Roderick Julian Modell is an American
electronic music
Electronic music is a genre of music that employs electronic musical instruments, digital instruments, or circuitry-based music technology in its creation. It includes both music made using electronic and electromechanical means ( electroa ...
producer,
DJ and
musician from
Port Huron, Michigan, known professionally as Deepchord (
pronunciation:
iːpkɔːrd sometimes stylized as DeepChord).
Modell was born on July 22, 1969, in
Detroit
Detroit ( , ; , ) is the largest city in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is also the largest U.S. city on the United States–Canada border, and the seat of government of Wayne County. The City of Detroit had a population of 639,111 at t ...
, Michigan.
He worked with Mike Schommer to produce music under the Deepchord moniker as well as co-founded an eponymous
record label
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in Detroit during the mid-1990s. However, currently the project name of Deepchord represents only Modell, who is using a number of aliases besides. The musical style of Deepchord is similar to both the
minimal Berlin sound of artists like
Basic Channel
Basic Channel is a German music duo and record label, composed of Moritz von Oswald and Mark Ernestus, that originated in Berlin in 1993. The duo have also worked under other names, including Rhythm & Sound and Maurizio, and have founded offshoo ...
and the
techno tradition of Detroit.
Modell might be best known for his collaboration with Stephen Hitchell (Soultek) as Echospace or cv313. In 2007, they released the album ''
The Coldest Season'' on the record label Modern Love.
Modell has also performed live with Hitchell as Echospace.
Modell has also collaborated with fellow Detroit native Mike Huckaby.
Selected discography
;Albums/EPs
*2003: ''Kettle Point EP''
as Rod Modell (Echocord)
*2004: ''Illuminati Audio Science''
with Kevin Hanton (Silentes)
*2007: ''
The Coldest Season''
as Deepchord Presents Echospace
*2007: ''Vantage Isle''
as Deepchord (echospace etroit
*2007: ''Incense & Black Light ''
as Rod Modell (Plop)
*2007: ''Plays Michael Mantra''
(Silentes)
*2010: ''Liumin''
as Deepchord Presents Echospace
*2011: ''Hash-Bar Loops''
as Deepchord (Soma)
*2012: ''Silent World''
as Deepchord Presents Echospace (Echospace)
*2012: ''Sommer''
as Deepchord (Soma)
*2014: ''Yagya and Deepchord: Redesigns''
Remixes of ambient tracks by Yagya (Subwax)
*2014: ''Lanterns''
(Astral Industries)
*2015: ''Ultraviolet Music''
(Soma)
*2017: ''Auratones''
(Soma)
*2022: ''Functional Design (out 09.30.22)''
(Soma)
;Singles
*2001: "dc10"
(Deepchord)
*2001: "dc11"
(Deepchord)
*2001: "dc12"
(Deepchord)
*2001: "dc13"
(Deepchord)
*2001: "dc14"
(Deepchord)
*2003: "dc16"
(Deepchord)
*2008: "The Detroit Remixes"
with Mike Huckaby (Cache Records)
*2011: "Hash-Bar Remnants (Part 1)"
(Soma)
*2011: "Hash-Bar Remnants (Part 2)"
(Soma)
*2012: "The Tonality of Night"
(Soma)
*2013: "Prana/Tantra"
(Soma)
*2014: "Luxury"
(Soma)
*2018: "Immersions"
(Astral Industries)
;Remixes
*2007: Convextion - "Miranda"
*2007:
Model 500 - "Starlight"
*2008:
Shocking Pinks - "Dressed to Please"
*2016:
Peter Michael Hamel
Peter Michael Hamel (born 15 July 1947 in Munich) is a German composer. His works have been associated with the minimalist style of composition, and in the late 1970s with the New Simplicity movement.
He is the son of the film director Peter ...
-
Colours of Time
''Colours of Time'' is the sixth album of composer Peter Michael Hamel, released in 1980 through Kuckuck Schallplatten.
Track listing
Personnel
*Peter Michael Hamel – electronic organ, synthesizer
*Ulrich Kraus – electric orga ...
References
External links
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Echospaceat
Bandcamp
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1969 births
Living people
20th-century American musicians
21st-century American musicians
American techno musicians
Ambient musicians
Musicians from Detroit
People from Port Huron, Michigan