Monologues.

On a Body & Soul tip, their production effortlessly combines with the organic and the synthetic.

NYC house music at its best.

Soulful, American house from Cali, channeling Afro and Latin flavours.

The sounds of M25-35, mixed by Ben Gomori

A delightfully jazzy, soulful, organic deep house sound that oozes class.

The man now known as Ground Plane Aerial final set as Paxton Fettel...

Deep, heady, atmospheric gear from South Africa.

We're really excited to welcome Modern House Quintet to the podcast. The Parisian duo have been putting out some superb freewheeling analog jams in recent times, focusing on slow-burning grooves and melodic improvisation (see also some lush sounds under their Cyclades moniker). Their wonderful mix for us is almost entirely comprised of unreleased material, all made by their own fair hands as is the Monologues Podcast way.

*How would you describe your sound?*

It’s always a tricky question. I would say that I try to do different things every time. A concrete example : the new release (CYC 003) contains five tracks which are quite unalike : one is a piano and guitar "housy" piece. The other is more dub-techno oriented. The third one has a more delicate house feeling, whereas the next one has a breakbeat-jungle vibe. The final one is kind of a vibraphonic interlude.

*What and who inspires you and influences your sound?*

Lots of immense jazz musicians : Milt Jackson, Red Garland, Kenny Drew, Tommy Flanagan, Teddy Wilson, Oscar Peterson, Clifford Brown, Kenny Clarke.

Within the electronic scene : Lars Bartkhun, Basic Channel, Mike Grant, Omar S, Anthony Nicholson, Ron Trent, Volcov. Outside the electronic scene : Steve Reich and Philip Glass. On a different perspective, there is also the work of the dubplates & mastering engineers: Helmut Erler, Christoph Grote-Beverborg or Rashad Becker. The lacquering/cutting process has always been fascinating to me. It’s not an "influence" strictly speaking, obviously, but their work is impressive and it is inspiring somehow, yes.

There are also soundtracks and movies, of course : as such, the italian TV show "Gomorra" is a wonder ("Suburra" as well by the way). The guys from Mokadelic did an incredible work. And I really like Eric Rohmer's movies, even though there is little music in them. All these things have, one way or another, an influence.

*Can you tell us a little about this mix and what it means to you?*

The mix gathers strictly unreleased productions and one song previously released in 2018, on the Modern House Quintet label. I tried to do something varied, quite heterogenous so that the listener - and me - cannot be bored. Therefore, some songs are more techno, some have a sort of an ethereal atmosphere whereas others have a more "housy" feeling. Some are sketches whereas others are more "completed". About the tracklisting, I simply wrote "unreleased" with a short indication next to it, merely because I don’t have an accurate title yet, haha.

Tracklist:1. Modern House Quintet - Unreleased (the atmospheric one)2. Modern House Quintet - Unreleased (the jazzy/vibraphonic one)3. Modern House Quintet - Unreleased (the slow techno one)4. Modern House Quintet - Unreleased (the arpeggio one)5. Modern House Quintet - Unreleased (the techno bassy one)6. Modern House Quintet - LD 3 (MHQ 008)7. Modern House Quintet - Unreleased (the strictly techno one)8. Modern House Quintet - Unreleased (the jazzy one)9. Modern House Quintet - Unreleased (the jungle/breakbeat one)

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No-one is making house music we love more right now than Manakinz. The newly-minted project of Sub Club legend Harri and his production partner Max, Manakinz make hot, heavy, relentless, chunky-ass house music. Thickly packed with layers of samples, rolling percussion, disco grooves, rasping synths all licked by fat distortion, their tracks absolutely go off in the club. Play one and you’ll see and hear the mood change. We’re ecstatic to be releasing a bunch of their material through Monologues Records over the coming months, kicking off with ‘Robopubez (Rust In Peace)’ on our ‘Dialogue Vol. 4’ vinyl sampler on September 20. We wanted to give them a proper introduction, so here’s their slammin’ mix of unreleased material, with a slew of Monologues bits in there. And Billy Connolly…?

*How would you describe your sound?*

Genre-neutral dance music for all the family.

*What and who inspires you and influences your sound?*

Having fun, dub, soul, jazz, afrobeat, house, techno, Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry, Norman Whitfield, Fela Kuti and Henrik Schwarz. We share the same vision, so often swap specs...

*Can you tell us a little about this mix and what it means to you?*

Cobbled together Thursday and Friday afternoon, using stuff we've just recently made and stuff we made earlier in the year. As for its meaning, we both thought that it sounded good and just hope that others do too.

Tracklist:

Manakinz - Jingle [unreleased]

Manakinz - Billy's intro [unreleased]

Manakinz - Choo Choo Loco [unreleased]

Manakinz - Cowboy Crocs [unreleased]

Manakinz - Noodlegate [unreleased]

Manakinz - Snackpoint Charlie [unreleased]

Manakinz - Stooky [forthcoming Monologues Records]

Manakinz - Spaceships In The Night [forthcoming Monologues Records]

Manakinz - Rustoline Pandera [forthcoming Monologues Records]

Manakinz - I.T.Y.T. [unreleased]

Manakinz - Beach House [forthcoming Monologues Records]

Manakinz - Traq Zoot Tap [unreleased]

Manakinz - Martian Mallows [unreleased]

Manakinz - Big Talk Small Talk [unreleased]

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Taken from releases M19-24.

Mixed by @bengomori

Tracklist:

Danvers - New Records

Atdhe - Niche Dreams

Kolja Gerstenberg - Herber-660

DJ Aakmael - Dahlin’ (Leon Revol Remix)

Kolja Gerstenberg - Erdball

Danvers - My Heat

Atdhe - Earl St. Groove (Ben Gomori’s Tribal Tangalle Remix)

Leon Revol - Pink Coffee

Leon Revol - Sun Is The Place

DJ Aakmael - Organik

Leon Revol - Embers

Atdhe - Can I Borrow A Feeling?

Kolja Gerstenberg - Muffsound (G. Markus G-Mix)

Danvers - Dig Deeper

DJ Aakmael - Organik (Ben Gomori’s Rawganik Remix)

Atdhe - Coupe

Atdhe - Illusionist

Leon Revol - Birds