(Paul Carroll AKA Digital Filth)

Paul Carroll, DJ, Music Producer and Engineer, lives up to his alias Digital Filth; creating dark, techy electronic tunes in the genres of House and Breaks.  Filth’s alter-ego, DiFi, has earned a separate title under which Paul produces minimal funky techno and electro, whose first release was on the well established Immigrant Records followed up by a release on AudioJaks UFO label with support from the likes of Laurent Garnier and Danny Tenaglia.  Paul has most recently been focusing on his Dead Sound project for which he is quickly gaining notoriety in the underground Techno/Electro scene. Paul realised his passion for music aged just 13, when skating introduced him to the Hip-Hop scene, and he became immediately obsessed with scratching and the skills of turntablism exhibited in 90’s Hip-Hop.  At 16 he was introduced to dance music at local Stoke club night ‘Golden’.  The intense electric atmosphere of the dance night excited him, and as he saw the energy pounding through the clubbers - he knew this was something he had to be a part of.  At 18 he bought his Technics 1210’s. In 2002 he started to produce under the name Digital Filth and became an established producer world wide around 2006 with support from across the board including the Plump DJ’s, Stanton Warriors, Pete Tong (Radio 1 Support), Loose Cannons (Kiss FM Support), Laurent Garnier, Underground Resistance (Detroit) and many others.

At the end of 2008 Paul realised he wasn’t quite going in the direction he wanted to.  He was starting to become labelled as an Electro House producer which he did not want to be a part off, so made the hard decision to drop the Digital Filth guise in order to concentrate on the new alter ego, Dead Sound. 

‘I’ve always made a varied style of music but it just seemed that only my house and breaks material was being picked up on.  When one of my tracks called Krusher broke through it was big on the underground scene at first but it got too big and transferred over to the Electro House scene which I did not care much for, so I decided the best thing would be to drop Digital Filth.’

Paul’s Dead Sound project involves underground Techno/Electro/Breaks/Electronica/Dubstep which he has been working on for the past year and has quickly gained him support from top varied artists including Surgeon, James Rushkin, Oscar Mulero, Stormfield and Warlock.  Paul has been playing out live with his own material at underground club nights around the UK most notably Atomic Jam (Nov 09) ‘Warming up for Rob Hall was what made me realise I am now going in the right direction has I’m a huge fan of his Dj’ing.  It is also really important to me as Atomic Jam was where I first caught the Techno Bug’ Paul has also played in top underground techno clubs in Germany that only the locals and people ‘in the know’ knew about including ‘The Villa’ in Berlin and ‘Tranz Hause’ in Hamburg where his Hybrid Of Techno/Electro/Breaks went down a storm.

Now concentrating on new material for clubs and also an Album as well as working on a new way of Playing live using segments of loops from the mass of work produced usually around 4 at a time, in the same vein as Richie Hawtins DE9 but all original material.  Live sets that are always different, crammed with diverse underground music.