Psychic Rites by Psychic Rites. This record came out just before Xmas on the Aural Sects label and is fantastic and deserving of a bit more notice I think. It's brilliantly produced, dark, droning, electro synth pop from Japan, with great vocals and great song structures, I'm so used to this kind of thing being instrumental and formless that when it has proper songs and shape it just comes alive so well. Download the whole album for free from the always overly generous Aural Sects Bandcamp. (oh and it also reminds me at points, in some way, of Of Montreal.. somehow.)
Aural Sects is a net label releasing a never ending stream of high quality releases, its almost to hard to keep up with all their content, this album "Virescit Vulnere Virtus" is from a brilliant progressive/ambient-Black Metal band called Wolcnum. Six tracks of killer atmospherics, epic wall of sound grinding synths and doom laden vocals. Download it for free from Bandcamp now.
TWOS. A new band with an EP called Feel out now on Aural Sects. Huge, orchestral glaciation across fjords of sleep. Spacial and forever re-edits of some brilliant tracks, from Sigur Ros to Bob Marley, slowed dragged, re-pitched and glittering with cavernous reverb until they become entire new tracks in their own right, resplendent with chirping night cricket beats and waves of slow collapsing sound, the original sample sucked away on the wind. Total killer.
Download from Aural Sects Bandcamp page now.
Mr Kitty is all nu-gothic synth pop with spoken word vocals blending into CC style shouty parts and saw-toothed synth howling, slick 8-bit electro with darker overtones, atmospheric and moody. The album (available to download from the Aural Sects Bandcamp for free) is called Emotional/Physical.
This is good, I wrote about VS//YouthClub a couple of weeks ago and just wanted to share their new Aural Sects released EP called Waves, which is just way too good and available to download for free.. dont miss out.
"Two jaded composers from the wastelands of Northern England, plotting an escape route through dying Apple products." is how VS//Youth Club describe themselves. They have a release out on Aural Sects called Tide Out which includes a lot of remixes by some Witch House bands like ∆AIMON and Pe† Ceme†ery. Download it for free from Bandcamp here. It's a really great nine track record of epic and moody dark rave sounds and atmospheric electronica.
Violent Boys is the second EP by DIY Louisiana based electronic-noise band NANCY. This EP is an exploration into glitch, self-sampling, gibberish, and chop-n-skrew, under the guise of Noise-Dance-Pop. Its heavy and aggressive and pretty damn good. Go download it for fee from Aural Sects here.
Brand New U is an great little EP out on Aural Sects by I Am Water feat: Moon Mirror.
All cold beauty and chilled out drifting minimalism. Crystalline and glacial. Great stuff and its free to download as well.
A couple of months old now but this mixtape still deserves a plug; AURAL SECTS 4 IVIYH MIX by spf5Ø a Tranced out Witch House, rave up of a mix. Free download here.
TRACKLIST:
Spell Hound – I Challenge You!
Purity Ring – Belispeak (spf5Ø remix)
Modern Howl – Green Head
Witchboy – Like White Cats in my Brain
Blown – Temple of the Lord (Drugs for Drunks spiritual mix)
Fifty Grand – Lake
Crystal Castles – Untrust Us (VS//YOUTHCLUB remix)
BRRRANGADANG (asap rocky xx brand new guy — signs bananaclip juke)
Ian Curtis Wishlist – Emerald Park II:
DJ Deathray – Bombs on it
Ron Hardly – TRACKX 4
Diamond Black Hearted Boy – Your Mind is Twisted (Madden remix)
Rachel Haircut – #Aquaflash
PEACHBLACK – NORTHERN WINDS
VS//YOUTHCLUB – HEARTS
Tropical breakbeat dub moods from Madden on Aural Sects. The song is amusingly titled G☚URL. Its got a nice beat to it and it free to download so go grab it!
I blogged the video for Invincible by A N D R Ʌ S a while back now here is the EP of the same name, five killer tracks that pound and grind their way into you ear hole, dark wave industrial nu style, buzzing and howling riffs backed with orchestra stabs of which the world has never heard the like, apocalyptic pop with a beautiful and orchestral magesty. Go download the whole EP for free from the Aural Sects Bandcamp page here.
"The usual model for the afterlife is that people continue on in a dimension of time that is parallel to ours. But it’s much more like a perpendicular departure. They’re going vertically, and you’re going horizontally, and you move incommensurably apart as time proceeds."
Fifty Grand's self titled album is out on Aural Sects and you can download it for free here.
Girls, gore and high speed crashes! Its the awesome new video for Invincible by ANDRɅS who has a new EP coming soon on Aural Sects.
BLAM LORD'S QUEST is a compilation from Aural Sects. 49 tracks from almost as many bands all themed around gaming. Its pretty damn good. You can stream the whole thing from Bandcamp or download it in two parts from here and here.
Pale Noir the brilliant DIY label, one of the first to emerge from the whole Witch House scene is closing! This was their message of parting:
"Pale Noir is taking a very long break. We may or may not be back next year. Thanks for all your support and please know the DIY bizz is no easy one. It is a lot of hard work. Blood. Sweat. Tears. Passion. There is never a financial gain. It is very much a starving artist market.
Please know the DIY labels do not make any profit. They spend their own hard earned money from their real jobs and sometimes will starve to help an artist out. This is real love and passion.
For anyone who has ever bitched about Black Bvs Records Tundra Aural Sects Clan Destine Records Phantasma Disques Baku Shad-do and all the other DIY labels you need to try doing this yourself. All these ppl could be putting all their hard earned money into themselves but they give so many of you a chance because they truly care about you as an artist. Please support these labels. Without the support more and more of us will dwindle away.
Love to you all and THANK you from the bottom of my heart for finding an interest in PN and giving us a try. I found the most amazing group of artist with such sweet hearts. I love you all and I will always be your biggest fan. ♥ ♥"
Slow bass wraith music, heavy but without a dubstep wobble, crystaline late night fuzzed out jams, slow electronic dream hop, drum and noise. The artist is Fifty Grand, a new signing to the Aural Sects label I think. All Soundclouds tracks are free to download. so go grab 'em.
