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The official bio notes for refrag available at various Independent Music sites read like absurdist short stories. Some of the band members are murdered during a Salvation Army charismas party. Additional band members are incarcerated for unethical scientific studies with insects and fruit. The underground cult participants who comprise the band are exposed as Jehovah’s Witnesses and swiftly dis-banded. Assuming that none of this is true, who really makes this unique and genre-bending music? Desmond Murphy of Auckland, New Zealand is the one-man electronic orchestra behind the music of refrag.
Des began making music in the early 80’s when he played bass in a band he describes as “punk and also shite.” The members of The End Band were “very bad”, in Des’s estimation. The band remained together for three years but never got any better. After the demise of The End Band, Des continued to record demos and found a few gigs in a series of bands with another of its original members. The name of the new band changed from week to week to disguise its reputation. In 1998, his participation in the production of lousy live music ended, and Des got his first PC. He began to “mess around with music sounds” and the PC made it “easy to get the sound I like.” In 2001, Des relocated from London to New Zealand, his wife’s home, and the country where their son was born. With this move, refrag was conceived. Working in Reason 2.5, Wavelab 4, and with the recent introduction of Melodyne into his compositions, Des achieved a level of excellence that has received significant notice in the on-line Independent Music community.
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| FULL TRACK Are You Taking This All Down | 3:30 |
| FULL TRACK Pretending | 3:28 |
| FULL TRACK In Care | 3:50 |
| FULL TRACK Two mins in the Life of a Fly | 2:00 |
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droll7 wrote:
nice one... i'll gamble or should i say bet you're here for some chips, eh mate?
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LoadPuller wrote:
Hey Ridd, you crazy mofo! Still diggin' tunes after all these years. Let it flow...
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Ridd_Bong wrote:
yep, I knew it was that one.
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tergan wrote:
ah you got it, 'Pretending', that's what i was thinking of.
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Ridd_Bong wrote:
ok can do will do
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tergan wrote:
i'll have to get back to you after i think about it, that's a tough one you have a lot of great trks and thinking doesn't come so easy for my brain since the laser eye surgery incident... ok wait... i can't find the one i'm thinking of and don't remember the name, sort of a jazz thing? but instead how about an oldie classic maybe, are you taking this all down?
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Ridd_Bong wrote:
what track shall I put up RD?
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Ridd_Bong wrote:
Thanks Richard glad I scared you. so what are the tab things on last fm? and I downloaded some little program when I first came here, but I deleted it, should of I?
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tergan wrote:
hey Mons-ieur, are you taking any requests?
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tergan wrote:
i like it, very snappy indeed, looking forward to seeing more! ...though it also scares me a little bit thinking about where refrag the visuals might go, lol
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Ridd_Bong wrote:
also I put up a video I made, do have a look and tell me what you think? I made it last week and going to do some more.
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tergan wrote:
oh yeah, so you did! nice one ;) keep 'em coming
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Ridd_Bong wrote:
no I hate music, ok I put one up, I've got some new ones that just need a bit of work then First AM will get them.
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tergan wrote:
so Monsmeister, you gonna put some trks here or what? :)
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Ridd_Bong wrote:
yes, and uncle Bob has had the sex change so Bobs your auntie.
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tergan wrote:
wow, do you know the Illphems from Chanqauro Basin? Is Bob your uncle?
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Ridd_Bong wrote:
I'm living in a tent these days and changed my name to Monsted Illphems
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tergan wrote:
Des is in the house!
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Ridd_Bong wrote:
Hello Krackatoa long time no see, I'm only just getting into this last fm thing, still no sure what the monk I'm doing
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Krackatoa wrote:
How you going Des been a long time :) still making great alt music I hope :)
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tergan tagged Refrag with peripheral music, psychedelic and electronic. September 2008
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Ridd_Bong linked a deleted file to Refrag. August 2008
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