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Deer

About Me

_biography
As Deer, Martin Hirsch (*1978) explores the intersections of various forms of expression within electronic music, putting an emphasis on engaging and improvised live performances. Drawing material from a variety of sources, Deer‘s sound is characterised by fieldrecordings clashing with intricate rhythm-patterns and beautifully crafted melodies. The emotional breadth of the music is astounding, covering a wide range of emotions and mental images seldomly explored in electronic music. Martin leaves it to the listener to decide whether the product of this combination is House, Techno or something else altogether. In either case, it is unique and intriguing.
Martin has released on a variety of labels and netlabels, including Hydrogen Dukebox, Combination Records, Neo Ouija and Hippocamp. He lives and works in Weimar, Germany, from where he also runs the electronic music label Neo Ouija and works as freelance writer and multimedia artist.
_selected_discography
2008 - Quantec | Deer | relapxych.00 - Shapes and Phases of Ambience - Ghostsounds
2006 - Deer - Track Delay EP - Ekwal
2004 - random noise productions - Red Center EP - Hippocamp
2004 - random noise productions - Fleamarkets EP - Hippocamp
_tracks_appear_on
2008 - Diaspora: Cottage Industries 5 - Neo Ouija
2008 - Intelligent Toys 5 - Sutemos
2007 - Traffic III 4/4 - Combination Records
2007 - Metamatics - Personal Jesus - Hydrogen Dukebox
2007 - nq - Purple Skies Remixed - Kitty-Yo
2005 - Meadow: Cottage Industries 4 - Neo Ouija
2003 - Audiowerkschau 2003 - Bauhaus Label
Further compilation appearances and remixes for tonAtom, Mizukage and Hippocamp.
_selected_live_gigs
2009 - Club Transmediale 09 @ Maria - Berlin
2008 - Galerie Eigenheim - Weimar
2008 - Cube @ Halle02 - Heidelberg
2008 - Node Festival - Modena
2008 - Lichthaus Kino - Weimar
2008 - Elektro Giegling, Weimar
2007 - Cube @ Halle02 - Heidelberg
2006 - Dubrovnik Club - Helsinki
2005 - The Universal - Glasgow
2005 - The Font - Manchester
2004 - Suite - Mannheim
2004 - E-Werk - Weimar
2004 - Gaswerk - Weimar
2003 - Neues Theater - München
2002 - Elektronik Köbberling - Kassel
_selected_installations_and_audiovisual_works
2008 - Nahkampf oder Telefonieren - Sound Design / Co-Production
2006 - STFU Glasgow: Netaudio In The Real World - Video Documentary
2005 - Fringe - Sound-Installation
2003 - Borderbias - Radio Feature
2002 - Stille / Störung - Sound-Installation
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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 26/12/2005
Band Website: http://regicide.org
Band Members: Martin Hirsch
Influences: Carl Craig, Brian Eno, UR, Meat Beat Manifesto, Pierre Schaeffer, Move D, Metamatics, Negativland, Coil, Herbie Hancock, Derrick May, Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Frank Zappa, Beatles, Black Dog, Richard D James, Snog, John Abercrombie, Orbital, Peanut Butter Wolf, PWEI, Prefuse 73, Luke Vibert
Record Label: Neo Ouija, Ekwal, Hippocamp
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Manmachine Graphic Novel

The Deer track "Projectionist's Nightmare" is featured as part of the soundtrack for the absolutely gorgeous online comic book "Manmachine". This is science fiction at its best, hopefully there'll be ...
Posted by on Sat, 10 Jan 2009 02:14:00 GMT

Deer on Sutemos Intelligent Toys 5

Out NOW for FREE as in BEER: Sutemos Intelligent Toys 5Legendary netlabel Sutemos releases a massive free 3 CD set gathering artists like Ulrich Schnauss, Sense, AGF/Delay, SWOD, Praveen, Funckarma an...
Posted by on Thu, 27 Nov 2008 14:17:00 GMT

Shapes and Phases of Ambience Split Album

Im happy to announce that Im part of the first release on the newly founded swedish label Ghost Sounds. The first release is a Split Album between Quantec, relapxych.0 and myself. You can preview an...
Posted by on Thu, 09 Oct 2008 04:59:00 GMT

STFU Heidelberg @ Halle02 - July 20-21

STFU HeidelbergLocation: Halle02, Heidelberg, http://www.halle02.dehttp://www.stfumusic.org--------------- After last year's STFU Weimar Festival, the pan-European netaudio and electronic music collect...
Posted by on Tue, 17 Jul 2007 05:10:00 GMT

Download a Deer liveset

I finally got around to encoding the liveset from STFU Helsinki. It's a little rough around the edges, but it was my first experience using the Monome 40h controller in a live situation and I'm pretty...
Posted by on Mon, 13 Nov 2006 07:16:00 GMT

"Deer - Track Delay EP" out now as free download on Ekwal

I'm very happy to announce that my new EP, "Track Delay" is now available as free download on the new Ekwal Netlabel. Head on over there for the download! Here's the text info about it:http://www.ekwa...
Posted by on Fri, 27 Oct 2006 08:22:00 GMT

New Deer Website

I just completely redesigned my Website over at regicide.org. Much nicer to look at and easier to update now. Subscribe to my RSS feed if you want to keep up with new tracks, videos, photo galleries a...
Posted by on Thu, 28 Sep 2006 07:54:00 GMT

STFU Glasgow Documentary Free Download

The STFU Glasgow documentary that I have been producing for my graduation project has just been released as video release on the Hippocamp netlabel.You can download the 37-minute DivX for free here: D...
Posted by on Tue, 11 Apr 2006 08:48:00 GMT

STFU Teaser Video

STFU Teaser (MPEG-4, 10mb) Just finished a short teaser trailer video for my upcoming documentary about the netaudio scene in general and the STFU Glasgow festival in particular. The excellent musi...
Posted by on Mon, 02 Jan 2006 12:20:00 GMT