MONOS (DARREN TATE & COLIN POTTER) — Promotion
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Edel aufgemachter CDR-Release, die Wiederveröffentlichung des allerersten MONOS-Albums von 2000!
"Promotion was originally released in 2000 by Nil Records in a total of three editions of fifty in four sleeve designs. The first edition depicted a dark orange fern, the second a yellow cactus and the third either a red or green texture. It marked the debut release of Monos, the project of ex Ora member Darren Tate. From this beginning Monos went on to produce a number of releases for labels such as Anomalous Records and Die Stadt gaining an extra member along the way in the shape of Colin Potter. Out of print and unavailable since it's initial release, Promotion is now issued on Twenty Hertz in a slim jewelcase with obi, postcard and photograph insert. Promotion was recorded and mixed in Hull, 1999. Mixed by Darren Tate with additional sounds contributed by Daisuke Suzuki." [label info]
"Darren Tate has quietly been producing drone-based compositions out of smeared field recordings and electronics for almost two decades now, but the bulk of his productions have been tiny self-released editions. In the early '90s, he and Andrew Chalk released a handful of cassettes under the moniker Ora, often with help from Colin Potter, Jonathan Coleclough, Michael Northam, and Daisuke Suzuki. Around the turn of the millennium, Tate and Chalk parted ways under amicable circumstances from what we can ascertain, with Chalk focusing on the equally impressive Mirror with Christoph Heemann, and Tate beginning to record as Monos with continuing production support from Colin Potter. Promotion was the first Monos album. While many of the ensuing Monos records had the same dappled deep ambience and impressionist use of field recordings as Ora, Promotion was an entirely different beast. Here, Tate works with a
comparatively caustic recording of him dragging a heavy metal object across a concrete surface with all of the abraded textures and rusted
growls that one might expect from such an action. Against this, Tate interweaves several long-form electronic drones with off-set
oscillation sweeps, recalling more of the bunker electronics of early '60s computer music. Originally, Promotion was released in three tiny editions of 50 copies each back in 2000. Of course, those are long gone; but Paul Bradley has rescued this gem from the dustbin,
although this current edition numbers only 200 copies. And, no these won't be long for this world either!" [Aquarius Records review]
www.twentyhertz.co.uk
"Promotion was originally released in 2000 by Nil Records in a total of three editions of fifty in four sleeve designs. The first edition depicted a dark orange fern, the second a yellow cactus and the third either a red or green texture. It marked the debut release of Monos, the project of ex Ora member Darren Tate. From this beginning Monos went on to produce a number of releases for labels such as Anomalous Records and Die Stadt gaining an extra member along the way in the shape of Colin Potter. Out of print and unavailable since it's initial release, Promotion is now issued on Twenty Hertz in a slim jewelcase with obi, postcard and photograph insert. Promotion was recorded and mixed in Hull, 1999. Mixed by Darren Tate with additional sounds contributed by Daisuke Suzuki." [label info]
"Darren Tate has quietly been producing drone-based compositions out of smeared field recordings and electronics for almost two decades now, but the bulk of his productions have been tiny self-released editions. In the early '90s, he and Andrew Chalk released a handful of cassettes under the moniker Ora, often with help from Colin Potter, Jonathan Coleclough, Michael Northam, and Daisuke Suzuki. Around the turn of the millennium, Tate and Chalk parted ways under amicable circumstances from what we can ascertain, with Chalk focusing on the equally impressive Mirror with Christoph Heemann, and Tate beginning to record as Monos with continuing production support from Colin Potter. Promotion was the first Monos album. While many of the ensuing Monos records had the same dappled deep ambience and impressionist use of field recordings as Ora, Promotion was an entirely different beast. Here, Tate works with a
comparatively caustic recording of him dragging a heavy metal object across a concrete surface with all of the abraded textures and rusted
growls that one might expect from such an action. Against this, Tate interweaves several long-form electronic drones with off-set
oscillation sweeps, recalling more of the bunker electronics of early '60s computer music. Originally, Promotion was released in three tiny editions of 50 copies each back in 2000. Of course, those are long gone; but Paul Bradley has rescued this gem from the dustbin,
although this current edition numbers only 200 copies. And, no these won't be long for this world either!" [Aquarius Records review]
www.twentyhertz.co.uk