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About Darmin De'flern:
Darmin was born in South Wales Valleys, UK. He has had an interest in music ever since he could remember. At the age of 27, Darmin started to create his own lyrics and melody's. Reflections of the Soul was compiled in 2000 and many of these tracks were formed from those early melody's. Since then creating lyrics, composing and playing music has become a large part of his life. Recently the opportunity has arisen to change a passion into an occupation. The result this web site was created to establish a presence, to host and promote his music. Darmin is currently working on his fifth album titled "Ballads" and is a different from his past albums in that all the tracks are songs (previous tracks were mainly instrumental).
Darmin's achievements include numerous number 1's in the old MP3.com under classical genre in Cardiff Section, some of which went on to become top ten in the all format section in Cardiff. Other tracks hit the top 10 in the Rock and Electronica, dance genres in the Cardiff Section (and top 10 in Cardiff all formats). Love and Tears sung by The Bard of Ely reached number 1 in the all formats charts in Cardiff and number 8 in the Love charts UK. 1066 a film score, orchestral piece was number 1 in all formats in Cardiff and reached number 84 in the Classical genre charts in UK (Vanessa May was number 3 in the same charts at the time).
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Music Notables and Accomplishments (chronological)
What happend? | Duration : Date | Achievements and Comments
| At the age of nine was given lessons on the piano by a private tutor. | 3 years from 1981-83 | Reached Piano Grade 3 with the London School of Music.
| Long absence from playing music but still kept an interest. Listened to a variety of music genres, from the new romantics to the heavy metal scene!
| N/A | | Employed as a Telecoms Engineer at a Local Authority in Wales. A colleague (Rob Turner) encouraged both a lyrical ability and musical talent.
| 1997 | Purchased first keyboard Techincs KN5000. Started to create music and lyrics. At this early stage recorded tracks to keyboard (floppy disk) and then recorded to PC (all mixing done on keyboard).
| Bought a second keyboard Roland VA7 after listening to a demo in a music shop. | 1998 | Taught myself how to play two keyboards at once (used Techincs as bass and Roland as lead) in addition to singing live.
| Formed a band (Terarrim) whos eventual members were to be Rob Taylor, Stephen Taylor, Alwyn Williams, John Sandel, Darmin De'Flern. | 1 year from 1998-99 | Recorded four songs (three written by Darmin De'flern one written by Stephen and Rob Taylor). Debut gig at Jumping Jacks (bar in Cardiff) to decent reception.
All four tracks were uploaded to the old MP3.com. Each song reached the top ten of the Cardiff Rock chart and two made it high in the all formats charts. Three songs recorded by Terarrim can be found in  .
| Composed and recorded over thirty instrumental pieces and uploaded them to the old MP3.com for people to download. | 2 years from 1998-2000 | Instrumentals consistently on top of the Classical Charts Cardiff Region. Also got to top ten in rock (rock instrumental). Numerous entries into top 10 of the All Format Charts Cardiff Region.
| Collaborated with The Bard of Ely from Cardiff who sung Love and Tears, written and composed by Darmin De'flern. | 2000 | Over a period of a year this song had reached number 1 in the Cardiff region All Format Charts and number 8 in the Love Charts UK. For only the second time mixed a song on the PC on Steinberg’s VST lite. Previous to this only Our Time had been produced and mixed on a PC.
(Link shows when it was at number 8)
Love & Tears
| After listening to a excellent production by Rob Taylor (friend and former band member of Terarrim) created on his PC. Decided to invest more heavily in music production both in time and equipment. The aim is to produce songs at a more professional level.
| 2006 | Bought a new PC, Mackie Tracktion 2, FL studio 6 and Amplitube 2. In addition sold the Technics KN5000 and purchased the Roland G70 V2. As well as the new higher quality recordings the equipment allowed for the first time guitar based tracks due to the guitar emulation on the Roland G70.
Previously many guitar based song ideas where compromised due to inability to not having the means to produce guitar based song ideas (songs ended up being piano based instead).
| Emigrated to Malaysia (to be with wife) fully concentrating on creating songs full time. | 2006-2007 | Currently producing four songs for the album Ballads to send to music publishers.
| Decided to enhance promotion of music with dedicated web-site. | 2007 | Created and updating this web-site. |
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Age: 35
Born: 1972
Sex: Male
Country of Origin: Wales, UK
Residing: Wales or Malaysia
Music Styles: Rock, Metal, Classical (Symphonic, Orchestral), Ballads, Love Songs, Instrumental, Electronica
Creation of both lyrics and/or music for above
Musical Influences: Paradise Lost, John Williams, Biff Naked, Jean Michelle Jarr, Iron Maiden, Garbage, Oasis, Madonna, Type 'O' Negative, Republica, Jerry Goldsmith, Elton John, Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, Motorhead, Queen, Def Leopard, Moby and many more!
Instrument: Keyboard(s)
Equipment Used:
Keyboards: Roland VA7 v2 ,Roland G-70 v3 (with SR-01)
Mixer: Mackie CR1604
Mic: Sennheiser Cardioid
Monitor Speakers: Roland DM2100
Software:Mackie Tracktion 2, Amplitube Version 2, FL Studio 7, Windows XP v2, EZGenerator (for Web Site)
Hardware: Soundblaster X-Fi Fatality, PC (AMD Processor)
Belongs to: Member of the Guild of International Songwriters and Composers | |
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Other Activities/Interests
Writing Poetry-Prose, Playing Keyboard (for my own enjoyment), Computers and console (internet, gaming), Reading novels (fantasy, sci-fi, horror, paranormal-romance), watching movies, watching TV series, Martial Arts (Tai Chi), Spending time with my wife! | |
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