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"It begins as a whisper, a promise. The lighest of breezes dances through the rigging as it creaks above the death-cries of 10,000 men. It moves through her hair as gently as a lover's hand.
That breeze... that promise became a wind. A wind that has blown across Greece carrying a message told again and again of our lady Freedom, and how wise She was to charge Leonidas to lay all at Her feet. A wind, my brothers, of sacrifice. A wind of freedom. A wind of justice.
A wind of vengeance."
-- Queen Gorgo, '300: Rise of an Empire'
Played at a UG Christmas party on Nov 27th 2021.
*ahem* I was at long last and finally asked to play a night-time DJ-timeslot where I had the pleasure of "going all-out" with the dark forest soundscapes. Possibly more dark than forest, frankly (and I was told it sounded almost industrial-influenced at times), but not without its familiar psychedelic vistas of haunted woodlands in gloom and dark shapes in hurried flight. I was told that I play dark forest "the same way as I play dark prog", but I dunno - you be the judge of that, I guess.
The last track, Bodhi's 'Deep Inside the Forest', was something of a "victory lap", and since the DJ-duo playing after me were all-out suomisaundi, I figured I might as well add some groove and spazz to the whole ordeal - can't just dump a load of iron ore on someone and ask them to put on their hobgoblin trousers right away, aye?
A special and heartfelt thanks to everyone who partied to the set - it was ballistics-grade awesome to play for such an eager crowd. You people know damn well how to move your woolen socks! <3
00:00:00 - exurb1a: So You Want to Build a Nuke (excerpt)
00:00:29 - Ritalin Child: Carpenter
00:06:40 - Mergel: Abandoned Gods
00:11:59 - Digital Abstract: Frequency Change
00:18:41 - Rakasa: The Creator
00:23:48 - Re-Horakhty: Ravebros
00:31:20 - Praheya: Space Blues
00:38:15 - Isometric: Secret of the Bonobo
00:44:17 - Solarythm vs. An-Agram: Elemental Earth
00:49:28 - Solarythm: Abusive Consumption
00:53:33 - Alchemy Circle: Desperate Treated
01:01:08 - Third Eye of Monkey: Sacred Places
01:07:59 - Digital Abstract: Glass Prison
01:14:41 - Terragon: Other Galaxy
01:20:00 - Metatron: War Chant
01:26:30 - XIII Monkeys: Iron Ore
01:31:22 - Bodhi: Deep Inside the Forest
150 --> 157 BPM
Tracks by: @exurbia-1, @ritalinchild, @andrew-mergel, @digital-abstract-music, @rakasa, @re-horakhty, @praheya, @isometric25, @j-r-mie-kagan (Solarythm), @an-agramj, @alchemycircle, @thirdeyeofmonkey, @terragon-music, @metatron-live, @xiiimonkeys, Bodhi (no SC-page?)
Many thanks to exurb1a whose ramblingly musing video-essays I keep scrounging (with permission) for excerpts to use as intro- and outro-samples as well as thematic stings for my DJ sets. Check out https://www.youtube.com/c/exurb1a if you want to be both terribly depressed, curiously thrilled, and wistfully uplifted at the same time.
- Genre
- Dark Forest