Monokle - Tricks

Happy holidays errbody!

My oldest son grew up learning "traditional" music in school from the 
5th grade, was heavily involved with HS marching band (won best woodwind 
at the senior year awards ceremony), played a lot of alto saxophone 
solos as part of the school jazz band, etc.  He never had much interest 
in IDM, or any electronic music, when he lived with me.  And then he 
went off to university.  A couple years ago during his sophomore year 
there, he ended up hearing some of SAW85-92 on Spotify, and recognized 
the artwork/album cover (I have it prominently displayed in my house :-) 
Long story short, he's been getting into some p.cool music on his own, 
and today turned me on to this artist Monokle, from Russia.  _Tricks_ 
was released in 2024 and sounds pretty dope! Stylistically, I'd say it's 
a shade or two darker/less melodic than _Loud Ambient_ (recently 
discussed here), but not kilometers apart.  Pretty solid IDM for the 
modern age.  Hope you enjoy!

Naturally, I referred my son to _Loud Ambient_ and back to _Temple of 
Transparent Balls_. I'm pretty sure he will recognize some songs from 
the latter, whenever he hears them again.  I played that album a lot 
while he was growing up!

Oh, and of course I told him about TBD's live recording at the Black 
Lodge.

Funny side note: he was over last night for our family holiday 
celebration, was writing a letter to his gf, and went digging through a 
drawer looking for an envelope.  He found a B&W laser printout I made 
several few years -- with many small copies of the iconoic Aphex logo on 
a single page.  I explained how I had used a couple of those to make my 
own stickers with packing tape 
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XFGRIPBkpc).  Naturally, he asked if 
he could take a couple copies of the image for himself, haha.

Cheers,
phase

np: Monokle - "Cascade" (Tricks)



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Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 21:58:51 -0600 (MDT)
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Black Dog live at the Black Lodge

June 1, 2007 is the tenth anniversary of a Black Dog live set in Toronto 
that was later released as a promo-only cassette.  From the liner notes:

"Pioneering experimental electronic collective BLACK DOG PRODUCTIONS 
present THE BLACK DOG performing a special two hour live set recorded in 
Toronto, Canada on 1st June 1997.  From ancient arabic rhythms to 
Detroit and Chicago influenced electronica The Black Dog will take you 
on a surreal journey spanning 10,000 years in Cyberspace.  Exclusive and 
unreleased material by The Black Dog is interwoven with the sounds of 
the Beat Generation; ranging from ambient to abstract drum'n'bass and 
organic techno.  A unique opportunity to glimpse into the mind of a 
world traveller..."

Free MP3s of the set are available here: 
http://dogsquad.kicks-ass.net/beatnik/mp3.htm

Artwork scans from the promo cassette are available here: 
http://www.discogs.com/release/394784

If you haven't heard this set yet, or if you've only heard the muffled 
MP3 files that circulated via Hotline at the end of last century, then 
download the dogsquad files NOW and thank me later!

Enjoy,
phase