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- Douglas Dare
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- Omni
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- Erased Tapes
- Catalogue Number
- ERATP165DL
- Release Date
- May 10, 2024
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British artist Douglas Dare announces the release of his fourth album Omni. Seen by Douglas himself as a bold rebirth and embrace of the electronic, Omni is all at once a throbbing, avant-garde, queer, dark and cinematic record imbued with a love of rave culture and sense of fearless storytelling that’s deeply evocative. Omni will be released on May 10 via Erased Tapes. To mark the announcement, Douglas today shares the first taster of the record with ‘Mouth To Mouth’, a pulsing, synth-laden track that begs to be played loud. ‘Mouth To Mouth’ sees a collaboration with label mate Daniel Brandt who appears on production duties, with beats supplied by Rival Consoles. Speaking on the track, Douglas says, “life, death, fate and orgies; this is the heartfelt club track I always wanted to write.” Since 2013, Douglas has blurred classical, chamber-pop, folk and avant-garde to dazzling effect, with a startling voice that can stop you in your tracks. It’s why he’s played with luminaries like Nils Frahm, Perfume Genius and Ólafur Arnalds, and was selected by David Lynch and The Cure’s Robert Smith for their respective cultural festivals in Manchester (MIF) and London (Meltdown). But Douglas’s fourth album, Omni, is a fresh awakening. Encouraged by Erased Tapes founder Robert Raths, he decided to step away from acoustic instruments, especially the piano he grew up playing, and swapped them for synths and drum machines. His new music has much in common with Arca and the late SOPHIE, two artists for whom self-expression meant liberation. “I got to hang out in the studio with her,” says Douglas of the latter musician, “the way she made music made a big impression on me.” And yet Omni is steeped in the kind of deft storytelling, sweeping strings, elegant contrasts and fairytale atmosphere that marks Douglas out as a crucial and singular voice. It’s not often you hear a strutting electro banger that could have been straight out of 90s Soho, with vocal loops inspired by US experimentalist Meredith Monk. For Douglas, Omni is about reconciling all those different sides of himself – the songwriter, the raver, the lover, the observer. It’s a hugely queer record: seductive, sexy, lusty, untethered from the genre binary. “It’s even got sailors on it!” laughs Douglas. “You don’t get more queer than that.
Digital Tracklist
- 1 Three Roads 4:02
- 2 Mouth to Mouth 4:05
- 3 Absentia 3:36
- 4 Sailor 5:37
- 5 Omni 2:03
- 6 Teach Me 4:58
- 7 No Island Is a Man 4:22
- 8 Painter 3:05
- 9 8w9zeros 3:53
- 10 The Stream 3:12
Douglas Dare
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- Douglas Dare
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- 8w9zeros
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- Erased Tapes
- Catalogue Number
- ERATP165DS02
- Release Date
- March 13, 2024
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- Artist
- Douglas Dare
- ReleaseProduct
- Teardrop
- Label
- Erased Tapes
- Catalogue Number
- ERATP131DS04
- Release Date
- March 29, 2023
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- Douglas Dare
- ReleaseProduct
- Milkteeth (Special Edition)
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- Erased Tapes
- Catalogue Number
- ERATP131SD
- Release Date
- February 8, 2022
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- Douglas Dare
- ReleaseProduct
- Behind the Walls
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- Erased Tapes
- Catalogue Number
- ERATP131DS03
- Release Date
- February 8, 2022
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- Douglas Dare
- ReleaseProduct
- Heavenly Bodies
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- Erased Tapes
- Catalogue Number
- 540916
- Release Date
- December 11, 2020
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- Douglas Dare
- ReleaseProduct
- Milkteeth
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- Erased Tapes
- Catalogue Number
- ERATP131DL
- Release Date
- February 21, 2020
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- Douglas Dare
- ReleaseProduct
- Aforger
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- Erased Tapes
- Catalogue Number
- ERATP089DL
- Release Date
- October 14, 2016
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- Douglas Dare
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- Aforger (Special Edition)
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- Catalogue Number
- ERATP089SD
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- October 14, 2016
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- Kiasmos
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- II
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- Catalogue Number
- ERATP168
- Release Date
- July 5, 2024
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- Kiasmos, Ólafur Arnalds, Janus Rasmussen
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- Burst
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- Catalogue Number
- ERATP168DS02
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- April 24, 2024
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- Shards
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- Byrd Song
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- Erased Tapes
- Catalogue Number
- ERATP163DL
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- April 19, 2024
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- Roedelius, Tim Story
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- Graffiti Octaves
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- Erased Tapes
- Catalogue Number
- ERATP146DS04
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- March 28, 2024
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- Roedelius, Tim Story
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- 4 Hands (Special Edition)
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- Erased Tapes
- Catalogue Number
- ERATP146SD
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- March 28, 2024
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- Kiasmos
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- Flown
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- Erased Tapes
- Catalogue Number
- ERATP168DS01
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- March 26, 2024
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- Sheherazaad
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- Qasr
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- Catalogue Number
- ERATP164DL
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- March 1, 2024
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- Artist
- Hatis Noit
- ReleaseProduct
- Jomon (Preservation Rework)
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- Erased Tapes
- Catalogue Number
- ERATP162DS03A
- Release Date
- February 21, 2024
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