Damokles Stephanos
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About Me
- Skill Level:
- Professional
- Craft:
- musician, film scorer, composer
- Instruments:
- synthesizer, drum machine, electric guitar, keyboard, flute, electric bass, drums, acoustic bass, violin, saxophone, xylophone, piano, acoustic guitar, trumpet, sampler, vibes
- Genres:
- avant-garde jazz, trip-hop, drum and bass, ambient dub, dub techno, jungle, techno-tribal, acid jazz, dark ambient, exotica, experimental
Trip Marks The Hop is the brainchild of Damokles Stephanos, a classically trained musician who has performed in over forty concertos worldwide. In 2006 Damokles' musical career took a turn in the direction of electronica as he became highly involved in the creation and production of Drum and Bass, Jungle, Ambient, and Trance music with some of the genres top performers and producers in both the U.S. and the U.K.
Trip Marks The Hop is a consortium of like-minded musicians dedicated to the engendering of innovative and atypical forms of electronic based music with the goal of producing songs that appeal to more than just the "pop" listener.
Trip Marks The Hop has an open door policy, and does not constrict the artist's creative vision with boundaries and obstacles common to the music industry. After all is said and done our goal is to produce "music that matters" as opposed to making wads of money off of fifteen minute sensations that are here today and gone tomorrow.
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- Band or Group:
- Trip Marks The Hop
- Influences:
- Portishead, Bjork, Biosphere, Delerium, Stellamara, Divination, Lenny Ibizzare, Paul Dolden, Daedelus, Marilynn Seits, 4Hero, The Orb, Thomas Fehlmann, Vladislav Delay, DJ Hype, Shy FX, Ray Keith, Silverbeam, Goldie, Calyx, Kapricorn, Grooverider, Drumatic, DJ Minx, Aristoxenus, Bach, Beethoven, Debussy, Charles Mingus, Eric Dolphy, Babatunde Olatunji, Max Roach, Thomas Mapfumo, Ravi Shankar, Dub Syndicate, Sun Ra, Thelonious Monk, DJ Shadow, DJ Mark Farina, Ali Akbar Khan, Hamza El Din, Fela Kuti, Ron Carter, Augustus Pablo, King Tubby, Prince Jammy, Scientist, Mad Professor
- Day Job:
- Corporate America 9 to 5 Slave
Working With Others
- How I Work:
Life is a unique and dynamic journey paved with both smooth and bumpy roads. As a traveler in this experience called life, I am always open to meeting new and interesting people.
Presently, Trip Marks The Hop is looking to collaborate with innovative and creative composers and musicians to engender atypical forms of electronic based music.
Trip Marks The Hop is in dire need of a female singer/songwriter who is a connoisseur of various forms of electronic music (i.e. drum and bass, jungle, ambient, trance, techno, etc.) to work closely with Damokles Stephanos in hopes of composing selections for a future CD release.
- Experience:
15+ years
- Equipment:
Digital Studio
- Payments:
- This user accepts PayPal for session payment
Oke...I was a bit confused by the new name..you got many facets... a multi-dimensional being...lol
By the way Paul Dolden is a friend of mine...one of my music partner James Newhouse is collaborating with him on some pretty wild stuff...small world...I'm listening and will be on to something soon...Josie
I am honored to be invited into your world of creations...wow!!!...I think we can pair up for some interesting stuff...I will take a listen at the other tracks you sent me in the next days and recontact you...Good vibes to you my new friend...Josie
hey!! received your invite.. not sure what vocally i can do for you with this kind of music. what are you looking for?? not real easy to follow but give me some feedback and we will see.. -scorpio-
Okeydoke, with any of the existing tracks there are 2 general ways of working, 1 is to take the beats of and just have me add new beats and other little bits where I find space, alternatively I can do a classic Chicago sampler job, this would basically involve me taking any one of the tracks and knocking about 20 hits out of it and then remixing from that. We could also go the other direction where I throw you a premade beat, you add some fx, i add bass, you keys etc.. If I had to ask for one track in particular it would be "Heraldry of the Magus", chiefly because I find the name quite inspiring, let me know your thoughts B
love the sounds man! I would love to work with any of these tracks if you're interested in chicago house at all, the tracks would provide a stunning backdrop to the kinda thing I do. if you get a chance can you have a listen to mine and give feedback, maybe even give it a vote, http://www.clearspring.com/widgets/486941519babcea7?p=4869619f414b0915&flv=submission%5Fid%3D2486%26api%5Fhost%3Dbowery please keep in mind tho that I am in no way limited to this kinda stuff, hope you are interested Take care B
What up son, i'm diggin Rhapsoidia Yahaleel. hit up my page tell me what you think. Your style is insane, no joke and i love it.
Organa Amor is a fucking tune!!!!
I don't see Photek/Tech itch in your influences, but I'm sure you must be into them?? Well this track kinda reminded me of Photek/Tech itch esque Dubstep/trip hop... sorry if that's off, I mean it as a compliment!!
Kinda like uk.youtube.com/watch?v=9qJKxaWb0_A and uk.youtube.com/watch?v=vGpisBjgyf0
If you get time check out our old skool Roots DnB remix. We've got some DubStep/trip hop/breakbeat/etc to come... kinda like your motto, we have a taste for a variety of Electronic music and we're not particularly loyal to one. This remix probably isn't a good example of how we want to push the creative envelop!
Cheers
Cheers.