The first song of DL I listened to was "Secret Hideaway" last August and it had me seriously worried.
You see, my 13 year old daughter rather dramatically evolved into a Gothic over the last year, which is fine by itself, were it not for my worries about Satanism (which I thought to be closely related to the Dark Scene) and other violent sects.
In August, she came home with this Gothic sampler - and I was utterly spellbound by a hypnotic, seductive voice insisting among so much other, bad and loud music, "Yes, we know what to do ... we welcome you ... " I was, well, amost frightened (for my daughter) because I still believed it all to be ... evil. And a voice of such power could certainly influence a 13-year-old, why, it was all but mesmerizing me!
However, my daughter was determined to go on and I was willing to trust her in so far as to be willing to inform myself about this scene ... and the music.
So, as of today, I no longer believe the dark scene to be dangerous, or evil. I do remain sceptical, however, of this dark tendency to dress alike ... for me that is the antithesis of all avowed individualism.
As for the music ... well, I was/am enchanted by DL. I just absorbed everything I could find about them and I liked most of it. Two extremely gifted men with a keen understanding of the world, well read and apparently quite honest. I respect them for their intelligence and admire them for their musical arrangements. Step by step, I am now acquiring all their work, the most recent is the complete tour-documentary of the 20 years Electronic Avantgarde. Ironically, I still don't possess "April Skies", which was the beginning for me.