A Darker Wave, the best in underground techno, tech house, deep house and anything else we like enough to play in the show, presented by Jacki-E and P-Mac.

The guest mix in the second hour is by Donovan Axel who's from Belgrade, Serbia. He’s the founder of We Are The Party (WATP) Collective, an independent record label, podcast and multi-genre dance event. The set he’s done for us features his unreleased track “Tekino” coming out in 2022.

Links for Donovan Axel:-
Soundcloud:- https://soundcloud.com/we-are-the-party
Facebook:- https://www.facebook.com/donovanaxel1

In our mix in the first hour there’s music by Mark Reeve, Gusttavo Luys, Steam Shape, Natalino Nunes & Ayako Mori, Tawa Girl, Miss Adk and lots more. 

If you like the tracks we play, please support the artists by buying their music.
For all things A Darker Wave:- adarkerwave.com

Tracklist
1st hour.
A Darker Wave in the mix:-.
1.   FiveP – Escape (Joe Fisher remix) Aletheia Recordings promo to be released 21st October 2021.
2.   Digi – I Can Hear Musik (original mix) Agenda Music Recordings promo to be released 25th November 2021.
3.   Sergey Brin – Lithium (Domek remix) Dark Mirror Records. https://www.beatport.com/release/lithium/3491825
4.   Setlo – Settle In (original mix) Free Download https://soundcloud.com/setlomusic/setlo-settle-in
5.  Edwardteach – Cosmic (original mix) 33 Degrees Fahrenheit promo to be released 25th October 2021.
6.   E-Dancer – The Rise (original mix) Drumcode.
7.   Mark Reeve – Serum (original mix) Drumcode.
8.   Grossand =- Symbiotic (original mix) Oscuro Music.
9.   Edwardteach, Tyler Coey – New Era (original mix) Stickrecordings.
10. Gusttavo Luys – Levels (original mix) Sbert Records.
11. Simina Grigoriu – Mission District (original mix) Off Recordings.
12. Tina V – Turmoil (original mix) Complexed Records.
13. Daniel Tonik – Desire ft Shiralee Coleman (Lisa May remix) Pumping Records.
14. Erso – Shadows (original mix) Suro Frecords.
15. Tawa Girl – Darkelekt (original mix) Lets Techno Records.
16. Miss Adk – Standing Waves (original mix) Hot Peppers Raw.
17. Steam Shape – Conduction (original mix) Off Recordings.
18. Natalino Nunes – Impact (Ayako Mori remix) Urban Deep Trax promo to be released 5th November 2021.

2nd hour.
Donovan Axel – An exclusive guest mix for A Darker Wave.
1.   Gabriel Moraes - Chaos (original mix) Tiles.
2.   Digital Poodle - Soul Crush (Adam X revision) Suction Records.
3.   Halv Drøm – Object (original mix) Fleisch Records. 
4.   Drvg Cvltre - Pentapolis Necropolis (original mix) New York Haunted.
5.   Spiros Kaloumenos- Electric Loneliness (Michel Lauriola remix) Focus Records.
6.   Bedlam – Bumerang (original mix) Bare Hands.
7.   Codex Empire - Penance Board (original mix) Substantiv.
8.   VSK – Inception (original mix) Leyla Records.
9.   Hunnic Raven - No to Racism (original mix) Free Download https://soundcloud.com/hunnicraven/no-to-racism
10. Chicago Loop - Between The Notes (original mix) Orange Recordings.
11. Donovan Axel – Tekino (original mix) Unreleased

A Darker Wave is produced for radio by Sergio Erridge and is A Darker Wave production.

A Darker Wave

#347 A Darker Wave 09-10-2021 with guest mix 2nd hr by Donovan Axel

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What and who is A Darker Wave?
We are a duo (jacki-e & p-mac) who present our own radio show every Saturday at 10pm UK, 11pm CET on both NLive Radio https://.nliveradio.com and Circl8 Radio https://.circl8radio.com. The show is repeated on Sundays at 3am UK, 4am CET on Echo Radio https://www.echoradio.vip/. We put the show together in our home studio. The show is streamed worldwide on the internet. Each show is posted on our Soundcloud, Mixcloud, Hearthis.at, Podbean and You Tube pages once it has been streamed.
We also play gigs as A Darker Wave and we have played at events in Germany and all over the UK.
The music we play is techno, tech house, deep house and anything else we like enough to include in the show.
Each show is 2 hours long. In the first hour we go into the mix with our featured EP of the week and the best of the new releases.
In the second hour we invite new and upcoming DJs to come onto the show and do a guest mix.

Why are you called A Darker Wave?
Dark Wave was first used in the 1980s to describe a dark and melancholy variant of new wave and post-punk music and was first applied to UK musicians such as Bauhaus, Joy Division, Sisters of Mercy, Cocteau Twins, The Cure, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Depeche Mode and Anne Clark. It was also used to describe artists who combined music with performance art, such as Throbbing Gristle and Cabaret Voltaire, who challenged and explored the darker and obsessive sides of the human condition.

A lot of techno takes its spirit and ethos from this music, Listen to Throbbing Gristle or Cabaret Voltaire and you can hear the industrial sounds which are a staple of techno music today.

Techno is the outsider of electronic dance music, the punk of today's modern music scene. As Dave Clarke said in an interview with Mixmag, " Techno is edgy. Techno will challenge you......it's the real dark art."
https://mixmag.net/feature/the-road-to-tomorrow-dave-clarke

Our radio show, in presenting the best in underground techno and deep house music, and in giving an opportunity for new, up and coming DJ's and producers, is providing an outlet for new techno, which is best described as being the new wave of modern dance music.

Not just a new wave, but with it's incessant bass rumblings, synthesiser drones, pounding drums, melodic top notes and eerie, distorted vocal samples, techno, in all its forms, is a backdrop to and a critique of our post-industrial, consumerist society, one in which our actions are observed 24/7, our democratic freedoms are threatened by our very own governments and our rights to do, think and act as we please are under ever increasing scrutiny. Techno really is A Darker Wave.

When we were listening to music in the 60’s and 70’s, before the electronic tentacles of technology infiltrated the world, we often thought, whilst listening to the likes of Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, King Crimson, Frank Zappa, Hawkwind, Captain Beefhart, New York Dolls and Roxy Music, where would music go to in the future? It could never be what was being portrayed in the science fiction movies of the time. Now we know. It can be anything. When we have a recording studio in our own home which is more powerful and versatile than anything available back then, we now know music can be anything and go anywhere. It is only the spark of our imaginations, or lack of it, that holds us back. On our laptop computers we have the capabilities that many artists back then would have given their right arms for. It’s for the uniqueness of the artist to express themselves to be able to stand out from the deluge of music available. Finding those gems is the modern day equivalent of crate digging and when you do, it makes it all worthwhile. Long live music!!!!