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 Monocle's Profile |
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Enter the world of yesterday, tomorrow, & fantasy |
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| Location: | BROOKLYN, New York |
| Country: |  United States |
| Last Login: | Oct 8, 2008 (440 days back) |
About Me |
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| Monocle is a band from Brooklyn... ten hands, textures and melodies, transistors and inner tubes, waves and fiberglass, alien moonlit dinners, harmonic tartar... band biology: keyboards, transistor organs, guitar saturation and dry intimacy, vox everywhere, drums and bass. Invented in 2005. Discography: Lounge Act (2005 EP Pralaya Records), Outer Sunset (2007 LP Hidden Shoal Recordings) Out Now Through Hidden Shoal Recordings: Outer Sunset is available at the following online stores: Lounge Act EP (2006) available here!(add Monocle's Lounge Act to my collection) |
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My Interests |
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Music:Member Since: 2/6/2006Band Members: Ego / Rich - Matthew - Sunny - Dan - Max ()()()()()()() Alter-Ego / Rich - Matthew - Annie - Blake - Max Influences: Jobim, Badalamenti, Cocteau Twins, Bernard Fevre, BBC Radiophonic Workshop, Dymaxion, Brian Eno, Beach Boys, Komeda (the band and the composer), Bartok, Hotels, Bill Evans, Bill Frisell, Cardigans, Cluster, Ennio Morricone, Donald Fagen, Ghost Box, Museum Of Natural History, Jean Jacques Perrey, Neu, Pat Metheny Group, Raymond Scott, The Sundays, Joseph Campbell, Blonde Redhead, Sven Libaek, and synthesizers that sound like they're dying. Sounds Like: The soundtrack to approaching Donald Fagen's underwater mansion. Record Label: Hidden Shoal Type of Label: Indie |
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My Background and Lifestyle |
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| Occupation: | Music Artist (Pop / Experimental / Hawaiian) |
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My Blog |
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Music For Underwater Supermarkets |
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| Hello all, just wanted to let everyone out there know that Hidden Shoal Recordings will be releasing a new album called "Music For Underwater Supermarkets," a mini album solo project written by Rich B... Posted by Monocle on Sun, 10 Aug 2008 01:19:00 PST |
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West Coast yall! |
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| As the rest of the world outside my window prepares to grill, get drunk, and blow up a tiny piece of New York City, Matt Filler and I are getting ready to head out to the West Coast to do some rocking... Posted by Monocle on Fri, 04 Jul 2008 02:17:00 PST |
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Monocle Featured on Spacelab |
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| For a short while, Monocle will be featured on the Spacelab website as part of the "Sound lab" series. You can go, listen to full versions of songs which you can't hear on MySpace, and vote on whethe... Posted by Monocle on Wed, 05 Mar 2008 08:30:00 PST |
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Some new reviews |
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| Hello all,This month we were lucky enough to get reviewed in Textura, an awesome online publication with tons of cool reviews, interviews, and all those other things you crazy music kids like to read ... Posted by Monocle on Fri, 01 Feb 2008 09:11:00 PST |
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Review on Delusions of Adequacy |
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| Our first review of Outer Sunset, and some very nice words from the folks at Adequacy.net. Here's a bit of what they said:"Outer Sunset has a subtle energy that flows almost tangibly throughout each ... Posted by Monocle on Thu, 06 Dec 2007 10:42:00 PST |
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New Album Out on November 27th! |
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| The proud members of your favorite auditory-lotion lathering mystery sensualcinema pop unit are thrilled to announce the release of our new album andimpassioned debut full-length, OUTER SUNSET; featur... Posted by Monocle on Mon, 19 Nov 2007 10:16:00 PST |
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Monocle Signs to Hidden Shoal Recordings |
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| Ahhhh yes... Monocle will be releasing our debut full-length, Outer Sunset, with Hidden Shoal Recording in November, music.hiddenshoal.com. A word from the press release about what were about to unlea... Posted by Monocle on Thu, 23 Aug 2007 08:27:00 PST |
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Where to buy our album + Stereolab Tribute |
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| We now have a few places that are selling our cd, so please check them out and all the other great stuff each site carries:Amp Camp (www.ampcamp.com)ToneVendor (www.tonevendor.com)Pralaya Records (www... Posted by Monocle on Sat, 05 Aug 2006 12:06:00 PST |
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Monocle will now proceed to actually rock you |
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| Some great news from the front. Our 4 song EP, Lounge Act, has finally been completed and will be available for purchase very very soon. 2 of the songs are posted on the page for now. Also, we will... Posted by Monocle on Sun, 23 Apr 2006 10:58:00 PST |
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News and Updates |
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| Right now we are still working on our 4 song EP which should be out within a month or 2. The two songs posted now are just rough mixes and teasers from the album to get y'all hungry for some more. A... Posted by Monocle on Sat, 04 Mar 2006 10:45:00 PST |
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My Friends |
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Sunny Kim, Dan Shuman, Daughter-Cells, Rebecca Pronsky, Hotels, Justin Colletti, Snakes, Pralaya Records, Friendly Bears, brasilia, Mari Rosa, Loveless Music Group, STEREOLAB, Patrick Wolff Trio, Soundpool, Hidden Shoal Recordings, rokubang, elizabeth, Tashi, Landon Knoblock, SOUND in STASIS, Derek Rolando, Testbild!, David Åhlén (order the new 7" single!), Scarlet Theory, twice as bright, The City Beautiful, dyko, Trader Bob, Basil, Series Two Records, Ty (Pleasure Victim), So L'il, Daniel Bennett Group, Bennett Alliance Music Fest (Rochester, NY), appréciez le silence, Alana, Mordant Music, manson's child, manual, BeatsDigital, RF Records, MESH, Leo Alves Vieira (Acousmatic Works), Eric, Ursula Points, Ari Fox Lauren, Dead Leaf Echo, Kim Myhr
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