Defrag is extreme sound design and audio rhythmic experimentation of Jeff Dodson, a composer and sound designer living in Los Angeles CA.

Defrag's influences like IDM, dubstep and experimental abstract glitch, filter into his music. With his classical background giving it a more cinematic progression. Orchestrated strings, piano, classic analogue synths and software processing add up to a fusion of analogue warmth, modern classical and raw digital abstraction.

That he chooses instead to make his attention to detail the vehicle for his songs rather than their focus is not only admirable, it’s a definitive comment on his priorities and where they lie. Defrag makes complicated music, but you can completely forget that in the moment and just experience it. 

(bio by IDM Discovery)

Tracklist: 
(Album - Track)

Unreleased - Kubris
Lost Lands - With Insects In My Head
Lost Seas - Drift I
Idle Lines - Idle Lines
Unreleased - The Traveller
Unreleased - Deckard
Lost Skies - Rankin Decay
Lost Lands - At A Harbor Of Dreams
Unreleased - A Single Saint (Feat. Vocals by Hypnoskull)
Float - Square
Unreleased - Halt Lizardman
Idle Lines - We Are Foam
Lost Skies - Melody 4
Drown - Everything I Do Is Drown
Drown - Stilt Walkers
Idle Lines - Anjuray
Lost Seas - Arrival
Float - Descent
Float - Atlas
Idle Lines - Still Marks
Float - The Lighthouse
Lost Seas - Drift II
Lost Skies - They're Not Angels
Emissions / Type Scar


DEFRAG's 5th LP has just released on Hymen Records and is a combination of 3 story EP's (lost lands, lost seas, lost skies) and a condensed vinyl LP version entitled Lost Worlds. Each digital EP tells the journey through its track titles and blistering rhythms of a planet falling apart and the civilization enduring travels through each biome:

https://hymen-records.bandcamp.com/album/lost-lands
https://hymen-records.bandcamp.com/album/lost-worlds

@runsilent

Website (sound design): https://rainfall.film/
FB: https://www.facebook.com/DEFRAG0
IG: https://www.instagram.com/lamentelement/

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We're a non-profit that promotes outlier electronic music. Based in The Hague (NL)

Next event:
Sunday 5/010/2025 
SONIC WAVES / The Grey Space, The Hague
w/ @marijnswillens @kasparkazil and @doktoro_1
https://thegreyspace.net/program/sonic-waves-2/

Saturday 1/11/2025 
HYPERFOCUS / The Grey Space, The Hague
w/ TBA

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