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Doofgoblin

About Me

New EP
The new split EP is now available to order. 50 minutes of new music from Doofgoblin and A Drop In Silence. It's very good.
You can buy it directly from us here .
Like an unscratchable itch or an uneasy memory, the sonic escapades of Doofgoblin are a thorn in the side of would-be easy listeners. Doofgoblin produces dense and complex hyper-pop music that caters to nail biters and short attention spans, in which rural thematics penetrate a thicket of electronic techno-noise and order subtly disguises itself as mechanized chaos. Tight orchestration wrestles with digital catastrophe; moments of anarchy and humor arise and disappear. Meanwhile, the dysfunctional relationship between noise and time plays itself out over a tortured, if grassy, field.
Though active since 1998 in various online electronica communities, Doofgoblin has always resisted the consumerism of the gearhead, as well as the product-minded critics who complain that his songs are "too short," preferring instead to subvert expectations about harmonic structure and the nature of time through a compositional process that renders almost everything obsolete as soon as it is completed.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 13/01/2006
Band Website: http://www.doofgoblin.com
Influences: the residents
autechre
thingy
heavy vegetable
ween
ruins
oval
mike patton
jackson pollock
mark rothko
sleepytime gorilla museum
matmos
mr. bungle
squarepusher
fred frith
renaldo & the loaf
snakefinger
steely dan
clutch
soothsayer
black sabbath
talking heads
traffic
shellac
Record Label: Unschooled Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

even more live vids on youtube now

yes, more, and some new: Winding Rabbit.  This is a good one, except the camera angle is very ass-oriented.  you can always just minimize the screen and go audio-only.  that was a fun n...
Posted by on Wed, 30 Jan 2008 08:13:00 GMT

doofgoblin vids on youtube

okay, I've finally uploaded some live vids to youtube.  not a huge event, I suppose; these clips were already available for download on my site.  but this is just more convenient! next week,...
Posted by on Fri, 11 Jan 2008 06:18:00 GMT

Doofgoblin makes The Onion’s Worst Band Names of ’07 list

The Onion's list of "Worst Band Names of '07" Under the category ???, of course.  
Posted by on Wed, 09 Jan 2008 06:00:00 GMT

C-VILLE Weekly reviews Ahab/Doofgoblin show (video and new track included)

The online version of the C-VILLE Weekly review of Friday night's Captain Ahab/Doofgoblin show includes video from the night as well as a streaming track (previously unheard online) off the new EP. Ch...
Posted by on Wed, 29 Aug 2007 07:45:00 GMT

Doofgoblin makes the 10 o’clock news

No, really, I'm serious! Link to the video clip is in the right-hand column, just below the Peter Frampton marquis: http://www.cw29.com/Global/story.asp?S=6964736&nav=menu5 01_6_3 See you Friday!
Posted by on Wed, 22 Aug 2007 08:14:00 GMT

Some pics from the DC show

alright, the show last saturday at DC9 with machinedrum, outputmessage, and the metaphysical was a super fun time. I've uploaded a few pics from the night to doofgoblin.com.  great atmosphere, g...
Posted by on Fri, 27 Jul 2007 13:07:00 GMT

New EP - split w/ A Drop In Silence - April 27th

update 5/8/07:  it's available for order now at doofgoblin.com. I'd like to mention that I am releasing a split EP with A Drop In Silence.  Expect an April release.  In fact, expect the...
Posted by on Wed, 21 Mar 2007 08:55:00 GMT

New video uploads

check the videos section for I have uploaded two clips from the 9/28/06 Satellite Ballroom show. also, updated my real website, and the videos can be downloaded from there, and they're widescreen so l...
Posted by on Wed, 18 Oct 2006 05:56:00 GMT

DUST blows forward

did you see that? the show at Dust last night was fantastic.  DJ Hummingbird Feeder delivered the red nectar.  I handed over a low-key set, representative of my fabulous new cold + body cove...
Posted by on Thu, 21 Sep 2006 05:27:00 GMT

Live set + interview online

The kind folks from Monkeyclaus studio/label/content came down from the mountains to record a live performance of mine at Dust last May 26th. Then they interviewed me. Just this past weekend, the...
Posted by on Mon, 26 Jun 2006 08:44:00 GMT