Role Musician Name Phil Western | Years active 1992–present | |
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Birth name Phillip Charles Western Also known as Philth, Cap'n Stargazer Born August 12, 1971 (age 53) ( 1971-08-12 ) Instruments Synth, guitar, percussion Albums | ||
Occupation(s) Programmer, musician | ||
Musician of the month phil western
Phil Western (born August 12, 1971) is a Vancouver-based musician who is a founding member of the bands Download, PlatEAU, Frozen Rabbit, and Off And Gone.
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- Musician of the month phil western
- Phil western simpleton
- Solo works
- Beehatch wMark Spybey
- Download
- KONE
- Plateau
- XMT
- Capm Stargazer
- Floatpoint
- Off and Gone
- Frozen Rabbit
- References
Having started his career as a drummer and eventually as a programmer, he became a remix engineer starting in the mid-1990s. His friendship with Dwayne Goettel led to him doing a small amount of keyboard work on the Skinny Puppy album The Process, as well as creating the Subconscious record label with Goettel in 1993.
After Goettel's death from a heroin overdose in 1995, he became partners with Cevin Key in several musical projects. As an engineer, or remix engineer, he has worked with Skinny Puppy, Mirror, Bryan Adams and Nine Inch Nails. He has also assisted in remixes of songs written by Monster Magnet and Rob Halford and Metallica among others.
Often maintaining a low visibility in his collaborative projects, it was his solo work which brought his abilities to light for fans of Download - a complex approach to rhythm and programming, and a sense of melody rooted in psychedelia, drones and space rock.
Since 2001, Western has been the operator behind The Record Company, which has been the imprint for several releases under his own name, as well as a reissue of the Floatpoint CD "Beam Error"