Dark House: Volume Two

It's Finally Done!



Dark House: Volume Two



The second volume of my (once) popular sampled house series. I'm hoping this will get some more interest as I've worked pretty hard making this one.



I'm one of these artists who quite like to chop up samples so that they are slightly distorted and different from the source material, to add some sort of creativity to the new tracks. I've used this effect quite nicely, I think, On "Old Skool" and "Old Skool II", Which are my favourites from this EP right now.



I've been a bit naughty with this release, as it's format differs from my original conception. You see, for Dark House, I wanted to have all tracks with at least one sample. But on this release, "Numbers" contains no samples, but is "Inspired" by Ian Pooley's earlier work (Namely, his track "Puppets" from "Relations"). There is also the fact that I've got two versions of essentially the same song on this release (Here's looking at you two, Old Skool / Old Skool II).



I will say that I hope people enjoy "Enterprise", as it uses mainly synth but a funky sample too. It reminded me of fair ground music, to be honest :D. My least favourite would be "Power Cruise", which actually samples from Microsoft Train Simulator! :O.



But anyway, enjoy this new ep, for it will be my last for a while now, because of "Oblivion" and the pre release practice sessions. I really must get working on these!



Toodles, Chaps!



Dark.

Oblivion Practice Sessions

...Is now going to be a pre-release "Album Taster", with around 5 or 6 "Mixes" included, when I finish them. This is all before I finally settle down and actually create Oblivion proper, so this thing will hopefully demonstrate what I wish to eventually achieve.



I'll only post another mix or two, then Ill keep the rest until I release "OPS".



For now, Here is my latest practice run, Including "Test" and "Testarossa", and anohter sample, if anyoine can guess what it is and where it's from (Try playing the track backwards for a random reminder of my past!)



Dark DJ - Test (OPS Version)



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Oblivion Practices: Part One

01 Automatic / One Wrong Turn / Extend Extra



My very first practice run...thing...in preparation for "Oblivion", to show people my idea of what I wish to achieve. It's not perfect, but it's definitely better than what I thought I'd be doing for this project. But most importantly, this is just me having a bit of fun, for a change :)



First opinions, anyone?



Dark.



P.S. YouTube Video

Up For Remix?

A quick new post to ask a favour to anyone reading my blog who is interested in remixing...



If people would be kind enough to comment, can people request remix sample packs from me and maybe spin me a couple of remixes? I'm interested in this because im going to be putting together a 3 or 4 disk "Best Of Dark DJ" kind of thing in the near future (more on this another time) and would like some variable remixes to go with it.



Sorry for the odd request, but i'd really appreciate some new sounds ^_^



Cheers,



Dark,

We Need More POWER!!!!!!

Power Cruise



Another new track for "Dark House Volume Two", but seriously, can anyone guess the samples?



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Old Skool, New Skool, Whatever.

Dark DJ - "Old Skool"



This is kinda a preview for my next EP, "Dark House: Volume Two". Been working on it for a couple of days, and I must say I think i'm much better at sampling than I thought!



Enjoy the music,



Dark.

New Music On The Table

Well, I've already started thinking about what I will be producing next, and now I have two action plans...



These are starting "Oblivion", the "Live Mix / Compilation" album, and completing "Dark House: Volume Two", the follow up to my popular sampled house EP released last year.



I'm aiming to complete Dark House Two by around late august, to give Darkness a few months to circulate and gather feedback. I'm not aiming to start oblivion until september, and don't intend to finish it until next year now.



Over & out,



Dark.

Darkness

Well, It's finally here!



"Darkness", my long-awaited 2009 album, has been in the making for over 6 months now, and I personally beleive that due to the amount of hard work I've put into it, it is my best work to date.



The album itself is primarily experimental house, unlike my previous album, "Land's End" ,Which was a mix of genres. There is also a noticeable change in my technique, as i've taken alot of time editing the tracks, adding vox and filters to make them different and more varied compared to my previous works. I'm very proud of this.



This album has already had three promotional singles released so far, "Automatic", "Shapeshifter" and "Rex Rez", which can be downloaded on my mediafire catalogue or found in earlier posts. It also has something related to it that i've never done before: a promo video (featuring a sample of "Late Nights"), On top of a proposed official music video coming in the next few weeks hopefully.



Well, without further ado, here is the tracklist (Youtube Videos links included):


01 Dusk


02 Futura


03 Rex Rez


04 Alt Gear


05 Automatic


06 Dance Electric


07 Needs More Bass


08 Black & White


09 Late Nights


10 Extend Extra


11 Darkness


12 Shapeshifter


13 Phantomile


14 Dawn



And here is the download link from Mediafire:



Dark DJ Presents: "Darkness"



Please, for the love of god, I would absolutely love some feedback from this. It's my best work to date so I would love to know what I've done right and wrong with this. Either way, enjoy the music!



Cheers,



Dark.