26 2009 8:00P Lutakko Jyvaskyla
Feb 28 2009 8:00P Suistoklubi Hameenlinna
Mar 3 2009 8:00P Telakka Tampere
Mar 6 2009 8:00P Nordatlantens Brygge Copenhagen
Mar 12 2009 8:00P The Slaughtered Lamb London
Mar 13 2009 8:00P ULU // Opening for Emiliana London
Sep 11 2009 8:00P End of the Road Festival Larmer Tree Gardens
Sep 12 2009 8:00P End of the Road Festival Larmer Tree Gardens
Sep 13 2009 8:00P End of the Road Festival Larmer Tree Gardens

Update !

The new website is now online. It's a clean and minimalistic site including the most relevant links and features.
Our forthcoming releases with UK's The MeMeMe's and Gambia's Basiru Suso are both postponed. The MeMeMe's are currently set to March 16 and Basiru Suso to February 23. We'll keep you updated here on our blog when and if there are any further changes to come.

Schwisch.....

Website update !

We are currently updating and re designing our website. Due to the sites complexity it'll take some time to have everything up. We will keep you posted on the progress here on our blog.

If you need more information on our releases, please visit our store !

Media can now also use our brand new media server to access our entire digital catalog.

Please contact us for login details.

Happy new year !

Happy new year !

Last year we signed three newcomers. Two to be released (Basiru Suso and The MeMeMe's) within this coming spring and one (Pondus) recently released in November 2008. We also signed a worldwide distribution deal and now all our releases are available from almost every digital outlet on the Internet.

We are featured in the Banditnewsletter 2009/1 and we currently receive many submissions from aspiring artists around the globe.

Artists can now upload their tunes to our dropbox @ soundcloud !

We have a great start and we hope for the best for each and every one.

We are looking for strategic partnership and investors
to accelerate our growth and technology initiatives.


Learn more about us !

What happened to the myspace stats ?

We are trying hard to find out what happened to the stats on our myspace profile. We use to have thousands of daily visitors and plays, but ever since the recent myspace remake the stats are completely different and almost none ? - We have of course sent our worries to the myspace staff and they have answered us that they are looking in to the problem and will return as soon as possible. We'd like to know whether there are any other myspace users that experience the same kind of problem ?

The Fakes signed in Japan !

The Fakes new album "I know you are smiling because you are asleep" is licensed in Japan by Tokyo label Happy Prince and will be released in February 2009. Caz Ganell (cellist in The Fakes) also plays in the band "Laura" who she recently toured Japan with. Laura is released in Japan by Happy Prince.

Website update !

We are constantly updating our website and this time around we have made individual stores for all our releases including a mp3 player storefront interface powered by fabulous klicktrack.com and links to not all digital outlets out there but the most relevant. There are many others too and we will of course, in an not too far away future, find a way to link to each and every one of them on our website. Probably under a new "link" site.

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Worldwide distribution

In August 2008 we signed an worldwide distribution/marketing deal and all our releases are now available through major and minor digital outlets such as itunes, napster, amazon, rhapsody, fnac, nokia music, virgin mega, klicktrack, 7th digital, indiestore, iThinkmusic... and there are still many more to come.

We have recently released an EP with the anonymous Swedish/American duo Fake and the debut album to Australian shoegazers The Fakes. Soon to be released, in November 2008, is the album to the Icelandic trio Pondus and in the beginning of 2009 we are releasing two full length albums with UK's The MeMeMe's and the great African Cora player Basiru Suso (Nominated for Danish World Music Award 2007 with the album Kouma).

Currently we are featured on the international licensing website youlicense.com. The 1.2.3.4 remix version by Fake is still No. 1 on the the highly acclaimed video creation website animoto.com. Furthermore the song is licensed to the American mobile website thecellfreak.com and there are more in the works still to be announced.

We have made our brand new media server (accessible from our website) which is is made to make it easy for us to share our digital content fast and secure to media and associates. To access the server you'll obviously need an password which is given upon request by contacting us.


Thanks for your attention and support !!


Sublime Exile Recordings // www.sblmxlrcrdngs.com

Since we started our new sub label initiative The Monotone Files on September 1st, 2009 we've received over 300 demos from aspiring artists. As a new feature on this blog we wanted to weekly feature our favorite songs. We do however love many of the demos but this time around the songs are chosen after the criteria described in the The Monotone Files group. It's been said we wanted some disco-dub-deep house-breeze-dance and here they are...

JANUARY 29
Take this advice: corn€lius by www.loudminorityradio.com

JANUARY 16
Victor Maximiliano - 30.000 Light Years (original) by Victor Maximiliano


DECEMBER 4
BigTime Starshine(MTV edit) by RexKwondo

NOVEMBER 7
Marcus Schmidt vs. Double C. - Blue by Marcus Schmidt Double C

OCTOBER 31
Some Funk (Full) by Ourvais

OCTOBER 21
Into you by L Camz

OCTOBER 15
Time Machine by RexKwondo

OCTOBER 6
I want you back by L Camz

SEPTEMBER 30
Dig The Way by RexKwondo


LISTEN TO THE FULL (currently over 275 tracks) MONOTONE FILES TRACKLISTING !
THE MONOTONE FILES

NEW AGREEMENT !

We are trying a new path never before explored in the label history and a new agreement with the great Cora player Basiru Suso has just been made. The forthcoming album will be released somewhere in February next year. We're excited releasing world music for the first time and the music is so meditative, joyful and swinging we are sure this will give us tremendous new views, ideas and experiences.

Basiru Suso plays an old instrument, which has been a part of the African music culture for more than 600 years, called Cora and is a 21 string body and neck instrument sounding similar to a harp. In the past the instrument was used for social cellebrations such as weddings and christenings. The Griot is the name of an African cora musician and storyteller and was an important advisor for the kings and priests in the past. Basiru Suso received his initial teachings from The Griots of the Suso family in Gambia and continued his musical studies at Institut National des Arts in Bamako, Mali. Basiru came to Denmark in 1997 and has played with renowned musicians such as Jorge Degas, Palle Mikkelborg, Moussa Diallo...Basiru Sosa has performed live at festivals in Denmark (Roskilde 2003 and 2005) and in Europe, in eastern countries like Indonesia and Pakistan to name a few.

Basiru - we love your music !

Links

CONSTANTLY UPDATING...

 Label

• Sublime Exile Recordings: Facebook | LinkedIn | PlayFM | Twitter | Virb | LastFM
• The Monotone Files: Website | Soundcloud | Twitter 
• Independent Music Publishers: Website | Facebook | LinkedIn

Artists

 

• The MeMeMe's: Facebook | Myspace 
• Basiru Suso: Website | Myspace
• Pondus: Myspace | Virb 
• The Fakes: Myspace
• Fake: N/A
• Pleasure Machine: Myspace
• Kira and the kindred spirits: Website | Myspace | Last.FM
• Racing Ape: Website

SUBMIT YOUR DEMO

Please select which label should receive your music below. For more information about each label, 
what it represents and which styles of music it includes, please search our website

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