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Daniel Vahnke discography

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This article details the complete oeuvre of Canadian composer Daniel Vahnke.{{cite web |first= |last= |url={{AllMusic|class=artist|id=mn0001236765/credits|pure_url=yes}}|title=Daniel Vahnke > Credits |publisher=Allmusic |date= |accessdate=August 9, 2015}} Between 1990 and 1996, Vahnke released six full-length studio albums both independently pressed and through a record label. Five of them were released as Vampire Rodents albums and one was ostensibly a solo album titled Papa Woody, which released under the name Ether Bunny.{{cite web |first=Francesco |last=Nunziata |url=http://www.ondarock.it/altrisuoni/vampirerodents.htm |title=Vampire Rodents: La scienza del collage |publisher=Onda Rock |date= |language=Italian |accessdate=December 20, 2015}}

Vahnke formed Vampire Rodents with keyboardist Victor Wulf in 1989 to serve as an outlet for their sound collage experiments. In 1990, they debuted with War Music, which was issued independently by their own label V.R. Productions and showcased their irreverent approach to industrial rock. Their second record, Premonition, was released in 1992 and adopted a more experimental sound, with violinist/cellist Andrea Akastia helping the duo to expand their musical pallet. Based on the creative success of that album, Vampire Rodents were signed to Re-Constriction Records.

Lullaby Land, released in 1993, became the group's first critical success. Vampire Rodents became an outlet for Vahnke's solo work and he decided to take a more commercial electro-industrial approach with the beat-driven Clockseed, which incorporated dense string and horn arrangements and a plethora of guest vocalists. He released two albums through Fifth Colvmn Records in 1996: Gravity's Rim, which further experimented with the song format, and Papa Woody, Vahnke's personal tribute to big band and bebop music that had been in the works since 1993. After experiencing legal disputes with Fifth Colvmn, Vahnke retreated from the music scene and announced his retirement in 2009.{{cite web |first=Marco |last=Gariboldi |url=http://industrialrock.net/php-files_en/articles.php?article_id=299 |title=Vampire Rodents (Daniel Vahnke) – Interview (2009) |publisher=Fabryka Music Magazine |date=September 2, 2009 |accessdate=July 9, 2015}} In 2017 Vahnke released the sixth Vampire Rodents album Noises in the Wall and the second Ether Bunny album Attention Please on his Rodentia Productions Bandcamp. He continued to relaease projects into 2020, including: Music for Player Piano, Early Soundtrack Sketches, Vol. I, Early Soundtrack Sketches, Vol. II, Axon Tremolo, Gravity's Rim (Instrumental Version), Cut to the Chase and ElevatorMan.

Discography

=As Daniel Vahnke=

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|+Studio albums

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scope="row"| Music for Player Piano

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  • Released: June 30, 2018
  • Label: Rodentia Productions
  • Formats: DL

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|+Compilation albums

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scope="row"| Early Soundtrack Sketches, Vol. I

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  • Released: August 1, 2018
  • Label: Rodentia Productions
  • Formats: DL
scope="row"| Early Soundtrack Sketches, Vol. II

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  • Released: August 1, 2018
  • Label: Rodentia Productions
  • Formats: DL

=As Vampire Rodents=

{{further|Vampire Rodents}}

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|+Studio albums

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scope="row"| War Music

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  • Released: August 20, 1990 (US)
  • Label: V.R.
  • Formats: CS, CD
scope="row"| Premonition

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  • Released: May 19, 1992 (US)
  • Label: V.R.
  • Formats: CD
scope="row"| Lullaby Land

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scope="row"| Clockseed

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  • Released: April 14, 1995 (US)
  • Label: Re-Constriction
  • Formats: CD
scope="row"| Gravity's Rim

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  • Released: May 14, 1996 (US)
  • Label: Fifth Colvmn
  • Formats: CD
scope="row"| Noises in the Wall

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  • Released: November 11, 2017
  • Label: Rodentia Productions
  • Formats: DL
scope="row"| Gravity's Rim (Instrumental Version)

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  • Released: July 20, 2018
  • Label: Rodentia Productions
  • Formats: DL
scope="row"| Cut to the Chase

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  • Released: November 12, 2019
  • Label: Rodentia Productions
  • Formats: DL

=As Ether Bunny=

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scope="row"| Papa Woody

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  • Released: April 2, 1996 (US)
  • Label: Fifth Colvmn
  • Formats: CD
scope="row"| Attention Please

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  • Released: December 28, 2017
  • Label: Rodentia Productions
  • Formats: DL

=With Axon Tremolo=

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scope="row"| Axon Tremolo

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  • Released: July 20, 2018
  • Label: Rodentia Productions
  • Formats: DL

=As Elevator ManN=

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|+Studio albums

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scope="row"| ElevatorMan

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  • Released: January 1, 2020
  • Label: Rodentia Productions
  • Formats: DL

Compilation appearances

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|+ List of compilation appearances, with year of release, album title and song title

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rowspan="2"| 1991

|"Success"

|Mind Pollution (The First Installment)

|Words of Warning

"War Music"

|RRR-Taste Test: 1991 – Vol 6

|RRR

rowspan="4"| 1992

|"Burial at Sea"

|The Cyberflesh conspiracy

| If It Moves...

"Babyface"

|Dossiers

|Dossier

"Momentous"

|Mechanics of Deconstruction

|rowspan="2"| Technical Chaos

"Babyface"

|Sever Motor Discordia

1993

|"Nose Dive"

|Rivet Head Culture

|If It Moves...

rowspan="4"| 1994

|"Bosch Erotique"

|America the Beautiful

|RRR

"Catacomb"

|Crowbar America

|Re-Constriction

"Lizardman"

|Masked Beauty in a Sea of Sadness

|Goth Industry

"Zygote"

|Scavengers in the Matrix

|If It Moves...

rowspan="3"| 1995

|"Mother Tongue"

|Chambermade

|rowspan="4"| Re-Constriction

"Another Planet"

|Frostbyte (Re-Constriction Sampler)

"Core"

|Thugs 'n' Kisses

rowspan="3"| 1996

|"Dowager's Egg"

|Built for Stomping: A Re-Constriction & Cleopatra Sampler

"Blind Acceleration"

|Fascist Communist Revolutionaries

|Fifth Colvmn

"Saturation"

|Re-Constriction 10* Year Anniversary

|rowspan="2"| Re-Constriction

rowspan="2"| 1997

|"Mother Tongue"

|Got Moose? Re-Constriction CD Sampler #2

"Schubert Trio in E-flat"

|Vampire Themes

|rowspan="3"| Cleopatra

1998

|"Chain"

|The Black Bible

1998

|"Schubert Trio in E-flat"

|This Is Goth!

Soundtrack appearances

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1993

|"Nosedive"

|Totally Fucked Up

Credits

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1990

|rowspan="3"| Vampire Rodents

| War Music

| align="center"| sampler, guitar, vocals

| align="center"| —

1991

| Premonition

| align="center"| Sampler, guitar, bass guitar, keyboards, orchestration, vocals

| align="center"| —

1993

| Lullaby Land

| align="center"| Sampler, guitar, orchestration, vocals

| align="center"| —

1994

| Various Artists

| Masked Beauty in a Sea of Sadness

| align="center"| Sampler

| align="center"| "Lizardman"

rowspan="3"| 1995

| Various Artists

| Thugs 'n' Kisses

| align="center"| Remixer

| align="center"| "Chemical Halo" (V. Rodents' Sax Mix)

rowspan="4"| Vampire Rodents

|rowspan="2"| Clockseed

| align="center"| Sampler, guitar

| align="center"| —

align="center"| Vocals

| align="center"| "Downwind", "Floater", "Another Planet", "Tattoo Me"

rowspan="4"| 1996

|rowspan="2"| Gravity's Rim

| align="center"| Sampler, guitar, bass guitar

| align="center"| —

align="center"| Vocals

| align="center"| "Prophet Clown", "Underneath", "Gravity's Rim", "Ice Borers", "Parameter Seven", "Obsidian", "Porker", "Creeper", "Albatross", "Fossilized"

Ether Bunny

| Papa Woody

| align="center"| Sampler

| align="center"| —

Various Artists

| Fascist Communist Revolutionaries

| align="center"| Sampler, guitar, bass guitar, vocals

| align="center"| "Blind Acceleration"

2017

| Vampire Rodents

| Noises in the Wall

| align="center"| Sampler

| align="center"| —

rowspan="9"| 2018

| Ether Bunny

| Attention Please

| align="center"| Sampler

| align="center"| —

rowspan="2"| Axon Tremolo

|rowspan="2"| Axon Tremolo

| align="center"| Sampler

| align="center"| —

align="center"| Vocals

| align="center"| "Haven", "Axis", "Free Again", "Sky Wide Open", "Focus", "Horizon", "Sleepy Boat to Heaven"

Vampire Rodents

| Gravity's Rim (Instrumental Version)

| align="center"| Sampler

| align="center"| —

rowspan="5"| Daniel Vahnke

| Early Soundtrack Sketches, Vol. I

| align="center"| Sampler

| align="center"| —

rowspan="3"| Early Soundtrack Sketches, Vol. II

| align="center"| Synthesizers

| align="center"| —

align="center"| Piano

| align="center"| "Piano Room #13", "Piano Room #12", "Piano Room #11", "Piano Room #10"

align="center"| Sampler

| align="center"| "Down to Business", "Rat Nest I & IV"

Music for Player Piano

| align="center"| Piano

| align="center"| —

rowspan="3"| 2019

|rowspan="3"| Vampire Rodents

|rowspan="3"| Cut to the Chase

| align="center"| Sampler

| align="center"| —

align="center"| Remixer

| align="center"| "Chemical Halo" (V. Rodents' Sax Mix), "Gout" (V. Rodents' Mix), "Good Vibrations" (V. Rodents' Mix), "Combine" (V. Rodents' Mix), "Valentine" (V. Rodents' Mix), "Reconciled" (V. Rodents' Mix)

align="center"| Vocals

| align="center"| "Cut to the Chase", "Blind Acceleration", "Lizardman"

2020

| Elevator ManN

| ElevatorMan

| align="center"| Vocals

| align="center"| —

References

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External links

  • {{Bandcamp|rodentiaproductions|Daniel Vahnke}}
  • {{Discogs artist|artist=Daniel Vahnke}}
  • {{YouTube|channel=UCrOiaAOX402_hgIfVV3kVQQ|title=Vampire Rodents}}

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