Browse by Artist: DEATHPROD

Artist:	DEATHPROD
Title:	Treetop Drive
Label:	RUNE ARKIV (NORWAY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	RACD 108CD

Helge Sten aka Deathprod has been a central character of the Norwegian independent scene for 20 years as a recording artist, occasional member of and producer for Motorpsycho, founding member of Supersilent and producer for Arve Henriksen, Susanna Wallumrųd and Jenny Hval, to mention a few. Treetop Drive was originally released through the Metal Art Disco label in 1994 in a limited edition of only 500. It was also part of the Deathprod box set, now sold out and deleted.

Artist:	DEATHPROD
Title:	Imaginary Songs From Tristan Da Cunha
Label:	RUNE ARKIV (NORWAY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	RACD 109CD

Helge Sten aka Deathprod has been a central character of the Norwegian independent scene for 20 years as a recording artist, occasional member of and producer for Motorpsycho, founding member of Supersilent and producer for Arve Henriksen, Susanna Wallumrųd and Jenny Hval, to mention a few. Imaginary Songs From Tristan Da Cunha was originally released through the old division of dBut in 1996. All sleeves were made by hand and a total of 500 numbered copies were printed. It was also part of the Deathprod box set, now sold out and deleted.

Artist:	DEATHPROD
Title:	Morals and Dogma
Label:	RUNE GRAMMOFON (NORWAY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RCD 2035CD

"Deathprod, or Helge Sten as his name is, has been an important player since the beginning of Rune Grammofon. As a member of Supersilent he was part of the very first release in January 1998, Supersilent 1-3 (RCD 2001), and later the same year he and Biosphere remixed Arne Nordheim“s electronic works on the album Nordheim Transformed (RCD 2005). Born in 1971, he has worked under the name Deathprod since around 1990 in all his work as musician and producer. He was a member rock group Motorpsycho from 92 to 94 adding 'audio noise', theremin, keyboards and sound-collages to the band's hard rock. He has also worked extensively in theatre, dance, performance, art exhibitions and installations with particular emphasis on interactive media and improvisation. He has appeared as a player on some 20 albums and produced and/or engineered a further 80. Associates in diverse contexts have ranged from members of rock groups Swans, Mazzy Star and My Bloody Valentine to the contemporary music interpreters of the Cikada Ensemble. He lives and works in Oslo.

       When talking about his work methods he has revealed that he often only uses one sound source for a track, and that he can elaborate on this sound for months until he“s completely satisfied. This attention to detail makes him quite unique and it“s difficult to compare him with specific contemporaries, but Biosphere and Thomas Köner comes to mind. From the Rune catalogue there“s the aforementioned remix album with Biosphere as well as Supesilent 5 (RCD 2018). Morals and Dogma is the new Deathprod album, the rightful follow-up to Treetop Drive and therefor given a separate release. Morals And Dogma, four pieces recorded intermittently between 1994 and 2000, is presented as music for the ceremonies of an imaginary secret society, a soundtrack to the arcane rituals of a fictitious freemasonry. Violins may evoke symbolism of the glass harmonica; harmonium may evoke the encoded mystical language of the organ. This is fertile ground for unearthing symbols and cracking codes.

       The title Morals And Dogma appears proscriptive, yet it alludes to obscure knowledge cloaked in sonic shadows, action glimpsed indistinctly through acoustic drizzle and failing light. That indistinctness, however, is paradoxically vivid. As the glint or shine of minerals externalize their interior structure, the shimmer and glow of this music registers the inner life of sounds and corresponding interconnectedness of our sensory responses to them. At the primeval level of perception, according to Merleau-Ponty, 'experience is so ambiguous that the rhythm of a sound brings about the merging of cinematographic images and creates space that allows for a perception of movement'. Such experience depends on 'acoustic sustenance'. This music supplies such sustenance, the image flow, the play of textures.

       Morals And Dogma is a potent distillation of Deathprod music, simultaneously concentrated and diffuse, mining seams of potentiality in mood and slow movement, at once finely detailed and vast, microscopic and boundless, breaking open temporal cells to access zones of timelessness."

Artist:	DEATHPROD
Title:	6-track
Label:	RUNE GRAMMOFON (NORWAY)
Format:	10"
Price:	$23.00
Catalog #:	REP 2053EP

This is Norwegian producer and sonic manipulator Helge Sten's fourth release on Rune Grammofon. Sten has been an important player since the beginning of this label: as a member of Supersilent he was part of the very first release in January 1998, and later the same year he and Biosphere remixed Arne Nordheim's electronic works. A consummate producer, and former member of rock group Motorpsycho, Sten has since cemented his position as master sonic sculptor. Another stunning, beautifully-packaged deluxe limited edition vinyl release from Rune Grammofon. This is a single vinyl 10" in a pitch-black gatefold sleeve. And the music? Five Deathprod remixes of other artists, some of them difficult to find, one of them never before released, plus "Deerstalker," previously only available on Rune Grammofon's Money Will Ruin Everything compilation. The original artists being remixed are: Nils Petter Molvęr, Cloroform, Murcof and Larsen -- but this is all prime Deathprod. Printed in 1000 copies only and bound to become a collector's item, this is also an extremely rare occasion of Deathprod on vinyl and a must-have complement to the Deathprod box set. He has produced Arve Henriksen, Food, Susanna and the Magical Orchestra and The White Birch, as well as a number of artists for other labels, including Motorpsycho, Jaga Jazzist and Hope Sandoval.

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