Des Slow And The Stop Pills

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Biography:

‘beautiful, mesmerising ghost in the machine trying to lure me to into dark shadows, dripping with paranoia.’

Des Slow has been in a number of bands over the years. In the past it was mainly dadaist performance groups and anarcho-punk.

Des Slow and The Stop Pills first formed in the grey suburbs of South East London in the late 80s, they recorded a couple of demos before Des decided to relocate to a Scottish Island with his family. In the early 90s Des moved to Kendal in Cumbria and aside from an occasional strum stopped making music. A few years ago he started to make experimental sounds digitally.

Des has recently been working with another Cumbrian sonic artist Still, to produce a CD of material entitled De Stijl.

Des is currently working on war ambient soundscapes and a concept CD focused on 'the red terror' of the 1970s and beyond. He welcomes any sonic contributions to either of these projects (and indeed any others that people feel inspired to collaborate on) - please contact his myspace web presence initially if you would like to get involved.

Releases:

Elements (emp031)

Download: Hi-Fi - Lo-Fi :: Stream: Hi-Fi - Lo-Fi :: Download: Cover Art

Tracklisting:

Elements @ The Internet Archive

Elements @ Last.fm

Elements is the first solo effort by Des Slow and was created by rendering html as sound and manipulating/editing it.

::FALLING:: An Earth Monkey Productions Compilation (emp025)

Our 25th Earth Monkey release comes in the shape of a compilation album on the theme of falling. Going from gentle ambience to some great experimental noises, we here at Earth Monkey are very proud to bring you this marvellous product and all for free!!

Des Slow And The Stop Pills contributed the track The Falling Don’t Love Again : Hi-Fi - Lo-Fi

:: FALLING :: @ The Internet Archive

::FALLING:: @ Last.fm

::FALLING:: also features tracks from David Whitaker, Adrian Carter, 4th Alternative, The Cardboard Lung, 1000 Aeroplanes Crashing In The Night, Susan Matthews, The Weedhaven Laughing Academy, Dawn Salvia, Clutter, Species 8472, Andy Kirk and Cousin Silas

The Resting Bench Remix Project - Volume 1 (trb001)

An amazing 30 reworkings of The Resting Bench tracks from artists based all over the globe, some are old Monkey favourites but a great deal of them are new to EMP.

From cool Hip Hop to all out sonic attack it’s an eclectic bag of fantastic remixes that show just how far you can re-mould without just taking the original track and sticking a Kick Drum under it.

Des Slow And The Stop Pills contributed the track Groundhog Day: Hi-Fi - Lo-Fi

The Resting Bench Remix Project - Volume 1 @ The Internet Archive

The Resting Bench Remix Project - Volume 1 @ Last.fm

If you would like to have fun with The Resting Bench Remix Project it can be downloaded here. Send us your finished mix to remix@earthmp.com and contribute to volume 2.

The original version of The Resting Bench by Clutter and Ann Wilson can be found here

The Resting Bench Remix Project has been supported by Awards For All & Cumbria County Council as part of Monkey Noises, our education programme

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50:50 An Earth Monkey Productions Compilation (emp050)

Earth Monkey’s 50th release (with a few specials along the way) comes in the form of 50:50 a compilation featuring some of your favourite EMP artists and a couple of new faces that will have releases coming up. Classic Monkey fair - If you liked ::FALLING:: our last comp you’ll love 50:50

Des Slow And The Stop Pills contributed the track 50 Mill Hi-Fi - Lo-Fi

50:50 @ The Internet Archive

50:50 @ Last.fm

50:50 also features tracks from 4th Alternative, Clutter, Dansette Curtsey, Cousin Silas, Pandacetamol, Adrian Carter, Radio Scotvoid, Fonik, ry-om, Good Noise Bad Noise, Susan Matthews, Andrew Deakin, The Cardboard Lung & Halal Kebab Hut

Reviews:

‘not dropped by for a while, and there i was just taking a late night stroll around the corridors of MySpace and heard this beautiful, mesmerising ghost in the machine trying to lure me to into dark shadows, dripping with paranoia. again......really great stuff. you do dark ambient so well.’ - amorphix

‘You have some really unique music here...I really dig it. Keep this up! That tribute song is amazing.’ - Nostalgia

‘Truly astounding atmospheres you are creating here. Really impressed by the depth and quality of the sounds.’ - The Lava Experiment

‘Your musics are ominous, haunting, poweful machinary building themselves up. Keep creating.’ - Nimheil

Contact:

Des Slow And The Stop Pills @ Myspace