1982?? :O really????????????????
― am0n, Monday, 17 March 2008 01:27 (5 years ago) Permalink
huh?
― GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ, Monday, 17 March 2008 02:14 (5 years ago) Permalink
i was just listening to the blue one yesterday. monotonprodukt02 26y++
OH YEAH. Dancing & Singing is "Now is the time on Sprockets when we dance."
Genius. How is the blue one? I never picked it up.
― Bill in Chicago, Monday, 17 March 2008 02:21 (5 years ago) Permalink
<i>huh?</i>
i don't know, doesn't sound like 1982. more like 2082
― am0n, Monday, 17 March 2008 03:27 (5 years ago) Permalink
i was jamming this on a trainride a while back and it went perfect with the rolling scenery
― am0n, Monday, 17 March 2008 03:28 (5 years ago) Permalink
the opening track always floors me, the rest of it stays consistent but sometimes my attention wanders from it, not like that isn't the point
as for minimal electronic it's got contemporaries in Schnitzler's 'Ballet Statique', John Bender's first record (especially the mumblevocals), Moebius & Beerbohm's 'Doppelschnitt' and to an extent some of the longer early Tietchens tracks so this record's in good company, and it does hint at things like Porter Ricks & Mike Ink about 10-15 years early
I'm curious about the blue one too
― Milton Parker, Monday, 17 March 2008 06:19 (5 years ago) Permalink
Classic, and yes, totally did a double-take after hearing a track from this for the first time, looking it up and seeing the year.
Favourite track: think it's "Water" I'm thinking of but I can never remember which is which between that and "Fish". Why does 20y++ have track names in English whereas according to discogs the original has them in German?
More contemporary recommendations would be great too. What I've heard of Conrad Schnitzler's late 70s/early 80s work has all been a lot more abstract than this (except the one with his son - does this upset purists? I don't know what to make of the ranty vocal piece at all but there's a couple of great tracks on there), so I'm really looking for anything else which hints at things like Porter Ricks & Mike Ink about 10-15 years early, but all recommendations gratefully received.
― a passing spacecadet, Monday, 17 March 2008 16:03 (5 years ago) Permalink
"blau" sounds more 70s or something, lotsa cheap rhythm machine and delay (one song's even called "dubwise"), amorphous noisiness and bleep-blooping. actually does remind me of schnitzler a little bit, doesn't really have quite that ahead of its time quality of 07. more like the sketches before the masterpiece. still worth a listen, though.
― GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ, Monday, 17 March 2008 16:51 (5 years ago) Permalink
monotonprodukt 04 has great track titles
A Ich Weiss Nichts B Ich Weiss Null
― moonship journey to baja, Monday, 17 March 2008 16:55 (5 years ago) Permalink
Revive! So there is a 30y++ white vinyl reissue of this - and its beautiful. Really great stuff. Interesting interview over on FACT as well. I haven't really picked up on this record before the last few weeks listening, I somehow must have missed it being referred to on that old Wire magazine 100 Records That Set The World On Fire.
Gonna check out some of Milton's recommendations above. Great stuff.
― kraudive, Sunday, 21 October 2012 18:42 (7 months ago) Permalink
it's so great and i'm really hoping there will be more vinyl reissues. thanks for the FACT heads up.
― stirmonster, Sunday, 21 October 2012 20:41 (7 months ago) Permalink
― Why they hide the bodice under décolletage? (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Sunday, 27 January 2013 22:02 (3 months ago) Permalink
v dope
― r|t|c, Sunday, 27 January 2013 22:15 (3 months ago) Permalink
Wasn't sure at first but it's really grown on me, I love that wiggly bassline that snakes in and out.
The FACT interview from last year doesn't seem to be on this thread:http://www.factmag.com/2012/07/30/monoton-one-of-electronic-musics-most-important-albums-revisited/
― a panda, Malmö (a passing spacecadet), Sunday, 27 January 2013 22:29 (3 months ago) Permalink
yeah he seems like a tit in that iirc
― Why they hide the bodice under décolletage? (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Sunday, 27 January 2013 22:32 (3 months ago) Permalink
I found it interesting but yeah, I certainly take your point.
Just found a video he made in 1992 which features him in a suit describing rave culture as the means for a utopian reinvention of mankind or something ("cultural intelligence" also being a theme on which he seems to have written several books); this video also fits with your thesis but hey, monotonprodukt 07 is still an amazing record.
― a panda, Malmö (a passing spacecadet), Sunday, 27 January 2013 22:47 (3 months ago) Permalink
no doubt, one of the best of its era
― Why they hide the bodice under décolletage? (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Sunday, 27 January 2013 22:49 (3 months ago) Permalink
i like the mostly incomprehensible vocals in this
― say what up to amon and deems (sarahell), Monday, 28 January 2013 00:56 (3 months ago) Permalink