In a small house in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex, separated from the distant roars of the subwoofers, away from the flashing lights of the dance floors, in a studio that's pitch black in the middle of the afternoon...  This is where you will find Darren DuVall.  He will be nestled comfortably between a wall of guitars, synthesizers, a laptop computer, and a mixing board.  Experimenting with forms, sounds, and textures that are warm, comfortable and artful, and all the while maintaining elevated levels of energy and subconscious movements.

Darren is definitely no stranger to music.  He has been picking up and excelling at instruments since he was 11 years old, starting with the trumpet, then moving on to guitar, bass guitar, and keyboards.  And, of course, it was only a matter of time before he ventured into production.

His humble roots in production stem from an old 4-track tape recorder.  The year was 1994, and before he ever ventured into electronic music, you could find him and his brother, Doug, writing dastardly 4-track guitar recordings upstairs in a testosterone filled duplex across the street from Texas Christian University.  It was at about this time that the underground party craze swept through the Metroplex, and, of course, just like a lot of other newly liberated  people, Darren found himself in a whole new and exciting world.

Seeing and hearing things that were unfamiliar and mesmerizing.  Like a dry, compressed sponge, this new liquid world swelled into him and flooded every one of his young senses.

In 2000, Darren and his brother, Doug DuVall (Thin Men, Pipeline Music), along along with fellow friends and DJ's Noel Keith (NTRAIN) and Bryan Brookman (BRILLO) formed the DJ and production collective Ridgeback Recordings.  Although based in Dallas, their influence reaches throughout the metroplex and beyond.  Collectively, they have played clubs in Dallas, Fort Worth, Austin, San Antonio, Galveston, Orlando, Miami, Colorado,  and Cozumel.  They have also shared the decks with names such names as Danny Howells, DJ Buck, Jody of Way Out West, just to name a few.

From DJing for the Fort Worth Fire (minor league hockey club) , to recording radio commercials, to remixing industrial rock for Warner Brothers, he has always found a way to keep himself partly connected to music while still working on and fortifying his song writing skills.  His true goal and passion has always been to release original works.

Then, in October 2003, he released his first record, Open Up The Mind EP on Missionary Music (USA).  The next month it charted at 12 on the Balance Promote Charts and found it's way to record bags of house and progressive house DJ's all over the world.  He has received praise from his tracks from a variety of different DJ's including Hector Romero (SAW records, NYC), Big Al (Ready Mix Records, Stereo, Montreal), Lance Cashion (Proton Radio, Slow Motion Music, Austin), and Spesh (Looq Records, SF) among others.

After a brief 2 year absence from production, Darren is currently working on his next set of highly anticipated original works.  His new works feature a more blended soundscape of organic and electronic elements.  Comfortable blends of mood and energy created by a blend of live instrumentation and synthesized textures.

One of his most recent works, the downtempo offering "Between the Streets" has already been featured on Lance Cashion's Proton Radio mix "The Sound" and his next scheduled release has him teaming up with the Montreal based, Ready Mix Records for the single "My Control."

By not being boxed in by genre, you can always count on Darren to deliver freeform sculptures of sound that are stamped with his own personal panache.