Love music. Love making music. Love making pictures to music.

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Dirk Markham grew up in Aboyne, a village in “Royal” Deeside in the north east of Scotland (an hour inland from Aberdeen). Dirk has been making experimental recordings and teaching himself every instrument he can get his hands on since his years studying mental philosophy at Edinburgh University in the late 90s. His music is mainly instrumental although occasionally the odd folk-rock song pops up out of nowhere.

While an ongoing collaborative exchange with the Forest Records Collective still provides a strong bond to Edinburgh, Markham has been residing in Berlin since 2004 where he previously worked for Gudrun Gut’s indie label monika enterprise and is now part of the research and development team with the music software and hardware manufacturer Native Instruments. Dirk’s experience working in the music industry has fed into his own music and continues to be a source of inspiration.

Equal parts music fan and composer, as well as producing and promoting his own music Drock is always looking to support fellow artists which he does via his involvement with the Digital in Berlin project which includes a monthly radio show, online magazine and hosting regular events.

Life for Dirk is a musical journey on which he is constantly searching for new sounds, ways of manipulating and controlling them, and cheap keyboards from the flea market. His recent works include the debut album by his electronic side-project Systeme D entitled Systeme D In Full Effekt and tracks on two Second Language compilations, Vertical Integration and Minute Papillon. He recently released the 10th and final installment in his highly regarded Psycho-Acoustic Scultptures series and a collection of electronic compositions under his "Delta" moniker.

I've been with FEnce Records since the beginning. I played with J Wright, Kate Tunstall, SDO, Khartoum Heroes, King Creosote, Shoemarket Hour, occasional sessions for Lone Pigeon/ Pip Dylan. bits & bobs for MC Quake (live).  I played bass for all of them, exept Gummi Bako, where it was nearly always electric guitar.
I took it all as far as I could. I even made it onto the soundtrack for a film, playing the bass parts.  The film was about Scotland in the past. Now I'm just an average nobody....& I get to live the rest of my life as a shnook.

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