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RDunlap has been exploring alternate routes to music outside the mainstream since 1985
 
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RDUNLAP: Idiosyncrasies: 1985-2007 ....DADALA: candy fish barrel .... pcontraption: Night City .... DADALA: sampler .... 
 
 
PCONTRAPTION: Expedition .....DADALA: summertime with Billy Shaw .....PCONTRAPTION: PcOnTrApTiOn ....
 
 
 
Files available below for free download directly from peripheralmusic.org/rdunlap are high quality 256kbps MP3s
(these are offered for personal, non-commercial use only, contact RDunlap about any other uses)
 
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latest news: 
 
15 Jun 2009: dadala albums picnic (2008) and continues (2005)
released through the Clinical Archives netlabel
 
1 May 2009: soft launch of the new netlabel ooTray
where RDunlap is one of the initial lineup of featured artists
 
11 Apr 2009: the original dadala album recycles (2004) re-released
through the Clinical Archives netlabel: Free Download
 
26 Mar 2009: The Dunlaps album Reunions now available:
Free Download from Clinical Archives
Post-jazz, free improv, proto-post-rock, avant-garage vintage sessions from Richard and Frank Dunlap
featuring sax, synthesizer*, samplers, household percussion, guitar, Echoplex, flute and flies
 
 
 
dadala 
 
RDunlap is the producer, arranger/mixer, musical director and editor of the virtual ensemble dadala
(and also contributes synthesizer recordings)
Current and recent contributors to the ensemble include:
Johann Meier (Jopy), Loopy C, Frank-o Dunlap, Billy Shaw and Michael Chocholak 
 
 
Coming Soon:
spaghetti wall
 
2007 - candy fish barrel
2007 - sampler
2005 - summertime with Billy Shaw
listen at last.fm 
 
CDs and Downloads at Peripheral Music Shop
 
The albums below are available for free download -
high quality 256kbps or better MP3s, packaged in zip files along with cover graphics and liner notes:
 
2008 - picnic - 7 tracks, 47:27
blending abstract electronics, acoustic and electric guitars, piano and a bit of jazz.
while not without the usual kaleidoscopic avant-garde edge, 'picnic' is more laid-back and ambient
than other dadala albums, suitable for a lazy sunday morning, an afternoon nap or a late night mindscape.
(at Clinical Archives)
  
2006 - dreams - 12 tracks, 77:58
the dadala album with the most contributors: 17 different artists contributed material ranging from
traditional folk tunes to outre electronica to avant-rock to electro-acoustic abstract soundscapes to
Theremin overdose, Japanese field recordings and more
listen at last.fm
 
2005 - current - 10 tracks, 63:35
electronic, avant-garde, jazz improv, soundscape, noise, quasi-minimalist flavors
bookended by a pair of apocalyptic bluegrass drones (yes, real banjo)
listen at last.fm
 
2005 - continues - 10 tracks, 57:05
Heavy on the cyber-rustic surruralism. also featuring an epic dark ambient piece
(at Clinical Archives)
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2004 - recycles - 11 tracks, 59:42
early RD solo recordings and duets with Steven Peckman, Frank Dunlap and Dan Bartlett;
electro-acoustic improvisations and tape collage manipulated, combined and reconstructed
(at Clinical Archives)
 
 
some individual dadala tracks:
 
oy tape - 5:35
(2006) exclusive to this site: the second* dadala track to combine material from Vedette (from the tracks
'Pastel Painting' and 'Tape Track Lights') and the glad hand ('yes darling, but it is not art', 'oy robinson' and 'spektrikon')
*the first one 'tabula juice' is available on the dreams album and the sampler
 
pattern shuffle - 6:47
(2006) remixed from MChocholak & RDunlap duet 3 and 2 recordings from jopy
 
brane forest – 5:52 
(from the recycles album, 2004) - remixed from early recordings by RDunlap (‘Rain’ 1985
and tape collage of outtakes from RDunlap and Dan Bartlett 1986)
    
 
 
solo tracks 2006 – present 
 
18 Apr 09 – 3:47
(2009) treatment and arrangement of new synth* recordings by RD
available at ootray.com
 
Mirage – 3:48
(2007) treatment and arrangement of new synth* recordings by RD
 
Child’s Play – 4:19
(2006) treatment and arrangement of new synth* recordings by RD and vocal samples from rachMiel
available at ootray.com 
 
15 Jul 06 – 5:29
(2006) treatment and arrangement of new synth* recordings by RD
available at ootray.com 
 
Do not adjust your set  – 3:31
(2006) treatment and arrangement of Yamaha PortaSound keyboard auto-rhythms,
new synth* recordings by RD and vocal samples from rachMiel 
 
more tracks available on the CD 'Idiosyncrasies: 1985-2007' : Sequenza mix, Amballad, Star Noir, Long Story Short
 
 
* Casio CZ-101 (1985 digital synthesizer)
 
 
 
with others
 
PcOnTrApTiOn (at last.fm)
2006-2009 collaborative project with Johann Meier (jopy) who provides most of the original recordings as raw material
selected, combined, arranged, mixed/remixed by RD, along with occasional contributions of his own (CZ-101 synth recordings)
all of PcOnTrApTiOn's tracks can be streamed full-length for free at last.fm
  
PcOnTrApTiOn extra tracks
free download: zip file of four 2008 tracks in 256kbps mp3:
'Renunciation', 'Other Shoes', 'To the Sea' and 'Terms and Conditions' 
 
MChocholak & RDunlap duet 2 – 4:21
(2005) improvisation with RD on synth* and Michael Chocholak on erhu
 
Simprovulation – 5:53
(2005) from synth* recordings by RD combined with pre-existing recordings by
Michael Chocholak (digital bass) and by Billy Shaw (sax and trumpet)
available at ootray.com 
 
Apocalips – 4:17
(2005) Yamaha PortaSound keyboard auto-rhythms treated and arranged by RD to create the basic track
to which Billy Shaw recorded a sax solo (which was treated and re-arranged by RD in the finished mix)
 
Hear more collaborations from RDunlap & Friends at last.fm
 
* Casio CZ-101 (1985 digital synthesizer)
 
  
 
2004/5 remixes of earlier RD recordings
 
Origami Memoirs – 6:42
(2004) derived from 1994 recording 'The Days Unfold (Like Origami)' 
 
Asterisk – 3:37
(2005) derived from 1993 recording 'Asterisk in Parentheses'
 
Fibrillation Rag – 4:53
(2005) derived from 1995 recording of the same name, with percussion from 'Desert Rain' 1991
available at ootray.com
 
Statue of a Zephyr – 4:14
(2005) derived from 'Desert Rain' 1991
  
 From the End  – 5:21
(2005) derived from 'Meetings at the Market' 1991
 
 more tracks available on the CD 'Idiosyncrasies: 1985-2007' : Burning the Field, Falling Upstream, Spiral Ascent
   
 
 
 earlier recordings
 
Akira's Eye – 3:10
(1994)
 
I Don't Know / I Know – 6:58
(1992) alter ego virtual ensemble "The Meerkats" 
 
Demands – 5:31
(1993) alter ego virtual ensemble "Vinyetvin Nagret"
 
The Lost Meerkats – 3:20
(1994) alter ego virtual ensemble "The Meerkats"
 
more tracks available on the CD 'Idiosyncrasies: 1985-2007' : Lands' End, Still in the Thick of It
 
 
 
RDunlap & Dan Bartlett
 
Juncture
– 9:06
1987 improvisation in one take - RD: synth, sampler / Dan Bartlett: percussion and synth arpeggiations /
Frank Dunlap: sax sample
 
Conjuring Aurora – 9:26
2006 remix of ‘Amateur Alchemy’, which was a 1996 combination of 2 different sessions
from 1986 and 1987 - Dan Bartlett: analog lead synth, electric piano, acoustic & electronic percussion /
RD: synth, Echoplex, sampler / with Steve Ferrell on bass
 
Passing Through – 11:17
Original improv session from 1987 - Dan Bartlett: synths (digital bass and
spacey analog) / RD: sampler, Echoplex / Steve Ferrell: guitar
 - Mix and additional material (synth and digital sound modules) by RD 1995
 
 
RDunlap & Dan Bartlett at last.fm 
 
 
 
 
The Dunlaps
 
Is it just around the corner?
– 8:53
1987 – RD: synth, sampler, percussion / Frank Dunlap: sax, sampler, percussion
 
Time of Ending The – 11:14
1987 – RD: sampler, guitar, percussion / Frank Dunlap: sax, percussion
 
Moments had – 3:23
2005 – RD: sampler, synth, remix / Frank Dunlap: sax, guitar (treated in mix by RD)
 
 
The Dunlaps at last.fm 
 
 
 The Dunlaps album Reunions at Clinical Archives netlabel (free download)

  

  

 
 

 

 

 

 

 

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