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Artist
Darkmode
12+ albums
technoenglishAciddjUnited Kingdom
about
Darkmode aka David Dodds first started producing music back in 1998 when he was studying a 2-year course in a BTEC National Diploma in Music Technology. In the 2nd year of his course he produced a CD for his major project, titled, Fish on Bricks. Some of the tracks were produced in his 1st year of the course using the colleges equipment. He used a Kurzweil K2000 synth and an 808 Drum Machine and recorded the tracks down on a 4-track porter studio. His lecturer gave him a referral for his CD as she didnt believe that he produced those tracks himself and said that he might have chosen the wrong profession. This comment made him more determined to pass the course and to make a career in music. After he finished the course he met Paul Smyth aka Suibom Serum during the summer of 2000 at a free party where Paul was playing at. Later on after becoming mates with Paul he gave him a copy of his CD. After listening to it, Paul, who loved it, encouraged him to pass copies of it out to DJs and live artists that played at Fastbreeder and Reverb, 2 techno nights that were being held in Newcastle at the time. After he handed out a load of copies of it out to artists he started getting good feed back from the likes of Andrew Weatherall, Keith Tenniswood, Regis who liked it that much he would listen to it in his car, DJ Bone and Jason Leach (Subhead). It was through Jason that David got one of his tracks from his CD onto the compilation album, The House of Wax, which got good reviews when it
