Darkplace 99.4fm

03/02/2021

Darkplace episodes are now quite sporadic. So I'm going to upload any notable episodes to this soundcloud. Here's monday's special show dedicated to SOPHIE

I'm stingey and won't pay for soundcloud premium, so each month or so I'll have to delete the episodes to make way for new ones. If you want the file for a specific show, just ask :3

https://soundcloud.com/garth-marenghi-909038061/darkplace-january-2021-for-sophie-3

01/02/2021

tonight, tune in for a special one hour show 7-8pm.

SOPHIE inspired a lot of darkplace nights (almost every electronica night playlist I have recorded from darkplace featured SOPHIE).

Here's to an immensely special artist 💜

12/10/2020

Darkplace is on tonight, from 7pm 🦇

14/09/2020

Last month's tunes... Darkplace emerges again tonight from 7pm 🖤

Churlington - we've forgotten much...how to struggle... the rainbow is bleached
Pompom - the faster I go the further you get
Till Wompson - pacing
Sora Shima at the edge of hope is despair + loss
Bailterspace - Begin
Stars and the Underground - Nosferatu upon tyne
Wax Chattels - no ties
REPAIRS - cut to the chase
First Move fuse
Murgatroyd dead bigot
Lingua Ignota - Jolene
Spook the Horses - self destroyer
Hunting dog - my body
Tom hang - statistical remedy
Het - aphasia
Black nationalist sonic weaponry - American marxists
Skee Mask - meals
Arca - rip the slit
SOPHIE MSMSMSM - not okay alone mix
Bucky - foreign blocks
Regis - the blind departing
nazar - raxa w/brodinski
Synthetic Children jagrafess (pre release preview)
Strange Stains semi degrees of fomo
DJ2Fuk2 - dog song yosaiah rework

10/08/2020

return of the darkplace! tonight 7pm-9pm ✨🖤✨ on Radio Control 99.4FM

09/08/2020

DARKPLACE ANNOUNCEMENT FROM THE VOID.

TLDR: darkplace has been gone for a while, but there will be a special return of darkplace episode this monday 7-9pm. Darkplace won't be returning weekly, but will ideally be every second Monday of the month to coincide with Bandcamp Fridays. Darkplace format may be changing in the future, read for details.

So, not that I think this show has regular listeners or anything, but some of you might have noticed that Monday nights on 99.4fm haven't been playing my usual concoction of goth and electronic doomgaze stuff, and I haven't been posting playlists. This is partly due to a music burnout after lockdown, and now adding to that is the fact that my new place of work is next to the studio. While this might seem like a convenience at first (and I'm still trying to convince myself that it is), when I'm tired after work I really don't feel like staying there another 4 hours, nevermind driving back there once I've cooked dinner and crashed at home. Darkplace isn't my only 'creative' hobby either, and so for the sake of time management, I guess it just fell off my priority list. Sorry for that all you dark fiends.

However, I still love to curate and collect lots of darkplace style music, especially all the great local stuff that's been coming out this year. The Bandcamp Fridays (where Bandcamp give 100% of profits back to the artists on the first Friday of each month), have been really good for the darkplace library, and for directly supporting those artists that make up the core of the darkplace 'sound'.

I have quite a bit of new music to share as a result, even if it is just to myself on air. So, this Monday I'll be bringing Darkplace back for the full 2 hours, 7pm-9pm. There will also be a Synthetic Children special demo ✨ Please tune in or comment requests xoxo

In the long run, I still don't think I have the energy to bring high quality Darkplace shows every week, so for the short term future I'm going to be hosting Darkplace once a month, on the second Monday of each month to coincide with the Bandcamp Fridays.

Long term, inspired by the legendary Darkplace VIP Fraser, I'm looking at transporting Darkplace to another format... A blog. I haven't figured this out much beyond thinking, this sounds fun, but hopefully this will be up and running by 2021.

If you made it this far, Darkplace loves you. See you on Monday night.

25/05/2020

Special Darkplace edition tonight from 7-9pm! 100% NZ TUNES! Lots of local stuff that I've enjoyed at gigs over the last few years 🖤🦇🖤

Playlist tonight includes all the bangers from
$hannengeorgiapetersen
bad friend
goto
First Move
the new SODA BOYZ single!!!
Felix and Jack
≈milk≈
CHARLIE (OPI)
SUN GIRL
Lesser Secrets
Ex-Partner
Tū ViBe
Ludus
ＤＥＰＡＲＴＭＥＮＴ　ＯＦ　ＬＡＢＯＵＲ
Het
Marcus Hermit
Totems
Hybrid Rose
Alpha Beta Gamma

18/05/2020

Apologies there will be no Darkplace again tonight, just juggling a few things. Back next week hopefully 🦇

04/05/2020

if you missed tonight's darkplace, fear not. here's the full playlist from the show, which will be updated over the weekend for next week's show. you can enjoy darkplace whenever you want :) https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7F3EbJ8JwmR18BDsrnTBa0?si=CccwzefBS4S3lxjWoQqu5g

and here's the synthetic children improv set with Tobyn that played for the last half hour https://soundcloud.com/synthetic-children/improv-w-tobyn-real-audio?in=synthetic-children/sets/improvwithtobyn

weekly slice of darkplace (spotify only files)

04/05/2020

Darkplace is back tonight! Tune in from 7-9pm. Dark witchy beats? maybe bordering on dnb? We haven't gone this far into the void before who knows 🖤 🖤 🖤 anything could happen... Like the synthetic children live improvisation recording!! This will be some sort of finale to the show for the last half-hour xx

20/04/2020

Synthetic Children live set from last night - https://soundcloud.com/synthetic-children/isolationsession

Also - new local music under lockdown compilation from the tummy. check it https://thestomach.bandcamp.com/

see you next monday

live synthetic children set from the Isolation Session on Radio Control 99.4fm, 20/04/20.

20/04/2020

Going live at 7. Synthetic Children at 8 🖤🖤🖤