tracks released 2018 - 2020
please visit https://dave-phillips.bandcamp.com/

dp stuff 2019 - 2020

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...

outside (is hostile) (xcerpt) - off "clearing" 10" lathe-cut (edition 50)

avarice (xcerpt) - off "clearing" 10" lathe-cut (edition 50)

ex spell (xcerpt) - off "clearing" 10" lathe-cut (edition 50)

something i've been playing around with... a sign of life... there's a couple new goodies on their ways... a couple pots on the stove... patience...

2018

untitled (work in progress) PLAY LOUD

for north america order here: www.perfectlawreleases.com/shop/mutations-6-7/ 
for europe order here: dave-phillips.bandcamp.com/album/mutations-6-7

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two 45 minute pieces offering total immersion in a new chapter of dp’s field recordings mutations series. with stunning artwork by brandon ballengée, a 12 page booklet elaborating on the mutations idea. packaged in a printed envelope. edition of 100. 

the idea: 

field recordings made in national parks, nature reserves and other non-human habitat, mostly of insects, frogs and other small creatures, often in hot (tropical or desert) climates, are slowed down/time-stretched/pitched 50 - 99 %, some are reversed. no electronic sound sources are used. 

slowed down field recordings play with time-space dimensions. related to the size of most of the creatures recorded, this game arises: ‘how would i hear insects if i were an insect?” this can expand to “how would i hear/perceive the world if i were an insect (amphibian, avian etc)?’. 

since I can't shrink humans I have to blow up animal recordings. the ratio with which I do this is all but scientific, and far from realistic: a human weighing 60 kg and an insect weighing 1 or 2 grams would result in conversion rates of 30'000 to 60'000 %. audio treated that way would be largely inaudible. yet audibility of the treated files is key. but this also isn’t an exercise in rationality. rather, it's an exercise in empathy. 

altering time-space plays with relations and perceptions of size, speed, frequency, light, sound etc. imagine being an ant in a forest. a beetle in a desert. a fish in the ocean. you in relation to the universe. and how that sounds. 

these are starting points. just changing dimensions, suggesting different possible parameters. and trying out different ways of combining them. 

perception changes through immersion - being part of something. 

de-anthropo-centralise.

mutations 6 & 7 xcerpt 2

mutations 6 & 7 xcerpt 3

mutations 6 & 7 xcerpt 5

off split-tape with emerge (attenuation circuit)
https://dave-phillips.bandcamp.com/album/split
edition of 100
pre-order now
or grab one on our tour in july:

03.07. AU-Wien: rhiz 
with ANTIMATTER & THE BASSENGER 
www.facebook.com/events/572248133257902/ 
04.-06.07. SK-Hradby Samoty Festival 
www.facebook.com/events/1177402719078418/ 

08.07. POL-Kraków: Baza (*) 
www.facebook.com/bazaflorianska/ 
09.07. POL-Łódź: DOM (*) 
www.facebook.com/klubDOM/ 
10.07. POL-Warszawa: Przychodnia Skłot (*) 
www.facebook.com/booking.makesomenoise/ 
11.07. POL-Poznań: tbc (*) 
12.07. POL-Wrocław: D.K. Luksus (*) 
with VILGOC 
www.facebook.com/dkluksus/ 
13.07. POL-Katowice: BAZAR (*) 
www.facebook.com/bazarconceptstore/ 
14.07. CZ-Ostrava: Klubovna Jeden Tag 
www.facebook.com/JedenTagNibiru/ 
15.07. CZ-Praha: tbc 
16.07. D-Chemnitz: tbc 

19.07. D-Augsburg: re:flexions sound-art festival @ Kulturhaus abraxas (#) 
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20.07. D-Weikersheim: Club W71 (#) 
www.clubw71.de 
21.07. D-Berlin: An der Autobahn (+) 
www.facebook.com/atonal.zurich/

special guests: 
07.07. - 13.07. EMPTYZ (POL) (*) 
19.07. - 20.07. Sŭāsum (IT) (#) 
21.07. FUKTE (IT) (+) 

booking requests: (Sascha aka EMERGE) 
dependenz@web.de

de-anthropo-centralise

soundtrack to the film by Andrew Leman, 2005, from the story by H. P. Lovecraft.

initiated by Pablo Assandri/Institute Of Incoherent Cinematography, Zürich, Switzerland.

on tour with IOIC in Chile, Argentina and Brazil, September 2019. 
live dates here: http://www.davephillips.ch/live

live excerpt https://youtu.be/rtB5pI7I6HI

free album download: https://dave-phillips.bandcamp.com/album/the-call-of-cthulhu

free download

The Call Of Cthulhu - travel sequence

The Call Of Cthulhu - archaeological convention sequence

SIXTH MASS EXTINCTION LP (total black) released 11 oct 2019

black vinyl lp in embossed sleeve, edition of 300. comes with a free 8 page newspaper featuring articles that offer a broad view of what homo sapiens has achieved in terms of coexistence and in taking care of its home.

one side: 
things falling apart - composition for three PA’s (stereo version):
the original 6 channel piece was commissioned by bad bonn kilbi festival düdingen switzerland 2018.

all audio by dp. decomposed may to november 2018 for schimpfluch. mastered by riccardo mazza. artwork by brett wagg using photos by dp.

play loud. playback on headphones is recommended.

SIXTH MASS EXTINCTION

SIXTH MASS EXTINCTION - things falling apart

post homo sapiens

listen & buy

B4 phytognosophysiology (xcrpt)

hear & buy

B2 metamorphosis (xcrpt)

B1 arthropod phenotype (xcrpt)

A2 stridulated requiem for homo sapiens (xcrpt)

A1 biosemiotics (xcrpt)

they live (2020 remaster)

all audio by dp. recorded in zürich city's culture department dynamo studio and at D40 zürich 2006 - 2008. originally released on LP by RRR, poorly mastered by me. this version remastered by riccardo mazza 2020. this is how it should sound.

side A: they live A
side 1: they live 1

a study in semiotics.

i had just finished reading “the shock doctrine” by naomi klein. my city of residence was co-host to a football tournament, a european cup of sorts, national teams competing. below my balcony onto langstrasse, “supporters” of different teams would gather after matches to “celebrate”. flags were waved, colours and attitudes displayed. recorder on. 

i had re-read philip k. dick’s ‘the man in the high castle’ earlier that year, a penguin classics edition with a striking cover. i sent penguin books an email asking about the cover artist, expecting nowt. within a day penguin had replied and forwarded my message, jamie p. keenan, the artist of said book cover, got in touch. i asked, he answered ‘yes sure’... i was so chuffed!.. but, ehm... *gulp*, could this be understood as anti-american?. my concern shared with jamie, i asked ‘could you do a flipside with the same idea on the european flag?’ jamie kindly obliged. this generosity overwhelms me still today. thank you jamie.

then there’s john carpenter’s movie inspiring the album title. and there’s always more....

this is about symbols and identification patterns, flags, brands, colours, nations, teams, classes etc. what people do in their names, the powers involved, the subjugators and the subjugated, the power of myth... visualised by appropriated flags based on nationsstates, symbols of rule, power and whatnotelse. the horror unleashed in their names. another brilliant idea of “the wise humanoid”, homo sapiens, the ever triumphant and impressive species, the peak of evolution, the master species.

thank you thala, jamie, ron, riccardo.

listen, buy

they live 1  remaster (xcerpt)

they live A - remaster (xcerpt)

i am honoured to be part of a benefit compilation that wishes to keep EARTHDOM alive, one of tokyo's most important live music venues. 

the compilation will be released in various volumes - the first one available today (3rd june) - please note, on 5th june  bandcamp takes no fees -  and will include:

AT (Atsushi Miyakawa x Tadashi Kumihara from Gunjogacrayon), asthenia, ATSUKI, ASTRO, BAREBONES, BASTARD NOISE, BB, Being, BLACKPHONE666, Boris, BUTCHER ABC, BUTTHEAD SUNGLASS, CARAMBA, COFFINS, CONTROLLED DEATH, Creepout, cunts, dave phillips, DEATHRO, DISGUNDER, DREADEYE, EIEFITS, ENDON, ELEPH/ANT, FRIENDSHIP, FUCKER, FULL OF HELL, FORWARD, Gallhammer, GREENMACHiNE, Hair Stylistics, HAIZAI AUDIO, hasegawa-shizuo, Her Vomit is Modern..., Infinite Radical Freak Inverted Clap, IRON LUNG, JDOW, JUSTICE, Kaltbruching Acideath, KAOGANAI, Kaoru Sato + Jun Morita, Kazuma Kubota, kito-mizukumi rouber, KLONNS, KRUMETY, KURUEL, LINEKRAFT, LOW VISION, MATERIAL (CARRE), MERZBOW, MoE, MOONSCAPE, moreru, Nepenthes, NoLA, PAINJERK WRACKED AND RUINED, PALM, Payback Boys, Peter Missing (Missing Foundation), preparationset, PSYWARFARE, PILE DRIVER, QUESTR duc Asylum, ROCKY & The SWEDEN, SAIGAN TERROR, SANHEDRIN, scum, SELF DECONSTRUCTION, shikaku, SLIGHT SLAPPERS, SLIP HEAD BUTT, Soiled Hate, SOLVENT COBALT, STAGNATION, STRUGGLE FOR PRIDE, Su19b, SUMMER OF DEATH, SUNN O)), SWARRRM, SYSTEMATIC DEATH, TERROR SQUAD, the Slowmotions, the Atomic Bomb Masturbation, Trikorona, UG MAN, Uncivilized Girls Memory, universe last a ward, Viviankrist, Vito Foccacio, SCUMPUTER, Yousuke Fuyama, ZENOCIDE, ZVIZMO (Tenko × Ito Atsuhiro), αAREA, うしろ前さかさ族, マリア観音, 受容, 渋谷慶一郎, 犬彦, 鉄アレイ, 非常階段 , 黒パイプ , 湯浅湾 , 324

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idiots do not suffer from self-doubt - EARTHDOM benefit compilation

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