DJ TR!P

"People will be dropping this guy's name before too long, because DJ TR!P is the next eccentric genius of electronic music."

DJ TR!P is an award winning producer, composer & performer of electronic music based in Adelaide, Australia. Over the past 10 years he has built an impressive repertoire of live compositions both for his club sets as well as for a variety of high profile contemporary theatre & dance productions.

“DJ TR!P is an exceptional creator of music who has a particularly diverse & unique body of work as an Australian musician. He has a strong & distinct solo career as a creator of electronic music through his inventive & creative uses of lo-fi technologies. He has an impressive reputation both locally, nationally & internationally.”

DJ TR!P’s melancholy yet beautiful, gritty & grimy signature palette are due to his unique use of obsolete 8-bit computers & video game consoles & his extensive treatment of audio from numerous session musicians. His genre & style shifts effortlessly with each project & collaboration. His music has been released on CD, Vinyl & Mini CD independently & on various independent labels in Australia & over seas.

”Music flows out over the audience in thick, meaty, 8-bit waves. It's sad and heavy in parts; the opening of a murder mystery adventure. David Cage's Fahrenheit, it's electronic pulse fading with each loop; DJ TR!P easing the rhythm into a body bag, only to suddenly jab it back to life with a nightclub adrenaline shot to it's digital heart. He starts buzzing then, feeding off the beat as Prodigy-style riffs mix together with a Matrix sound scape. Spins, tweaks & flicks of the deck come deftly, with no hint of the pre-performance twitchiness. A master of electronica.”

As a Live Performing Act & DJ he has played at a variety of venues, festivals & events including Sundown & Super Deluxe [Tokyo], Game On [Australian Tour] [Video Game Exhibition from the Barbican Art Gallery], Ten Days On The Island Festival, Mona Foma Festival, Adelaide Festival, Big Day Out, Falls Festival, Next Wave Festival, This Is Not Art Festival, Electro Fringe, Adelaide Fringe, Adelaide Cabaret Festival, Straight Out Of Brisbane Festival & the Australasian Computer Music Conference. He has also performed along side such acts as Kraftwerk, DJ Krush, John Foxx [of Ultra Vox], Nick Cave, Horace Andy [of Massive Attack], Fuck Buttons, Filastine, James Blood Ulmer, Brian Ritchie [of Violent Femmes], Chicks On Speed, Felix Baloy, Kid Koala, Sage Francis, Buck 65, Anticon, Herbiliser, Mad Professor, Dexter [of Avalanches], Hrvatski , The Saints, DuOud, The Zen Circus, Scanner, Manitoba, Four Play, DBR, Cut Copy, Gerling, Light Surgeons, Paul Mac, Endorphin, Freq Nasty, Curse Ov Dialect, TZU, The Herd, Friendly, Mista Savona, Neotropic, Luke Slater, Dsico, The Bird & Kool Keith.

“DJ TR!P…is one of the best sound designer / composers not just in Adelaide but around the country. He has that rare talent amongst composers, particularly of the electronic breed, where he is able to maintain a signature sound while still serving the production & its needs utterly. DJ TR!P doesn't just create songs, he creates small worlds made of sound.”

As a soundtrack composer he has written for companies including the ABC, State Theatre of South Australia, Vitalstatistix, The Australian Choreographic Centre, Brink Productions, Australian Dance Theatre [Ignition Series], Windmill, Adelaide Fringe Festival, Tasdance, Closer Productions, Restless Dance Theatre, Urban Myth & Kurruru Indigenous Youth Performing Arts. In ’07 &’06 DJ TR!P had the honor of collaborating with Indigenous Elder Auntie Josie for the Adelaide Fringe Festival’s Opening Night Kuarna welcome. In ‘06 he created a Music Score for the Federation Square’s Dream Seed live installation in Melbourne on News Years Eve. In ‘05 The New Pollutants premiered their live re-score to Fritz Lang’s Metropolis at the Adelaide Film Festival, next touring it to Perth’s Revelations Film Festival & Melbourne’s Next Wave Festival at ACMI. He had a strong relationship with choreographer Tanja Liedtke, composing for many projects including Enter Twilight [Tasdance], Award winning Twelfth Floor [UK Tour '09 & Australian Tour ‘06] & Construct [Australian Tour '09, UK Tour ‘07 & the Australian Premiere at the Sydney Festival at the Sydney Opera House ‘08].

"DJ TR!P has almost created his own genre here; this music is both experimental and confrontational - are you ready?"