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Dave Luxton is a guitarist, composer, sound designer and music producer.
Dave specializes in music for film and multimedia. He founded the Wayfarer Records label in 2007 and has released six albums through the label to date.
His filmscore work has appeared in films at national film festivals and PBS.
NEWS: 12/10/09 - A couple months ago Dave did a remix for the Italian Electronic band Halo Effect called It Was Nothing, Dave Luxton Almost Nothing Remix. The single has been released on Ionium Records. Check it out!
4/8/09 - A track by Dave has been released on a new ambient compilation album called Klang. The track is called Metallic Panic Attack and was composed with all metal objects! The entire album is available for download here.
Dave on the radiowaves - Music from Dave's ambient album Hidden Music was recently featured (Top 20 for August 2008) on Scott Raymond's ambient radio program Secret Music on WVKR-FM in New York State. Music from Hidden Music was also featured on Music from Beyond the Lakes 91.1 FM, WDBX in Carbondale, Illinois (www.wdbx.org) in October and WWSP 90 FM (Wisconsin) in November.
Music from Acoustic Artifacts Vol. 1 will appear in independent filmmaker Steve Balderson's final installment of the "Wamego" documentary series on DIY filmmaking set for release in 2009.
Dave is currently working on a collaborative recording project called EchoHalo. EchoHalo's debut album is due for release Spring 2009. Check out EchoHalo's myspace: http://www.myspace.com/echohalo
Dave's new ambient instrumental album Futurus was released on November 24th, 2008. The album is the result of a musical collaboration with Aaron Gates of Exception. The album has received airplay on several ambient radio programs across the country.
Dave's new ambient instrumental album Hidden Music is now available. Visit www.daveluxton.com for more details.
Dave's acoustic guitar album Acoustic Artifacts Vol. 1 is also available at CDBaby: www.cdbaby.com/daveluxton
Hello I appreciated your music , its varied, the female voice is nice. I enjoyed the atmospheric "dream of a distant star". I invite you open the gates of Strangegarden and leave a comment ifyou feel it. friendly The Keeper of Strangegarden.
Thanks for the add. I really like your music you paint a beautiful picture and your recordings, even with myspace's crappy encoding sound amazingly clear and crisp. Check out the new ambient/space/metal/jazz project I am involved with. We have recordings on my site. From a fellow Olympian :)
What's up bud? No worries on the amp. It actually came back from the dead! Let's get together soon. Headed down south for a few days. I'll give you a ring when I get back. That new stuff you posted sounds great! I'm going to buy a copy.
