Thursday, July 18, 2024

Track Of The Day: Bitstream - Monolith (Signal)


An amazing, uncategorizable piece of UK electro; ‘Monolith’ has long been a recognised classic, it’s value enhanced by its rarity and beauty. “Bit Stream are brothers Steve & Dave Connor”, (with Rob Hollway at the time).They haven’t released under this name for four years now, with two recentish releases coming out on Frustrated Funk, a label that Dave has also released music on as Adapta. The majority of their output dates from the noughties though. ‘Monolith’ got a rerelease around seven years ago on Vinyl Underground in Northampton, which is where the brothers are from. A jewel in the crown of British electronic music, ‘Monolith’ is a lush piece of electronica which uses a goose pimple inducing melody over an electro template to create a piece of pure magic. It’s one of those tracks that touches the parts others cannot reach.

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