Demdike starlings
Demdike Stare (DDS) is the band name of the musician duo Sean Canty and Miles Whittaker. The project, which has been releasing albums and EPs in the genres of dark ambient , dub techno and electronic music since 2009 , is based in Manchester .
Band history
The disc jockey and operator of the retro label Finders Keepers , Sean Canty, and the music producer Miles Whittaker founded their joint project Demdike Stare in 2009 and published their first album Symbiosis the same year . Right from the start they worked with the local independent record label Modern Love Records , an important address for British dub techno. They chose the name Demdike Stare as a black humorous bow to Elizabeth Southern, called Mother Demdike , the leader of the "Pendle Witches" from Lancastershire , who died in prison in 1622 . They produced new settings for historical horror films , which were occasionally performed live. The Getty Foundation in Los Angeles booked DDS in September 2016 as a performance act for the exhibition London Calling: Bacon, Freud, Kossoff, Andrews, Auerbach, and Kitaj .
In 2015 they performed in Utrecht, Amsterdam, Graz, at the Jetztmusik Festival in Mannheim and in Berghain in Berlin. In 2016 a number of appearances in Europe, Russia and the USA followed. Her album Wonderland , released in 2016, offers tracks suitable for the dance floor for the first time . With the album Passion (2018) they set new highlights for their musical research.
Discographic Notes
- Studio albums
- Liberation Through Hearing ( Modern Love , 2010)
- Voices of Dust (Modern Love, 2010)
- Wonderland (Modern Love, 2016)
- Passion (Modern Love, 2018)
- Compilation practice
- Symbiosis (Modern Love, 2009)
- Tryptych (Modern Love, 2011)
- Elemental (Modern Love, 2012)
- Extended plays
- Forest of Evil (Modern Love, 2010)
- Elemental Parts One & Two: Chrysanthe & Violetta (Modern Love, 2011)
- Elemental Part Three: Rose (Modern Love, 2012)
- Elemental Part Four: Iris (Modern Love, 2012)
- Singles
- Testpressing # 001 (Modern Love, 2013)
- Testpressing # 002 (Modern Love, 2013)
- Testpressing # 003 (Modern Love, 2013)
- Testpressing # 004 (Modern Love, 2013)
- Testpressing # 005 (Modern Love, 2014)
- Testpressing # 006 (Modern Love, 2014)
- Testpressing # 007 (Modern Love, 2015)
Web links
- Web presence of the duo (Wayback archive)
- Demdike Stare: witch music with ideology , portrait of a musician on De: Bug from March 19, 2011
- Literature by and about Demdike Stare in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- Demdike Stare at Discogs (English)
- Demdike Stare at the Internet Movie Database (English)
supporting documents
- ↑ see Discogs Info
- ↑ "London Calling"
- ↑ Saturdays Off the 405: Demdike Star , Getty Center Los Angeles, accessed January 15, 2017
- ↑ Tour dates from Demdike Stare live gigs , Resident Advisor
- ↑ Demdike Stare: Goosebumps on, shoes off , review in Der Standard on January 13, 2017, accessed January 15, 2017
- ↑ John Twells: How Demdike Stare traded darkness for dancefloor naivety on Wonderland , duo portrait in Fact Magazine on the occasion of the Wonderland album, accessed January 8, 2019.
- ↑ Demdike Stare: Passion , review on Pitchfork Media from November 15, 2018, accessed December 12, 2018