spring break '24

From the underground headquarters of dogs h8 rats NYC>>><<<Seattle

❤️This track is a loving modern homage to Dave Brubeck's Take Five

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lyrics:
Lost lost lost…
should I buy something at the store?
costly costly costly, 
it’s costing me,

it’s caustic.

I spend my time waiting in line 
spend my time…
this is my prime!

…So maybe the best years of my life will be spent at the grocery store, 
and maybe some of the best times.

More and more and more and more...

I’d like more and more and more and more and more and more!

I’m thinking of capitalism 
(giggle)

I’m thinking of how I work eight hours a day so I can return to the same spot, the same place every day 
(giggle)

I’m not complaining…That’s a crime

Alanah Monet Malone, vocals/ Doug Wilkerson, Live drum performance, repurposed piano from the playing of Paul Mathew Moor arranged by D. Wilkerson, other repurposed sounds to create the soundscape created by D. Wilkerson; cover art by D. Wilkerson
composed by Wilkerson and Malone
Mixed and produced by D. Wilkerson

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Alanah's Lament

"SPEED, MADNESS, AND FLYING SAUCERS...... Avant-gardel, hard ambient, instrumental, movie score, soundscape, "punk jazz" beautiful." ~JL

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I can be heard screaming obscenities picked up by the drum mics toward the end of the track at about 17:24 cause my 2nd floor tom channel quit working during recording, I left it in cause it is an immediate truth and in the spirit of true improvisation you can hear a change in the direction of my playing, I almost stopped! but I was so close to the end I decided to keep going and I'm happy I did. ~DW

credits:
 Guitar through analog tape echo composed and played by Peter Comley, piano and guitar performed by Mike Grimes. Free improvisational drumming performed by Douglas Wilkerson, atmospheric bass guitar by NANNY

Mixed and produced by Douglas Wilkerson. Cover art by Douglas Wilkerson

Don't War!

(Douglas Wilkerson, composition and drums)  (Michael Billings, tapping guitar and composition) (Michael Grimes midi organ) (piano and analog synth played by Paul Michael Moore and arranged by D. Wilkerson) (Charlie Clay, atmospheric noise guitar and feedback)


Mixed and produced by Douglas Wilkerson

Billing Mystery (part 2)

((Douglas Wilkerson, drums, distorted drums, piano & synth samples)
(Justin Schumacher, guitars) (Michael Grimes, guitar feedback)

Composed by Wilkerson, Shumacher and Grimes

Mixed and produced By D. Wilkerson

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Subway To Dystopia (Berlin underground)

Performed, recorded, and produced by Doug Wilkerson and Michael Grimes

We are Dh8R's

Doug Wilkerson, composition, drum set and synthetic sounds
Michael Grimes, guitars and more synthesized sounds

Emergency Broadcast ((Berlin underground))

Composition, and various instrumentation by Degustacja
Composition, brushes on snare drum, atmospheric effects, and vocal by Douglas Wilkerson.

Recorded and mixed by Degustacja and D. Wilkerson


A Dh8R's collaboration with Degustacja

Goodnight friend

In this piece of “industrial jazz” the drums are in playful sometimes frantic opposition to the drone of the capitalist machine, creating brief moments of freedom.... but in the end only ricocheting inside the hard walls, oppressed by the tempo and drone of the capitalist machine we live in.

(Composition, synth and sound design by Michael Grimes) (Composition, Drums and guitar by Douglas Wilkerson) (piano track by Paul Mathew Moore and arranged by D. Wilkerson) Cover art by Candace Lange.
Composed by Douglas Wilkerson and Michael Grimes. Mixed and produced by Douglas Wilkerson

Drums vs the Machine ((industrial jazz))

"An intense avant art fragment" ~JL

Does it make sense? Does it even matter?

credits:
(Michael Billings, composition, guitar, and vocal) (Michael Grimes, composition, synths) (Douglas Wilkerson, composition and drum performance)

mixed and produced by Michael Grimes and Douglas Wilkerson

Dh8R's

Twin Star Rising

From the underground experimental lab at Dogs h8 Rats World Headquarters.
Michael Grimes plays bass and electronic sounds. Improvisational drum performance by Douglas Wilkerson. Paul Mathew Moore plays Piano, mini Moog analog synth and trombone. Cover art Douglas Wilkerson
Composition: Wilkerso, Grimes & Moore.
Mixed and Produced by D. Wilkerson

The Catch

Paul Richards, composition, guitar) 
Douglas Wilkerson, composition, drums, and other sounds)
Colt Kraft, vocal

Mixed and produced by D. Wilkerson

BriGht DaY

Noise! it's ugly ...umm I mean beautiful,,,improvisational guitar (not played in any traditional sense) and freeform drums played and recorded by Douglas Wilkerson at Dh8R's HQ in Seattle Wa.

Douglas Wilkerson, composition, drums, guitar, re-purpoesd piano from the playing of Paul Mathew Moore arranged by D. Wilkerson

Performed, recorded, mixed and produced by Douglas Wilkerson

Doug's Breakfast

From the underground headquarters of dogs h8 rats NYC>>><<<Seattle

❤️This track is a loving modern homage to Dave Brubeck's Take Five

Thank you for buying music from independent artists! We need to pay our rent and electricity bills, feed our cats, buy food, car insurance, and all that other stuff too...You can buy our music on Bandcamp.

lyrics:
Lost lost lost…
should I buy something at the store?
costly costly costly, 
it’s costing me,

it’s caustic.

I spend my time waiting in line 
spend my time…
this is my prime!

…So maybe the best years of my life will be spent at the grocery store, 
and maybe some of the best times.

More and more and more and more...

I’d like more and more and more and more and more and more!

I’m thinking of capitalism 
(giggle)

I’m thinking of how I work eight hours a day so I can return to the same spot, the same place every day 
(giggle)

I’m not complaining…That’s a crime

Alanah Monet Malone, vocals/ Doug Wilkerson, Live drum performance, repurposed piano from the playing of Paul Mathew Moor arranged by D. Wilkerson, other repurposed sounds to create the soundscape created by D. Wilkerson; cover art by D. Wilkerson
composed by Wilkerson and Malone
Mixed and produced by D. Wilkerson

Drums and percussion by Douglas Wilkerson. 
Bass guitars and atmospherics by Michael Grimes.
Eurorack modular synth by Kyle Fraser.

Composition, Wilkerson, Grimes and Fraser

Mixed and Produced By Douglas Wilkerson and Michael Grimes

Handsome Celestials (Atoms and Evolution)

Mike Grimes special effects and bass guitar
Douglas Wilkerson, drum set
Kyle Fraser, eurorack analog synth composition
Dennis Rea, lead guitar

Mixed and produced By Douglas Wilkerson and Dh8R's

RaT pAtroL

Beat Vox: Schnauze
an original fourtrack tape recording

Beat Vox: Schnauze

"Say no to the the status quo"  We come from the depths of punk rock, avant-jazz, and everything in between, Dogs h8 Rats are genre defying, and chock full of surprises. The music is born of improvisational performances so with a little luck you'll catch the "mistakes and imperfections" now and then, or as Miles Davis once said "Don't fear mistakes, there are none" and that ethos is in clear evidence within the music of Dh8R's. The core of Dh8R's is made up of Douglas Wilkerson and Michael Grimes who enlist the talents of various friends for added sensory enhancements."

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