Nano feat. Monolake live January 19th 2008

stable · Post by **stable** » Wed Jan 09, 2008 6:14 pm

Electronic music pioneer Robert Henke and co-founder of the infamouse Ableton music production software comes to Melbourne for a true audio experience...

NANO presents MONOLAKE 100% LIVE - Saturday 19th January 2008

Nano is proud to present a true innovator in modern minimal music... Robert Henke aka Monolake 100% LIVE.

Monolake Live is a post-techno, dubstep influenced live performance,
that merges raw and massive beats and basslines with complex drones
to create a highly immersive atmosphere to get lost in while dancing.

Monolake's significant releases include the debut album Hongkong, the ambient epos Gobi, and the dark and driving album Gravity, plus his recent vinyl releases "Plumbicon" and "Alaska", which were instant classics amongst Melbourne's (and the world's) underground dancefloors, showing a development into more and more reduced and rhythmical structures while keeping a complexity and deepness that proved to be extremely powerful in the club context.

Robert Henke also releases drone/ambient works under his real name and is massively involved in the creation of the music software Ableton Live.

The Monolake LIVE show is set to inspire and excite you, as this incredible artist plays his only Melbourne CLUB show on Miss Libertine's monster NEXO soundsystem.

Support comes from your favourite Nano residents DAVE PHAM / NICHOLAS JOUIN / ANDREW JOBE and MIKE CALLANDER, plus our very special guests SCOTT DICKSON & U-ONE (LAB), GREG MOLINARO AND DECLAN KELLY.

Tickets $20 on the door. Doors open 10pm
Miss Libertine / 34 Franklin St. City.
www.nanominimal.com.au / www.myspace.com/nanominimal

RK · Post by RK » Thu Jan 10, 2008 8:15 am

goody

deviant · Post by **deviant** » Thu Jan 10, 2008 9:02 am

is he as hot as Janette Slack?

Post by **lynt** » Thu Jan 10, 2008 10:49 am

deviant wrote:is he as hot as Janette Slack?

I think your eye is playing up again mate.

witty_pseudonym · Post by **witty_pseudonym** » Thu Jan 10, 2008 11:26 am

ooer...tempting!

panNik · Post by **panNik** » Fri Jan 11, 2008 11:17 am

Do it Witty! Do it!

This will be huge

gnat · Post by **gnat** » Fri Jan 11, 2008 11:20 am

haha i just saw monolake and immediately thought of you panik and then lookie whoi's already all over it!

panNik · Post by **panNik** » Fri Jan 11, 2008 11:21 am

Haha! All over it.

That's not a bad word association, I'll take that

Lephrenic · Post by **Lephrenic** » Fri Jan 11, 2008 4:15 pm

Done and done.

FoundationStepper · Post by **FoundationStepper** » Fri Jan 11, 2008 4:17 pm

titter at token dubstep reference for monolake

Zero Hour · Post by **Zero Hour** » Sat Jan 12, 2008 11:50 am

Im there

stable · Post by **stable** » Mon Jan 14, 2008 2:24 pm

can't wait...

he will be handling all his own visuals too.

stable · Post by **stable** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 8:20 pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2O4Qjeax7TU

universal sea · Post by **universal sea** » Sat Jan 19, 2008 11:30 am

set times?

flippo · Post by **flippo** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 5:04 am

I knew the worlds to every song

bennyk · Post by **bennyk** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 9:55 am

bennyk · Post by **bennyk** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 9:57 am

Lephrenic · Post by **Lephrenic** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 3:26 pm

Awesome gig. Loved it.

(except for the wankers complaining it wasn't dancey enough. wtf were they expecting?)

Even better, I had the pleasure of doing brunch today with Robert and got to pick his brain about Ableton, the Monodeck and his song setup. So for those who want to know:

The set is pretty much improvised throughout. All MIDI, no audio tracks. The drums were generated from the Operator synth or in Simpler. He's got one Live song open with short MIDI clips from his tracks. No clip was longer than four bars; most were only one bar. Rather than constantly triggering different clips to change up the sound, he'd leave the same clips running for a while and manipulate them either with fx or playing with the decay times on the synths. So all the long transitions, drones and build-ups were done on the fly.

Post by **huge** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 3:40 pm

bah forgot about this lol.

Lephrenic · Post by **Lephrenic** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 4:56 pm

Aren't you going to Rainbow anyway?

Post by **huge** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 6:22 pm

nopes. will be in adelaide lol

twist · Post by **twist** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 7:43 pm

Special Hegg wrote:Awesome gig. Loved it.

(except for the wankers complaining it wasn't dancey enough. wtf were they expecting?)

Even better, I had the pleasure of doing brunch today with Robert and got to pick his brain about Ableton, the Monodeck and his song setup. So for those who want to know:

The set is pretty much improvised throughout. All MIDI, no audio tracks. The drums were generated from the Operator synth or in Simpler. He's got one Live song open with short MIDI clips from his tracks. No clip was longer than four bars; most were only one bar. Rather than constantly triggering different clips to change up the sound, he'd leave the same clips running for a while and manipulate them either with fx or playing with the decay times on the synths. So all the long transitions, drones and build-ups were done on the fly.

I loved to see him do one of his ableton tuts on the way he plays live.

Lephrenic · Post by **Lephrenic** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 11:52 pm

Oh and...

The MIDI clips just played patterns. He had a couple of channels that were just for kick drums, or just for hats, or just for snares, etc. Each channel would have several Operator synths or Simplers in a rack. So to change the kick sound or whatever, he'd just scroll through the Chain.

Stray · Post by **Stray** » Wed Jan 23, 2008 12:13 am

flippo wrote:I knew the worlds to every song

Woah, that's deep man

flippo · Post by **flippo** » Wed Jan 23, 2008 10:06 am

LOL. does my retarded forum typeing know no bounds?