Second DnB collaboration by DR JEEP and TAMARAK

Doctor Jeep & Tamarak - Destroyer Forthcoming Deep Red EP - Worst Behavior

Josh is a multi-talented electronic music composer, producer, DJ and lifelong musician, living on the Sunshine Coast of BC, Canada. He has taken his talent, love, and dedication for music, and together with discipline, turned them into outstanding ability, always keeping the integrity of his music as the North Star that guides him.

With close to two decades of working in electronic music production, he has released over fifty tracks worldwide. These include solo productions, collaborations, and remixes on various international labels released under his new solo project TAMARAK, and also with the duo DAEGA SOUND, in partnership with his brother Ben Searles.

First discovered by Mary Anny Hobbs in 2008 she supported his solo tunes on her BBC1 Radio show. Vinyl, CD and digital formats of Josh’s releases are on various labels including Hatched Music, Black Box, CX:Digital, Deep Heads, Tuba, Muti Music, Interchill, Car Crash Set, East Van Digital, Really Good Recordings, Fathom Recordings, and Echo Dub.

Over the last decade, as a member of Vancouver’s DJ and producer collective LIGHTA!, Josh has been a builder and supporter of both the local, national and international bass music scene. Actively touring the electronic music festival circuit, he has played numerous Canadian festivals including Shambhala, Bass Coast, Mutek, New Forms, MEME, Motion Notion, Astral Harvest and Om. With Daega Sound and his original DJ moniker      Deep Six, he has toured within Canada, down the coast of California, and over to the UK. He has shared the stage and released music alongside some of Dubstep, and Drum and Bass’ most influential producers and DJ’s.

Josh’s dedication to the acoustic classical guitar balances his love for sound design, synths, drum machines, and computers. As a classical artist, he currently studies with world-renowned Brazilian virtuoso guitarist Maestro Celso Machado, absorbing from him the different sounds and styles of Brazilian guitar music. In addition to his studies with Maestro Machado, he is preparing for his ARCT in classical guitar. He has participated in master classes with world-class guitarist Daniel Bolshoy (head of guitar U Georgia) and GFA winner Marc Teicholz, San Francisco Conservatory of Music.

Josh artfully combines his classical musical training with his gifts for electronic music composition and his years of extensive production and performance experience. He has written scores for short films that have played at the Vancouver International Film Festival (CAN) the Videobardo Buenos Aires (ARG), Northwest Film Fest Portland (US), and the Native American Film Festival New York (US) and also licensed original music for video productions.

Moving ahead, Josh will be touring his new project TAMARAK, performing classical guitar concerts, writing more music for film and TV, and always further developing his creative multi-faceted musical ideas/career.