themonkeymind
themonkeymind seek to unify calming and unsettling sounds into subtle, evolving headspace music - delivering ambience with a rhythmic and political edge. the music reflects the importance of memory and childhood, and tackles ‘big themes’, like climate change and gender politics.
condo acid, vol. 2
Second instalment of the condo acid series - featuring obsessive, my melody
ghosts - (2023)
6-track EP of glitchy ambient works - touching, twisted and dark.
condo acid, vol. 1 (2023)
Collection of nostalgic, but banging, 303 tunes. Part of a four-part collection of EPs, it is inspired by late 80s, early 90s acid house.
postcodes - ep (2023)
As part of a series of EPs released in 2023, Postcodes is the first one. Mixing electronic music with acoustic instruments, this collection seeks to explore the importance of location to memory.
perspectives - 2022
Latest upbeat album from themonkeymind - "Writing about music is like dancing about architecture" - so it’s an electronic dance album about architecture - “distractingly lively”, “pleasantly evil” - beats, bass and more eeriness
using generative music as the starting point, this album retraces key moments in the history of the UK in the 70s and 80s. reflective and playful, focussing on recurring themes of memory, conflict and childhood.
degeneration x - 2021
competition replay ep - 2021
Another EP for 2021 - inspired by lockdown confinement and the need to get out in nature.
what i think about….ep - 2021
trance gender - 2020
yes, yes, the inevitable lockdown album. straight off the back of ‘Polar Bare’, themonkeymind drop an EDM classic, inspired by gender diversity in the natural world. written, mixed and finalised within the singapore circuit breaker period, ‘trance gender’ is an hour-long journey embracing all the glory of modern and retro ‘four on the floor’ styles.
polar bare - 2020
climate change-themed ambient electronic album, featuring Greta Thunberg, Donald Trump, Jordan Peterson and David Attenborough.
“ Polar Bare by themonkeymind (Apple Music -- Spotify): ambient music with both a rhythmic and political edge” - the keyboard chronicles - June 2020
music video for ‘Okjokull’ from polar bare - https://youtu.be/zDcLBBHDyTg
separation ep - 2019
four tracks of electronic music, based on the lead track from ‘cooler koala’, includes the quirky ‘ice cream detox’ and ‘separation (double version').
