Three names show up twice on 'Aequa Libra', never in the same role. K2W0 signs the remix of 'Ant Farm', the Matija and Richard Elcox cut, then hands his own 'Blind Navigation' over to Planet Caravan two slots later. Nada reshapes Skaru's 'Drumpattern' while surrendering 'Exp' to Laaar. San Miguel reinterprets Kaminski & Meissner's 'Tharab' and then appears under his own name with 'Rose Golden Bubbles', the longest cut on the record (8:33). Nine of the twenty-two tracks are remixes, and almost all of them are cooked inside the cast itself: more than a compilation, this is a web.
From Berlin to New York
That community logic is no accident: MONADA operates out of Berlin and calls itself “a playground for hand-picked and visionary sounds”, a statement this record honors to the letter. The name with the most mileage outside this circle is Allies for Everyone, a New York producer and DJ with releases on Katermukke, 3000Grad and Dantze, whose 'Norfolk' arrives filtered through the Gingembrę & Kcm remix: seven-plus minutes in G major that slot seamlessly into the 104-112 bpm pulse ruling the record's core.
At the front door, Don Son opens with 'Back to My Roots' in the Kapoor & fernn rework, the highest reading of the main stretch at 116 bpm, while Tlazohtla adds R3NATA's voice on a 'Should I?' polished by Rodrigo AM. At the far end, the close is a two-signature play of contrasts: Juliano Gomez sinks the pulse to 88 bpm with 'Elysium' and Daniel Imhof blows it open with 'Amos', eight minutes at 160 bpm that deliberately break the spell. Between those poles sits a cast of barely worn names — Cereus, Oondza, De:zarØ, Adeil Airaki — that reads like a statement of intent: MONADA doesn't sign headliners, it grows its own roster, and 'Aequa Libra' reads like the map of that garden.
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