Morrigan
Monolith"II"
[WAVE; 2010]8.8
Doujin music is not a very profitable business, and while it is hard to make big money off of, it's even harder to become a big name in the community with the "big names" seemingly chosen at complete random. With the release of Monolith "II", we are greeted with a piracy warning on the back of the CD:
It is no surprise that music piracy is a problem in the doujin music community, as the artists are releasing music for a profit, just like everyone else. However, I have never recalled a time when a circle spoke out against music thief, and WAVE is so far one of the only circles to date to put an anti-piracy warning on their releases to date.
The three-track Monolith "II" is so ambitious for a self-release that it would be forgivable to mistake him for being under a label. It opens up with the ethnic-dance jam Reventon, which puts the listener off-guard when the deep pulsating yet relaxing bass of Peak Lounge. The title track Monolith "II" has a heavier bass with breaks and ambient drones and synth melodies, one-upping the likes of The Flashbulb by doing the one thing he could never accomplish: Dedicating enough time to a track for it to actually evolve.
With the amount of effort put into these 19 minutes and 47 seconds of music, it becomes very easy to see why WAVE are so pissed off. We all have heard a number of boring and run-of-the-mill doujin albums that are just so typical, uninventive, and a chore to listen to that we feel no guilt for not throwing so much as a penny into their rattling cup for smearing our car windows with wet newspaper. Morrigan has not only cleaned out windshield, he has also vacuumed the interior, waxed the rims, fixed the dents, and got rid of the Lord knows how many scratches on the side door. When you try this hard and nobody gives you a dime, you have a right to be pissed off, so rain hell down upon me for getting this off of mediafire!
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