Monolithic (band)

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Monolithic
OriginUnited States
GenresSynthpop
Years active1999–present
LabelsFlaming Fish Music
A Different Drum
MembersMidihead

Monolithic is a synthpop music project started and maintained by Michael (MIDIhead) Babbitt. Its music includes subgenres such as breakbeat, trance, EBM, techno, industrial, and downtempo. Monolithic's music has been described as "intense", "meaningful", "emotional", and "powerful."[by whom?]

In 2000, Babbitt released his first solo album under the moniker of Monolithic. This album won Best Album of 2001 at the American Synthpop awards in Hollywood. His award was presented by former Information Society frontman, Kurt Harland at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel ballroom.[1]

In January 2006, Babbitt announced that he was canceling his then-upcoming Monolithic album Evil Behind Smiling Eyes to focus on other projects.[citation needed]

Babbitt has worked on remixes and music for TV and motion picture trailers, such as Access Hollywood, MTV, The Matrix Reloaded, Dark Angel, America's Next Top Model, Prison Break, and Dexter,[citation needed] as well as multiple Dance Dance Revolution video games.[2] [3]

In addition to writing and producing music, Babbitt also has experience in sound design and has created patch libraries for Spectrasonics Omnisphere, distributed by ILIO.[4]

His latest release Anthology is a collection of 32 songs, spanning 20 years of songwriting under his Monolithic moniker.

Discography[edit]

as Monolithic[5] [6][edit]

Full-length albums[edit]

  • Power Undiminished (2000)
  • Dividing Asunder (2002)
  • Fall Awake - EP (2010)
  • Evil Behind Smiling Eyes (2014)
  • Illumina Tenebris (2016)
  • Anthology (2018)

Singles[edit]

  • Lulling Us to Sleep (2002)
  • House of Joy (2002)

Other[edit]

  • Evil Behind Smiling Eyes - Collection 1 [Limited MP3-only pre-release of the full-length album] (2005)
  • In My Eyes (Midihead Remix) (2004) Original song by Akira Yamaoka.

as Midihead[7][edit]

  • Midihead EP (2009 Fixt)

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Archived American Synthpop Awards Winners". Archived from the original on 2001-06-07. Retrieved 2001-06-07.
  2. ^ Dance, Dance, Revolution Ultramix 3 MIDIhead references
  3. ^ Dance, Dance, Revolution Universe MIDIhead and Monolithic references
  4. ^ "ILIO Artist Spotlight - Michael "MIDIhead" Babbitt". www.ilio.com. Retrieved 2024-01-31.
  5. ^ "Monolithic". Discogs. Retrieved 2018-01-14.
  6. ^ "BMI | Songview Search". repertoire.bmi.com. Retrieved 2024-01-31.
  7. ^ "BMI | Songview Search". repertoire.bmi.com. Retrieved 2024-01-31.

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