News

We found some more of Dark Company Pete’s old pictures and uploaded them along with a few new ones to the ‘Pete’s Art’ gallery. Enjoy!

Everything that was previously published at the old Explicit Music website has now been moved to the new Explicit Music website. There is still much to publish and the design still needs a little work, although I think you will agree that it looks much better now and it is far easier to find the information you want. Thanks to the team for their hard work.

Additionally we have published several more albums of Dark Company’s lyrics over at the Explicit Music website.

The photos from May 31st have now been uploaded to the Dark Company gallery. Some of them are great! Phil the Photographer would like to have another go and take some more in a different location on a more overcast day. No doubt we shall be uploading those as well.

We have removed all of the Bad Habits songs in order to reload the full beta mix of the whole album. Due to security and technical reasons we are having various issues with uploads of mp3s. A certain technician from a particular software company is refusing to answer our queries so we may have to release a squadron of pterydactyls with instructions to defecate on all his doorknobs. Hopefully we shall be able to upload the full beta album fairly soon. All the songs still need a little work and we hope the album will be finished by the end of August.

Pete has now finished all the voices and harmonicas for the Mind Dance collection, and Sven has now bashed things in his own unique way for almost half of those songs as well. We anticipate that it will not be horribly long before the whole collection is finalised. When we are able to reupload mp3s we shall provide a few alpha tracks for your enjoyment.

Alchemeon will be reconvening to continue the business of making beautiful music in a few days. As well as a festival date on July 4th near Crediton there is an outside chance that the band may be performing at the Glastonbury festival. Watch this space for further developments.

In the latest news from Wud Records, Alchemeon may be performing at a festival on July 4th, and The Bastard Sons of Dennis will be putting some finishing touches to their open mic set this week. More news on both of these events will follow shortly.

We are still busy working behind the scenes on the websites. Explicit Music is undergoing some rather extensive moving and may not be fully accessible for a while. We are also waiting for the plumbers’ strike to end so we can install a shiny new tap in our shop, for important health and safety reasons.

The sheer amount of sound packed into the recording of Dark Company’s Bad Habits album is causing our machinery to strain and sweat a little and we are considering an upgrade for the studio.

On a somewhat sadder note, an old friend of Wud Records died last week. Mr Toby Hamilton, 1965-2009. R.I.P. :(

A great deal of work by Dark Company has been going on in the studio on the Bad Habits album. A lot of subtle tweaking and mixing, fine-tuning of Sven and writing of new guitar patches have been achieved. Today Pale Sky, Nightshifters and Amanita Alice were all mixed down leaving just two more songs to complete the album.

Additionally, Pete has almost finished all the vocal recordings he needs to make to complete the revitalised Mind Dance collection. There are two more of these left to finish as well.

Dark Company have also been examining their most recent material to see what will be produced on the album subsequent to Bad Habits. There are over forty new songs to choose between and the album has been given the working title of Wooden Wires.

The band have a photo shoot tomorrow so we hope to upload some photos of them in the near future.