DarkCyde

“What is there to say. I'm not dead, but I'm not really alive either. I walk between worlds. Stuck like a fly in a spider's web, between the living and the dead. I exist in the twilight between day and moonless night, only a dream scorched by waking light....” DarkCyde

J. Marshall, the artist responsible for fusing together some of the most diametrically opposed musical genres, lives, ironically, in the sunshine state. Born in the Carribean and raised in New York, he realized music was a passion at an early age. He began performing and writing while still in grade school and even got accepted into the New York City High School for the Performing Arts. Fate, it would seem, had other plans and the dream of a career in music was put on hold until a chance meeting with Atlanta underground rapper, Slim Du. The two struck a resonant chord with each other and began collaborating. DarkCyde grew out of those collaborations as a means of instrumental exploration. A way to tell stories without words……

“Sounding more at home in some haunted dance club, his moody, beat heavy music brings to mind the dark fantasy worlds that we all inhabit from time to time.” DMA Magazine

“I only ever ask that you listen objectively and not dismiss it out of hand because it doesn’t fit the mold you think it should…..Hell, I don’t fit the mold, why should my music?” DarkCyde