dDamage - PressKit

Biography

Both Hanak brothers, known under the name of dDamage, play an indescribable electronic music, violent and melodic at the same time, juggling with hip-hop beats, riffs of guitars and heat of analog synths. With tended flow, their music lets appear a rare sensitivity, skilfully camouflaged behind intense " boom tchack" of modern cruelty. They released lots of records on several indie labels such as Planet-Mu, Tsunami-Addiction, Tigerbeat6, Alice in Wonder, Clapping Music. After two long years of intense work, these terrible children of the electronic music bring out again from the studios with a fortnight tracks, on which are invited the crême of the independent hip-hop scene. This is a new sound, post-rock, post hip hop and post everything electronic - just using what instruments are to hand to express themselves.

Discography

1999 - "Dirty Birthday Cuts" (CDR - EP) Poisson Mou / FR
2000 - "Reverbreak this Beat Down" (CD - Album) Grafted / SW
2001 - "Harsh Reality of Daily Life" (CD - Album) Alice in Wonder Noise Museum / FR
2002 - "101 Room" (CD - EP) Fanclub / NL
2003 - "Trop Singe EP" (12" - Split EP with TTC) Clapping Music / FR
2003 - "The Missing Link" (CD - Split Album with Kowatabo) Intikrec / JP
2004 - "Radio Ape" (CD - Album) Planet-µ / UK
2005 - "Pressure EP" (12" - EP) Planet-µ / UK
2006 - "The D" (12" - Split EP with Hypo) YKFD / FR
2006 - "Ink 808" (12" - EP) Tigerbeat6 / USA
2006 - "Shimmy Shimmy Blade" (CD - Album) Tsunami-Addiction/Discograph / FR

Reviews

Musical Bear
With the release of radio ape these boys can now begin to enjoy the level of exposure they always deserved. creating a properly unique sound the parisian duo intersperse slices of hip-hop and rock and tie it together with a shit load of distortion – dirty digital noise combined with pumping analogue funk. like the best things in life you know it’s bad for you but feels so good. this album swings about violently from hypnotic droning waves of noise with distorted echoing drums to nasty, grizzly yet beautiful, bastardised pop. what really grabs me is the drumming, sometimes hip-hop sometimes punk rock, but its always on the money, it always fits and is always changing. real rock n roll and yet proper electronic spazz – really good stuff to flail your limbs around to in drunk abandon. and the best thing; it just doesn’t stop it’s fucking relentless. each time you think you can catch a breather it smacks you right back up again.

New Orleans Electronica Digest
The first release from Mike Paradinas’ Planet Mu for 2004 delivers a blast of distortion, guitar samples, and tough breakbeats, combining to make one of the most compelling alt-rock influenced IDM records of recent years. Whining bleeps, scattered beats, and fast cuts are the norm here, but the music never quite reaches the levels of drill ‘n bass, instead keeping a more melodic tone while maintaining the erratic sound that glitch lovers crave. Don’t listen to this when you’re trying to relax, save it for a fast car ride out of town. Recommended tracks: Pressure, Liquid Words, Insects Are Human.

All Music Guide
The second album of the Parisian electronic duo dDamage, Harsh Reality of Daily Life is simply terrific. It is a creative and complex album: They have samples of machines, sound manipulations, greasy guitars, hip-hop beats, and tortured vocals. Their tunes are mostly calm and groovy, but the sounds they use are aggressive, and, as Phonem, they have this interesting process to create peaceful melodies out of noisy samples. They create a renewed interest in industrial music; they really sound like a collaboration between Neurosis and Sister Machine Gun, intermingling chaotic harsh things and groovy beats. 4/5.

People they worked with
Dose One (Anticon / Clouddead / Subtle), Mike Ladd (Ninja Tune, !K7), Tes (Lex Records), Bigg Jus (Company Flow), Orko Elohiem (NMS), Sin (Sizzerb / USA), Shitmat (Planet-µ), TTC (Big Dada / V2), V/vm (Test Records), Angil (Unique Records), O.Lamm (Active Suspension), Christ (ex Boards of Canada), Ra (Sublight / Planet-µ), Ovenaxx (19-T), Romveloppe (Adaadat), Stacs of Stamina (2nd Rec / Def Jux), Mira Calix (Warp Records), Electronicat (Disko-B), Hypo (Active Suspension), Donna Summer (Sonig, Irritant, Adaadat...), and many others...