Lowfish - Gregory De Rocher
Lowfish

Lowfish, a.k.a. Toronto’s Gregory De Rocher, ranks amoung the worlds leading electronica producers. He has released records on some of independent dance music’s most influential labels, has charted in North America and is noted for his punishing sets of live electronics. His clinical production style is both very modern and built on the DNA of early new wave and IDM. Sometimes dark, often melodic and multi-layered, Lowfish tracks strive for meaning, timelessness and quality. The weapons of choice are what they have been from the start; semi-operational analog synths, temperamental drum machines and scratchy recording gear. The name Lowfish is a reference to these dusty machines and his early lo-fi “ish” sound - thus Lowfish.

With six albums and a stack of singles behind him, 2008 see’s Lowfish aggressively pushing his sound forward. He’s been hard at work distilling his pristine electro and throbbing analog buzz into a new techno variant. The playfulness of yesteryear is somewhere deep in the background with the fine detail of machinery and staccato bass lines taking the fore. The result is Frozen and Broken out in October 2008 on Noise Factory Records. Ten brand new tracks of edgy analog electronica reminiscent of Lowfish’s famed Suction Records era IDM and an aberrant dance floor sound built from his most deviant sound palette to date.

Selected Reviews: 

"Lowfish's music is enormously catchy modern electro, eschewing currently fashionable digital trickery for good old analog skills." XLR8R

"Referencing Detroit techno, Italo-disco and synthpop, Lowfish's full-spectrum electronica has a quality all its own. His world is a pastoral Eden of sentient machines chorusing in perfect harmony. " Earplug

Selected Discography: 

Lowfish has released albums, tracks and remixes on some of the worlds leading electronic music labels: Suction Records (Toronto), Ersatz Audio (Detroit), Satamile (New York), Morr Music (Berlin), Ghostly (Ann Arbor), City Centre Offices (Berlin), Awkward Silence (London), A.D.S.R. (Berlin), Lo Recordings (UK), Hymen (Germany), Creme Organization and Vynalogica/Clone (Holland).

Burn The Lights Out - Satamile Records CD/2xLP 2007
Travel Sickness - Hymen Records CD 2006
Persuasive Science - Satamile Records 12” EP 2006
1000 Corrections per Second - Suction Records CD/LP 2003
Maintain The Tension - Suction Records CD/12” 2002
The Accident Causer - Ersatz Audio 12" EP 2002
Eliminator - Suction Records CD/LP 2000