Monolog makes music that doesn’t exist yet. Since launching the project in 1999 as an open field of experimentation between his jazz and metal guitar playing roots and interests in electronic synthesis, the Danish-born Berlin-based musician has produced a wide range of explorative records that rewire dancefloor genres like drum & bass, dubstep, breakcore and IDM with classical musicianship and a steeped sense of musicality. The resulting records for labels like Ad Noiseam, Hymen and Murder Channel, as well as Monolog’s own label Subtrakt, are simultaneously difficult to define and yet instantly recognisable.
Written through the pandemic from extended recording sessions sequestered in desolate parts of the world, including remote Italian mountains and the freezing Danish coast, Four Four Twenty Twenty processes feelings of isolation and the graceful failure of humanity through Monolg’s unique sonic filter. Featuring collaborations with Current Value and Subtrakt signee Atsushi Izumi, the record is both bleak and complex, achingly beautiful and aggressively destructive, often within the same composition. Monolog’s tactile, organic sound design and signature use of guitars have been recast here into heady works of drum & bass, heavy metal breakcore and exquisite IDM reprieves. For fans of dark, introspective electronic music and heavy riffs on the dancefoor. Out now on Murder Channel.
Purchase Cassette: Monolog – Four Four Twenty Twenty EP
Joyful Union Cassette Resource 