As can be seen on www.digitalvomit.com/dih-and-friends, D.I.H. (or distorted in hindsight) have being producing a series of anti Christmas albums for people who really don’t like Christmas or at least have a alternative viewpoint of the season in question.
‘The origin behind the infamous series of DIH with friends at Christmas began back in 2002’ The history quoting the notes on digitalvomit say ‘When for a one off joke as a side project from his more official work in DIH, 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 sometimes
by the time the second album came along, it had become a D.I.H.
project where the three members of the band would between the three
of them and a ever increasing cast play around with the myth of the
Christmas which can often be funny, sad and thoughtful and sad
sometimes within the same breath.
Designed to produce a wide range of styles, the music contained within this series of albums is varied and can vary from acoustic singer songwriter to drone, deep ambient, experimental, fans of the spoken word, re-imaging of carols and classic songs and generally like their music to challenge and make them think.
After taking a break for Christmas in 2020, we are now taking submissions again for the 2021 album.
The album will be uploaded onto https://hicc.bandcamp.com/ (which has a archive of the albums from 2015 to 2019 – links to earlier ones can be found here - www.digitalvomit.com/dih-and-friends,
As the album will be upload on https://hicc.bandcamp.com/ , all submissions we would prefer being sent as a wav (Wetransfer etc is fine) to aen1mpo@yahoo.co.uk (Andy N). Please try and keep it to no more than 20 minutes per track (Don't mind more than one track in submission but no more than 20 minutes per track.
Closing date is mid-day on 12 December 2021.
