Monos - A Natural Discordance (Nil, 2000)

1 Untitled 22:12
2 Untitled 32:19
3 Untitled 6:29

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Monos - Sunny Day In Saginomiya (Edition ..., 2001)

1 Sunny Day (21:12)
2 October (24:38)

La base de ces deux longs morceaux sont des field recordings (un jardin japonais pour le premier, un hélicoptère et des moteurs pour le second) enregistrés par Daisuke Suzuki, retravaillés par Darren Tate et Colin Potter, qui y ajoutent une électronique vaporeuse...

Monos' music is elusive: if you don't pay enough attention, it blends into the background, becoming an unremarkable soundscape with strange sounds occasionally creeping in. But the moment you focus on it (or listen with headphones, strongly recommended) it becomes immersive and fascinating. Darren Tate and Colin Potter work with the threshold of audibility and familiarity, mixing together vaporous synth textures, field recordings, and electronics to create aural surrealism. Sunny Day in Saginomiya is more demanding than Nightfall Sunshine. The album consists of two extended tracks (over 20 minutes each). The title track is constructed over field recordings made by Daisuke Suzuki. The whole landscape (a Japanese garden, it seems) is clearly audible at first, but as the piece gains in density only the birds, some of them singing from frighteningly close range, signal that the field recording is still there. The other elements are woven into a shifting soundscape with no beginning or end. It is a beautiful experience. "October" adopts a very different perspective. In this piece, the sound of a helicopter provides the basso continuo, accompanied by motor hums and a barely audible synthesizer patch. On top of this basic layer are added odd, disgruntling sounds: a creaking floor, fart sounds in a metal pipe, and various other found sounds, all introduced carefully and purposefully placed into the composition, even though they are often loud, disturb the mood of the backbone layer, and alter -- even contradict -- the peacefulness of the first piece.
All Music Guide Review

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Monos - Generators (Die Stadt, 2005)

1-1 Sleep (23:07)
1-2 Generators (21:50)
1-3 Slowly Fading (26:25)
2-1 The Black Sea (48:01)
3-1 Generating A Black Sea (45:50)

Monos voit collaborer Darren Tate et Colin Potter. Le premier disque est essentiellement basé sur des field recordings, le second sur des sons électroniques, le troisième inclut des composantes de chacun des deux précédents pour donner quelque chose un nouveau résultat....

Monos is the collaborative project by Colin Potter and Darren Tate. This double album consists of two different works recorded between 2002-2003 at IC studio. Disc one features 3 tracks that are loosely based on processed field recordings in the ‘classic’ Monos style, exploring internal spaces. Disc two has one long track of organic and electronic tones which combine to give a dense cloud of flowing sound. Additionally there will be a special mail order only edition includes an extra CDR, containing a track made up of components from both discs, which produces a completely different result.
Intuitive Music

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