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Artist:	MONOTON
Title:	Monotonprodukt 07 20y++
Label:	ORAL (CANADA)
Format:	CD
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	ORAL 002CD

2003 reissue, originally recorded 1982; seminal German underground electronics. "Born from the desire to reintroduce on the market an outstanding, yet surprisingly unknown work of the 1980s, this ORAL release is also the result of a dialogue with hypermedia researcher and artist Konrad Becker, which occurred during chance, yet fruitful meetings. Sometimes in the path of a music lover and record collector, a work will beckon you, imposing itself with its singularity, depth and timelessness. Monotonprodukt 07, produced in 1982, is such a work." "...is so alive with the pulses that triggered many electronicas to come, from techno through trance to Mego's creeping static, you could make a case for Becker's guruhood. Yet, for all its prescient washed out tones, threadbare textures and minimalist rigour, it has the edge on much that followed. Adopting an imperious art stance towards mainstreams and margins alike, Becker cast a cold analytic eye over electronica's urfathers, picking up on Suicide's jittertronic urgency, if not their melodrama, and DAF's throbbing sequencers, but with the sex threat removed, which he patched into his own crackling circuits, hissing vistas and tumbling beatstreams." -- The Wire, #175, Sept. 1998, from the article "100 records that set the world on fire (when no one was listening)."

Artist:	MONOTON
Title:	Blau
Label:	ORAL (CANADA)
Format:	CD
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	ORAL 009CD

Sensational minimal German electronics, first issued in 1980. Original LP title: Blau, CD subtitle: Monotonprodukt 02: 26y++. "CD release of the Blau vinyl written and produced by Monoton in 1980. Re-mastered in 2006. It also contains three unreleased tracks from that period. Since the late '70s, early 1980s, Monotonprodukt and the 'Institut für wissenschaftliche Sensation' (Institute for Scientific Sensations) have been working on the transposition of metamathematical structures, natural constants and resonance patterns in models of 'bionic' psychoactive automat music. Publications, installations and long-term experiments include among others, electro-acoustic representations of square roots, potences and periods, Pi-factors, Fibonacci sequences, Feigenbaum-Numbers, 'Magic Squares' and others. Konrad Becker wrote: 'Monoton on a quest for the spirit in the machine investigated the representation of a numeric structure on resonance field level; numerical systems and mathematical nature constants as values and proportions for bionic sound. Not only natural constants and their sub-elements offered themselves for operational definitions, but any proportion of numbers, the musician with the calculator in hand. Regardless of the aspect of universal machinic patterns, the transcendence of patterns, the 'de-programming' and the 'deletion' or reactive conditioning was their interest in transformative music. Noise is a simultaneous chaotic superposition of all frequencies, and the hearing of 'everything' and thus nothing at a time in the constant vibration of 'monotonous simulation'. It is on the basis of these subjective and oracular properties, that transformative music may be explained."

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