Lutraphobia video

An edited version of a track from our forthcoming album Veer, shot at our rehearsal space in Sheffield.
Video time!

Spent a happy day recording a video for “Lutraphobia” from our latest album “Veer”, out in a few weeks. Here’s a moody shot of Jon, taken entirely by accident.
Das Rad – mixing “Veer”

Martin and Nick at Seaview Studios, doing the final mix of “Lutraphobia” (google it!) for our 4th album “Veer”, due out within a month or two. This will be the first album to feature Jon Short on bass!
“Veer” almost ready

Veer is the latest album from Sheffield-based Das Rad, about whom one reviewer said “They walk in the footsteps of the rock/jazz/fusion gods of the 70s but make their imprints deeper, more unshapely, and longer-lasting. Ears be blown here, folks. Godlike”. Currently at the mixing stage, it builds on and develops their unique “improg” style. […]
Recording bass…

A short (cough) video of Jon laying down some fretless bass on a track from our forthcoming (as yet untitled) album.
Maugermash

A remix of one of the tracks from “Laik Tors”. The footage of dragonflies was taken in the Lincolnshire Wolds at 8 o’clock in the evening.
Kapow rehearsal

As light grows at the end of the covid tunnel, we’re starting to work on a live set – here’s a first blast at a track from our third album “Laik Tors”
Nick’s solo album

Das Rad Guitarist Nick Robinson has released a solo album “Lost Garden” on Discus Music. Created solely with a guitar, the music has attracted favourable comments from Adrian Belew and Steve Hackett and several other notables. The album is a world away from the typical guitarists cliched “riff with melody” albums and explores the […]
Laik Review in Prog Rock

Sid Smith continues his love affair with us 😉
and then there were 4….

As the world seems to be establishing a new equilibrium, we’ve decide we should work towards some live dates (before zimmer frames become essential). Having thought it through, we realised that Martin has insufficient limbs to play sax, keyboard and bass simultaneously so we’ve invited the amazing Jon Short to “come on down” and join […]
Laik Tors – out now!

Our third album is now released! Here’s the opening track “Kapow!”, full of the distinctive Das Rad magic! Buy it here
Mixing Laik Tors

Our third album is now mixed and heading to the pressing plant soon. Here’s Martin contemplating the cow bell level during the mixdowns.