Monos - Below The Ground

Monos
Below The Ground (ICR72)
CDR, edition of 135 copies

This one came out and was gone before I noticed (something that I can't explain, as I love Monos and I thought I was keeping a eye open for their long-expected new release). Fortunately, I managed to buy a copy at the original price a couple of weeks ago. I post only the bonus CDr available with the first 135 copies of Above The Sky, which is still widely available, and of course still at ICR.

What I can say is that the music on Below The Ground is as different of the one on Above the Sky as their names imply. No birds chirping on this one. And apparently, less field-recordings, or maybe more processed field-recordings. It's always difficult to identify the source with Monos, and that's part of their appeal.

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Jonathan Coleclough - Period

Jonathan Coleclough
Period (Anomalous Records NOM 4 CD X)
2xCD edition of 300, 2nd CD

This is the second disc of the limited 2xCD edition of Period. 2 long tracks : Periodicity and Summand, the first being a remix by Colin Potter. The first disc can be found on the excellent Scrapyard Forecast blog.

New link:

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Monos - Collage

Monos
Collage (Fungal 03 - 2003)
CDR, 3 editions of 100, 50 and 50 copies with different covers

Here is what was said at the time on ICR :

The latest album from Darren Tate and Colin Potter as Monos. Field recordings by the former are processed and manipulated by the latter almost beyond recognition and electronic sounds are discreetly added. Slow changes, but the journey ends in a very different place to where it started. Three editions.

Expect more Monos / Darren Tate on this blog in the future... (and Monos should release a new album in the following days? weeks? months? years?)

New rip @ 256 kbps :

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