Dave Harrington (musician)
| Dave Harrington | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1986 (age 30–31) |
| Origin | London/NYC |
| Genres | electronica, experimental, downtempo, jazz, ambient |
| Years active | 2009–present |
| Labels | Other People, Matador |
| Associated acts | Darkside, El Topo |
| Website | harringtone |
Dave Harrington is a multi-instrumentalist, producer and one half of the electronic music duo Darkside, along with Nicolas Jaar. Harrington attended Brown University where he studied modern culture and media. He played in numerous Brooklyn indie-rock bands including ARMS, Thunder And Lightning, and Translations (which featured Andrew Fox of Visuals). Harrington also scored the 2010 documentary about Pablo Escobar that aired on the BBC.
Before meeting Jaar, Harrington played in two psychedelic bands, El Topo and Bladerunner Trio, a break-off band of El Topo. Jaar and Harrington first met while they were both students at Brown University. Harrington was recommended to Jaar by frequent collaborator Will Epstein when he was looking for a third musician for his live band, with the three subsequently touring together to support Jaar's 2011 album Space Is Only Noise. Darkside first formed during a Berlin stop on this tour. Jaar and Harrington were writing in their hotel room together when their converter plug popped, filling their room with smoke and forcing them to finish the song in the hallway on a laptop. Upon returning to New York, they continued to write together, developing their sound in their Brooklyn studio. They released their first collaboration, the self-titled Darkside EP, on 2011 via Jaar’s own Clown & Sunset imprint.
Harrington, along with Jaar, released their second Darkside collaboration Random Access Memories Memories on June 21, 2013. The project, which was uploaded to their SoundCloud account under the pseudonym DaftSide, is a remix of Daft Punk's 2013 album Random Access Memories in its entirety.
In a July 28, 2014 interview with Rolling Stone, Harrington mentions that he “grew up in a house where jazz was the musical language.” Harrington started out as a jazz bassist, taking lessons at the Harlem School of the Arts from Kelvin Bell of Eighties downtown favorites Defunkt and former Ornette Coleman and Marc Ribot sideman Brad Jones. Harrington notes that his guitar playing is inspired by jazz musicians such as Bill Frisell, David Torn, John Zorn, and Jerry Garcia, as well as bands such as King Crimson.
Darkside's debut album Psychic was released on October 4, 2013. The album was recorded over the course of two years between Jaar's home in New York City, Harrington's family barn in Upstate New York, and a space in Paris where they would stay between tours. The album received critical praise amongst publications and made it on Pitchfork’s 2014 “The Top 100 Albums of the Decade” list.
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