excellent news!

Yes!

Cooooooool news !! What's better than listening Mr Henke's music to appreciate fully your speakers

fabooo.

October of this year hasn't happened yet

Can't wait; Henke is one of the most technically gifted producers out there. His engineering skills are second to none in electronic music, and I can't wait to hear what he has cooked up given the advancements in technology.

looking forward to the release!

Y E S !!!!!!!!!!!!

@sovietpanda That's just how futuristic it is.

Bravo!! Can't wait for that!! He is a teacher at Berlin's University of Arts. I am sooo going to stalk him once I start my Masters over there!

YESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYES

wow, long time until February, this is a teaser ... it's time for some old monolake albums for now than.

Yay Henke is a role model !
Cant wait to hear his work

What a great late christmas present this will be.

Can't wait ..

Amazing news! Really liked the mysterious text the artist has posted to accompany the listing on his website...
I will look forward to that album!

Im sure its going to be amazing. Cant wait.

I've had the pleasure to read more of the text that will be included in the full LP - it continues the plot from the short excerpt included on 'Silence' cover. and it seems like bits'n'pieces of hell of a story.

One of my favorite electronic projects ever... every new Monolake album is a must, I know it's going to be quality as always. Silence was amazing... Henke can't do no wrong.

sick, always productive as an artists

i'd buy that for a dollar

great album cover

looking forward to it, as always

Divine! Unimaginably wonderful, delightful, beautiful, entrancing, exciting, deep, and so on ....

The sound is too digital. It's just unbearable.

unbearably beautiful (:

Amazing stuff!

Totally wonderful album - Lillith is a highlight for me!

Plus Plus in my book!

mmmmmmm, its OK, just OK.
Nothing groundbreaking in the Monolake world and to me, it sounds too crisp. I'm a bit disappointed to be honest.

génial et intéressant ,enfin un truc expérimental accessible!!

brilliant as usual. Henke does not set the bar. He is the Bar.

dissappointed.. maybe it needs to grow on me, but didnt really find much.. too dry to me... its kind of funny feeling, it sounds like monolake when im listening but it does not really have his rhythms,tension and atmosphere.. maybe its a good thing, but it lacks what other albums had :/

I'm loving it... it's better than Silence, imo. Darker and with some more variety. I dont look for old sounds and nostalgia when I listen to Monolake, I wait for innovation and music that goes forward
Hitting the Surface, Existence of Time, Ghosts.. the higher points for me. Henke did it again.

worse than silence

This is exactly how I feel, especially about the rhythms. It's a fascinating album on a conceptual level and the sound design is brilliant as one would expect (although I think he goes overboard with the tricks in some tracks), but it never ever quite clicks as a piece of music for me.

With that said, I've already heard this LP three times and I have a feeling I'll keep going back to it because there's something weirdly alluring about it. Or maybe that's just my mind playing tricks convincing me to look for something that isn't there.

I like this, think it could work without the beats as well, good stuff,,,

5/5

Too clinical, not innovative.

the album tries to look like its an amazing piece of modern electronic music with a lot of experimentations , but on the exit we have got a kind of poor musical experience where those experiments ruin as they try to build up in a logical structure



dissappointed

ohhhhhhh fuck D: i need this like asap.

you're probably one of those clowns who listens to all tracks on youtube. and some tracks sound too digital to you.

but i doubt you'll get the irony.

so i went to see the live performance at berghain last night. absolutely amazing! i don´t think i can take anyone´s opinion on this serious until they have experienced it on a system like that.

If you think that calling people names on the internet makes your dick bigger, you're wrong.

Just came back from Fabric and it was absolutely amazing! In combination with the visuals of Tarik Barri it's just perfect ...

Didn't enjoy this, one or two tunes are great, but overall it was just really obnoxious...

Monolake is singular in electronic music history. Robert Henke has managed to completely occupy a particular space in the genre that leaves no room for imitators.

Of course, the space that he occupies is not one that appeals to all, and it's clear that he's never been interested in that. "Too digital," as one dilettante observes right on this page. For Pete's sake, Robert Henke was a co-creator of Ableton Live!

If you started following electronic music out of fascination for the endless array of sounds that machines can make, this will be right up your alley. If you're more into the club scene, you should still give it a shot, but just keep an open mind along the way.

I think the reason why others and myself are saying "too crisp" or "too digital" is that in a recent interview he said he has stopped using field recordings (for Ghosts) in favor for creating his own sounds. You can tell, it just sounds over worked.

well, from his website:
"I recorded and transformed sounds from objects I found in my flat; glasses, paper, thin plastic sheets, stones, pebbles in a salad bowl and so on. I believe I became a pretty good foley artist by doing so. The track 'Taku' mainly consists of recordings I made with two empty glasses clicking at each other, and 'Unstable Matter' is an exercise in applying complex transformations to all kinds of recordings: a bunch of vintage cymbals, my own voice, metal plates, singing bowls, bells, and a rusty hi-hat. "

that said, i think a good way to appreciate this album (instead of focusing strictly on 'sound design') is to see it as a middle part of a trilogy. i don't think there's been such an explicit cinematic link between any monolake albums in the past, so i'm excited to see how henke finishes this story.

seriously gnarly stuff...