Deepchild

Deepchild is production alias of Rick Bull, former Berliner, sound designer, dj and university academic, who’s echo-soaked, sonically dense techno and conceptual ambient work has seen him perform live in institutions spanning Berlin’s Berghain and Tresor, to the Sydney Opera House, Detroit “Movement” Festival, and countless club tours from Tokyo to Eastern Europe. A distinctly tensile yet darkly sensual take on jacked-up techno futurism has spawned recent releases and remixes for labels like Mille Plateaux, Kneaded Pains, A Strangely Isolated Place, Future Classic, BBE, Trapez, Affin and the artist’s own Seppüku Records. Granular, noise-heavy and smeared with signature vocal fragments, Bull’s work calls forth 2000s micro-house and ‘clicks and cuts’ movement, welded to the insistent pulse of Berlin's dub-drenched classicists. Deepchild work has received critical support from journals including The Wire, DJ Mag and Rolling Stone Magazine, and been remixed by a remarkable portfolio of electronica ‘legacy’ artists including Deadbeat, Luomo (aka Vladislav Delay), and KiNK. Now based in his birth country of Australia, Rick’s work has expanded organically into sound design commissions and composition for film, games, and music-software companies including Native Instruments and Arturia. A continued obsession with ambient and generative, granular music continue to inform an ever dedicated approach to sound design for essential backroom body-music in strange times. – Booking inquiries: management@deepchild.com Some recent bookings have included: Berghain (BLN) - live! Panoramabar (BLN) Funkhaus (BLN) - live! Tresor (BLN) - live! Ritter Butzke (BLN) Kater Holzig (BLN) Watergate (BLN) Weekend Club (BLN) Cookies (BLN) Dice Club (BLN) Tape Club (BLN) [KONTROL] @ Endup (SanFrancisco) DEMF "I <3 U But I've Chosen Techno" after-hours (Detroit) Migrashun (Chicago) Exodus (Detroit) EXIT Festival (Serbia, Dance Arena Stage w Richie Hawtin) Cameo Gallery, New York Culture Box, Copenhagen, Denmark Pollerwiessen Festival (Köln) SONAR Festival Phonica Records night (BCN) Fusion Festival (BLN) DECIBEL Festival (Seattle, USA) - LIVE! Esthetic Evolution Festival (Idaho, USA) - LIVE! Sydney Festival (SYD, Aus) Weekend Club (Madrid) Field Day Festival (Australia) - LIVE! Parklife Festival (Australia) Big Day Out Festival (Australia) - LIVE! Mad Racket (Australia) - LIVE! HOME (Australia) Pyramid Rock Festival (Australia Fluc Wanne (Vienna) - LIVE! Gold Club (Essen) Digger Club (Russia) - LIVE! Sankeys (Manchester, UK) - LIVE! Tribal Sessions (Leeds, UK) - LIVE! Open Studios (Vancouver, Canada) - LIVE! New Forms Festival (Vancouver, Canada) - LIVE! AM Club (Mexico City) - LIVE! Custard Factory (Birmingham, UK) - LIVE! Cabaret Voltaire - (Scotland, UK) Sydney Festival (Sydney, AU) - LIVE! T-Bar (London, UK) - LIVE! Sosho (London, UK) Aquarium (London, UK)