Wednesday 25 August 2010

The Occult Mixtape

To quote wikipedia "Drag (also referred to as witch house, screwgaze or crunk shoegaze) is a debated term used to describe a genre of dark electronic music"
To hell with the pigeonholes! In the last year or so a group of mostly unrelated producers from both sides of the Atlantic have struck on a sound that combines the production techniques of modern electronica, Dub, Hip hop & RnB with a more post punk, goth & shoegaze/drone outlook. Adding more than just a little touch of the occult & references to horror films & soundtracks, they have grown out of the Hauntology movement, creating atmospheric & heavy psychedelic music for dark nights.
The 1st of the 2 mixes is unbeatmatched & more esoteric with the tracks flowing nicely into each other, I've added a few samples for atmosphere and some tracks from (IMO) the illegitimate godfathers of the sound Boards of Canada, V/Vm, Burial & Shackleton.
Mix 2 is a straight out Haunted House megamix, 68BPM for maximum drag.


Occult Mixtape 1 - Right Click & Saveas

Balam Acab - Big Boy

Aleister Crowley - The Call Of the Second Aethyr
Forest Swords - Glory Gongs

oOoOO - No Summer4u

Boards Of Canada - In A Beautiful Place Out In The Country
The Jonestown Death Tape

Babe Rainbow - Popcommon
These New Puritans - Hologram (SALEM Remix)
MF Doom - Gazzillion Ear (Babe Rainbow Remix)
Demdike Stare - Bardo Thodol
Shackleton - In The Void

Forest Swords - Hjurt

Balam Acab - See Birds
Oneohtrix Point Never - LL (Stresswave Edit)
Dark & Lonely Water Information film

Burial - Homeless

oOoOO - Mumbai
The Stranger - Over The Moor, I Am On The Moor

Mater Suspiria Vision - Call Of The Witches
Moon Wiring Club - Living Furniture
Blair Witch Project Ending

The Caretaker - False Memory Syndrome
Babe Rainbow - Care
GR†LLGR†LL - if u cAn dR3Am - pRinc3ss3s

Aleister Crowley - The Poet

Demdike Stare - The Stars are Moving

Occult Mixtape 2 - Right Click & Saveas

Babe Rainbow - Demon
Salem - Redlights

▲▲▲\\\ - Beta-Tape-Warp
White Ring - IxC999
Balam Acab - Regret Making Mistakes

GR†LLGR†LL - 07 - SaiLoRsbLaCKvirGiNmiLFs
Gucci Mane - Round 1 SALEM Remix

Gucci Mane - Bird Flu SALEM Remix
oOoOO - No Summer4u

Mater Suspiria Vision - The Witch House of Hansel and Gretel

Laurel Halo - Something I Never Had

SALEM - Whenusleep

GR†LLGR†LL - 8myh (Ariel-LittleMermaid Ocean Version) feat DirtyPrid3

SALEM - Tent

▲▲▲\\\ - Spit Shine
Balam Acab - Heavy Ling Things
Mater Suspiria Vision - eXorcism of the hippies
oOoOO - SedSUMTING

Mater Suspiria Vision - The Afterlife (hypnagogic remix)