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 Ant Wilson aka Chicago Loop. He started in early 90’s London at rave and warehouse parties and ran his own record label from the Kinetec studio and record shop in London. In 2013 his Chicago Loop alias was born to focus on upfront, modern techno. Releases on labels such as Phobiq, Respekt, Toolroom, and many others followed. He is in constant demand on the international touring circuit and his DJ sets deliver fresh, no-nonsense techno to the dance floor.

Links for Chicago Loop:-
Bookings:- rachel@loudbydesign.co.uk
Website:-  https://www.chicagoloop.live
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/chicagolooptechno
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/chicago-loop
Twitter:- https://twitter.com/CLTechno
Beatport: https://www.beatport.com/artist/chicago-loop/42603
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chicago_loop_eu
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/4j8GdWeeg7TuzGy9JUjtMQ

In our mix in the first hour there’s music by Tiger Stripes, Elias R, Wilderz,  Gerald VDH, Kristina Lalic and lots more. We’re also featuring four tracks from the forthcoming Frisson Records Various Artists album “Reverse Ozmosis” to be released on 7th June 2022.  

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.   Digimond – Last Voyager (CommonGround remix) Frisson Records promo to be released 7th June 2022.
2.   Broken English Club – Concrete (original mix)
3.   Tim Taste – My Fire (original mix)
4.   OC & Verde – Navigator (original mix)
5.   AutomatA – I Don’t Set Alarms Anymore ( Christopher Brooks remix) Frisson Records promo to be released 7th June 2022.
6.   NoNameLeft – Prophetic (Bultech remix) Ballroom Black.
7.   Tomchilla - A Modern Fairytale (Handsdown & Leigh Boy remix) Frisson Records promo to be released 7th June 2022.
8.   Jorda Luigia, Vynka Wydro – Acid Doll (original mix) Free Download
9.   Andertwin – Dust Primer (Dark Mode remix) Frisson Records promo to be released 7th June 2022.
10. Sleepsleep – Daddy ft Tahlia Paris (Vander Afterhours edit) Free Download
11. Unlighted, Justus Reim – Voyager (original mix)
12. Codec, Flexor – Time Has Changed (Benjamin Stahl’s Driving remix) Free Download https://soundcloud.com/benjamin-stahl/time-has-changed-stompin-benjamin-stahl-remix
13. Tiger Stripes – Renegade (original mix)
14. Elias R – We Do It (original mix)
15. DKLUB – White Powder (original mix)
16. Gerald VDH – Winning Streak (original mix) Meat Recordings promo to be released 10th June 2022.
17. Wilderz – Insane (original mix
18. Kristina Lalic – Luna (original mix)

2nd hour.
Chicago Loop – An exclusive guest mix for A Darker Wave
1.   Filterheadz  - Symbiotic (original mix) Tronic.
2.   D-Unity - More Drums Please (original mix) Unity Records. 
3.   Gary Beck - Submarine (original mix) BEK Audio. 
4.   Kai Anschau, Mallory N - Solarsystem (Tiger Stripes remix) EXE Audio.
5.   Egbert - Machine (original mix) Mindshake Records.
6.   Christian Smith - Turn The Lights (Drunken Kong remix) Tronic.
7.   Tom Laws, Fay Andews - Time & Place (Spencer Dunning remix) Respekt Recordings. 
8.   Uto Karem - I Wanna Go Back (original mix) Agile Recordings. 
9.   Egbert - Overpressure (original mix) Mindshake Records. 
10. Nobuharu Morimoto - Shinonome (Extended version) Say What? 
11. Julian Jeweil - Reverse (original mix) Drumcode. 
12. Pfirter - The Dub Track (Len Faki remix) Figure. 
13. Filterheadz - Let's Rave Again (original mix) Unity Records. 
14. Julian Jeweil - System (original mix) Drumcode. 
15. Thomas Schumacher - Interlinked (original mix) Electric Ballroom.
16. Sulfurex - Point Break (The Obsessed remix) Techburst Records. 
17. Modea - Era Of Rave (original mix) Kneaded Pains.

A Darker Wave

#381 A Darker Wave 04-06-2022 with guest mix 2nd hr by Chicago Loop

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What and who is A Darker Wave?
We are a duo (jacki-e & p-mac) who present A Darker Wave every week only on NLive Radio, Circl8 Radio, Echo Radio & Chill Lover Radio. 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 and presents the best in new techno releases.
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!!!!