Dusky

Some Perthonal thoughts

🇦🇺 Next Oz shows this coming weekend 🇦🇺
Fri 13/2 Port Beach Brewery, Perth
Sat 14/2 Glass Island, Sydney
Sat 14/2 Night Cat, Melbourne

Our brand new 4 track E.P. “Tales from the Power Hour” is out today 🚨

These were a blast to make. We wanted the 4 tracks to represent four different sides of the music we’re enjoying making and playing in our DJ sets recently. Manticore is a 140bpm melodic, bass heavy, rave inspired number with an Electro twist. Percy Veering is a vocal house jam that harks back to some of the earliest Dusky tracks, while Heart Trance Plant is our most explicitly trance-influenced track to date, inspired by mid-90s trance artists like Cygnus X. Finally, Strong Tackle takes influence from Acid Techno and various 00s UK techno strains. All 4 have been well and truly tried and tested on the dance-floor and have earned the seal of approval from crowds at our recent shows.

Available on all streaming and download sites now 🔊

Taking it back to our set at WHP playing ‘Heart Trance Plant’ from our upcoming EP Tales from the Power Hour, out this Friday 💥

Have some exciting shows lined up in the coming months - a reminder of dates for you below..

06.02 Canberra, ONE22
07.02 Sydney, Inception Cruise
07.02 Brisbane, La La Land
13.02 Perth, Port Beach Brewery
14.02 Sydney, Glass Island
14.02 Melbourne, The Night Cat
07.03 Leeds, The Warehouse
20.03 Manchester, Joshua Brookes
28.03 London, Colour Factory
22.05 London, High Lights

Links in bio 🔗🔗🔗

Bringing the energy down under in February 🇦🇺

06.02 - ONE22, Canberra
07.02 - Inception Cruise, Sydney
07.02 - La La Land, Brisbane
13.02 - Port Beach Brewery, Perth
14.02 - Theatre Royal, Castelmaine
14.02 - Night Cat, Melbourne

See you there

Thanks to everybody who’s been streaming and buying this one, “Our Love” is the 2nd track from our Lord of the Ring Roads EP.

“Our Love” is a tribute to classic house, started on a laptop on a flight to the USA, and later finessed in the Dusky studio, though it was one of those ones where it felt like it wrote itself in that nothing much changed from the original sketch. It’s part classic Chicago house, part New Jersey, but also has elements of the UK garage-adjacent house we used to hear on pirate radio growing up.

On that note, a short story part. 2:

LORD OF THE RING ROADS: THE TWO TOWER BLOCKS

Bilbo tightens the final screw of the new radio transmitter on top of the second tower block. He smiles - The Shire finally had a pirate radio station. He does a celebratory shuffle but a misplaced step back and suddenly he slips. He falls several floors until Gandalf saves the day riding a giant pigeon. A quick text on the Nokia to Frodo who turns on the radio in his flat the other side of the valley. Coming through loud and clear! Precious FM 107.2 finally live. Old Skool? Nazgûl? No, strictly House music. House of Gondor 24/7. Last few bars of “Battle For Middle You” and then Dusky’s “Our Love” comes on. B3 organ stabs cutting through the traffic noise. Their work here is done.

Very happy to announce our next London show will take place at on the 28th March, where we’ll be playing an extended set..

It also coincides with Alfie’s birthday, so if you don’t come, he will take personal offence.

RSVP now for early access, link in bio 🔗

Very excited to announce our “Lord of the Ring Roads” EP is out today! Been hammering these ones in our DJ sets all over Middle Earth.

LORD OF THE RING ROADS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RAVE, a short story:

The sodium streetlights reflected in the dashboard of Bilbo’s battered Vauxhall Astra. Frodo gripped the dog-eared “Handy Road Atlas of Great Britain” tightly, the wind from the broken passenger side window fluttering the pages. SQ80 and M1 Pianos crackled on the radio. There had been many roads on this journey. One does not simply walk into a rave. Still they searched. A warning light flashed. Fuel tank nearly empty. 40 miles from home. A long way from the Shire. The last junction approached.

Suddenly they heard the sound system, the sweet subharmonic frequencies mixing with the breakbeats. This was it, the rave of all raves. The final rave. Cast it into the fire they said. But first, one last dance. Lasers piercing the sky. Big fish little fish cardboard box. What’s your name and what you on. Never come down. Hardcore will never die. Pianos and more pianos. Pure Euphoria. They say ring roads never end. It’s true. One ring road to rule them all, and in the darkness bind them.

'Keep On (Club Dub)' is out today on 17 Steps. We made an alternate version to better fit the vibe of our DJ sets compared to the original, deeper mix. We’ve always loved the way classic house records often had a few versions of a track on a release, and in homage to that we thought the original of Keep On deserved a re-work.

As you were. Keep On ❤️

Stream/buy: https://17steps.ffm.to/053r'