a deer in the city

Between the Holidays

Posted by martin | Filed under Personal

..is a good time to think about plans for the next year, which in my case amounts to some hefty planning. There’s lots of things coming up: First off, there’s (of course!) more STFUs planned for next year. First up is a three-day festival at the ESCatelier in Rome end of January, where I’ll be playing on Saturday the 27th. I’ll have to skip the STFU in Porto and Lisbon in March by the looks of it, but if you’re in the area you shouldn’t miss it. I’ve started work on a new album, hopefully will be finished by early summer. It will be a bit of a development from my last few EPs, I’m still trying to find a balance between grooving dancefloor tunes and intricate soundscapes though. Plenty of collaborations are in the works as well, plus a new top-secret project (unrelated to _my_ music) that I know will make many people out there happy. In the summer Millicent, Quip and myself are planning a roadtrip and some gigs on the westcoast US and Canada, but that’s still quite a ways off. Everyone have a happy christmas and a great new year 2007!

Here’s a work-in-progress of a track for your enjoyment:

Read more | Comments (2) | December 25th, 2006

Deer live at STFU Helsinki

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I finally got around to encoding the liveset from STFU Helsinki. It’s a little rough around the edges, but it was my first experience using the Monome 40h controller in a live situation and I’m pretty happy with how it turned out - and it did get a bunch of people dancing as well.

You can download the whole thing over on the music page.

Read more | Comments (2) | November 13th, 2006

‘Deer - Track Delay EP’ out now on Ekwal

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I’m very happy to announce that my new EP, ‘Track Delay’ is now available as free download on the new Ekwal Netlabel. Head on over there for the download! Here’s the text info about it:

http://www.ekwal.co.uk

Ekwal is a new independent netlabel dedicated to making exploratory, minimal techno with an emphasis on live performance. Ekwal’s artists approach music from very different directions, but they share a common desire to produce deep, subtle, sounds aimed directly at the dancefloor. Ekwal is currently planning releases by artists from around europe, including releases from ‘deer’, ‘rob park’, ‘red shift’ and ‘dug’.

Releases on Ekwal:

EKL_001 : deer : track delay ep

Ekwal’s first release is a collection of 4 tracks by ‘Deer’ aka Martin Hirsch, featuring a blend of fieldrecordings and experiments in techno and electro. While the first three tracks explore various aspects of the four-on-the-floor paradigm, the last cut, ‘Stationary’, features an excerpt from a living room livejam with Source Records founder ‘Move D’. The ‘Track Delay EP’ was mastered by John McCaig at PanicStudios, Seattle. Deer has previously released as “random noise productions” on Neo Ouija and Hippocamp. His website can be found at http://www.regicide.org.

Read more | Comments (2) | October 27th, 2006

STFU Helsinki Aftermath…

Posted by martin | Filed under Music

I got back from Helsinki yesterday and if I could I’d be on the next plane back there. Great people, great music, great city, I had a fantastic weekend despite a raging cold. The two nights at the Dubrovnik club were packed (people were turned away at the door at some point) and all the gigs went down very well, whether they were experimental listening music like Special Brew’s improv set or the full on dance Smörgåsbord of Millicent or Robin Judge. I’m also very glad I had an additional day to recover and see some sights after the gigs, will definitely head back up to Finland next year. I uploaded a small selection of pictures to the Photography section and will add more links here as people put their photos online.

Read more | Comments (0) | October 17th, 2006

Packing up the goods.

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I’m about to fly out to Helsinki for a long weekend of STFU goodness! I have a few days for sightseeing before and after the festival, which should be great - It’s fun to hang out with the STFU crew and to listen to music all day long, but when travelling to new places it’s nice to be able to actually see some of them. It’ll be great to meet up with the regular STFU artists, meet the new ones and listen to what everyone’s been up to music-wise the past months. It’s the first time I’m using the Monome 40h as a controller for playing live, but the rehearsals have been fun (if somewhat erratic at times), so I’m definitely looking forward to the gig - hopefully I can get a few heads nodding/feets stomping/booties shaking/etc. I’ll follow up with some audiovisual documentation of the gig and the whole festival later.. that is, if I don’t screw up hitting the record button or something similarily trivial.

There’s a good chance that my new EP, “Track Delay” will be out as first release on the Ekwal netlabel by the time I get back. You should check it out, it’s fine. I also posted two more tracks in the music section.

There’s some more great news on the horizon, not quite ready for primetime yet though.

Read more | Comments (0) | October 9th, 2006

Back in full swing…

Posted by martin | Filed under Personal

Hello everyone!

After a couple of days of renovations regicide.org is back online, I hope you like the new look. Hardly anything is final around here, so expect things like text layout to change over the coming weeks.

So, what am I hoping to use this site for? The old one was a pretty static collection of tracks and old university projects. Well, that is supposed to change. Obviously, I will post a lot of music here, but I’ll also build a nice gallery section with both private and music-related galleries. So far, the video page only contains links to the documentary about the STFU Glasgow electronic music festival that I produced and directed, but I’m going to share videos from live performances , some basic Jitter patches (baby steps..) and clips from live visuals I created. Lastly, there will be a CV section for prospective employers and people interested in hiring me for their audiovisual projects.

In other news I’m really excited about my new EP called “Track Delay”, due out soon as first release on a very promising new netlabel from Scotland. It’s currently in the capable hands of John McCaig for mastering.

If you’d like to catch Deer’s new liveshow there will be a few opportunities to do so this fall: