Artist: Shinjuku Thief: mp3 download Genre(s): Ambient Gothic Discography: The Witch Hammer Year: 1997 Tracks: 14 The Scribbler Year: 1992 Tracks: 14 Shinjuku Thief was the alias of experimental electronic artist Darrin Verhagen, as well the Melbourne, Australia-based founder of the Dorobo criminal record mark. Taking his name from the Nagisa Oshima moving-picture show Shinjuku Dorobo Nikki ("Diary of a Shinjuku Thief"), Verhagen to boot integrated cinematic influences into his music by conceiving his make as soundtracks to nonexistent films; his debut, 1992's Bloody Tourist, drew every bit on ambient and industrial traditions, although in the future his more than than industrial projects were recorded under the found Shinjuku Filth. (New Age-inspired works, accordingly, were attributed to Shinjuku Fluff.) The second Shinjuku Thief LP, 1992's The Scribbler, was a minimalist piece commisioned as a soundtrack for a stage performance based on Kafka's The Trial, while 1993's The Witch Hammer was the first gear in a serial publication of in darkness orchestral records divine by the occult, nail with a nod to the German expressionist films of the 1920s. Branching out from the Shinjuku name, Verhagen adopted some other put on name, that of Professor Richmann, to criminal record 1994's Succulent Blue Sway, a techno-inspired release composed for the Canberra-based Vis a Vis dance company. Detritus, a Shinjuku Filth collaboration with Black Lung's David Thrussel, followed in 1996. Two days later on, Verhagen followed with Raised by Wolves on Iridium. |