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MONAURAL:
Monitor Interference CD (BING-016c)
Release Date: 2/15/99
Chris Johns
Scott Zacharias
Bryan Cole
“Monaural charts the highways and byways of inner and outer space, but
the groups also indulges a subterranean dub aesthetic - sculpting
thick, hypnotic soundscapes against a relentlessly low pulsebeat.”
-Raleigh Spectator
Monaural shifted from their much-heralded first release, a 12”
on Burnt Hair records, with Monitor Interference. Where the 12” offered
two long form spacey rock songs, their first album picked up elements
of electronic music, dub and jazz, combining in a way not dissimilar to
what makes people go gaga over Boards of Canada today. By recording
live instrumentation into their computers, Monaural managed to keep
life and breath as they gliched and teched their sound towards
experimental new heights.
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