Re: Wh1ch House? - Witch House Is Dead
Posted: April 8th, 2014, 12:06 am
I'm going to step in here and defend his right to take the piss because one of the things that got me into witch house was
1) how loose the remit of what it could be was: neo-folk, hip hop, EBM, first-wave style industrial, noise-rock, ambient, techno, all fair game.
2) The fact that there was a sense of humour about it and people revelling in the ridiculousness of it all while still, at best, making emotionally powerful music.
Both these things are still present in the best stuff, but there's no need to do a witch house parody: the bad witch house is just parodying itself. Take some Lex Luger trap kit drums, attach some adolescent shock tactics that surprise no one and then put a half-assed wobbly synth line on and some reverb somewhere down the line. It happened with dubstep and it'll happen here. That's just a sign that it's crossing over a bit (with Yeezus is it even a question that this thing of ours is seeping into the mainstream?) so even that has its silver lining. However, there's a hell of a lot of good stuff out there too that gives you the shivers and makes you feel the way you did when you first heard Coil or Einsturzende Neubauten or...whatever turns you on and inspires you. For every copyist and hack following the "genre rules" that inevitably form over time slavishly there'll be something that blows you away. Maybe if you do something game changing doing some lazy gay jokes is semi-excusable: Wh1ch House isn't doing anything game changing, though, so come on, if you're going to be a dickhead do it creatively. Gay Very? Come on. I'm very gay and freely state this fact. It's not an insult.
If you think Witch House Is Dead explain why, and would it hurt you to sample Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead while you're at it? You think it's shit then go ahead and make something that blows everything else away. Redefine the genre.
Like I'm cooking up now....if you're into Death In June and stuff of that ilk that is. If not you probably won't like it or find it blows anything else away.
1) how loose the remit of what it could be was: neo-folk, hip hop, EBM, first-wave style industrial, noise-rock, ambient, techno, all fair game.
2) The fact that there was a sense of humour about it and people revelling in the ridiculousness of it all while still, at best, making emotionally powerful music.
Both these things are still present in the best stuff, but there's no need to do a witch house parody: the bad witch house is just parodying itself. Take some Lex Luger trap kit drums, attach some adolescent shock tactics that surprise no one and then put a half-assed wobbly synth line on and some reverb somewhere down the line. It happened with dubstep and it'll happen here. That's just a sign that it's crossing over a bit (with Yeezus is it even a question that this thing of ours is seeping into the mainstream?) so even that has its silver lining. However, there's a hell of a lot of good stuff out there too that gives you the shivers and makes you feel the way you did when you first heard Coil or Einsturzende Neubauten or...whatever turns you on and inspires you. For every copyist and hack following the "genre rules" that inevitably form over time slavishly there'll be something that blows you away. Maybe if you do something game changing doing some lazy gay jokes is semi-excusable: Wh1ch House isn't doing anything game changing, though, so come on, if you're going to be a dickhead do it creatively. Gay Very? Come on. I'm very gay and freely state this fact. It's not an insult.
If you think Witch House Is Dead explain why, and would it hurt you to sample Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead while you're at it? You think it's shit then go ahead and make something that blows everything else away. Redefine the genre.
Like I'm cooking up now....if you're into Death In June and stuff of that ilk that is. If not you probably won't like it or find it blows anything else away.