Wi†ch House.

[fauxmusica]

witch house
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“Witch House” (Juancarlitos House, Drag) is a mostly electronic music movement of 10s which typically incorporates elements of hip-hop, dubstep, electro, idm, gothic, shoegaze, and ritual ambient/etheral/noise/drone music, often with a slow tempo and a lo-fi aesthetic meant to evoke a dark, sinister, occult, or juancarlitos mood.

Gothic bands from the 1980’s, including Cocteau Twins, Throbbing Gristle // Psychic TV, The Cure, and Dead Can Dance, as well as the Twin Peaks TV series, new age, the decelerated beats of DJ Screw (PBUH), are also mentioned as influences. Common typological elements in artist and track names include triangles (▲,▼,∆), crosses (†), and other geometric shapes. Overlapping terms include haunted house, screwgaze, crunkgaze, chillgaze (crunk shoegaze), darkwave, occult house (okkvlt), trianglecore, post-whatever, next wave, broken-clash, death disco, post-pop, ghost drone, avant hard, zombie rave, ghost step and drag… Term “drag” can also be understood as a stretching technique similar to chopped and screwed and glitch techniques. It is interesting to notice that “Witch House—-Drag” relation is somewhat similar to “Hip Hop—-Rap” relation. The term “Witch House” was coined and popularized in 2009 by Johnathan Coward of Shams and Travis Egedy of Pictureplane.

Labels Tri Angle (Alec Koone Balam Acab and Christopher D. Greenspan oOoOO) established by Robin Carolan (of the popular 20JFG music blog) and Robert Disaro’s imprint Disaro Records are recognized as flagships of the Witch House “movement”. This movement is often associated with parallel emergence of chillwave (Glo-fi) with which it shares the aesthetic tactics of survival in hyper-mediated late capitalist society. These tactics are “taken” from electroclash revolutions and “mutated” (Look: Brent Luvaas “Re-Producing Pop “). Maybe, for these reasons Witch House is sometimes interested in other interpretations of new wave music and in appropriation of goth, industrial, minimal synth, krautrock and cold wave aspects of the 80s with were omitted by electroclash or forgotten in the era of indietronica. In the same manner chillwave uses new romantics, funk or latin disco… Both genres celebrate external aspects of past, in these case VHS and audio cassette technologies of the 90s (same as synths and commodores of the 80s in electroclash) Important point of Witch House is the relationship to mtv culture and dirty south rap music which is solved through certain semi-ironic idea of unity and integration of culture represented by “▲” symbol. Band “Salem” is a popular pioneer though their music is not the typical example of this genre’s sound.

Between the emergence of new wave (80s), electroclash (90s), new rave (00s) and drag (early 10s) romantic eras there were more than a handful of failed attempts at gothic revival — freak folk, new rave , blog house, fidget, and indie eras happened, only to burn out from misdirection of cause from wide and aggressive acquisition of associated acts (Crystal Castles, ad nausea) and media outlets by majorly funded corporate media outlets (FOX // NEWS CORPORATION acquisition of Myspace.com). Witch house was created trying to integrate all these phenomena (with a notion of protection and self-preservation by use of ascii art ((▲,▼,∆), crosses (†)) that makes associated acts hard to google or become the epidemic of mass consumption through any other means than blogging or social networking) , this self-aware idea of integration juxtaposed to a self-aware shallowness of the electroclash movement; Irony and witches were born. Making novelty the main principle of structure building. These new structures of communication through aesthetic platforms (deconstruction, irony, serenity, appropriation, mutation, eclecticism, revaluation, patchwork…) are one possible way of achieving avant-garde -ism in todays society, which is a troubled issue. In that light Witch House is a “popular culture brother” of contemporary art forms such as “new aestheticism”, “relational aesthetics” and “documentary style” . The electroclash generation was raised on pop and techno, the witch house generation is raised on pop and glitch (and electroclash), the first brought us 80s the second brought us 80s, 90s and 00s…and who knows what will be the outfit of future generations (the structures and patterns of classification are becoming weirdly huge and varied).

It has been established from recent blogs and music journals that there is no one founder or originator of the witch house, and that witch house is another way of saying “dark electronic music” of various styles and tempos, and that no one artist can be pegged with it’s origin though it can be widely debated that Club Rhinoceropolis (A Warehouse in Denver in which Pictureplane, and Modern Witch preform at regularly) is the ark amongst the venues and night clubs to bare the birth of the witch house and new romantic // gothic era revival in N. America. Other popular witch havens include Club Medusa Lounge in LA and Pendu events amongst various venues in Brooklyn and New York City.

At present the witch house movement appears to be here to stay, reaching major and indie media attention on a semi-regular basis. Dressed in the form of the apocalypse, witch house seems to be aiming at becoming a megalith of cultural identification for the 10s.

Witch House in the media:

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http://thedecibeltolls.com/on-modern-wi ... use-genre/

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http://nfrblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/witch-house.html

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/au ... cal-genres

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http://www.nashvillescene.com/nashville ... itch-house

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http://www.expatriarch.com/2010/05/tryi ... real-drag/

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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/07/arts/ ... gewanted=2

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http://www.pendu.org/mag/2010/11/08/gen ... tch-house/

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[zin]

what the fuck is Juancarlitos House

[GuMMy†Be▲R!]

tl;dr

[symbols n shit]

I'm going to level with you here-this went on WAY too long considering that the genre is still in it's infancy, it got too much into conceptual blahblah, and it played kinda fast and loose with the facts. There's promise here, but it needs to be fact-checked and have a lot of the fat cut out of it.

Still, I appreciate the effort that clearly went into this, and it's a good start.

[fauxmusica]

maybe for you tim. i've been doing this style of music since 2005. i'm beginning to feel gerital.

[divisibilities]

lol juancarlito house
did he write this himself

[fauxmusica]

the juancarlito's mood part is definitely right .. what a moody bitch !! also: six different people helped write this but this version was written and edited by me and another user on last.fm named kauzlaric (who i think is G.A.N. 665+1). i didn't add or edit the juancarlito's part, but that guy has like a last.fm cartel and stuff.

[zin]

whatever, by including his name there you're only "promoting" him, I'm pretty much sure some people visiting this site may copy this description and use it for whatever reasons without thinking that Juancarlitos House is a gimmick

[symbols n shit]

Here, I re-formatted a bit, cut out a lot of fat, and made it in my opinion more readable and more accurate.

Tell me what you think.

witch house
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“Witch House” is an electronic music genre of the 10s which typically incorporates elements of hip-hop, dubstep, drone, goth, shoegaze, and noise music. Overlapping terms include haunted house, screwgaze, crunkgaze, occult house (sometimes spelled okkvlt haus), trianglecore, ghost drone, zombie rave, ghost step and drag. The term “drag” can also be used to refer to the act of slowing down a song, which is often done in Witch-House when remixing or sampling. The term “Witch House” was coined and popularized in 2009 by Johnathan Coward of Shams and Travis Egedy of Pictureplane.

The music usually has slow hip-hop beats, minor key synths, noise atmospherics, distorted vocals, and slowed down samples. This use of slowed down samples and hip-hop beats is specifically inspired by DJ Screw, pioneer of the rap sub-genre Chopped and Screwed. Common typological elements in artist and track names include triangles (▲,▼,∆), crosses (†), and other geometric shapes. One common explanation for this element is that it makes the music more difficult to find online, thus preventing overexposure and keeping the music underground. There is also a wider aesthetic movement based around the music, including images and video. This movement is often associated with the parallel emergence of chillwave, with which it shares some aesthetic similarities.

Labels Tri Angle (Alec Koone Balam Acab and Christopher D. Greenspan oOoOO) established by Robin Carolan (of the popular 20JFG music blog) and Robert Disaro’s imprint Disaro Records are recognized as flagships of the Witch House movement. Club Rhinoceropolis (A Warehouse in Denver in which Pictureplane, and Modern Witch preform at regularly) has served to some degree as a center for the genres formation. Other popular hot spots for the genre include Club Medusa Lounge in LA and Pendu events amongst various venues in Brooklyn and New York City.