Back again for its 22th anniversary(Barring a few gaps off course), D.I.H. and friends at Christmas are now after experimental, ambient, songs (on any topic), poetry and music tracks on the theme of Christmas.
As can be seen on www.digitalvomit.com/dih-and-friends, DIH and friends have since 2002 been producing an annual series of anti-Christmas songs for people who really don’t like Christmas or have a very alternative viewpoint of the season in question.
The history of the project from Digital Vomit state ‘The origin behind the infamous series of DIH with friends at Christmas began back in 2002 when for a one off joke as a side project from his more official work in D.I.H., Andy N one year decided with the help of one or two friends decided to do in his words ‘ A Christmas album for those people who don’t really like Christmas’ where in the space of half an hour (as was the original plan) – Andy and a few friends would murder, cripple and take the piss out of as many songs as they could.
However, as is the nature of the beast with this sort of thing things snowballed and by the time the second album came along, It had become officially a D.I.H. project where they would between all the members in D.I.H. alongside an ever-increasing cast play around with the myth of the Christmas, which will often be funny and sad sometimes within the same breath.
The music contained within this series of albums is varied and can vary from spoken word (sometimes with musical backing or experimental backing), acoustic singer-songwriter music stuff that could appeal to fans of Aphex Twin, hardcore, breakbeats, dubstep, fans of the spoken word, re-imagining of carols and classic songs, faithful versions of Christmas carols and songs and generally people who like their music to challenge and make them think.
For reasons too long-winded and boring to go into here, D.I.H. took a break from the Christmas albums in 2012 before starting up again in 2015.
Following on from their 2015 comeback, we are now expecting submissions for our 2024 album, our fourth album since starting up again with anything and everything encouraged from experimental, drones, ambient, Christmas Carols, Poems, songs.. whatever takes your guardian really..
Anything is welcome by email to either myself aen1mpo@yahoo.co.uk. (Andy N).
Send it in a wav format if possible.
Me and Keith can also be contacted viva Facebook for further questions
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100011783198151 (Andy)
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=627682972 (Keith)
The complete archive can be sampled here - http://www.digitalvomit.com/dih-and-friends
and the album will be released on Hicc Records on https://hicc.bandcamp.com/ as a free download
Closing date - 22 December 2024
