Millipede

Millipede Biography

There are three projects known as Millipede. 1. Millipede was the name of an ambient / industrial / IDM project by Don Hill (now deceased). The first Millipede project has been in operation since 2005 and, in that time, has been subtly stretching the boundaries of the soundscapes his music has come to include. While so many other artists within the genre realms that Millipede play in spend the lion's share of their time trying to amp up the listener's heartbeat using effects and tricks akin to modern horror film jump tactics, Don Hill's music is considerably more graceful by comparison, patient in its fluidity and timing, able to take the listener on a journey where actual beginnings, climaxes, and endings are able to be traced; all the while, keeping things exciting by weaving ear candy that sounds at once harsh, but fascinating. 2. The second was a musical experiment of Canadian artist Tyler Landry, most of which was composed between 2000 and 2003. No official albums were ever released and those that have any of Tyler's work acquired it because they knew him or appreciated his work enough to want it. Millipede "albums" were just given away or sold for a few dollars by Tyler himself. Tyler also had several side projects with his friends and continues to dabble in making music to this day. Though he has chosen to focus most of his creative energy on the visual arts rather then his music. 3. Millipede is the alias of Knoxville/Chattanooga, Tennessee musician Joseph Davenport. Began in 2005 with the release of the limited edition Aquamentus CD-R. Early releases were all related to the Legend of Zelda videogame series with titles such as the Hyrule cassette released on Ohio noise label Epicene ESR and split cassette with Brian Grainger titled Play Ancient Hylian Folk Songs on Milieu Music. Davenport has since left some of that videogame fixation behind although a 2008 album on NYC label INSTALL called Death Mountain was also in this style. The music itself has little or nothing to do with the videogame series or 8-bit/chiptune music. Instead it is an amalgamation of harsh noise in the style of luminaries such as Japanese artist Merzbow and the early '90s shoegaze music of groups such as My Bloody Valentine and Slowdive.