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July 18, 2008
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DARK GLOBE
Recent – Current – Upcoming Releases
Break My World – 2006
Re -released – GlobalUnderground
B- Listed Radio One
A- Listed MTV Dance
Mixes by
DARK GLOBE
KEVIN SWAIN
HARD KISS
CAGED BABY
Nostalgia For The Future LP
Released via GlobalUnderground 2006/07
CD and Digital release, + Limited black cover edition CD (includes album remixes)
Reached Top Ten iTunes Electronica Chart
Atoms – (feat. Boy George) – GlobalUnderground 2007
Digital release and Limited edition 12” vinyl remixes
Mixes by
DARK GLOBE
HENRIK SCHWARZ
DEADLY AVENGER
ARIYA
UP COMING IN 2008 – Futures Coming – (feat. Silja)
Digital and 12” vinyl release – GlobalUnderground 2008
Mixes by
DARK GLOBE
DJ FEX
JAY LUMEN
(more to be announced)
Dark Globe featured shows on U.K and U.S networks 2007/08
BBC6 – “6Mix” (twice),
XFM – John Kennedy “X-Posure”
XFM – Eddie Temple Morris “The Remix”
Kiss – Ali B show
Galaxy Manchester / North East
Grooveradio.com – Swedish Egil show
“Powertools” – Power 106.1FM (Los Angeles)
“Area 33” Sirius Satellite Radio (NYC)
Proton Radio – Strongarm Session
Proton Radio – Exclusive 3 hour mix
Collaborations and ongoing antics 2007/08
As well as recording, remixing and starting projects with known artists like, Cass and Mangan, Kevin Swain, Liquid, Earl 16, Underworld, Trafik and mixing Deadly Avengers latest album, Dark Globe have also been producing and writing for many up and coming artists like Imogen Andrews (Julie Andrews niece), Silja (Nouvelle Vague), folk artist Jac Amidy from Berlin and chosen sound designs for commercial’s here in the U.K and U.S. Chrysler and O2 being the most recent.
Something good that came out of signing to Island records back in 2004 was a radio show presented by Dark Globe called the De Facto Sessions. They bought airtime on Pure 94FM and did a twelve week 2 hour show from 7-9pm every Saturday night with guest mixes from DJ Shadow, Hard Kiss, Kasabian, Meat Katie, Elite Force, Athlete, King Unique, Radioactive man and Ben Castle plus a few others they can’t remember.
Now in 2008 the De Facto Session is a major featured show on electronic music’s Internet station, Proton Radio.
You can hear their selection of current eclectic-ness live, every last Tuesday of the month 6:30am EST / 11:00am GMT
http://www.protonradio.com/show.php?showid=340
Dark Globe saw out 2007 DJing their Dex & FX sets on the GU world tour along with Layo & Bushwacha, Trafik, Deep Dish, Dub fire and Richard Dinsdale, They also gave the live show a test drive, with appearances at Jay Hannan’s ‘Lazy Dog’ (Notting Hill Arts Club) and Longest Day festival Brighton.
Dark Globe in 2008
The new record is electronic based with a dark bluesy feel to it, similar in structure to “Nostalgia For The Future” but less commercial sounding, it will include both songs and the popular instrumentals they are known for.
Collaborating again with Imogen Andrews, and new faces Jac Amidy, Jonathon Donahue (Mercury Rev) and other surprise guests TBC.
Dark Globe biog 2008
Some things happen for a reason. What may initially seem like a setback can actually turn out to be a leap forward, as Dark Globe know all too well…
Back in 2003, a demo of the sledgehammer number that is ‘Break My World’ caught the ear of Island Records’ top dog who, on the strength of those unmistakable strings, signed them to the major league. A balmy headline slot on Pete Tong’s live-from-Miami WMC show in early 2004, simultaneous top-spot hoggings of the Cool Cuts and Buzz Charts and hot Ibizan nights followed.
However, big isn’t always better, and the boys were soon to discover that teeny-bopper pop-rockers held more sway at the label than their underground sound. An amicable split followed in the summer of 2005, along with a determination to keep things simple next time around.
There’s no stopping the Globe’s flow though; despite this hiccup the music was coming thick and fast. New vocalist Silja, of Nouvelle Vague fame, as well as collaborations with Television’s Tom Verlaine and old accomplice Boy George, delivered a breath of fresh air and it became clear they needed a suitable outlet for their re-energised musical vision.
Global Underground, with its history of dance music pioneers, was an obvious first choice and quickly snapped the boys up. They got straight down to business, with the “moody brooding” (Music Week) ‘Break My World’ getting the remix treatment from Caged Baby and Gavin Hardkiss in his Hawke guise amongst others in September 2006. Hot on its heels came Dark Globe’s long-awaited album proper ‘Nostalgia For The Future’. Entering the iTunes Electronic Album Chart at No.7, it showed off “the thing that really sets Dark Globe apart from other electronic based acts – their songwriting. Simply put, Nostalgia For The Future is something you need to hear.” (Jive Magazine)
Not ones to rest on their laurels, whilst promoting ‘Nostalgia…’ – most recently during an energetic live performance at Jay Hannan’s Underdog night at the Notting Hill Arts Club – the boys continue to work on new music. With lots more exciting collaborations up their sleeves, plus the Global Underground world tour to look forward to, keep your eyes – and ears – peeled. But we’re getting ahead of ourselves…how about a little history.
The Dark Globe story began somewhere in the early 90s – in a musical climate where the baggy scene was swinging its collective flares and crusty rock was dying a deserved painful death – when Pete Diggens, drummer in psych punk band Electric Sex Circus, decided enough was enough. Touring with the likes of Blur and giving the Manic Street Preachers an early support slot (“seeing them in their make up lugging equipment about was hilarious,” he laughs) was no longer musically fulfilling.
Meanwhile, over in the North Kent suburbs, childhood friend and future fellow Glober Matt Frost had started producing and releasing electro records. Reuniting through a love of noise, sampling and Public Enemy, the two formed the musical partnership that we know today. “Public Enemy’s message was cool but the thing that we both connected over was Terminator X’s industrial funk,” recalls Matt. “Everyone else was into Stone Roses and Soup Dragons and we’d be trying to be North Kent’s answer to The Bomb Squad. Big, loud, Hank Shocklee noise: industrial, violent and aggressive.”
“I remember clearing the floor at loads of parties with the tracks we were making,” adds Pete, “we were just getting adrenaline rushes from making noise until we realised that you’ve got to form it into something and get some melody thing going.”
Under various guises (Some Other People/ Crowbar/ The Deep) for various labels (Matt’s Infinite Mass, Violent Drum) the pair made critically acclaimed, arse-quaking, speaker shattering, body moving experimental dance music. “Even the record shops would ring us up to say that they didn’t know what to do and where to put them,” laughs Matt.
Eventually the boys’ adventures in sound caught the attention of the burgeoning UK dance scene’s godfathers Leftfield and in 1994 signed to their label Hard Hands. But three years and five EPs later their musical ambition had once again put them at odds with their peers.
“By the end of the Hard Hands days we were doing stuff that was too big for the label and they didn’t know what to do with it,” Matt explains. “They were like ‘that’s a pop record’. We were gutted because that’s where we wanted to go. We wanted to do more than service DJs, we were getting too song-based rather than a sampled refrain like a Moby record.”
Bored of house music the pair hooked up with breaks label Whole Nine Yards and inflicted serious damage to the nation’s dance floors culminating in the Boy George vocalled ‘Auto Erotic’ and the story-so-far compilation ‘Tales of Dirt and Sparks’.
Inspired by “the ability of American R&B producers to make electronic music sound human” the pair spent time refining their formula for making perfect digital pop. Or as Dark Globe put it “epic pop made by twisted little fuckers”.
Pete’s love of melodies and Matt’s love of grooves is the essence of Dark Globe’s digital pop vision. As a classically trained guitarist and trombonist, Pete’s influences span English composer Vaughn Williams, Brian Wilson and legendary romantic Scott Walker. Matt’s childhood in Nigeria, meanwhile, has inspired a love of African drumming and he points to DJ Premier, hip hop grooves and Police drummer Stuart Copeland as key influences.
Along the way, their filthy breakbeat funk has soundtracked ‘Lara Croft: The Cradle of Life’, they’ve delivered inspired remixies for the likes of Orbital and Two Lone Swordsmen and if you profess to know your dance music history then you’ll know that Dark Globe are responsible for making the first ever breakbeat record, ‘Mondo Scurro’.
Either way, there’s little doubt that Dark Globe are hard-to-categorise electronic music pioneers and, right now, we’ve never needed them more…
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