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Anyone have this one yet? Damn what a fine album! It's the ultimate definition of ambient-industrial. This is how electronic music should sound. It would have been an excellent soundtrack to Half-Life, too: the female voice-over murmuring vague directions is really reminiscent of the HEV suit... Incredibly atmospheric. This is highly recommended PS sorry if this sounds spammish |
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if it wasnt for your 4372 posts you would certainly be banned for ever. what a nice piece of SPAM. (i clicked the topic which means i probably know monolake and havent heard their latest and will take your recommendation with pleasure) |
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SWEET. i'm getting this as soon as i can. thanks! whats the HEV suit btw? |
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Hah I take it you haven't played Half Life? The HEV suit is the talking suit which you wear throughout the game; amongst other things, it notifies you when you are shot... You're in Utrecht, right? I think they still have a few copies at Boudisque... Nice artwork too |
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no i have never played half life. I borrowed a copy from my friend though but haven't had time to install yet. i'm in Maastricht (and sometimes Nijmegen) by the way :) |
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when did this come out? |
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in case you didnt know you had been shot? |
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Yeah I never said it was an intelligent game The record came out I think 20 June |
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Ah Maastricht... I lived there for 2 years... What a town! I envy you. Utrecht is nice too, though |
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Polygon Cities is his finest record yet, awesome stuff |
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i'm seeing monolake live next week. cant wait! |
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..excellent release with fantastic artwork on the digi-pak! here's the review :: -- -- -- -- Monolake :: Polygon_Cities CD :: Imbalance Computer Music . . . . :: Robert Henke has totally re-envisioned, and sumptuously repackaged his mission. Polygon_Cities is overtly futuristic dance music, not an area where Monolake has yet traveled, but only here it seems rectified by its simple purity of crystal clear sound and structural emphasis on the beat. It helps being a software guru who has to experiment less with the end product, and he most certainly shows off his wares on the funky opener “Pipeline.” These days Monolake is again touring as a duo with a new partner at the helm who goes by the moniker T++ and their live sound has more of a wide-bodied club appeal, as referenced heavily here on “CCTV” (guess touring Mutek and all things Canadian has staying power). When I first held the disc in my hand the glint of the super-gloss chemical structure against a matte coated black backdrop really caught my eye, it is by far the most ingenious cover design this year, as this polygon structure creates a highly optical map that pops and follows from front to back. “North” is a bit of a lazy track with some fade effects and repetitive percussion that are somewhat lost in the mix. The sounds of Henke’s Thunder Studies are hinted at towards the opening of what becomes the lab-induced dance-fest of “Invisible.” With handclaps and tribal beat rhythms that add new clever layers every 20 seconds or less, this makes something lucent yet dark. Henke is in control, shaping his cityscape. -- -- -- -- pietro. |
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nice review! i'm having trouble finding this on soulseek. argh! |
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Sounds fabulous, I'm getting this now. i'm having trouble finding this on soulseek. argh! S'all over the place. Course you probably have it by now, because... it's all over the place. |
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I have to start buying some Monolake. I've been enjoying his downloaded stuff for too long now. :: guilt :: |
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it's worth the purchase price (ie. buying it officially) for the digipak artwork alone..... one of the best i've seen in a while.... p. |
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heh. yeah. listening to the first track now. sounds good but i'm hoping it will get much darker than this. a la momentum. and yes the artwork looks excellent. |
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This album is fucking great, so far. I can't really remember what's happened in the last 30 minutes, but it's been swell. CCTV sort of freaked me out, ticking time bomb music, but mostly it's pretty sober. |
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hey i was gonna get this off you on soulseek but i guess you hadn't moved it into a shared folder yet. but thanks for letting me download that pan sonic album and the other monolake album :) |
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It's not really dark, just very atmospheric, and it's a step away from his previous work... When I first heard that bassline in North I was stunned, so powerful. The best album so far of the decade as far as I'm concerned. Plumbicon still hasn't convinced me though |
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Fuck soulseek - buy the cd. |
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I got this one today - it's excellent. They also have Interstate at the shop - is that one any good? |
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Oh my, the song Axis is osseom. |
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my girlfriend got me this for my birthday... great gift! Its an amazing CD. I love monolake. GET IT. |
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AAA+++, this is my favorite Henke joint ever. Invisible, man, fucking Invisible. And yeah, get Interstate, I have it third after PCities and Gravity. Every Monolake album is worth getting. |
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Dunno about every album - I listened to Momentum a bit and didn't care for it. It sounded too jagged and brittle, not deep and luscious like his other stuff. I wish he'd reissue Cinemascope. Used on Amazon it's something silly like 70 dollars. |
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check out the Gobi EP... LUSH Ambient piece... one 30 min track... awesome |
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Shitz, they had that one used. Maybe I can pop in again tomorrow. |
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also, itunes music store has both monolake and robert henke stuff |
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*including cinemascope *which I havnt heard |
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after a few listens i am convinced that this can't and won't ever touch momentum. it's mediocre at best.. fleetmouse: you are insane for claiming momentum isn't deep. That cd is a world on its own, imo. |
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I think its quite different from momentum I love momentum for that rough feel and I love this, for its slick feel dig em both! |
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OK I'll give it another listen just on your special recommendation. |
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If iTunes sold flacs I'd be right in there. For the prices they're asking I expect lossless audio. |
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