1979

Let The Silence Float

Pathologically Bored

Addictive Yearning

Three Cheers For Existence

What Happens When You Ask

I Want

I Would Like

The Way Through the Forest

The Way Through The Forest

We Will Live On

The Wind

The Ash

The Return

We're Not Needed

We Will Disappear

The Dirt

The Rain

Incremental Loss

To Quiet the Voices

Music from Genus, an electro-acoustic score for Wayne McGregor's ballet of the same title, based on Charles Darwin's discovery of evolution. The musical composition in eight parts is a collaborative work between Joby Talbot and Deru. 

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Composed By: Benjamin Wynn (Deru) and Joby Talbot. 

Engineered by Mark Wyllie, assisted by Mike Horner. 

Mastered by Mike Wells at Mike Wells Mastering. 

Commissioned by The Paris Opera Ballet with choreography by Wayne Mcgregor. Premiered at the Palais Garnier on October 28th 2007.

The Transmutation of Species Part 1

Title track off of Deru's upcoming "1979" album, being released on digital, vinyl, and handheld projector. June 17th on Friends of Friends. 

http://shop.1979.la <---- To pre-order the projector
www.1979.la <---- To submit a memory for the gallery
http://fofmusic.bandcamp.com/album/1979 <---- For vinyl

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Memory is one of our greatest gifts; it gives us access to time, to identity, to dreams. Guided by the wisdom of Jackson Sonnanfeld-Arden, discoverer of the Nine Pure Tones, I created 1979 as a concept album through which I could share his brilliant theory, and my life-long infatuation with memory. 
        
Before music was such an easily traded commodity, it was often an experience to which people gave their full attention. Let’s bring that experience back. Let’s respect what music is worth. 

Yours in the waves,
- Deru

My second album. Released on Merck Records in 2004.

Spread Your Arms

Second track off of "1979", released on digital, vinyl, and handheld projector on Friends of Friends Records.

fofmusic.bandcamp.com/album/1979 <---- To buy digital/vinyl
http://shop.1979.la <---- To order the projector
www.1979.la <---- To submit a memory for the gallery

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Memory is one of our greatest gifts; it gives us access to time, to identity, to dreams. Guided by the wisdom of Jackson Sonnanfeld-Arden, discoverer of the Nine Pure Tones, I created 1979 as a concept album through which I could share his brilliant theory, and my life-long infatuation with memory.

Before music was such an easily traded commodity, it was often an experience to which people gave their full attention. Let’s bring that experience back. Let’s respect what music is worth.

Yours in the waves,
- Deru

An old jam I did for a Ghostly International compilation.


Straight Speak

Qua - Circles (Deru Remix)

Track number 5 off of "1979", released on digital, vinyl, and handheld projector on Friends of Friends Records.

fofmusic.bandcamp.com/album/1979 <---- To buy digital/vinyl
shop.1979.la <---- To order the projector
www.1979.la <---- To submit a memory for the gallery

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Memory is one of our greatest gifts; it gives us access to time, to identity, to dreams. Guided by the wisdom of Jackson Sonnanfeld-Arden, discoverer of the Nine Pure Tones, I created 1979 as a concept album through which I could share his brilliant theory, and my life-long infatuation with memory.

Before music was such an easily traded commodity, it was often an experience to which people gave their full attention. Let’s bring that experience back. Let’s respect what music is worth.

Yours in the waves,
- Deru

Drink It In

4th track off of "1979", released on digital, vinyl, and handheld projector on Friends of Friends Records.

fofmusic.bandcamp.com/album/1979 <---- To buy digital/vinyl
shop.1979.la <---- To order the projector
www.1979.la <---- To submit a memory for the gallery

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Memory is one of our greatest gifts; it gives us access to time, to identity, to dreams. Guided by the wisdom of Jackson Sonnanfeld-Arden, discoverer of the Nine Pure Tones, I created 1979 as a concept album through which I could share his brilliant theory, and my life-long infatuation with memory.

Before music was such an easily traded commodity, it was often an experience to which people gave their full attention. Let’s bring that experience back. Let’s respect what music is worth.

Yours in the waves,
- Deru

3rd track off of "1979", released on digital, vinyl, and handheld projector on Friends of Friends Records.

fofmusic.bandcamp.com/album/1979 <---- To buy digital/vinyl
shop.1979.la <---- To order the projector
www.1979.la <---- To submit a memory for the gallery

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Memory is one of our greatest gifts; it gives us access to time, to identity, to dreams. Guided by the wisdom of Jackson Sonnanfeld-Arden, discoverer of the Nine Pure Tones, I created 1979 as a concept album through which I could share his brilliant theory, and my life-long infatuation with memory.

Before music was such an easily traded commodity, it was often an experience to which people gave their full attention. Let’s bring that experience back. Let’s respect what music is worth.

Yours in the waves,
- Deru

One of the pieces I wrote as part of the score to the 2012 documentary film, "Outliers Vol. 1: Iceland".

More info here: www.outliersiceland.com

Choir (Outliers Vol.1)

8th track off of "1979", released on digital, vinyl, and handheld projector on Friends of Friends Records.

I figured I'd use this track as an opportunity to talk about some of the production on "1979". As some of you have been asking, I bounced all of the songs on the album straight to cassette tape. I bought an old Marantz portable tape deck on eBay and the songs went straight out of the computer onto the deck, fully mixed. The tape recorder is kinda fucked up and has a really pronounced pitch warble that I love. It gives everything a very distinct character. Throughout the years I've become less careful with my mixes. I don't think I would've ever done this when I was first making music and was obsessed with clarity or whatever, but now that I've been doing it a while I'm much more into interesting mixes... Mixes with character. 

This song in particular almost didn't make it onto the record. It's the only song with a beat on the album, and I wasn't sure that it fit because of it. But after playing the album to a few friends some of them said that it was their favorite, and that it provided a nice contrast to the rest of the songs. It's hard to gauge these things while working on the music sometimes as you're too close to it. But I'm glad I was convinced. Ambient music is just music after all.

- Ben

PS: The SoundCloud player really does some heinous shit to the tape noise in this one. Listen to a real copy if you can sometime.

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fofmusic.bandcamp.com/album/1979 <---- To buy digital/vinyl
shop.1979.la <---- To check out the projector
www.1979.la <---- To submit a memory for the gallery

The Future Never Comes

From "1979: Remixed", on Friends of Friends, released April 29th.

Digital and vinyl restock available here: 
deru.bandcamp.com/album/1979-remixed

All other digital and streaming services here:
https://fofmusic.lnk.to/1979Remixed

1979 - Remixed

1979 (On a Snowy February Day)

From "1979: Remixed", on Friends of Friends, released April 29th.

Digital and vinyl restock available here: 
deru.bandcamp.com/album/1979-remixed

All other digital and streaming services here:
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Midnight In The Garden With Ghosts (Remix)

1979: Remixed

Pathologically Bored (Remix)

Original by Robot Koch and Savannah Jo Lack
Available on all services: https://robotkoch.lnk.to/Reimagined

Particle Fields Reimagined

Stream

Instructions For Time Travel - Deru Remix

From Morrow Choral Orchestra on Designed Disorder

Yasume's 'Rengoku' DERU Remix

Watch 'Torn In Two' now: https://youtu.be/g0yxTpaHHUM

Deru’s last record, 1979, dealt with individual human emotions. His new project, Torn In Two, zooms out and deals with human existence as a whole. It finds feelings of frustration, dissociation and anger, but from a high vantage that affords perspective and allows the project to include acceptance, beauty and tranquility. 

Torn In Two includes a series of accompanying films that magnify the project’s themes, with effigies that absorb and reflect the human condition. They burn, they bleed, they hold their young, they get swallowed by the waves. Humans are absent. The world independent of us, without us. Humanity at a crossroads.

Torn In Two

Second single from Deru's upcoming album, Torn In Two, out October 19th on Friends of Friends.
Pre-order: https://musicstore.deru.la
Watch the film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Guf8onco1to

Refuge

From the 'Torn In Two' album. Out now.
https://fofmusic.lnk.to/TorninTwo

Undertow

Pyre

One of the pieces I wrote as part of the score to the 2012 documentary film, "Outliers Vol. 1: Iceland".

More info here: www.outliersiceland.com

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