Sea Breeze

The Unsleeping Eye

Data Eater

Darklight has two meanings for me. 

First it's a portrait.. you could even call it a love letter, to the independent producer community. People often only see the end result of a track. the polished final product. What most people don't realise is the sheer volume of hard work that goes into personal and skills development,  technical competencies, mixing, mastering, sound design and composition. 
Then there's marketing, promotion, branding, networking, social media management, ads and analytics... all of which is underpinned by a 24/7 focus to do their best work every day. 
And it's hard. Especially when you get flippant comments from playlist curators (literally every artist I know has experienced this) who really should know better...

Many producers quit. All producers find some days harder than others, trying to make space for their passion alongside work, family and life in general. But sheer determination and commitment pushes them on, through the dark days, to find th moment where something clicks. The adrenalin from producing something that expresses that which you intended, perfectly. There's no better feeling. 

It's also a self portrait. 

Darklight has been a hugely challenging production to complete - 63 tracks,. 11 changes and a lot of clashing sounds in the early stages of development .But I'm really proud of the final product. It encapsulates the sound I want to make. A blend of light ethereal sounds, coupled with dark undertones. A fusion of dark and light. Energy and trepidation. 
I'm so happy with the result and I truly hope you enjoy it!

Darklight

Vortex (ft. MARITIME)

Mist

This is my first official release with my voice in it! I was feeling inspired by Falling Behind by Laufey, and I wanted to incorporate that bossa nova type of rhythm into an upbeat retrowave piece. I started with the chord progression, bass line, and drums, and then the rest came naturally. It wasn't going to have vocals at first, but the instrumental felt too good to not have any. I listened to it in the car and sang along until something stuck, and it ended up being about when I met my incredible partner. Turns out writing lyrics is really easy when you have someone to sing about :) I later recorded what I came up with and ran it through a vocoder. Anyway, because this is chillsynth, I also included the instrumental in the release!

I had a lot of fun with this track and I hope you love it as much as I do!

Moonbeams

Moonbeams (Instrumental)

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bundywave_0002x89

Spotify

Farewell

slept on this one, short thing you might like :)

more on the way, finally getting my distrib payouts and im working two jobs to support my hobby ://///

thanks for the love guys, let's all keep climbing up

If You Think For Long Enough

Even

Always good moment with you babe (Original Mix)

Neon Life (clubsound)

Offline Feeling

electronic music and subsequent experiments

Status : (January 30, 2025): :)

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Featured on: 

Stratford Ct. (8/12/23)

Electric Osmosis (10/3/23)

Electronic Gems (10/9/23)

Vandelay Radio (11/10/23)

Achillnic (12/15/23)

Polychora Records (12/15/23)

lunar water (2/3/24)

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DAW: FL Studio 21 (want to switch to Ableton)

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Plugins: 

MiniV2, V3 & V4, Prophet V, DX7 V, Analog Obsession Plugins, Cymatics Origin, Valhalla Supermassive, Stardust 201 Space Echo, rest is stock plugins!!!
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Hardware: Korg Volca Keys
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Collabs?: I'M BACK AT IT HAHAAAAAA

If You Think For Long Enough

Vennwave