Gravity is a pivotal album from Monolake’s nearly 30-year career. It’s the first to feature Robert Henke more or less on his own, following the departure of Gerhard Behles.
It also finds Henke transitioning into the sound and style that makes Monolake one of the most legendary techno artists of the 21st Century. Now, thanks to this essential vinyl reissue from Field Records, you finally have a chance to hear it in deep, rich, sparkling high fidelity.
Henke’s third LP as Monolake is an anomaly. A good chunk of the underground electronic music from this time focuses on the conceptual and cerebral, with genres like microhouse and glitch filling raves and art galleries alike. Even more belongs to the burgeoning minimal…