The Darkest: Drafts 2008-2018

by Daniel Bock

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1.	#RIPUNIVERSE (I) 01:30	buy track
2.	In Dreams 01:31	buy track
3.	ghost face [Van Darke] 03:04	buy track
4.	Terror (Ain't My Middle Name) 02:16	buy track
5.	Bangkok {Test02} 02:21	buy track
6.	Trail of Blood, Trail of Hope 04:47	buy track
7.	Heathrow [Van Darke] 04:36	buy track
8.	Breezy 02:00	buy track
9.	X1 (Havana) 02:02	buy track
10.	The Detective 03:32	buy track
11.	Starstruck [Van Darke] 01:03	buy track
12.	The Darkest 01:41	buy track
13.	Springtime (Honeymoon I) 02:05	buy track
14.	Windows (Honeymoon II) 02:52	buy track
15.	Drunkenmoon (Honeymoon III) 04:00	buy track
16.	{Part_1} 03:44	buy track
17.	Mount The Mountain [Van Darke] 02:22	buy track
18.	one stolen heart 01:45	buy track
19.	The Union [Night Driving V0.5] 04:09	buy track
20.	Summer (Is Over) 01:20	buy track
21.	X2 (The Road To Alburqurgue) 03:02	buy track
22.	Love Is A Heartattack (take the staten island ferry, take it hard) 01:02	buy track
23.	The Bird Eater's Mouth 01:22	buy track
24.	Going Away Now Yeah 01:32	buy track
25.	#RIPUNIVERSE (II+III+True Romance) 02:50	buy track

about

This is a bizarre release. A mixtape of sorts, a sketch book, a selection of drafts I decided to abandon for one reason or another. All 25 songs were produced over the course of a decade - mostly my 20s - which is a long time for anything let alone a collection of music. The quality is all over the place: some songs only existed in MP3-form to begin with, while others are ‘properly’ mixed. The music is somewhat fine but the lyrics are just improvised trash - which gives the release a strange beauty, I must admit.

Some songs are obviously more worked out than others (most prominently the Van Darke-tracks) but none are what you would consider 'really done'. There is no order to the songs either; no audible build up, no crescendo. I shuffled them around until the last minute. It starts slow, ideas weave in and out, bitrates get smashed and magically reappear, and then… it just ends. Most of the time the tracklist feels random, but occasionally the songs click into each other and reveal their true, half-sibling-nature.

Most of the songs feel like ghosts to me now, like unborn babies, haunted. I don’t remember writing or recording any of them. There was a different apartment once, there was a different set of friends. A different life, I suppose.
I’m not sure I can recommend this release to anyone. I don’t really expect anyone to find it listenable, let alone liking it. I do however. It successfully captures my cluttered mind in a cluttered decade. And as the universe strives towards entropy, so do we. Therefore one could argue that clutter is our one true nature.

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released May 5, 2023

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Daniel Bock Berlin, Germany

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