His first album,
Pet Cancer, was released on American Patchwork,
Momus's label with
Darla Records.
AllMusic gave it four stars and said "Phiiliip combines soft synths, disaffected breathy vocals, and folky acoustic guitars for a dazzling, yet minimal effect."
Momus was also responsible for redubbing Philip as Phiiliip, so as to ensure his googlability, and spearheaded a U.S. tour, of which Phiiliip's "highly postured and totally electronic act was reminiscent of a cross between retro
Factory and
Morrissey." He became a regular performer on the
New York electroclash circuit, playing at clubs such as Luxx, Don Hill's,
Joe's Pub, the
Knitting Factory and the
Andy Warhol Museum. In 2002, he began compiling and mixing the CDs for annual arts magazine
K48, which also featured his collaborations with nightlife celebrity Sophia Lamar. The same year saw Yesandno, his side-project with Captain Comatose's
Snax, release their 12-inch
Notahit on
International DeeJay Gigolo Records, in addition to his collaboration with
PFFR which appeared alongside
Snoop Dogg on their album
United We Doth. He later appeared on
TRL for their
MTV show
Wonder Showzen. 2003 saw him performing for
Dior Homme, and photographs of him by designer
Hedi Slimane appeared on the cover of
Butt Magazine. In 2004, he had an art show with
Deitch Projects and John Connelly Presents consisting of work from fifty artists "inspired by/responding to/commenting on/or utilizing the meat" of the CD he was then working on. Artists included
Ryan McGinley,
Terence Koh,
AA Bronson,
Dash Snow,
Slava Mogutin and
Assume Vivid Astro Focus. The show, "a decidedly off-kilter fun fair", according to
Artforum, was chosen as one of the year's best in the
New York Times. His CD
Divided By Lightning, released in conjunction with the art show, featured collaborations with
Soft Pink Truth,
Excepter,
Avenue D and Tigra of
L'Trimm. The companion DVD,
Multiplied By Thunder, featured a "pulsating geometric" video made by
Bec Stupak for his reimagining of
T. Rex's "Elemental Childe", and a version of his song "
For The Second" sung by
Boy George. 2005 saw remixes of
Yukari Fresh and
Grizzly Bear, in addition to "
Pirateradiophiiliip", a DJ mix CD consisting of "
mashups" he had made which fusing
hip hop,
R&B and
pop with the underground
electronic and
club music of the time. 2007 also saw the belated release of "
Totally Magic", his EP with now-defunct ex-roommates and
electroclash boundary-stretchers
Avenue D. Later in 2007 the last Phiiliip album,
Magically Bad was released for free (as all Philip Something's subsequent music would be) on his website.
"
Homefreeze", the single, also appeared on the prison-themed #6 issue of
K48, the last to feature Phiiliip handling the mixing of the companion CD. The other single "
Open Sun" also became a flower-entranced video by
Grant Worth, the
NY-based visual magician who also made the video for "
Summer Collection" which became the cover of
Divided By Lightning. In 2008 Phiiliip notice a disturbance in the reigning culture succinctly embodied by the media's viciously invasive treatment of
Britney Spears, and so he began deconstructing her crumbling image in the brutally harsh manner utilized by the toxic
paparazzi culture, using as its source material all hyper-microscopic samples found on
YouTube. Searching for "
methamphetamine" led to the unrepentant stimulant anthem "
Addicted To Ooh", and after several months of sourcing he had genetically databased the darker skeleton of culture and began elucidating its hidden errors through intensive electronic manipulation of randomly encountered details. It resulted in an album,
Dignity, The Joke, which he released as Total BS on
Vices website in conjunction with an interview in the magazine about the symptoms of
schizophrenia he was experiencing at the time, concomitantly with
Britney and her breakdown. In 2009, he recorded a double CD,
Easily Scared (as Total PX) to serve as the soundtrack for
Harmony Korine's art show "Pigxote". He also did an archive-raiding ultimix of Sweet Thunder for a split 7 inch with
Gavin Russom and performed at their reunion in
Brooklyn with Omega Jarden. 2010 saw Phiiliip recording
folk cover albums as Jenkins (a tactless uncensored Phiiliip parody character off-the-books credited to
Hunter Parrish). "Acoustic Tomb", "Castle of Pi", "Artery Clocka", "Zac Efron's Vegetable Gravy" and "Hexed In Heliotrope" were posted on
Facebook and then disappeared (along with the personality, which was fairly antagonistic) on a dead laptop. 2012 saw Phiiliip return, this time as Wirekid. Like "Dignity, The Joke", consisting solely of source material found on
YouTube, Wirekid's music began combining
fiction,
non-fiction,
documentary,
biography,
criticism, secret history,
gossip,
poetry and
jokes. Focusing on alternate realities experienced in
dreams with
fantasy versions of
pop and
movie stars, primarily centered around the
Disney empire and the emerging
teen pop echelon. Releasing his new music as a series of albums, singles and DJ mixes on
SoundCloud and
Bandcamp, he attempted to incorporate the celebrities he kept encountering at night and attempting to come to grips with and normalize by day online. The primary subject of his new composition/productions was
Zac Efron, who was documented in "
Here's To Your Health" from "
The Sixth Floor,' the "
Paragons Of Capitalism/
Dying To Layla" single, "
zAC eFRON hOUSE pARTY" album, and the presently unreleasable
rock opera "
Pistolwhipped By A Pigeon". Likewise praised actor
James Franco provided the source material for "
You Are Mistaken" an album detailing an alternate existence of unimaginable horrors (and implied eventual triumph) involving the
CIA,
mind control,
experimental drug injection, ritualistic sadism and the infinite extremes of
sexual abuse perpetrated against specially targeted individuals. While strictly theoretical and based on Philip fleshing out ideas related in
Facebook instant messaging sessions, "
Y.A.M." closely parallels account given by survivors of
Project Monarch as found on the
Internet. The conceptual extremes of this speculative reality were confronted via lyrical battling/deriding with the first Wirekid single "The Pain of Life", followed by the much lighter "I Don't Care" which returned to directly addressing
James Franco, who was also the recipient of several free fan-art-projection-aspiring DJ mixes in his honor, including "
Pattern Disruptor" (as Fed Zeppelin) and "You Don't Understand The Flow", which would later be sourced for "
iLLuuMiiNatI a$$" (a collection of remixes for the
rap and
pop stars who populated Philip's
dreams, and whose
singles sometimes drew connections to the aforementioned speculatory existence). The most widely reworked artist Wirekid tackled was/is
Justin Bieber, from whose catalog Wirekid reenvisioned "Lolly", "
U Smile", "
Die In Your Arms", "
Baby", "
Boyfriend", "
All That Matters", "
Hold Tight", "
PYD", "What's Hatnin'" "Swap It Out", "
Roller Coaster", "
All Bad", "Memphis",
Heartbreaker", "
Recovery", "She Don't Like The Lights", "Backpack", "Memphis", and the unverifieds "Together Forever" and "Future". In 2014 he will begin work on 'Fantastic Nation,' an album of original material with a slated release date of 2014. ==Discography==