Darrin Verhagen

Darrin Verhagen is an Australian-born composer of dark ambient and gothic 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, and researcher at AkE (Audiokinetic Experiments) Lab RMIT University in Melbourne, with his work based in multisensory integration.

• Soft Ash (1997, Dorobo)

• Bloody Tourist (1992, Extreme)
• The Scribbler (1992, Dorobo)
• The Witch Hammer (1993, Dorobo)
• The Witch Hunter (1995, Dorobo)
• The Witch Haven (2002, Dorobo)

• Junk (1995, Dorobo)
• Raised by Wolves (1997, Dorobo)
• Zero/Stung (1999, Dorobo)

• Succulent Blue Sway (1995, Dorobo)