::Deadlights::

Deadlights is a dark ambient and electronic artist out of the UK; Lancashire to be more specific. He started on his path in music more recently but has made a very polished and definitive sound for himself. 

He is on a net label called Splitting Sounds Records but like everyone I have yet written about, he has a wealth of work on Soundcloud. I have called his work dark ambient but his tags are experimental, so you be the judge. Either way his imagery, like his avatar above, is dark and based around something tangible, powerful, and frightening. 

Deadlights started making music in 2008. Despite raising small children back in 2008, he was able to complete a few EP's that are, unfortunately, now lost. He went on hiatus and in 2013 spotted a deal on eBay for a bundle of vst's and small midi keyboard, this happened to be his re-entry to music making. 

He soon after made his first album, Dead Hand System, which he released in June of 2013. Dead Hand System was one of two albums released in 2013; We Have Some Planes being the second.

Deadlights' latest album, Life Under Fallout Conditions, was released on the 20th of April, 2014. This was not only a Deadlights album but a collaborations between Deadlights and another artist named Norman Sane. Deadlights made tracks, 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, and 11. Norman Sane made tracks 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, and 12. 

An over view of these albums would be, ambient, ambient, and mix. Dead Hand System was, to me, a dark ambient album and We Have Some Planes was also an ambient album, but different than Dead Hand System; dark, but not as dark. We Have Some Planes emanates with a sort of sadness. This sort of somber feeling. There are also wonderful samples done in a way that they sound like they're coming through a radio, sometimes muffled, no matter the sound, they always sound electronic.

Life Under Fallout Conditions is a totally different album though. There are some ambient tracks, but on this album there are electronic beats. It's very different from his first two albums and this album again features those fantastic samples. His rhythmic synths, his background, is almost ambient. The subject matter is what the title implies: nuclear bombs and fallout. It's a fantastically done album. There are some purely ambient songs though still which are very nicely done. 

A few paragraphs ago I said his reentry to music making began with a bundle of vst's on eBay. Saying just a few words about gear here, Deadlights uses a number of different DAW's: FL Studio, Reason, and Ableton. 

Deadlights: on Splitting Sounds Records: We Have Some Planes  

http://splittingsoundsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/deadlights-we-have-some-planes-ssr-rr-0039

Deadlights: Life Under Fallout Conditions

https://deadlights1.bandcamp.com/album/life-under-fallout-conditions

Deadlights: Dead Hand System

 https://deadlights1.bandcamp.com/album/dead-hand-system

Here are some of Deadlights' tracks from Soundcloud. Please check 'em out real quick!

 

::ImpulseGame::

ImpulseGame is an electronic musician based in Antwerp, Belgium. 

ImpulseGame is not defined to one style of electronic music. You will find great variety in his music and a lot of it with a tangible inspiration and story behind a lot of his songs which vary anywhere from sub-genres of techno, ambient, chill-out, and industrial. He has also done remixes and some collaborative work; most notably with InterStella Moonbeam

ImpulseGame's first started with electronic music in '94-95' with Cubase and a Roland Sound Module. In short, the Roland Sound Module was sold for financial reasons. The will to create however was still there though.

If you were even a little kid in the 90's I'm sure you remember computers were pretty lame. Computer software wasn't what it is now. Computer musicians have far more options nowadays. 

Around 1997 ImpulseGame began making music with Rebirth and this continued 'til 1999, until he became bored with it, and started finding Rebirth to be too limited to make what he wanted to create. 

ImpulseGame was on hiatus until around 2012 until he found Caustic while searching for a Rebirth like groovebox for Android devices. From then on, Caustic has been his primary software for music making. 

From 2012 to the current he has created quite a collection. Here are a just a few tunes from Impulse Game: 

Below is a video for the collaborative effort between ImpulseGame and Interstella Moonbeam. This tune is called Hussssh and the video was made by InterStella Moonbeam.

 

::Strange Meat::

Strange Meat is Soundcloud musician who would perhaps, best be described as glitch.but he is not so one dimensional. As well as having a very large library on SoundCloud, he also is on the Wetlands, net label. 

There are many elements in his music and if one even just skims through his work they'll find varying complexity.The Strange Meat sound is an often electronic and almost always very abrasive sound.

This mutant sound is one molded over and over again over 16 years. Though recently, Strange Meat has collaborated with many net label and labeless SoundCloud musicians.

Below I have embedded some of Strange Meat's more current works; solo, collaboration, and remix.

Check them all out at his SoundCloud:  https://soundcloud.com/strange-meat