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Stephen Philips

The Darkest of Ducks

About Me



I'm the guy behind Dark Duck Records

Kite Radio
My online radio show which airs every Tuesday night beginning around 9:00 pm US eastern time. Hosted by Stillstream . Playlists and such can be found here

Dissonance Records
a sublabel of Dark Duck Records featuring exclusively guitar-based music experimental, noise, ambient, feedback, drone, shoegazer, whatever

Dark Duck Dot Org Environmental Project
Save the planet by sampling your environment. If you'd like to get involved, let me know.

Drone Download Project
Free ambient and drone mp3 downloads

TZP Drone Company
More free ambient and drone mp3 downloads, full-length releases and out of print Dark Duck Records material

My Interests

making music
sound design
photography
good films

I'd like to meet:

Other cool musical folks!

My Blog

NEW RELEASES from Dark Duck Records

10 September 2007Just released today, 2 new CDs from Stephen Philips.First up we have the new long form work, "Stygian." This one coverssome very dark territory, perhaps the darkest thing to come fr...
Posted by Stephen Philips on Thu, 13 Sep 2007 09:27:00 PST

new Stephen Philips downloadable

Just released today is a new "single" from Stephen Philips called"Like Floating on a Cloud" which is a 13 min floating dreamy piece.This is currently being offered as a "single" downloadable only trac...
Posted by Stephen Philips on Tue, 28 Aug 2007 05:45:00 PST

NEW RELEASE Free Download

Now available, my latest release called "Soliton."  This was a recording from a live performance that originally aired on Stillstream and it is now available for free download from the Earth Mant...
Posted by Stephen Philips on Wed, 15 Aug 2007 05:30:00 PST

Kite Radio Turns 100 + Concert

Tonight Kite Radio will have our 100th show and we will celebrate our birthday with a live on-air concert from Experimental Psychology + lots of great new music.  The show will begin around 9:00 ...
Posted by Stephen Philips on Tue, 17 Jul 2007 05:27:00 PST

Back and ready for more

OK, I'm back from my much needed vacation and hopefully ready to get back to it  So hopefully all those things that have been on hold for too long will get dealt with:  releases, orders, and...
Posted by Stephen Philips on Mon, 02 Jul 2007 06:14:00 PST

Live Ambient Tonight

I will be performing live tonight on Kite Radio http://www.stillstream.comShow starts around 10:00 pm and I will be playing live on and off through the duration of the show.  Mostly some short im...
Posted by Stephen Philips on Tue, 12 Jun 2007 02:03:00 PST

Dreams 5 is now ready

Just checking in with a quick update.OK party people, Deep Chill Network's "Dreams 5" is now ready. Perhaps my favorite disc in the series. Also coming soon is Cycles 7 which will be available as a ...
Posted by Stephen Philips on Mon, 19 Mar 2007 05:48:00 PST

Friday Night Kites

I will be invading Organbient on Friday nite in lofat's absense.  Come by stillstream.com on Friday night and join us for the Friday Night Kites where we will be previewing the new Dreams 5 disc....
Posted by Stephen Philips on Thu, 01 Mar 2007 12:55:00 PST

Somber Waves of Grain on iTunes, eMusic, etc

Somber Waves of Grain, which was released through Blue Water Records, is now available on iTunes and eMusic and the like, as well as through Blue Water Records as a digital download.Other new stuff in...
Posted by Stephen Philips on Mon, 26 Feb 2007 06:47:00 PST

Finally

ok, so i'm finally on myspace, what took me so long?  i don't know.  i have issues with myspace but maybe we'll get into that later.  i'll try to keep this sort and sweet but keep an e...
Posted by Stephen Philips on Fri, 23 Feb 2007 03:43:00 PST