Faultline (musician)

David Kosten ( * 1968 in London, England ) is an English DJ, musician and producer, released his own music since 1998 under the project name Faultline. Since 2001 he has his own label with Tiny Consumer and worked as a freelance A & R consultant for EMI Records UK. In addition, he produced and remixed songs and albums for other musicians.

  • 3.1 albums
  • 3.2 Singles
  • 3.3 Contributions

Career

Description

Since the mid- 1990s David Kosten in the British music scene is active. Influenced by synth pop and darkwave he first put on drum and bass DJ. In 1996 he founded his one-man project Faultline, whose electronic music is mostly spherical, melancholic and yet experimental. Playful, unstructured songs on his albums from alternate with well-composed triphop works. Were his first two album releases still purely instrumental, as he picked up for his third album, a variety Gastvokalisten and instrumentalists into the studio. His style is generally performed under electronic music and trip-hop, in particular under downbeat, broken beats and so-called Dark Electronica.

Your Love Means Everything

The 2002 album contains sadly beautiful, soft Britpop trip hop compositions, alternating with times spherical, sometimes gruff sound worlds. For the ballads, he received support from various musicians. Is represented Among other things, Chris Martin of Coldplay, with the Where Is My Boy and Your Love Means Everything ( Pt. II) in two songs. Jacob Golden is also represented several times with his downright predestined for Triphop male-female voice and various guitar sections, with Bitter Kiss and the second vote to Green Fields, in which SEMs Michael Stipe took over the lead vocals. Wayne Coyne and Nick McCabe round the cocky squad finally starting.

Since there were several legal problems in the distribution of the album, is cost since 2003 by EMI under contract and Coldplay were an overnight driving economic size by EMI ( Chris Martin sang his parts before the success of Parachutes a ), Album 2004 was awarded an altered tracklist re - published. To this end was covered with Joseph Arthur of the Rolling Stones hit Wild Horses and added to the album. With Ras example, an American rapper, he took on the subsequent extraction Biting Tongues.

The official third album from Faultline, Destructo, The Human Cannonball, should be published in early 2008, but can wait until the day to yourself.

Productions

Produced David has costs, among other albums by Ben Christophers, Jacob Golden and Merz. He has delivered, for example, for the band Keane ( Goodbye Yellow Brick Road) and Iain Archer remixes.

Coverte for the 2006 tribute compilation to Serge Gainsbourg and produced with David Kosten Brian Molko ( Placebo ) and Francoise Hardy the Gainsbourg classic Requiem pour un con.

Publications

Albums

Singles

  • 2005 - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road ( feat. Keane ) - Elton John Cover for Help: A Day in the Life ( Charity Album)
  • 2006 - Requiem for a Jerk (feat. Brian Molko ) - Serge Gainsbourg - Revisited

* These titles were published under the name Faultline

Productions (excerpt)

  • Ben Christophers - Spoonface (2001)
  • Jacob Golden - Halleluhja World ( 2002)
  • Skin - Fleshwounds (2003)
  • Joseph Arthur - Our Shadows Will Remain (2004)
  • Natalie Imbruglia - Counting Down the Days (2006)
  • Iain Archer - Magnetic North (2006)

* When this item comes to costs under his real name

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