Dirge (MMD Records) Mike O'Shard Melbourne - DIRGE - Ascension Stage Manager @ Esoteric Festival Australian DJ Rep @ MMD Records - UPCOMING GIGS - June 1st - PBS radio takeover @ Melbourne 106.7FM June 14th - TBA - BIO - Dirge is the Twilight Psytrance project of Melbourne born Mike O'Shard. For 10 years he has spread a sinister signal across Australian dance floors - a dark broadcast, transmitted by shadow; a message sent by the frequency of night. Mike currently represents MMD Records from Cape Town, South Africa and manages the Ascension Stage at Esoteric Festival in Donald, VIC. - CONCEPT - A 'Dirge' is defined as a lament for the dead; as a mournful song, piece of music or sound. Almost a decade ago in the moonlit forest of Mount Disappointment, a strange message was received. Subtle at first; a barely perceptible hum underneath the noise of the local broadcast network, it was transmitted with one purpose - to corrupt the mind of a local human target and spread, relentlessly. Within the darker reaches of its human host body's imagination, this message would bide its time and grow - as a quiet voice in the darkness; as a ghost in the machine - until one day, it would be noticed. On the surface, all was normal - a day like any other, until a disruption was felt within the network. It was only the slightest of shimmers; a most subtle shift in the pitch of the broadcast's frequency - but for one small moment, the broadcast faltered and faded out long enough for the disruption to be registered on the system. A team was deployed to investigate. Investigating the disruption, the message was discovered - and was identified as virulent. It had grown in such great measure that the network's signal, once thought to be untouchable, had been hijacked entirely. The broadcast was now a distorted shade of its former self. No-one had noticed the message spread, nor the signal grow. No-one had heard it whisper, as it redirected every connection on the network's server. No-one had heard its screams of contempt and rage, as it ceaselessly multiplied itself in the background... No-one had time to respond as the Signal, now a seething cacophony of sound, swallowed the network whole. The disruption had not been felt within the original network - there was nothing of it left. The disruption had been felt as the last remainders of the original network were extinguished, leaving only a strange and sinister signal in its place. In that moment, a new message was received - one word, uttered in an unfamiliar tongue; in an endlessly repeating loop - "Dirge..." ROCK THE BODY, BEND THE MIND - LINKS - www.facebook.com/dirgepsytrance www.facebook.com/MMD.Records Credit and thanks to 0dB - Reversible Records (Justin Blij) for the profile shot: https://soundcloud.com/0_db Dirge (MMD Records)’s tracks The Night Ritual Pt. 5 - Psunset (Esoteric 2022 - Ascension Stage) by Dirge (MMD Records) published on 2022-04-25T12:53:35Z The Night Ritual Pt. 4 - Night Terrors by Dirge (MMD Records) published on 2021-05-21T19:06:46Z All-Out by Dirge (MMD Records) published on 2021-03-22T02:12:20Z All-In by Dirge (MMD Records) published on 2020-08-28T09:31:14Z The Night Ritual Pt. 3 - Children of the Night by Dirge (MMD Records) published on 2019-04-26T21:19:18Z The Night Ritual Pt. 2 - Nightmares by Dirge (MMD Records) published on 2019-03-24T09:27:23Z World Underground V/A (Assembled by Archive and Dirge) by Dirge (MMD Records) published on 2019-02-23T07:31:15Z The Night Ritual pt. 1 - Esoteric by Dirge (MMD Records) published on 2018-03-15T10:24:53Z
The Night Ritual Pt. 5 - Psunset (Esoteric 2022 - Ascension Stage) by Dirge (MMD Records) published on 2022-04-25T12:53:35Z
The Night Ritual Pt. 3 - Children of the Night by Dirge (MMD Records) published on 2019-04-26T21:19:18Z
World Underground V/A (Assembled by Archive and Dirge) by Dirge (MMD Records) published on 2019-02-23T07:31:15Z