Friday, December 22, 2023

Top 12 Best Witch House Music Albums 2023

 


Not in order of relevance, here is my own favorites of this 2023. Always focused on Witch House old school style. ( Albums =  long duration albums: 30 minutes minimum length)




Artist: א．ｎｉｎｊａ
album title: Ｐ​ｒ​ａ​ｃ​ｔ​ｉ​ｃ​ａ​ｌ​　​Ａ​ｌ​ｃ​ｈ​ｅ​ｍ​ｙ
country: US
label: self-released
Genres: glitch, vaporwitch, noise, experimental
date released: 31 October




Artist: Candle Ea†er
album title: |​|​NEKROSOPHIK​|​|
country: Canada
label: self-released
Genres: witch house, experimental
date released: 7 September.




Artist: eerietheery
album title: Of Late
country: US
label: self-released
Genres: witch house, IDM, drum n bass
date released: 12 December





Artist: Tess Conway
album title: We fell asleep under the moon
country: Russia
label: EK4T3
Genres: witch house, dark electronic
date released: 18 September




Artist: Mater Suspiria Vision
album title: Hotel Trancesylvania
country: Germany
label: Phantasma Disques
Genres: witch house, horror synth, haunted trance, ghost drone 
date released: 6 December







 Artist: LUMINOUX VEIL
album title: ǢXTANT​Ĭ​A
country: US
label: Crunch Pod
Genres: witch house, electro industrial
date released: 18 September




 
Artist:  I††
album title: Pentagrammaton
country: US
label: Skull Triangle Skull (Japan/Chile)
Genres: witch house, industrial, experimental
date released: 20 March






Artist:  †ATMOS†PHERE † OF GOD AND † DEVIL†
album title: Between God And Devil
country: Russia
label: Internet Daemon (Chile)
Genres: witch house, experimental
date released: 8 August.







Artist:  TD//TB//TB
album title: Altered (Complete Edition) 
country: US
label: self-released
Genres: witch house, horror synth
date released: 13 May





Artist:  The Heartwood Institute
album title: Mist Over Pendle
country: UK
label: Doomshire Tapes
Genres: witch house, experimental, doom synth
date released: 26 May





Artist:  Temporary Creature
album title: 24 0 Motive 
country: US
label: Move Quiet Records (US)
Genres: Downtempo, Vaporwave, Witch House old school
date released: 30 March. 





 Artist:  BLVCK CEILING
album title: HELLO, THANK YOU 
country: US
label: self-released
Genres: witch house, downtempo
date released: 13 May




BONUS:
Artist:  The Hypergiants ASMR
album title: The Healing Power Of Time 
country: US
label: self-released
Genres: Chillwave, IDM, witchy atmospheric beats
date released: 16 August





Artists:  Various
album title: ▲Δ Witchery from 2023​▲​Δ
country: Japan/Chile
label: Skull Triangle Skull
Genres: Witch House, Experimental
date released: 3 September






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Top 15 Best Underground Music albums of 2023



2023 is almost end. And it's time to add to this site, The best of 2023. Long duration album.This means Full Length releases = with more than 8 tracks or with a minimum of 30 minutes.)

So here is below: NOT IN ORDER OF RELEVANCE. The 15 releases are for me the best of the underground scene of this year. 


Artist:  PACO MORENO

Album: After Dark

Artist country: US / Release date: 23 June

label: PMP (US)

Link: https://pac0m0ren0.bandcamp.com/album/after-dark

Genres: Vaporwave, Downtempo, Dark Beats

Paco Moreno main music websites: BC: https://pac0m0ren0.bandcamp.com/


Artist:  SONA NYL

Album: Chroniques de vampires, Vourdalaks et autres non​-​morts

Artist country: France / Release date: 21 December

label: DMP Productions (US)

Link: https://dialatedmusicproductions.bandcamp.com/album/chroniques-de-vampires-vourdalaks-et-autres-non-morts

Genres: Horror Synth, Minimal Electronic

Sona Nyl main music websites: BC:  https://ottovankleist.bandcamp.com/ / YT: https://www.youtube.com/@ludoviclepretre



Artist:  Julius Granell

Album: Psychefelia

Artist country: Spain / Release date: 22 November

label: Self-released

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vz-zTf00G4E&list=OLAK5uy_nLyxC35JGYjYxepL3qeUBFygHkWjO3g8M&index=1

Genres: Minimal Electronic, Abstract, Experimental

Julius Granell main music websites: BC:  https://juliusgranell1.bandcamp.com/ / SC: https://soundcloud.com/julius-granell


Artist:  Osvaldo Sotomayor R. + Renzo Filinich O.

Album: Sun pandamonium

Artist country: Chile / Release date: 16 October

label: Rata Sorda recs.

Link: https://ratasordarec.bandcamp.com/album/sun-pandamonium

Genres: Drone, Space Ambient



Artist: My Own Cubic Stone

Album: La Constante Des Gaz Parfaits

Artist country: France / Release date: 10 April

label: Musique moléculaire label (Canada)

Link: https://musiquemoleculaire.bandcamp.com/album/la-constante-des-gaz-parfaits

/ also at self-artist bandcamp:

https://myowncubicstone.bandcamp.com/album/la-constante-des-gaz-parfaits

Genres: Dark Ambient, Experimental

My Own Cubic Stone main music websites: BC:  https://myowncubicstone.bandcamp.com/ / 

SC: https://soundcloud.com/my-own-cubic-stone/tracks



Artist:  Cyanbaal

Album:  Living Tunnel Revision / The Inscrutable Script  

Artist country: Germany / Release date: 13 October

label: Self-released

Link: https://cyanbaal.bandcamp.com/album/living-tunnel-revision-the-inscrutable-script-ep

Genres: Darkwave, Electro Industrial

 Cyanbaal main music websites: BC:  https://cyanbaal.bandcamp.com / Official: http://www.cyanbaal.de/


Artist:  Myrh / Mu Tiny

Album:  Engage In Enchanted Practices   

Artist country: Canada / Release date: 15 April

label: Self-released

Link: https://tarka1.bandcamp.com/album/engage-in-enchanted-practices

Genres: Experimental,  Progressive Electronic

 Myrh main music websites: BC: https://tarka1.bandcamp.com/ SC: https://soundcloud.com/myrhyum


Artist: Cement Tea

Album: Misadventures On The Candyland

Artist country: Brazil  / Release date: 31 August

label: Self-released

Link: https://cementtea.bandcamp.com/album/misadventures-on-the-candyland

Genres: Industrial Hardcore, Noise, Chipcore

Cement Tea main music websites

 BC:  https://cementtea.bandcamp.com/ / SC: https://soundcloud.com/cement-tea


Artist: Tets​ü​o ii 

Album: Tets​ü​o ii

Release date:10 August

label: Dagger Forest (UK)

Link: https://daggerforest.bandcamp.com/album/tets-o-ii

https://tetsuo-ii.bandcamp.com/album/tets-o-ii

Genres: Synth Ambient, Drone 

Tets​ü​o ii  main music website:

BC: https://tetsuo-ii.bandcamp.com/


Artist:  musique moléculaire 

Album: Film obscur

Artist country: Canada / Release date: 17 April

label: Musique moléculaire label (Canada)

Link: https://musiquemoleculaire.bandcamp.com/album/film-obscur

Genres: Dark Ambient, Drone Noise

musique moléculaire  main music website: BC:  https://musiquemoleculaire.bandcamp.com/

official: https://musiquemoleculaire.com/musique-moleculaire


Artists:  vacant possession & fencepost

Album: broken beasts  

Artist country: Canada / Release date: 11 December

label: <1 label (UK)

Link: https://lessthanone.bandcamp.com/album/broken-beasts

Genres: Dark Ambient, Drone Noise, Industrial

fencepost  main music website: BC: https://fencepost.bandcamp.com/

vacant possession main website: BC: https://vacantpossession.bandcamp.com/



Artist:  Vicar Elm 

Album:  Vicar Elm 

Release date: 8 June

label: Drug Arts (US)

Link: https://drugarts.bandcamp.com/album/vicar-elm

Genres: Trip Hop, Alternative Pop

Vicar Elm  main music website:

https://open.spotify.com/intl-es/artist/5UxD5kLRI2CUmgUK7eJdzP



Artist:  Sound Animal

Album: Real Strange Delusions

Artist country: US / Release date: 2 August

label: Camembert Électrique (France)

Link: https://camembertelectrique.bandcamp.com/album/real-strange-delusions

Also available at self artist bandcamp: 

https://soundanimal.bandcamp.com/album/real-strange-delusions

Genres: Avant-garde, experimental, dark ambient

Soud Animal  main music website:

BC: https://soundanimal.bandcamp.com/ Official: https://sound-animal.com/


Artist:  Mario Lino Stancati  

Album: Revision 

Artist country: Italy / Release date: 2 November

label: Unexplained Sounds Group  (Italy)

Link: https://unexplainedsoundsgroup.bandcamp.com/album/revision

Genres: Avant-garde, experimental, dark ambient

 Mario Lino Stancati main music website:

SC: https://soundcloud.com/mariolinostancati


Artist:  Datapoint 

Album: CONTACT

Artist country: US / Release date: 11 January

label: Illuminated Paths  (US)

Link: https://illuminatedpaths.bandcamp.com/album/contact

Genres: Vaporwave


BONUS:

Artist:  Various Artists x Humanfobia

Album: Terrorlake

Artist country: Chile / Release date: 13 October

label: Internet Daemon  (Chile)

Links: https://humanfobia-official.bandcamp.com/album/horrorlake

https://archive.org/details/v-a-x-humanfobia-horrorlake

Genres: Dark Experimental, Witch House, Horror Synth

 Humanfobia main music websites:

BC: https://humanfobia-official.bandcamp.com/

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/04WVEhq4UDRTKpWEfMSeZT

Official: https://humanfobia.jimdofree.com/


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Monday, October 30, 2023

Best 2023 Releases at Internet Archive

 

Best Internet archive releases of 2023

Here is the best exclusive music releases at Internet Archive of this 2023 / 

ultra-underground netlabels and artists. 

In order of appearance in the top picture (from left to right) [not in order of relevance) 


- GZG - Quiescencia: Paisajes Sonoros Como Acto De Supervivencia [Skull Dungeon Netlabel]:

https://archive.org/details/SKD1492


- V/A - Horror In The Electronic Cottage [Treetrunk recs]:

https://archive.org/details/HorrorInTheElectronicCottage


- Lord Cernunnos - She Wanders The Cavern [Yuri Society Netlabel]:

https://archive.org/details/ys-252-lord-cernunnos-she-wanders-the-cavern


- el_masmore - EL INEFABLE [Obama The Cat: Ruidismo Anti-Humanos Records]:

https://archive.org/details/otcrah_r121


- Dhavali Giri - Barycentre [ Echotope]: https://archive.org/details/dhavali-giri-barycentre/


- metal butch - thank you! remember, call me if you forget how to breathe [backtick netlabel]: https://archive.org/details/ThankYouRememberCallMeIfYouForgetHowToBreathe


- Thomas Jackson Park - The Dark And Unsilent Place [Murmure Intemporel Netlabel ]:

https://archive.org/details/MI422-Thomas_Park-The_Dark_And_Unsilent_Place


- the dissonant - silence and other forms of dissonance: https://archive.org/details/diss033/


- ゲームマスター - DUNGEON CRAWLER 2000オリジナル・サウンドトラック [Bayview Financial Trading Group]: https://archive.org/details/BFTG_193/


- rcomplexbrain - serpent [ undefined label ]:

https://archive.org/details/undefined-label-rcomplexbrain-serpent



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Friday, March 17, 2023

2020's Onwards Witch House Music???†▲░░†▲

 

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Days ago an artist ask me: "why you continue making witch house and similar music compilations?" // "is not better just continue with your other experimental netlabel and forget that shitty dead genre?" //// My personal opinion about it is very simple. I wish continue making what i like, what i enjoy. No matter if don't have too much listeners or track submissions. Maybe say that witch house is alive in 2023 is just an irony. The old days of ritual occult music are gone. The days when soundcloud was full of free tracks and zombie rave mixes are totally dead.

What we have now??? hundred of youtube channels monetizing 1 hour mixes and twitch streamers asking donations at the expense of the others art. And the 90% of those artists sound exactly equal between each other, like use an uniform, without authenticy, without soul. Those kids turned the genre into something technical, like synthwave, like darkwave, some tracks sounds very good and also i like some of them. But...where is the atmospheric ritual, experimental noisy, screwed original witch house style?? where??? do you know why blvck ceiling sounds different to mater suspiria vision?? why how i quit crack sounds different to lake radio??? do you know it?? Because the true essence of this genre WAS become a witch yourself and create a coven with your music, make an interpretation of witchcraft and translate it into music.

FYI This never was a music style. Was an aesthetic art movement. Manifested on the cover artworks, in the titles of the songs using unicode texts, in the appearance of its artists, wearing burkas, hiding their faces. An occult artistic global scene.

.....And now with the arriving and popularity of normie and extremely commercial genres like wave, phonk, trap, deconstructed club and similars, the current producers mix all that creating this new post-witch house thing and accepting it as "WITCH HOUSE music". And all new listeners also confirm agree with that too......

But do you know something? Exist something called: "History". "The Start of an artistic form" // For more that this shitty posers try to hide what really WH is, they will never make it... Because internet is there for remember to them from where WH comes, from when WH starts (2008)....

witch house music

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Sunday, February 26, 2023

Netlabels y Música Libre en pleno 2023

 

    Partiendo de la base que vivimos en el siglo XXI, un momento en la historia donde la humanidad ha perdido casi todos sus valores. Donde hay parejas que comparten su vida con otras que les doblan su edad solo por dinero, donde casi todo se hace solo por él mismo fin. Aun así, podemos encontrar personas que no siguen ese camino y que hacen algo por el simple y concreto hecho de disfrutarlo y amarlo.  En pleno 2023 donde vivimos la cúspide de los streamers, de pedir donaciones por cualquier motivo, de vender hasta el alma si fuese necesario, en ese mismo año, aún co-existen y se sigue gestando en un mundo totalmente paralelo e ignorado, un espacio donde artistas de todo el mundo promueven el hecho de “crear”.  Sin esperar nada a cambio, ni recompensas, ni ovaciones, ni nada parecido.  Ese espacio es la sección “Netlabels” del sitio web “Internet archive”. Sitio que desde inicios de 2004, casi 20 años atrás, comenzó como lugar para promover el movimiento de los sellos digitales. Posteriormente en 2008 con la popularidad de bandcamp, reverbnation y otras plataformas similares, la historia de los netlabels cambiaría a lo que es en la actualidad. 

El sitio web se encuentra actualmente relegado al olvido, pero sigue siendo utilizado tan solo por un puñado de sellos digitales de música experimental, noise y electrónica sin categorizar. En comparación con sus inicios, teniendo cientos de lanzamientos mensuales, ahora son solo decenas de lanzamientos por mes, lo que nos da una fuerte señal de que algo ha cambiado en la escena musical.  Pero por otra parte, sigue siendo un lugar donde los artistas pueden expresar su sonido, su arte, sin estar pendientes de cuanto les han depositado, de cuánto es el valor monetario de algo tan profundo y abstracto como es la música.


Música libre quiere decir para el uso libre de cualquier persona, quizá con ciertas restricciones como lo establecen las licencias “creative commons” : https://creativecommons.org/licenses/?lang=es  dando crédito al autor, en ocasiones pudiendo ser utilizadas las obras solo sin fines comerciales, con o sin modificaciones de la mismas. 


Siendo esto, la música libre, un formato que promueve mayor difusión del arte, mayor alcance de oyentes y la posibilidad, de que cualquier persona pueda incluir libremente el trabajo de los artistas en su estación de radio, usarlo en DJ Sets, DJ Mixes, en eventos, en fiestas, en exposiciones, en obras de teatro, incluso en cine y otras formas de arte. En ocasiones con previa aprobación del artista, pero sin duda es algo muy distinto a lo que impone el monopolio del “copyright” y su “all rights reserved” que indica automáticamente que la obra no puede ser utilizada para ninguno de los fines antes mencionados sin que se le pague al artista por el derecho exclusivo de hacerlo.


Todos tenemos derechos a elegir, y la verdad no tiene nada de malo ganar dinero y tener una retribución por la música. Pero cuando se vuelve una obsesión y se pierde lo esencial, el núcleo de lo que es crear y de lo que hace al artista un verdadero creador, se vuelve algo vacío, inconsistente y hasta insensato.

Puedes visitar la página en cuestión directamente en:

https://archive.org/details/netlabels?sort=-addeddate   


Aparte del archivo de Internet, existe otro sitio web conocido como “Free Music Archive” en el que también se puede descargar música sin copyright y con distintas licencias creative commons: https://freemusicarchive.org/


También en soundcloud puedes encontrar música con licencias creative commons cambiando las opciones  en la búsqueda de tracks a para modificar o usar de manera comercial. Con esa opción solo te aparecerán pistas con licencia libre y en el apartado posterior puedes seleccionar por género musical.

https://soundcloud.com/search/sounds?q=experimental&filter.license=to_modify_commercially


En Bandcamp también se puede bajar música con licencia creative commons, escribiendo el hastag: https://bandcamp.com/tag/creative-commons Pero lamentablemente la música no será gratis. La plataforma excluye los lanzamientos gratuitos (free downloads) de la búsqueda en su aplicación. Por lo que recomendamos al usuario utilizar el ordenador para poder visualizar la música 100% gratuita en esa plataforma. Y no todos los artistas ponen en cada lanzamiento el hastag crative commons…por lo que la búsqueda en bandcamp es muy limitada en este caso.


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Thursday, December 29, 2022

Top 12 Best Witch House Music albums of 2022

 

Is the end of the year. And this 2022 we decided make a top of one of our favorite dark experimental music genres: Witch House (of course in the underground side and not popular artists).

The genre continue producing a lot of new material, maybe not with the same prolific numbers than it's first age (2009-2013). But Witch House is a genre that it seems that will continue in the heart of few but avid listeners of ritual dark atmospheres, mixed with ethereal magical spells.

This is our own selection, of the best long duration albums (not Ep's, not single tracks) of this 2022. There's solo artists and also various artists compilations. †▲†▲†▲†▲†▲†▲†▲†▲†▲†▲†▲†▲†▲†▲†▲†▲†▲†▲†▲†▲†▲†▲

NOT IN ORDER OF RELEVANCE.



▼ ARTIST: VARIOUS  //  ALBUM: ▲​†​CARRIE​†​▲▼

DATE: September 19, 2022

LABEL: Internet Daemon [Chile]

genres: Old school witch house, dark downtempo, sound collage

Link: https://new-age-vapor-witch.bandcamp.com/album/carrie

 mirror: https://archive.org/details/v-a-carrie


 ▼ ARTIST: PERSEFONE  //  ALBUM: Reflected Ghost ▼

DATE: March 20, 2022

LABEL: Skull Triangle Skull [Chile/Japan] - Artist country: Mexico

genres: Old school witch house, dark downtempo, sound collage, noise

Link: https://skulltriangleskull.bandcamp.com/album/reflected-ghost

 mirror: https://archive.org/details/persefone-reflected-ghost



 ▼ ARTIST: VARIOUS  //  ALBUM: The Black Magic Compilation ▼

DATE: October 20, 2022

LABEL: Paracelsian Productions [Canada]

genres: Old school witch house, experimental, synthwave, industrial

mirror: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKwO3Vfc-nQ&t=15s&ab_channel=ParacelsianMusicChannel



▼ ARTIST: The Carisita Sect  //  ALBUM: The Carisita Sect ▼

DATE: November 20, 2022

LABEL: Ceremonial Sundown [UK]

genres:  martial industrial, ritual ambient, witch house old school



▼ ARTIST: Prostor  //  ALBUM: The only one ▼

DATE: February 02, 2022

LABEL: Self-released [Kazakhstan]

genres: witch house, wave. experimental
 
 

▼ ARTIST: ACITYASLEEP //  ALBUM: Dream Fever ▼

DATE: December 1, 2022

LABEL: Self-released [US]

genres: witch house, dark electro, industrial
 
 
 
 

▼ ARTIST: HeR RiTE //  ALBUM: Final Eclipse ▼

DATE: November 2, 2022

LABEL: Self-released [UK]

genres: post-witch house, witch house, dark electro, industrial
 
 

 

▼ ARTIST: VARIOUS  //  ALBUM: A Witch House Music tribute to Twin Peaks ▼

DATE: January 29, 2022

LABEL: Internet Daemon [Chile]

genres: Old school witch house, experimental, sound collage

Link: https://new-age-vapor-witch.bandcamp.com/album/a-witch-house-music-tribute-to-twin-peaks
 


 

▼ ARTIST: earlee grave//  ALBUM: No More Room In Hell ▼

DATE: November 13, 2022

LABEL: LABEL: Self-released [US]

genres:  witch house, witch synth, gothic
 
link; https://earleegrave.bandcamp.com/album/no-more-room-in-hell




 ▼ ARTIST: PZA //  ALBUM: PLAZAGOTH / G​⦰​TH L​⦰​VE ▼

DATE: September 2, 2022

LABEL: DMP [US]

genres: witch house, vaporwitch
 


▼ ARTIST: De(ad)light //  ALBUM: 4 2 6 2 10 5 1​(​0) ▼

DATE: February 16, 2022

LABEL: Self-released (France)

genres: witch house
 


 

▼ ARTIST: Integral Carp //  ALBUM: +​+​+​ATH0 ▼

DATE: October 10, 2022

LABEL: LABEL: Self-released [US]

genres:  witch house old school, noise, vaporwave
 
link: https://integralcarp.bandcamp.com/album/ath0
 

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 BONUS:



▼ ARTIST: Humanfobia //  ALBUM: ⚡​🐝​PHENOMENA​⚡​🐝 [Special ▲ Edition]

DATE: September 4, 2022

LABEL: Internet Daemon [Chile] / Artist Country: Chile

genres: old school witch house, vapor witch, experimental
 

mirror: https://archive.org/details/phenomena-special-edition

 

ARTIST: VARIOUS  //  ALBUM: XXI Century Witchcraft

DATE: April 9, 2022

LABEL: Skull Triangle Skull [Chile/Japan]

genres: Old school witch house, experimental

Link: https://skulltriangleskull.bandcamp.com/album/v-a-xxi-century-witchcraft

 mirror: https://archive.org/details/xxi-century-witchcraft

 

 ▼​💀▲ LONG LIFE TO WITCH HOUSE & DARK EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC UNDERGROUND▼​💀▲

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