Monochrome Adventures by Upland
Monochrome Adventures was originally released on Jester Records in 2009.
When printing in monochrome, shaded artwork is converted into a black and white rendering through the process of half toning. This technique involves arranging tiny dots of black with extreme precision, so as to fool the eye into thinking that it is seeing distinct tones of gray rather than a purely black and white representation. This process resembles the sound design concept for "Monochrome Adventures", where hundreds of tiny fragments of sound have been pieced together to form textures, bass lines, and drum hits. In essence, it’s the vision of using percussion as the basic building block of every sound.
Tracklist
| 1. | Horns | 5:53 |
| 2. | Return to Perihelion | 5:47 |
| 3. | The Chaos Engine | 4:50 |
| 4. | Through the Nebula | 1:16 |
| 5. | 61 Cygni | 4:25 |
| 6. | Celestials | 8:03 |
| 7. | Monochrome Sun | 3:36 |
Credits
Music by Knut Andreas Ruud.
Growls on Celestials by Odin aka Big City Gangster.
Mastered by Fridtjof Lindeman @ Strype Audio.
Cover by Robin Snasen Rengård / snasen.no
License
All rights reserved.Tags
Upland's sound gradually evolved from IDM into a distinctive mix of metal, breakbeat and musique concrète over the course of 3 albums released on Ulver frontman Kristoffer Rygg's eclectic Jester Records label.
More recently he's been revisiting his formative years in and around the demoscene with Raster Dreams (2019) and Raster Coma (2020), culminating in the release of Raster Euchronia (2023).