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Artist:
MONOLAKE
Title:
Digitalis Plumbicon
Label:
MONOLAKE (GERMANY)
Format:
12"
Price:
$8.50
Catalog #:
ML 016EP
Monolake is an open project dedicated to computer-generated music, founded in 1995 by Berlin-based
Robert Henke
and
Gerhard Behles
. Mined from their stellar release
Polygon_Cities
, "Digitalis" and "Plumbicon" are two discrete techno entities: "Plumbicon" is more obvious; the straight bass drum, a slightly acid-inspired theme and hypnotic hi-hats build up the most rave-like Monolake track so far, including massive chords constituting the monumental finale. "Digitalis" in its raw digital beauty has been completely realized using one single electronic instrument, a Synclavier II, built in 1983. Creating sounds with this machine is a time-consuming non-real time process, and the result is a deep and multi-layered track, where long sonic movements evolve over a deep and massive beat.
Artist:
HELICAL SCAN
Title:
Index
Label:
MONOLAKE (GERMANY)
Format:
12"
Price:
$11.00
Catalog #:
ML 022EP
This is a modified re-release of the
Helical Scan
single
Index
, released in 1997 on Chain Reaction and out-of-print for many years. Helical Scan is an alias of
Robert Henke
/
Monolake
. The re-release is a carefully remastered edition of the original A-side of the record plus a previously-unreleased and rougher version of "Index II" on the B-side.
Artist:
MONOLAKE
Title:
Silence
Label:
MONOLAKE (GERMANY)
Format:
CD
Price:
$17.00
Catalog #:
ML 025CD
Restocked. This is the first
Monolake
album since the highly-acclaimed
Polygon_Cities
album from 2006. Monolake is an open project dedicated to computer-generated music, founded in 1995 by Berlin-based
Robert Henke
and
Gerhard Behles
. Impressed and influenced by minimal techno music and drum 'n bass, and infused with the sonic richness and sophistication of academic computer music, these poles became the source and inspiration for Monolake's own creations.
Silence
was composed, mixed and produced by Robert Henke from November 2008-September 2009. Design by
snc
based on photos captured by Robert Henke. Production notes: Sound sources include field recordings of airport announcements, hammering on metal plates at the former Kabelwerk Oberspree, Berlin, several sounds captured inside the large radio antenna dome at Teufelsberg, Berlin, dripping water at the Botanical Garden Florence, air condition systems and turbines in Las Vegas, Frankfurt and Tokyo, walking on rocks in Joshua Tree National Park, wind from the Grand Canyon, a friend's answering machine, a printer, conversations via mobile phones, typing on an old Macintosh keyboard and recordings from tunnel works in Switzerland. Synthetic sounds exclusively created with the software instruments Operator, Tension, Analog and the build-in effects inside Ableton Live. Additional sound design and sequencing using MAXMSP/MaxForLive. Additional reverb: various impulse responses via Altiverb. Composed, edited and mixed entirely in Live on a MacBook Pro with a pair of Genelec 8040s. Mastering by
Rashad Becker
at Audioanwendungen, September 2009. Note: there is no compression on this album whatsoever.
"Blending elements of techno, dubstep, and ambient into an hour of suggestive, idiosyncratic drift,
Silence
presents programmed electronic music at its most sensually expressive."
-- Pitchfork (7.8)
Artist:
MONOLAKE
Title:
Ghosts
Label:
MONOLAKE (GERMANY)
Format:
CD
Price:
$15.50
Catalog #:
ML 026CD
Robert Henke
is back with a new
Monolake
album entitled
Ghosts
. Dark and colorful, with haunting and deep excursions into magic worlds of sound and grooves, held together by a fragmentary story as part of the artwork that indicates a continuation of themes present on
Silence
(ML 025CD): precisely-crafted, earth-shaking beats, rough, dirty noises, wide, lush soundscapes and little sonic creatures inhabiting a fascinating planet in which a lot of things go badly wrong and nothing is taken for granted. Music that augments reality when listening to while commuting, music to get lost in when experienced loud in a club. There is nothing minimal in this music, it is bass-heavy and full of detail.
Ghosts
is released on Robert Henke's own label Imbalance Computer Music on CD in a luxury digipack.
Artist:
MONOLAKE
Title:
Ghosts
Label:
MONOLAKE (GERMANY)
Format:
2LP+CD
Price:
$23.50
Catalog #:
ML 026LP
Gatefold 2LP version.
Robert Henke
is back with a new
Monolake
album entitled
Ghosts
. Dark and colorful, with haunting and deep excursions into magic worlds of sound and grooves, held together by a fragmentary story as part of the artwork that indicates a continuation of themes present on
Silence
(ML 025CD): precisely-crafted, earth-shaking beats, rough, dirty noises, wide, lush soundscapes and little sonic creatures inhabiting a fascinating planet in which a lot of things go badly wrong and nothing is taken for granted. Music that augments reality when listening to while commuting, music to get lost in when experienced loud in a club. There is nothing minimal in this music, it is bass-heavy and full of detail. Includes free CD version.
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