Tag: dark electro
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Other side of the Tracks
Just heard this excellent introduction to the BBC Radiophonic Workshop with a few rare tracks I’d not even heard via Other Side Of The Tracks from pirate radio station Free Radio Santa Cruz. It came around randomly while I was ripping my copy of the Four Albums from The Radiophonic Workshop – yes I succumbed,…
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Light Asylum album coming very soon…
Late on this because tbh I don’t really dip my head into the cess pool of PR releases that often, but for once I find something that makes me really glad: at the start of May Light Asylum one of my favourite bands from last year is finally releasing their debut LP. I love Shannon…
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Spooky listening – have a horrible halloween!
Love this Disco Argento mix by Menergy – aka The Niallist – I love soundtracks to films by the likes of Carpenter, Argento, Romero and co, and this mix takes the lesser known and rarer tracks and creates a disco noir / dark electro as I call it mix – like my dark mix in…
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Year Zero has arrived (Exclusive news, well sorta)
We were trying (and failing) to do a sort of mysterious shadowy presence thing as our remix outfit ‘Year Zero’ but it leaked out anyway…which is fine, I was about to blow the gaff as I was fed up with not being able to do promo shizzle. Anyway hiding in out the sewers with masks…
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dark mix #1: dark electro disco noir
‘Dark electro / Disco noir’ is what I call a certain type of music referencing or sampling certain horror movie soundtracks from Goblin to John Carpenter that’s popped up recently in certain electro / electro house quarters, and it’s a music that I can connect to for several reasons, it’s dark and broody and seems…
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Holy Electric Nun! It’s the Sisters of Transistors!
Ever wondered what Mr Massey of 808 State is upto nowadays? Well working with these people, the Sisters of Transistors: Nice to see a) it’s rocking that electro-horror sound I’ve been calling ‘disco noir’ or ‘dark electro’ that takes a lot of inspiration from Mssrs Carpenter and Moroder, with a dash of early 80’s New…