“How about a NEW podcast for a change, Pauuuullll?!”
Well, calm your fuckin’ mammaries, ‘cause it’s right fuckin’ here! Welcome one and all, all and one, to the second installment of the Witch-rowave Trap-House Edition! It’s been nearly a year since the last one. My, my, my how time flies, eh? It flies, and yet with our current sociopolitical climate, it feels like it either stands still or flies backwards. Ah well, that’s neither here nor there right now. What is here AND there right now (because it’s quantum as fuck) are a few things I want to tell you about the stuff we’ll be hearing this week.
“How about a NEW podcast for a change, Pauuuullll?!”
Well, calm your fuckin’ mammaries, ‘cause it’s right fuckin’ here! Welcome one and all, all and one, to the second installment of the Witch-rowave Trap-House Edition! It’s been nearly a year since the last one. My, my, my how time flies, eh? It flies, and yet with our current sociopolitical climate, it feels like it either stands still or flies backwards. Ah well, that’s neither here nor there right now. What is here AND there right now (because it’s quantum as fuck) are a few things I want to tell you about the stuff we’ll be hearing this week.
1. Witch House, because duh. I still can’t altogether describe the genre, especially since the name isn’t particularly accurate as far as I can tell. Like I said on the first installment, Witch House is a genre I first heard about when someone was describing the music of Chino Moreno’s side-project †††(Crosses). I’ve included one of their tracks as a point of reference, but to be honest, I don’t think that’s particularly accurate either. I can say that you can generally expect songs in minor keys, vocals drenched in reverb, often minimalistic melodies, and I think you can fairly easily tell the difference between stuff in the Witch House genre as opposed to the Retrowave/Outrun/Dark Wave/Synthwave/WTFwave stuff. I think it does blend well enough though, thus why I created this edition.
2. Once again, I’ve used an image from the Neon Witch photography series by Sergey “Aku” Shetukhin, aka @akunohako on Instagram. If you like the image, go check out the rest of the series. You won’t be disappointed.
3. Almost all of these tracks are new discoveries. Almost 4 hours of them, in fact. After two Flashback editions in a row, I owe you all some new stuff, so here ya go. You’re in for quite a few treats if you’re cool enough to dig ‘em. Also, the artists from whom I included multiple tracks are some of my favorites. You’d notice that in the first edition as well. If you’re looking for avenues into these genres, those are the artists I’d point to first. Them, and some genre-specific playlists on Spotify.
Anyway, nothing else needs to be said as far as I can tell. So, ya know what that means? You know what the fuck that means. That means, that it is time, for yojne.
01 ††† - BI†CHES BREW (from †††) [00:02:19]
02 Dynatron - Throttle Up (from The Legacy Collection, Vol. 1) [00:05:47]
03 Fraunhofer Diffraction - Before the Dawn (from A Place to Drown the Dreams) [00:09:37]
04 Zombie Hyperdrive - Red Eyes (from Hyperion) [00:12:40]
05 Skeler - Tetsuo (from Tetsuo) [00:17:05]
06 Gunship - Maximum Black (from GUNSHIP) [00:21:31]
07 CLFRD - In the Dark (from Growth) [00:27:05]
08 Carpenter Brut - Turbo Killer (from TRILOGY) [00:30:23]
09 IC3PEAK - Привет (from Сказка) [00:33:51]
10 Dance With the Dead - Dressed to Kill (from Near Dark) [00:36:32]
11 King Plague - Ave Plague (from Ave Plague) [00:40:50]
12 Daniel Deluxe - Sojourn (from Exile) [00:44:44]
13 Al_ne - Beyond (from Beyond) [00:48:06]
14 Ian Urbina, VHS Dreams - The Next Frontier (from Final Frontier (Inspired by 'The Outlaw Ocean' a Book by Ian Urbina)) [00:51:40]
15 MISOGI - Aqua Pura (from Barcelona / Aqua Pura) [00:57:21]
16 Von Kaiser - Amber (from Ghosts of Miami) [01:00:31]
17 NxxxxxS - Everybody Is A Suspect (from Remember Last Summer) [01:05:51]
18 Carpenter Brut - Escape from Midwich Valley (from TRILOGY) [01:09:25]
19 foxwedding - Ghost Lite (from wave 002) [01:16:09]
20 Dan Deacon - Feel the Lightning (from Gliss Riffer) [01:19:53]
21 Chainless - Grey Veils (from Grey Veils) [01:24:34]
22 Gunship - Vale of Shadows (from The Rise of the Synths EP 2 (The Official Companion Album)) [01:27:41]
23 Pastel Ghost - Clouds (from Abyss) [01:33:36]
24 Wevlth - Higher (from Higher) [01:37:38]
25 Unworldly - Appeal (from Appeal) [01:42:25]
26 Fukkk Offf - Pacific Coast Highway (from Pacific Coast Highway) [01:45:21]
27 Klasey Jones - Cement (from Foreign Buyers Club) [01:48:44]
28 Lost Years - West Side Lane (from Black Waves) [01:53:20]
29 CHVRN - November (from Fall) [01:57:02]
30 Daniel Deluxe - Infiltrator (from Infiltrator) [02:01:09]
31 Dark Smoke Signal - Afterlife (from Afterlife) [02:04:39]
32 Sidewalks and Skeletons - White Light (from White Light) [02:08:33]
33 Jessie Frye - Fantasy (from Fantasy) [02:12:42]
34 Dyzphoria - Taurine (from Taurine) [02:16:25]
35 oOoOO - Seaww (from Roses / Seaww - Emotion Single) [02:19:38]
36 HeartBeatHero - Let's be friends (from Retro Heart Island) [02:22:57]
37 Wevlth - Simulation (from Simulation) [02:26:20]
38 M|O|O|N - Warehouse (feat. Glass Teeth) (from Particles) [02:29:47]
39 Sidewalks and Skeletons - Nowhere (from Nowhere) [02:33:26]
40 Wice - Star Fighter (from Magnatron 2.0) [02:37:57]
41 WHITE KATANA - FADE (feat. niteboi) (from FADE) [02:42:17]
42 Satellite Young - Sniper Rouge (feat. Mitch Murder) (from Satellite Young) [02:45:58]
43 Skeler - Falling Apart (from Falling Apart) [02:49:49]
44 Magic Sword - Sword of Truth (from Volume 1) [02:54:00]
45 WTCHCRFT - HIDE & SEEK (from HIDE & SEEK) [02:59:56]
46 Mega Drive - Converter (from Mega Drive) [03:05:25]
47 shxde - Numb (from Numb (Yume Collective)) [03:11:52]
48 Power Glove - Power Core (from Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon (Original Game Soundtrack)) [03:15:31]
49 Skit - Juneau (from Yusoul Vol. 2) [03:17:35]
50 The Midnight - The Equaliser (Not Alone) (from Endless Summer) [03:20:54]
51 Sidewalks and Skeletons - The Void (from The Void) [03:24:41]
52 Von Kaiser - Landline (from Landline) [03:28:29]
53 Øfdream - Fallen Angel (from Øfdream: Anthology, Pt. 1) [03:33:19]
54 Signal Void - Find You (feat. King Protea) (from Find You) [03:37:10]
55 CASHFORGOLD, Tim Schaufert - Wherever You Go (from Glass Houses) [03:41:03]
56 The Midnight - Light Years (feat. Nikki Flores) (from Nocturnal) [03:44:27]
57 foxwedding - Here, at the End of All Things (from Here, at the End of All Things) [03:49:44]
