News

Eight songs from the wonderful post-punk sonic assault of snowboarding maestros Goodstaff have been added to our archives. If you would like to hear these songs, you can do so by clicking here. Please play them loud as that was how they were meant to be heard!

Drift of Stars is the only collection of songs by Dark Company for which we have not yet uploaded any material, not even any dodgy alpha material! Recently Dark Company have been recording some loose versions of the songs for the Drift of Stars album. Pete’s vocals for several of the songs are now done and we hope to be able to bring you some alpha mixes as previews to the completed album before long.

In other Dark Company news, we are still working away at finishing off the Bad Habits album. This is still some way from being finished, but at least things are moving in the right direction. So far the first three songs have all been finished and mastered and are sounding fantastic.

All of the Bad Habits songs will have a number of extra mixes for fans to join in with on their microphone and guitar, or even hairbrush and tennis racquet. By stripping away different instruments it is also possible to hear some of the more subtle touches within the music that one would normally only notice if they were not there at all. Each instrument is removed from the different mixes so bass players and drummers can join the fun too, even keyboard players and horn sections where appropriate. If you are a musician, you can be the star with Dark Company as your backing band!

The remastering of the Rage in Heaven album is also coming along. So far this process has reached the halfway point with five of the ten original songs on the album now remastered. We are looking into the possibility of adding some bonus tracks to the remastered album, much as we did with Signmaker. There will be more news on this to come sometime soon.

Pete has been busy making more of his visual creations and we shall upload the latest batch of these to his gallery in the next few days.

Five new live tracks have been added to the Live and Direct page for The Bastard Sons of Dennis. These songs were all recorded at the North Bridge Inn, Exeter on 18th May 2011. The recordings were made by Hum and then they were mastered in our studios at Wud Records. If you would like to hear these five new tracks, you can do so by clicking here.

The songs in question are the last five tracks added to the Live and Direct collection – namely: ODd on Life Itself, Transmaiacon MC, The Subhuman, Veteran of the Psychic Wars and Seven Screaming Diz-Busters.

There is also some video footage of this performance and we hope that in the fairly near future we will be able to publish this footage both here and at our channel on YouTube.

A new song by The Bastard Sons of Dennis has been uploaded to their Cosy Lube Turtle page. This song is called Wings Wetted Down and is a beautifully crafted song written by the Blue Oyster Cult from Long Island, New York.

We are going to keep this song on special offer as an individual track for a few days and keep the album at the same price before this song was added too.

If you would like to download Wings Wetted Down from our shop at Bandcamp, you can do so by clicking here. To download the Cosy Lube Turtle collection, please click here.

MonkeyFest started about 45 minutes ago and lasts from today until Sunday evening. If you are anywhere near Woking or can travel you will have a great time if you can make it there.

Today the festival will consist of mostly workshops and tuition, as well as all the usual shenanigans that go on at festivals. Tomorrow is the main performance day with shows from some of the biggest and best names in the virtuoso shred guitar world. Sunday is again mainly workshops and clinics.

It’s not too late to grab a ticket and whizz yourself and your friends along there. If you follow this link you will arrive at the MonkeyFest website where you can obtain last minute tickets.

Propaganda, the 2000 album by Recluse, has been added to our archives. We have been very fond of the music of Recluse since we first came upon them playing live at The Hideaway in Torquay many years ago. As there seems to be no representation of them anywhere on the web we felt that this should be rectified so that everyone can enjoy their wonderful playing and songcraft.

If you would like to listen to the Propaganda album, you can do so by clicking here.