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Imbalance Computer Music
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Review: It's been some three years since the last Monolake transmission on Imbalance Computer Music - if you exclude this year's 'long edit' of the artist's much loved Gobi - and a further four years since the last Monolake LP. Constructed in 2020 by Robert Henke, Archaeopteryx presents a vastly complex album of sound design taking in curious technology like a modified Linn Drum, recordings of various orchestral percussions and 'a few modular things' amongst and arsenal of enviable analogue machinery, and of course Ableton Live, that only a head like Henke could program and remain sane. The result is a deeply conceptual offering that twinkles, gurgles and tolls as much it does breath, communicate and confuse. Find electronica-laced, European informed dubstep in "Specimen Fractal" to piano minimalism and left of field microhouse in "Orbit Incomplete" amid a swathe of undefinable beat making and ambient focused processes. At 19-tracks long, Archaeopteryx comes with a dedication to Serbian composer, mathematician and physicist, Marko Nicodijevic, adding yet more intrigue to the evolution of the Monolake sound.
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ML 035
06 Nov 20
Experimental/Electronic
06 Nov 20
Experimental/Electronic
Played by: Laylae
Review: Susanne Kirchmayr, or Electric Indigo as she's been known since the early 90s, is a German house and techno producer, DJ, and personality. All in all, she's one of the greats and, over the years, has always been supported from artists like Berlin's DJ Hell and, more recently, Berghain's Ostgut Ton label in what has been a bit of a revival from her. 511593 is Indigo's debut album, and it comes through via Monolake's Robert Henke, whose label Imbalance Computer Music is stronger, and more relevant, than ever. Unlike what we're usually accustomed to from the German artist, the music on this LP is wild and arid, often with no beats or traditional structure to hold the oddities in place. Instead, we're immersed in a fuzzy, digital world of rapacious sonics that do their best to seep through the cracks and spaces left open between tracks. In fact, this is more of a live session, where every tune is connected by distortion and electronic manipulation. Recommended.
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ICM 09
16 Mar 18
Experimental/Electronic
16 Mar 18
Experimental/Electronic
Review: The master returns. Robert Henke presents the fourth release in the V L S I series entitled G M O, the fifth and final edition. Strap on your seat belt "Geometry System"; its full throttle bass assault faces off with clandestine sonar communications, hacking the mainframe. The meticulous rhythm programming of those beautifully harsh metallic textures on"Mcp79" is the sound of malicious code attacking the network in a brute force attack. Finally "Offline" may seem like communications have ceased but you're mislead; this detailed collage of bleeps and blips are yet more sinister sonar transmissions encoded for full secrecy.
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ML- 031
10 Jun 16
Experimental/Electronic
10 Jun 16
Experimental/Electronic
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ML 030
29 Jan 16
Experimental/Electronic
29 Jan 16
Experimental/Electronic
Review: Robert Henke returns with some more of his unmistakable composition and sound design, as only the inventor of Ableton could create. D E C includes three tracks, all, coincidentally, named after each letter. Well then; "Dystopia" features an immaculately programmed broken beat over stuttering snares and glitchy hi-hats while bizarre synthesis textures come at you from all ends of its audio spectrum. "Error" is a haunting ambient piece with its rich and evolving pads, transforming from dark strings to intergalactic soundscapes. Finally "Crash" gets back at you with another tight broken beat programmed to perfection while its steady onslaught of exquisite metal strikes and evil risers engulf you in 3D. Magnificent.
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ML-029
07 Aug 15
Techno
07 Aug 15
Techno
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ML- 028
30 Mar 15
Techno
30 Mar 15
Techno
Review: Frank Zappa famously said that writing about music was like dancing to architecture, but would he have felt the same way if he had heard Monolake's work? The music that Robert Henke makes has many of the same qualities as futuristic buildings - as "Xor" demonstrates, it is complex and intricate, supported by steely foundations, but full of surprising designs. "Inwards" is in a similar vein and its brooding textures are the aural equivalent of a grey steel spy station in the middle of a snowy forest. Henke relaxes somewhat on the mellow "Ethernet", but even here there are echoes of his urban surroundings thanks to its tough concrete beats.
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ML- 027
22 Dec 14
Techno
22 Dec 14
Techno
