Haunting the ghost box, Infocult demands music

"Music is dead! Long live hauntology!" shouts a gleeful yet brooding review of some new British music.  Covered are albums from Ghost Box and Mordant Music.

It's a terrific review, extending itself from point to diverse point, like the radical sonics of early Dr. Who to the role of public service in the modern weird tale.  And tasty prose:

'Séance at Hobs Lane' moves beyond the initial reference to Quatermass to provide what is in effect a survey of Underground London in myth, fiction, history and rumour. The music has a queasy carny quality, the London it describes is an expressionist city, its time-periods steampunk scrambled. It’s a London of Victorian sewers, forgotten crypts, subterranean theatres, secret society dens, through which Raymond MacDonald’s unquiet saxophone lurches and echoes like a raging ghost-troglodyte.

I must confess to being way, way behind in modern Goth/trance/electronic/etc music.  I am willing to mend my Coil-loving ways, put down that crusty Zoviet France CD, stop fiddling with various Deleuze collections, and take instruction from Infocult readers.  Tune and creator recommendations?

(via k-punk)

Comments

[Cayden]

lately i have been digging on cocorosie's new weird deranged psychedelic hip-hop album, http://www.amazon.com/Adventures-Ghosthorse-Stillborn-CocoRosie/dp/B000NQR7RU/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/102-2387237-3688166?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1183605888&sr=8-1>the adventures of ghosthorse and stillborn. the music is weird, eerie, full of bizarre samples and loops, and bianca casady's poetic, clever rhymes are full of eerie imagery. and like a friend of mine says, 'this stuff is like crack, i can't stop listening!'

[Steven]

I hear that Burnett guy does music...

[saramin]

oh please don't give up your coil loving ways!! there is nothing like listening to good coil sounds!

i agree with cayden, the new cocorosie is crack of the finest angela carter kind. i would also pick up the new avey tare and kria brekkan cd, "pullhair rubeye"--it is AMAZING even though they pulled an easy stunt (remastered their original recording backwards, released the backwards recording) but it sounds like a sleazy christopherson remix of an animal collective cd. its dark with patches of light shining through. i also like burial's self-titled "burial" disc--dark sludgy electronic dub. OH OH and you should pick up something by deathprod (aka helga sten). the black box set is quite satisfying!

[Bryan Alexander]

Many thanks, Cayden and saramin.

Which Burnett, Steve, the New Mapper?

Let me add: Brian Lamb has twittered some goodness, too.
http://twitter.com/brlamb/statuses/134887142
http://twitter.com/brlamb/statuses/134890622

[Steven]

The very Burnett who comments on your blog, sir:

Subscape Annex Sounds

[saramin]

there's more:
Greg Davis (drone/ambient)
The Knife - "Silent Shout"

this isn't dark electronic but there's dark and THEREMIN. no more explanation necessary:

Pamelia Kurstin "Thinking out Loud"

[Steven]

Also, Brian Hodge has some nice stuff (sadly, too little) on his website

[peter naegele]

You might want to check out The Kleptones. They are great culture-jammers and mashup artists. Start with "24" and then go on to "A Night At The Hip-Hopera".

If you want to check out some political commentary in jamming, try norelperf is a great source. Their compendium series is a series of sound collages.

On a more gothic tip...Cocteau Twins have a podcast featuring old an unreleased material and Adrian Smith from Click Click is moving forward with some new material [he did a remix for my band] and re-releasing older material.

[Bryan Alexander]

Subscape Annex Sounds is awesome. A series of files on my mp3 player now. Thank you, Steve, for the Hodge, too.

(bowing to Saramin's Theremin powers) More, yes, thanks!

Very useful, Peter. Added and snarfed.

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