Witch house

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Witch house

Development phase: around 2009
Pioneers
Crim3s , Crystal Castles , Mr. Kitty
Instruments typical of the genre
Sequencer , sampler

Witch House is a dark, occult -influenced electronic music microgen and visual aesthetic that emerged in the late 2000s and early 2010s . The music is strongly influenced by hacked and screwed hip-hop sounds, industrial and noise experiments and is characterized by the use of synthesizers , drum computers , obscure samples , booming repetitions and strongly altered, ethereal, imperceptible vocals .

The Witch House's visual aesthetic includes occult artworks , collages, and photographs inspired by witchcraft , shamanism , terror, and horror, as well as the significant use of hidden messages and typographic elements such as Unicode symbols. Many works of visual artists Witch House included themes from horror films like The Blair Witch Project , the television series Twin Peaks , Dark Web videos and celebrities of the mainstream - pop culture . Common typographic elements in artist and title names include triangles , crosses, and Unicode symbols, viewed by some as a way to keep the scene underground and harder to find on the internet , as well as references to the TV series Twin Peaks and Charmed .

Influences and style

Witch House uses techniques such as drastically slowed down tempos with skipping, stopped beats - by artists like DJ Screw , paired with elements from other genres such as Etheral Wave, Noise , Drone and Shoegaze . Witch House is also influenced by post-punk- inspired bands of the 1980s, including the Cocteau Twins , The Cure , Christian Death , Dead Can Dance, and The Opposition, as well as heavily influenced by industrial and experimental bands such as Psychic TV and Coil . The use of hip-hop drum machines , a noise atmosphere, creepy samples, dark synthpop-influenced lead melodies, strong reverb and heavily altered, distorted and down-pitched vocals are the most important attributes that characterize the sound of the genre. The genre rose early 2010s to the fore, as the interest in individually produced electronic music and Internet subcultures increased again - with the increasing flood of genres such Seapunk and Vapor Wave .

reaction

Witch house music has been cited as provocative and transgressive , "like pop music blowing from Castle Dracula". The genre is characterized as slimy, dark, transgressive and that which blends the line between abrasive and harmonious.As artist Nurgul Jones notes, the easiest way I can find to describe witch house comes from this scene, which takes place at the beginning of the film Blade . (You know about the vampires) where there's a bunch of vampires in a human club. Suddenly, in the middle of the dance, the film slows down and blood splatters from the ceiling, much to the delight of the vampires and to the horror of the people. Like a heavy, throbbing blow of blood.

Origins and Etymology

The term witch house was coined in 2009 by Travis Egedy, who goes under the name Pictureplane. The name was originally intended as a joke, as Egedy explains: "Myself and my friend Shams ... joked about the kind of house music that we do [call it] witch house because it's some kind of occult house music ... ... I did this best of the year thing with Pitchfork about witch house ... I said that we're witch house bands, and that 2010 was going to be the year of with house ... that was where it started ... but, by the time I said witch house, it didn't even exist really ... "Shortly after it was mentioned on Pitchfork, blogs and other mainstream music magazines started using the term. Flavorwire said that despite Egedy's insistence, the genre "exists now, through good times and bad".

Notable artists

Individual evidence

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