Deepchild / Australia
Deepchild is the production alias of Rick Bull, former Berliner, sound designer, DJ and university academic, whose echo-soaked, sonically dense techno and conceptual ambient work has seen him perform live in institutions spanning Berlin’s Berghain and Tresor, to the Sydney Opera House, Detroit Movement Festival, and countless club tours from Tokyo to Eastern Europe.
A distinctly tense yet darkly sensual take on techno futurism has spawned recent releases and remixes for labels like Mille Plateaux, Future Classic, BBE, Trapez, Affin and the artist’s own Seppüku Records.
Granular, noise-heavy, and smeared with signature vocal fragments, Bull’s work calls forth the 2000s micro-house and ‘clicks and cuts’ movement, welded to the insistent pulse of dub roots and culture.
Now based in his birth country of Australia, Rick’s work has expanded organically into sound design commissions and composition for film, games, and music-software companies including Native Instruments and Arturia. A continued obsession with ambient and generative, granular music continues to inform an ever-dedicated approach to sound design for body music in strange times.
Releases:
Deepchild / Mycological Patterns (ASIP038)
