"Eclipse"

The 2nd song from our new concept album The Bone Asylum, we are proud to release “Eclipse” featuring guitar performances by Michael Angelo Ormando. Available today on iTunes, Apple Music, Amazon.com,  Spotify, Google Music Store, and soon on and many other fine digital outlets.

Dead Poets Society - “Eclipse”, cover design by Jessica Griffin-Conner

At this stage in our story, Olivia Orpheus is wracked with grief after the loss of her lover Alan to terminal cancer. She seeks out answers. She ponders what, or even IF there is a future for her:

 

lyrics

black sun dawning on my technicolor day
old goths never die they only fade to grey
blackness surrounds me but I’m not the only one
I recognize resentment in the eyes behind the sun.

don’t take away this love I have longed for
please take away this pain….
My heart is filled with untouched emotion
eclipsed by endless rain

white orb light fills me and I am complete again
if wholeness can be measured when your barely even sane
killing my presence until there is nothing left to see
nothing but the emptiness you’ve left inside of me…

don’t take away this love I have longed for
please take away this pain
My heart is filled with untouched emotion
eclipsed by endless-

rain beats on my window
a million stars descending down
shattered drops of crystal
burst on the pavement with no sound
in these tears I wander
my essence dead but mortal bound
without your sun my shadow
is hidden in this earthly shroud

don’t take away this love I have longed for
please take away this pain
my heart is filled with untouched emotion
eclipsed by endless rain

don’t take away this love I have longed for
please take away this pain
my heart is filled with untouched emotion
eclipsed by endless rain

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lyrics by Jessica Griffin-Conner
vocals by Jessica Griffin-Conner
guitars performed by Michael Angelo Ormando ( aka Michael X of The Dragonflies/The Raven Trybe)
mixed and engineered by Wa Conner and Jessica Griffin-Conner
produced by Dead Poets Society

Dead Poets Society singles available through Paypal!

Remixes and Rarities by DPS. Painting by Edward Walter

If you have a valid Paypal account, you can purchase from here a few of our albums, and many of our singles (including some previously unavailable for purchase singles from our forthcoming album The Bone Asylum) with nothing more required than a valid Paypal account. At $.75, you cannot find a cheaper price for our songs on the net.

This store has our albums, The Electric Haze, Deprogramming, and our limited edition album Remixes and Rarities.

All Because of You!

Due to the overwhelming support at Jango, our band was recently awarded additional plays on their radio channels! Thank you so much! You guys rock! If you haven’t been over there yet, the link is here.

 

Plus, we’ve added “The Endless Shore”, which is another track from our next album, The Bone Church, for you to check out, and add to your music stations there.

Fans, once again, thank you very much!

New Dead Poets Society Songs on Jango!

Just in time for Halloween, you can listen to four new tracks, “Karma Factory”, “Despair and Despondency”, “Apoplexy”, and “This Vast Ocean of Wire” from our forthcoming new concept album, The Bone Church, right here on Jango.com (the free internet radio station).

This is the only spot you can hear them for now! Please be sure to “Fan” the band. We would love to hear comments about the new songs.

DPS: Remixes and Reflections - The NIN Edition, is up!

This episode features two Dead Poets Society remixes of songs by Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails, our 2005 remix of “Only”, and a fresh remix of “Survivalism” that is only available in this podcast! I also de-lurk and say hello. The podcast is now available on iTunes! Please let us know what you think!

Enjoy it. Save it. Spread it around.  Everyone needs a little R and R once in awhile, right?

Cylon #6 by John Anealio

John Anealio has a great blog full of Geek, Sci-fi, and Fantasy songs. He posted “Cylon #6” in June of 2009 after being inspired by Battlestar Galactica and particularly Tricia Helfer.  I enjoyed the song, but felt I could bring out his inner Jimmy Buffett a bit more with some small mix changes. The structure is nearly identical, but the pacing is slightly slower and I reworked the levels to give it a bit more of a Pop feel. I also brought out his vocals a bit more.  The result was this mix. 

 

Hope you enjoy it.

:)

 

 

 

Cylon #6 (dead poets society mix, feat. John Anealio)

Remixes and Reflections

We’ve done some remixes over the years for other bands. Many of them have been, or still are available on sites like mp3.com, soundclick.com, etc. We figured it was about time that we collect them all in one place, and furthermore to make them available as a podcast,  and RSS Feed to anyone who would like to keep up with them. Occasionally, we may add our recollections and reflections to the feed, which should spice things up once in awhile. We also may provide you with previews of new, or other previously unheard tracks, as well.

 

Enjoy the first one we’ve posted. It is our extremely popular remix of Depeche Mode’s “I Feel Loved (dead poets society)” mix.

A Nice Week of DPS Laden Podcasts.

The music of Dead Poets Society has been listed at The Podsafe Music Network for just over a week now and we’ve been fortunate enough to have had our songs Halo (dead poets society mix), Invisible Monsters, Synners, Fire Bolt (live at the zebra lounge), and Mohawk (dead poets society mix) all played on GD’s Bite Size Bonus, A Better Day and
Bump You Up.

I’ve mentioned GD’s Bite Size Bonus in a previous post a few days back. I can’t express how cool Green Dragon’s show is. It is really remarkable what kind of global music program he is able to put together five days a week, Monday through Friday. If you are a music fan, I highly recommend this program. I can’t get over the fact that he played “The Electric Haze” last week and has generously played our Collide remix “Halo (dead poets society mix)”, “Synners” (influenced by the novel by Pat Cadigan), and our Hotboxed remix “Mohawk (dead poets society mix) this week.

That our music was played on A  Better Day, the fitness podcast,  was a bit of a surprise to me as I had never considered that someone might enjoy hearing our song “Invisible Monsters” (inspired by Chuck Palahniuk’s novel of the same name) while working up a sweaty lather. Okay, I had considered it, but I had always envisioned someone working up an entirely different kind of sweaty lather. lol

Bump You Up is a brand new podcast. Our song “Fire Bolt (live from the Zebra lounge)” appeared in the second episode. DJ Trashy, the host, indicates that he created the show as a resource for podcasters to find “intros, outros, musical beds and jingles”. I’ll be honest, the podcast sounds like it is still settling into a groove and finding its way. Although you can still hear the rough edges  it is clearly heartfelt. It remains to be seen how the show will mature and develop.



Some of you may remember that DPS was on mp3.com before it folded. As of December 2003 we moved our songs to Soundclick.com. We are happy to announce that Soundclick.com finally worked out all the kinks to a brand new feature… the return of STATIONS!

Stations and soundclick accounts are absolutely FREE! Perfect for those of you who enjoy creating your own music stations featuring your favorite independent music from any and all genres! Head on over to Soundclick.com and add the music of Dead Poets Society to your favorite station today! Your selection and daily enjoyment of your station will ensure the continued placement of Dead Poets Society at the top of the charts. As of today, Dead Poets Society was listed on over 200 stations!

Moving Hands reviews Decomposition: Reinventing Minefield.

MovingHands.net

   ” …I haven’t heard the original versions so I have no idea how this sounds compared to that, but this sounds great. The vocals performed by Tamara Kent are great, a clear and crisp voice, at times invincible, indestructible, at times terribly fragile, as if she could break any second. Tamara’s voice reminds me a lot of Tori Amos, especially on “It’s too late”, where the piano treatment resembles the sound of Amos as well, only the surroundings here are a bit more industrial.
    The remix provided by Dead Poets Society is truly magnificent, ever growing, ever changing, the vocals layered over simple electronics and great noisy beats with the piano floating on top…”
  

/Fredrik Hörström

 

Click here for the rest of the review.

 

Wrapped in Wire reviews The Electric Haze

Wrapped in Wire

This act creates great electronic instrumentals. Their music is very full and well textured with a lot happening in it. Since these are instrumental tracks relying simply on the music without vocals, the music needs to be good to hold your interest. And the music is superb. It mixes a lot of different genres within it such as EBM, techno, trance, tribal, ambient, experimental, etc.

This is pure electronic music created with programming, sampling and synths. There is a lot of variety throughout this release with each and every track sounding different. Some stand out more than others, but everything is good here.

There is a mixture of structured music and experimental music to be found here. I do find the structured music to be a little easier to listen to and enjoy. But the experimental music is interesting in its own way as well.

If you enjoy varied electronic music without any vocals, this CD is for you.