Long Intermezzo and Fragment

dp - recent shit (2018 - 2016)

Ólafur Arnalds – Ljósið

‘Loon’ will be released on Erased Tapes as a 12” vinyl as well as digitally on October 2nd. 
Pre-order it here: www.erasedtapes.com/store/index/ERATP072
or via iTunes: http://snip.ftpromo.net/loon

Containing five synthesiser-led pieces, ‘Loon’ was recorded in autumn 2014 across five days at Nils’s Durton Studio in Berlin, and continues on from the ambient sounds of ‘Stare’ but with the addition of more percussive elements and dub influences. For this new EP the duo wired an Oberheim 4 Voice and a Korg PS3100 to the mixing desk and performed live takes on both instruments. With all four hands on its pots, all mixes were recorded straight onto 2-track ½-inch tape.

Like on ‘Stare’, their first collaborative affair in 2012, they simply followed what was laying in front of them, and this time they were driven by some new synths, a kick drum and tape effects. Indulging in dub, the tracks where all performed rather than engineered, with Ólafur riding a few elements on faders and Nils bringing effects in and out. After running several mixes, they went for the five strongest moments from this session. The release was announced on a joint website www.arnaldsfrahm.com together with the launch of an intimate 45-minute studio film titled ‘Trance Frendz’, featuring another seven improvisations.

“Nils got some new synths and we thought we’d try them out. We loved them so much that we didn’t actually end up using anything else to make these songs.” – Ólafur Arnalds

“When I was young I was smuggled to Goa parties by my brother. The music played there in the late nineties had a somewhat deep effect on me. ‘Loon’ is almost a blurry memory of these times. In other words, it is what I’d like to remember that music sounded like back then. In fact it sounded probably really cheesy.” – Nils Frahm

Loon

Four

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Ólafur Arnalds & Nils Frahm – Four

Winter

Family`s song

Exclusive Bonus Track on 'Erased Tapes Collection VII'.

Available for free download upon sign-up here: http://www.erasedtapes.com/user/mydownloads

"Ryan contributed the second exclusive track in form of a remix he’s finally found the time to finish after all his extensive touring, and it’s a real beast, putting Óli and Nils’s original into a completely different light. Watch out for the moment when the beat kicks back in. It’s pure sonic bliss!" – Robert Raths, label founder

Read more via XLR8R: https://www.xlr8r.com/news/2016/01/erased-tapes-releases-free-11-track-new-years-compilation-titled-erased-tapes-collection-vii/

Erased Tapes Collection VII

Four (Rival Consoles Remix)

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Ólafur Arnalds & Nils Frahm - Four (Rival Consoles Remix)

off 'a collection of fingers'

a mixed bag of compilation tracks, outtakes, oddities, rareties, unreleased stuff, from 2004 - 2016. most tracks remastered, some revamped. 

listen to the whole album here
https://dave-phillips.bandcamp.com/album/a-collection-of-fingers

a collection of fingers

(you are mistaking me for) someone who cares - xcerpt

ffwd (p.h.s.) - xcerpt

selective memory / perception is an hour long piece consisting of classical instrumentation and orchestral arrangements using cello, violin and piano, plus recordings of wind, broken urban creatures, intimate situations, insect and amphibian sounds and mutations thereof, transmogrified balloons, unconscious voices and more. 

it addresses sensorial overstimulation and subsequent confusion, memory infiltration, selective realities, selective selves, suicidal conclusions and more. based on a personal experience.

available as CD released by noise below and fréquences critiques 
https://dave-phillips.bandcamp.com/album/selective-memory-perception

selective Memory / Perception (SC excerpts)

selective memory / perception - excerpt 4 - around minute 41

off "ritual protest music" lp forthcoming on urbsounds/bratislava end of 2017.

full title: "once humans turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free but that only permitted other humans with machines to enslave them". title is a quote from frank herbert's "dune"

ritual protest music

once humans turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free...

dave phillips – ritual protest music
dp’s new album picks up where ‘rise’ (2017) left off, politically charged, hyperreal and unremitting soundscapes containing harsh social and self-criticism clad in a sense of impending doom juxtaposed with energizing optimism and informed by faith in the human potential.

grey vinyl LP. edition 300. and download. 6 tracks 40 minutes

pre – order starts 23rd February 2018, release date 23rd March 2018

Small Islands by Dave Phillips URB040LP

upcoming on obskyr records compilation lp.
photo by nikki sneakers

2018

any form of definition will eventually work against itself

sound as communication in direct and primal form, a language, a tool of metaphysics, a conscience, a consciousness. works that oppose the omnipresent restriction and reduction of life, to activate primordial shared emotions otherwise hidden under the debris of this crumbling civilisation. inviting rumination, encouraging intervention, endorsing catharsis & environmental e/quality, touching sentience, cleansing. audio de/construction, psycho-acoustics, sound rituals, sonic activism, humanimalism; ritual protest music to heal homo sapiens out of its infancy.

solo works since 1987. 
part of SCHIMPFLUCH-GRUPPE (with Rudolf Eb.er, Joke Lanz, Marc Zeier, Daniel Löwenbrück etc.) since 1991.

projects present and past include OHNE, dead peni, perverts in white shirts, PK, ketsu no ana, fear of god & more;  collaborations with G*Park, Francisco Meirino, Randy Yau, Hiroshi Hasegawa, GX Jupitter-Larsen, Chris Galarreta, Masonna & more; ScHimpfluch Associates label with Rudolf Eb.er etc blablabla

contact/booking dp@tochnit-aleph.com