From Maarten D. Schermer Sent Wed, Feb 17th 1999, 10:17
From Maarten D. Schermer Sent Wed, Feb 17th 1999, 10:17
>what's the story on this guy? i just picked up one of his= releases, >_monotonprodukt07_, and it blew me away, especially considering= it's from >1981. kinda like DAF vs porter ricks, good stuff. thanks. You what?!?!?! You just picked this up!? How? Where? When? What?= I've known people who would almost literally KILL for this= release. Don't tell me it's been released on CD??? Anyway, Monoton (Konrad Backer) made some amazing avant-Basic= Chanel-ish records before teaming up with DJ Dano (oh gawd) and= going all gabber in the late eighties, early nineties. This one= (MonotonProdukt 07) is his best - four sides worth of subsonic= bass lines and bleeps, eerie, dreamy, funny, all great. Before this, there's= a single album MonotonProdukt 02 (also from 1981; blue sleeve,= similar in design to the black 07), with a similar sound, though a bit more= simple. There's a 7" called 'Ich weiss nichts' (MonotonProdukt= 03 - 1980), which is more krautrocky. His third album (no cat no., white= sleeve) from 1989 has it's moments, but is nowhere near the= genius of the earlier two. After that, I sort of lost track (& interest) - he= made at least two singles with Dano, and did one track on a= Mokum (uh oh) sampler or compilation called 'If answering machines could talk',= which was okay if you played it 33 rpm instead of 45. All the missing MonotonProdukt numbers are most likely to be= cassettes - if anyone has any of them, pleeeaaaaase let me know= - I'd HAVE to hear them. Bye, Maarten