::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.
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
Deadlights: Life Under Fallout Conditions
Deadlights: Dead Hand System
Here are some of Deadlights' tracks from Soundcloud. Please check 'em out real quick!
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