Once more, a fourth time, Berlin-based artist Tonia Reeh becomes Monotekktoni to make use of her chunky old synthesizers, to throw herself against that strange world, to defy arbitrariness and callousness. It will not stop, however different the framework. Things fall apart, that is how it feels. Our points of reference become blurred, get lost or lose their meaning. Everybody is talking about gentrification, but what does it mean to be affected? To be expelled from your living-space, your work-space, the district you grew up in, to give up what shaped you. A new quarter, a new place has to be filled with life. And you will wait for the very same process. For the constant up and down.
Retreat to a place that is not negotiable! A castle of noise and distortion, rattling beats and wild movements. Protect the essence: The ingenious, the candor. The music on this album plays with the very extremes. Electro noise and ruckus on one side, utterly beautiful harmonic movements on the other. Elaborate constructions meet the deliberate acceptance of mistakes and improvisation. Boiling anger, just enough to start laughing. Schadenfreude is freude at its best. Even more so if it's you falling off the ladder. And then, finally, all those creaky and rasping layers connect and become straightforward songs.
It is not what it seems. This is still not pop music. This still goes the whole hog. This will not be easier. Wrong time, wrong place, you will be told again and again. A ritual, almost. In the end you will wish you had done it differently. You will keep moving. Take one step after the other.
Retreat to a place that is not negotiable! A castle of noise and distortion, rattling beats and wild movements. Protect the essence: The ingenious, the candor. The music on this album plays with the very extremes. Electro noise and ruckus on one side, utterly beautiful harmonic movements on the other. Elaborate constructions meet the deliberate acceptance of mistakes and improvisation. Boiling anger, just enough to start laughing. Schadenfreude is freude at its best. Even more so if it's you falling off the ladder. And then, finally, all those creaky and rasping layers connect and become straightforward songs.
It is not what it seems. This is still not pop music. This still goes the whole hog. This will not be easier. Wrong time, wrong place, you will be told again and again. A ritual, almost. In the end you will wish you had done it differently. You will keep moving. Take one step after the other.
Monotekktoni: Different Steps To Stumble
Where Is The Hole
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Your Colour Was Not Strong E...
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Chinese Afterburner
Monotekktoni
Dirty Paradise
Monotekktoni
Fuck The Engine
Monotekktoni
Stupid Girl
Monotekktoni
Don't Tell Father
Monotekktoni
Roof
Monotekktoni
Nicht Stolpern Bitte
Monotekktoni
Häßlichent
Monotekktoni
Copacabana
Monotekktoni
I'm A Wheelchair
Monotekktoni
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