Dave Phillips

Their bassist Dave Phillips left after the album and formed the collective Schimpfluch Gruppe, becoming a super-prolific composer of electronic and digital music. His recordings are surgically assembled, but, as usual with prolific musicians, each one could have been edited down to a few minutes of music. His immense discography includes: III (Schimpfluch, 1997); For Rudolf Eber (Die Schoene Blumen Musik Werk, 2000), a collaboration with Genetic Transmission (Tomasz Twardawa, another super-prolific composer); IIII (2001); The Hermeneutics Of Fear Of God (Tochnit Aleph, 2003); Insect (Digitally Destroyed Daffodil Discs, 2003); Tapes (Tochnit Aleph, 2003), a compilation of unreleased and rare recordings; IIIII (Ground Fault, 2004), that contains 99 pieces; Illusion Is A Natural Condition (Auscultare Research, 2005), a collaboration with Randy Yau that contains 37 pieces; 6 (The Egg And We Music, 2006), that contains 23 pieces; A Collection Of Curses (Blossoming Noise, 2006), a compilation of rare and unreleased recordings dating as far back as 1994; Schimpfluch-Commune Int (Nihilist, 2007), a collaboration with Rudolf Ebner and Joke Lanz; Field Recordings (Little Enjoyer, 2007), a collection of 27 field recordings; Should A Seeker Not Find A Companion Who Is Better Or Equal, Let Him Resolutely Pursue A Solitary Course; There Is No Fellowship With The Fool? (Radical Matters, 2008), that manipulates field recordings of reptiles, amphibians and insects; the double-disc Frogs Rain (Scrotum, 2009), from recordings made in 1994-2009; They Live (LP, Ltd) RRRecords RRR-USA 2009); We Are None Of Us (Misanthropic Agenda, 2010), a collaboration with Francisco Meirino, another super-prolific composer; Mutations (Ini.itu, 2010), a collaboration with Cornelia Hesse-Honegge; Humanimal (Monotype, 2010); Ghi Am Viet Nam (Little Enjoyer, 2010), another collection of field recordings; ? (Heart & Crossbone, 2010), that adds the human voice to the manipulation of field recordings; Anthropocentric Utilitarianism (Cass, Album, Ltd) O[k]hlupeng o[k]-22 2011), that contains Truth Is Invented By Liars and The Less I Know; Abgrund (LP, Ltd) Second Sleep SS048 2012), that contains Snap Out Of It and In The Dust; the double-disc of field recordings Suara Alam Indonesia (Nuun, 2012); Borinosophil (Monotype, 2012), a collaboration with Polish electronic musicians Alexei Borisov and Olga Nosova; At The Heart Of It All (Ruido Horrible, 2013), that contains Dawn To Dusk and Dusk To Dawn; Voice (CDr, Album, Ltd) Sub Jam Kwanyin 051 2014), a compilation of 37 rare or unreleased pieces; Medusa (Excrete Music, 2014), a collaboration with Italian duo Aspec(t); etc.

The double-disc compilation Homo Animalis (Schimpfluch Associates, 2014) collects cassette material of the previous seven years, and is a good introduction to Phillip's career, for a grand total of 158 minutes. The 19-minute The Less I Know is abstract noisescape with gothic overtones derived from animal sounds, desperate animal sounds, so it feels like a pamphlet about how humans use animals, and mostly how we kill them. The 15-minute Novaturient is more conventional noise collage, starting with a duet of wind and clock, peaking with a clash of metallic parts, and then continuing to change and evolve until the finale, which is a volley of shrieks. The 14-minute Exipotic represents a third pole, with a calmer atmosphere and a subtler flow of noises. The 15-minute Kelelawar B is another requiem for animal screams like The Less I Know, except that here the mayhem is thicker and the noise is louder. The 20-minute Humanimal B might actually beat Novaturient in the category of "narrative" noise collage, if nothing else thanks to the lacerating drones that create a constant sense of catastrophe. Personal Responsibility, the shortest pieces, a hypnotic loop of pig growls, is actually quite affective.

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