Spoiler (Heavy Bass RMX) by & co

This is a remix of the Dark Company song Spoiler, which you can hear here:

https://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/track/spoiler

The challenge to the listener is to compare the two tracks to find out what elements of the sequencer mix are present in both versions!

Original lyrics by P. Greatorex.

Original music by G. Davies/P. Greatorex/J. Willmot.

Remix recorded, engineered and produced at Silent Running Studios Exeter 1992.

Remastered at Wud Records Studio One.

Copyright © 1994 Wud Records.

Copyright ℗ 1992 D & G Music/Lost In Space/Explicit Music.

This track was crafted mostly by Jeff and was subsequently remastered by George at Wud Records Studio One.

The remixing arm of the Dark Company project was named & co, and Drifting Stars is the album that features various remixes of assorted tunes.

& co have more of a dance flavour and lack guitars and vocals apart from samples. Some parts are lifted from the original song and you may hear them if you listen carefully.

See also:

http://www.wudrecords.co.uk/artists/dark-company

http://www.wudrecords.co.uk/artists/dark-company/drifting-stars/

https://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/album/rage-in-heaven

http://www.explicitmusic.co.uk/lyrics-information/dark-company/rage-in-heaven/spoiler

https://twitter.com/Dark_Company

https://twitter.com/WudRecords

https://www.facebook.com/Dark-Company-154909774522910/

Medicines (RMX) by & co

This is a remix of the Dark Company song Medicines, which you can hear here:

https://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/track/medicines

The challenge to the listener is to compare the two tracks to find out what elements of the sequencer mix are present in both versions!

Original lyrics by P. Greatorex.

Original music by G. Davies/P. Greatorex/J. Willmot.

Remix recorded, engineered and produced at Silent Running Studios Exeter 1992.

Remastered at Wud Records Studio One.

Copyright © 1994 Wud Records.

Copyright ℗ 1992 D & G Music/Lost In Space/Explicit Music.

This track was crafted mostly by Jeff and was subsequently remastered by George at Wud Records Studio One.

The remixing arm of the Dark Company project was named & co, and Drifting Stars is the album that features various remixes of assorted tunes.

& co have more of a dance flavour and lack guitars and vocals apart from samples. Some parts are lifted from the original song and you may hear them if you listen carefully.

See also:

http://www.wudrecords.co.uk/artists/dark-company

http://www.wudrecords.co.uk/artists/dark-company/drifting-stars/

https://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/album/rage-in-heaven

http://www.explicitmusic.co.uk/lyrics-information/dark-company/rage-in-heaven/medicines

https://twitter.com/Dark_Company

https://twitter.com/WudRecords

https://www.facebook.com/Dark-Company-154909774522910/

Repossession (RMX) by & co

This is a remix of the Dark Company song Repossession, which you can hear here:

https://soundcloud.com/wud-records/dark-company-repossession?in=wud-records/sets/dark-company-ghost-of-the-art-alpha-mixes

The challenge to the listener is to compare the two tracks to find out what elements of the sequencer mix are present in both versions!

Original lyrics by P. Greatorex.

Original music by G. Davies/P. Greatorex/J. Willmot/R. Parsons.

Remix recorded, engineered and produced at Silent Running Studios Exeter 1993.

Remastered at Wud Records Studio One.

Copyright © 1994 Wud Records.

Copyright ℗ 1993 DGW Music/Lost In Space/Explicit Music.

This track was crafted mostly by Jeff and was subsequently remastered by George at Wud Records Studio One.

The remixing arm of the Dark Company project was named & co, and Drifting Stars is the album that features various remixes of assorted tunes.

& co have more of a dance flavour and lack guitars and vocals apart from samples. Some parts are lifted from the original song and you may hear them if you listen carefully.

See also:

http://www.wudrecords.co.uk/artists/dark-company

http://www.wudrecords.co.uk/artists/dark-company/drifting-stars/

http://www.wudrecords.co.uk/artists/dark-company/ghost-of-the-art

http://www.explicitmusic.co.uk/lyrics-information/dark-company/ghost-of-the-art/repossession

https://twitter.com/Dark_Company

https://twitter.com/WudRecords

https://www.facebook.com/Dark-Company-154909774522910/

Final Nightmare by & co

This is a remix of the Dark Company song Terminal Road, which you can hear here:

https://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/track/terminal-road

The challenge to the listener is to compare the two tracks to find out what elements of the sequencer mix are present in both versions!

Final Nightmare was the original working title given to the song Terminal Road and that title was kept for the remix version.

Original lyrics by P. Greatorex.

Original music by G. Davies/P. Greatorex/J. Willmot.

Remix recorded, engineered and produced at Silent Running Studios Exeter 1992.

Remastered at Wud Records Studio One.

Copyright © 1994 Wud Records.

Copyright ℗ 1992 D & G Music/Lost In Space/Explicit Music.

This track was crafted mostly by Jeff and was subsequently remastered by George at Wud Records Studio One.

The remixing arm of the Dark Company project was named & co, and Drifting Stars is the album that features various remixes of assorted tunes.

& co have more of a dance flavour and lack guitars and vocals apart from samples. Some parts are lifted from the original song and you may hear them if you listen carefully.

See also:

http://www.wudrecords.co.uk/artists/dark-company

http://www.wudrecords.co.uk/artists/dark-company/drifting-stars/

https://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/album/rage-in-heaven

http://www.explicitmusic.co.uk/lyrics-information/dark-company/rage-in-heaven/terminal-road

https://twitter.com/Dark_Company

https://twitter.com/WudRecords

https://www.facebook.com/Dark-Company-154909774522910/

Golden Eye by Dark Company, from the album Rage in Heaven.

Lyrics by P. Greatorex.

Music by G. Davies/P. Greatorex/J. Willmot.

Recorded, engineered and mixed at Silent Running Studios Exeter 1992-3.

Remastered at Wud Records Studio One.

Copyright © 1993 Wud Records.

Copyright ℗ 1992 D & G Music/Explicit Music.

Performers:

Peter Greatorex – vocals

George Davies – guitars, sequencing

Jeff Willmot – sequencing

GOLDEN EYE

Somebody’s leaning on my “Mine’n’Me” monitor

Breaking off the flow from the floor

I’ve got such a laid back character

With much less it gives me more

Living inside a golden eye

Living inside an eye-yi-yi

Living inside a golden eye

Living inside an eye-yi-yi

Tarbaby’s smiling at my old thermometer

Cutting up on my peace pipe smoke

I got such a rare disease

I just can’t quite see the joke

Living inside a golden eye

Living inside an eye-yi-yi

Living inside a golden eye

Living inside an eye-yi-yi

Sitting down there on my checkerboard chair

Wasting away the hot house hours

I can see the back of the scenery

Wrapped around with them Nightshade flowers

Living inside a golden eye

Living inside an eye-yi-yi

Living inside a golden eye

Living inside an eye-yi-yi

Corporation cleaning on my sleepy nite streets

Sweeping up the dust of the day

I got such a carefree stare

You won’t think I care what you say

Living inside a golden eye

Living inside an eye-yi-yi

Living inside a golden eye

Living inside an eye-yi-yi

Fun facts:

This song is in the key of Fm.

George plays the guitar parts on the Ice Maiden.

Most of the sequencing was done using the TG33.

It’s possible to play this whole song as a one-chord song by playing Fno3rd.

Sometimes the F is major and sometimes minor.

You can hear the differences in George’s guitar licks as well as the chords.

See also:

http://www.wudrecords.co.uk/artists/dark-company

http://www.wudrecords.co.uk/artists/dark-company/rage-in-heaven

http://www.explicitmusic.co.uk/lyrics-information/dark-company/rage-in-heaven/golden-eye

https://twitter.com/Dark_Company

https://www.facebook.com/Dark-Company-154909774522910/

https://twitter.com/WudRecords

Lyrics by P. Greatorex.

Music by G. Davies/P. Greatorex/J. Willmot.

Recorded, engineered and mixed at Silent Running Studios Exeter 1992-3.

Remastered at Wud Records Studio One.

Copyright © 1993 Wud Records.

Copyright ℗ 1992 D & G Music/Explicit Music.

Performers:

Peter Greatorex – vocals

George Davies – guitars, sequencing

Jeff Willmot – sequencing

UNDER THE HILL

Now we are under Aubrey’s hill

Mannequins holding time so still

I’m alone beneath the trees and then I move

Gliding on the ice of winter’s mood

I sit and wonder like a dove

Three dreams from Heaven are enough

I’m angry by the lake and then I walk

Lean against the walls and hear them talk

I’m alone beside myself and never see

What everybody else says I should be

I’m alone beside myself and never see

What everybody else says I should be

Until time and times are done

No gold apples ripen in the sun

I’m careless by the sea and then I fly

Shell pressed to my ear, it whispers why

I’m alone beside myself and never see

What everybody else says I should be

I’m alone beside myself and never see

What everybody else says I should be

In sorrow there is no reward

Salt tears turn into a sword

I’m free beneath the moon and then I dance

With joy in every slyly sideways glance

I’m alone beside myself and never see

What everybody else says I should be

I’m alone beside myself and never see

What everybody else says I should be

Fun facts:

This song is in the key of Am and is 120BPM.

George plays the guitar parts on the Ice Maiden.

“Aubrey’s Hill” refers to the artist Aubrey Beardsley and his unfiished erotic novel also titled Under the Hill.

See also:

http://www.wudrecords.co.uk/artists/dark-company

http://www.wudrecords.co.uk/artists/dark-company/rage-in-heaven

http://www.explicitmusic.co.uk/lyrics-information/dark-company/rage-in-heaven/under-the-hill

https://twitter.com/Dark_Company

https://www.facebook.com/Dark-Company-154909774522910/

https://twitter.com/WudRecords

Lyrics by P. Greatorex.

Music by G. Davies/P. Greatorex/J. Willmot.

Recorded, engineered and mixed at Silent Running Studios Exeter 1992.

Remastered at Wud Records Studio One.

Copyright © 1992 Wud Records.

Copyright ℗ 1992 D & G Music/Explicit Music.

Performers:

Peter Greatorex – vocals

George Davies – guitars, sequencing

Jeff Willmot – bass, sequencing

SPOILER

We knelt and prayed by the Walls of Wind

Sinners that have lost the will to sin

An army of the wild-eyed and the lost

Itching with the truth and what it cost

We looked through all the cracks in Heaven’s walls

Mankind in there he looked so very small

We stood and walked to the Doors of Light

Artists that have left their canvas white

A sweet crowd of the haunted and the damned

With knowledge of the Sea and of the Land.

We looked through all the cracks in Heaven’s walls

Mankind in there he looked so very small

We sat and talked with the Gods of Sound

Fighters that have put their weapons down

A regiment that’s fixed and now is free

Blinded with the fact that we can see

We looked through all the cracks in Heaven’s walls

Mankind in there he looked so very small

We slept and thought of the Holy Ghost

Sailors that dreamt only of the coast

A navy of ships that had one name

Captained by Fortune’s brother, Fame

We looked through all the cracks in Heaven’s walls

Mankind in there he looked so very small

Fun facts:

This song is in the key of Dm.

George plays the guitar parts on the Ice Maiden and the solo on Nicodemus.

Jeff actually played his bass on this song.

The rhythm track on the sequencer was used by Jeff for a great variety of strange remixes and subditties.

Appropriately, the filename on the Atari was BEATS4IT.ALL!

Spoiler in this sense is about e.g. reading the last page of a novel first, rather than e.g. assisting the aerodynamics of dodgy old hatchback.

See also:

http://www.wudrecords.co.uk/artists/dark-company

http://www.wudrecords.co.uk/artists/dark-company/rage-in-heaven

http://www.explicitmusic.co.uk/lyrics-information/dark-company/rage-in-heaven/spoiler

https://twitter.com/Dark_Company

https://www.facebook.com/Dark-Company-154909774522910/

https://twitter.com/WudRecords

Lyrics by P. Greatorex.

Music by G. Davies/P. Greatorex/J. Willmot.

Recorded, engineered and mixed at Silent Running Studios Exeter 1992-3.

Remastered at Wud Records Studio One.

Copyright © 1993 Wud Records.

Copyright ℗ 1992 D & G Music/Explicit Music.

Performers:

Peter Greatorex – vocals

George Davies – guitars, sequencing

Jeff Willmot – bass, sequencing

MEDICINES

I can see that dark-set face

Hands crawl by fingering fate

Parsely, sage, rosary of time

Herbs to heal the modern mind

A wounded lover with a clockspring heart

Hears not the Heavens only metal stars

Drinks the liquor of certain flowers

Is released from lust to count the hours

There inside a secret garden

There inside a secret garden

Night’s sweet hush is for us all

No creeping thing is too small

Wings and webs a mottled map

Dawn will take the empties back

A solo soldier with a gunmetal head

Hears only the music of the marching dead

Drinks the liquor of certain flowers

Is released from lust to count the hours

There inside a secret garden

There inside a secret garden

Writhing vines climb the hill

Where we stand so very still

Columbine perfumed dark

The whitest flowers an eternal spark

A parish priest with a Bibled mouth

Speaks unnoticed of God and Doubt

Drinks the liquor of certain flowers

Is released from lust to count the hours

There inside a secret garden

There inside a secret garden

Fun facts:

This song is in the key of A#.

George plays the guitar parts on the Ice Maiden.

Jeff played his bassline into the S900.

When Pete sang the melody to George for the first time it took him ages to decide which of the multitude of different possibilities to go with.

There are two simultaneous guitar solos at the start of the song, both of which were recorded on the first take.

Pete was initially sceptical about the whispered vocal.

Various acoustic versions of this later appeared with the song transposed down to A.

It was performed by The Bastard Sons of Dennis and Dr Watson and used as a teaching resource by George in his TEFL classes.

Some of the bassdrum and snare parts were recorded by randomly bashing keys and then quantising.

It produced some remarkably pleasing results.

See also:

http://www.wudrecords.co.uk/artists/dark-company

http://www.wudrecords.co.uk/artists/dark-company/rage-in-heaven

http://www.explicitmusic.co.uk/lyrics-information/dark-company/rage-in-heaven/medicines

https://twitter.com/Dark_Company

https://www.facebook.com/Dark-Company-154909774522910/

https://twitter.com/WudRecords

Lyrics by P. Greatorex.

Music by G. Davies/P. Greatorex/J. Willmot.

Recorded, engineered and mixed at Silent Running Studios Exeter 1992-3.

Remastered at Wud Records Studio One.

Copyright © 1993 Wud Records.

Copyright ℗ 1992 D & G Music/Explicit Music.

Performers:

Peter Greatorex – vocals

George Davies – guitars, sequencing

Jeff Willmot – bass, sequencing

LOOKIN’ BAD

Lookin’ bad, tricky and sad

Smile came in with what he had

The dark-faced joker makes you pine for love

Even though you know you’ve got enough

Brewin’ a storm, sticky and warm

The dress she wears says you’d best be gone

What she got in mind for the midnite hour

Is you, sweet boy, for a night-time flower

It’s lookin’ bad, lookin’ bad

Oh, oh, oh, it’s lookin’ bad

Ringin’ the bell, can’t see too well

I can tell there’s trouble by the smoky smell

Your fine friend the doctor’s a-fading fast

If you’ve got a wish you’d better make it your last

Take your hand while you can

Keep it well away from the monkey man

I know lots of habits that can make you cold

But there isn’t any cure for growing old

It’s lookin’ bad, lookin’ bad

Oh, oh, oh, it’s lookin’ bad

Walkin’ around facin’ the ground

Shot-away sugar’s in the lost and found

Lucky charm loser’s changed another face

Emotional cripple’s come to take your place

You’ve got to run, leave it undone

Eros got his arrow notched on ‘stun’

Gotta be the last time you empty out your face

Or some Easy Rider sheriff’s gonna get on your case

It’s lookin’ bad, lookin’ bad

Oh, oh, oh, it’s lookin’ bad

It’s lookin’ bad, lookin’ bad

Oh, oh, oh, it’s lookin’ bad

Fun facts:

This song is in the key of E.

George plays all the guitar parts on the Ice Maiden.

Jeff's bass is played rather than sampled.

See also:

http://www.wudrecords.co.uk/artists/dark-company

http://www.wudrecords.co.uk/artists/dark-company/rage-in-heaven

http://www.explicitmusic.co.uk/lyrics-information/dark-company/rage-in-heaven/lookin-bad

https://twitter.com/Dark_Company

https://www.facebook.com/Dark-Company-154909774522910/

https://twitter.com/WudRecords

Lyrics by P. Greatorex.

Music by G. Davies/P. Greatorex/J. Willmot.

Recorded, engineered and mixed at Silent Running Studios Exeter 1992-3.

Remastered at Wud Records Studio One.

Copyright © 1993 Wud Records.

Copyright ℗ 1992 D & G Music/Explicit Music.

Performers:

Peter Greatorex – vocals

George Davies – guitars, sequencing

Jeff Willmot – bass, sequencing

TERMINAL ROAD

Flares burning, night stars turning

The jugglers and the clowns of the circus are returning

And the ghost of the hunter doesn’t stay any longer

He’s killed all the old things to make himself younger

Smoke rolling, red fires melting

The kings and the clerks of the money streets are running

And the sign of the soldier has been eaten by a creature

The world doesn’t need violence for a teacher

Here on Terminal Road

We’re on Terminal Road

Here on Terminal Road

We’re on Terminal Road

Lamps bleeding, rain clouds twisting

The mechanics and the mayors of the small towns are missing

And the mark of the beast is getting much clearer

It’s right up close and getting weirder and weirder

Flags flowing, colour fields glowing

The jokers and the knights of the past are cloning

And the shadows of the moon paint darkened faces

With a mere mirrored light that midnight chases

Here on Terminal Road

We’re on Terminal Road

Here on Terminal Road

We’re on Terminal Road

Fun facts:

This song is in the key of Dm.

George plays the guitar parts on Nicodemus.

Jeff played his bassline into the S900 and parts of it were used throughout the song.

When the band were to play live, the plan was to perform this song as the very last one so that they could leave the stage with just the machines working away.

See also:

http://www.wudrecords.co.uk/artists/dark-company

http://www.wudrecords.co.uk/artists/dark-company/rage-in-heaven

http://www.explicitmusic.co.uk/lyrics-information/dark-company/rage-in-heaven/terminal-road

https://twitter.com/Dark_Company

https://www.facebook.com/Dark-Company-154909774522910/

https://twitter.com/WudRecords