s w e e t b e a t s
october.14.2001 - #757
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artist : Monolake
album : Cinemascope
year : 2001
label : Monolake / Imbalance Computer Music
genre : Lo-Fi
catalogue : ML009
url : www.monolake.de
quality : CD 192k HQ True Stereo
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01.Monolake - 1 00:20
02.Monolake - Bicom 09:34
03.Monolake - Cubicle 06:54
04.Monolake - Ping 05:38
05.Monolake - Ionized 11:18
06.Monolake - Remoteable 05:40
07.Monolake - Television Tower 06:08
08.Monolake - Cut 04:55
09.Monolake - Alpenrausch 07:15
10.Monolake - Indigo 08:37
10 tracks | 66:19 mins | 91,2 MB
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I'd lost track of Monolake since his Hong Kong days. Luckily this
release shows he hasn't strayed far from his atmospheric,
minimalist roots.
The first few tracks on Cinemascope are ambient soundscapes. They
make for good background listening, with shifting chords and bits
of broken beats. Even more enjoyable are the later cuts with more
pronounced percussion. "Remoteable" is where this album picks up
for me, with a solid groove of clicky beats and bass.
"Alpenrausch" is similarly hypnotic, with fragmented vocal samples
(from a commissioned work by Migros Kulturprozent) that burble
along. Monolake, aka Robert Henke, has a knack for capturing the
alienating aspects of urban spaces, even incorporating the subtle
sounds of cars passing in the night. Frauke Kaven's sleeve images
of a blue-lit Shanghai highway interchange perfectly complement the
Monolake experience. --www.gridface.com
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