Monolog - Merge
(Ad Noiseam)



Tracklist
01. The Man Next to You
02. Tandfoi (feat. Tone)
03. Flux & Joey Juggaknotts: Take a Breather (Monolog Remix)
04. A Dying User: Dead and Used
05. AEAEGF (with Balkansky)
06. In Returns
07. Sadness on a Cloud (with Balkansky)
08. A Dying User: Zero Eight
09. Zero Ground (with Species)
10. Diasiva: Make Mountains
11. The Siva (Swarm Intelligence Remix)

Release Date
29th September 2014

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Monolog - Merge



Press Release
A year after “2 Dots Left”, Monolog combines styles, unites collaborators and fuses influence in his most varied album to date. “Merge” is a perfect snapshot of this musician's tastes, talents and scope, from abysmal basses to club-packing breaks and vocal-based experimentations. Lyrical, warm, heavy and sharp, Monolog's music takes its listener along a coherent but colourful demonstration which keeps on pushing boundaries and redefining the project itself. This might well be the album with which Monolog unfolds its wide, human, and impressively powerful self.
It has been a busy year for Monolog. Since the release of “2 Dots Left”, his fifth album but first one for Ad Noiseam, Mads Lindgren has been playing live more than ever before (with remarked performances at the Fusion, Maschinenfest and Schlagstrom festivals and several Ad Noiseam birthday parties, among others) and writing new material, both in solo or in collaboration with a wide array of like-minded artists.
“Merge” is a very aptly-named follow-up to “2 Dots Left”. A year after the cold, robotic and impressively detailed assault on the senses that was his previous album, Monolog comes up with a new full length which finally gives an accurate idea of the scope of his talent. While part of his early discography was dancefloor-oriented, part was a lot more downtempo and calm (such as his 2012's “Aerodynamic” on Uhrlaut). With “Merge”, Mads Lindgren combine styles, personal and atmospheres and offers what might be the most definitive Monolog release to date, and the one with which one grasps best what he wants to achieve.
If the beat is varied, ranging from the sparse ambient of “Tandfoi” to the ferocious drum'n'bass of “In Returns” or the heavy dubstep of “AEAEGF”, the participating guests also come from different horizons. Two heavy, bassy tracks are co-written with Ivan Shopov of Balkansky / Cooh, two spacious experimentations come from A Dying User (Monolog's collaborative project with fellow Dane Karsten Pflum), two are forays into vocal-based work (a song with Tone, already present on “2 Dots Left” and a gritty modern hip-hop track with Flux & Joey Juggaknotts). Finally, “Merge” closes with two tracks involving Monolog's frequent partner in crime, Swarm Intelligence (first as part of Diasiva, then remixing Monolog's well known “Siva”).
If Monolog's previous album stands as a feast of cold, mechanical harshness, “Merge” is its more human pendant. A slower and heavier work, it extends “2 Dots Left” and confirms (if necessary) that Mads Lindgren is a multifaceted artist to follow very closely.

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