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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,



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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,



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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,



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"Mad Max" Sample Pack

Just a quick post, in case anyone is interested in remixing or utilising my gaining-popularity B-side from the "Rex Rez" single, here is the Official sample pack, Enjoy!



Dark DJ - "Mad Max" Sample Pack



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Some British Railway Series Fun

Out of pure boredom, I decided to pay a little tribute to one of my favourite YouTube directors, Simierski, and his genious railway programme "The British Railway Series".



I Present my favourite engine / Character, "Allen", the A1 Pacific, From a repaint on fireworks of No 60163 "Tornado" from Microsoft Train Simulator! (All copyright thingys to their respected owners)







Link to larger Image



Keep making your brilliant series, Simierski! looking forward to future episodes!



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My Next Project: "Oblivion"

For those of you who actually follow anything I say, you may remember that a while back I mentioned "Oblivion", but never gave a satisfactory explaination for it.



Well, It's pretty much going to be my next Album, but, instead of new material, Im gonna pull off something inspired by Daft Punk's "Alive 2007" tour. As in, a "Live Remix Album".



Basically, I'll be making two different sets. One will be the "Album Live Set", as in the one I will physically release, Pre-Mixed. The other will be the "Blank Live Set", with no mixing / filtering done to it, which I could use if I ever play my music live anywhere. For those of you who remember my terrible "Live Mixes" of 2008, this is gonna be nothing like it!



I'll be utilising my most recent material for this, Including tracks from "Land's End" and "Darkness". I will also be using some older material, from my 2007/2008 albums and eps, as well as some music I composed that did'nt make it onto any of my official "Releases".



When I first started to come up with the idea of a mix, I created a piece of music that would have been perfect as an opener. That composition evolved into this:



Dark DJ - "The Theme Park", Track 09 from "Dark Chronicles", 2008.



Which itself is on my "Dark Chronicles" Odd-ends album. I can still potentially use this as the opener with some tweaks, unless I can think of something a little more unusual.



I'll probably post something in the near future as an example of what I'm going to try and achieve, so check back often!



And as I'm feeling a little generous, here is a track that did'nt make it to "Darkness", But may be utilised for "Oblivion":



Dark DJ - "Numbers", Unreleased Track



Sorry for the long post, but please Check back soon for updates!



Cheers,



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Rex Rez Promo Single Out Now

The Final FINAL Promotional Single for Darkness is done, with a week to spare!



I Always liked "Rex Rez", since I made it way back in January, but, at 2:51 in length, I never thought that I would bother making a single for it.



Well, Recently I made a new track called "Mad Max", and I was going to make an EP with that track and a few others i've been working on, but then I thought "oh, that name is simmilar to Rex Rez...what about making it a b-side Instead?". Encouraged by my girlfriend, I went ahead with that Idea.



The track itself is a slight departure from my signature Dark DJ House style, with a slightly crazier edge to it, and alot more filtering than I have ever done before! I'm hoping this track becomes popular, because I really have been trying to make this album and it's singles differen from my older stuff :).



Without Further Ado, here is the download link:

Dark DJ Presents: "Rex Rez".



And the tracklist:



01 Rex Rez


02 Rex Rezzed


03 Mad Max



Enjoy, and if you like, please comment!



Cheers,



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CRYDAMOURE!

Well, I did'nt get chosen to be the new Ilictronix Blog staff writer...But oh well, Probably would'nt be any good at it anyways...Congrats to NiteShade though, for becoming the new writer, looking forward to your posts!



Although I'm a little disappointed, I probably would'nt do a better job, But saying that, I am probably going to do my own review-esque things here...



Ahem, Anyway, On to the funkier news, Guess what finally came in the post yesterday?



CRYDAMOURE'S "WAVES"!







I've been waiting for that for ages now :] And it's Legendary. Although the entire CD is just essentially short versions of the tracks, it keeps the whole album fresh by giving small chunks of action rather than having only 12 tracks of 6 minutes in lenght, which could get rather boring I recon...



Now I finally have both compilations, on top of all the crydamoure releases digital, So i'm a happy chappy!

2 Weeks To Go!

...Until the release of "Darkness"!!!



In other news, I finished My a-levels! Which means i've got all summer to do nothing!



Hopefully that means I can do some more writing on here, Or Ilictronix Blog, If Prez accepts my Entry. PLEASE DO! But other than that, that means more time making music, driving about pointlessly and seeing the missus, of course!



Oh, and before I forget, I might as well quickly announce that I'm working on a new EP, and that I'm thinking of releasing some new music under a different name soon...

But, for now, Toodles, Chaps!



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