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Dirk Markham

FORGET YOUR LIFE

About Me

Dirk Markham grew up in Aboyne, a village in "Royal" Deeside in the north east of Scotland (an hour inland from Aberdeen). Dirk has been making experimental recordings and teaching himself every intrument he can get his hands on since his years studying mental philosophy at Edinburgh in the late 90s. His music is mainly instrumental although occaisonally the odd folk-rock song pops up out of nowhere. Dirk has been residing in Berlin for the last two years where he works for the labels monika enterprise and international dj gigolos. Life for Dirk is a musical journey on which he is constantly searching for new sounds. Dirk's recent works include tracks on Ryan Van Winkels album "I hate myself, i'm a genius, i ruin everything, im so lonely" and a mini-album of Christmas songs called "advent". Dirk is currently working on Psycho-acoustic scultptures Vol. 3 and about to release "Post-Listening" which he did with Forest's Urban Exploration Society.I edited my profile with Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.4
"Water Ice Final Letterbox" video by Cameron Duguid:
"Parochial" soundtrack taken from Psycho-Acoustic Sculptures Vol. 3
And you can also hear that track on the new Digital Kranky compilation Kraeka7:
The Hemulens environmental-techno electro-trash classic "Park and Ride" is now also available on the Forest Ten Inch:
Hear the tunes here: Forest Records

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 2/24/2006
Band Website: theforest.org.uk/dirk
Band Members: Dirk William Markham, The Hemulen, Dirkestra, Drock, dBs, Dpac, Mark Ham, Disk
Influences: Stereolab, Tortoise, UI, Mogwai, To Rococo Rot, Fridge, Arab Strap, Captain Beefheart, Billy Mahonie, michael hedges, El Hombre Trajeado, State River Widening, autechre, The Fall, John Peel, Gaston, Sea and Cake, taxi driver, Neubauten, FSK, KLF, Zion Train, Kraftwerk, Apocalypse Now, Super Furry Animals, Creeping Bent, john fahey, steve reich, evelyn glennie, Withnail and I, Nietzsche, The Manual, Aphex Twin, Godspeed You Black Emperor, New Order, Sartre, the mosquito coast, Mouse On Mars, ISAN, Rothko, Fourtet, Tied and Tickled Trio, Bill Wells, rythm is it!, Jim O'rourke, Andy Goldsworthy, Gaston, Philip Glass, Pram, Cornelius, Solex, Boards of Canada....
Sounds Like: Psycho-acoustic Sculptures
Record Label: Forest Records
Type of Label: None

My Blog

New 10" OUT NOW on Forest Records

"This record is the product of thousands of years of work"The Forest's first vinyl sampler - 10 hot and waxy inches of new music from our favorite artists. This is the first EVER double B-side in hist...
Posted by Dirk Markham on Fri, 19 Oct 2007 12:03:00 PST

Gemeinsam Isoliert

i made the LVZ with my per4mance at the Headphone Festival in Leipzig:
Posted by Dirk Markham on Mon, 20 Aug 2007 01:35:00 PST

http://photographii.com/dirk/

check my new foto gallery at http://photographii.com/dirk/
Posted by Dirk Markham on Mon, 20 Aug 2007 01:30:00 PST

Dirk's Definition of Country finally online at theforest.org.uk

Drocks country covers mini album "Dirk's Definition of Country" is, by popular demand (that means my mum), finally available to hear online in the Forests listening room:Western Definition Of CountryW...
Posted by Dirk Markham on Thu, 14 Jun 2007 12:01:00 PST

Psycho-acoustic Sculptures Vol. 3 OUT NOW!

Out now on Forest Records the third installment of Dirk's annual ambient-experimental new-age space-folk series Psycho-acoustic Sculptures. Hopefully you can join me in enjoying every bum note, off b...
Posted by Dirk Markham on Wed, 20 Sep 2006 08:37:00 PST

http://www.theforest.org.uk/gallery/index.php?list=dirkz photos

Dee vision foto gallery
Posted by Dirk Markham on Sat, 10 Jun 2006 05:34:00 PST

http://soundtransit.nl/3399/08-dirk_markham-33.99records.mp3

http://soundtransit.nl/3399/08-dirk_markham-33.99records.mp3
Posted by Dirk Markham on Sat, 10 Jun 2006 05:32:00 PST

D-Rock Top Ten

May 2007Cornelius - SensuousBalkan InvasionVon Südenfed - Tromatic ReflexxionsArctic CircleCheney Markham and Gorman - Pre CursorGudrun Gut - I put a record onHigh Llamas - Can CladdersFridge - The Su...
Posted by Dirk Markham on Sun, 19 Mar 2006 05:33:00 PST

Coldcut

Saw Coldcut last night at maria. what a show: scratching, sampling, live video mixing, rap, house, d'n'b, noise. they're political "the lunatics have taken over the asylum". what an inspriation.
Posted by Dirk Markham on Sat, 01 Apr 2006 03:55:00 PST

Just For Fun

Nearly finished reading "Just For Fun" the biography of Linus Torvalds (the guy that started the Linux operating system)
Posted by Dirk Markham on Sat, 25 Feb 2006 06:44:00 PST