"a long shout"

 

A long overdue big shout going out to S. Vispi, B. Thomas, D. Duncan aka Intense aka Babylon Timewarp aka various other identities

Here's a disorganized playlist including also some of their celebrated remixers and allies like Little Mat and D.O.P.E.

"j'ai peur" ( transmissions du côté obscur)

at least i think that's what she's saying

darkside en Francais

this one is a beaut - ruff yet smooth



less smooth prototype



smoother alternate mix



somehow the works of D.O.P.E. have bypassed me until this point








excellent stuff


postscript 4/15

according to Original Chills in comment, the "j'ai peur" sample is sourced in this Belgian techno track



from 1991 so that's proto-darkside that's very proto then

(although a lot of acid house was proto-darkside, so perhaps more accurate to say that darkside is a flavour, a strand, running right through the stick of Brighton rock that is housetechnorave)