Witch House

[bassbum]

So today I discovered Witch house. I listed to Crystal Castle and and Shrines before but didn't know about the genera. I'm in love with this sound it's so arty.

Anyone into it that could direct me to some cool artists?

[ascent]

there was a thread in house
http://dubstepforum.com/forum/viewtopic ... 6&t=172179

[bassbum]

there was a thread in house
http://dubstepforum.com/forum/viewtopic ... 6&t=172179

Nice one

[cloaked_up]

chk out cut copy and the WKEND

[wolf89]

This shit is mad lame. Too try hard, no content.

[topmo3]

dun kno if it is considered which hause but oOooooooOoo or whateva is good

[cloaked_up]

OooOOO is good
on a normal post teh OP (if ur real cos u seem borderline retarded TBH) might like to check out haxan cloak, old apparatus and some stuff on triangle

teh term wicthhouse was around when salem had a few listenable tunes.
its a term made up by americans....

[finji]

This shit is mad lame. Too try hard, no content.

u r

[alphacat]

The name was actually a joke: Pictureplane was asked what he thought was gonna be big and off the cuff he said, "oh, Witch House, for sure." It was a pisstake.

But while it tends to be long on concept and short on content, there is good stuff. The aforementioned acts (esp Haxan Cloak) plus Silver Strain, some of the stuff on the Tundra label...

Soundcloud

There's a forum too I believe.

[wolf89]

Haxan Cloak isn't "witch house"

[Phigure]

witch house

crystal castles

lel

[dickman69]

if u slow ur music down to 5% in audacity it = witch house

[mks]

Please tell me what Witch house is. Is it related to Witchstep or Witchcore at all?

[wolf89]

if u slow ur music down to 5% in audacity it = witch house

You have to make sure you make your name impossible to say out loud too and pretend to be all dark when you're actually some student who spends all day on tumblr

[bennyfroobs]

r Salem witch house? they have 1 gd song

[bennyfroobs]

just utubed

i take it back they dnt have any gd songs lol

[cloaked_up]

wolf u tnuc dont argue with me lol
ill tell u when something can be associated with whcith hosue
dont u have an outdoor pystranxe raev to attend

[mks]

OK, I've gone through that thread and listened to some examples. This is hardly related to House music, why would people latch onto such a loaded name. I'll chalk it up to another misappropriated genre name like Electro and Dub.

The problem is witch house is nothing like a traditional genre. It is not defined by a tempo, a style of production, a specific group of artists, a region or country or city, or any of the things one could use to pigeonhole, say, shoegaze, dubstep or hip-hop. Even the pool of influences from which it draws are so diverse as to stagger the mind of even the most ardent avant garde completist: witch house can (and does) sound like everything from experimental noise and drone to EBM and darkwave and aggrotech, from hip-hop to punk rock and black metal, often all at the same time.

Witch house is perhaps the first anti-genre, in that it has always actively resisted not just definition, but also detection. Much mockery has been made of artists spelling their band names with strange typographic symbols, but in the early days of witch house this had a specific intent: namely to create a ‘lexical darknet’ (to quote Warren Ellis, the comics writer and novelist whose blog posts led me to my first discoveries in the field), whereby fans had to use the specific symbols in the band names to locate their music online.

http://www.dangerousminds.net/comments/ ... tch_house/

another case of the blog hype genre

While trying to find some examples of this I across other genre names like Trillwave. WTF?

[BonerJams04]

theres some good stuff
i used to be really into it. salem, oOoOO, Balam Acab, White Ring, cvlt shit, etc. all made some cool tunes

shitty artist names though

[mks]

Some of the stuff wasn't too bad, but more like lo-fi electronic goth?