Each Monolake release is, of course, sui generis with a context and sound never to recur, but Interstate is unique in its way—document of a vital musical and cultural moment capturing paradigm shifts in (pre-)millennial music production; its deep textured electronics and ever-morphing cyber-rhythms a snapshot of two phonauts boundary-surfing with then cutting edge tech, causing ripples that became waves that would break over the ’00s and beyond.
Tag: Field Records
Monolake :: Gravity (Reissue) (Field) — First vinyl pressing
Monolake explores the earth and the heavens as well as man’s place in them, their soundtrack being sculpted with daring simplicity to achieve complexity and intricacy of expression and form.
Elsewhereness revisited #10 no drone left unturned
Elsewhereness revisited is an occasional feature documenting the drift at the margins: ambient gasbagging and blurb blather, ’tube-d, ’cloud-ed, and ’camp-ed up, complete with companion mix, […]
Techno’s Outer Limits :: February 2018
Latest in a series of emissions from Techno’s Twilight Zone of EPs/12″s and LPs with notes in the margins. Silent Season’s 10 Year Anniversary vinyl series […]
Techno’s Outer Limits :: April 2017
First transmission of 2017 from Techno’s Twilight Zone of EPs/12″s and LP, with notes in the margins. https://youtu.be/COnuKIvWZks James Shaw, the artist known as Sigha, we’re told […]
Techno’s Outer Limits :: July 2015
Latest postcard from Techno’s Twilight Zone—recent 12″s/EPs/LPs + notes in the margins. Scroll down for Soundcloud set of selections. France first, where Dement3d, prime suspect in some […]
Techno’s Outer Limits :: March 2015
Latest in a series of postcards from Techno’s Twilight Zone of 12″/EPs and LPs with notes in the margins. Listen to select tracks via Soundcloud at bottom […]
ALAN LOCKETT :: Dalliance #10 mix
Dalliance #10 is a Techno mix from igloomag Contributing Editor Alan Lockett in MistMaxer albient guise—latest in a continuing series of audio-snapshots soundtracking his notes in the margins of Techno’s […]

















