Darrin Verhagen is an Australian-born composer of

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and

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music. He has adopted several different monikers for his recorded output, depending on the genre including Shinjuku Thief, Shinjuku Filth and Professor Richmann. . After his first album '' Bloody Tourist'' was released, Verhagen founded Dorobo Records which he has continued to issue his music through. He has composed music for Australia's premiere arts companies (including Chunky Move, Australian Dance Theatre, Lucy Guerin, Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne Theatre Company, Sydney Theatre Company, Daniel Schlusser Ensemble, Showtime Movie Channel, Patricia Piccinini, and SBS Television). He currently works as a senior lecturer in Sound + Vision in the Digital Media program, researcher at AkE (Audiokinetic Experiments) Lab

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, with his work based in

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. He collaborates with other practitioners in installation works as (((20 Hz))).

Shinjuku Thief

Shinjuku Thief is an experimental recording project of Darrin Verhagen, that could be described as

or gothic industrial. Shinjuku Thief began in 1992 as a trio, consisting of Verhagen, Charles Tétaz and

François Tétaz François "Franç" Tétaz (born 22 December 1970) is an Australian film composer, music producer and mixer, who won the Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) / Australian Guild of Screen Composers (AGSC) 2006 'Feature Film Score of the ...

. Eventually, Verhagen became the mainstay. Shinjuku Thief's first LP, '' Bloody Tourist'', was released on the Extreme label. Subsequent LPs were released on Verhagen's own Dorobo label. Verhagen's side-project, Shinjuku Filth, released music in the industrial music genre.

Discography

;Solo *''Soft Ash'' (1997, Dorobo) ;as Shinjuku Thief *'' Bloody Tourist'' (1992, Extreme) *''The Scribbler'' (1992, Dorobo) *''The Witch Hammer'' (1993, Dorobo) *''The Witch Hunter'' (1995, Dorobo) *''The Witch Haven'' (2002, Dorobo) *''Matte Black'' (2004, Dorobo) *''Devoltion'' (2006, Dorobo) *''

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OST'' (2016, Liberation) ;as Shinjuku Filth *''

Junk Junk may refer to: Arts and entertainment * ''Junk'' (film), a 2000 Japanese horror film * '' J-U-N-K'', a 1920 American film * ''Junk'' (novel), by Melvin Burgess, 1996 * ''Junk'', a novel by Christopher Largen * '' Junk: Record of the Last ...

'' (1995, Dorobo) *''Raised by Wolves'' (1997, Dorobo) *''Zero/Stung'' (1999, Dorobo) ;as Professor Richmann *''Succulent Blue Sway'' (1995, Dorobo)

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Verhagen, Darrin Living people Australian male composers Australian composers Australian electronic musicians Musicians from Melbourne 1967 births Australian people of Flemish descent