# Daniel Vahnke discography

This article details the complete oeuvre of Canadian composer Daniel Vahnke. Between 1990 and 1996, Vahnke released six full-length studio albums both independently pressed and through a record label. Five of them were released as Vampire Rodents albums and one was ostensibly a solo album titled Papa Woody, which released under the name Ether Bunny.
Vahnke formed Vampire Rodents with keyboardist Victor Wulf in 1989 to serve as an outlet for their sound collage experiments. In 1990, they debuted with War Music, which was issued independently by their own label V.R. Productions and showcased their irreverent approach to industrial rock. Their second record, Premonition, was released in 1992 and adopted a more experimental sound, with violinist/cellist Andrea Akastia helping the duo to expand their musical pallet. Based on the creative success of that album, Vampire Rodents were signed to Re-Constriction Records.
Lullaby Land, released in 1993, became the group's first critical success. Vampire Rodents became an outlet for Vahnke's solo work and he decided to take a more commercial electro-industrial approach with the beat-driven Clockseed, which incorporated dense string and horn arrangements and a plethora of guest vocalists. He released two albums through Fifth Colvmn Records in 1996: Gravity's Rim, which further experimented with the song format, and Papa Woody, Vahnke's personal tribute to big band and bebop music that had been in the works since 1993. After experiencing legal disputes with Fifth Colvmn, Vahnke retreated from the music scene and announced his retirement in 2009. In 2017 Vahnke released the sixth Vampire Rodents album Noises in the Wall and the second Ether Bunny album Attention Please on his Rodentia Productions Bandcamp. He continued to relaease projects into 2020, including: Music for Player Piano, Early Soundtrack Sketches, Vol. I, Early Soundtrack Sketches, Vol. II, Axon Tremolo, Gravity's Rim (Instrumental Version), Cut to the Chase and ElevatorMan.

## Discography
### As Daniel Vahnke

Studio albums :
| Title | Album details |
| Music for Player Piano | Released: June 30, 2018 Label: Rodentia Productions Formats: DL |
Compilation albums :
| Title | Album details |
| Early Soundtrack Sketches, Vol. I | Released: August 1, 2018 Label: Rodentia Productions Formats: DL |
| Early Soundtrack Sketches, Vol. II | Released: August 1, 2018 Label: Rodentia Productions Formats: DL |

### As Vampire Rodents

Studio albums :
| Title | Album details |
| War Music | Released: August 20, 1990 (US) Label: V.R. Formats: CS, CD |
| Premonition | Released: May 19, 1992 (US) Label: V.R. Formats: CD |
| Lullaby Land | Released: October 25, 1993 (US) Label: Re-Constriction Formats: CD |
| Clockseed | Released: April 14, 1995 (US) Label: Re-Constriction Formats: CD |
| Gravity's Rim | Released: May 14, 1996 (US) Label: Fifth Colvmn Formats: CD |
| Noises in the Wall | Released: November 11, 2017 Label: Rodentia Productions Formats: DL |
| Gravity's Rim (Instrumental Version) | Released: July 20, 2018 Label: Rodentia Productions Formats: DL |
| Cut to the Chase | Released: November 12, 2019 Label: Rodentia Productions Formats: DL |

### As Ether Bunny

Studio albums :
| Title | Album details |
| Papa Woody | Released: April 2, 1996 (US) Label: Fifth Colvmn Formats: CD |
| Attention Please | Released: December 28, 2017 Label: Rodentia Productions Formats: DL |

### With Axon Tremolo

Studio albums :
| Title | Album details |
| Axon Tremolo | Released: July 20, 2018 Label: Rodentia Productions Formats: DL |

### As Elevator ManN

Studio albums :
| Title | Album details |
| ElevatorMan | Released: January 1, 2020 Label: Rodentia Productions Formats: DL |

## Compilation appearances

List of compilation appearances, with year of release, album title and song title :
| Year | Song | Album | Label |
| 1991 | "Success" | Mind Pollution (The First Installment) | Words of Warning |
| 1991 | "War Music" | RRR-Taste Test: 1991 – Vol 6 | RRR |
| 1992 | "Burial at Sea" | The Cyberflesh conspiracy | If It Moves... |
| 1992 | "Babyface" | Dossiers | Dossier |
| 1992 | "Momentous" | Mechanics of Deconstruction | Technical Chaos |
| 1992 | "Babyface" | Sever Motor Discordia | Technical Chaos |
| 1993 | "Nose Dive" | Rivet Head Culture | If It Moves... |
| 1994 | "Bosch Erotique" | America the Beautiful | RRR |
| 1994 | "Catacomb" | Crowbar America | Re-Constriction |
| 1994 | "Lizardman" | Masked Beauty in a Sea of Sadness | Goth Industry |
| 1994 | "Zygote" | Scavengers in the Matrix | If It Moves... |
| 1995 | "Mother Tongue" | Chambermade | Re-Constriction |
| 1995 | "Another Planet" | Frostbyte (Re-Constriction Sampler) | Re-Constriction |
| 1995 | "Core" | Thugs 'n' Kisses | Re-Constriction |
| 1996 | "Dowager's Egg" | Built for Stomping: A Re-Constriction & Cleopatra Sampler | Re-Constriction |
| 1996 | "Blind Acceleration" | Fascist Communist Revolutionaries | Fifth Colvmn |
| 1996 | "Saturation" | Re-Constriction 10* Year Anniversary | Re-Constriction |
| 1997 | "Mother Tongue" | Got Moose? Re-Constriction CD Sampler #2 | Re-Constriction |
| 1997 | "Schubert Trio in E-flat" | Vampire Themes | Cleopatra |
| 1998 | "Chain" | The Black Bible | Cleopatra |
| 1998 | "Schubert Trio in E-flat" | This Is Goth! | Cleopatra |

## Soundtrack appearances

| Year | Song | Film |
| 1993 | "Nosedive" | Totally Fucked Up |

## Credits

| Year | Artist | Release | Role(s) | Song(s) |
| 1990 | Vampire Rodents | War Music | sampler, guitar, vocals | — |
| 1991 | Vampire Rodents | Premonition | Sampler, guitar, bass guitar, keyboards, orchestration, vocals | — |
| 1993 | Vampire Rodents | Lullaby Land | Sampler, guitar, orchestration, vocals | — |
| 1994 | Various Artists | Masked Beauty in a Sea of Sadness | Sampler | "Lizardman" |
| 1995 | Various Artists | Thugs 'n' Kisses | Remixer | "Chemical Halo" (V. Rodents' Sax Mix) |
| 1995 | Vampire Rodents | Clockseed | Sampler, guitar | — |
| 1995 | Vampire Rodents | Clockseed | Vocals | "Downwind", "Floater", "Another Planet", "Tattoo Me" |
| 1996 | Vampire Rodents | Gravity's Rim | Sampler, guitar, bass guitar | — |
| 1996 | Vampire Rodents | Gravity's Rim | Vocals | "Prophet Clown", "Underneath", "Gravity's Rim", "Ice Borers", "Parameter Seven", "Obsidian", "Porker", "Creeper", "Albatross", "Fossilized" |
| 1996 | Ether Bunny | Papa Woody | Sampler | — |
| 1996 | Various Artists | Fascist Communist Revolutionaries | Sampler, guitar, bass guitar, vocals | "Blind Acceleration" |
| 2017 | Vampire Rodents | Noises in the Wall | Sampler | — |
| 2018 | Ether Bunny | Attention Please | Sampler | — |
| 2018 | Axon Tremolo | Axon Tremolo | Sampler | — |
| 2018 | Axon Tremolo | Axon Tremolo | Vocals | "Haven", "Axis", "Free Again", "Sky Wide Open", "Focus", "Horizon", "Sleepy Boat to Heaven" |
| 2018 | Vampire Rodents | Gravity's Rim (Instrumental Version) | Sampler | — |
| 2018 | Daniel Vahnke | Early Soundtrack Sketches, Vol. I | Sampler | — |
| 2018 | Daniel Vahnke | Early Soundtrack Sketches, Vol. II | Synthesizers | — |
| 2018 | Daniel Vahnke | Early Soundtrack Sketches, Vol. II | Piano | "Piano Room #13", "Piano Room #12", "Piano Room #11", "Piano Room #10" |
| 2018 | Daniel Vahnke | Early Soundtrack Sketches, Vol. II | Sampler | "Down to Business", "Rat Nest I & IV" |
| 2018 | Daniel Vahnke | Music for Player Piano | Piano | — |
| 2019 | Vampire Rodents | Cut to the Chase | Sampler | — |
| 2019 | Vampire Rodents | Cut to the Chase | Remixer | "Chemical Halo" (V. Rodents' Sax Mix), "Gout" (V. Rodents' Mix), "Good Vibrations" (V. Rodents' Mix), "Combine" (V. Rodents' Mix), "Valentine" (V. Rodents' Mix), "Reconciled" (V. Rodents' Mix) |
| 2019 | Vampire Rodents | Cut to the Chase | Vocals | "Cut to the Chase", "Blind Acceleration", "Lizardman" |
| 2020 | Elevator ManN | ElevatorMan | Vocals | — |