This is a W.B.Yeats poem i wrote some music to (and added an extra verse) 
Hope you enjoy . 

When You Are Old                                  W.B Yeats

People talk about Detroit as being the place that shaped the techno sound, but you don't often hear about the Belgians, who for me and many others were equally important and had their own individual and harder sound which gradually morphed through New Beat and Hard Beat to Acid, Rave, Techno and even Trance..
Here's a mix, recorded in one take on 2 technics, one of the stylus' is completely cained so apologies for any sound degradation..
These are some of my favourite New Beats to come out of Belgium in the late 80's and there are a couple of later Techno/New Beat tracks on there too.. Two tracks on this mix weren't made in Belgium, but could have been ;-) (prizes if you can name em both!)
 Enjoy !


Jerome Hill : New Beats the House (Belgian Odyssey part 1)

Ghost accuser debut album Empty Orchestra side A.

Recorded, mixed, mastered and produced in Loop Studios Dublin by Gareth Desmond.
Musicians: 
Joey McGowan : Guitars/bass/vocals.
Mike Newell : Drums.
Gareth Desmond : Keys
Felix Meehan : Additional guitars on Nothing left to lose.
Martin Fagan : Bass on Nothing left to lose

Empty Orchestra

Picturesque

Recorded, mixed, mastered and produced in Loop Studios Dublin by Gareth Desmond.
Musicians: 
Joey McGowan : Guitars/bass/vocals.
Mike Newell : Drums.
Gareth Desmond : Keys
Andrew Colohan : Additional Guitars and vocals on Exiles
Felix Meehan : Additional guitars on Exiles
Eoin Morrissey : Additional guitars on Alarms

Exiles

An unplugged original recording (acoustic guitar/double bass and cajon) with some subtle vocal overdubs. 

Written by Sarah 'Red' Mc Quillan. Copyright 2011
Recorded in Shankill by Shane Byrne. 
Sarah Red: Guitar/vox
Tim Fernely: Double Bass
Cajon/cymbals: Bob Glynn

Misdirected Fire

Download / Add to Spotify & Apple Music here  http://smarturl.it/WLSadie

I Love You, Sadie

One Day we'll find our crowns

It's impossible to talk about the sound of DjRUM without using the word cinematic. Whatever he does, it has a feeling of grand importance, widescreen elegance and moving emotion that elevates it way above a dance floor soundtrack. Throughout the course of his career, the UK artist has drawn on downtempo, blurred the lines between drum & bass and dubstep and always imbued his music with spoken words snippets, piano and chamber instruments. His Portrait With Firewood album was a real high-water mark in 2018, and last year his latest outing on R&S once again managed to draw on every aspect of electronic music and come up with something all his own. 

His mix for us this week is a perfect ethereal rave that finds plenty of beauty in the sparse rhythms he draws on from the worlds of garage, techno and drum & bass. There is a delicacy and elegance throughout, even when the beats hit hard and fast as they do at the overdriven and manic mid point. The amen breaks come thick and fast after that, but eventually melt away to propulsive ambient soundscapes that suspend you in time and space. Blissful.

Dekmantel Podcast

Dekmantel Podcast 267 - Djrum

my nightmares aint as bad as this, theres 10ft demons with crucifix
people dancing in cold blue light, afraid to indulge in what belongs
to the night
 awake wipe sleep from my eyes, it takes me a few to realise
this rock is sinking cast to the dephts, force fed shite with a large
side of debt

bury your heads no more (under magazines and tv screens)
for our kids and those who fought before (their pain will it have been in vain)

Im lost in a world of distraction reality shows get the major reaction
we live hard cause we feel its over get some kicks from the broken clover
It felt so surreal while the drape of the movement, drowned out the
screams of the small but the decent
a tickings still heard theres still time for the learned to reignite
flames dont be walked on

bury your heads no more (under magazines and tv screens)
for our kids and those who fought before (their pain will it have been in vain)

A fatal attraction to paper with powers, spells doome for the
followers of tricked and the cowards
the subdued are deflected while the suits get elected and these towns
they get sold down the river

that papers got powers dont you know (and those who have it run the show)
now Rumpelstiltskins been and gone ( spinning lies worth more than gold)
bury your heads no more (under magazines and tv screens)
for our kids and those who fought before (their pain will it have been in vain)

Bury your head mp3

A remake of the instrumental for "Fun- We are young".... I made it in 2012 for a karaoke company I was working for... :) Enjoy!

Fun- We Are Young Feat Janelle Monae (Instrumental remake)

Rob Walsh is songwriter and musician from Dublin Ireland.

When You Are Old W.B Yeats

Rob Walsh

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