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* Broadcast and The Focus Group - ''Investigate Witch Cults Of The Radio Age'' (Warp, 2009): a chemical wedding of pop-sike bliss, cut-up weird audio and occult sonics; dark monarchs of hauntology's expanding kingdom; untethering slippage and slurring of loops and rhythms, a new approach to sampling that perhaps better represents the way music really sits in our memory (Wire) | * Broadcast and The Focus Group - ''Investigate Witch Cults Of The Radio Age'' (Warp, 2009): a chemical wedding of pop-sike bliss, cut-up weird audio and occult sonics; dark monarchs of hauntology's expanding kingdom; untethering slippage and slurring of loops and rhythms, a new approach to sampling that perhaps better represents the way music really sits in our memory (Wire) | ||
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* http://ashtapes.blogspot.com/ | * http://ashtapes.blogspot.com/ | ||
* http://rateyourmusic.com/list/Karel/design_by_julian_house, http://madebyhk.com/17/02/2010/ghost-box/ | * http://rateyourmusic.com/list/Karel/design_by_julian_house, http://madebyhk.com/17/02/2010/ghost-box/ | ||
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| + | =Hypnagogic pop= | ||
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| + | ==Selected albums / short reviews== | ||
| + | * Ducktail - ''Landscapes'' (OEBC, 2009) | ||
| + | * Oneohtrix Point Never - ''Rifts'' (No Fun): keyboard polysynth; "timbral fascism" (Wuethrich @Wire); musical narrative of an astronaut lost in space, his subsequent wanderings on an uninhabited planet and his old-age reflection on that time; realignment of low-rent pop culture from the 70s+80s, abandoned synth timbres and obsolete consumere electronics | ||
| + | * Inca Ore & Ducktails & High Wolf: material resonant with a distressed nostalgia for halcyon days (Wire) | ||
| + | * James Ferraro - ''KFC City 3099 Pt 1: Toxic Spill'': lo-definition joyride through the polluted swamps of US cultural half-memory (Wire) | ||
| + | * Pocahaunted: scrawled connections between free folk, LA-period Fleetwood Mac and dub with joyous abandon (Wire) | ||
| + | * Emeralds & Oneohtrix Point Never: drag the beatless meditations of Klaus Schulze and Tangerine Dream through a prism of 1980s pulp culture, accumulating layers of ectoplasmic residue which allow their music to glow with an unearthly, greenish-blue beauty (Wire) | ||
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| + | ==Artists== | ||
| + | James Ferraro (aka Grippers Nother Oneser), Pocahaunted, Emeralds, Daniel Lopatin (of Oneohtrix Point Never; of Infinity Window; Brooklyn), Inca Ore (Eva Saelens, @Not Not Fun), Ducktails (@OESB), High Wolf, Forest Swords (@OESB), Rangers (@OESB), Matrix Metals (aka Flashback, Sam Meringue) | ||
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| + | ==Term== | ||
| + | * David Keenan: ''US underground's equivalent strain of hauntology. These artists turned away from the bleak grind of Noise to embrace the fuzzily remembered forms of their childhoods, including soft rock and New Age. For them, the vague recollection of a zero-budget sci-fi flick watched once during a sleepover takes on a mythic, almost occult quality, ripe for processing via cheap technology into a sound that oscillates bwn the naggingly familiar and the utterly alien.'' (Wire, 2009) | ||
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| + | ==Labels== | ||
| + | * Not Not Fun | ||
| + | * Olde English Spelling Bee (OEBC), NYC, [http://oesbee.blogspot.com/]. | ||
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| + | =Witch House= | ||
| + | aka ''drag'' | ||
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| + | ==Term== | ||
| + | * taking the familiar dubby beats and haunting, pitch-shifted vocals and adding a more ambient, droney take to it that’s as beautiful as it is bleak + uncritical love of the reverb | ||
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| + | ==Artists== | ||
| + | Salem, White Ring [http://www.myspace.com/whytering], oOoOO [http://www.myspace.com/wkwkwkwkwkwkwkwk], Mater Suspiria Vision | ||
Revision as of 23:39, 19 May 2010
Contents
Hauntology
Selected album reviews
- Broadcast and The Focus Group - Investigate Witch Cults Of The Radio Age (Warp, 2009): a chemical wedding of pop-sike bliss, cut-up weird audio and occult sonics; dark monarchs of hauntology's expanding kingdom; untethering slippage and slurring of loops and rhythms, a new approach to sampling that perhaps better represents the way music really sits in our memory (Wire)
- Belbury Poly - From An Ancient Star (Ghost Box): incorporated shades of disco and dub
- Seeland - Tomorrow Today (Advance, 2009) (Tim Felton ex-Broadcast, Billy Bainbridge ex-Plone): marries antique futurist textures to attractive pop songcraft (Wire)
- Position Normal - Goodly Time (Rum, 2000) (London, Chris Bailiff and John Cushway, MM?, *93): proto-hauntology
- Proto-hauntology
- Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children (1998)
- Boards of Canada - Geogaddi (2002)
Artists
James Kirby (aka The Caretaker, The Stranger, Leyland Kirby), Broadcast and The Focus Group (Warp's Cargill and Keenan + Ghost Box's House), The Focus Group (House @Ghost Box), William Basinski, Belbury Poly (@Ghost Box), Ariel Pink, Moon Wiring Club, The Advisory Circle, Seeland (Felton ex-Broadcast, Bainbridge ex-Plone)
- Proto-hauntology
Position Normal (Bailiff and Cushway, *1993), Boards of Canada
Labels
- Ghost Box, *2004, London. Julian House & Jim Jupp
- Mordant Music, London
Term
- Adam Harper: When the word 'hauntology' was first applied to music in January 2006, it was used to describe the Ghost Box and Mordant Music record labels (technically it was Simon Reynolds who proposed it as a name for a musical style, but credit should go to k-punk for using the term in connection with Ghost Box’s music long before this in September 05). [[1]]
- Adam Harper: playback hauntologists: The Caretaker, Basinski and Indignant Senility [2]
- Jonny Mugwump (@Quietus): the paradoxical retro-futurist real-world mythologies of the Ghost Box label with related (Broadcast) and parallel travellers (Moon Wiring Club, Position Normal) [3]
- 14tracks.com: "The Caretaker's apparitional sample morphology, through Ariel Pink's exquisite MOR narco-pop, the Ghost Box label's miniaturised vision of middle England, onto Burial's mournful rave dreams"
Literature
- Mark Fisher, "Unhomesickness", Sep 2005 [4]
- Simon Reynolds, Jan 2006, [5]
- k-punk, "Home is where the haunt is: The Shining's hauntology", Jan 2006, [6]
- Adam Harper, "Hauntology: The Past Inside The Present", Oct 2009, [7]
Random / sort through later
- Wooden Veil, Berlin-based art group formed in 2007. Inspired by the shared hauntedness of their respective homelands, they combine elements from forgotten and misremembered traditions to create a microcosmic world which only Wooden Veil inhabits. Performances, installations and videos are characterized by an expansive wardrobe of ritual dress, and the creation of shrines, relics and talismans used to create music.
- http://ashtapes.blogspot.com/
- http://rateyourmusic.com/list/Karel/design_by_julian_house, http://madebyhk.com/17/02/2010/ghost-box/
Hypnagogic pop
Selected albums / short reviews
- Ducktail - Landscapes (OEBC, 2009)
- Oneohtrix Point Never - Rifts (No Fun): keyboard polysynth; "timbral fascism" (Wuethrich @Wire); musical narrative of an astronaut lost in space, his subsequent wanderings on an uninhabited planet and his old-age reflection on that time; realignment of low-rent pop culture from the 70s+80s, abandoned synth timbres and obsolete consumere electronics
- Inca Ore & Ducktails & High Wolf: material resonant with a distressed nostalgia for halcyon days (Wire)
- James Ferraro - KFC City 3099 Pt 1: Toxic Spill: lo-definition joyride through the polluted swamps of US cultural half-memory (Wire)
- Pocahaunted: scrawled connections between free folk, LA-period Fleetwood Mac and dub with joyous abandon (Wire)
- Emeralds & Oneohtrix Point Never: drag the beatless meditations of Klaus Schulze and Tangerine Dream through a prism of 1980s pulp culture, accumulating layers of ectoplasmic residue which allow their music to glow with an unearthly, greenish-blue beauty (Wire)
Artists
James Ferraro (aka Grippers Nother Oneser), Pocahaunted, Emeralds, Daniel Lopatin (of Oneohtrix Point Never; of Infinity Window; Brooklyn), Inca Ore (Eva Saelens, @Not Not Fun), Ducktails (@OESB), High Wolf, Forest Swords (@OESB), Rangers (@OESB), Matrix Metals (aka Flashback, Sam Meringue)
Term
- David Keenan: US underground's equivalent strain of hauntology. These artists turned away from the bleak grind of Noise to embrace the fuzzily remembered forms of their childhoods, including soft rock and New Age. For them, the vague recollection of a zero-budget sci-fi flick watched once during a sleepover takes on a mythic, almost occult quality, ripe for processing via cheap technology into a sound that oscillates bwn the naggingly familiar and the utterly alien. (Wire, 2009)
Labels
- Not Not Fun
- Olde English Spelling Bee (OEBC), NYC, [8].
Witch House
aka drag
Term
- taking the familiar dubby beats and haunting, pitch-shifted vocals and adding a more ambient, droney take to it that’s as beautiful as it is bleak + uncritical love of the reverb
Artists
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