Kevin Doherty, better known as SleepResearch_Facility, is a dark ambient musician based in Glasgow, Scotland, active since 2000. Most of his music is composed to encourage sleep in listeners with sleeping disorders, and the themes of his albums explore horror, isolation, nature and technology.
Discography
- Nostromo (2001)
- Dead Weather Machine (2004)
- Dead Weather Machine: ReHeat (2004)note
- Deep_Frieze (2007)
- Stealth (2012)note
SleepResearch_Facility provides examples of the following tropes:
- Easter Egg: The 5:14 mark of "a-deck" samples a recording of BBC Radio's Greenwich Time Signal.
- Epic Rocking: Most of his songs exceed the ten minute mark. Dead Weather Machine: ReHeat consists of a single 51-minute-long track.
- Everything Is an Instrument: A recurring trope in Doherty's albums;
- Nostromo uses raw electrostatic discharges as an instrument.
- Dead Weather Machine and Dead Weather Machine: ReHeat both sample a three-minute recording of the sounds of a broken Dimplex electric heater.
- Stealth and Source were recorded using the sounds of a Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit, otherwise known as the Stealth Bomber.
- Exactly What It Says on the Tin: Source contains the source audio of Stealth.
- New Sound Album: Stealth and Source feature the inclusion of high-frequency sounds and sudden loud noises that occur throughout the album, a sharp contrast to Doherty's earlier albums.
- Remix Album: Dead Weather Machine: ReHeat is a new mix from the same heater recording used to create Dead Weather Machine.
- Rouge Angles of Satin: The spelling of Deep_Frieze.note
- Shout-Out: Nostromo is directly based on the freighter from Alien, Doherty's favorite movie. The bonus track of the 2007 reissue is themed after the Narcissus, the Nostromo's lifeboat.
