After two wild and impulsive albums by T’ien Lai and Erva, Brutality Garden presents second part of Robert Skrzyński’s (a.k.a. Moniké) dreamlike journey into the unknown - „A Guide to DJ Hobby Horsing. Vol.2”. The artist creates his leisurely post-club collages full of swarming percussion and voices, at the same time emphasizing to a higher degree than on a previous album the influences of dub-techno music. As a result, his new album is even more deliberate, narrative and expressing Skrzyński’s unique story-telling in a communicative fashion.

The record’s opener „Zorza” begins with characteristic for Moniké mechanistic hits of sampled bongos and bells, which lead to a warm abstract ambient dub. This track perfectly sets the mood for the entire record, which seems to be on the whole a guide to encounters with reality that is far more weird than we used to believe, a reality populated with singularities and multi-faceted beings which rather fascinate than disturb us. „Hey!Hole” further accentuates this uncanny mood, bombarding the listener with a swarm of mutating distortions and granular modifications, which are brought together by a steady rhythm functioning as a ground for a dadaist rhyme recorded with a speech synthesizer. „Gaiia” and „Przygoda w Paludarium” are a further explication of the idea of a misty intoxicating modern dub-techno with apparent trance-like qualities.

With GUDSHAANDSPLASTER we enter the most collagey and surreal part of the record. In this track, heavenly ambient textures interrupted by reverberated percussion and momentary eruptions of noise, create a background to a night cryptozoological talk the artist recorded with his neighbor who describes an encounter with a mysterious dog from other dimension. The project ends with „Escape from DJ Hobby Horsing”, where we hear a return of a deconstructed, distorted and glitched landscape of „Hey!Hole”. The story ends with a eulogy to evolution, creative error, unexpected encounters and chaotic game, which changes its rules every time it’s played, which appears to to be a foundation of reality created by Moniké.

Robert Skrzyński (Moniké, Mikrodepresja, Micromelancolie, 3HDSafxri) has spent almost the last 20 years of his life working with cassette tapes, microsamples, prepared field recordings, feedback techniques and Roland samplers. He released numerous albums on such labels as Aurora Borealis, Instruments of Discipline, Natural Sciences, SEAGRAVE czy Where to Now? and collaborated with with Antonina Nowacka, Mia Zabelka, Zofia Hyjek, Bartosz Zaskórski, Boris D Hegenbart, Jean-Sébastien Truchy, Jerzy Mazzoll, Krzysztof Topolski, Mateusz Wysocki and Michael Bjella.