This account covers four music projects: SKULL CULTIST, KLUBOVADER, Mr. ZOTH AND THE WERESPIDERS, and ORTHOKERAS

Skull Cultist: Industrial EBM
Klubovader: Cyberpunk Industrial/EBM
Mr. Zoth and the Werespiders: Dark Ambient, Soundtrack
Orthokeras: Dark Ambient, Atmospheric

Just got that nifty curiosity in the realm of sound, in all it's glorious form.

***Nifty News***

The Nifty's song, 'Sunny Afternoon' was featured on BBC radio!

The Nifty have written a jingle for 'The Millan Foundation' Charity of Cesar Millan aka 'The Dog Whisperer', the song is available for download now for an honorary $5 donation to the charity. Donations can be made by visiting www.millanfoundation.org

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The Nifty have placed in the top 3 finalists in the Hip Hop category for 'The John Lennon Song-Writing Competition' 2010 S1. - 
http://jlsc.com/winners/2010a/finalists.php

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The Nifty Bio

The Nifty is a musical journey through the human experience set on an urban background of snappy beats, driving melodic hooks, and soulful electronic elements.  The group comprises of 3 members:  Established underground music producer Darren Finch a.k.a. ‘D’, singer-songwriter Wendy Finch a.k.a. ‘Ms Wendy’, and accomplished bass guitarist Jeff 'JJ' Johnson.

Their style branches out into various popular genres such as dirty, sexy Pop; warm, uplifting Reggae/Dancehall; dark, melodic Hip-Hop; moody, hard-hitting Electronica/Trip Hop; dreamy, Contemporary/Alternative; with influences of Jazz, Funk, R&B, World... Their melodic structures and electronic influence, together with Ms Wendy's unique vocals and inventive lyrics and JJ's infectious bass-lines, tie everything together into the distinct sound that is - The Nifty.

The Nifty does not stop at the cultivation of their own sound; they have ambitiously fine-tuned their song-writing skills and have turned their hands to writing various styles of mainstream, popular music; opening up their availability to write for tv and film, as well as other artists.



nif⋅ty[nif-tee]
adjective, -ti⋅er, -ti⋅est, noun, plural -ties. Informal.
–adjective
1. attractively stylish or smart.
2. very good; fine; excellent: a nifty idea.
3. substantial, sizable.
–noun
4. something nifty, as a clever remark or joke.
Origin:
1860–65, Americanism; of obscure orig.

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D Bio

'D' aka 'TKO' aka 'Audio Species' aka 'Parameter II' started Dj-ing at the tender age of 14 and has since performed in the UK, Channel Islands, France, Holland, Germany, USA, South Africa &amp; the Russian Federation.

After a few years of DJ-ing 'D' started producing, and within 2 years signed his 1st release. Under his various guises he has had 49 releases to date, including various dance-floor anthems on several of the UK's premier Drum &amp; Bass and Breakbeat underground labels.

'D's music has received numerous plays across a whole host of media outlets including BBC Radio 1, BBC 1Xtra,Kiss FM 100, Choice F.M, Pyroradio.com, Life FM; not forgetting the all important dance-floor, where global support has come from the underground scene's most elite. Following on from his underground success, 'D' has teamed up with singer/songwriter 'Ms Wendy' to form new UK urban act,'The Nifty.'


Here's a small sample of 'D's underground press clippings:

"Amazing original material..." (Knowledge Magazine)

"Grover Washington Jr., Herbie Hancock, and George Benson all sitting in a smokey studio and speeding up the beats. Superbly soulful atmospherics.Blood-heating rhodes loops, strings of splendor, and tickling vocoder hints. With a beat built to last indeed. Solid state 2005" (DJ Magazine)

"Well produced dancefloor action..." (M8 Magazine)

"The first single that I put out from TKO was a huge success, and recently they have collaborated with Adam F on the massive 'Junglesound' LP which
showcases there varied style. These guys have got a lot of hot material in the pipeline, so keep a beady eye" (J Majik)

"T.K.O have been making dance floor smashing tunes for a while now. Really happy with our 'Therapy' collaboration, with that one the guys proved that they are truly versatile producers... wicked DJs too." {Adam F} (MOBO award winner)





Born from a cramped kitchen conversation, Dead Social Club are a six piece alt-indie band consisting of Steve (keys) Paul (vocals) Joel (guitar) Rich (guitar) and the alliance of rhythm section Nic Gilham (bass) and Nick Gillam (drums).

Gig has followed gig including; headlining the Foals after-party in Brixton, gracing the 2,000 capacity London Scala with Bloc Party DJ’ing, playing Conincx Pop Festival in Holland (with The Boxer Rebellion and The Crookes) and numerous UK summer festivals.

We have attracted multiple airplay on BBC 6 (tracks of the week podcast/national airplay), BBC London, BBC Introducing, Absolute radio (track of the week), Phantom FM and Amazing Radio and in the UK, as well as further afield in Canada and The U.S. 

Online, our songs have been used for videos (FHM), been made free download of the week by O’Neil (the massive surf brand not the faux Irish pub chain) and had a track selected by Music Week for their ‘sound of the summer 2012’. 

Really? You make us blush…reviews….

“A fantastic track from the London band”
Tom Robinson, BBC6 

"Sweet sounding Indie with a Robert Smith inspired singer. There is technical proficiency, indications of an adventurous spirit and songs that are just this side of mainstream. That suggests their potential is substantial"
Simon Li (Universal Music A&R)

"A captivating rock song with some fresh 80s synth beats and a lead vocal which is honest, uplifting and charming. Dead Social Club have nailed a song with a lot of soul that will be perfect for lazy summer days"
Polly James, Absolute Radio on ‘Sunlight’

“There’s a bit of Franz, and there’s The Rakes hanging around the periphery too. Love the keys. Great little indie track, destined for a goal of the month competition montage” 
Pete Donaldson, Absolute Radio on ‘Stockholm’

“There’s certainly a vague hint of a less doom laden Depeche Mode in the vocal delivery combined with a dash of 80′s post punk, yet they manage to make it sound fresh and vital with big chorus’s that stay on the right side of epic without ever sounding over blown”
Andy Von Pip, www.vonpipmusicalexpress.wordpress.com, on ‘Stockholm’

Let’s first say, it is refreshing to hear a band so unselfconscious as Dead Social Club. Electronica? Check. Keyboards? Check. A sound that pitches itself somewhere in the interstellar region between Kraftwerk, Depeche Mode and Simple Minds? Closer still. It is pop, and it’s not pop. It’s rock, and it’s not even rock. Guitars don’t seem to matter to DSC as much as good song-writing and nifty fingers at the effects station, though when they come to the fore there are some striking riffs on ‘Syrian Kisses’, particularly on single ‘Let Love Die’.
Essential listening best of 2011
http://www.live4ever.uk.com/2011/09/live4ever-presents-dead-social-club/

“Let Love Die (the recent single) had the crowd dancing like maniacs as if it were already an indie club classic. The seventh track, Too Young, was my personal favourite – it had the charm of an early Depeche Mode ditty, whilst still feeling like a modern indie summer hit. They played an incredible show, with energy that continued into the night (and next morning).” 
Metrotwin.com review of London Scala gig (supporting Bloc Party DJ set)

"An indie belter by Dead Social Club. Stockholm has everything you want in a foot stomping, adrenaline pumping ‘lad’ track - grit, testosterone and swagger. From this description though don’t believe that this band are an ‘Oasis wannabe’. Packed with plenty of originality with the addition of synths and to this guitar heavy track, I can’t wait to hear more from this upcoming band. Forget Viva Brother, Dead Social Club could be the artist Britain has been looking for to bring guitar bands back into the charts"
Liverpool student radio


Bass Breakers was created in early 2009 when DJ Pyr0 and Luc Frost teamed up to create a strong hardstyle experience. Over the years they have played alongside other major hardstyle talents such as Dutch Master, A-Lusion, Cally and Juice, Crisis Era, Organ Donors and even had the honor of being a part of the first HTID USA show. They have also shared the stage with LA local talents such as Dyverse, Nifty Nubes, DJ Skruffeh, Hardstyle Informer, Qlarity, and many others. Bass Breakers works very diligently and aims to perfect their sound and quality of their performances for each event.
facebook.com/BassBreakers

Telematique is a borned and raising Barcelona based record label committed to bringing together lovers and creators of deep electronic ethnic sound.

Our music reflects the spirit of this cosmopolitan city with such an amazing energy. 

Telematique brings to the dancefloor a distinctive deep quality sound taking our listeners on a synesthetic musical journey underneath the palm trees…

From the land of groovy ethnic influences and deep electronic bass, to the land of nifty bongo percussions and organic techno rhythms. Spiced up with just a pinch of afro house and nu disco beats. Our solid releases explore the heights and depths of 4/4. Carefully selected vocals translate feelings into sound resulting in an euphonic formula that speaks to your very soul! Getting you hooked up forever, beat after beat, wave after wave…

DEMOS & PROMOS: 
We don't accept any music via Soundcloud or Facebook, but you can send to us a 320 kbits MP3 download soundcloud link via telematiquemusic@gmail.com. All submissions will be listened to and if we are interested, we will get back! Please allow some time though, because, as you can imagine, there are lots of people sending in music.

Label // Vocal Arts & Adventurous Breath

We release Vocal Sound Poetry, Experimental Vocal Arts, Scat Singing, Beatboxing, Voice Performance, Loop Singing, Overtone Singing, Throatism, Breathmusic, Tonguetango.
It's all about the human voice, the human breath.
Scream. Invent. Breathe. Whisper. Speak. Kiss.

Mainly we're a netlabel, but we do make nifty cdr - 1st limited edition is handsigned by the artist..
Don't send us customary slam poetry. We're not mainstream.
You may send us spoken word or even linguistically adventurous slam poetry, but it has to be kinky and musical.

Invent. Redefine. Reclaim sound and breath.
Make poetry a threat again.
Atemwerft means Dockyard of Breath.
Atemwerft. Werft Atem.

"Der Mund entsteht mit dem Schrei." (Heiner Müller)
"The mouth originates with the yell." (Heiner Müller)


Maps Need Reading is a four-piece art rock band based in Knoxville, Tennessee. The band fuses elements of jazz, indie, and post rock, creating a hybrid sound that equally satisfies the tastes of both progressive rock and pop fans alike. 

Guitarist David Webb, bassist Nathan Patterson, and guitarist/keyboardist Chris Burgess formed The Renaissants during their high school years, creating nifty indie pop music that slowly drifted toward more odd time signatures and dynamic arrangements. The three musicians formed Maps Need Reading in 2011 by adding drummer Jordan Sexton, whose style allowed the band to further develop a more progressive, post-rock-influenced sound. In 2014, Sexton left the band and was replaced by childhood friend and University of Tennessee music school companion DJ Young. 

Moving forward with Young, the band has further diversified its sound while continuing to refine the core audible elements that have kept fans coming back—long, dynamic orchestrations that combine deep, dissonant noise and danceable indie pop aesthetics. Each member of the band contributes their own respective influences to the writing process, and that diversity allows for songs that span all across the musical spectrum. The band released its Hopes for Chemistry EP in August, 2015, and has used the positive momentum the album has received to begin pushing their sound outside Knoxville.

First of all welcome to my soundcloud  and thank you for listening to my sounds.

About me:
As a little kid my affection with music started with a Philips portable cassette recorder running on c-cells.
I always was intrigued by the sounds of early synthesizers and sampling audio in any way or form..
The modulation of these synthesizers was one of the things to become interdict as my love grew by time after getting inspiration by lots of musicians from the 70's 80's and early 90's.
Not that the 70's where NOT my time at all, though my father was in that time in ownership together with my uncle of Drive-inn Disoctheque Galaxy, so they had noize.
Some of the tapes i found in my fathers (or neighbours)car(s) where totally awesome. (in that time people didnt needed to lock a car, so everyone started to miss tapes, wonder how that could be...  ;) )
The Love for creating music myself got born by these experiences.

As soon as our very first personal computer came into our house and i got aknowledged of the fact there where other people with music creation programs i started a search (even on bbs, precursor of internet.) for the program wich made me able to create music the way I wanted it.
First on dos with fasttracker, running ogg and aiff, coonverting s3m and mods.
It was around 96 when I started with wavetrackers 
Somewhere from then till 97 i found a fruityloops version (3.2.4)
Since this nifty program cought my eye and i cought the exponential grown in workflow i am totally addicted.
So i bought myself a copy some years later and here I am.
Fruityloops Pro-User ever since. 
The way of working with vst synthesizers intrigues me and makes it for me possible to translate experiences and or feelings into sound.

In between years till the day of today I got inspired even more by Rock funk raggae, rap, hiphop, soul, slowjams, and even totally other styles like hardstyle, hardcore, dance, trance, goa, psychedelic and so on,  

For me music is a way of life and I will be living it till i close my eyes for the last time..

I hope you enojy listening while i am busy on another project.

Yours sincerely,...

Dennis

NOTE: If you do like any of my tracks and want to use them in any creative way, then please p.m. me. 

Sharing my tracks, is allowed for all .




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