Phillip Charles Western (August 12, 1971 – February 4, 2019) was a Canadian musician, based in Vancouver[1] and a founding member of the bands Download, PlatEAU, Frozen Rabbit, and Off and Gone.
After Goettel's death from a heroin overdose in 1995, he became partners with Cevin Key in several musical projects.
He also assisted in remixes of songs written by Monster Magnet and Rob Halford and Metallica among others.
Often maintaining a low visibility in his collaborative projects, it was his solo work which brought his abilities to light for fans of Download - a complex approach to rhythm and programming, and a sense of melody rooted in psychedelia, drones, and space rock.
In 2001, Western became the operator behind The Record Company, which had been the imprint for several releases under his own name, as well as a reissue of the Floatpoint CD "Beam Error".