Dirk Markham grew up in Aboyne , a village in “Royal” Deeside in the north east of Scotland (an hour inland from Aberdeen). Dirk has been making experimental recordings and teaching himself every instrument he can get his hands on since his years studying mental philosophy at Edinburgh in the late 90s. His music is mainly instrumental although occasionally the odd folk-rock song pops up out of nowhere.
Dirk Markham aka The Hemulen, Drock, dPak, systeme D, Disk is constantly re-reading The Manual by the KLF, which he regards as the only book worth reading. Despite this he is a long way from having a number one hit.
Dirk has been residing in Berlin for the last six years where he works for the indie record label monika enterprise. Life for Dirk is a musical journey on which he is constantly searching for new sounds, ways of manipulating and controlling them, and cheap keyboards from the fleamarket.
Dirk’s recent works include the debut album by his electronic side-project The Hemulen entitled Meet The Hemulen. Dirk has recently released Psycho-acoustic Scultptures Vol. 5 and awaits eagerly the release of Second Language compilation Vertical Integration which will include the piece Spirit Level from PSv5.
You can hear more of Drocks stuff at Myspace , LastFM, Bandcamp and by opening this pop-up internet music player.
