O.S.T.

O.S.T. (First Soundtrack, and a few various other, much less printable pseudos) may be the one-man ambient/experimental electro task of DJ/manufacturer Chris Douglass. A indigenous of Edinburgh, Douglass still left Scotland at age ten for SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA, where he’s resided ever since. Elevated on the heaping diet plan of John Coltrane and Potential Roach (his mom is certainly a jazz fanatic), he added early-’80s breakdance music to his set of affects when artists such as for example Egyptian Fan and Uncle Jamm’s Military started defining the audio of California hip-hop and electro (Douglass himself spent his talk about of your time perfecting backspins on squares of discarded cardboard and linoleum). Merging the above mentioned two styles using the even more melancholic components of United kingdom and European rock and roll and Euro-pop groupings like the Smiths, Kraftwerk, and Morton Subotnick, Douglass started making music in 1993, and released his first 12-inches on Detroit’s Change label (an arresting three-tracker of bizarre rhythmic sound experiments) the next season. Although he originally prepared on relocating to techno’s birthplace, Douglass transferred back again to SF soon after the Change twelve premiered and started focusing on an record for Jonah Sharp’s Reflective label. The record never made an appearance, which and a few even more of gone-nowhere EP and LP discharge plans with brands such as for example Skam and Plug Analysis have led to as much as 500 songs and four total albums laying dormant in Douglass’ DAT cachet. O.S.T. materials finally started appearing with an increase of frequency beginning in 1996, you start with his remix of Spacetime Continuum’s “Simm Town” around the latter’s Remit Recaps Compact disc alongside famous brands Carl Craig, Autechre, and Higher Cleverness Agency. Following twelves for Qlipothic and mentioned London label Worm User interface, aswell as songs for compilations on XLR8R and Plug Study (both beneath the name Rook Vallade), made an appearance in 1996 and 1997. Douglass also performs live regularly, appearing on expenses in America as well as the U.K. following to such titles as Spacetime Continuum, Derrick Might, Eric Hill, and post-rockers Trans Am.