PREVIEW: Alchemy @ Palihouse, Hollywood (Tonight!!!)

Here's a last minute preview for all my Californian readers. Alchemy is a multimedia night of occult ghost drone drag and witch house related performance put on by my good friend and able master of ceremonies Clint Catalyst. This is the second event he has put on, the first getting the dance club pick of the week in LA Weekly, and all for free too - Cosmotropia creating visual carnage, Robert Disaro doing his thing and Zoetica Ebb telling fetishitic stories of her life over the top. Sounds like an interesting event, as out of the ordinary as you should expect from a genre of music as multifarious as the wytch hauze.

VIDEO: Mater Suspiria Vision feat. Scout Klas - The Labyrinths of Venice

Witch House impresarios, ghost drone ingénues Mater Suspiria Vision release their debut 12" Inverted Triangle I on both Clan Destine and Cosmotropia de Xam's Phantasma Disques soon. befre that arrives MSV & CdX have teamed up again to bring you another slice of 70's horror reimagining with this video homage to Nicholas Roeg's Don't Look Now as the promo for The Labyrinths of Venice - a torrent of ritualistic cosmic horror featuring Swedish goth-hip-hop producer Scout Klas.

VIDEO: PWIN ▲▲ TEAKS - Phantasmagoria

I'm still waiting for the PWIN ▲▲ TEAKS Aoxomoxoa LP to be released. Not sure if it's snuck out without me noticing but I can't find it. I think it's going to be pretty special, on a par with Yoga's shapeshifting hypnogogic black metal. In the meantime, here's a video, directed by Cosmotropia de Xam, for the track Phantasmagoria that was unveiled in the summer.; A lot of these witch house artists keep spawning track after track, but not Pwin. He/she/it has barely any mp3's around illegally let along a host of Soundclouds, there's so little by way of material for this artist that what there is is made all the more alluring in it's isolation. This track is a blood curdling brain freezing ring-modulated soul burner, that dislocates sense and reason, mind and body with sinister effervescence; the video is vintage Cosmotropia, and there's also a Mater Suspiria Vision unrated skinfest version too:

VIDEO: Chasing Voices - Acidbathory

Somehow I've missed out on this for the last seven months.  Rest assured I'll be making up for that bu playing it fifty times in a row. The track is epic! The video is by Cosmotropia de Xam, the track is Acidbathory by Chasing Voices.

A mysterious artist whose last.fm positions them more into the realm of witch house than anything else, but that's pretty debateable. Although Cosmotropia is involved this sounds closer to dubstep than anythign else, maybe taking off from Distance, that dirtier more menacing edginess, and adding a little cosmic-italo through the sinuous and subtle length of it. It's pretty dark stuff, relentlessly intense in it;s slow build that holds a vice-like grip onto your ears as it teases slow progession out of it's layers - a vocal snippet judders, then coalesces into an almost coherent sentence, a distant fuzz worms it's way up from deep within the shadows of the mix before suddenly realising itself in full overwhelming speakers eating distortion in as slow an advance as it is sudden, and the effect is chilling; a movement it repeats in overlapping waves of increasing volume and density until you're consumed in the thrall of a howling storm.

VIDEO: twYlY ▲ ght ► ZoNe - GHOZT STREETZ (Extended Version)

SH►DOW►LK CDR is the brand new twYlY ▲ ght ► ZoNe album released on Mater Suspiria Vision's FAMILY CVLT label, and this is the lead track from it in full extended all-action-intro video version form.  The video is, of course, directed by the high priest of with house visuals, LSD tea-drinker Cosmotropia de Xam, and features the usual deviant Argento blend of sexuality, drugginess, and hallucinationatory blur that pefectly matches the erotic cacophany of the music.

VIDEO: Mater Suspiria Vision feat. How I Quit Crack - Somewhere over the Rainbow

Here's the official R-Rated video by Cosmotropia de Xam for Somewhere over the Rainbow by Mater Suspiria Vision, this time accompanied by the increasingly intriguing How I Quit Crack:

Not really suitable for work after about 2 minutes:.