Salem - What kind of music genre is this ?

so these guys are about to get big, right?

yep, they should be on the front cover of the NME

Big like The Knife, maybe, big like My Morning Jacket, not a chance. Because life is unfair and people are stupid.

Totally my favorite band of the year so far

It seems that Salem released a full 12 track album (on CDR) in 2008 on Disaro Records in Texas. It was called "Fuckt." I'm assuming that it was released in an insanely small run (the label just lists it as "out of print"). It shows up on SLSK and as Rapidshare .rars, but in really shitty sounding rips (one seems to be a 96 kbps rip, and the other is, strangely, a 384 kbps rip (whatever that is) - both sound really bad). I guess none of the people who ever bought the thing were rip-savvy or whatever... how can I track down a decent sounding copy of this?

The obscurity of Salem's music in physical/digital form is obviously part of their mystique (last couple 7"s, "Ohk" and "Yes I Smoke Crack" were one time runs of 500 - both are selling for about 50 pounds on eBay). They do have the one ep on eMusic and iTunes, which is great.... I just want to hear more songs!

http://www.thefader.com/2009/11/24/we-make-it-good-mix-series-v-11-salem

i guess i meant to link this one (more direct)
http://wemakeitgood.com/mix-series/volume-11-salem

http://www.thefader.com/2009/12/09/fadersouthern-comfort-7-inch-series-11-salem-and-tanlines/

split thing with Tanlines, who I wasn't familiar with before. both are good songs.

tanlines is eric emm of the brothers and one of the dudes from professor murder. fun stuff.

Have the potential to make either a half-way there disappointment or one of the coolest records of all-time

I've seen it called Juke-Goth, goth juke and other variants. I have no idea wtf it means though.

PS: if you like it, you should also check out OoOoO. Search for it on The Hype Machine. There are also some good SALEM remixes. Great stuff.

i only really like the blends with rap vocals. can't seem to get with their own vocals much

in the nyt now

so these guys are about to get big, right?

― spiny doughboy (baaderonixx), mercredi 7 octobre 2009 19:27 (3 months ago) Bookmark

According to the NME Radar special for 2010, the debut Salem album is due in May

that butt interview is hilarious! somehow very "my own private idaho" meets electro scenester. they should call themselves Crystal Meth Castles.

i really like these guys

they just played in new york, wanted to go but I missed it. JW said they were pretty great when they did a show w/ excepter somewhere in the midwest last fall

I like their tracks under their name but have no desire to hear them remix gucci mane or any other rap shit tho

I've been saying for years that ether was due for a comeback.

courtesy of http://www.homo-neurotic.com/2009/06/23/salem-butt-bang-2009/#more-8661

http://www.homo-neurotic.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/salem-cover1.jpg

http://www.homo-neurotic.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/salem-cover2.jpg

http://www.homo-neurotic.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/salem-cover3.jpg

http://www.homo-neurotic.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/salem-cover5.jpg

http://www.homo-neurotic.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/salem-cover6.jpg

http://www.homo-neurotic.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/salem-cover8.jpg

http://www.homo-neurotic.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/salem-cover9.jpg

The more pictures I see of these people, the more I'm afraid this is going to be an RIP thread.

I see what you're saying.

not inevitably
http://www.booksincanada.com/authors/ChetBaker.jpg

pretty great. not them, but part of this whole genre

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0zYmPKAP18

yeah tbh I find oOoOO more interesting than Salem for the moment

Here are several other oOoOO tracks on SoundCloud. Some of these are really good.

http://illogicalcontraption.blogspot.com/2010/03/breaking-news-band-hyped-on-internet.html

Was there ever a point when people thought Salem was going to all be about the live show? (That said, that video is godawful and I wish I could unsee it, because the awesome creep factor of those songs just got halved).

this mix sounds like they're playing rave songs (pretty lil rave girl) at 33
http://dismagazine.com/disco/3360/salem-mixraver-stay-wif-me/

and this is fucking great
http://www.thefader.com/2010/04/22/ooooo-hearts-mp3/

this album is pretty cool. the new salem album. it's weird. the c&s vocals work really well. like the horror movie vibe. so sick of getting edbanger-esque crapola in the mail and i feared this was more of the same. you would think that any group that mixes goth eurorave with dirty south beats would be making a bloody mess, but these dudes make it work somehow. there is still SOME justice-ness in here, but not enough to bug me. (in the red treble sickness being my least favorite modern dance music development)

this album is pr
http://www.homo-neurotic.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/salem-cover1.jpg

I'm excited to hear this, even though that other "Witch House" thread made me revisit those horrific FADER YouTube videos.

I love the cover art:

http://cdn.stereogum.com/files/2010/06/KINGNIGHT_COVER_LO-608x608.jpg

I'll probably listen to the LP, but there's no way that at least half of this band's steez isn't the sort of self-mockery you as part of the audience is supposed to be in on. I mean, really, this quote comes from one of the Fader Fort videos:

You the one who's down with it
Y'all down with shit
But now my dick hard so go down on it
Haaaaaaaah!
So smoke it out

the song "sick" sounds like Cabaret Voltaire having a baby with DJ Screw's ghost. you can quote me on that.

whiney would you please upload yrself saying "Like it or not, Iowa, for better or worse witch house is here to stay, mark my words"

i would totally be okay with this being the future of goth. it should be, actually. cuz its modern/dark/cool in a way that a lot of more, um, vnv nation kinda things aren't. (though to be honest i haven't listened to any recent darkwave/ebm stuff in a long time, so excuse me if it all good in that arena. i LIKE that Metropolis sorta thing.)

HOW TO: One Surprising Way to Record and Release a Salem Jam of Your Own

(1) Listen to a lot of The Knife circa Silent Shout as well as that Fever Ray LP
(2) Ramble into a microphone about whatever, preferably something less-than-coherent
(3) Pitch shift the vocal down a couple of octaves
(4) Set your keyboard to something spooky
(5) Play random notes in the minor scale of your choice at a relatively slow tempo
(6) Insert arbitrary beats you cook up in Ableton in 5 seconds
(7) Send your .mp3 to some blogs
(8) Be invited to and subsequently appear at a super hyped show and revel in the fact that you're basically taking the piss

i wouldn't really care abt this band if the guy wasn't tragically pretty

pretty guy + random beats and vocals equals success. i got no problem with that.

this is much better than the major lazer ep i got in the mail too. but i was scared of that before i even played it when i saw the words "thom yorke remix" on the cd.

Didn't Salem do an official remix for Thom Yorke?

It's pretty great, actually (I guess it's a Radiohead song):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygEJ67ve41I

wish people would stop calling this goth. this kind of music has none of the earnest melodrama or campness of goth, it's all just too-cool-for-school barely can be bothered post-ironic posturing. not that this is a bad thing, just completely removed from what being goth is about imo

okay, fine, i'm gonna call it Dirty Southern Gothic House. feel better?

http://ferdyonfilms.com/Acre%203.jpg

Who's selling the LP?

pretty guy + random beats and vocals equals success. i got no problem with that.

― scott seward, Thursday, June 24, 2010 3:18 PM (3 hours ago

i will never have a problem w/ that.

its fucking Tonetta in American Apparel

oh stop

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Oooops. Meant to just post this link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flmbBcfFOa8

i mean just in terms of the production, they should have hired someone to clean it up

we did this recently

defend the indefensible: Salem

I still laugh at this SXSW performance:

https://youtu.be/Ej7s8Bnq5_o

New article on stereogum about salem / witchhouse:

https://www.stereogum.com/2089949/witch-house-salem-king-night-turns-10/franchises/columns/sounding-board/

skreets is watchin

That pan across the audience at 1:57 is the best.

xps that could be said of a lot of music c2010 tbf

that Fader video though..

Although it was overlooked in many reviews (including, regrettably, my own), King Night’s penultimate track “Tair” features a vocalist unspooling a druggy tale of criminal exploits that seemingly includes the following couplet: “These niggas calling me, it’d be rude if I don’t go.” The questionably reliable user-contributed lyrics site Genius appears to confirm Salem’s use of the word, but in a statement to Stereogum today, Salem refute that transcription; per the band, the actual lyric is “Think it’s calling me it’d be rude if I don’t go.”

Oh look, Salem is still full of shit

new salem is what the new opn wants to be? strange times ...

i tried to give this a relisten lately and i couldn't believe how bad it sounded

― the late great, Monday, September 14, 2020 7:08 PM (one month ago) bookmarkflaglink

i mean just in terms of the production, they should have hired someone to clean it up

― the late great, Monday, September 14, 2020 7:09 PM (one month ago) bookmarkflaglink

this struck me from the very beginning — lots of hard digital clipping iirc

https://go.mhe.fm/salem_reddragon

bish u aloooown

lol. that's the only specific moment from that video that i can recall too