Inner Tension: The story behind Blazej Malinowski’s new imprint
We know Blazej Malinowski, the master of deep and hypnotic techno, not only from his outstanding live and DJ-sets, but also from his releases on labels such as...
Paula Koski
The Art of Observing – An Interview with Cio D’Or
It’s been a while since Cio Dorbandt released new music. The "queen of hypnotic minimalism,” as Resident Advisor accurately describes her, is certainly known f...
Survey: The increase of women in electronic music festival lineups is clear – but is it fast enough?
The amount of female artists in festival lineups has increased by 4,5% from the previous FACTS Survey, published a year ago.
Founded by Electric Indigo, the...
Interview: Camera Magmatica – a new label of Neapolitan hypnotic sound
Best known of their work together as r²π, or separately as PRG/M, Retina.it and Ruhig, Lino Monaco, Nicola Buono, Pier Mariconda and Luigi Cicchella, accom...
Interview: Evigt Mörker on his debut album “Krona”, released on Northern Electronics
Swedish Evigt Mörker's sound is aptly described as "blissfully psychedelic, carefully structured for the most subtly disorientating shifts, hovering amongst a ...
Review: Dasha Rush x UY Zone
It was a warm July evening as I was walking towards perhaps the most notorious building - at least for us clubbers - of the German capital. I passed the formid...
MNMT Premieres: August 2019 with Svarog, Jamida, Einox and more
After a summer break Monument returned with a new batch of fresh music. Here are our carefully selected premieres of August 2019 – all combined for you.
Ale...
Long-distance music making: Aleja Sanchez and Dino Sabatini made an EP being thousands of kilometres apart
North Atlantic and approximately 9 500 kilometres.
That's the distance between Colombian Aleja Sanchez and Italian Dino Sabatini. Despite the vast distance...
Kangding Ray on his new label: “I want to distance the sound from any simplified, sterile or testosterone-based”
After making music for more than a decade, French but currently Berlin-based David Letellier aka Kangding Ray launched his own label ara. Monument had a chat w...
Paula Koski
Editor in Chief, Head of Premiere
Journalist, DJ and a dedicated techno digger. Lives and breathes hypnotic, deep, dark and contemporary techno. And memes. Based in Berlin.