Unofficial Fokkawolfe video for Ritualz.

Russia Ukraine by †‡† from fokka wolfe on Vimeo.

Ritualz: Ghetto Ass Witch

WOW! So the new †‡† EP dropped today and its called Ghetto Ass Witch! He seems to have dropped the complex spelling and moved to the phonetic spelling of Ritualz for EP number two and wow is this a good EP, I've been going through it today a lot and it kills, this is next gen †‡†. Hip-Hop Trance Witch House, that is just total 2011. This is not only the genres future its pops future too, Ritualz should be all over producing the 3rd Gaga album, hey Ritualz should be producing the next Rihanna album this is just too good for the world to miss. Just listen to it! So layered and rich and bouncy, dark as hell at points but tracks like Baba Vanga are just so groove filled and evil in the most dirty sounding way! Its got percussion on it too not just grinding trance synths and pre-set handclaps. Then tracks like Big Magick Hustlas take thigns another way entirely and shit all over Salems album.. objectively (if I can be!) this is a better album, I say album 'cos its eight tracks long that's only two under King Night's length. I need to have a club night up and running again to play these tracks out! Tracks like "Third Eye Sixth Sense" with its percussive droning start chanted and buzzing which rises to a fuzzed out beat and layered cacophonous noise until a minute and a half in where it drops all that out and the sound bounces forth clear and dancey, with an electro groove of epic proportions then blam the distorted synths come back in and everything rolls on like a castle collapsing down the side of a mountain. Oh and then you have the amazing final track "Star Magick" that is pure Black Metal via the medium of Witch House style Gabba..! No really, fucking listen to that track and weep tears of dust!

This is an awesome EP that rivals anything out there within the Witch House genre and nicely lifts up and out of it to easily rival bands like Salem, Crystal Castles and the like. Go buy the EP now!

BORN THIS WAY!

FUCK! TOTAL PROG-POP CRAZYNESS! THE NEW GAGA VIDEO COMES OUT AND WE HAVE THE NEW RITUALZ EP "GHETTO ASS WITCH" OUT ON THE SAME DAY TOO!!!

And come on, like giant alien mother goddesses with crystal thrones orbiting in space, neon pink inverted triangles, total face tattoos and body mods, and riding a unicorn.. what's not to like!!

GHETTO ASS WITCH out 28.Feb. 2011

9th Overflowing...Milky Slaughterhouse...Dream of Incubator

Nac/Hut Report, have just released a single "142 Drugs" that includes remixes of the song by †‡†/Rrritualzzz from Disaro Records and Death to the Brutes, one of their side projects. Download it for free here.

Nac/Hut Report is made up of a Polish boy and girl living in Italy who make a really abrasive Witchian dark Industrial sound. They have an album called "9th Overflowing...Milky Slaughterhouse...Dream of Incubator" which they are giving out for free, download it here.

Nac/Hut Report - Easy Act A by BR_nachutreport

Nac/Hut Report - Die Traume Part 2 by BR_nachutreport

BL§§D ØU† and †‡† remixes.

It's February, its dark and there is a fresh Witch House resurgence afoot, dragging things forward into 2011 by the skin of its horns. Mater Suspiria Vision are back in full release mode dropping more videos and releases than can be blogged about in time, and everywhere collaborations are springing forth. In anticipation of one such collaboration a split cdr between BL§§D ØU† and †‡† coming soon on Phantasma Records here are their respective remixes of the new Mater Suspiria Vision release Crack Busting Angels.
First BL§§D ØU†'s remix, the "Teen Girl Death Rave Edit"

MATER SUSPIRIA VISION - Crack Busting Angel (BL§§D ØU† Teen Girl Death Rave Edit) by cosmotropia-de-xam

And then †‡†'s "HELL RAVE REMIX"

MATER SUSPIRIA VISION - Crackbusting Angels (†‡† RITUALZ HELL RAVE REMIX) by cosmotropia-de-xam

Eye-rrritualzzz feat. How I Quit Crack!

eye-rrritualzzz feat. HIQC from child of christ on Vimeo.

†‡† (Ritualz) - ▲

†‡† (Ritualz) - ▲ from Petit Pistolette on Vimeo.

My favourite †‡† (Ritualz) song now has an amazing video! This is why †‡† album was number three in my top 50 this year and this is why †‡† is SO good! Properly lo-fi in many ways (in the video and giant over sampling of Health) but also totally the most on trend up to the minute styling vs audio there is out there at the moment!!

My top 10 albums of 2010!

So here are my top ten albums of 2010. Each link on the album title goes somewhere where you can download or buy the offending item.

10. Indian Jewelry – Totaled

(This album is a great dream pop, Witch House chillwave thing that sounds so immersive that you instantly get swept away to a star filled land of woozy magic and night time beats. What makes this just superb though is that it works as a proper albums album, a cohesive little world contained within its 13 tracks! Its the more grown up sibling to MGMT and Yeasayers attempts at 2nd albums!)

9. Tinie Tempa – Disc-Overy

(Best British rap this year, dance centred and different and with the ambition of a giant, the production makes you cum in your pants, its kinetic and immensely dynamic, dancefloor gold> no more like platinum. Really great styling that is more dance and fashion than grime and bling. Really great lyrical skills. Everything about it awesome, its like getting a new top of the line mobile phone at Xmas, its just so damn cool! Plus Jay Z loves him and wants to help him break the US!)

8. Electric Wizard – Black Masses

(None more heavy, the heaviest most drugged up satan worshippers this side of the Galactic rim made a new album this year, its still the Hammer Horror Doom of past albums but its just deeper and fuller, more layers and more lyrics, more Black Sabbath and more virgin sacrifices, blood drips from the cd when you buy it in store!)

7. Das Racist - Sit Down, Man

(Partly a mixtape, partly an album all parts amazing these three dudes are more inventive and hip than anything, and its a mixtape that has loads of cool producers doing each track! Go get this its free some places or 50 cents from their Bandcamp. I blogged about them and this album a few days ago!)

6. Geneva Jacuzzi - Lamaze

(Geneva Jacuzzi is very weird, and this album is no deviation from that, finally released this year its a collection of artsy, posing, 80s retro, synth based, Italio pop songs from a reincarnated Cleopatra. It's lo-fi and pretentious but so hard to fault or dislike and has kinda been overlooked but is all kinds of awesome! Plus she is one of the hottest singers of this decade!)

5. Burzum - Belus

(He comes out of prison and single handedly manages to create an amazing black metal album that doesn't disappoint at all. Yes he probably is an awful person but that's the thing with black metal you kinda have to look past the crazy to see the beautiful. This is a great "almost" easy to listen to album that takes you in to the pine forest and cuts your legs off at the knees!)

4. Teengirl Fantasy - 7AM

(Future dance music that manages to combine and sparkle across a whole load of genres from R&B to chillwave, mellow House vibes and every bit of the 90s you can mine for audio gold, to well anything that gets in its way and yet it all sounds like Teengirl Fantasy, I can recognise Teengirl Fantasy remixes straight off from miles away and this album has to be hear for a thousand different reasons, often combined within one song. If you're not listening to this then you should be about to!)

3. †‡† - CDR

(Too perfect a sound to ignore †‡† is Witch House for superclubs. Its all slowed down trance synths heralding a slo-mo apocalypse, you cant dance to this really but your brain never really realises that. It all sounds like the best breakdown in the best dj set ever and any moment the earth will shift its magnetic alignment, line up with the planets and bring the roof down. Its a trance build up then never breaks. Imagine Kanye Wests "Power" video with †‡† as the music and you suddenly get it, this is an album in search of a million dollar vanity film project , its size is immense, its sound is more 2012 than 2010, listen to it and be afraid! That is if you can get hold of it as it might not be available on Disaro any more!)

2. Crystal Castles – II

(A follow up, hard to do 2nd album that covers all it failed to first time round, promises the world and delivers the moon on a long space elevator instead of a stick -ie teeth grindingly brilliant! Songs that stick in your head like post brain surgery complications and beats and sounds that live in their own little world where only this album is played on repeat in a club all night forever. I need to hear this album djed out on huge sound systems more than it has been this year!)

1. Salem - King Night
(well I had too didn't I what else this year had the build up, the excitement and the future kick of this! Dark and epic and close to and lo-fi all in one foul swoop. Crack filled and haunted and overdriven and out of tune and beautiful. Over all creating a sound that is already and will continue to be mined for inspiration. Its Hip Hop and Gothic and Noize band and trippy and shoe gaze and unique. Also it has the best final track out of any of the albums on my entire list, Killer is a straight out shoe gaze, overblown fuzzed out and glitchy track and the most beautiful thing ever and just on a song writing level it kicks ass!)

Tundra Dubs - VNHOLY GROVND Volume Three :: Selected by I††

This is an awesome Witch House mixtape that covers the best out there right now right now.

Only missing out, in my opinion; †‡†, ~▲†▲~, $LØW HE▲D, taigaΔΔΔ and ❖! (...I need to put a mix together soon for sure!) Also those are all real bands I swear!! I've blogged most of them on this blog, taigaΔΔΔ I wrote up on the Mishka Blog and ~▲†▲~ is coming soon!

Tundra Dubs VNHOLY GROVND Volume Three :: Selected by I††

Tracklist:
How I Quit Crack - Gone Away
fos†ercare - riot control
Dream Boat - Young & Fine
✝NO VIRGIN✝ - I wnt 2 luv u
Party Trash - Rage
SLEEP ∞ OVER - the key
Story Of Isaac - /\LL †HΞ †H!/\/6$ $HΞ $/\!D
▼□■□■□■ - Blueberry
Unison - Intimacy
Ç⋵ℜ⋻♏ð♑ℷa⇂ ╀ - murder shack
I†† - Ph▲sing
Ghoul - Watch U
Crossover - MY WAV (BLΛCK RΛ!NB0VV MashupFXpitch ED!T)
GuMMy†Be▲R! - Planned Parenthood (Nattymari Obliteration)
§ - TPWLYST-Destroy Beautiful Things (The Night ıhe Came Home)

(I††'s new EP, The Lesser Keys, is out Tuesday, 11/23/10 via Tundra.)

VNHOLY GROVND Volume Three :: Selected by I†† by Tundra Dubs

Witch House glitter bombs ~Story Of Isaac, BLΛCK RΛ!NB0VV and †‡†

Soundcloud is a veritable hive of symbol based bands, fans, remixers and djs! It's to Witch House what Myspace was for Emo! Oh and dont get me started on how Myspace have just gone and got it so wrong with their re-imagining of the site.. I see it going under within the year. If only they had gone in a Tumblr style direction instead of settling for"bad Wordpress blog" stylings! Any way thats for another post.

Today I want to share three bands and three songs that kick ass, slow and heavy, screwed and dragged, epic dance music for recession squatting, glitter sleeping bags under dripping roofs, broken mirrorballs sprouting mushrooms, dancing to the end of the world high on retro drugs. Only the paranoid look back to the past, future now Zombie Raves!

First up is Story Of Isaac who is making awesome tunes and whose Witch House mix has been getting so much traffic to this blog of late, I'm gonna call him a London Witch House phenomenon.
The track I've chosen is his zombie rave remix of Tatu's "All The things She Said" a song that was great originally but now sounds ten times better, like a doom trance epic voiced by a 80 year old soul singer, just so.. well just listen this shit it slays!

I'm also loving that artwork to the left that accompanies the release!

Click through to the Soundcloud page to download it for free!

/\LL †HΞ †H!N6$ $HΞ $/\!D - Z0/V\8!Ξ Я^VΞ ΞD!† by Story of Isaac

The next band and track is by Witch House giant †‡† (also pronounced "ritualzzz") with a track in collaboration with How I Quit Crack called Eye. This is a slow apocalyptic dirge through a night landscape of bass bombings and R&B percussion samples with a vocal that soars like a acid dripping Condor, one part vocal to three parts reverb and delay. Its a proper little song too, verse chorus, that kind of thing! Dark and dirty beats and tonal chiming riffs and recorded by aiming a mike at the moon and playing out through festival size speakers!

This track was only a limited Soundcloud download release and reached its limit within hours of release so no download for this at the moment, but just take a listen!

RITUALZ - EYE (FEAT. HOW I QUIT CRACK) by rrritualzzz

Last but definitely not least is a song created not as collaboration but by one Witch House artist for another! A Witchian love-in!

Created by Belgiums BLΛCK RΛ!NB0VV for the first artist in this article Story Of Isaac the song is a low slow dirty grind through dragged beats and vocals, its sex music for rotting dancefloors, beds filled with black glitter and dead animals, heavy petting between huffing glue.

Uploaded as by Toomi rather than BLΛCK RΛ!NB0VV the track is called 6Ξ† NΛKΞD (! 60† Λ PLΛN VV!†H !SΛΛC) ~Get Naked (on a plain with Isaac)~

Download from Soundcloud and listen up below!

6Ξ† NΛKΞD (! 60† Λ PLΛN VV!†H !SΛΛC) by Toömi

†‡† album, mix tape and ISVOLT compilation!

Not only is one of my favourite Witch House artists †‡† on the ultimate Witch House comp, ISVOLT from God Don't Like It a Witch House compilation in collaboration with Disaro Records, soon to be released on 12" and CD, but he also features as the first track!

This release is the real game change for the genre! Pre -order it here at Robot Elephant Records.

Track listing:
†‡† - Misery Walk

Fostercare - Cold Light
///HORSE MACGYVER\\\ (formerly ///▲▲▲\\\) - Nod
Modern Witch - Your Life Is A Movie
//TENSE// - Versus Man
Party Trash - Skyclad
White Ring - LxC999
Raw Moans - Nectarine
Mater Suspiria Vision - Ritualz of the Crack Witches.

All the †‡† tracks in demo form are available to download for free on the Soundcloud page.

There is also a †‡† Ritualzzz CDr release on Disaro that contains five new songs and everything is also mastered to a higher quality.

As if that wasn't enough then we also have a brilliant short mix tape released too! Called the Slow Motion Mixxxtape its a zombie rave, pop, R&B, goth-tastic masterpiece. Its was originally on LivingEars.com but has been circulating for the last few days and it kicks the shit out of every other mix tape making the rounds over the last few weeks!

Get it here: Slow Motion Mixxxtape. (right click and save)

Follow on †‡† Twitter.

†‡† releases new track!!

†‡† are a Witch House band that come closest to living up to the "house" part of the genres title, not that it matters its not actually a sub genre of house music, but if it did then this track would hit closest to the mark, even with its slowed down 63 bpm groove.

Its the soundtrack to the roof collapsing in at Amnesia during the end of the world, the Mediterranean rising up to swallow Ibiza whole. Slow and rattling beats that pound inevitably onwards, the footsteps of a giant striding in the dark, accompanied by the menacing howl and scything synths chords screaching in the night!
†‡† is pronounced 'Rrritualzzz' and this new track is available to download from its Soundcloud page, but hurry because it wont be for ever!
†‡† - SIMONA 6.40 RMX by rrritualzzz

Welcome To The Witch House by Mater Susperia Vision,remixed by †‡†

Quick post to let you in on a collaboration between two of my favourites, †‡† and Mater Susperia Vision. This is a †‡† remix of MSVs Welcome To The Witch House and it kicks it outa the ball park!

My Pal The Crook from Мишка just wrote a great piece for the Seen All Over site that covers the glorious rise and proliferation of Mater Susperia Vision, read that here.

I feel as I'm talking about them you should see one of the more recent in their constant stream of videos, so below is The Drone Cabinet of Doctor Trance.

This band came into existence within this year, they already have an album out, four intense mixtapes, numerous solo track releases, over thirty videos, video cassette and dvd releases and another album out this August plus various collaborations and remixs.

Mater Suspiria Vision - Welcome to the Witch House (†‡† Remix) by rrritualzzz

MATER SUSPIRIA VISION The Drone Cabinet of Doctor Trance (2010) from Mater Suspiria Vision on Vimeo.