Name: David Douglas - Chenab River by David Douglas
Duration: 3 min 17 s
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my faw track bro!!!!! just amazing/// when you play in russia you kill all people!!

This track is tremendous - as happy and lachadaisical as it is deeply dark and emotive,  the transitions are their own romantic trajectory of faux- to hyper- realism set within a bedtime story. Edward Gorey would not be disappointed.

that's a really cool opening track for an album! Congrats, sir, good luck with your further musical career!

Greg Gives Peter Space – the long overdue first collaborative work by Greg Haines and Peter Broderick

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Greg Gives Peter Space

The Drive

Greg Gives Peter Space – The Drive

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David Douglas - Chenab River

Marion Cotillard  & Joseph Mount pour la nouvelle campagne 
« Enter The Game » de Dior. Clip co-réalisé par Elliott Bliss et Marion Cotillard >http://youtu.be/1lgnmM3ujes

Snapshot In LA - Marion Cotillard - (Song by Metronomy)# Nov2014

!!! These are stripped-down 128mp3 snippets of the original tracks!!!

Artist: Felix Laband
Title: Deaf Safari
Cat No: CPT 470-1 / -2
Format: 2LP incl. cardboard CD / CD / digital
Release: 29th May 2015

TRACKLISTING:

1. The Savage Bush Hotel (6:25)
2. Im So High. I Swear I Could (4:55)
3. Ding Dong Thing (11:59)
4. Righteous Red Berets (9:12)
5. Squeeze The Trigger (9:09)
6. The Devil Threatens Me (12:55)
7. Down The Garden Path (12:28)
8. Getting Old (5:05)
9. Pietermaritzburg (4:47)

ARTIST STATEMENT

Deaf Safari is an audio collage of subjects that interest me and speak of the world I live in.
It is an album composed of sampled recordings from the media landscape that has been the soundtrack to my life over the last ten years.

The most important development in my current music and as can be heard on Deaf Safari has been my understanding of the beauty and power of the spoken word. I have experienced severe indifference to contemporary pop and electronic music as a whole over the last many years, as I have felt that social comment of any relevance has been ignored by music in general.
Deaf Safari attempts to bring sociopolitical comment into my music without taking any specific stand.
Sampled outside of musical influence directly from the news; from preacher sermons or from contemporary African documentaries.
I have finally created a story with sound that I feel accurately conveys my personal experience with the African world I live in.

My musical influences on this album lie mostly with local Kwaito house. Deaf Safari is an experiment within certain boundaries of the 4/4 genre, to create my own South African "house" album.
I am proud and inspired about the South African Kwaito house scene.
However, as with my first three albums, "Thin Shoes In June“ (2001) - "4/4 Down The Stairs“ (2002) and "Dark Days Exit“ (2005), I am still interested in making strange and evocative music.

American Roots music from the earlier periods of the 20th century has deeply resonated with me during the making of this album.
The incredible field recordings by Alan Lomax of Negro prison and chain gang work songs, and the
beautiful early recordings of artists such as Leadbelly have had a major influence on Deaf Safari.

I am truly excited to release this album and to start performing in the music world again. It has been ten years since I released "Dark Days Exit , and although I have been purposefully absent from the music world, I have none the less never stopped making music.
I feel that I have finally arrived at a mature and challenging stage in my pursuit of making emotional music of relevance .

Felix Laband 13=02=2015

Links:

facebook: www.facebook.com/pages/Felix-Laband/18041251748
soundcloud: @felix-laband
resident advisor: www.residentadvisor.net/dj/felixlaband

Felix Laband live @ Cape Town Electronic Music Festival 2015:
new.livestream.com/accounts/128788…videos/76528193

Felix Laband live @ Festival au bord de l’eau (Sierre, 2012):
Aubordeleau – Festival-weekend-au-bord-de-10

Deaf Safari

I'm So High, I Swear I Could...

Felix Laband - I'm So High, I Swear I Could...

Moriza - Permanent

4037 EDM

Raz Ohara & The Odd Orchestra - Where He At (Apparat Remix)

Pre-order the album 'Aforger' out October 14th on LP/CD/DL here: http://phonofile.link/aforger

In a digital age where memories are mimicked by pixels and identity is as malleable as static, Douglas Dare’s new album Aforger questions the boundaries between reality and fiction. 

Inspired by recent events and revelations encountered in his life these songs depict Dare at his most vulnerable, whilst simultaneously reflecting our own obsession with reality and technology back at us.  

Aforger was mixed at the iconic Abbey Road Studios and produced by long-time collaborator Fabian Prynn. In the following conversation Douglas strips back the personal journeys and realisations which preceded its recording.

In a conversation with Douglas Dare on July 11th 2016:

The album title plays with the idea of a forger – someone creating imitations or copies, and reimagines them as the creator of something that’s no longer real. Prior to writing the record, I came out to my father and came out of a long relationship, both were hugely challenging for me and questioned my idea of identity and reality. These thoughts leaked out into the record and formed the core of Aforger. I was determined not to write a break-up album or repeat what I’d done before..

I grew up on quite an isolated farm in Dorset, surrounded by fields and not much besides. My mother taught piano from home and we didn’t have a computer, or the internet or mobile phones. In fact, my family still chooses not to use these things. It’s worlds apart from my life now in London where technology seems to dominate everything I do.

After finding out my boyfriend had been leading this double-life, I became obsessed with the question of what is real and George Orwell’s 1984 felt appropriate for me to re-read. Orwell explains this idea of reality control and Doublethink, and it struck a chord with me. The idea that truth can be steered or changed, and we might be able to believe two contradictory things at once. In my case, ignorance was my protection from the truth and ignorance really is bliss, until you’re no longer ignorant.

Binary talks about the idea that technology is allowing us to live on after we’re gone. A relative of mine whose parent passed away kept a picture of them on their phone as a background image. A friend saw this and asked ‘how can you have that there to constantly remind you of your loss?’ They replied, ‘no I have to, it shows me that they’re still here’. This resonated with me and I thought ‘okay, this is just an image to me but to them it’s more than a reminder or a reassurance, it’s a reality’. At the same time, I was finding myself haunted by the digital reminder of my ex-partner and wishing they would disappear. I had to realise that it’s all just pixels on a screen. 

I think New York can be thought of as this fabricated, magical place. I was there with my boyfriend after touring the U.S., but when I came back to London I discovered all these lies and began questioning everything. I even questioned whether New York actually happened or not. New York is a song that’s literally describing that very real feeling of not knowing who or what to believe any more – scary and magical at the same time. 

Lyrically I wanted to be as honest as possible. The album deals with so much dishonesty, so I felt the lyrics had to be the counterbalance. I was inspired by Björk’s album Vulnicura and how everything is almost awkward in its honesty. Like my first album, Aforger started as poetry, but I consciously tried to be less poetic. For instance, Oh Father is an example of complete unambiguity. It’s certainly the most personal song I’ve put out there, and the realisation that people may hear it makes me feel very vulnerable. That’s the most real feeling of all for me right now. 

Aforger

Doublethink

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Douglas Dare - Doublethink

Me and My Girl

Sitting In A Chair, Blinking (Extended Version)

Tricky - Passion Of The Christ

Cooking music since 2012. Uploaded all my albums and some mixtapes here. 

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