Darkness On Demand – White Clouds (EP – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: EBM.
Format: Digital.
Background/Info: Only one month after their new album “Digital Outcast” Berlin formation Darkness On Demand strikes back with an EP featuring next to the title song and an alternative edit three new songs and one remix.
Content: “White Clouds” is fully representative for the global sound approach of Wagner and Falgalas; the mix of power and evasion. Any Second remixed “Last Attack” -which is another song from the new album, into a hard and dark edit. Among the three new cuts I noticed two potential hits revealing powerful sound production and elaborated composition. The last new cut is a kind of Ambient ‘outro’.
+ + + : This EP serves as a perfect addendum to “Digital Outcast”. “White Clouds” isn’t my favorite song from the album although it remains an interesting, and fully representative song of Darkness On Demand. I’m more into the new cuts “Volle Kraft Vorraus” and “Say Hello” which both are engaged pieces of dynamic, dancefloor-driven, Electro music with alluring vocals on top. Any Second -which is a band I really like, did a great job remixing “Last Attack”. There’s enough stuff for DJs to feature from this EP.
– – – : I regret the new songs didn’t get released on CD format but we have to face the truth; this is the digital age! I’m a bit skeptical about “White Clouds” as the title song.
Conclusion: This EP stands for a band with a meaning while producing a styled and solid Electronic sound.
Best songs: “Volle Kraft Vorraus”, “Say Hello”, “Last Attack – Any Second Remix”, “White Clouds – Maxi Version”.
Rate: 8½.
Artist: www.darknessondemand.com / www.facebook.com/darknessondemand
Label: www.alfa-matrix.com / www.facebook.com/Alfa.Matrix
Listen to “White Clouds”:
About Darkness On Demand
Darkness On Demand is a German dark electro/EBM duo formed by vocalist Gary Wagner and producer Falgalas, who have played together since 1993, first as Dance Or Die. As Darkness On Demand the pair released two albums on Repo Records before signing to Alfa Matrix, where they issued the “Final Way” EP and the single “Hang On (Winterhart Remix)”.
The duo’s third full length, “Digital Outcast”, followed on Alfa Matrix in September 2023, four years after the album “Detoxination”. The “White Clouds” EP arrived one month later, pairing the title track with three new songs and an Any Second remix of “Last Attack”. Darkness On Demand went on to release the album “Panic In Reserve” in December 2024 and the EP “Silence” in March 2025.
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