Monolake layers the Buddha Machine

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  • Robert Henke’s new five-record box set of ambience ‘Layering Buddha’ uses sounds solely culled from the cult anti-iPod of 2006: the Buddha Machine.
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  • Robert Henke aka Monolake’s new five-record box set of ambience ‘Layering Buddha’ uses sounds solely culled from the cult anti-iPod of 2006: the FM3 Buddha Machine. FM3’s Buddha Machine is a hardware loop player built like a little AM radio which retails for around twenty US dollars. It plays nine different built-in loops on an endless cycle and you can fade between them. And that’s it. Made by a Buddhist-run factory in southern China (presumably for a bit of electronically enhanced meditation), the Buddha Machine is now being picked up by experimental musicians and made into records. Robert Henke bought six of them. Brian Eno bought eight. Henke’s Layering Buddha’ was created by granulating, filtering, pitching and layering the original loops to bring music out of the imperfections of the el-cheapo machine. The release comes as a CD or a limited edition of 500 five-single vinyl boxes pressed in grey vinyl and numbered by hand. Hummmm. Robert Henke ‘Layering Buddha’ Tracklist 01. Layer 001 02. Layer 002 03. Layer 003 04. Layer 004 05. Layer 005 06. Layer 006 07. Layer 007 08. Layer 008 09. Layer 009 10. Layer 010 ‘Layering Buddha’ by Robert Henke will be released on Monolake’s label Imbalance Computer Music on October 30, 2006.
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