Chris Douglas

This article is about a musician. For other uses, see Chris Douglas (disambiguation).

O.S.T.
O.S.T. performing in Berlin, 2004
Background information
Birth name	Chris Douglas
Also known as	O.S.T. Dalglish Rook Vallade Rook Valard Wooli Bodin Harry Rod
Born	August 4, 1974 (1974-08-04) (age 37)
Origin	Scotland
Genres	Experimental IDM Ambient Industrial Electronic Musique Concrete Noise Electro-acoustic Avant-garde
Occupations	Musician Composer Songwriter Programmer Remixer Disc jockey Sound designer Foley artist
Instruments	Piano Synthesizers Drum machine Electronics Laptop computer Guitar
Years active	1992 – present
Labels	Isolate Records Phthalo Dial Records Highpoint Lowlife Shitkatapult Polyrhythmic Emanate Records Qlipothic
Associated acts	The Church Steps
Website	http://www.amhain.net

Chris Douglas (born 4 August 1974), nicknamed pseudonym O.S.T., is an electronic musician from San Francisco, California.

History

Born August the 4th 1974, Chris Douglas' time has been a series of trials and confrontations where facts bore no truth and the present resides outside his creative musical energies. Douglas, an only child raised by his Grandparents, spent most of his childhood in the Bay Area, skateboarding, attending boarding school and learning among other things, to play the piano and keyboard. Not to be confused with Ost,^[1]

Was introduced to the all-night- rave party scene in 1990 he was entranced and constantly around all this new music/new experiences." Started to d.j.and making tracks throwing parties, was responsible with his crew for the first all Techno/Ambient parties in S.F. at the time when the city was dominated by house and disco. At the age of 17, Douglas left for Detroit to find creative freedom- While there he pleasantly crossing paths and working with his heroes Mike Banks and the late James Stinson of Drexciya and the fabled Underground Resistance Records.

Douglas recorded his first EP for Detroit-based Switch Records in 1992 under the name O.S.T. – the source of which he won't readily reveal to anyone. The release provoked one critic to assert, "Just about anything that would connect with house is abandoned here. This is one of the futures of techno", and prompted another reviewer to say, "10/10 a work of art and a piece of history". Generator Magazine, London.

Was invited by Autechre to perform at the edition of the All Tomorrow's Parties festival they curated in April 2003.

Also known as

• O.S.T.
• Rook Vallade
• Rook Valard
• Dalglish
• Wooli Bodin
• Harry Rod

Discography

Albums

• 1995 Rook Valard Systematic Desensitization Phthalo
• 1995 O.S.T. Fuckin' Twats Missed It Phthalo
• 1998 O.S.T. Death Notice Phthalo/Thousand
• 1998 O.S.T. Fashion For Passion Dial Records
• 1998 O.S.T. Live @ Nina's Phthalo
• 1998 O.S.T. Live @ Static Phthalo
• 1999 O.S.T. Live At Globule, Mills College Phthalo
• 1999 O.S.T. Bad Music And Buttprints Dial Records
• 2000 O.S.T. Deflect Emanate Records
• 2001 O.S.T. Seimlste Qlipothic
• 2002 O.S.T. Fimt Isolate Records
• 2003 O.S.T. Does Not Play Well With Others Polyrhythmic
• 2004 Dalglish OtJohr Highpoint Lowlife
• 2008 O.S.T. Waetka Ideal Recordings
• 2008 Dalglish Ideom Record Label Records
• 2008 O.S.T. Synken Outtakes (Adozen)
• 2011 Dalglish Benacah Drann Deachd Highpoint Lowlife

EP

• 1992 O.S.T. Basilar EP Switch Records Canada
• 1997 O.S.T. Aspire (12") Qlipothic
• 2000 Rook Vallade Rook Vallade Dial Records

Remixes

• 1996 Spacetime Continuum rEMIT rECAPS' Simm City (O.S.T. Mix) Astralwerks/reflective records

Compilations

• 1995 Mini-Compilation 1 - Rook Valard Creace Plug Research
• 1997 Alt.Frequencies.2: Disco Moonlight - Rook Valard Stochast (Worm Interface)
• 1998 Alternative Frequencies 3 - Rook Valard Intelligent Guess (Worm Interface)
• 2000 Alt. Frequencies 4 - Rook Valard Crowslish (Worm Interface)
• 2003 All Tomorrow's Parties 3.0 - O.S.T. DfDE ATP Recordings
• 2007 Club Transmediale 07 - O.S.T. Synken (Excerpt) rx:tx
• 2009 Strike 100 - Dalglish Inoktu Shitkatapult

Videos

• 2002 White Box Live ACT2 POLITICS (DVD) (VCD) Drum Machine Museum
• 2005 Symül von Transforma & O.S.T. (DVD) Shitkatapult
• 2007 Synken von Transforma & O.S.T. (DVD) Shitkatapult

Equipment

Synth	Drum Machine	Sequencer	Software
Yamaha DX7	Roland TR-606	Alesis MMT8	Logic Pro
Roland TB-303	Roland TR-808	PowerBook	Digital Performer
Roland SH-101	Roland TR-707		Max/Msp
Roland MC-202	Roland R-8		Metasynth

Other projects

The Church Steps with Mike Donovan From The Sic Alps

See also

• Isolate Records
• Phthalo
• Highpoint Lowlife
• Shitkatapult
• Dial Records (1998)
• Astralwerks
• Worm Interface

References

1. ^ ostofficialsite.synthasite.com

• Text: Interview – Interview by Anna Johnston 2008
• Text: Interview –- San Francisco Bay Guardian
• Text: Aquarius – Warp Records Info
• Text/Interview: Jens Pacholsky – Goon Magazine (German)

External links

• O.S.T – All Tomorrows Parties
• O.S.T – Allmusic
• O.S.T. – AMHAIN – Official Website
• O.S.T. – Discography – Discogs
• O.S.T. – Club Transmediale
• O.S.T. – Myspace
• O.S.T. – Epitonic
• O.S.T. – Synken Website
• O.S.T. – Isolate Records page
• O.S.T. – White Box Live Trailer

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