This week's Darkerlight Radio show is in celebration of New Model Army coming to Toronto, which I will be attending April 14, 2008. We showcase a great range of the best artists and have steered clear of the electronic stuff. Some of the artists featured this week; New Model Army, Radiohead, Drop Kick Murphys, The Smiths, Pixies, Dead Kennedys, The Clash, Siouxie and The Banshees, Pulp, and Joy Division.
Very excited about this weeks show, a lot of great music and a great eclectic mix. Alternative music at its finest! This week we have a great mix of ethereal, darkwave, dark drum and bass, hard industrial and some killer classics. This week we have; This Mortal Coil,
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.