By description: Dark wave, or darkwave, is a music genre that emerged from the new wave and post-punk movement of the late 1970s. Dark wave compositions are largely based on minor key tonality and introspective lyrics and have been perceived as being dark, romantic and bleak, with an undertone of sorrow.
I was asked to put together 2 1/2 hr sets of Darkwave music to spin on a local radio station 95.5 KRFF in Fargo, North Dakota. With the gener being as abstract, hollow, haunting, and rooted in punk, I tried to put something together that would cause more of a mood from sadness to the unexpected upbeat while still maintaining a dark undercurrent, lyrically or musically. There are no sub-geners represented in the mix. I tried to keep it rooted.
