Robert Henke, founding and sole member of the legendary Berlin experimental techno group Monolake and co-founder with (former Monolake partner Gerhard Behles and Bernd Roggendorf) of Ableton Live, the groundbreaking software company that took aspects of loop-based electronic music from a semi-obscure corner of music production and turned it into a driving force of musical creation as one of the top tier DAWs (Digital Audio Workstations) in use today.
Tag: Experimental Techno
Monolake :: Studio (Imbalance Computer Music)
There’s a great mixture and balance to the album with Henke’s signature Monolake style plus several ventures into new and different territory for the Berlin resident. In all his years of creating music it’s clear Henke has never swerved from delivering powerful, curated and expertly executed music.
Three on the Radar :: Cass., Elektro Guzzi, Tilman Robinson
Three albums, three different stories. From warm ambient electronica and eclectic techno to abstract fragments of electroacoustic and modern classical seduction. Cass. :: Youth Sessions […]
Techno’s Outer Limits :: October 2016
Latest in a series of emissions from Techno’s Twilight Zone of EPs/12″s and LPs with notes in the margins. https://youtu.be/JilAHQmwpa8 Stroboscopic Artefacts‘ updates its Monad series with Monad XXIII, as Charlotte […]
SsS… soon from SHXCXCHCXSH
Techno mischief-makers SHXCXCHCXSH return soon with a new LP on Avian. A follow-up to 2014’s Linear S Decoded, SsS… has the pron.-challenging Swedes revisit signature stop-mo percussion and hypertensile synthesis […]
Techno’s Outer Limits :: April 2016
Latest in a series of emissions from Techno’s Twilight Zone of EPs, 12″s & LPs with notes in the margins. Beginning in Berlin, Milton Bradley (having dallied […]
Lucy’s Self-Mythology Is Imminent
Self Mythology sees Lucy marshaling polyrhythmic patter, diaphanous drones and textured ambience to push the boundaries, with fusion and occlusion of Anatolian, African and Middle-Eastern chant and […]