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Witch House
Posted: Sat Nov 23, 2013 1:38 am
by 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?
Re: Witch House
Posted: Sat Nov 23, 2013 1:42 am
by ascent
Re: Witch House
Posted: Sat Nov 23, 2013 1:44 am
by bassbum
Nice one
Re: Witch House
Posted: Sat Nov 23, 2013 1:48 am
by cloaked_up
chk out cut copy and the WKEND
Re: Witch House
Posted: Sat Nov 23, 2013 8:41 pm
by wolf89
This shit is mad lame. Too try hard, no content.
Re: Witch House
Posted: Sat Nov 23, 2013 8:53 pm
by topmo3
dun kno if it is considered which hause but oOooooooOoo or whateva is good
Re: Witch House
Posted: Sun Nov 24, 2013 12:27 am
by 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....
Re: Witch House
Posted: Sun Nov 24, 2013 3:10 am
by finji
wolf89 wrote:This shit is mad lame. Too try hard, no content.
u r
Re: Witch House
Posted: Sun Nov 24, 2013 3:20 am
by 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.
Re: Witch House
Posted: Sun Nov 24, 2013 4:01 am
by wolf89
Haxan Cloak isn't "witch house"
Re: Witch House
Posted: Sun Nov 24, 2013 4:28 am
by Phigure
witch house
crystal castles
lel
Re: Witch House
Posted: Sun Nov 24, 2013 4:47 am
by dickman69
if u slow ur music down to 5% in audacity it = witch house
Re: Witch House
Posted: Sun Nov 24, 2013 5:02 am
by mks
Please tell me what Witch house is. Is it related to Witchstep or Witchcore at all?
Re: Witch House
Posted: Sun Nov 24, 2013 5:05 am
by wolf89
rayman612 wrote: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
Re: Witch House
Posted: Sun Nov 24, 2013 5:25 am
by bennyfroobs
r Salem witch house? they have 1 gd song
Re: Witch House
Posted: Sun Nov 24, 2013 5:27 am
by bennyfroobs
just utubed
i take it back they dnt have any gd songs lol
Re: Witch House
Posted: Sun Nov 24, 2013 5:29 am
by 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
Re: Witch House
Posted: Sun Nov 24, 2013 5:33 am
by 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.
alphacat wrote: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/
gwa wrote:another case of the blog hype genre
While trying to find some examples of this I across other genre names like Trillwave. WTF?
Re: Witch House
Posted: Sun Nov 24, 2013 6:11 am
by 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
Re: Witch House
Posted: Sun Nov 24, 2013 6:18 am
by mks
Some of the stuff wasn't too bad, but more like lo-fi electronic goth?