Darren Williams

The music I'm writing and producing at the moment is pretty much dance-orientated indie music. I grew up listening to indie and rock n roll, but i also had a rather big liking for trance and house music (the real stuff, not the cheesy ten-a-penny shit). I loved certain elements of the trance sound, like the huge soundscapes created by a lovely Roland Supersaw - that just knocked me backwards a bit in amazement. The first song that had this effect on me was Carte Blanche by Vera Cocha. I developed a huge love for Ferry Corsten and Vincent De Moor right there. I eventually got into more and more dance music, mainly Dutch Trance. At the same time, I was listening to a whole lot of indie and "emo" stuff. All these genres had a lot of sensitivity and I thought back to New Order who combined dance and indie effortlessly. I decided a few years later, after I had learned to produce dance music (self-taught) that this was the kind of thing I wanted to do. I realised Trance wasn't usually encorporated with Indie, so I decided to make some nice trancey synths and mix them into indie beat-driven songs with electro basslines. I think it worked rather better than expected. By doing this I think I've created something others haven't really dared or tried to do.

Darren started writing and recording solo material early in 2004.

I plan on doing so soon when I have more material like the new stuff. I've had offers.

Everything from New Order and The Postal Service to French House and Trance. I like alsorts of elements from different genres. I like the shuffling funk of french house, and I love the sincerity in folk music, so I'm pretty much influenced by everyone from Joni Mitchell to Ferry Corsten. A lot of my stuff is born out of experimenting though.

Guitars by Crafter,Art Lutherie and Fender. Microphones by Shure. Recording Hardware: an EDIROL UR-80 USB Controller by Roland. Recording Software: Cubase SX with various plug-ins including: Pro 53, z3ta, junglist, absynth. Keyboards by Yamaha.