D/P/I

Beneath the moniker D/P/I, Los Angeles-based musician Alex Gray reconfigured components of hip-hop, dance music, and pop culture detritus into glitchy, brain-scrambling audio collages. His function was often made up of fragmentary examples of music and field recordings, manipulated and randomized through several oscillators, filter systems, granular procedures, and results. A longtime associate of Sunlight Araw, Gray initial became known for his experimental ambient function produced beneath the name Deep Magic, with produces on brands like Not Not really Fun and Preservation, aswell as his very own Deep Tapes. Through the early 2010s, he started liberating trippy, sample-heavy recordings beneath the titles Heat Influx and DJ Crimson Image, that was generally shortened to D/P/I. His bizarre, interesting CD-Rs and on-line mixes (generally released via his personal Chanceimag.Sera) gained him a following in both experimental electronic and left-field hip-hop circles, and Matthewdavid released D/P/I’s cassettes 08.DD.15 and Rico and CD-R MN.ROY on Departing Information in 2014. D/P/I also co-produced a monitor on Matthewdavid’s Brainfeeder-released full-length IN MY OWN Globe, also in 2014. In 2015, D/P/I released Advertisement Hocc, a company card-sized USB travel containing 6 variants on a single 41-minute piece. This is adopted in 2016 by Composer, released by Shelter Press and announced as the ultimate D/P/I album.