Experimental Electronic 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.
But it’s not all splatter. Soaring synths pierce the darkness with moments of light reminding me to look for that light, follow it down the tracks even as metallic crashes continue to cascade into crumbling piles of rust.
These forgotten tracks offer dark, crunchy, and cinematic structures in a mere three piece suite spanning just over five minutes.
The sheer magnitude of Larval Beak’s roughened overflows spills over five succinct tracks, yet manages to convey a powerful sonic panoramic within a brisk 20 minutes.
Máximo Volumen 1 elevates late night grooves for splintered wooden floorboards of abandoned warehouses—its detuned techno and rave pulse pointed directly at your feet.
The sacrament of music is universal, presented here with no words, no specific belief system, no dogma, just a moment in time with two guys who were hanging out together in an otherwise empty church making the whole place resonate and respond with otherworldly vibrations.
Sharp ambient whirs blend in with erratic beatwork and swaying melodic strands that bend at strange angles, while darker shadows accentuate the arrival of precisely timed and densely packed atmospheric elements.
Diffused Nocturne ultimately reveals a powerful array of soundtracks exploring the infinitesimal trajectory of electronic music, dipping from low-flying bass thuds to darker technoid shapes.
