1. Artist: VA
   Title: Electric Pants Volume 2
   Label: PROPTRONIX
   Format: 12"
   Catalog #: PROP 013EP

   Features: My Robot Friend, [a]pendics.shuffle, Stop Disco Mafia, Geoff White.
   "Although largely unnoticed, the world was slightly altered with the invention of Electrik Pants. A few years back Sutekh, Safety Scissors, Kit Clayton and Jake Mandell each assembled their unique patterns to form an eclectic wardrobe of souped-up sonic slacks. Now, since the first wave of pants might have some wear and tear, might not fit you anymore or simply be out of style in the fast paced world of electronic music fashions, Proptronix presents a new line of listenable legwear from the rest of the label's tailors. Under the hood of Electrik Pants you can often find electrik panties; [a]pendics.shuffle (Orac, Adjunct) acknowledges the two positions these could be in (on or off) in conjunction with his techno trousers. Delicately stitched with tiny digital details the track is smooth yet sturdy and perfectly fitted to the dancefloor. My Robot Friend's full spring line is showcased on his forthcoming album on Soma, Dial 0, but this particular piece has been designed specifically for Proptronix. This Frankenstein garment sews Spanish guitar with shocking electro beats and the tight crotch boosts vocals into falsetto range. Plug these hot pants into your warmed heart. The cut from Geoff White flows forth with absurd funk inspired by apparel like MC Hammer's balloon pants. Stop Disco Mafia runs down an aural narrative of the well known and often used fastener. 'Life 'n' Death of a Zipper' delivers signature stop disco silliness with bouncing basslines and vocalized vowels zipping up and down."
   (source: www.forcedexposure.com)
   
   
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   (www.technique.co.jp)
   
   

3. Artist: STOP DISCO MAFIA
   Title: This is Stop Disco Mafia Vol. 2
   Label: PROPTRONIX
   Format: 12"
   Catalog #: PROP 011EP

   "Ronald Gonko stops in again with wheels smoking and an unidentifiable smell on him, bringing us a second installment of his titillating tunes. The star track covers a song from a little known band of yesteryear, Plus Instruments. Nora Below blows her horn about bodies, pairing the word with many descriptors to illustrate the corporal concept. A winsome groove of melodic pops and bouncing bass makes it a nice contrast to much of Mafia's tense body of work. Parisian Krikor (Tigersushi, Karat) realizes the body does not necessairly have to be human and rides a demented pony of a remix into town. Only artifacts of Nora's vocals remain intrespersed with his jackin' rhythm directly designed to make bodies dance. Stop Disco Mafia returns to his Russian cartoon roots with the tracks 'Dayfilter' and 'Crunchbone'. Thick plots with high stress levels make these action packed pieces hard to put down. Electric mandolins and singing saws help the bright sounds color mustached charachters making mellifluous follies while sound effects animate imaginary words; a process opposite of onomatopoeia."
   (source: www.forcedexposure.com)
   
   

4. Title: this is stop disco mafia vol. 2
   Label: PROPTRONIX
   Format: 12"
   Catalog #: PROP 011
   Artist: STOP DISCO MAFIA

   Stop Disco Mafia is back for another dose, this time mustering support from Krikor for a brace of cut up glitched minimal remixes, and sometime Bpitch songstress Nora Below, who delivers the sultry vocal on the original of 'Bodies'. Gonko's music falls softly into the basket labelled so wrong its right 'Dayfilter' sounds like a bun fight in an eighties arcade 'Crunchbone' is a reduced mid gabber junglist car wreck with midi beats and a mandolin - go figure! Usual mayhem from Proptronix.
   (source: www.boomkat.com)
   
   

5. STOP DISCO MAFIA : This Is Disco Mafia Vol. 2
   PROPTRONIX
   12" : in stock

   A bastion of the quirkier side of the Kompakt techno scene, this 12" is bizarre in terms of rhythms and what it samples. The remixes from Krikor (Ark etc.) tie things nicely to a 4/4 and make this a club record of the highest quality (and humour).
   http://www.phonicarecords.co.uk/
   
   

6. STOP DISCO MAFIA / THIS IS DISCO MAFIA VOLUME 2 / PROPTRONIX

   More wobbliness, this week it comes from Stop Disco Mafia via Safety Scissors Proptronix imprint. This guy is absolutely insane, very unique sounds and melodies meld together fragments of techno, electro, gabba and gameboy sounds. Two excellent glitchy and funky remixes come from Ark collaborator Krikor.
   www.warprecords.com/mart/
   
   

7. Stop Disco Mafia
   Disco Mafia Vol.2: Krikor rmx
   12" (Proptronix)

   Proptronix let you trip up again with this mad but unexpected straight Mafia thing. Krikor take the opportunity and set his stamp on the record.
   www.substrata.com.au/
   
   

8. PROPTRONIX 011
   D 12" @ EUR 8,50
   Stop Disco Mafia: Stop Disco Mafia Vol.2

   5 track EP, weird + funky freaked out electronics s/w vox effects
   (hardwax.com)
   
   

9. PROPTRONIX 011
   this is stop disco mafia vol. 2 (krikor rmxs)
   STOP DISCO MAFIA

   die stolperfallenkönige spielen weiterhin verrückt und krikor drückt dem ganzen den karat'schen stempel auf!
   (source: www.downtown-records.biz)
   
   
   
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    (www.jetsetrecords.net)
    
    

11. Title: Fäke Electronix Catalog Vol. 1
    Label: PROPTRONIX
    Format: 12"
    Catalog #: PROP 08
    Artists: THE RIP OFF ARTIST / BRINDLE SPORK aka WOBBLY / SHEATH / CCDRZ / STOP DISCO MAFIA
    see stunning album cover here

    Matt Curry's upstart mashup label is back again, bastard rocking music all round from The Rip Off Artist, Stop Disco Mafia, Brindle Spork aka Tigerbeat 6's Wobbly, Sheath and CCDRZ. Matt Haines, the rip off, is in rude good health on this evidence - a galumphing four four piece, all shock out molested vocals and one filthy bassline. Wobbly maintains the frenetic pace - sometimes stretching the cut up so the very fabric of the tune is fractured beyond redemption. Sheath apparently numbers Akshual jackson amonst its ranks - here the tone is spannered still, mangled bass and rimshots pared right back to core elements. Stop Disco Mafia conclude with more mania, but its really Haines who's the star of the show once again. Ace.
    (source: www.boomkat.com)
    
    

12. -AA.VV. "Fäke Electronix Vol. 1" (Proptronix):

    uscirà il 14 giugno questa mini-raccolta di abstract-music confezionata da artisti come Rip Off Artist, Brindle Spork, The Sheath, CCDRZ e Stop Disco Mafia che amano il sound cacofonico e, a volte, confusionale. Solo per orecchie esperte ed "allenate".
    (source: http://www.technodisco.it/musica-techno-house195.html)
    
    

13. inthemix.com.au/
    -webzine- Australia

    Stop Disco Mafia, Proptronix - weird blend of minimal tech and electro to give u a deep blend of craq smoking beats to satisfy
    posted by: KOMPAKT Pony Slaystation
    31-Jul-04, 12:47am #111
    http://www.inthemix.com.au/forum/
    
    

14. Pare o mafia do disco

    'Luckily, quando o grupo entrou e disparou acima do restaurante, eles feitos lhe com as pistolas justas da ˆ°gua. Se não, I would've sido carne inoperante melhor que um ham.' embebido; Rolos de Ronald Gonko para fora do mafia do disco do batente, sua liberação eletrônica do debut. Está aqui um registro que seja confundido às vezes por um soundtrack de a demented o cartoon russian, que você não pode dizer a who's cujo no lado. As linhas de ação são ilustradas com melodias rubbery e um flurry do funk truncado. Cada trilha é uma cena animated com as peças e as contrapartes que perseguem-se com os cursos do obstáculo ao arremessar trocas de gracejos práticos; saltar ao redor em um assoalho de dança absurd com slapstick repetitivo. Nora Below (controle de BPitch) põe em algumas palavras sobre 'A Quarrel' e um grupo inteiro do outro henchman Ronald empregou, armado com os synthesizers e as serras cantar, são cúmplices nos outros números. Você pode ter visto Ronald antes, acompanhando um orchestra dos mandolins no baixo. São sabidos como Kapaikos, um grupo altamente treinado de jogadores subversivos da corda. Ou talvez você foi sujeitado a seu ruído do punk sob o discounter conhecido. If.not, nota justa que o Sr. Gonko tem aplainado em projetos musicais diferentes no subterrâneo de Germany desde uma idade adiantada. Os residentes everlasting ventilam e o sobrevivente do socialization do punk e da onda nova no 80's adiantado apresenta uma invenção nova de seu history aqui. Pare o mafia do disco ou o mafia parará o disco.
    (source: http://lux.blogs.sapo.pt/arquivo/130896.html)
    
    

15. Stop Disco Mafia - Stop Disco Mafia
    2004 Proptronix - 12''/PROPTRONIX 06 - € 9,00

    Totally insane hi-speed breakbeat and techno with very witty samples from all toys you can imagine in a good sorted child's room. Or you imagine crazy sounds in a really good cartoon soundtrack. Quasi the little brother from the AFX's , Squarepusher's & Skam clowns from this world.
    (www.u-cover.com/mailorder/labels-one.php?ToOne=155)
    
    

16. stop disco mafia - stop disco mafia (proptronix)

    this is a really short and intensive piece of music. as soon as i turned it on, it blast powerfully and quickly in its six tracks and as it starts, intensely, that's how it finishes. the name of the project is stop disco mafia which is actually ronald gonko. and it indicates a disco sound (besides mafia). this is also indicated by its cover, as well as the music itself. of course disco created today, with the most contemporary production and experimental intentions. i don't see a reason why this kind of music wouldn't be played in the new disco clubs. naturally you shouldn't expect the audience to be the new fancy disco clubbers but music freaks and addicts, as we are. i read somewhere that this sort of music is mistaken with a soundtrack for the wacky russian cartoons, which is not a surprise. i also read that ronald is a residents fan, again, not a surprise. his music sublimates the eclectic sound of the residents and their strange approach, as well as punk, noise and new wave ethics, that are his influences. all generated under disco definition and fascination, but in contemporary experimental production presenting completely new style. and yes! stop the disco mafia or the mafia will stop disco!
    review: (http://chmafu.mur.at/acidfake/fakezine/reviews/stopdiscomafia.html)
    
    

17. www.rin.it

    Dopo il recente "Why won't you call me back" firmato da My Robot Friend l'americana Proptronix con il Disco di debutto per Stop Disco Mafia, pseudonimo utilizzato all'estroso Ronald Gonko. Il progetto ha l'inequivocabile sapore della musica elettronica statunitense, fatta di decine di samples piccoli come i denti di un neodato conficcati con forza in groove veloci e sintetici.
    
    'Stop Disco Mafia' si articola attraverso sei tracce molto particolari ed elettrificate: ad aprire la sequenza e "Shithead", tenebrosa electro sulla quale aleggiano strani fantasmi ridolini che ballano un sopund country curioso. A sequire c'è "Missing Vegas", un videogioco sperimentale che riporta in auge le vecchie consolle dei giochi arcade, "A Quarrel", elektro in 4/4 sminuzzata in miriadi di pezzi di plastica aguzzi e taglienti, "Washhour" e "Eastern Parkway", ancora poggiate su ambientazioni ad 8 bit e "CHAX", un ideale cartoon demenziale nu-punk nato per allietare i pomeriggi dei bimbi del futuro.
    (www.rin.it - filed under: Hot Stuff/Techno)
    
    translation:
    Nach der jüngst erschienenen "Why won't you call me back" von My Robot Friend kommt Proptronix mit dem Debutalbum 'Stop Disco Mafia', Pseudonym, unter dem sich der ideenreiche Ronald Gonko verbirgt. Der Einfluss amerikanischer Elektromusik ist unüberhörbar, duzende von kleinen Samples, die sich wie winzige Kinderzähnchen in schnelle, synthetische Grooves bohren.
    
    'Stop Disco Mafia' zeichnet sich durch sechs höchst eigenwillige, elektrifizierte Sequenzen aus. Eröffnet wird die Serie von "Shithead", düsterer Electro, umschwebt von geisterhaften Gnomen, die zu einem merkwürdigen Country-Sound tanzen. Danach folgt "Missing Vegas", ein experimentelles Videospiel, in dem die alten Arcade-Spielkonsolen ein Comeback feiern, dann "A Quarrel", Elektro im 4/4-Takt, in Myriaden spitze, scharfe Plastikstückchen zerhackt, dann "Washhour" und "Eastern Parkway", ebenfalls in 8-Bit-Ausstattung, und schliesslich "CHAX", ein vollendet schwachsinniger Nu-Punk-Cartoon, die ideale Nachmittagsunterhaltung für die Kinder der Zukunft.
    
    

18. Stop Disco Mafia
    Proptronix
    12" //

    Brand new six tracker from Matt Safety Scissors Curry's ever playful label. And with the likes of Weatherall currently championing the prior "My robot friend" release, you know this is gonna tickle all the right ears. 'Shi*head' is a fine title for an opener and it aligns itself with the Blectum from Blechdom school of strangeness, employing singing saw to great effect. 'Missing vegas' continues in a similarly spannered fashion, toy keys and all, leaving 'A quarrel' to mop up the side with a mighty bass cabinet worrier. 'Washhour' persists with the penchant for bowel disturbance in bass form, 'eastern parkway' mines the fruitful seam between sports techno and ill breakbeats, while 'C.H.A.X' weilds the hardest bee-line of the lot as a bewildering wave of chirps and beeps head for the jugular. Crazy and fun.
    (review: www.boomkat.com)
    
    

19. Action packed cartoon music for fake cartoons. Onomatopostech.
    Ronald Gonko's debut splat onto the scene will stop the disco mafia or the mafia will stop disco.
    (Groove tiny advert)
    
    

20. STOP DISCO MAFIA
    EP (Proptronix)

    Always pushing the boundaries of commonly accepted conventions of musical sound, Proptronix presents Ronald Gonko's latest collection of auditory oddities. Put simply, this is some different stuff. Not surprisingly, most folks might be a bit confused by Stop Disco's wacky blips, snip, bleeps and boinks but that's what makes this such a special ep. Careful listeners will appreciate the skill and care with which these compositions were made. Certainly not your average experimental or Idm release, the advanced arrangement and sound manipulation contained herein are a wonder to behold.
    (Dean DeCosta, BPM)
    
    

21. Even before you put it on, it's hard not to love a record called Stop Disco Mafia, whatever it's supposed to mean. 'Ronald Gonko', meanwhile, resembles the spam aliases I'm learning to autodelete on sight. Still, we won't hold that against him because whatever he's selling, I'm buying. Gel cap funkin tidy pastel pinks and blues? Check. Rhinestone encrusted inflatable disco balls with more bounce to the ounce than Flubber on a bungee cord? Check and you get the idea. (Gonko even samples Robin Williams in the intro, so the Flubber namecheck is not so far off.)
    True to the Proptronix form, Gonko's six tracks kneel at the church of the quirk, molding 8-bit bleeps, theremin shrieks, and ungainly drum patterns into Technopop pastiche like some Michaelangelo of Silly Putty. Lounge organs, pogoing polka, conga rolls, and frantic Chipmunk drum 'n' bass rhythms are pulled together with spit and chewing gum, and the lo-fi triumphalism prevails. Stoopid is as stoopid does. Thank God Gonko does.
    Phillip Sherburne (Critical beats -WIRE Magazine- march2004)
    
    

22. STOP DISCO MAFIA "Shithead"
    12" - 2004-01-12 - Proptronix (PROP-06) - 22'48"

    Another crazy 12" on Proptronix, a label which is fast becoming an important reference point for people wanting their electronic music funky not serious, as a lot of that austere laptop mob are prone to create them, what with half of them admiring Japanese architects whilst simultaneously loathing Korean car design, hee hee hee, ha ha ha. (See also U0310+U0315.) Anyway...
    Ronald Gonko opens with a fast, Negativlandesque montage of cartoon voices, then takes a sharp left turn to C64-land with "Shithead", an unbalancing, zany little track which reeks of Echokrank, Felix Kubin and Danzen Jetzt. Demented are go! And so the rest of this six-tracker remains in the same mould. "Missing Vegas" mixes corny organ samples and a lounge tempo with seventies synthsounds off a czech cartoon. "Washhour" rattles along like a drunken duck on speed and is pretty tailfeathershaking at that. "Eastern Parkway" has an eastern tinge to it indeed, and chops away bits and bytes at a relentless electro-on-78 pace. "CHAX" sounds like something creative by Itchy & Scratchy involving a poodle in pain, and "A quarrel", finally, is the danciest track of them all and features Nora Below of the BPitch Control family. Gonko is said to be a Residents fan, and it shows. Stop yourself in your tracks and go discover Gonko's cosa!
    (pv)
    
    

23. "Proptronix - Quand la techno se bidonne"
    (Portrait)
    Contrefacteurs d'ambiance

    (...) Depuis 2001, la famille de contrefacteurs n'a cessé de s'agrandir,. On retrouve ainsi Jake Mandell qui parade avec Safety Scissors, Kit Clayton et Sutekh sur Electrik Pants Vol.1, premier maxi compilation du label, puis Geoff White, dans Jackstone, un impeccable projet de reprises électroniques de morceaux de Michael Jackson à classer aux côtés de l'inoubliable relecture de "Stranger In Moscow" par Transformer Di Roboter sur WMF. Les récentes signatures, plus en phase avec le cahier des charges de déconnade clubby, introduisent deux nouveaux venus. Le premier, PJ Pooterhoots (alias Craig Drake), décline son Liebe Meine , titre électro-disco vocodé, en six versions allant de la kitscherie chantilly évoquant le générique de Benny Hill à la lourdeur électro teutonne second degré; quant à Ronald Gonko, l'homme de Stop Disco Mafia, il propose avec son premier maxi une électronica faussement naïve bourrée d'images rétro lâchées dans une rigidité robotique qui laisse croire que l'avenir du disco sera mécanique ou ne sera pas. Son album à sortir d'ici la fin de l'année nous en dira plus. (Christophe Taupin)
    (© Association Hyacinthe Octopus 2004)
    
    

24. Wang Inc. vs Wang Inc.
    The Woods Roads: The Premixes
    (www.context.fm)
    
    Stop Disco Maffia
    Stop Disco Maffia
    (www.proptronix.com)

    We rollen door 'Shithead' heen en we voelen onze ruggengraat trillen. Opwinding. De beat is een slinger die alle kanten uitslaat. Je staat op het verkeerde been. De biografie spreekt over de soundtrack bij een Russische tekenfilm, wij denken aan het geluid dat Felix Kubin, Germany most wicked artist, zou voortbrengen als hij niet met een Korg MS20 maar met een gloednieuwe laptop op het podium zou staan. Het gaat snel en we zijn onze rolschaatsen vergeten. Straks glijden we uit de bocht. Tijd voor een smeerbeurt. We passeren langs de discotheek en nemen alles van Herbert mee. 'Stop Disco Maffia' is het debuut van Ronald Gonko en als de sterren meewillen dan hoort u nog van deze kerel. Het is meesterlijke dansmuziek die de begane grond ver achter zich laat. Het plafond is zijn werkterrein. Vandaag zijn we dj. We wisselen de platen. De mix is vloeiend en onhoorbaar. Seamless heet zoiets in een vakterminologie die ons niet eigen is. De Italiaan Wang Inc. releasten platen op Sonig en Bip-Hop. Hier modelleert hij geluidslandschappen. Opgetrokken uit samples van water, lucht en knisperend hout bouwt hij ingenieus zijn nummers uit. De drive is aanwezig, het ritme is een halve spelbreker, maar vals spelen is toegelaten zolang het resultaten als deze oplevert. Herbert is ook hier referentie die over onze lippen rolt. Een waardige opvolger. Het regelneefje van om de hoek. We maken cirkels. Rolschaatsen is een kunst. Funk, onze knieˆ´n knikken en we volgen slaafs het ritme. Vanaf vandaag wachten we op zijn volbloed album. Hier is over nagedacht, zo onder genieën, op een maandagmorgen en het werkt ook op een vrijdagavond.Dat is de kunst.
    Peter Deschamps (pds)
    
    babelfish translation:
    We roll by 'Shithead' gone and we feel our back edge tremble. Agitation. The beat is a beam which breaks out all sides. Your state the-found oneself leg on. The biography speaks concerning the soundtrack at a Russian sign film, we think of the sound which Felix would produce Kubin, Germany most wicked artist, if he would not stand with Korg MS20 but with a brand-new rag top on the podium. It goes rapidly and we are ours roller-skate to forget. Soon we slide from the turning. Time for smeerbeurt. We pass along the discotheque and take along everything of Herbert. 'Stop disco Maffia' the debuut of Ronald Gonko is and if the ASTRE obey then still hears you of this kerel. It is masterly dancing music which far leaves the committed ground behind itself. The ceiling is its work area. Today we are dj. we change the plates. The mix is fluent and inaudible. Seamless are called something like that in a profession terminology which us are not own. The italiaan cheek Inc. releasten plates on Sonig and Bip-Hop. Here he models sound landscapes. Accelerated samples of water, ventilate and he develops crackling wood ingenious are numbers from. The drive is present, rhythm is a half spelbreker, but falsely plays it has been allowed as long as it results if these produce. Herbert are here too reference who rolls concerning our lips. A worthy continuator. The regelneefje of for the angle. We make circles. Is roller-skate an art. Funk, our knees nod and we follow servilely rhythm. As from today guards we on its volbloed album. Here concerning it has been reflected, this way under genieën, on a monday morning and it also works on a Friday evening that art is (pds)
    
    

25. Stop Disco Mafia
    Self-Titled EP
    (Proptronix)

    Stop Disco Mafia is yet another in a line of releases from the Proptronix whose main goal is to put fun back into electronic music and in large part succeeds. While it doesn't always make for highly pleasant listening, this 6 track, nearly 25-minute release slices and dices and tosses samples with ease while jumping around like a kid who's had too much candy.
    
    The opening track of "Shithead" gives the listener a good idea of what to expect right away as a flurry of sound snippets slam together to form a stream-of-consciousness blob of words and sound effects that in turn leads into the herky-jerky rhythm and main portion of the song. Of course, the song itself isn't really structured typically and while it follows a somewhat unchanging beat, everything from theremin samples to 8-note keyboard melodies to filtered whatnots all bounce in and out of the mix. Fortunately, things calm down ever-so-slightly on "Missing Vegas," a hilariously cheesy track that mixes more bizarre melodies over occasionally stuttering breakbeats.
    
    "A Quarrel" pushes things more into a minimal dancefloor realm and it's here that the album delivers its best song. Over a thumping 4/4 beat, the track gracefully skewers house music while providing music for booty shaking at the same time. The remainder of the album is more of the same hyper-processed semi lo-fi electronic music that marked the first half of the album and if you're a fan of Tigerbeat6 type stuff or digital pranksters in general (like Dat Politics, etc) your highly caffeine-adled mind will probably latch right onto the frantic spastics going on here.
    review: www.almostcool.org/mr/s/s146mu.html
    
    

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