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 Multi-instrumentalist
Stephen Philips has been a musician for more than 30 years. He founded Dark Duck Records in the late 80's as a way
to expose his musical endeavors to the general public. Music
has always been a way of life for Stephen. He began his musical
sojourns at the age of 8 with the Clarinet. At the age of 13
his interest moved to the guitar, bass, piano, and synthesizer
which led him into several pop bands through his late teens.
He recorded 3 albums for the alternative/college band Troubled
Thought before exploring electronic music in the early 90's.
His fascination with the vast space of ambient music and an interest
in the godfathers of ambient (Brian Eno, Robert Fripp, Tangerine
Dream, Klaus Schulze, John Cage, etc.) led him into full-on experimentation
with ambient music and an indepth study of the history, roots,
and methods of ambient music composition.
His music places a strong emphasis on time and place, desiring
to take the listener to a virtual location and/or to create an
aural postcard or an aural description of a feeling or a mood
evoked by a location.
To obtain his trademark sound, Stephen Philips uses a variety
of synthesizers, samplers, and effects as well as a vast array
of electronic and acoustic percussion instruments.
In the past he has rarely recorded under his own name rather
choosing to record along side other artists under the names of
Experimental Psychology, Excelsior, and Deep Chill Network. Most
of Stephen's solo releases are very ambient, deep chill, and/or
experimental. Some of his recordings are live performances, experimental
soundscapes, and other ambient noodling. Some of them even started
out as practice sessions & jams that were so good we just
had to release them.
His music has been played on many radio stations
around the world and has been featured on such radio programs
as Stars End and Inner Space, EMUSIC, and many others. His music
has also been reviewed and well received by many respected ambient
and electronic magazines, including Deep Listenings, E.E.R.,
and Wind and Wire.
Eastern Morning (timezones series #1 - eastern) 4/94 out of print
Mile High Chill (timezones series #2 - mountain) 5/97 out of print
Unauthorized Experiments 1/98 out of print
Avalon Chill (timezones series #3 - west) 2/98 out of print
Cycles 1 4/98
Desert Landscapes 9/98
Conquest Berlin 12/98 out of print
Subtle Environments (environments series #1) 4/99
Mile High Chill 2 5/99 out of print
Synthetic Environments (environments series #2) 7/99
Cycles 2 8/99
In The Moonlight 12/99
Otherworldly 1 2/00 out of print (available as a download)
Beyond The Glaze (with Ben Summers) 5/00
Natural Environments (environments series #3) 7/00
Cycles 3 10/00
Behind The Mirror (with Ben Summers) 11/00
Live at BZ 12/00
Lost at Dunn's Lake (with James Johnson) (on ZeroMusic) 3/01
Looking Out The Window 8/01 out of print
Cave of The Wind (with Isomorph) 10/01
Cycles 4 01/02
From Within The Abyss (with Numina) 05/02
Reflections In Water 06/02
Cycles 5 01/03
Outward Appearance (with Numina) 05/03
One Point of View (on Dissonance Records) 05/03
Live In Pittsburgh 7/03
Cycles 6 9/03
Metannoyance (with Ben Summers) (on Dissonance Records) 05/03
Installations 1 9/04 (available as a download)
Placid Repose 10/04 (on Gears of Sand)
out of print
Another View (on Dissonance Records) 01/05
Faded (remix/collab with Austere, released
by Austere) 6/05
Dagboken (on Hypnos Secret Sounds) 7/05
Installations 2 7/05 (available as a download)
Inside and Outside 1 8/05
Installations 3 8/05 (available as a download)
Constant 2 (on TZP Drone Company) 9/05 (available as a free download)
Simulated Universe (collaboration with Ixohoxi) 9/05
Inside and Outside 2 9/05
Constant 5(on TZP Drone Company) 9/05 (available as a free download)
iInside and Outside 3 11/05
Otherworldly 3 12/05
Inside and Outside 4 01/06
Day Three 03/06
Inside and Outside 5 7/06
The Atonal EP 8/06 (on Dissonance Records)
Complexities (collaboration with Rigel Orionis) 8/06
Creampuff Casper Milk Toast 9/06 (on Dissonance Records) CD
Soliton (on Earth Mantra) 8/07 (freely downloadable here)
Under The Red River 9/07 CD
Stygian 9/07 CD
The Sobbing Stone: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack 9/07 CD
Into The Dark (on Hypnos) 9/07 CD
Installations 4 11/07 (downloadable)
Geoflexures (with Ben Fleury-Steiner) 11/07 CD
Otherworldly 4 TBD 12/07 CD
Mile High Chill 1 1/08 CD (Remastered & Re-issued 10th Anniversary Edition)
Neptune Is A Gas Giant 1/08 FREE DOWNLOADABLE HERE
Constant 13 5/08 FREE DOWNLOADABLE HERE
Jupiter's Moons 5/08
FREE DOWNLOADABLE HERE
Re-issues Coming Soon
Placid Repose (re-issued coming May 2008)
Avalon Chill (re-mastered & re-issued coming April 2008)
Mile High Chill 2 (re-mastered & re-issued coming March 2008)
Projects currently in the works or already slated for release
Cycles 7 2/08 [CD/5.1 Surround Sound DVD combo]
The Air Up There 11/08 (on Dark Winter)
Organ Works TBD 2008 CD
Incantations 1 TBD CD
Blurring The Edges (with Drone Forest) TBD 4/08 CD
Inside and Outside (compilation + surround sound mixes [box set])
Brokenness: Piano Miniatures TBD 2008
Live At The Ambient Ping 2002 (with Ben Summers) TBD 2008
Cycles 8 TBD 2009
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