Music

Twisted Twilight (2008)

This is my latest "album". It is a kind of compilation of dark electronica/trip-hop which will not feature vocals on every track like my previous albums. It is currently still in the making, and will probably consist of 15-20 tracks. All of these will be made available on this page at some point.

The Nightmare Project (2005)

The most recent album of mine is titled "The Nightmare Project". I have all new recording equipment and software and the sound quality has risen dramatically. I took my time with this album and put in maximum effort. The album features ArtOfficial, AJC, Profound, Scissor Hands and Sime Gezus. This is certainly the best CD I've made and could well mark the end of my solo projects, at least for a few years I think. The album is dark, cynical and has a socio political philosophical theme to it.

Return to the Land of Lost Soulz (2003)

This CD was pretty successful. It features 3 remixes, not from the Land Of Lost Soulz as the title suggests, but from Inexplikkable, these being "Breaking Glass", "Sticked & Stoned", and "Rain Of Silver Bullets". It features 13 brand new songs too. I am happy with the songs overall but some have minor flaws in them because of rushing to get it all out of the way. It is more aggressively dark rather than the eeriely dark like Deeper & Darker. Some of my best songs are on here.

Deeper & Darker (2003)

Deeper & Darker remains one of my favourites. I upgraded my recording equipment after the awfulness of R.I.P and produced many new instrumentals with which to work. The result was 19 tracks of high-quality music. I was pleased with each and every one of the songs on Deeper & Darker, probably because I spent time mastering and finishing each one. Maybe there aren't any hugely memorable songs like on Inexplikkable, but each track was very good in my opinion. Good to listen to in silence and total darkness.

My Abscess Speaks to Me (2003)

The second edition of Banned. This time the music was recorded and produced professionally, giving it a more "music-like" sound which wasn't present in the previous attempt. It was still humour based, and very different humour at that. A very manic sense of humour of myself and Lew made this album rather unforgettable. The songs are based on anything from growing an udder, to real life events like "Lock Stock and Lew Fell Over A Fence". We managed to sell a couple. A very good and unique album I think.

Consequences (2002)

Consequences was an attempt to refurbish some of the best songs I had made over the previous 3 albums. At the time, I thought I succeeded, and I listened to it whilst on holiday in 2001 and it sounded good. Now though, I realise the vocal quality is similar to that of R.I.P and is a major downfall. The originals of most of the songs on this CD remain better than the re-vamps. With 11 songs, none of which were new in any way, this was just something to fill the time between R.I.P and Deeper & Darker.

Go Large for 29p (2002)

Go Large was the beginning of the Banned musical empire. It was formed by myself, Lew and Danny as a comedy band. Although humour was the intention, the methods of production and recording made the track quite scary actually. The humour was numbed by the distorted sounds and strange tunes. Truly a genre on it's own. The album had 29 songs including the interludes, and it shall be remembered by me as a very interesting piece of music. The follow up was far better in music terms though.

R.I.P (2001)

This album showed improvement in my lyric writing, but the vocals on this album were quite horrible now I listen to them. I staretd experimenting with various filtering effects which sounded good at the time, which made my vocal quality diminish greatly. There weren't any outstanding songs on this album either. Some parts of the album are o.k. but overall it's quite disappointing considering all the time I spent on it. I ended up rushing to get it finished so it was not 100%. R.I.P was probably the best song on this album.

The Inexplikkable (2000)

My second album was quite a grimy, gritty thing which demonstrated my early Fruityloops music. The mediocre recording techniques made it have the gritty sound which was quite good as I look back on it. My rap skills were not very good on this album, but my darker style came through a bit in the lyrics and overall tone of the album. Some of my best compositions were on this album including "Breaking Glass", 'Rain Of Silver Bullets', "Ghosts" and "Sticked & Stoned".

Rain of Silver Bullets EP (2000)

This was a prelude CD to my second album. It featured several songs from the first album, as well as some of the new stuff that was to appear on the following Inexplikkable Album. The title track "Rain Of Silver Bullets" remains one of the most memorable tracks I have ever produced, now having done 3 or 4 re-takes of it. This was a CD simply to hand out to people to give them a taste of my music, and was just a filler before Inexplikkable was finished a while after this EP was made.

The Land of Lost Soulz (1999)

This was my (DarkReaver13's) first solo album which followed the completion of my group album "Spiritz & Soulz" with the Krypt Krawlerz. It was the beginning of a continuous flow of music production from myself. The first album was half made with Hip-Hop E-Jay and relatively speaking, wasn't particularly impressive, but it gave me the foundations for progressing with my music. It had 15 songs and an outro and featured Profound (then Subvert), AJC, ArtOfficial (then U.P.S) and my brother.

Spiritz & Soulz (1998)

This was the first ever album which I featured on. It was me and two close friends (AJC & Profound) who decided to form a rap group. We were 14 at the time, and completely inexperienced. This was the very beginning of the personal legacy I created. The songs are still nice to listen to for nostalgic purposes, and to laugh at. A couple of the songs aren't bad at all, like Kold Alley. The music itself is really chilled out on this track. The album was produced using Hip-Hop eJay 2, hardly a professional tool.

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