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COLLABORATIONS LAFAWNDAH WORKS

LAFAWNDAH – TAN EP

Out on Warp Records February 5th, 2016
Created by Lafawndah, Nightfeelings, 
L-Vis 1990, Aaron David Ross + Tamer Fahri TAN
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FASHION GKFX SOUNDTRACK VIDEO WORKS

TELFER SS16

Telfar SS16 show in collaboration with Culturesport
Original Music by Aaron David Ross
Read on Dazed TELFAR SS16
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ADR MIXES WORKS

ADR FADER MIX

ADR FADER MIX Read on Fader
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ADR MIXES WORKS

ADR & KOULIGAS on NTS

adr x KOULIGAS PAN w/ Aaron David Ross & Bill Kouligas - 7th December 2015 on NTS Radio
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SOUNDTRACK VIDEO WORKS

XAVIER CHA – ABDUCT

A new video work commissioned by MOCA Cleveland and Frieze Projects that captures seven actors as they battle conflicting emotions. Extremes of rage, glee, confusion, and terror appear like foreign agents attempting hijack the actors’ faces and bodies. Inspired by sci-fi and horror films, the spare set design, minimal costumes, and dynamic camera work add to the unsettling tone of the work. ABDUCT Conceived & Directed by Xavier Cha
Sound Design by Aaron David Ross
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ADR WORKS

ADR – DECEPTIONISTA

adr DECEPTIONISTA Album + Videogame available as a Limited Edition SD Card + DL via PAN Records December 11th, 2015

SELECTED PRESS
Tiny Mix Tapes | The Fader | Resident Advisor | FACT | Thump
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GKFX SOUNDTRACK VIDEO WORKS

RENTOPIA

The Island (KEN) is a hybrid of the (social) kitchen and the (private) bath, a complex network of resources (water, food, energy, data), and a reflection on how we process resources and turn them into aesthetic ideology. It's a smart island, but it also teaches. Aside from shower demos, The Island (KEN) holds talks on digital consciousness, renovation, procrastination, data obscurity, Pinterest, and more. RENTOPIA The Island (KEN) Created by DIS
Music Composed by Aaron David Ross
Installed at the New Museum, New York 2014
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FASHION GATEKEEPER SOUNDTRACK WORKS

LUAR ZEPOL SS15

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COLLABORATIONS LAFAWNDAH WORKS

LAFAWNDAH x ADR – BEE

What happens when you cross-pollinate the free-wheeling experimental styles of a zouk and techno-influenced singer/producer and one half of the notoriously weird duo Gatekeeper? You get a song that’s for plants, by plants – or, more to the point, you get “Bee,” a sweetly direct and organic love song that falls somewhere between reggae, tropical pop and ambient composition. In an attempt to meet the brief they were given by Red Bull to come up with a song “for plants,” Lafawndah and Aaron David Ross found themselves getting back to basics, writing a tune that moves like a breeze through the jungle, synth riffs wafting through like palm fronds over a slow and sure-footed beat as Lafawndah’s hook “someone loves you, bee” sets the whole thing alight. It makes for a sultry follow-up to her recently-aired Teengirl Fantasy collab, "Lung". We had a quick chat with Lafawndah about how she grew into this new collaboration, and what’s so sexy about plants anyway.

Read about on Dazed
 "BEE" adr lafawndah x
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FASHION GKFX SOUNDTRACK WORKS

LUAR POLAR VORTEX

Runway original soundtrack
by Aaron David Ross + Gatekeeper POLAR VORTEX FW 2014
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GATEKEEPER WORKS

GATEKEEPER – YOUNG CHRONOS

young chronos GATEKEEPER Torrent/USB Token Album November 2014, Presto?! SELECTED PRESS:
Young Chronos Review | Tiny Mix Tapes
Gatekeeper Open Up.. | Fact Magazine
Young Chronos Review | P&W
Young Chronos Review | I Die You Die
Young Chronos Review | Pitchfork
L'impero Gatekeeper | Noisy IT
Stream Gatekeeper's "Imperatrix" | Fader Magazine
The Track: Gatekeeper | VMAN
Premiere "Imperatrix" | Dummy Magazine
Time-engineering blasphemies and neo-sapient hominid scenarios including but not limited to: jump platforms in Gothic arcologies. Profound regolith/crust excavation and mantle extraction. Neogene biomes in low-g terraria. Endo-Templar counterpoint on cycloid viols and paleo-psaltery. Tertiary-stage flarefusion-equipped Habsburg hunting parties engaging titanichthys super-shoals. Orpheid Witness fleets in godlike hypo-cacolayer suspension. Quantum-solid martyrdom for St. Eligius and trimillennial chorus. Lycanthrope combat on the plains of Northern Europe. Narcomorph collective events on Phobos forgoing corpoferric insulation. Polymeliac Elizabethan exoscouts encountering depth charges in asteroid fields. Zen-grunt gnosis performed in hyper-iterative Hadean habitats. Dirac wave-converters outside of Roanoke. Teutonic-Wallachian ground forces supplied with pulse rifles. Thracian quasar-injection in Jovian atmospheres causing the Sienna effect. Thermographically-enhanced heat-seeking archers in dawn mists. Steampunk-m arias in entropy-null silicate mausolea. Please be advised: permanent unlimited respawning.
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GKFX PERFORMANCE SOUNDTRACK WORKS

LOVE FOCUSED LIKE A LASER

View on New York Times


 LOVE FOCUSED LIKE A LASER A Hybrid Opera & Art Collective by Matthew Stone
 Featuring Matthew Stone, Shayne Oliver & Paul Cupo for Hood By Air, Kelela, Zebra Katz & Michele Lamy, boychild, Andre J, Madeline Hollanderm, AJ Gvojic,

Music by L-vis 1990, Aaron David Ross, Girl Unit, Helix, Matthew Stone, Massacooraman, Renato Dicent
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GATEKEEPER WORKS

SWORD OF THE GATHERING CLOUDS OF HEAVEN

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CAMPAIGN GKFX SOUNDTRACK WORKS

NUMERO 146

NUMERO 146 - GREG KADEL MUSIC & SOUND DESIGN BY AARON DAVID ROSS & MATTHEW ARKELL
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GATEKEEPER WORKS

YOUNG CHRONOS USB TOKEN

young chronos GATEKEEPER Super Limited edition USB Token
containing 6 WAV files and original artwork from
Gatekeeper's 'Young Chronos'
Released by Presto?! Nov 11th, 2013 After the multi-ecology genesis [and subsequent conflagration] of last year's 'Exo,' Gatekeeper's 'Young Chronos' now escalates to c-limit energy strata and commits catastrophic time-portal sabotage.

Time-engineering blasphemies and neo-sapient hominid scenarios including but not limited to: jump platforms in Gothic arcologies.

Profound regolith/crust excavation and mantle extraction. Neogene biomes in low-g terraria. Endo-Templar counterpoint on cycloid viols and paleo-psaltery. Tertiary-stage flarefusion-equipped Dutch hunting parties engaging titanichthys super-shoals.

Orpheid Witness fleets in godlike hypo-cacolayer suspension. Quantum-solid martyrdom for St. Eligius and trimillennial chorus. Lycanthrope combat on the plains of Northern Europe. Narcomorph collective events on Phobos forgoing corpoferric insulation. Polymeliac Elizabethan exoscouts encountering depth charges in asteroid fields. Zen-grunt gnosis performed in hyper-iterative Hadean habitats. Dirac wave-converters outside of Roanoke. Teutonic-Wallachian ground forces supplied with pulse rifles. Thracian quasar-injection in Jovian atmospheres causing the Sienna effect. Thermographically-enhanced heat-seeking archers in dawn mists. Steampunk-m arias in entropy-null silicate mausolea.

Please be advised: permanent unlimited respawning.

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released November 11, 2013 young chronos
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ADR WORKS

ADR – CHUNKY MONKEY

ADR - CHUNKY MONKEY “Chunky Monkey” is a 2013 release from ADR, the avatar of Aaron David Ross, multimedia artist and member of the of the critically acclaimed Gatekeeper duo. Lauded as “bright, erotic and alive” by The New York Times, ADR has demonstrated his spirited, panache production style across a variety of projects over the last several years. He now readies his sophomore solo LP, “Chunky Monkey”, for release this spring on Hippos in Tanks.

“Chunky Monkey” is bristling phazer phunk; distended downtempo served as schizoid lifestyle music. Alone in his basement studio in NYC, ADR has re-assembled the constituents of everyday music consumption, ruminating on reality TV musical realism and the globalized flavors of “stock” music. These experiments are worked into a collage of stoned vocal scats and toothsome puns; wholesome exotica and woozy, schizophrenic pop.

A collection of airtight compositions which flex a range of influences, “Chunky Monkey” recalls the smoothness of big beat, trip hop & reggae against the hard swing of acid jazz. It fuses the silky cheese of Musak with the melancholy plush of jungle & downbeat. Through precise and idiosyncratic blends, ADR conjures a sound for shopping malls and/or space stations; a shark-eyed jest downloaded from the fractured fizz of New Consumerism.

This primate ain’t foolin’ around!

SELECTED PRESS:
Hardcore Pastiche | Dummy Magazine
Chunky Monkey Reviewed | In Your Speakers
Review - Chunky Monkey | Pitchfork
Aaron David Ross's Fair Trades | Interview Magazine
Feature - Chunky Monkey | The Fader
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COLLABORATIONS WORKS

YEN TECH – REVENGENCE

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FILM GKFX SOUNDTRACK WORKS

THE UNITY OF ALL THINGS

THE UNITY OF ALL THINGS Feature Film, Directed by Daniel Schmidt + Alexander Carver
Official Selection Locarno Film Festival, 2013
Original Soundtrack by Gatekeeper
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ADR MIXES WORKS

ADR – MAGICO MIXFILE

Opening Ceremony, 2014 MAGICO MIXFILE Throw on a robe, clap off your lights and fire up an e-cig—relaxation is mandatory while soaking up ADR's lounge-tastic "Magico Mix". As one half of Gatekeeper, Aaron David Ross specializes in forbidding extraterrestrial environments, but "Chunky Monkey", his new solo debut album for label Hippos in Tanks (out now), hits closer to home. Chunky Monkey vivisects the frictionless textures of modern consumer environments, exposing alien weirdness within the sounds of iPhone games and self-serve Fro-Yo joints. ADR's contribution to our mix series explores the album's distinctly 90s roots, infusing a copacetic cocktail of jazzy trip-hop and easy-listening breakbeats with a bitter squeeze of vintage dub-techno dread. Look out for choice cuts from the likes of Tricky and Burning Spear, and peep our Q&A with the man himself here.

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CAMPAIGN GKFX SOUNDTRACK WORKS

GREG KADEL for GERMAN VOGUE

GREG KADEL FOR GERMAN VOGUE MUSIC & SOUND DESIGN BY AARON DAVID ROSS & MATTHEW ARKELL