Monokino has just returned from their 3rd successful tour in China. Yu Gong Ji Shan in Beijing, Mao live house in Shanghai, Vox Bar in Wuhan are some of the clubs played at. Check out the pics on flickr and myspace.

During 2008 Monokino toured China twice, playing at both the Midi Music festival and the Guangzhou Music Festival as well as in numerous name clubs in Beijing, Shanghai, Chengdu, Guangzhou and Chongqing. Supported by consistently good reviews of their debut album, Monokino will revive their 2008 Chinese tour commencing in October 2009.
“One of the top [...]

Monokino is groter in China
Indiepoptrio Monokino (twee Nederlanders, een Chinese) toerde door China en Amerika en bracht zijn album uit bij Modern Sky, China’s grootste indielabel. Thuis krijgen ze nog maar nauwelijks voet aan de grond. Onterecht, zou je denken, afgaande op de prima reviews van het recente album Human Error. Zanger/gitarist George van Wetering [...]

May 2009. Stel. Je doet een elevator pitch voor Monokino.
‘Dan zeg ik dat Monokino originele indie-electro uit Amsterdam is. En dat we al succesvol zijn in China.’
Hoe beland je als band in China?
‘Een paar jaar geleden speelden we op het Chinapopfestival in de Melkweg. Daar ontmoetten we muzikanten die ook op het Midi Music [...]

April 2009. “This album demonstrates an almost perfect balance between electronic sounds, guitar and the song. Definitely one of the more interesting indie bands coming from The Netherlands these days.” Read all reviews here.

March 2009

March 2009. Monokino will tour the USA in March and April 2009 and attend the SXSW Festival in Austin, Texas.
Monokino will play a showcase together with Berlin act Boys Noize on Wednesday the 18th @ Elysium (705 Red River St) – 11 p.m.
Not sure if this is really 2009 but this years [...]

February 2009. In the Benelux countries Monokino’s ‘Human Error’ will be distributed by Konkurrent.nl and released by My First Sonny Weissmuller recordings. The CD will be available from February 24 on. Listen to it in full here: http://3voor12.vpro.nl/speler/luisterpaal/41499572

January 2009. Last year Monokino recorded the song “New Kid” (with only piano arrangement, some guitars and vocals) during a studio session at Soma Records in Shanghai. Soma is one of Shanghai’s best known indie labels. “New Kid” now features on the compilation CD, “Indietop”. This CD features mostly young, Shanghainese artists.
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