News

Work has begun on upgrading the oldest unfinished Dark Company album, Alien Heat, to beta status. This means that the songs are approaching their final tweaks and master mix, when we stop twiddling with the desks and instruments and sequencers and let the music fly free.

The first four songs (Abnormal, Ship to Shore, Where Are You and Dancin’ in the Dark) have all been upgraded to beta mixes and have been uploaded to Dark Company‘s Alien Heat page. The remaining 12 songs are still at alpha status and will be upgraded in the coming days and weeks. We will bring you news of further such upgrades and uploads in our ‘News’ service.

To listen to these new Dark Company mixes, click here and press ‘Play’ on the Flamplayer in the new window that opens.

We have uploaded new upgraded mixes of Medicine Man and Fixed and Free from the Old Hands album by Dark Company. In the coming weeks we plan to upload further upgraded alpha mixes of songs from the Old Hands album, as much of what is there at present is mostly of only demo quality.

Medicine Man and Fixed and Free are old lyrics with fairly new music. One of the guitars used for the recordings was the ESP baritone, which was tuned to standard Bb tuning with a drop Ab for the low string. Both are radio-edit short, heavy in style and somewhat tongue-in-cheek lyrically.

As these are only alpha mixes they both require a fair amount of work to be brought up to full Dark Company release standard. Fixed and Free at present has a somewhat comical ending that we have left in for your enjoyment, where Sven and Pete are clowning around in the studio.

If you would like to hear Medicine Man or Fixed and Free, you can do at the Dark Company Old Hands playlist page, which you can reach by clicking here.

Here is our collated top 20 download/playlist chart for August 2012 for all the tracks available from the Wud Records shop at Bandcamp.

Everything is linked to open in new windows for your enjoyment. :-)

August 2012
1. Flicker: It Starts Right Here (HappySad)
http://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/track/it-starts-right-here

2. The Bastard Sons of Dennis: Redeemed (Cosy Lube Turtle)
http://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/track/redeemed

3. Dark Company: Lookin’ Bad (Rage in Heaven)
http://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/track/lookin-bad

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

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

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

7. 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

8. Dark Company: The Forger (Rage in Heaven)
http://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/track/the-forger

9. Wud: 1984 (Daylight Demo)
http://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/track/1984

10. The Bastard Sons of Dennis: Wings Wetted Down (Cosy Lube Turtle)
http://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/track/wings-wetted-down

11. Dark Company: Under the Hill (Rage in Heaven)
http://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/track/under-the-hill

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

13. Alien Heat: Ship to Shore (Essential)
http://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/track/ship-to-shore-2

14. Dark Company: Terminal Road (Rage in Heaven)
http://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/track/terminal-road

15. The Bastard Sons of Dennis: Astronomy (Cosy Lube Turtle)
http://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/track/astronomy

16. Dark Company: Stimulants (Rage in Heaven)
http://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/track/stimulants

17. Laughing Sun: Cosmic Dancer (Live in Session Autumn 1985)
http://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/track/cosmic-dancer

18. Alien Heat: Asylum Child (Red Rug Demo)
http://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/track/asylum-child

19. Alien Heat: Dancin’ in the Dark (Essential)
http://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/track/dancin-in-the-dark

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

New mixes of Blue Blue Sky and Lunch Money from the Mind Dance album by Dark Company have been uploaded. Blue Blue Sky is track #11 and Lunch Money is track #12 of Mind Dance. There are only two more tracks to add to the alpha mixes of Mind Dance now, those being track #13 (Broken Tubes) and #14 (Listen). These are at present on the slab and being bashed into shape.

Dark Company have not been very active in recent times as everyone is so busy with other commitments in life right now. We hope to be able to return to the important business of making music again soon.

These two latest mixes are produced to full alpha stage. Both Blue Blue Sky and Lunch Money will require further performance and production work before they are completed, as indeed will the rest of the mixes from the Mind Dance album.

Lunch Money is named thusly because “…there is no such thing as a free lunch.”

If you would like to listen to Blue Blue Sky, Lunch Money, or indeed the whole of Dark Company‘s Mind Dance album as it stands right now, you can do so by clicking here.

Flicker have been in the studio recently and we are pleased to announce some developments for their long-awaited HappySad album. We are hoping there will be further developments and a track or two to release in the near future.

George and Maxx have been recording some of their parts for Little White Dress, Shooting Star and Minack. Sauce is almost finished and It Starts Right Here has already been uploaded to our shop at Bandcamp as a teaser.

If you would like to hear the old 4-track demos of the HappySad album that Flicker are creating, you can do so by clicking here. If you would like to listen to or download Flicker‘s HappySad album as it stands at the moment, you can do so by clicking here.

Two songs by Pok have been recorded these last couple of days and they will become parts of Pok’s forthcoming Anthology collection.

The songs we worked on were two more from the very early days of Pok as a composer, those songs being Young Light and Summer ’83. Apart from a few production issues and some tidying up, these two songs are almost finished and we should be able to release these to our shop at Bandcamp soon.

We have also seen Pok‘s beautifully presented box set of CDs, which are available to order from his Soundcloud page or via his Pook. By clicking on the links just above you will be taken to these external pages concerning Pok.