Colfax is the electronic music pseudonym for Daniel Berkman, a San
Francisco based multi-instrumentalist, composer and producer who's debut
electronic album "Tape" was released on RTFM Records in 2010. Having composed
dozens of electronic scores for film and for bay area choreographers since 1998,
Berkman has honed his skills as a performer and composer and is renowned for his
innovations in electro- acoustic music and live looping techniques.
Colfax is a distillation of musical ideas around blending old and new
technology, reviving dying audio formats such as analog tape, analog
synthesizers (particularly the Roland Jupiter 8 and Sequential Circuits Prophet
VS) and a fascination with the past. Clearly inspired by artists like Boards of
Canada and Freescha and early electronic music and music concrete of the 1950's,
60's and 70's, Colfax is another take on electronic music nostalgia. Since 2008,
Colfax has been a featured artist for LoveTech, a bay area
collective of extraordinary electronic musicians, composers and controllerists.
The Colfax remix of 'Here and Now' by Artemis earned top marks at the first
Epiphyte Records Test Press event of 2010 and in November of the
same year, Colfax remixed the Artemis/Divasonic song 'Truth' which was released
as a single and featured on the RTFM Records Magazine Edition. In collaboration
with Lynda Arnold (aka Divasonic), Berkman will be releasing a duo piano record
called "Hammer Inventions". It features piano
compositions and layered orchestrations made entirely of sounds generated from
the piano and will be out on October 15, 2011 on www.digitalblissproductions.com.
Colfax is currently working on his follow up to "Tape", a project called "The
Jupiter Expeditions". It was recorded entirely on the Roland Jupiter 8
synthesizer and explores the planet Jupiter, it's moons and it's mysteries and
features sampled voices by astronomers such as Carl Sagan, telling the ever
evolving story of the most intriguing and perplexing astral body in our solar
system. Release date TBA!
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