VIDEO: oFF - MISSTHEMAWAY

Following close behind last week's Emodancers Berlin producer oFF has released another slowly crawling space-walk of a track complete with eerie video for visual effect. So far, I'm really enjoying this unearthly cosmic sidestreet that witch house has slipped down; a sound begun in oOoOO's Seaww, with the atmospheres of Balam Acab's See Birds that has combined in the form Holy Other and now oFF.

PREORDER: oOoOO EP

After SALEM's King Night, my most highly anticipated release from the world of witch house is the oOoOO ep from TriAngle Records. The moment has finally arrived! Pre order the self titled 12" from Rough Trade now, released on 4th October: HERE

Tracklist:

01 Mumbai
02 Burnout Eyess
03 Sedsumting
04 Hearts
05 Plains Is Hot
06 Burnout Eyes (Visions of Trees Remix)

I am pleased to see they've used Alison Scarpulla's haunting photography for the artwork - totally encapsulating both the aura of witchhouse and the particular sound of oOoOO.

Here's a youtube of Hearts to get you in the mood:

Relatedly, I spent half of yesterday succumbing to the latest and greatest internet meme the witch house genreation will ever know: get yr b▲nd n▲mes here:

http://chillwitchnamemagic.com/

My favourite so far; SKY DITCH

DOWNLOAD: oOoOO & N Marco De La Vega - 120 Minute Mixtape

Marco de la Vega (sideA) oOoOO (sideB) made this mix for a new club in SF called 120 minutes

Jump: www.bit.ly/b3Tbea

REPOST FROM ALL I EVER WANTED (WAS EVERYTHING)

sorry it’s been a second… and then some. i’ve been working on a lot of projects. one of which was this mixtape. i actually finished it weeks ago, but again, the overwhelming crazy that is my life as of late has kept it on the back burner. but here it is, in all its random glory… the particularly amazing part is that side b was mixed by none other than oOoOO… yep that’s right, one of the high priests of witch house has helped to bring you a fabulous romp through crazytown filled with everything from creeptastic meena kumari remixes to britany spears…

Side A: Click to download

Ol’ Dirty Bastard-Goin’ Down
Nite Jewel-Want You Back (Phaseone Remix)
Autre Ne Veut-Bossy
Captain Beyond-Thousand Days of Yesterdays
Bruce Haack-Means Old Devil
Memory Tapes-Green Knight
O’Children-Dead Disco Dancer (Golden Filter Remix)
Health-Lost Time (Pictureplane Remix)
tape collage noise-BIG ANT (RIP)
John Maus-Do Your Best
Nocera-Summertime, Summertime (WhITCH Summers Over Edit)
oOoOO-NoSummer4U
Scott Walker-Plastic Palace Syzzurp (Haloperidol Edit)
Grace Sings Sludge-My Heart Was Really Breaking
Dead Prez-Wolves
Angelhood-Tauros (Demo)
Black Lips-Veni Vedi Vici (Diplo Remix)
Light Asylum-Shallow Tears
Devin The Dude-See What I Can Pull
Die Antwoord-I Don’t Need You
William S. Burroughs-Love Your Enemy


Side B: Click to Download

method man - tical
meena kumari - alb paa (oOoOO DreamMix)
marina & the diamonds  - oh no! (active child remix)
crystal castles - celestica
briny spears - get naked (i got a plan)
kylie minogue - all the lovers (xxxchange remix)
memoryhouse - to the lighthouse (millionyoung remix)
robyn - dancing on my own
sky ferreira - one
the xx - basic space (pariah remix)
+++++
modern witch - not the only one
hype williams -  mvp ‘94
pocahaunted - follow i
sleep ∞ over - outer limits

Tri Angle Records announces debut releases!

Move over Disaro! After months of waiting, Robin Carolan’s Witch House trend-setter in waiting record label TriAngle has announced the full details of its first two releases, and they come from two of my artists of the year.

The first release is set to be the ethereal ghost-dub See Birds by Balam Acab. Alec Koone of Brooklyn's solo outfit works within similar ambient landsacpe as Mount Kimbie, but has a slightly more sinister edge to the shades of the sound.  The debut EP - for label and artist will be released on August 16, on 12” and digital formats.

Tracklist:
1 See Birds (Moon)
2 Regret Making Mistakes
3 Big Boy
4 Dream Out
5 See Birds (Sun)

See Birds is an intensely deep tune that plumbs deep into an occult subconscious, dredging around bass frequencies and tweaking them with ripples of filters and fx, flitting melodies, dreamstate vocals drifting between realms - very similar in tone and style to Forest Swords, whose new single I wrote about yesterday. Many shades of subtle:

Following See Birds comes the debut EP by the San Francisco based Christopher Greenspan's   oOoOO (disappointingly pronounced “oh”, rather than the far spookier...errr..."oOoOO"! - I read it as I see it; ghostly.) That drops on September 27th (another birthday treat for me, along with Deerhunter and Salem) with cover artwork from photographer Alison Scarpulla, whose visionary images are disturbingly evocative of the creeped out, spectral and magickal atmopsheres the genre has the potential to conjure. The NFR banner at the top of this blog is hers.

Tracklist:

1 Mumbai
2 Burnout Eyess
3 Sedsumting
4 Hearts
5 Plains Is Hot
6 Burnout Eyes (Visions of Trees Remix)

oOoOO may be responsible for my track of the year in Seaww; embodying all the most essential elements of Witch House, with the dragged deeply eerie vocals, hypnagogic guitar solo and 808 beats. Hearts comes pretty damn close to repeating that effect, minus the ghostslopped vocals, replaced with their haunting female shadow version, and it's on this release. Here's a youtube of it for you:




As a pre-release-release TriAngle recently put out a tribute album to Lindsay Lohan songs, artists such as oOoOO and Oneohtrix Point Never covering her songs titled Let Me Shine For You, which can be downloaded here.

VIDEO: oOoOO - Seawww

Here's the video to accompany the release of this split 7" between oOoOOand White Ring on Emotion Records. Directed by Dan Lopatin of Oneohtrix Point Never, Skyramps and Games. The low fi digital aesthetic is a little cruder than Lopatin's musical tones but it suits the track.

VIDEO: White Ring - Roses

It's Friday in the PM, time to get something fierce on! Gonna start doing this every week from now on, round about this time posting up something juiced to kick it up a little. Last week I did Sleigh Bells, this week its White Ring. Looks like a massive part of this year is going to be all about Witch House for me - dark, spooky werehouse & beat-heavy keygaze! Get ready to herald in a load of occult-oriented takes on olde gynrys!

No, I'm not apologising for that.

Look out for the Disaro label, oOoOO, Mater Suspiria Vision, Deep Cave, Gr†LLGR†LL, twYlYZoNe -but for now, White Ring:

This may not be super fast but it carries the intensity of a thousand moonless nights; sounding like Crystal Castles getting k-holed into a corner and fighting their way back out again. Danceable, really pretty, pretty ugly, totally fucked.