Pay the Price

Brave, Strong and Tenacious

Brave, Strong And Tenacious (Sebastian Komor Remix)

Brave, Strong and Tenacious (Devya Remix)

Tedium

Significant Other (Biomechanimal Remix)

Significant Other

Significant Other (Grendel Remix)

G.L.O.W. ALC (General Language of Oscillating Wisdom - A Living Creation), an experimental electronic project, was started in 2008 by Richard Wheeler along with a Dark Electronic music project called G.L.O.W. (General Language of Oscillating Wisdom).

History of G.L.O.W. ALC:

 After much experimentation with ‘music software’, G.L.O.W. ALC began uploading his final creations onto internet music sites such as MySpace, iLike and SoundCloud. Listener response posts affirmed his work was received positively. Comments have enabled G.L.O.W. ALC’s sound to progress. In July 2011, his Chillout/Lounge piece titled ‘Nocturnal Limpopo’ featured on an online Czechoslovakian compilation called ‘Relaxation before the Bedtime’ by FretNoiz Records, who had contacted him after listening to it on SoundCloud. Then, from late 2011 and throughout 2012, other Chillout/Lounge pieces of G.L.O.W. ALC’s’s were released too (by Fretnoiz and Amacreedo Records). In late November, G.L.O.W. ALC was taken onto a whole new level by having his tracks marketed as soundtracks for film and t.v. by a South African company called Slam Music Library and continues to submit music to them. On the 29th of March 2014, G.L.O.W. ALC's track ‘African Night Sky’ was featured on an electronic music podcast called YM92.5. In early 2015, G.L.O.W. ALC contacted BeatLounge Radio in LA, USA and they said they were keen to play his music. In April that year, a number of G.L.O.W. ALC’s tracks aired on Global Radio Online (now known as Freelance Radio) based in Cambridge, UK. In September of that year, G.L.O.W. ALC decided to take on E.D.M. music. His E.D.M. track G.L.O.W. was aired for a week on a Canadian-based internet radio called Jamsterdam Radio.

History of G.L.O.W.:

G.L.O.W. first showcased its material at a South African Goth event called DarkNoise in 2011 followed by working with German-based DJ Deadbeatz-Kevin (aka. At0shima 3rr0r) to rework one of G.L.O.W.’s earlier works ‘Aigamuchab’ which was aired at a performance in Germany in the same year. In early 2013, G.L.O.W. was voted the winner of the signature tune competition ‘Bring the Oontz’ by The Oontzcast, USA by listeners and fans alike and then, started distributing work via US-based record label Van Richter Records. Then, in early January 2015, G.L.O.W. was given exposure on the Serbian music site Rebel Nation; interviewed by S.A.G.S. (South African Goth Society) Magazine and by South African alternative publication, Shadows Magazine; a number of G.L.O.W.’s songs were distributed by US-based distribution company Chaos Music Distribution until present; the track ‘Success’ featured as the official soundtrack for the video Geekfest SA which was produced for the South African annual event of 2015 called GeekFest.

In 2016, the project saw several of its soundtracks feature in a number of local reality television series in South Africa including the shows iSpani and Uzalo;  album ‘Pain & Suffering’ was reviewed by Swedish alternative music magazine Brutal Resonance which gave it a 7.5/10. Then in 2017, G.L.O.W. signed up with its first record label ‘Dark Ace Records’ in Austria (now based in Germany) which published and marketed G.L.O.W.’s music. 

After emigrating to the UK in 2019, G.L.O.W. released a maxi-single called ‘Brave, Strong and Tenacious’ which featured a number of unique remixes which included a remix from Sebastian Komor and another in 2021 called Significant Other featuring remixes from Dark Electro artist Grendel and Alternative/E.D.M. artist Biomechanimal. In 2021, G.L.O.W. ALC collaborated with Kwaito artists from his home country South Africa making a unique track where Kwaito meets Synthpop called ‘Tedium’ as well as the amalgamation of G.L.O.W. and G.L.O.W. ALC.  The amalgamation was done to fit under the music genre ‘Electronica’, ranging from Electronic, Ambient, Lounge, Chillout and E.D.M. to Industrial, Darkwave, Synthpop and E.B.M. music.