The Dark Side: Gothic, Industrial (Dance / Rock / Metal), Futurepop, Shoegaze, Post Punk... anybody out there?

[Masushi]

oh, just in case anybody is interested in the Album that I made entirely within Reason (even the mastering), you can listen to snippets of it here if you like: https://holyhourrecords.bandcamp.com/al ... s-to-light 

[ohmygoff]

oh, just in case anybody is interested in the Album that I made entirely within Reason (even the mastering), you can listen to snippets of it here if you like: https://holyhourrecords.bandcamp.com/al ... s-to-light 

Oh boy... makes me wanna erase the link I posted earlier on

Great job. That's the kind of stuff I'm mostly after as well (minus real guitars, minus vocals, obviously...)
Really enjoyed the snippets. Keep up doing it - there's still people out there enjoying that sound (even if it's only me... but usually there are other folks as well when I go to live shows... )

[eusti]

oh, just in case anybody is interested in the Album that I made entirely within Reason (even the mastering), you can listen to snippets of it here if you like: https://holyhourrecords.bandcamp.com/al ... s-to-light 

Wow! You played all instruments, I read in a review? Impressive!

D.

[eusti]

Why don't you post us some of your Gothy tunes??

on

http://fromtheattic.bandcamp.com/

you'll find all the stuff I had the energy to finish to a point where I dared to publish it...

I really like the sketch of Sisters on a Mission.

D.

[EnochLight]

Bands I could mention to give a hint: Joy Division, Bauhaus, Siouxsie, Cure, Dead Can Dance, Chameleons, Sisters, Nine Inch Nails, Front 242, Type O Negative, Paradise Lost, Clan Of Xymox, VNV Nation, Das Ich, Einstürzende Neubauten, Agonoize, Das Ich, Wumpscut, Ikon, Tyske Ludder, Fields Of The Nephilim (in no particular order)

About 90% of what you mentioned can be found in my library as well.  I also followed the shoegaze and spacerock stuff in the early/mid 90's.  

My first EP (released 6 years ago) was a bit darkwave/futurepop.  You can preview snippets in iTunes, or stream it via Spotify:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/icebe ... d327191675

https://play.spotify.com/album/13z3K4E7 ... edium=open

[Masushi]

oh, just in case anybody is interested in the Album that I made entirely within Reason (even the mastering), you can listen to snippets of it here if you like: https://holyhourrecords.bandcamp.com/al ... s-to-light 

Wow! You played all instruments, I read in a review? Impressive!

D.

Hi Eusti,

thanks. It is true, this is my Solo-Project because I wanted to have full control over the music. In every band I played I had to make compromises regarding the style. That was not at all bad. But now, due to other circumstances, I prefer to make music on my own and play all instruments by myself.

[Benedict]

on http://fromtheattic.bandcamp.com/ you'll find all the stuff I had the energy to finish to a point where I dared to publish it...

Yes indeed "Sisters..." is definitely in the zone. A cliche is so comfortable. There are some nice ideas in here, just need a bit more development. I'd be up for some of that if you wanted.

https://holyhourrecords.bandcamp.com/al ... s-to-light 

I like that there is still stuff like this being created now. I don't love the vocal (bit weak) but the music sounds polished. I wish purchasing were easier - seems odd to make it so hard in a digital world.

[rabu]

Originally Posted by Masushi
oh, just in case anybody is interested in the Album that I made entirely within Reason (even the mastering), you can listen to snippets of it here if you like: https://holyhourrecords.bandcamp.com/al ... s-to-light  

I really like your music. And I'm very impressed by your instrument skills.
Sounds to me like Joy Division meets Sisters / Mission, in a good way. Named after a Joy Division song, I take it?

[Masushi]

https://holyhourrecords.bandcamp.com/al ... s-to-light 

I like that there is still stuff like this being created now. I don't love the vocal (bit weak) but the music sounds polished. I wish purchasing were easier - seems odd to make it so hard in a digital world.

thanks for your kind words. You are right, the vocals could have been better sitting in the mix. I am still learning.

If you´d like to get the physical CD-Album, just PM me. I still have some copies left.

[Masushi]

I really like your music. And I'm very impressed by your instrument skills.
Sounds to me like Joy Division meets Sisters / Mission, in a good way. Named after a Joy Division song, I take it?

thanks rabu. Yes, you are right. It was 30 years ago when a friend told me to bring my solo stuff into public, but I didn´t have a name for it. He said, well, just call it "Shadowplay". I thought, why not?

Today I find so many bands and projects with that name. I sometimes wish, I took a different name, but now it is what it is.

BTW, is your song "Sanctuary" done in Reason as well?  

[rabu]

Hi Masushi,

the original version of Sanctuary was only partly done in Reason. The current version is 100% Reason - again, with a final touch using some old outboard digital units (EQ, compressor). We like it much better than the first version.
In case you are interested, a pic of the instruments utilized. Bass is MonoPoly, Strings Antidote, Pizzicati PolySix. And some Echobode, Pulveriser and stuff.

[dhruan]

Cool thread! I have been listening to EBM, industrial, industrial rock/metal, electro industrial, cold wave and gothic music since the early nineties followed by expansions into plenty of other derivative genres (neo folk, martial industrial, noise, power electronics etc.).

Plenty of cool stuff out there, notables for me are Acumen Nation, Black Lung, Clock DVA, Coil, Cubanate, Cure, Curve, Death in June, Decree, Download, Front 242, Izoloscope, Karjalan Sissit, Killing Joke, Ministry, Monolith, NIN, NON/Boyd Rice, Of The Wand And The Moon, Panasonic, Severed Heads, Sielwolf, Sisters Of Mercy, Skinny Puppy, SPK, Terrorfakt, Test Dept. And then some.

Used to DJ and organize darker electronic/dark wave clubs. Now I just occasionally partake in that fun. Musically I seem to veer to that same direction... Some tracks can be found from my soundcloud page (link in the sig.). Nothing really polished there, need monitors (currently working with headphones) and... time. Too little time for music is a downer (as is working with this alone).

[Julibee]

I'm nodding my head along to almost every band mentioned in this thread, save a for a few new names... Love the dark side (which is weird, because I'm not gloomy at all as a person... It's sort of like my alter ego or something).

I'll just note that I'm 41, which puts me smack dab in the middle of most of it as a teen. Growing up in a small Ohio town, I had to work hard to find any of it, and there were only two of us in my high school who even knew about any of this stuff. Everyone else was listening to Hair Bands (yeah, I do have a bit of a soft spot for them because of it) and 90s Country (no soft spot at.all.). Shoe Gaze and Dream Pop were my favorite... The Jesus and Mary Chain and Cure being my top two. When NIN hit the scene, I thought I'd died and gone to heaven. These days, when I hear Ministry or Sisters of Mercy, I tend to giggle, remembering how "hard" I thought it was. It isn't. But I still love it.

My own music tends toward a glitchy dark dream pop with lots of industrial elements thrown in. I was a DJ in the 90s Grunge era, but one of my shows was a techno show, and spun some (badly, I might add). There are so many influences in my own work that it's hard to pick just one. But if you are at all interested, feel free to check out my signature. It's all vocal heavy though, just as a warning. I'm first and foremost, a vocalist.

[Higor]

I would put on those lists The Mission, Depeche Mode, New Order, Echo & the Bunnymen, The Smiths, Human League... (plus a thousand of one - or two - hit bands)
 
Although I am very eclectic  I think 95% the times i went out was for to listen to this kind of music. Unfortunately where i live now there are no places where i can go to listen to this. Here the music usually sucks. And if the music sucks everything else seems to suck.

[Higor]

[Higor]

This is an example of a track that could have been better produced but the energy is so great that this aspect becomes almost irrelevant.

[Higor]

[Masushi]

This is an example of a track that could have been better produced but the energy is so great that this aspect becomes almost irrelevant.

now this is really interesting, how did you came across "Evasion on Stake"? They are from Hamburg and I know one of the bandmembers (Haiko Herden) because he was involved in the german tape-Scene in the 90s and so was I. He was running a small underground tape Label with a friend called "Beton Tapes". 

[Higor]

how did you came across "Evasion on Stake"? 

I had to think a bit in order to remember this. So...
 
I'm from São Paulo, Brazil. There is this place called Madame Satã - now Madame Underground -, founded in 1983/1984, where they play all these genres related in this topic - A Split Second did a show there about three years ago. I had a friend from there. I was reading his blog once ,around 2009,  he was talking about a compilation named Black Sundays released in 1993, Brazil.
 
http://www.discogs.com/Various-Black-Su ... se/2178045
 
So i managed to hear that and one of the bands was Evasion. If you do a research about Evasion you will notice comments in portuguese - Brazil's language - so... we can say Day By Day was an underground hit here. And people are still discovering it.

[aisling]

It might be reaching, but I want to plug OM (the reincarnation of Sleep),
and Earth

[Secondary Protocol]

So. Coming from the synth world via metal and everything between, I now make my own rather dark stuff. A few ones have been done w juliebee on vocals, and also one with lunesis:


with Juliebee on vox
[soundcloud_track]http://soundcloud.com/secondary-protoco ... ffie-align[/soundcloud_track]

https://soundcloud.com/secondary-protoc ... duffie-wip

and with lunesis on vox

https://soundcloud.com/secondary-protoc ... al-pre-mix

Working mostly in logic these days, but also with reason. On the souncloud page there are stuff with my internet based band "Chrome" that has more reason in it



And for those in love with dark music; Check out "recoil", its Alan Wilder from Depeche Mode. The mastermind

[Higor]

Here is a wicked masterpiece.

(Placebo Effect - Galleries Of Pain (Bloody Pain Remix)

[jappe]

oh, just in case anybody is interested in the Album that I made entirely within Reason (even the mastering), you can listen to snippets of it here if you like: https://holyhourrecords.bandcamp.com/al ... s-to-light 

Super!
The Cure with awesome Phil Oakey-like vocals

[jappe]

I guess one way to get some tip's and tricks is to point out specific sections in a great tune, asking "how did they do that" in this thread.

I can contribute with suggesting some great tunes I used to listen to.

Covenant - Der Leiermann (German lyrics, but they are Swedes:-)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jpANCcsCUw

Apoptygma Berzerk - Fade to Black (Norwegians)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rs-vH2k-s-4

VNV Nation - Space and Time(English/Irish) (great tune! but why does he sing "lost in farts" at 1:17!?)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLiNr57387k


And then we have Canadians live from the eighties: Skinny Puppy - Assimilate:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZAhL-KeK_w

And finally there's this German pearl:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyHb2zrW6O0