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Dan Murphy’s is a one-off anonymous techno project. Landing somewhere between the industrial electronica of Rebel Yell and the retail-sound-collages of Negativland, Dan Murphy’s is as club ready as it is scathing.

Despite not being sparse in its soundscapes, Dan Muphy’s sure does feel empty. Throughout the EP’s 4 tracks, defined by pulsating bass, abrasive synth and obscured vocal samples, a mood of total isolation permeates. The songs are about consumer life but identify only in brand signifiers and bureaucratic company policies. Closing times, price guarantees and instructions for online purchases regulate yet never directly involve human action. Not dissimilar to the vocals found on a Dopplereffekt record, Dan Murphy's darts around the periphery of human life. This is the music of a body corporate, of a non-human entity. This is anti-social music made for the most social of activities; dancing.

Betraying its seemingly unfeeling brand of industrial techno, the EP is punctuated with increasingly passionate emotion. The tapes constantly familiar samples serve as nauseating reminders of a 9-5 life, of dissatisfaction and violent cynicism. As the EP progresses it feels less like a featureless recount of ‘making ends meet’ and more a statement of personal tethered ends and a need for change. Think William Foster in Falling Down. Think playing non-store-floor-friendly music through the shop PA. Think picking a fight with your manager. Think daydreaming about running over your boss in your half-paid-off car.

Now think about all this whilst dancing. letting off steam. Thats kinda how these songs feel to me.

Calling listeners ‘customers’ Dan Murphy’s presents us with a product on this EP. A reconfigured shopping experience, a pre-determined non-emotional emotional dance mantra. Try it on for size? it may well fit you well. Are you buying it? Reading these words on this Bandcamp page suggests so.

- Jack De Lacy

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released July 27, 2018

All tracks performed and recorded in a single take by Dan Murphy's. All tracks mixed and mastered by Dan Murphy's. Cover photography by Dan Murphy's. Cover design by Dan Murphy's and Jack De Lacy.

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