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Gravity

Monolake | Format: Audio CD
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  • Audio CD (22 Jan 2001)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Imbalance
  • ASIN: B0000520XM
  • Other Editions: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 498,672 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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2. Ice
3. Frost
4. Static
5. Zero Gravity
6. Fragile
7. Aviation
8. Nucleus

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Well thought-out minimal techno- captivating 7 Oct 2008
By Mr. Stuart Bruce TOP 1000 REVIEWER VINE™ VOICE
Format:Audio CD
Very stripped down, in places very straightforward, powerful techno music. With its slick production with interesting touches, this album draws me in. I'll put it on as background music and without soon it will have completely calmed me down- strange for something so beat-heavy but an indication of a well thought-out album.

The final track "Nucleaus" is a beatless ambiences and a brilliant way to tie it all up.

This album is proof that there's a lot more to making a techno album than programming Ableton ten different ways and then sticking them on a CD in any order.
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3.0 out of 5 stars It ain't Hong Kong, but it will do 9 Aug 2001
By Robert Rives - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Audio CD
Monolake's Hong Kong LP is one of my desert island discs. Merging the minimal, echoing electronic rhythms that the Basic Channel/Chain Reaction guys pioneered with the lush sentimental strains of classic Vangelis and Giorgio Moroder, this record was truly a landmark in electronic music.

Gravity continues Monolake's obsession with stunning sound design (this guy writes music software) but the amazing sounds aren't being assimilated properly into great pieces of music this time. The record is highly listenable, it just doesn't have the ineffable magic quality that Hong Kong has. Instead of a feeling of transcendance, the record seems aiming for a frosty, less emotional tone that is fascinating but a bit empty. The album jettisons a lot of the earlier epic soundtrack influences for something colder and more clinical feeling. Don't get me wrong, Hong Kong isn't exactly Chariots of Fire in terms of warmth either. But on that record there was at least enough feeling to give the record a haunting, detatched quality that also seems strangely poigniant. Frankly, for anybody else, Gravity would be a four or five star album, but knowing what this guy is capable of, this record isn't quite there. Interestingly I find I enjoy the album more for the dark mood it creates when I just put it on and forget about it, rather than when I sit and listen intensely to it. I'd still recommend the album, just not with the same enthusiasm I've felt for his earlier work.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars flawless 18 Jan 2001
By David G. Lefkowitz - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Audio CD
if you combine the best elements of hong kong with those of interstate (both brilliant records themselves) you come close to how great gravity is. you can the feel the maturity of sound progress over the course of all three records, yet the connection between all three remain unmistakable. if the producers of monolake read this, all i can really say is thank you and please keep the music coming.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars BEST MONOLAKE ALBUM 16 Jan 2002
By HERNAN GONZALEZ - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Audio CD
That is until I listen to Cinemascope, which I haven't yet. I can't believe the previous reviews here, Gravity is far beyond the quality of Interstate and Hong Kong. Music sounds much more compacted and no so software generated. It's full of dark but soulful feelings, unlike Interstate which is happy and superficial. Rythmic patterns have been improved a lot in this release too. The guys have come to create some of the most original loops I've heard to date. Ice, Frost, Static, Zero Gravity and Aviation are to me the best tracks. The lowest point in the record is the first track which I always skip, it's a very Interstate track. Their goal of a minimalist structure based on a complex grid of elements to represent outside reality as well as the everyday entropy in the individual mind has been achieved with Gravity. The obscure but tasteful synth drones that enlarge the feeling of the never-actually-looping rythmic patterns carry your subconscious to the end of each track without you realising you have listened to 5 or 6 minutes of the same thing. Rob and Gerard have finally get rid of any link between them and former labelmates in Chain Reaction, pursuing their own path towards defining pure electronic music. Best techno dub CD I've got. Guys, we would like a DVD with the live video improvisations, that would be great!
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