News

Bright Monsters and Heavy Touch have been upgraded and added to the Benign Inquisition album by Dark Company, replacing the previous versions. These are only alpha mixes so need much work doing in terms of the guitars to be recorded properly using amplifiers, the drums to be fixed, mixing tweaks and mastering.

All of the old versions of songs on the Benign Inquisition album have been removed and new versions will be added in the coming days.

Bright Monsters is the opener to the album and is a darkly humourous heavy rock song with a killer chorus to incite mighty moshing.

Heavy Touch is track two and keeps up the rocking tempo with its feedback guitar (that, somewhat comically, wouldn’t feed back properly through the studio monitors) and its singalong earworm chorus.

To listen to these two splendid songs right now, simply click here and press ‘play’ on the Flamplayer in the new tab that opens. Enjoy!

If you would like to hear the original demo versions of Bright Monsters and Heavy Touch, they are on Dark Company’s Demos page, which will open if you click here.

Pok has announced a CD launch date for some new music he has been working on. There will also be a relaunch of some back catalogue material by the Space Goats.

The event will take place on the evening of Tuesday 9th September at the Assembly Rooms, Glastonbury.

Details are minimal at present. We shall let you know the names of the CDs that are being launched and full details of the evening’s event.

The Benign Inquisition album from Dark Company has recently had something of a sonic upgrade and all the songs are now at alpha stage. This means that some of the key elements of tracks are present and that a number of elements of each track are at least in the right general areas as far as how they will be when finished, even though they may not be right yet. Just about all of the live instruments will need to be played properly rather than using the guides laid down here and final editings and mixing and mastering must take place.

The previous versions were lifted off a cassette, so the improvement in quality here will be highly apparent.

We shall be uploading the upgraded tracks in ones and twos over the next few days.

In other Dark Company news, Pete’s worsening health continues to be cause for concern. The band are demoing up all manner of new songs for a twelfth album, and of the many tracks that we have heard already, we can safely say that it will be another wonderful collection of fantastic songs, as we have had various of them stuck in our collective heads.

There have also been a few other odd sonic upgrades performed to various Dark Company tracks, and we shall upload these for you as well.

Here is our collated top 20 download/playlist chart for May 2014 for all the tracks available from the Wud Records shop at Bandcamp.

Everything you click on is linked to open in new tabs for your enjoyment. :-)

May 2014
1. Laughing Sun: Fire Burning Fever (Live in Session Autumn 1985)
http://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/track/fire-burning-fever

2. Dark Company: Sacrifice (Rage in Heaven)
http://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/track/sacrifice

3. Flicker: Blown Away (At Least 1000 Words)
http://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/track/blown-away

4. Laughing Sun: Don’t Let It Pass You By (Live in Session Autumn 1985)
http://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/track/dont-let-it-pass-you-by

5. Dark Company: Killer (Signmaker)
http://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/track/killer

6. Laughing Sun: Hassan-I-Sabbah (Live in Session Autumn 1985)
http://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/track/hassan-i-sabbah

7. Dark Company: Last Train to Heaven (Rage in Heaven)
http://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/track/last-train-to-heaven

8. Alien Heat: Badass Boogie (Red Rug Demo)
http://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/track/badass-boogie

9. The Bastard Sons of Dennis: Teen Archer (Cosy Lube Turtle)
http://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/track/teen-archer

10. Alien Heat: Jigsaw (Essential)
http://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/track/jigsaw-2

11. Rough Terrain: Starlight Dream (Exit Stage Deaf)
http://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/track/starlight-dream

12. Laughing Sun: Master of the Universe (Live in Session Autumn 1985)
http://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/track/master-of-the-universe

13. & co: Armed & Dangerous (Digital RMX) (Signmaker)
http://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/track/armed-dangerous-digital-rmx

14. Pok: Young Light (Anthology)
http://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/track/young-light

15. Flicker: Oily Road Hideaway (At Least 1000 Words)
http://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/track/oily-road-hideaway

16. The Bastard Sons of Dennis: Smile (Cherry Smoke Empire)
http://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/track/smile

17. Dark Company: The Joker (demo) (Signmaker)
http://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/track/the-joker-demo

18. Dark Company: Medicines (Rage in Heaven)
http://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/track/medicines

19. Flicker: Farsight (At Least 1000 Words)
http://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/track/farsight

20. Flicker: It Starts Right Here (HappySad)
http://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/track/it-starts-right-here

Here is our collated top 20 download/playlist chart for April 2014 for all the tracks available from the Wud Records shop at Bandcamp.

Everything you click on is linked to open in new tabs for your enjoyment. :-)

April 2014
1. Alien Heat: Jigsaw (Essential)
http://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/track/jigsaw-2

2. The Bastard Sons of Dennis: Then Came the Last Days of May (Cosy Lube Turtle)
http://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/track/then-came-the-last-days-of-may

3. Wud: That’s No Way to Pay a Bodyguard (Daylight Demo)
http://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/track/thats-no-way-to-pay-a-bodyguard

4. Flicker: It Starts Right Here (HappySad)
http://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/track/it-starts-right-here

5. Flicker: Farsight (At Least 1000 Words)
http://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/track/farsight

6. Dark Company: Animal House (Signmaker)
http://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/track/animal-house

7. Dark Company: Sacrifice (Rage in Heaven)
http://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/track/sacrifice

8. The Ug Brothers: The Ug Song (Cute But Weird)
http://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/track/the-ug-song-live

9. Alien Heat: Jigsaw (Red Rug Demo)
http://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/track/jigsaw

10. Laughing Sun: Hassan-I-Sabbah (Live in Session Autumn 1985)
http://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/track/hassan-i-sabbah

11. Wud: Indian Summer (Daylight Demo)
http://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/track/indian-summer

12. Dark Company: Killer (Signmaker)
http://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/track/killer

13. Laughing Sun: Fire Burning Fever (Live in Session Autumn 1985)
http://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/track/fire-burning-fever

14. Rough Terrain: Same Old Road Again (Exit Stage Deaf)
http://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/track/same-old-road-again

15. Wud: Flashback (Daylight Demo)
http://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/track/flashback

16. The Ug Brothers: Take Me Up (Cute But Weird)
http://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/track/take-me-up

17. Pok: Summer ’83 (Anthology)
http://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/track/summer-83

18. Mark Drower and the Everyones: The Mirror (The Blaze Tape)
http://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/track/the-mirror

19. Laughing Sun: Don’t Let It Pass You By (Live in Session Autumn 1985)
http://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/track/dont-let-it-pass-you-by

20. Dark Company: Medicines (Rage in Heaven)
http://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/track/medicines

Dark Company have been back in the studio recently and we have been fiddling with the Alien Heat album. This is the oldest unfinished work by Dark Company and we have improved the mixes of two songs, Abnormal and Dancin’ in the Dark. Both of these are now full beta status.

To finish this album we are largely needing guitar and bass parts to be recorded properly, using things such as loud amplifiers, good mics, and in-form players. Some research into important details of early versions of the songs is also needed, along with further mixing and production work, mastering, artwork, industry hype, and so on.

A lot of the music for the Alien Heat album is sounding delicious now. Pete added the harmony to Dancin’ in the Dark recently for this latest upgrade.

Ship to Shore is currently in pieces on the slab right now and will probably be the next upgrade.

Dark Company have been making demos of new songs since Pete’s health improved earlier this year. The band’s 12th album is going to be a real stonker!

If you would like to hear the latest upgrades to Abnormal (track #1) and Dancin’ in the Dark (track #4) by Dark Company, you can do so by clicking here and pressing ‘play’ on the Flamplayer in the new tab that opens.

If you would like to hear the original versions of these songs, as performed live by Alien Heat in 1990 and collected together on that band’s Essential album, you can do so by clicking here.