Faultline (musician)

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Faultline
Birth name	David Kosten
Also known as	Faultline
Origin	North London, United Kingdom
Genres	Electronica IDM
Labels	Capitol Tiny Consumer
Associated acts	Everything Everything Bat For Lashes Joseph Arthur Brian Molko Françoise Hardy
Website	faultline.co.uk

Faultline is an electronic music project centred on producer David Kosten.

This UK act's enigmatic music has background death threats, Dennis Hopper dialogue and cover versions sung by rock stars. Faultline is the recording moniker for David Kosten, who claims to have turned to samplers and synthesizers after bursting a lung while playing clarinet for the National Youth Orchestra. On his debut album, 1999's Closer Colder, Kosten wrenched spectacular results from both this contemporary technology and more antiquated means of music making (strings, xylophone, trumpet). Faultline's debut single, "Control" (originally released via the Fused & Bruised label but also featured on his debut album) hung around apparently genuine death threats left on Kosten's answer phone. It transpired that the vicious, intimidating messages had been left by a singer with whom Kosten had aborted a planned collaboration. Kosten appropriated the message, knowing that the singer could not claim any credit without incriminating himself, applying the threats alongside wayward noise and Steve Reich-inspired neo-classical music. On Closer Colder (released via the intriguing Leaf label), Faultline continued this approach to music making, utilizing samples in place of vocals. Most notably, the album's title track lifted Dennis Hopper's voice from Blue Velvet. Kosten is reported to have obtained permission to use the sample directly from Hopper and David Lynch, both of whom requested copies of the album. Upon the release of Closer Colder, Kosten claimed to be enamoured with broken amplifiers and malfunctioning circuits and, despite its careful construction, his music has appeared on extreme noise mix albums compiled by artists such as Speedranch and Jansky Noise. Kosten has confessed to humming along to the vicious distortion that punctuated his debut, admitting that he deluded himself that he was creating catchy, commercial pop music. His single "Papercut' was also, notably, used as the title music to Channel 4"s onedottv.

On the eloquent and intelligent post-dance album Your Love Means Everything, Kosten seemed to invert his attitude to "voices', with vocal contributions from Coldplay's Chris Martin, Jacob Golden, the Flaming Lips' Wayne Coyne and Steven Drozd and R.E.M."s Michael Stipe. Kosten expressed incredulity about recording his favourite childhood song - Brothers Four's "Greenfields" - with the R.E.M. singer.

Alongside his own music, Kosten has produced albums for Bat For Lashes (Mercury Music Prize nominated and Ivor Novello winning Two Suns and Fur And Gold), Everything Everything (Mercury Music Prize nominated and Ivor Novello nominated Everything Everything (Man Alive), Guillemots (Walk The River), Curry And Coco (We Are Beauty), Joseph Arthur (Our Shadows Will Remain), Chew Lips (Unicorn) and Ben Christophers (My Beautiful Demon and Spoonface).

Discography

Albums

• Closer Colder (1999)
  1. "Awake" – 4:52
  2. "Tiny Consumer" – 5:27
  3. "Mute" – 8:51
  4. "Papercut" – 4:03
  5. "Control" – 3:21
  6. "Closer Colder" – 5:40
  7. "Salt" – 4:44
  8. "Partyline Honey" – 5:11
  9. (Untitled) – 6:41

• Your Love Means Everything (September 10, 2002)
  1. "Your Love Means Everything" – 3:41
  2. "Where is My Boy?" (featuring Chris Martin) – 5:34
  3. "Sweet Iris" – 3:49
  4. "Bitter Kiss" (featuring Jacob Golden) – 3:23
  5. "Waiting for the Green Light" (featuring Cannibal Ox) – 4:09
  6. "The Colossal Gray Sunshine" (featuring The Flaming Lips) – 2:44
  7. "Clocks" – 4:18
  8. "Theme for Half Speed" – 3:13
  9. "Greenfields" (featuring Michael Stipe) – 3:19
  10. "Lost Broadcast" (featuring Nick McCabe) – 3:38
  11. "I Only Know Myself" – 3:52
  12. "Your Love Means Everything Part 2" (featuring Chris Martin) – 4:03

• Your Love Means Everything (re-issue on Capitol/EMI) (May 17, 2004)
  1. "Your Love Means Everything" – 3:41
  2. "Where is My Boy?" (featuring Chris Martin) – 5:34
  3. "We Came from Lego Blocks" (featuring Vordul Megilah) – 2:45
  4. "Theme for Half Speed" – 3:13
  5. "Wild Horses" (featuring Joseph Arthur) – 5:13
  6. "Sweet Iris" – 3:49
  7. "Biting Tongues" (featuring Ras B) – 3:28
  8. "Clocks" – 4:18
  9. "The Colossal Gray Sunshine" (featuring The Flaming Lips) – 2:44
  10. "I Only Know Myself" – 3:52
  11. "Greenfields" (featuring Michael Stipe) – 3:19
  12. "Lost Broadcast" (featuring Nick McCabe) – 3:38
  13. "Your Love Means Everything Part 2" (featuring Chris Martin) – 4:03
  14. "Missing" (Japanese bonus track) – 3:25
  15. "Surfacenothing" (Japanese bonus track) – 5:00

Singles & EPs

• Papercut EP (1998)
  1. "Papercut" – 4:03
  2. "Partyline Honey" (Remix) – 4:45
  3. "Quarantine" – 3:26
  4. "Not Forgotten" – 7:06

• "Mute" single (1999)
  1. "Mute" – 8:52
  2. "Mute" (Third Eye Foundation Remix) – 6:33
  3. "Dislocate" – 2:37

• Faultline EP (2002)
  1. "The Colossal Gray Sunshine" (featuring The Flaming Lips) – 2:44
  2. "Missing" – 3:25
  3. "Surfacenothing" – 5:00

• "Biting Tongues" promo single (May 2004)
  1. "Biting Tongues" (featuring Ras B) – 3:32
  2. "Biting Tongues" (The Bug Mix) – 4:09
  3. "Biting Tongues" (Riton Mix) – 6:17
  4. "Biting Tongues" (Hot Chip Mix) – 7:07

• "Wild Horses"/"Biting Tongues" double A-side single (May 10, 2004)
  1. "Wild Horses" (featuring Joseph Arthur) – 5:13
  2. "Biting Tongues" (featuring Ras B) – 3:32
  3. "Biting Tongues" (Riton Mix) – 6:17
  4. "Wild Horses" (enhanced video)
  5. "Biting Tongues" (enhanced video)

• "The Colossal Gray Sunshine" promo single (August 2004)
  1. "The Colossal Gray Sunshine" (featuring The Flaming Lips) (remix) – 2:47

References

External links

• Faultline on Myspace

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