Witchterror grandmaster Pepsy is back with a brand new mix for Mutant Zones. Stacked with exclusives and rare edits of MORGVE and SALEM, this shit goes hard, and I mean it will literally set your speakers on fire, tru hardcore gabber witchcraft. Free download from Soundcloud.
New/old collection of curiosities from STRFLL, including demos and drafts of various songs. Love the selection of textures, tempos and melodies here. The live edit of "Drawn To You" hits way harder than the original, while "Eternia (Demo)" sounds like something from the early years, love them both. The three rough drafts towards the end could easily be songs in their own right, so good, especially "Sunbather". Do. Not. Sleep. Support!
Get it here, and stream below.
"Keep Your Love Alive" is the newest longplay from The Implicit Order. Blurry ambient, noise and musique concrete landscapes.
Download the album here, and stream it below.
New abstractonica from Horse MacG, wicked IDM and glitch-core. I feel like I'm drifting further and further away from his artistry, thought I miss the early years of hypnagogic witch house sound. "Bing Bong" LP is released by Heavy Machinery Records and is now available on vinyl here.
Beauty just hooked me up with a link to this new producer called Jardine. Based in Los Angeles, he makes good, old grimy witch house with a modern twist. Make sure to raid his Soundcloud for more samples.
New eclectic EP out on Language Instinct, coming from French composer Max Rakhmatullin (aka Cottons Pills). This one occupies the darker corners of the ambient spectrum, allowing the sound breathe in droning halls while being delicately prodded with musique concrète noises. Late night meditation for a tired mind, it took me three attempts to be in the right headspace to get it and enjoy it. Give it a try.
Download here, and stream below.
Wow, did not expect to see a new album from witch house legends I††! "Suspiriorum" is supposed to mark their return to the ghost drone style of composition that defined their identity in the early years of the project. The album's barebones production lets you sink into the pulsing heartbeat of these tracks, with steady drones supplying a church-like atmosphere. While the stripped-down sound design does its magic throughout most of the record, I found myself distracted every now and then, precisely due to this minimalism - is that a flaw in the album or just my own short attention span? It's a good record nevertheless, I feel like some of these tracks would work great in a mix, blended in between other pieces.
You can download the record here for free, but please support it if you can. The whole thing can be streamed after the jumo below.
Perfect soundtrack to wrap up today, a new mellow joint from Pale Palace. Free download, because the man is a legend. Get it here.
I must admit, I haven't followed Nights Templar for a while, and he's been super profilic. His new EP "Hey Jealousy" was just released on limited lathe cut and cosists of four radical joints that sit in this cosy space between minimal synth, bedroom lo-fi and post-punk. Really enjoyed this bunch!
The records are still available for purchase, so don't snooze. Click here.
This is some evil shit! New collaborative release between Animal Lust and The Angel Of The Enemy will take you to the most visceral places occupied by fear and dread. Harsh noise power electronics. Free download, at your own responsibility.
On "NC-XP1: Fresh Out" Ourobonic Plague delivers a mutant bastard child of dubstep and witch house, a crossover that's been attempted plenty of times before (with mixed results), but this one should land well with both bass heads and old school witchy fans. The track is backed with a ridiculously stretched drone edit, that is giving Justin Bieber 800% Slower vibe. One to get lost in. Download the single here.
Vertigo Cult is at it again. 3nz1o is a young Belgian producer who showed up on my radar thanks to STRFLL (who, by the way, contributed to the artwork for this EP). "No Going Back" is his first, fully fleshed-out EP that sounds like old school witch house with a modern edge. It is an amazing project from start to finish, Enzio manages to pull off uplifting vibes despite the genre's gloomy roots, and he sounds like a younger cousin of SALEM in a way. That first drop in "Wounded f4wn" is just beautiful. One to watch for the future!
You can download here, and stream it below.
Language Instinct welcomes back Kyle Nelson's Cementation Anxiety project for the third time, this time with a new 20-minute album "Ruinate In Glacier". Based on the title, I'm sensing a thematic continuity being constructed here, with CA once again inviting the listener to join him for an exploration across the ice-cold ambient landscapes and desolate dronewaves.
There are some beautifully produced tapes still available here. Stream the album below.
Following the footsteps of April's instant-classic record "Home Sweet Home", NC Ives linges in his hypnagogic pop realm a little longer to deliver this charming new single "IDK". It's marked on his Bandcamp with a note "guitar version", so it's fair to say there must be a more electronic rendition of this song somewhere... Anyway, it's amazing, and you can purchase it here. Support this guy, he's amazing!
Mike Textbeak is set to release his new album "Asemic Musick" via Detroit Industrial on 5 December, and I'm happy to present the second single promoting the project. "Entropy Lock" sits on a liminal edge between minimal industrial and dark electro, and features guest vocals from Antoni Maiovvi, who has appeared on the pages of this blog under many of his producer guises. Antoni was actually kind enough to share a few thoughts about his lyrics: "While I can never say for sure where songs come from, people who have met me will know me to be quite a jovial person in real life, but for some reason the vast majority of the songs I’ve written have been fairly to very dark. I also don’t want to misdirect anyone from being able to project their own thoughts and feelings and interpretations on my words, but in order to not go full David Lynch and explain nothing, I will say that the central theme could be interpreted as: change." "Asemic Musick" follows up the 2021 remix LP "Sick For Songs A Season Eats Remixes" and delves into themes of confusion, chaos and magick in the current zeitgeist. You can pre-order the album here.
Here's a special delivery from the ever-amazing city of Chicago: Pharmacist has made a mix for Mutant Zones that will blow your shoes off, serving some exclusive tracks mixed with older classics. If you haven't read my interview with him yet (catch up here), the "First Responder" mix is a brilliant peek into the mind of one of the most exciting producers of his generation. An incredible selection that spans multiple genres, it will make you feel something special insight. Stream the mix above, and download it here.
The moment I saw that Cosmotropia de Xam's side project \\\^◊^/// released a new EP, I was hyped - his two Hoüse Öv Drüg mixtapes are incredible and still hold up, but I'm not fully sold on "Bird Of Prey". While there's a thin veil of cohesion somewhere in there, the EP ultimately sounds like a bunch of random tracks thrown together. Each one is interesting on its own, but when listened to together, they just come off as an odd mix. The opening track felt like it dragged on forever. The dragged ballad "∂ ∏ ∑ ƒ" sounds like something taken from a zombie rave mixtape, yet here it's wedged between two spooky ambient soundscapes. I like all the creepy elements of the EP (with "Δ Ω" being my favourite track), but the deconstructed industrial/nu-metal elements feel a bit off for this particular project. Personally, I think they'd make more sense under a different alias. My last moan will be the AI cover artwork - in 2023 this could pass as novelty, now it just looks bad.
Digital version is available here. There are CD copies here. Stream below.
Anthony's 1997 (!) cassette got remastered and uploaded to Bandcamp. Amazing blend of ambient and musique concrète, from one of my favourite experimental producers out there.
Download here and stream after the jump.
Halloween special from MORGVE! "Samhain Rites" is a four-track collaborative EP released for the season of the witch, featuring tracks with Brazilian witch-trap producer KenoKult, French experimentalist [lyn] and German wild card Pepsy. On top of those, we're getting a brand new song "Take It Away", which is a-ma-zing, perfect for dancing in a trance around the graveyards.
Support the crew here for $6.66 USD. Stream below or on Youtube here.
C4$ (aka Curses 4 $ale) is a noise alias of the witch house legend Ceremonial Dagger, who recently resurfaced on social media and returned to making music. "Broken Dreams", released via Bone Valley on September 19, is a whirlwind of experimental, industrial and noise elements and radio transmissions that collide and blend into an almost horror-themed sonic narrative.
The EP can be purchased in CD format directly from the label. Stream it below.
