1. Grave Wave |grāv-wāv| noun:
A term used to describe the recent musical upswing of all things dark and deathly. Encompasses witch house, post punk, neofolk, EBM, death rock, goth, electro, 80s revivalists, batcave purists, et al. Frequently accompanied by a strong graphic aesthetic: symbols, videos, visual and performance art. Sometimes creeps into the mainstream (see: Cold Cave, The Horrors). Sometimes remains purposefully under-underground (see: twYlY< ght >ZoNe).
Grave Wave is taking over—musically, duh, but look at fashion, television, movies; dark and deathly is obviously our cultural cup of tea. So how did we get here in the first place? Years of whistle-happy twee and candied pop stars, no doubt, plus the bleakest US economy—and most conflicted international agenda—loads of us have ever seen. Jobless and politically/musically disenfranchised does not a happy bunch of artists make.
And still, despite some solid reasons to be in a dark fucking place, misery isn’t grave wave’s only defining thing. If these circumstances were its sole founding factors—and darkness its only measure of ingenuity—we’d be looking at a landscape more similar to Reagen-era hardcore…except, you know, already done to death. What’s actually happening here is two-fold: a well-timed gust of goth nostalgia—kids raised on diets of Sisters of Mercy, Peter Murphy, Ministry and Wax Trax, back when these sorts of things were more likely to earn you a black eye than cool cred—repurposed by a generation openly using the internet not only to promote music, but create it as well. Samples, visual mash-ups, borrowed images, appropriation of other genres and artists; all perfected by the internet age, and thrust into critical mass via the onslaught of dark bedroom projects looking to make their output just a little more interesting. Videos are de rigeur. Remixes, digital books, zines, samples, self-released albums—all insanely easy to source and produce. If the grave wavers aren’t changing the world, they’re certainly helping redefine the way their music lives within it. And that music, by the way? Really fucking good. None of this would matter if it wasn’t. Meet the new cutting edge…
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The complete tracklist to all 3 discs of The Guide to Grave Wave,...
Мишка Presents The Guide to Grave Wave [Disc 1]
1. These New Puritans – Orion
2. Dream Affair – Silent Story
3. His Electro Blue Voice 0 Black Veils
4. Screen Vinyl Image – Siberian Eclipse
5. Blessure Grave – Stranger In the House
6. Soft Metals – Hot on the Heels of Love
7. //TENSE// – Turn It Off (Valis Remix)
8. Funerals – Aitu (LQD Live Edit)
9. Pink Priest – Snake Flick Its Tongue
10. Scorpion Violente – Ray Ov Gold
11. Ðose – Spells
Мишка Presents The Guide to Grave Wave [Disc 2]
1. Hussle Club – Good Morning Midnight
2. White Car – Spread Spit Slap
3. These New Puritans – White Chords (Stalker Remix)
4. Night Gallery – Mary Bell
5. LAKE R▲DIO – Always
6. Gr†ll Gr†ll – They All
7. Passions – Endless
8. Warm Hands – Darker
9. Memory Tapes – Green Knight (Creep Remix)
10. GHXST – Holy Speed
11. M△S▴C△RA – krystalMETH/alanWATTS
Мишка Presents The Guide to Grave Wave [Disc 3]
1. Gatekeeper – Visions
2. Salem – Asia (Jokers of the Scene Remix)
3. Fostercare – Heat High (Refix)
4. Party Trash – Beast
5. Lust For Youth – On Your Knees
6. Cult of Youth – Lace Up Your Boots
7. GuMMy†Be▲R! – Gurl
8. Cccandy – Blood and Guts
9. Black Math – Bottomless Sea
10. †‡† (Ritualzzz) – Kvltstep
11. Dadfag – Twins
12. Mater Suspiria Vision – The Ring
13. Nowa Huta – Nowa Huta vs. Pink Priest (NOWAHUTARMX)
