Screamforme99
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Tetrasaurus wrote:

Ive heard of witch house before, or witchstep, but never really indulged myself into it. Good stuff though. I believe that british pop-electro group I Haunt Wizards transitioned into witchhouse.

Are you serious? I love I haunt wizards, but they DEFINITLY didn\'t seem like they were transitioning into Witchhouse, more like crystal castles stuff.
And I honestly like Glass Teeth a little more than Salem,
But salems stuff is more original!
White ring ftw!

Screamforme99
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I nescessarIly wouldn\'t say that Witchhouse is as popular as dubstep or has hot popularity yet.
I mean dubstep is like mainstream as fuck now. On the radio, on tv, everywhere and I swear if I heard a Witchhouse song on the radio, that would be something. Because Witchhouse is sooooooo much \"heavier\" in terms of content as opposed to dubstep.

barbeque
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detroit

Salem is just three-six mafia instumentals with low octave synths basically. meh

godinpants
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Witchhouse? That's so 2008.
Now it's all about scuff.
http://www.mixcloud.com/BOOMA/booma-pre … ed-tape-2/

Dot.AY
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Nice article about Witch House

http://flavorwire.com/206302/state-of-t … ture?all=1

Balam Acab and oOoOO have both toured Australia in the last year... it may not be "mainstream" but its definitely not underground

also Scuff / Footdrag is the music of 2012

Downstate
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balam acab is amazing. im fond of some Salem too for sure. i think people get put off by the symbols and the hipster side of witchhouse/synthwave and all that. There is some absolute tosh thats all just style and no substance. but there's some wicked stuff. Holy Other is very good....xxyyxx is pretty nice too. i like the dark ambient side too like burial hex, haxan cloak etc.....i play alot of that stuff now, my hip hop buddies call me a hipster but it doesnt bother me.....the cute goth chicks lap that shit up : P ........also 'How to dress well' - Love remains. . . . possibly the best song of 2011.
PΞ▲CΞ

Downstate
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also i forgot to mention Evian Christ. so dope that is. shit i sound like a right tri-angle records fanboy haha, but man that label has put out consistent stuff. i agree with the dude that said when something gets alot of media/internet circulation alot of people will dive into the genre and make shit, like with dubstep. Ive heard alot of stuff that is such a shamefull salem rip off. there's just no point making something that sounds like a carbon copy of king night. did i mention i went a bit in this direction. so if anyone wants to listen to what i making these days.....its sometimes like this....http://soundcloud.com/downstate/i-have-no-one-to-share-my _______i wouldnt call it witch house, but of course ive been listening to a ton of it and clams casino etc, its hard sometimes not to get overly influenced by a vibe you like....so this is the downstate gone DWNS†▲†Ξ. I want to keep my chip raw right now, so work on a seperate record with that midi megadrive oh yeah !

celsius
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Dot.AY wrote:

Scuff / Footdrag is the music of 2012

Tetrasaurus
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Screamforme99 wrote:
Tetrasaurus wrote:

Ive heard of witch house before, or witchstep, but never really indulged myself into it. Good stuff though. I believe that british pop-electro group I Haunt Wizards transitioned into witchhouse.

Are you serious? I love I haunt wizards, but they DEFINITLY didn\'t seem like they were transitioning into Witchhouse, more like crystal castles stuff.
And I honestly like Glass Teeth a little more than Salem,
But salems stuff is more original!
White ring ftw!

http://www.facebook.com/maskmanmusic They dropped Helen Kirby I think but had her in a few tracks, I really wouldnt compare it to Crystal Castles, but it kinda reminded me of some of the tracks from CRIM3S.

Last edited by Tetrasaurus (May 3, 2012 6:39 am)

akira^8GB
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New York City

[grumpy old man chat]

Last edited by akira^8GB (May 3, 2012 10:01 pm)

matt.nida
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Anything off Tri-Angle records is ace.

Salem leave me cold.

I'm suspicious of anyone who includes geometric shapes in their name.

The "F*** Dance Let's Art" compilation that K7 put out a couple of year back nods in this direction and is very good indeed.

That is all.

matt.nida
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London, UK

PS. Jean Michel Jarre was making seapunk before most of you were born. Behold: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pH2UxxdXAfg

Saskrotch
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Chicago IL
akira^8GB wrote:

It seems to me there's a bunch of people doing music which is too similar to each other to discern genres. Witchhouse, seapunk and scuff, juke, etc... are all too close to each other.

wait, juke is way old and way different from that stuff though

godinpants
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akira^8GB wrote:

It seems to me there's a bunch of people doing music which is too similar to each other to discern genres. Witchhouse, seapunk and scuff, juke, etc... are all too close to each other. I just feel like when people do this is just to try to make it stand out from the others but I find this pointless.

I really like a lot of this music, this is why a couple of weeks ago I made a song for Weeklybeats in this vein. Matt Nida even said it was kind of like Acab and I had never heard of this guy or his music until he mentioned it. Here's the tune: http://weeklybeats.com/#/akira%5e8gb/mu … lle-lieues
Since I added maritime sounds, is it seapunk? If I remove them, is it witchhouse? Or is it scuff? Haha!

So there's a connecting mood and personally I put them all under the same umbrella and I like them most.

How is this www.youtube.com/watch?v=YE5l7yPFP04

Anything like this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzQU7KmwRoc

tl:dr stop being a grumpy old man and let the kids have their genres.

Seapunk is more than just aquatic references.
Witchhouse is more than seapunk without aquatic references.
Juke is neither of these things.
Scuff is derived from juke, but, at 96bpm featuring heavily sidechained reverb and downpitched vocals.

It's just as bad as being that guy at the bar who, when confronted with any term he isn't accustomed to, says "when I was growing up there was rock, blues and jazz. And blues was just jazzy rock"

Also scuff has a specific set of features that make it scuff. It's also at a point where it's almost curated.

Last edited by godinpants (May 3, 2012 8:36 pm)

ant1
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can someone tell me what witchhouse is in detail without me having to listen to any of it

Saskrotch
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ant1 wrote:

can someone tell me what witchhouse is in detail without me having to listen to any of it

from what i listened to in this thread, it's basically a spooky intro for a whole song