The Knockturn Alley Project

About Me

The Knockturn Alley Project is a remix project dedicated to very loosely remixing Wizard Rock songs into a hardcore/speedcore/extratone/anycoreyouwishtoname confusing mess, which will henceforth be known as wizardcore.

Because it's fun.

Member of Electronic Wizard

Member of Wizard Rock

Founder of Wizard Rock in the UK and Ireland
Apparantly, I'm an entry in a dictionary from the future.

DJ Knockturn --
[adjective]:

Like in nature to a banana peel

'How will you be defined in the dictionary?' at QuizGalaxy.com

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 3/22/2007
Band Members:

DJ Knockturn- programming, samples, mixing, and all manner of electronic gubbins.

MSN/e-mail: [email protected]

AIM- MedievalRevenant

skype- dj_knockturn

(Feel free to ad me, eh? I'm meant to be networking, and all that jazz.)

I also make music in the form of DJ Revenant and Knights of Walpurgis . Feel free to check them out, why dont you?
Influences:
Wrock: Harry and the Potters, Dobby and the House Elves, Dumbledork, Voldemort, and all the other Wrockers out there.

Muggle: DJ Sharpnel, DJ Clonepa, Mistress, Anaal Nathrakh, Agrophobic Nosebleed, Sun Ra, Frost, Sunn 0))), Pink Floyd, Jazzakid, Aborym, John Williams, Muse, Nine Inch Nails, Danny Elfman, Rammstein, Johnny Cash, Mayhem, Drakthrone, Cradle of Filth, Styricon, Amen, Alec Empire, Atari Teenage Riot, Slayer, Motorhead, MM, Devin Townsend, The Locust, Sigh, Necrophagia

And, naturally enough, JKR herself.

Sounds Like: Troll poetry composed under the influence of a mix of fire whiskey, the Cruciatus Curse, and a concotion from Weasley's Wizard Wheezes.
Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: None

My Blog

New song!

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Posted by The Knockturn Alley Project on Tue, 12 Aug 2008 02:34:00 PST

A quote about my music

"your music is made for extreme acid heads"I like that quote about my music (can you guess who said it?) , and I have chosen to embrace it for what it is.
Posted by The Knockturn Alley Project on Mon, 11 Aug 2008 11:40:00 PST

An update

First up- I have experienced a major hardware failure. This means no making of CDs, no playing at Accio Wrock! and, in general, has resulted in quite a bit that is decidedly ungood.However, I shall st...
Posted by The Knockturn Alley Project on Thu, 24 Jul 2008 03:29:00 PST

Busy busy busy

Working on three different wizard rock projects.Working on the last tracks of the EP- will be posting one or two up here, to give you a preview.Also, I am set to organise a monthly wizard rock show.An...
Posted by The Knockturn Alley Project on Tue, 22 Jul 2008 07:28:00 PST

So, whats been happening with me then?

Well, it's been a busy and odd three months since I last blogged here...so let's take things as they come.First of all- I am still only a song or two away from completing this odd album thing I have i...
Posted by The Knockturn Alley Project on Sun, 30 Mar 2008 05:30:00 PST

So long, 2007...

So, 2007 draws to a close.It's been a good year for me. A wonderful time really, in both the trivial and the profound.But as always, I have one eye on the future. I intend to finish the album for this...
Posted by The Knockturn Alley Project on Mon, 31 Dec 2007 10:09:00 PST

Album news!

Wowza- what a busy few months since my last blog, eh?Deathly Hallows to read and Pottor Rocks 07 to attend...both were, of course, awesome beyond words, but that's not why I'm blogging- no, I'm bloggi...
Posted by The Knockturn Alley Project on Fri, 30 Nov 2007 02:51:00 PST

Dum da dum

So, I'm getting back to work on various bits of music- Knockturn, other hardcore stuff, and some ambient noise oddness, which I'll produce like some nutter.Also, I've seen a trailer for [I]Rebuild of ...
Posted by The Knockturn Alley Project on Sat, 14 Jul 2007 12:42:00 PST

Noodlings inside

So, some of you may well have listened to Weasleycore- further proof that I love to muck around with songs and fulfill my motto of 'ruling your favourite songs since 11AM' and all that jazz.But that's...
Posted by The Knockturn Alley Project on Thu, 28 Jun 2007 12:48:00 PST

Songs and articles ahoy.

So, for all who might be wondering (which is probably, what, seven of you? No, wait, eight)- yes, I am working on new songs. Yes, I said new songs. But, yes, I'm taking the lessons learnt fr...
Posted by The Knockturn Alley Project on Thu, 14 Jun 2007 12:49:00 PST