Philip Jeck

   
Artist: Philip Jeck

   Genre(s): 
Dance
   

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Discography:


   
 7

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 7

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In similar soil to Christian Marclay and David Shea, Philip Jeck is an avant-garde turntablist, plunderphonic sample terrorist and performance creative person whose virtually famed installation, Vinyl Requiem, included no less than one hundred eighty turntables. After perusal the optic arts at Dartington College in Devon, Jeck began a performance career that launch him at artwork galleries as well as warehouse parties, where he emulated the turntable tricks of American hip-hop DJs like Grandmaster Flash. It was during a five-year collaboration with contemporary social dancer Laurie Booth though, that Jeck developed a more than personal and experimental style of music-making allied with Canadian John Oswald's trend of plunderphonics sampling. Jeck's 1993 Vinyl Requim installation with Lol Sargent utilized one hundred eighty turntables as intimately as 12 slide projectors and two film projectors and won a Performance Award from Time Out magazine. The following year, he appeared on the Blast First! compilation Deconstruct aboard Christian Marclay, John Oswald, Bruce Gilbert and Stock, Hausen & Walkman and in 1995, Jeck released his debut record album Loopholes for Touch. Browse followed little Joe years later and so in 2001, Coda IV was released.