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Dorian Concept is an Austrian composer, producer, and keyboard artist, whose work draws on an eclectic variety of sources including modal and free jazz, funk, hip-hop, and electronic, ambient, and soundscape music. He adopted his stage name as a teenager as a reference to the Dorian scale. Dorian Concept is also a member of the Austrian funk band JSBL. He also has periodically toured as a keyboarder for Flying Lotus (with Richard Spaven on drums) and collaborated with The Cinematic Orchestra.
His discography is both extensive and varied. DC first gained recognition among a specialist audience through unconventional dance music releases such as “Maximized Minimalization” (2008), “Trilingual Dance Sexperience” (2009) and the hip-hop-influenced mini album “When Planets Explode” (2009) on dutch imprint Kindred Spirits. These notable successes and high demand for his live shows subsequently led the “self-taught jazz musician who samples himself” (his own description) into the fold of the cult London label Ninja Tune.
The debut album “Joined Ends” was released in 2014, followed by the next two LPs, “The Nature of Imitation” (2018) and “What We Do For Others” (2022) – where Dorian Concept adopted a more song-oriented approach for the first time – on Ninja’s US partner label Brainfeeder.
As the Covid pandemic was winding down, an unintended viral moment occurred when the improvisation “Hide” became the soundtrack to a popular TikTok aesthetic known as Dark Fantasy – the catchy melody was subsequently covered and used as a sample for rap songs. All these developments have expanded the scope of his playground Play Instinct on which he currently releases his own music.