A Darker Wave

We are a duo (Jacki-E & P-Mac) who present A Darker Wave every Saturday at 10pm UK time on NLive Radio & Circl8 Radio, 10pm EST (3am Sunday UK time) on Echo Radio and every Wednesday at Midnight EST, 5am UK on Chill Lover Radio. We put the show together at our home studio. The show is streamed worldwide on the internet. Each show is posted on our Soundcloud, Mixcloud & Hearthis.at pages once it has been streamed. The music we play is techno, tech house and deep house and anything else we like enough to put in the show. Each show is 2 hours long. In the first hour we go into the mix with the best of the new techno releases. In the second hour we invite new and upcoming DJs to come onto the show and do a guest mix.

Dark Wave was first used in the 1980s to describe a dark and melancholy variant of new wave and post-punk music and was first applied to UK musicians such as Bauhaus, Joy Division, Sisters of Mercy, Cocteau Twins, The Cure, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Depeche Mode and Anne Clark. It was also used to describe artists who combined music with performance art, such as Throbbing Gristle and Cabaret Voltaire, who challenged and explored the darker and obsessive sides of the human condition.

A lot of techno takes its spirit and ethos from this music, Listen to Throbbing Gristle or Cabaret Voltaire and you can hear the industrial sounds which are a staple of techno music today.

Techno is the outsider of electronic dance music, the punk of today's modern music scene. As Dave Clarke said in an interview with Mixmag, " Techno is edgy. Techno will challenge you...... it's the real dark art."

Our radio show, in presenting the best in underground techno and deep house music, and in giving an opportunity for new, up and coming DJ's and producers, is providing an outlet for new techno, which is best described as being the new wave of modern dance music.

Not just a new wave, but with it's incessant bass rumblings, synthesiser drones, pounding drums, melodic top notes and eerie, distorted vocal samples, techno, in all its forms, is a backdrop to and a critique of our post-industrial, consumerist society, one in which our actions are observed 24/7, our democratic freedoms are threatened by our very own governments and our rights to do, think and act as we please are under ever increasing scrutiny. Techno really is A Darker Wave.

When we were listening to music in the 60’s and 70’s, before the electronic tentacles of technology infiltrated the world, we often thought, whilst listening to the likes of Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, King Crimson, Frank Zappa, Hawkwind, Captain Beefhart, New York Dolls and Roxy Music, where would music go to in the future? It could never be what was being portrayed in the science fiction movies of the time. When we have a recording studio in our own home which is more powerful and versatile than anything available back then, we now know music can be anything and go anywhere. It is only the spark of our imaginations, or lack of it, that holds us back. On our laptop computers we have the capabilities that many artists back then would have given their right arms for. It’s for the uniqueness of the artist to express themselves to be able to stand out from the deluge of music available. Finding those gems is the modern day equivalent of crate digging and when you do, it makes it all worthwhile. Long live music!!!!

NLive is a community radio station based in Northampton. Catch us on NLive Radio every Saturday at 10pm UK, 11pm CET.

Circl8 Radio is a community radio station based in Chester. Catch us on Circl8 Radio every Saturday at 10pm UK, 11pm CET