Chris Douglas

This article is about the musician Chris Douglas. For the basketball player, see Chris Douglas-Roberts .

Chris Douglas (born  August 4, 1974 ) is an American musician and DJ . He publishes under pseudonyms such as OST , Rook Vallade , Rook Valard and Dalglish .

music

The Californian musician Chris Douglas performed at the invitation of Autechre in 2004 at the festival All Tomorrow's Parties .

To settle at the points of contact of contemporary electronic music with IDM, Industrial and Musique Concrète, his works appear on labels such as Plug Research, Polyrhythmic, Diskono and Worm Interface alongside people like Boards of Canada and Autechre as well as on his own label Qlipothic, on which he released his debut Seimlste .

The Berliner- by-choice found like-minded people in the Japanese singer Coppe and the jazz musician Jacob and produced the album "Ubik" with them. Douglas had his Qlipothic debut Seimlste remixed by artists such as Autechre , Pita , Merzbow and Stephan Mathieu .

other projects

Together with Mike Donovan , Chris Douglas released the EP "Brisbane Cats" in 2000 under the band name "The Church Steps" on the label "Static Caravan". The joint track "Cal / Kearn" appeared on the Japanese label "Contact Records" on the compilation "US Pop Life Vol. 11 / Looking For The Perfect Glass: California Post Punk", on which, among other things, the then unknown bands " !!! "And" Camera Obscura "could be heard.

Pseudonyms

• EAST
• Rook Vallade
• Rook Valard
• Dalglish
• Wooli Bodin
• Harry Rod

Discography

Albums 1998 OST Death Notice (Phthalo) 1998 OST Fashion For Passion (Dial Records) 1998 OST Live @ Nina’s (Phthalo) 1998 OST Live @ Static (Phthalo) 1998 OST Live At Globule, Mills College (Phthalo) 1998 Rook Valard Systematic Desensitization (Phthalo) 1999 OST Fuckin 'Twats Missed It (Phthalo) 2000 OST Bad Music And Buttprints (Dial Records) 2000 OST Deflect (Emanate Records) 2002 OST Does Not Play Well With Others (Polyrhythmic) 2002 EAST Seimlste (Qlipothic) 2003 OST Fimt ( Isolate ) 2004 Dalglish OtJohr (Highpoint Lowlife) 2007 OST Waetka (Ideal Records) 2013 Dalglish Niaiw Ot Vile ( Pan ) EPs 1992 OST Basilar EP (12 ") (Switch Records Canada) 2000 Rook Vallade Rook Vallade (Dial Records) Remixes 1996 OST rEMIT rECAPS (CD) Simm City (OST Mix) ( Astralwerks )

Videos

• 2005 Symül - Transforma and OST ( Shitkatapult )
• 2007 Synken - Transforma and OST ( Shitkatapult )

Others

• Autechre remixed the track “Ou” from the album “Seimlste”.
• At the same time, a special edition of 200 copies of his album “Waetka” was released. The Berlin artist Jorinde Voigt designed the cover .

swell

• Text: Aquarius - Warp Records Info ( Memento from September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
• Text / Interview: Jens Pacholsky - Goon Magazine ( Memento from October 22, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF file; 1.62 MB)
• Text: Marc Zendrini - Adozen.org (including French, English)
• Text / biography: Club Transmediale (English)
• Text / biography: Isolate Records (English)
• Text: Sfgate - Magazine ( Memento from June 3, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) (English)

Web links

• OST - AMHAIN - Official Website (English)
• OST - Myspace (English)
• Chris Douglas at Discogs (English)
• OST - video works by Transforma (English)
• Text: Aquarius Records (English)