I will second the motion for Monolake. Although I prefer the
soundscapes created by listening to albums like Gravity, Gobi: The
Desert, Interstate, and Hongkong... he's a brilliant sound designer,
and I continually get lost in the spaces he [re]creates.
He's obviously spent time in the D when you hear Interstate -- it
feels like the soundtrack to the oil processing plants near the
Southfield exit on I-75 South.
Some of his music almost approaches D&B / 2-step with his
programming, but he's also into 4/4 stuff and just about everything
in between. Yet he continually makes it all very listenable. And for
what it is, incredibly funky..
He's also a tall, funny German [usually, an oxymoron], a gear nerd
[http://www.monolake.de/studio/], who, with Gerhard Behles, just so
happened to have conceived one of the best software apps in the last
10 years, and actually can crack a smile as well.
+odd
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On Apr 8, 2008, at 1:02 PM, Greg Earle wrote:
Arturo Lopez wrote:
It's hit or miss, but like Matt said, other people remixing his music
is usually quite good. Check out the "Alaska" remixes by Surgeon and
Substance, good stuff. That Surgeon remix is such a mean tune.
http://www.boomkat.com/item.cfm?id=24374
The "Substance Remix 1" version of "Alaska" is one of the greatest
tracks I've heard in the last few years. Something that actually
reminded me of when Techno was "Music from the future".
- Greg the unrepentant Monolake enthusiast
