# Monolink Stage name of Steffen Linck, German singer-songwriter and electronic producer, born 2 May 1989. Distinctive for blending live guitar and vocals — closer to singer-songwriter tradition, with cited influences like Leonard Cohen and Bob Dylan — with Berlin-style techno, house, and ambient electronic production. Doesn't fit neatly into a standard DJ-set mould; his sets and records foreground songwriting and live instrumentation over straightforward club functionality. ## Background Picked up guitar as a teenager after hearing a schoolmate play, drawn early to British guitar bands like The Libertines and Oasis. Moved to Berlin and got pulled into the city's electronic music scene, gradually finding a way to fuse the two sides of his musical background rather than choosing one. ## Rise Broke through with the 2015 track "The End," produced with Acid Pauli. Debut album *Amniotic* (2018) set out his core sound: singer-songwriter sensibility layered over techno/electronica/ambient production. Follow-up *Under Darkening Skies* (2021) leaned into themes of vulnerability and renewal. Most recent album is *The Beauty of It All* (2025). ## Discography (studio albums) - *Amniotic* (2018) - *Under Darkening Skies* (2021) - *The Beauty of It All* (2025) ## Notes to self - Don't know this one well at all yet — worth an actual first listen to *Amniotic* start to finish before writing much more here. - Compare/contrast with [[Misc./Music/RÜFÜS DU SOL|RÜFÜS DU SOL]] — similar impulse (emotionally direct songwriting inside electronic/dance production) from a different scene.