Another mixtape/compilation in tribute to something this time it's Katsuhiro Ōtomo's AKIRa and its been put out by Witch-House.com ...yes there is a Witch House.com!
Anyway its a really nice noir piece featuring artist such as SKVLL P/\R†Y, WIK▲N and BLVCK CEILING, with hardly one fuzzed out synth in sight which is nice. This is a very slick and "Akira" feeling release worthy of the association. Go download this 14 track album for free from Bandcamp.
Some people really wont give up on the whole lo-fi dirty beats and synth fuzz of Witch House, for those who still love that sound here is WIK▲N with a new EP called Monoliths, its free to download from Bandcamp and to be fair it has some awesome dark drones on it, really epic heavy shit, all dirty and monolithic, yawning chasms of sound and echo falling away to saw toothed howls and low-slow beats.
A great collaboration/remix here: Tape 3000 and WIK▲N - UR LUV SONG (WIK▲N REMIX) Download free from Soundcloud! Tape3000 was founded in 2007 by producer and singer Nadine Platzek from Germany. I'll be blogging more about this project soon.
Some WIK▲N news now, this British Witch House artist is going to be playing live at this years Summer Darkness Festival in Holland in July. Plus he's also done a remix for Croatian Mathrock band "+ / -" Check it below! I love what the Summer Darkness Festival has to say on the subject of Witch House: "The new genre witchhouse is like a return to those old chill-out rooms that they used to have at rave parties, where you could drift away in endless drones and downtempo beats and lose yourself in strange, occult fantasies." + / - - Nimrod Glacier (WIK▲N Remix) by WIK▲N
