DOGHOUSE - deep experimental trip-hop / electronica from Vienna

NEWS:

» Doghouse is constantly working.

» The new compilation on Dhyana records has been released. See below.

DISCOGRAPHY:

	It is three CDs chock full of electronica, noise, experimental techno plus some country-rock and free jazz and a little pop as well. The 2007 Dhyana compilation "Al Peng Lühen". Has the track "49" by DOGHOUSE on it, which is more experimental, old school ambient - if such a thing exists.
	DOGOUSE remixes the song "Wovon habt ihr Angst" by art crude songster Roland Schneider. He takes the acoustig guitar strums and Schneider's howls and microcuts them into an exciting mixture of dense and tight drums and beats. Other remixers include Trouby. The double CD-R includes on with songs and remixes and one with a 35min movie. Get it here or at Dhyana Records.
	Surprise, suprise. Look who's come down the chimney. The "crispy crapy christmas compilation" on Sozialistischer Plattenbau features a small excerpt of dark ambient by DOGOUSE. Definitely a new direction, but what do you know after this long hiatus. The compilation features entries b trouby, jean bach, istari lasterfahrer, bantu mantra and about twenty others, some with a close connection to the christmas theme, others not so much. A lot of happy pounding and slapping nevertheless and a wild ride underneath the mistletoe. strictly limited to 66 copies.
	Finally, the long awaited 8" EP on Dhyana Records is available and boy, does it ever rock your disco. Because it is the first DOGOUSE release on vinyl, there are some dancefloor-stompers on here. One long minimal-techno track with a pounding 4/4-beat with intricate electronic sounds in-between. One shorter, even more percussive dancefloor-killer and one ambient bass-track with beautiful piano. In super-transparent 8"-special edition vinyl. Part 5 of the limited 8"-series on Dhyana Records. Get it here, at Dhyana Records, via Staalplaat or Vital. And all the other 8"es as well. This one was definitely worth the waiting.
	The exclusive EP on the internetlabel 8bitrecs - part of Highpoint Lowlife records - has been released. DOGHOUSE joins the ranks of DoF, Sicut.DB, Rothko, Daglish, Monostation, Fisk Indusrieas, Marshall Watson, Hans Appelqvist and selected other electronic artists. The EP contians five exclusive and new tracks, of which three are full blown experimental trip-hop-tunes more in sync with the history of DOGOUSE, and two are shorter, weirder and more manic explorations of what might (or might not) lay ahead in the future. Download for free.
	DOGHOUSE has taken part in a compilation by usound.de and gebrauchtemusik.de for the anti-globalisation network ATTAC. As DOGHOUSE says, globalisation in itself is neither good nor bad. But if people have to die because private companies want to make more profit by selling drinking water, then you'll have to start to resist. DOGHOUSE track "43" deals with that issue by contrasting various water-sounds and ethno-samples with laidback, deep-bassed beats and keys. Some say, the best he has done so far. The other music on the sampler, by Deep, Jesus Jackson, Christoph & Lollo, J.B., Bantu Mantra, Eurocide and lots of others is really good as well, ranging from brutal EBM-beats to weirdo-folk-pop.  Comes in a nice DVD-package.
	The "Ouzel Collage 2004"-compilation on Ouzel-Records features a track by DOGHOUSE. The whole compilation is great, lots of exclusive tracks, all mixed into one another like your own special party. Features Cracked-fvorites such as Deep, Minmae feat. ONQ, Morose, Valerio Sartori, Lebenswelt, Lo-Fi Sucks and lots of others . You can either order your own copy or download the whole thing at www.ouzel.net for free! Ain't that a great deal
	"Demo 3.0" The third full album by DOGHOUSE, released in September 2003. The music has been described as "unassuming DIY-electronica" and "great electronica which combines experiment and pop". A lot of heavy basses and drums, looped in slow rhythms with ideas popping up everywhere. Weirdness abounds underneath the concrete basis of grooving loops and beats. Georg Crackked attributes the character of the recordings to listening to a lot of rap-music as well es Brahms and Mendelsohn." Judge for yourself. Again 5 Euros ppd. from cracked69@hotmail.com.
	The long-awaited Dhyana-records #50 compilation is out (August 2003): highly recommended, like all dhyana-comps, with artists like jean bach, alexdee, harald 'sack' ziegler, deep, tarkatak, nhlsm, f.s.blumm, derek deprator, panzerboy666, yacopsae, istari lasterfahrer, onq, minmae, die frucht, wardrobe memories, kitty empire, cinise, troimucha cropsidulous, swagger and 34 more. And an exclusive track by DOGHOUSE. Get it while there are still some available at www.dhyanarecords.com.
	"Demo 2.0" The second DOGHOUSE-CDR only three months later in September 2003. 9 Tracks ranging from deep breakbeats to distorted french house, and the first glimpses at sample-mania. Riding the range between electronica, pop and the chill-out-are. Also 5 Euros ppd. from cracked69@hotmail.com.
	"Demo 1.b" The first DOGHOUSE-CDR from June 2003. 10 Tracks ranging from deep breakbeats to hazy 80ies-trashers (well, there is one) with the mandatory vocal-sample-experiments. Definitely worth the while. 5 Euros ppd. from cracked69@hotmail.com.

What the press said about "8"EP":

"I don't know that much about Doghouse, except that he is from Vienna. His record is not exactely 8 minutes per side, like the others were so far (ed.: referring to some other records in the 8"-series by Dhyana.). Doghouse plays around with techno rhythms, but in all three tracks he is not playing the 'right' sort of techno thing, rather it sounds like an attempt to make this kind of techno music, but with far more limited means. It's ok, but not really super good. The best track is '42', with a sparse piano loop and click rhythm." (VITAL December 2004)

What the press said about "Demo 3.0":

"There are some people who just have it. On them, at them and within them. And those will bring a whole lot of material into the world without care, because it is all about the thing and not something else. Georg Cracked is one of them, the one behind Doghouse. (...) His third work "Demo 3.0" (Dhyana Records) (Dude, I wish, but it isn't true. Doghouse) is 35 minutes and nine tracks. "because little over half an hour is the perfect lenght of a record in my opinion". And within that good half an hour it is all about completely relaxed, airy, DIY-electronica, that glides on fat basses and hip-hop-beats, broken only by playful vocal experiments. That works better on the living room couch than in the clubs. For your friends next to you on the couch there is that "free to copy" on the cover. Because it is about manifesting your own music. And not something else. (...)" (transl. Rainer for KapuZine).

"The nine tracks qualify themselves via subtle and rather unexpected mixing of diverse elements, e.g. the jazzy string-harmonies being confronted with pulsating electro-basses in track 9. Even though the music is really good as chill-out-music, there is also a lot of interesting details to be discovered by the concentrated listener - e.g. the dense wall-of-sound, which is built from vocal-samples in track 7, or the very ostentative fragmentation of a straight beat into a breakbeat as it is shown between track 1 and 2. All of this is once more proof for the almost endless richness of ideas of Doghouse. The danger of becoming meaningless is always around the corner, though (on the other hand, the musical originality is growing the bigger the bridge between the opposed styles becomes: track 9 with its 'electronic country & western' is the compositorial highlight of the CD"), but this will make the (obligatory more concentrated) choice, Doghouse makes for its upcoming EP on Dhyana Records, even more exciting. The best thing about this prject is, that Doghouse will be available on vinyl for the first time - because this is actually great Clubmusic, which should by all means find its way to the interested DJ. "(transl. www.gebrauchtemusik.de , Sep/2003)

And then there was one review in French at autres directions in music a great zine and label with cool releases (e.g. by Dirge, Atone, Depth Affect, Harpages). Which I can't translate since I don't know any French. 

And what the press said to "Demo 1.b" and "Demo 2.0"

"My favorite status-report of local music-production is by Doghouse. "Demo 2" features unassuming Do-It-Yourself-Elecronica, in nine rounds, with lots of beautiful ideas, that doesn't give a shit about perfection and polish." (transl. Rainer Krispel, The Gap, 044/2002)

"Deep House from the doghouse. The music of the Viennese project Doghouse doesn't come close to a pure DJ-definition of deep house, but only few would argue against the point that these tracks have a lot of soul. Demo 1.b and Demo 2, released three months from each other in June and September 2002 respectively, feature 19 tracks, which are minimalistically only named with numbers. Not at all minimalistic is the programming: fat pulsing basses, organs or hypnotic pianos are the basic inventory. Even though the tracks are too short for DJing, this is extremely danceable (if you don't want to move too much) and extremely listenable stuff, which is basically based on more or less complex breakbeats. And on track 7 of Demo 1.b there are, which is really no surprise after listening to the first six tracks, obvious hints at Massive Attack. I like the follow up to the already done really well Demo 1.B even more, where it is hard to pick single tracks, because the darker, rawer, dirtier and more sawing sound (on most parts of the CD anyway) makes up a compact whole. I especially find welldone track 3 with its electronic version of a "bratzgitarre" and track 6 with its insisting cheeping. With track 8, that makes a sample of an acoustic guitar sound new by putting it into a complex rhythmical pattern without distorting it, a new part of the - yes, we can say that in spite of the modest title - album: pop-deconstruction mit friendly results. Track 9 features another guitar / piano-figure, which is a little to sweet for me - the strategies of the rest of the album could have been put to work more consequently there. All in all: great electronica, which combine experiment and pop perfectly." (transl. www.gebrauchtemusik.de , Nov/2002)

"...offers you 11 with numbers titled trip-hop(?) mostly straight-forward song-structures. but georg never opted for the obvious and safe way, so welcome to some weirdness and oddness. ...this for sure has more originality and rawness to offer than the average house/acid/trance section output. ... it is totally diy approach and fresh like this. the kids in the clubs would maybe hate it or be irritated and that is way more cool. but the chance that music like this is played by djs in nice sterile clubs where lot of superficial people gather to have their superficial smalltalk about fashion and latest records, is really meagre. maybe life in such clubs would be more interesting with diy electronica? i doubt." (Pille Weibel for Gecko, http://widerstand.org März 2003)