Salem - What kind of music genre is this ?

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

you lying wit da flesh
lyin' wit da bone

Totally just bought that 12" on the basis of that link.

That Skullcrush video was really scary. So scary YouTube removed it

I'm a bit late to this party, this is some incredible stuff right here. New album out soon, anyone heard it?

WITCH HOUSE WHICH HOUSE (SAND)WICH HOUSE

okay i really want people to tell me how they feel when they hear the new salem mix. why? i don't know. i'd just be interested. and i want someone to tell me if its the salem guy rappin' at the beginning of it. i think it is. it stands out cuz the rest of it is just stoner fare. er, non-rap stoner division. except for the chopped & screwed vocals i guess. that's appropriated from stoner rap. the ambient moments are pretty good. i would listen to more stuff like that. i guess what i'm trying to say is that there are some things that they do that i like. i don't like a lot of indie low-rent beat stuff. someone has to have a really nice bedroom for me to want to sit in it for very long. i dunno, i'm also kinda stoned, so my opinion shouldn't mean that much. i can imagine that it would all sound kinda hokey if all you listened to was avant garde post-apocalyptic dubstep all day long or something. there are probably all kinds of innovations in u.k. cyber-boogie since last week.

Where do we hear the new Salem mix?

i got an email with it attached, but i figured people here heard things quickly cuz they have their fingers on the pulse of the witch house. it's called *I Buried My Heart Inna Wounded Knee*. no, really, it is.

After being blown away the first time I put on the album, and then underwhelmed the next time, I figure I'm not that fussed about hearing it again. The idea of listening to Salem is more exciting than the actual act of listening to Salem.

link please

Also, one song in, the new Gate album reminds me favorably of Salem, The Knife, et al, right down to the pitchshifted vocals. Morley's always been ahead of the curve and these days I prefer Gate to The Dead C.

Nevermind the link request, got it:

http://www.thefader.com/2010/08/05/salem-i-buried-my-heart-inna-wounded-knee-mix/

that fader description is actually pretty good! ok, report back here, people. um, if you feel like it.

http://i46.tinypic.com/14udeeh.jpg

I love the Bury mix. It's probably my favorite of their mixes, followed by the "we make it good" one. I love how quiet and slow it is compared to the other ones they've done. And finally there's a Black Metal jam in the mix.

The first song is a drag mix of Crime Mob's KNUCK IF YOU BUCK.

I've already pre-ordered their KING NIGHT album, and can't get enough of the first two singles.

The album's very different. I hated it on first listen but I can't stop playing it now.

Where can you pre-order it? Really excited for this one. Link please?

thread was better when people hated these idiots

Idiocy and great music aren't mutually exclusive.

when people hated these idiots

First post:
I'm totally in love with this kind of screwed-up minimalistic electronic musicits the the perfect soundtrack for sleepless nights in a big city during a heatwave...

Although that Wounded Knee mix is pretty piss poor compared to some of their earlier ones. I liked the bit with Nico on it.

You can pre-order it at Insound... And how has this been heard already?

http://www.insound.com/Salem_King_Night__PRE-ORDER_CD/productmain/p/INS78289/

So, this leaked.

...and?

And I'm really digging it. I need to give it more listens, but the initial one went down well. For some reason, and obviously there are a ton of differences, the album was giving me some Geogaddi vibes. They don't sound alike, but I could see both records being good companion pieces. I mean, if nothing else, they both share that haunted, creeped-out groove thing. I dunnnno.

I need to listen again. At first I was blown away, second I was unerwhelmed and assumed it was a matter of diminishing returns. Geogaddi vs 30 Second Wipeout it is.

60 second wipeout, i mean

yeah tbh - my enthusiasm for this whole genre has waned pretty quickly. once you get used to the sound, the whole things seems pretty repetitive and devoid of song/hook/imagination.

responding to the question "worst rapp you’ve ever heard?", Noz links to Salem, "Tent" Live at the Levi's/FADER Fort

http://tumblinerb.com/post/1116858284/21-questions

Worse than baadero's comment is hearing the actual tools' footprint put out there completely nude, e.g. that new Korallreven mix, a load of paul's extreme sound stretch chaff. Nitzer Ebb tribute band forms to the left.