early release

Something from the very distant (fifteen years ago!) past, this is one of my first DIY releases. At the time I didn't have project names in mind; I made some copies of this on cassette and just gave them out to friends at the time. I doubt any of those cassettes still exist in any playable form, but at least this can finally be heard on the internet. I did try to redux the last track for Eternity Drones a couple years later, but that version seems lost to infinity at this point. The photo was taken in Dawsonville GA the Fall this release was made. 

At the End of the Road, out for all to hear/see/experience

At the End of the Road has seen it's physical debut in the past week, and I couldn't be prouder of it as an album. It's a long, lonely, wistful album, a double LP length meditation on how and why life changes the way it does, and how endings can lead to new things. I pushed myself hard to make an experimental and immersive ambient album, and with a little help from several compatriots it came together nicely. This project grew out of a very fertile period for me, but I'm lucky I even finished this album. In the three years it took to record, there were certainly several months in there where nothing was accomplished. For a few weeks this summer it felt like I may just need to drop the project, but somehow, I kept a clear head (*meditation*is*everything*) and finished everything. After some stops and starts in the mixdown process, I mastered the album on a hastily assembled mobile station in a rental condo over the course of just one particularly hot week in Hilton Head, South Carolina.

Many thanks to Stickfigure for pressing the compact disc version, I spent a lot of time working on an art aesthetic that matched the sound so it was a real thrill to hold this album in my hands finally. And many thanks to the two best.

And now, as they say, on to the next adventure.

sincerely, DH

Little Hearts, Big (Interludes) debut

hey All! The first song selection from At the End of the Road is up for your preview/enjoyment on Stickfigure's soundcloud; I'm very excited for this album to be out in the world soon.

This song specifically started as a live interlude I used between other pieces, but it eventually took on a life of it's own. The fifth song on At the End of the Road, it's not quite the halfway point of this sprawling hour and seventeen minute album.

PM production: Clone Operators "Melting Back the Foil"

PM037: an experimental release that uses raw analogue electronics to create a noisy amalgam of industrial techno sounds in a spare, post-punk influenced production

blast from the path

from the archives, this is the original Moon Peoples EP I made with Melissa Lonely as a duo about ten years ago. it is def improvised noise, though certainly on a more ambient side of it all. 

D Haddon "Night Flight EP"

This collects some of my earliest recordings, some dating as far back as 2004, all of which originally came out on my old label Sleepaway Recordings. I've put them together for people curious about the origins of this project when I was just making DIY home recordings in my Asheville apartment.

2016, the year that was (no matter how you felt about it)

Persistentmidnight Productions this year:

downers. "Ether Noir" cassette

Warning Light "Life/Death EP" cassette

Seeing the Sights "Between Avalon & Harbour" CDr

Distant Hymns "Dreaming Left Free" CDr

Outer Gods "Dismal Rift" CD

Snowbride "Small Town Synthetics" CDr

Warning Light "Inland Empires Disregard the Sea" CD

Sareth Den "Into the Glacial Unknown" 2xCDr

Clone Operators "Clone My Operator" demo

and Warning Light appeared on the following compilations:

Culottes Vol II: Yuki Joro by WUSSY MAG

Mango Heist Mixtape by Clandestine Ritual, LLC

DKA Tape Programme #1 by DKA

Hey everybody,

This is a record Melissa Anthony and I made a few years ago under the name Moon Peoples. It's kind of a psych/noise type thing. You should download it, if you're interested in that type of thing. http://www.mediafire.com/?kn06qryiq68ru8y

1st band

So, the first band I was ever in was called Suitcases, and we (Chris and I) worked off and on for five years making various kinds of experimental and noise music. We recorded a lot of music over the years, and I'm posting some of it in the next few months.

Here is our first EP, SC:

http://www.mediafire.com/?l12bvmv7qn9k741

The integral third member in the band at the time was our friend J. Quinn. He played drums and a myriad of other things on this recording, and worked on the engineering.