Dark tracks series (short tracks)

Dance music with lots of reverb, echo, and aggressive atmospherics, to summon demons and other mean creatures (see Dungeon and Dragons, or horror films).

All of these tracks were uploaded between 01/2021 and 05/2021, except for the following older ones:
. . - Murder By Static "Plug"(#6): 3 years,
. . - OSM Tapes (Reaktiv.- 𝕬𝕹𝕺𝕾𝕴 - Anosi)(#18): 6 months,
. . - R A S H "Minuge of waves"fdg(#19): 6 months.

Enjoy!

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Hard-Fast-or-Nasty series

[UNDER CONSTRUCTION (this text only)]

- short tracks of dance music of the ruff/harsh persuasion

- uploaded from __/202_ to __/2021, except for these slightly older ones:
. . - (#), 
. . - (#),
. . - (#),
. . - (#),
. . - (#).

The other series (short tracks) so far are:
- "Calm and Steady" (lower energy levels)
- "MiddleLane", and "Superdance" (the middle, or ambivalence)
- "Funky-Dub-Trap" (self explanatory)
- "Fantaisies" (for professional dancers only)
- "Minimal"
- "Dark"
- "BreakB-Jungle-DnB"

There is little overlap between them, mostly between: *
. . A) MiddleLane, Superdance
and
. . B) all other series
* Increasingly there is some overlap between "Calm & Steady" and "Funky-Dub-Trap"... and now more so with "Minimal" and "Dark". I'm trying to keep it to a minimum.

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Born into grass

Attica

Because the Spotlight itself only has 5 positions, this playlist is used as "honorable mentions" - Tracks are not exactly ranked, but higher up this list means I recommend you listen to first.

I do update this list regularly - this includes track orders.

Spotlight Alumni (recommended listens!)

A selection of modern takes on our early works. Sorted in order of creation of the original works.

The Remakes

Blue Soil

Return of the fallen

In Passing

CAN CAUSE INJURIES (reprise)

EDIT: now has a video attached to it: https://youtu.be/oVSkU-s56pc

This tune just happened today. It's a re-hash of several versions of this song, recycling an old EMX pattern, combined with an on-the-fly improv drumbeat, some experimentally recorded guitar parts and a Ravish Sitar to take the place of a part originally played on a synth.

Well, I suspect your ears may start bleeding, but this track will be injected into a short movie of sorts, soon. Keep an eye out! But not literally.


lyrics:

the dying dark hours
turn over the sun
this fright of dying
dusk loving sons of hell

existential dread
method of madness
unbiased probing
another skin to shed

fourth wall missing
unclaimed events
denied possibilities
the messages unsent

where the unfortunate dwell
where the exit fell
none appraised
the bar again raised

where the unfortunate dwell
under fire and into hell
burning turning shadows lurking
into the tunnels of where the unfortunate dwell

Where The Unfortunate Dwell carrion version

❤️ @Bandcamp

Where The Unfortunate Dwell Carrion edition

This is my first Dubstep track, or not so much) However, I was very brave and dropped it on Soundcloud right away! I need the opinion of professionals, before I become one myself)

DAFF

did you?

A fun instrumental collaboration with Kirk Evans.
Check out more of his work:
https://soundcloud.com/kirk-evans-604267716

GZF | Kirk Evans - Baked

Original Track by Senmove : 

https://soundcloud.com/senmove/2a-1

SenSen - My Footsteps R My @rrows

https://open.spotify.com/track/7sA9Yr7Idm86MYIn5ygaVJ?si=df77fd1007ac4907
Сквозь леса сквозь поля
Мы идем в сокола
Где же ты где же я?
А в ответ тишина   

Где же ты где же я?
А в ответ тишина    

Сквозь леса сквозь поля
Мы идем в сокола
Где же ты где же я?
А в ответ тишина    

Где же ты где же я?
А в ответ тишина

Dolbania - Тишина

Words and Music Antipodeans 2021. Recorded and mixed at Grovehill Studio, Cornwall. Mastered by Dr Hackey at the Hackey Sack.

Lazarus Tree

I cant last another minute
or do another day
but its already been so many years

++++
First track with the DX7, used sampled drums for a change too.
++++
Collapse tapes arrived yesterday I have hand stamped them all  + began creating the booklets  - Each tape + booklet is unique + numbered.

Ruin

Brood

Back Thigh Cut

edit: this now has a video https://youtu.be/V9NKpMOOLNQ

Got a new toy, had to play with it,
but also wanted to build something of a song, because repertoire;
and I was inspired by many things I have listened to over the past weeks.

I have to come to the point of happy uplifting music yet, so you will have to do with this:


It's a song about some dark places a mind can be in... The protagonist may not be of this world, in fact. Or he never fit in...


lyrics

look for me in the shadows
look for me in the rain
cannot find in the mirror
cannot run down the drain

hold it up for a cover
give me something to taste
I need to see you tomorrow
everything else is a waste

looking out of the window
shattered worlds made out of glass
here I am set out to wander
if we only had something to last

I get it
I loved it
and wanted too much


mix v3.0

Unrequited

Reworked mix for the Overland album (https://ffm.to/overland)
and here's a lyric video: https://youtu.be/Bq5LZAaUcb8

This is a 2012 recording of a 1993 track - very early composition which proved pivotal the musical direction I would take. This track is a frequent revisit and I have recorded a later version, but the 2012 version is the rockiest of them all.

Retreated, remixed, remastered it almost sounds as new. Refurbished, if you will. All in 2021 for the release of the Overland album.
The earlier version of this track was already on my profile, but this one has now taken it's place.

lyrics:

fall ye through a wall of brick, could ye be such a heretic
yeah I know in your head you're sick but must ye be such a lunatic
so you say yes I am a freak as I kiss on your skin so bleak
let me dance upon your fire, let me feel your black and dire
and you say you are turning cold - let me see all your cards unfold
show me paths and then I could, don't lose grip now if I would be...

screaming in the haze... feeling little daze...
trapped in a maze... thrown away my face...

jump in front of the three eyed shadow of the night
maybe sing standing in the midst of the wailing tracks of never missed
there you were upon my fire over waves of desire
he told me so - a won't you try her - and I thought he was a liar!
I rather sing instead of talk,
I rather dance instead of walk
gimme gimme till I overflow
rather be high instead of low

screaming in the haze... feeling little daze...
trapped in a maze... thrown away my face...

you think I don't know you... don't I know you?

Thrown Away My Face

Thrown Away My Face (2021 remix)

Insomnia is a wretched condition.

opening track of the "Fall" EP:
https://open.spotify.com/album/4UTItNTWHhAL0ASu6cm8rB


lyrics:

seems that all my songs 
of times long gone
cannot please
what I used to be

seems that all my songs
of times still to come
try telling me
what will never be

but I got to write
I got to fight
disintegration
suicide station

I don't write about love
I ride the rough
I don't write about pain
will never go away

but I got to write
I got to fight
disintegration
suicide station

running down the lane
over wide open plains
jumping on a train
with nothing against the rain

love love love love love
never have enough
pain pain pain pain pain
will never go away

but I got to write
I got to fight
disintegration
suicide station

running down the lane
over wide open plains
jumping on a train
with nothing against the rain

in a sleepless hour
my mind turns sauer
and I vision the tower
coming down like a shower

coming down
coming down

it's here 🐈

In A Sleepless Hour (version)

A very early track, in complete remake. There is an earlier remake on my profile too and a remix of that remake, but I never uploaded the original.

"redux" as in, rethunk and cut out some redundant verses.

closing track of the "Fall" EP
https://open.spotify.com/album/4UTItNTWHhAL0ASu6cm8rB

lyrics:

Manyman the missionary
his holy cross in hand
holding up his sacred book
he is fighting for his land

He passes the threshold of his thoughts
darkness conquering his mind
this confusion has only brought
a glance upon the other side

Manyman and his smiling mask
answering his divine task
could he conquer all that's ill?
Manyman's a man of will

and the missionary stumbles
and he's grabbing for a hold
all the words that once had built him
now make him choke upon his throat

Manyman projects away
cannot stand the light of day
reflects upon this failing grace
put Manyman back in his place

Manyman the world is open
Manyman it's there for you
do you know it's all you hoped for
there is nothing you can't do

Fall

over here ✨

Manyman (redux)

Fall sessions demanded to do remakes of a bunch of tracks that just ask for it.. again.

lyrics:

all the devils and the beasts now have gathered for the feast
behold the naked human meat - surely they won't eat the least
but the angel's left outside though this hell is opened wide
to her mercy long has died, escape the darkness she has tried
now she sees her dying moon - see her dancing in the gloom
through the mist and through this room
watch the angel's flower bloom

where the streets are shades, where the demon waits
the angel turns out to be strong, she embraces the angel song
and the calling from afar, see the rationale at war
feelings that were, feelings that are - bound together in a star

she is here for you to see, she is here for you to be
she holds the love that we all seek beneath the black, beneath the bleak

she is breaking through the glass - follow the footprints on the grass
float with the smoke through the sky - a-where the angel hides
and right here, up above, she's still crying out for love
she is sick of all the lies, she is sick not knowing why

and no, I can't believe - all the visions I receive
but the truth it must be real, I taught the angel to feel

here it is and here's it plain, now the angel's not the same
she knows now that she can see, I taught the angel to feel

the angel - feel

The Fall EP @BandCamp

Angel (fall session)

"Fall" EP

Where The Unfortunate Dwell (Unfortunation)

mix version 2, this might be adjusted

Sacrifice
All the time
Never lie
Head up high

Visions unfolding
Pathways reopen
Neural control
Break through the wall

Demonized
Inner child
Let it out
For a while

Passions rekindled
Never it dwindled
Spiraling flight
Transformative light

✴️ free download here

Bear No More

A new entry for the Myth Wave collection.

now has a video: https://youtu.be/OgFfGesONrA

check out the entire collection here:
https://alicedeeper.bandcamp.com/album/myth-wave-the-ever-growing-collection

edit: I realize that Dead Can Dance have a track with the exact same name. This is not a cover, though - DCD is an absolute inspiration and I can only recommend checking out their work to the fullest.

Myth Wave here

Dance Of The Bacchantes

I had this tune in my head for quite a while, and now I finally recorded it. It's always fun to take new approaches to the recording process. It's certainly not as clean and polished as it could be, but there is another version in the works with the Laybow-legacy studio project. 

lyrics:

look, it's the sun that's coming back to shine
even the rain has never felt this fine

and the trees turn back to green
all the colours that you haven't seen for a long time
this past time, fading
to make place for a new day
a new scent is calling
and I will be falling in love again

look, there's a new bird in the sky
circling upward like it never got that high before

and the flowers in the street
so many faces new to meet
all our paths that intertwine
like the bees back to the hive
build another piece of life
like the bird that got so high
it's the only way to fly

always in springtime
a new scent is calling
I will surely be falling
in love again

v2; some vocal corrections

A Song For Springtime

From the full length release, "Exsits". Release date 2007.

Plug

Rock song written, performed and produced by Sean Ferree

Shattered Walls

The creature was dropped into what can only be described as an oversized glass jar. As it awoke, it dragged itself to the sides, feeling the cold glass against its unconventional skin. Images mixed with yellow light from the laboratory were blurred and distorted through the curved edges. The creature raised a shaking claw and gently tapped it against the glass...

Looking Through A Glass Jar

You bite the hand again, again 
you send your lovers on the run 
What the remains could not pretend 
that all the agony was fun 
 
This is my dream come true
This is my dream come true To be alone again with you
To be alone again

You bite the hand again, again 
You had your Time alone in the sun
I'm not the one who would defend 
The way you say your race was run

This is my dream come true
This is my dream come true To be alone again with you
To be alone again

You bite the hand again, again

The Remains

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Bad pancake

Tom "Puppet Xeno", core member of the Alice Deeper music project.
Grungegoth, Myth Wave, Eclectic experimentalist -

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Where The Unfortunate Dwell Carrion edition

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