Faultline

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David Kosten (* 1968 in London , England ) is an English DJ , musician and producer and has been releasing his own music since 1998 under the project name Faultline . Since 2001 he has had his own label with Tiny Consumer and works as a freelance A&R consultant for EMI - Records UK . Since 2006 he has been primarily a freelance producer and has recorded albums with acts such as Lenka , Bat for Lashes and Everything Everything .

Career

description

Since the mid- 1990s is David costs in the British music scene active. Influenced by synth pop and dark wave , he initially played drum and bass as a DJ . In 1996 he founded his one-man project Faultline , whose electronic music is predominantly spherical, melancholy and yet experimental. Playful, unstructured songs alternate on his albums with well-composed triphop works. While his first two album releases were still purely instrumental , he brought various guest vocalists and instrumentalists into the studio for his third album . Stylistically, it is generally classified under electronic music and triphop, in particular under downbeat , broken beat and so-called dark electronica .

Your Love Means Everything

The 2002 album contains sadly beautiful , soft Britpop triphop compositions, which alternate with sometimes spherical, sometimes rough soundscapes. For the ballads he received support from various musicians, including Chris Martin from Coldplay , who is represented in two songs with Where Is My Boy and Your Love Means Everything (Pt. II) . Jacob Golden is also represented several times with his male-female voice, which is almost predestined for triphop, and various guitars, with Bitter Kiss and the second voice to Green Fields , in which REM's Michael Stipe took over the main voice. Wayne Coyne and Nick McCabe finally round off the cocky lineup.

Since there were various legal problems with the distribution of the album, costs have been under contract with EMI since 2003 and Coldplay became the driving economic force at EMI overnight (Chris Martin sang his parts before the success of Parachutes ), the album was included in 2004 re-published a modified tracklist . In addition, the Rolling Stones hit Wild Horses was covered with Joseph Arthur and added to the album. With Ras B. , an American rapper , he recorded the later release Biting Tongues .

additional

Faultline's official third album, Destructo, The Human Cannonball , was due to be released in early 2008, but it's still a long time coming. For the 2006 tribute compilation to Serge Gainsbourg , David Kosten covered and produced the Gainsbourg classic Requiem pour un con with Brian Molko ( Placebo ) and Françoise Hardy .

producer

Since the mid-2000s, Kosten has been working as a freelance producer and recording songs and albums with various artists. He is engaged by various labels such as EMI , Decca Records , Sub Pop etc. He has produced albums by Ben Christophers , Jacob Golden and von Merz, among others . He has remixes e.g. B. for the band Keane ( Goodbye Yellow Brick Road ) and Iain Archer .

Publications

Albums

  • 1998 - Faultline EP (mini album)
  • 1999 - Closer Colder
  • 2002 - Your Love Means Everything
  • 2004 - Your Love Means Everything (Re-Release)

Singles

  • 1998 - Mute
  • 1998 - Control
  • 2004 - The Colossal Gray Sunshine (feat.Wayne Coyne )
  • 2004 - Biting Tongues (feat.Ras B.)
  • 2004 - Wild Horses (feat.Joseph Arthur)

Contributions

* These titles were under the name Faultline published

Productions (excerpt)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.tinyconsumer.com/ , accessed July 22, 2009
personal data
SURNAME Faultline
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cost, david
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English producer and DJ in the field of electronic music
DATE OF BIRTH 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH London , England