Category: WORKS

LAFAWNDAH x ADR – BEE

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What happens when you cross-pollinate the free-wheeling experimental styles of a zouk and techno-influenced singer/producer and one half of the notoriously weird duo Gatekeeper? You get a song that’s for plants, by plants – or, more to the point, you get “Bee,” a sweetly direct and organic love song that falls somewhere between reggae, tropical pop and ambient composition. In an attempt to meet the brief they were given by Red Bull to come up with a song “for plants,” Lafawndah and Aaron David Ross found themselves getting back to basics, writing a tune that moves like a breeze through the jungle, synth riffs wafting through like palm fronds over a slow and sure-footed beat as Lafawndah’s hook “someone loves you, bee” sets the whole thing alight. It makes for a sultry follow-up to her recently-aired Teengirl Fantasy collab, "Lung". We had a quick chat with Lafawndah about how she grew into this new collaboration, and what’s so sexy about plants anyway.

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"BEE"

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FASHION GKFX SOUNDTRACK WORKS

LUAR POLAR VORTEX

Runway original soundtrack

POLAR VORTEX

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FW 2014

GATEKEEPER WORKS

GATEKEEPER – YOUNG CHRONOS

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Post date February 2014

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GATEKEEPER

Torrent/USB Token Album November 2014, Presto?!

SELECTED PRESS:
Young Chronos Review | Tiny Mix Tapes [ 11 29 13 ]
Gatekeeper Open Up.. | Fact Magazine [ 11 26 13 ]
Young Chronos Review | P&W [ 11 28 13 ]
Young Chronos Review | I Die You Die [ 11 13 13 ]
Young Chronos Review | Pitchfork [ 11 13 13 ]
L'impero Gatekeeper | Noisy IT [ 10 23 13 ]
Stream Gatekeeper's "Imperatrix" | Fader Magazine [ 10 23 13 ]
The Track: Gatekeeper | VMAN [ 10 23 13 ]
Premiere "Imperatrix" | Dummy Magazine [ 10 23 13 ]

Time-engineering blasphemies and neo-sapient hominid scenarios including but not limited to: jump platforms in Gothic arcologies. Profound regolith/crust excavation and mantle extraction. Neogene biomes in low-g terraria. Endo-Templar counterpoint on cycloid viols and paleo-psaltery. Tertiary-stage flarefusion-equipped Habsburg hunting parties engaging titanichthys super-shoals. Orpheid Witness fleets in godlike hypo-cacolayer suspension. Quantum-solid martyrdom for St. Eligius and trimillennial chorus. Lycanthrope combat on the plains of Northern Europe. Narcomorph collective events on Phobos forgoing corpoferric insulation. Polymeliac Elizabethan exoscouts encountering depth charges in asteroid fields. Zen-grunt gnosis performed in hyper-iterative Hadean habitats. Dirac wave-converters outside of Roanoke. Teutonic-Wallachian ground forces supplied with pulse rifles. Thracian quasar-injection in Jovian atmospheres causing the Sienna effect. Thermographically-enhanced heat-seeking archers in dawn mists. Steampunk-m arias in entropy-null silicate mausolea. Please be advised: permanent unlimited respawning.

CAMPAIGN GKFX SOUNDTRACK WORKS

RICHARD BURBRIDGE for ITALIAN VOGUE

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Post date January 2014
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RICHARD BURBRIDGE for ITALIAN VOGUE

MUSIC & SOUND DESIGN BY AARON DAVID ROSS & MATTHEW ARKELL

GKFX PERFORMANCE SOUNDTRACK WORKS

LOVE FOCUSED LIKE A LASER

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Post date December 2013
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LOVE FOCUSED LIKE A LASER

A Hybrid Opera & Art Collective by Matthew Stone

Featuring Matthew Stone, Shayne Oliver & Paul Cupo for Hood By Air, Kelela, Zebra Katz & Michele Lamy, boychild, Andre J, Madeline Hollanderm, AJ Gvojic,

Music by L-vis 1990, Aaron David Ross, Girl Unit, Helix, Matthew Stone, Massacooraman, Renato Dicent

GATEKEEPER WORKS

SWORD OF THE GATHERING CLOUDS OF HEAVEN

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Post date November 2013
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CAMPAIGN GKFX SOUNDTRACK WORKS

NUMERO 146

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Post date October 2013
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MUSIC & SOUND DESIGN BY AARON DAVID ROSS & MATTHEW ARKELL

GATEKEEPER WORKS

YOUNG CHRONOS USB TOKEN

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GATEKEEPER

Super Limited edition USB Token
containing 6 WAV files and original artwork from
Gatekeeper's 'Young Chronos'
Released by Presto?! Nov 11th, 2013

ADR WORKS

ADR – CHUNKY MONKEY

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Post date October 2013

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CHUNKY MONKEY

SELECTED PRESS:
Hardcore Pastiche | Dummy Magazine [ 08 12 13 ]
Chunky Monkey Reviewed | In Your Speakers [ 04 30 13 ]
Review - Chunky Monkey | Pitchfork [ 04 22 13 ]
Aaron David Ross's Fair Trades | Interview Magazine [ 04 15 13 ]
Feature - Chunky Monkey | The Fader [ 04 11 13 ]

“Chunky Monkey” is the latest release from ADR, the avatar of Aaron David Ross, multimedia artist and member of the of the critically acclaimed Gatekeeper duo. Lauded as “bright, erotic and alive” by The New York Times, ADR has demonstrated his spirited, panache production style across a variety of projects over the last several years. He now readies his sophomore solo LP, “Chunky Monkey”, for release this spring on Hippos in Tanks.

“Chunky Monkey” is bristling phazer phunk; distended downtempo served as schizoid lifestyle music. Alone in his basement studio in NYC, ADR has re-assembled the constituents of everyday music consumption, ruminating on reality TV musical realism and the globalized flavors of “stock” music. These experiments are worked into a collage of stoned vocal scats and toothsome puns; wholesome exotica and woozy, schizophrenic pop.

A collection of airtight compositions which flex a range of influences, “Chunky Monkey” recalls the smoothness of big beat, trip hop & reggae against the hard swing of acid jazz. It fuses the silky cheese of Musak with the melancholy plush of jungle & downbeat. Through precise and idiosyncratic blends, ADR conjures a sound for shopping malls and/or space stations; a shark-eyed jest downloaded from the fractured fizz of New Consumerism.

This primate ain’t foolin’ around!

COLLABORATIONS WORKS

YEN TECH – REVENGENCE

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Post date October 2013

FILM GKFX SOUNDTRACK WORKS

THE UNITY OF ALL THINGS

THE UNITY OF ALL THINGS

Feature Film, Directed by Daniel Schmidt + Alexander Carver
Official Selection Locarno Film Festival, 2013
Original Soundtrack by Gatekeeper

ADR MIXES WORKS

ADR – MAGICO MIXFILE

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Post date August 2013

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Opening Ceremony, 2014

MAGICO MIXFILE

Throw on a robe, clap off your lights and fire up an e-cig—relaxation is mandatory while soaking up ADR's lounge-tastic "Magico Mix". As one half of Gatekeeper, Aaron David Ross specializes in forbidding extraterrestrial environments, but "Chunky Monkey", his new solo debut album for label Hippos in Tanks (out now), hits closer to home. Chunky Monkey vivisects the frictionless textures of modern consumer environments, exposing alien weirdness within the sounds of iPhone games and self-serve Fro-Yo joints. ADR's contribution to our mix series explores the album's distinctly 90s roots, infusing a copacetic cocktail of jazzy trip-hop and easy-listening breakbeats with a bitter squeeze of vintage dub-techno dread. Look out for choice cuts from the likes of Tricky and Burning Spear, and peep our Q&A with the man himself here.