Orphx
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Orphx performing live in 2008. | |
| Background information | |
| Origin | Canada |
| Genres | Industrial Techno, Rhythmic Noise, Minimal Techno, Dub Techno |
| Years active | 1994 - present |
| Labels | Sonic Groove, Hands Productions, Hymen Records, Malignant Records |
| Associated acts | Oureboros, O/H, Eschaton, Antiform, Tropism, |
| Website | http://www.orphx.com |
Orphx is a Canadian music duo made up of Rich Oddie and Christina Sealey active in the international techno, industrial and experimental music scenes. They have performed throughout Europe and North America and have numerous releases on CD, vinyl and cassette through independent music labels such as Sonic Groove, Hands Productions, Hymen Records and Malignant Records.
The project was founded in late 1993 by Rich Oddie, Christina Sealey and Aron West. Their early output was inspired by early industrial music and power electronics but they soon began introducing elements of techno, electro and dub. West left in 1994 to create the noise project Tropism. By 1997, Orphx was working with Germany's Hands label and began performing in Europe as part of the "rhythmic noise" scene. Most studio recordings between 1997 and 2008 are credited to Oddie, with more recent output attributed to both Oddie and Sealey.
Their more recent work on the Sonic Groove label has gained the attention of techno fans and DJs, leading to performances at high-profile venues such as Berghain, Movement, Mutek, and Tresor, and remix work for artists such as Perc, Oscar Mulero, Drumcell, and Traversable Wormhole. Orphx has also attracted attention for their use of modular synthesizers in recent years.
Before their current distribution labels, the music of Orphx was distributed through the cassette label, Xcreteria, founded by Oddie and West. Xcreteria eventually became Third Force, a music distribution network operated by Oddie between 1995 and 1998.
Orphx have released collaborations with En Nihil, The Infant Cycle (Jim De Jong) and Mark Spybey (Dead Voices on Air). Oddie and Sealey also recorded more ambient / electroacoustic work as Antiform between 1995 and 1997. Existing side projects include Eschaton (a collaboration with Ancient Methods), O/H (Rich Oddie and Dave Foster of Huren / Teste), Oureboros (Rich Oddie and Aron West of Tropism).
Trivia
- Initially called Oriphix, the name of the group was changed shortly after their first cassette release to Orphx.
Releases
- 01 (1993, Xcreteria)
- 02 (1994, Xcreteria)
- Bhavana (1995, first Antiform release, Xcreteria)
- Obsession and Progress (1996, BloodLust)
- Fragmentation (1996, Malignant Records)
- The Final Moments (1997, Isolation / Third Force) - split release with En Nihil
- Nullity (1998 Hands)
- Vita Mediativa (1998, Hands)
- Surface (2000, Hands)
- The Living Tissue (2001, Hands)
- Chalice (2002, Auf Abwegen)
- Other Voices (2002, Hands)
- Oddie/Sealey/Spybey (2003, Hushush) - collaboration with Dead Voices on Air
- Interference (2003, Hands) - collaboration with The Infant Cycle
- Circuitbreaking (2004, Hymen)
- Insurgent Flows (2005, Hands)
- Teletai (2008, Hands)
- Division (2009, Sonic Groove)
- Black Light (2010, Sonic Groove)
- Radiotherapy (2011, Hands)
- Traces (2011, Sonic Groove)
- Hunger Knows No Law (2012, Sonic Groove)
- Boundary Conditions (2013, Sonic Groove)
- Eschaton (2014, Token) - collaboration with Ancient Methods
- Sacrifice (2014, Sonic Groove)
- The Sonic Groove Releases Pt.1 (2014, Hymen)
- The Sonic Groove Releases Pt.2 (2015, Hymen)
- Eschaton II (2016, Token) - collaboration with Ancient Methods