James Bethell

Composer, performer, producer, and audio wizard James Bethell began experimenting with recording as a teenager in the early 90s on a four track cassette recorder he bought at a garage sale for five bucks. As PC-based synthesizers became available, he adapted to producing electronic music on his mom's computer, which he would then perform at BC raves and music festivals under his producer alias “Dee Kaph” by carrying the PC tower and CRT monitor to the shows and setting them up on top of the turntables.

Over the following two decades he focused on raising his children but quietly persisted along his music journey after the kids were asleep, eventually amassing a catalog of hundreds of songs to his credit spanning a staggering diversity of audio art in nearly every imaginable genre. His bedroom studio has grown into a commercial studio called “Shadybrook” and in 2013 he founded the indie label Sudohuman Collective on the outskirts of Kamloops.

He has always delighted in challenging norms and bending genres. Between his own projects and those he has produced for other artists, he has covered house, hiphop, triphop, ambient, folk, indie rock, meditation, audio drama, experimental, industrial, country and all hues between.