Monolake!

I hear he is booked for 23rd Feb. Put that sucker in your diary!

Wooommmpppphhhhhh!

Just put on the polaroid 12" in celebration and yep its still amazing!
He was great last time. This time round I don't have to get up at 6am the following day either - hurrah!

yip its true
playing at coherent and support is me, darin king, mile kuen and kitt. Kitt'll be doing an opening live set of minimal dubtep types stuff.. should be a great night!

if kitt's there I'm there ;/

If you are a fan, or interested how he gets his sounds i recommend his website:

www.monolake.de

A particular favourite is this bit of humor in under the Cern vinyl release (which i have of course... *ahem*):

"Ridiculus promotion blabla: "Everyone who listened to the latest monolake album "momentum" told us to release the opening track Cern on vinyl. Here it comes. The vinyl version is slightly modified and is up to 30% more efficient on dancefloors than the original. We have been testing it live and it works. Buy now and get a limited copy in white vinyl."

feb is going to be freakishly bussy...
excelent

Wicked
Nice local support too - good to hear some dubstep is on the agenda as I think Monolake would cross over nicely to the fans of the more warped work in that genre.

He was awesome in Melbourne.

If anyone want to get a taste of Monolake, I recommend the Momentum album. Its kind of like the Plastikman Sheet One vibe - and that is a great thing to me

http://fedho.com/image/view/4129

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arrgghh!! im retarded!!!

nice flyer Mel!

thanks and thanks for putting it up... my brain had a temporary malfunction last night....

20 bones!!
thats a bargain.

che oice

Hey whats the Layering Buddha gig about - is he djing for that or is it an additional live performance? Just thought there might be a difference using his name. Cheers

it's just his latest cd innit?

I would like to know too - I think Wellington is just the Layering Budda Show...

he'll probably be playing one of these bitches....
http://img230.imageshack.us/img230/6268/buddhamachinejn8.jpg

but the big question is... will he be playng the slåttberg?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krW_mFZwMKE

Layering Buddha was an hour long track he posted up for free on his site midway through last year. Not there any more but newer stuff is..
http://monolake.de/downloads/free_track.html

The track itself was from a live performance, all ambient, lots of deep drones, crackles, hisses, pops clicks and river noises! In other words, sounds we all love. I think some of the sounds were generated with this machine -
http://www.fm3buddhamachine.com/

cool loking like a good month for minimal/techno will be at this fo sure, do you think they will serve inner circle rum at this gig (jokes)

looking

oh god, no more inner circle.

perhaps the absinthe?

http://obscure.co.nz/events/robert_henke_layering_buddha

slug! with regards to our conversation - it is auckland

Tue 26 Feb 2008, 8:00pm @ 10/12 Customs St, Auckland, NZ

fyi :

Monolake / Robert Henke . also in Christchurch

providing:

Workshop - 2pm Thursday 21st Feb @ CPIT
Layering Buddha - 8pm Thursday 21st Feb @ NASDA
Club Set - 11pm Friday 22nd Feb @ Double Happy

Check :: http://www.obscure.co.nz/events/monolake_2

why no work shop in ak?

your a man of many words designermusic.. you beter be at pony club on friday.. if you dont know what i mean the pm me.

Basically the workshop/talk is being held by MAINZ. I asked the guy who's organsing it if the public could come, but at this stage he said its just a private talk. Ill let you know if this changes though..

last one he gave I fell asleep

no i don't know what you mean.... is this a cloaked reference?

Hes going to be generally wasted on MAINZ students..

just a reminder about monolake this weekend... alas miles has pulled out due to family committments, but other than that it should be a wicked night...see you guys down there!!

i agree proof..


hey miles, did you cut your finger again?

im excited. cheers mel.

I have to come from a bbq in pokeno so I need to get my timings right anybody know what time he's playing?

it'll be after midnight I would guess

roughly 1am...
bummer about this bloody weather... hope people brave it and come out..

set times are as follows:
10-11: martin doing an ambient set-he has great taste in music so its worth coming along to check him out..
11-12: Wilberforce doing a live dubstep set
12-1: moi
1-3 ish: monolake
3 til close: darin king

looking forward to this one . i will be coming with darryn from the new telepathics( a band formed in germany playing at the next bfm summer series) and a bunch of people including a very interesting german fellow. so dont worry mel this minimal will be maximum! we will be partying hard out!

nice gig mel good visuals

yea top night! good turn out too, Nice work

thanks everyone who made it down-it was certainly a good night! hope to see you guys at Layering Buddha on Tuesday...

was a great gig. i like the changes the club has made, robert got a nice crisp sound out of that system.

was good to meet you fotoman

Good night! My eyes were constantly drawn to the hypnotic flickering of the Monodeck.. And was sounding very nice (my appreciation to everyone involved in that!).

Top notch set from Wilberforce too, just the type of deep dubstep I am feeling at the moment, I don't suppose it was recorded/he has a similar set up somewhere that I could grab?

great night. it was amazing watching robert jam with the monodeck without even a single glance at his laptop screen.


its the sorta stuff i love too. there's a set of his here http://substep.com/2008/02/08/substep-mix-feb2008-by-wilberforce/

i know this is a bit last minute but ive just found out rose and i can bring a couple of people to roberts lecture tomorrow from 12.30-2.30 at MAINZ, so if theres any ableton afficionados out there, give me a buzz on 021 592111 (ill be up til about 10.3o tonight) or tomorrow morning, sometime after 9.30am. and the talk is not entirely ableton, its quite philosophical as well..

one more thing... if any of you guys are coming to Layering Buddha, bring a cushion to sit on... rose and i can get old of a bit of stuff but im not sure how much at this stage

cheers daev! downloaded. great night that was.

was choice when he faded out the music to finish his set and someone said "play some more"

Robert - "ok" and carried on.

he also hung around for a good part of darren's set

Mike not in to your photos NR? what a shame

haven't posted any yet and still working out how to but they may yet arrive when I get it sorted

it did look like you had some good ones. minus tonsil shots

Was a good night.
Good to see you Daev and Mel

Really nice live act, and so dancy with the ambiental tunes! Robert said, he wasn't thinking after the peformance when I asked him what he thought about the DJ playing after him (always difficult after a live act, imo, isn't it?). He must have been very exited!!

See ya at Steve Bug's gig, guys!

was a wicked night indeed top sets from you all. monolake was awesome. was good meeting you too sander.

Layering Buddha tonight was a very nice coda apart that is from the discordant second set that sent everyone fleeing from the room or covering their ears. Just so not appropriate to the tone set by Rose beforehand.

Awesome space to set it in too and I really enjoyed that sound stage.

Same

Thanks!

no problem.

have you got kode 9's sonar mix? AMAZING.

http://kode9.blogspot.com/2007/05/mix-for-sonar-festival.html

I'm having trouble with the zip

here's something to whet your appetite in the meantime

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=1b8_1204310071

looks like my set didn't pass Mike's critical eye or was too out of date or summit

photos - where?

they were supposed to be up here but don't worry you're not in them

try this

http://www.flickr.com/photos/12756088@N07/show/

good pics!

that's sooooooooooo cool. did you take that?

Heh, yeah was just going to post the same thing about that pic. Looks like the monodeck is beaming in from outerspace (in fact at some points it sounded like this was the case).

There's also one of me looking moody behind a pillar.

yeah daev all came from my little W5 Sony

rad. any chance of getting a high-res copy?

Nice photos. Not the squeaky clean shots we normally see, but a lot more, well... soul?

pm me your gmail or such similar