late to the party

but its my party - it's my birthday! Which means new albums from Deerhunter, Engineers, US Christmas, SALEM, La Otracina, Torche, Afrirampo, Dam Mantle, The Secret - and I might get the Bitte Orca special issue becasue I recently realised that it's actually quite good and I might want to own it properly.
#happybirthdaytome

1. Twin Shadow - 91
2. Napalm Death - 46
3. Burl Ives - 32
4. Salem - 26
5. Stargazer - 24
5. Rudi Arapahoe - 24
7. Gayngs - 22
8. Winterfylleth - 21
9. Samamidon - 20
10. Syd…

Holy Other is a Berlin based producer combining the eerie atmospheres of witch house and the cold of electronica with the warmer, more shapely tones and soulful elegance of dubstep and R&B. The mix of sounds explores the similarly uncharted environments of Balam Acab, but where the New Yorker's unearthilness is rooted within the biosphere (with references to birds and water and a liquid flow) Holy Other has broken through to an even more graceful realm of freefloating cosmic drag, albeit it, a hauntingly beautiful one hung from a heart swelling emotion balanced between sadness and ecstacy.

More words,…

One of, if not the absolute chief proponent of the more deviant end of the witch house spectrum, Mr Chris Johnson - aka the absurdly named GuMMy†Be▲R! has made a collaborative mix with ex-music journalist, blogger and allround underground cyberpunk NATTYMARI. In the Be▲R's own words this mix "challenges everything herr GuMMY stands for in the witch house movement. This split mixtape might just get him excommunicated."

More words, streams, download links, and video outtakes on the blog:

http://nfrblog.blogspot.com/2010/09/download-gummyber-vs-nattymari-witch.html

One of the artists to have picked up and fully embraced the chillwave baton San Francisco's Blackbird Blackbird. The one man band of Mikey S has been slowly pushing his shimmery dream-pop reverie onto an even grander scale with each release (of which he has many); since I first heard the effervescent bounce of Happy High I've been hooked, and his tracks just keep getting more assured and more capable of conveying the genres trademark giddy heat-haze euphoria with an increasingly breezy effortlessness. It's all adding up to eclipse the simple solo bedroom band it started out as.

More…

You can now preorder the LP or CD version of ISVOLT, the long-time coming God Don't Like It witch house compilation in collaboration with Disaro Records!

http://robotelephant.bigcartel.com/product/preorder-rer004-isvolt-disaro-compilation

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

More details on the blog:

http://nfrblog.blogspot.com/2010/09/isvolt-witch-house-compilation.html

dual DiS/Blog weekly stats post:

01. Salem – 42
01. Twin Shadow - 42
03. Forest Swords - 30
04. How to Dress Well - 29
05. Burl Ives - 28
06. Gayngs - 23
07. C0ld L▲k3 - 22
08. Happy Home - 21
08. Sing and Sign - 21
10. Cab Calloway – 20

01. Album destroys, I like it a lot – the rippling snare in the new Redlights is great. Almost every track stands out – King Night, Asia, Frost, Hound, Traxx Tare, Killer. I love you too.
02. Forget is a stunner of an album.…

this weeks dual DiS/blog last.fm stats post:

Mist And Sea Spray

01. Indian Jewelry -55
02. Twin Sister - 35
02. Sleeping Peonies - 35
04. Winterfylleth - 31
05. Best Coast - 29
06. Washed Out - 24
07. Women - 22
08. Sing and Sign - 21
08. Luggaldimerankia - 21
10. Black Mountain - 20
10. Samamidon – 20

1 – Why did no one tell me how awesome this band are; I thought they were going to be a bunch of jangly hippies, expecting High Places I get Blank Dogs dosed out on witch house.
2a…

Me and Chris had our 6th rehearsal of the band on Friday - we're now called Potemkjin Village, so this will be the last you hear of Swänns))). I made a Last.fm, but I'm still using the same Swanns bandcamp for now:

Last.fm: Potemkjin Village
Bandcamp: http://swanns.bandcamp.com

This rehearsal we spent the first half hour playing around with bass riffs against the guitar lines, then matching them up to the parts I'd thrown together on the drum machine; all of which was totally undermined by breaking a bass string while tuning up, with no spares - total amatuer.…

Here it finally is! My Witch House mix for the NFR blog.

Follow the link to the blog to download

http://nfrblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/download-stop-making-seance-nfr-mix-05.html

So this Witch House stuff is about to whip into a full eldritch storm when the TriAngle twin release and SALEM albums drop in September. Best not be sitting on the Hate side of the fence when that hits. This has taken me ages to do and I’ve surprised myself by missing out some of my favourite tracks from massive scene shiners like White Ring, TEARIST, Passions, SLEEP∞OVER and others, but I wanted it to be…

This weeks last.fm stats:

http://nfrblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/this-time-lastfm-year.html

1. Wild Nothing - 87
2. Twin Sister - 73
3. Imperium Dekadenz - 63
4. Sing and Sign - 52
5. Mountain Man - 35
5. Gonjasufi - 35
7. Arcade Fire - 32
8. Forest Swords - 30
9. Endless Endless Endless - 29
10. Ikonika – 28

1 – Mélange of chillwave and shoegaze revival sounds make for an arrestingly deep album.
2 – I call this Vintage – all kinds of classic sounds melted into one band – post-rock/spector-pop/balaeric/italo disco/chillwave/chamber-pop.
3 – German black metal as expansive euphoric and hymnal as…