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Lifetime is the fourth album from Australian producer Deepchild, released on Sydney-based label Future Classic. With glowing 12 inch reviews, remix work, and significant DJ support leading up to its release, it places Deepchild solidly in the ranks of his international peers and marks the start of an exciting and fresh chapter for Il Bambino Profundo. Emerging after almost three years, Lifetime is the follow up to the critically acclaimed What’s Going Wrong? A newly svelte Deepchild sheds the dreads and with them any trace of musician indecision, delivering his most razor-sharp, engaging and sonically expansive work to date. Prepare to be surprised. Lifetime responds to the melancholy dub-tronica of What’s Going Wrong? with muscle and sinew. The result is an exceptionally mature dancefloor focussed montage and synthesis of musical experience from Sydney to Berlin, Detroit, Chicago and Jamaica. Basic Channel’s dub minimalism flirts with fragments of Dr Dre, King Tubby and Georgio Moroder, whilst Beyonce and Carl Craig drink cognac (and dance cheek to cheek) in the back room. The omnipresent Marvin Gaye appears to be discussing the politics of seduction with the boys from Kraftwerk, and if you listen closely you may just make out Peter Tosh humming a tune with Matthew Herbert, whilst Richie Hawtin mixes the drinks and reminisces about peak time at Tresor. Kodwo Eshun appears to be discussing architecture with one of the Parliament boys, but by the looks of things George Clinton just wants to get his freak on… Lifetime sits defiantly against the backdrop of electro-rock’s current revival; a jubilant embrace of low-slung post-disco tech, where boogie-down is the only label you’d possibly concern yourself with wearing, and soul is not a dirty word. Drop the pretension, you are all welcome here. This is a sonic space free from platitudes or club cliches; a melting pot of musical experience and history, edited with loving kindness and a razor-sharp tungsten blade. Ar Taken from www.wordandsound.de

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Bio

Deepchild is Australian DJ/producer Rick Bull, a stalwart of the Sydney deep-house/minimal-tech community and long-time radio presence on the airwaves of Fbi 94.5FM radio, where he hosts the award-winning ‘Monday Sunsets’ each week from 6-8pm, recently voted 'best national radio-show' in the 2006 Australian Dance Music Awards. With top billing European shows along-side the likes of M.A.N.D.Y, Jesse Rose (at the infamous Panoramabar in Berlin!), Richie Hawtin (to a crowd of over 20.000 at Serbia's massive EXIT Festival), remix work for techno superstars, Booka Shade, there's much that can be said for this genre-mashing producer. If the increasingly demanding international schedule of weren't enough (try playing Germany and then Kuala Lumpur in the space of 4 days!), a string of highly successful 12"s and remixes last year have well and truly solidified deepchild's reputation as a serious 'contender' in the saturated international dance-music community.

From rare collaborations/remixing work with Force-Inc's legendary producer, Luomo, Booka Shade, to Audiomontage (aka Freerange Record's own Jimpster), Russia's D-Pulse, Square-One (UK), Colourblind (FR) and detroit-funkateers Bumper (MDEX Records, US), a steady stream of dance-floor 'dub-wise techno' releases have ensured deepchild tunes have graced many a dj crate the world over. Tweaked-out micro-house, funked-out electro quirk and sublime 'fathomless and heavenly' (Sydney Morning Herald) deep-house joints all flesh out the truly diverse range of deepchild productions. Dub, soul, West-Coast hip-hop and r'n'b, minimal techno and freaked-out post-disco are all thrown into the eclectic mix that is uniquely ‘deepchild’. The 'unifying force'? A muscular, warm and human approach to forward-thinking 'machine-music' that is sensual and jackin! Little wonder, then, that well-respected UK music journal, The Wire, went as far as to proclaim that this sound was "as sexy and addictive as new-dub electronica gets".

When Stereo-Heaven (the biggest dj store in Essen, Germany) found that their biggest selling tech-house record was infact written in a small share-house studio in Sydney's Inner-West (deepchild's "No Disgrace", on Future Classic), they took the time to make special mention of what is indicative of deepchild's head-turning appeal: "over here in my hometown in Germany, we really love "no disgrace"!! it's also by far the best selling record in our new local shop, too...from deep or tech house to minimal djs, hiphop and electronica fans - everybody is into that 3-tracker...really an amazing 12" you've created!"

Freerange Record's 'tech-house institution', Milton Jackson, phrased is rather more sucsinctly, "Oh My God. I think you are my new hero".??And so it continues on home turf... Residencies at several Sydney clubs as well as cameos at national festivals (WOMAD, Sydney Festival, Adelaide Festival, local tech-house 'institutions' Mad Racket, HonkyTonks, Deep as F*ck, Loose Kaboose and so many more) serve to keep sleep 'hours' minimal, and the dancefloors sweaty!

Taken from http://www.deepchild.com

Label: Future Classics