I am an huge fan of dark drum and bass, the more electronic and less vocal the better. I am not even sure if Dark Drum and Bass is a genre, so let me explain. According to wikipedia Drum and Bass is defined as: "The genre is characterised by fast tempo broken beat drums (generally between 160–180 beats per minute) with heavy, often intricate basslines." I'll add to that it is predominately electronic, or acoustic with massive post-production. In researching, before writing this article, I discovered that what I call Dark Drum and Bass, is often called Darkcore, with subgenre's like Doomcore and Spookycore. Doomcore is songs have a very apocalyptic feel to them and Spooky core is usually, well spooky, and littered with horror movie samples.
The first in the Darkerlight Radio series of mixes. This week we bring some old and some new to you. All our personal favourites of mine, I encourage you to purchase these artists, they are all worth it. In order to stream the audio you will need to enable/install flash on your computer. Then click the play button below:
The London Telegraph has an interesting new article up titled 'The Greats of Goth', it's short and while I am inclined to agree with their choices, I think they really screwed up the significance of Marilyn Manson, in fact I don't even think that band had any influence on me. Original Article here.
Pete Murphy The original Godfather of Goth: with razor-sharp cheek bones, Edwardian frock coats and baritone voice, Murphy established the template for the alpha vampire male