DJ on the Dark side.. DJ Kris Halo launches new darkerside music teaming up with producer Melodywhore to bring you something far from the usual lick that’s out there. Devil In A Black Dress out in November and the No Peace Maxi Single which is out now.
Listen to the new song here
Celebrating 20 years of making music for the dark side. A ‘Best of Halo Askew’ of sorts. Starting with LifeLine – originally conceived around 2000 and is probably known by another name. There are tracks with Mind Static, Aversion Theory, Claus Larsen, Jason Bazinet, Dismantled, Jay Ruin and Melodywhore to spice it up a little. Also includes some previously unreleased tracks. “ I feel like I earned my ‘Poor Man’s Metropolis Records’ status on this one”
KRIS HALO PIERCE (AKA DJ Halo/Haunted Echo) is a multi-award winning, genre-crossing producer and author with placements at MTV, Interscope, ViacomCBS, Sony Creative, Cleopatra Records, Distortion Productions, and TagWizz (Music Mash: Alexa Skills); just to name a few. His sound is often referred to as Balearic Beat and Cinematic Ambient, but he’s best known for his work with the Electro-Pop artist, Kim Cameron, which has been recognized by the Global Music Awards, Latitude Film Awards, the European Independent Film Award, and the Orlando Film Festival, in addition to being remixed by the Grammy Award winning, Bimbo Jones Duo. He stars as Steve the Starfish (in addition to writing original music) in the upcoming children’s animated film, Seaper Powers, and there was also that time he performed on America’s Got Talent (8 million viewers). He’s even worked on Broadway (Gettin’ The Band Back Together). He owns and operates Halo Askew Entertainment (BMI) – a multi-platform, boutique publishing company based in New Jersey.
DJ Halo released numerous albums under the name Haunted Echo. Most notably, singles ShapeTracer and Runaway which received promotional sponsorship and publication by ViacomCBS. Kirs has also done a Underground goth project called Resident51 with Claus Larsen (Leaetherstrip), Jason Bazinet (SMP, Front Line Assembly), Zef Noise (Peter Murphy, Jonathan Davis), and Elaine Benavides (NativeLab).
melodywhore is a darkwave electronic project with post rock and industrial roots. It began around 2000 and has had a number of incarnations since. In 2017, the xenophilia album was released which marked a change towards building a brand. The first ever EP “DarkLight” dropped late July. and melodywhore is working on new material and community collabs when he isn’t working on his weekly Radio-Dark-Tunnel radio shows.
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Mixcloud: https://www.mixcloud.com/haloaskew/