Pills, Thrills, Chills and Heartache Review — San Francisco Bay Guardian

April 28, 2004

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Many thanks to journalist Heather Smith and The Almighty SFBG!

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Goth’s Mutant Offspring: Witch House/Ghost Drone/Zombie Rave/Drag

Deep bass
&
digital runes

:: A Spell Has Been Cast ::

&

It’s one of chaos: there’s prattle over terminology in the insular world of ‘outsider music,’ &
I can’t help but be amused.  Y’see, the English language has these things called “labels,”
& the reaction people have to them reinforces the power of nomenclature.  Give it a try sometime:
arrange a few consonants & vowels, toss ‘em around, see what kind of response you get.
Fetch, baby…It’s Fetch.

But what if the words aren’t words but rather occult symbols/symbology?  I’ve often wanted to speak in
hieroglyphics—with cartoon captions, for added effect—but I just can’t seem to get
band names  like   †‡† &  \\\^◊^/// to dance their way off my tongue.

They’re part of a scene that—as with any ‘scene’—seems to have as many detractors as
devotees, which I think is a good thing.  On one manicured claw, there’s the trappings of
being pigeon-holed; on the other, opportunities that might present themselves through
being Guilty By Association.  Rather than tl;dr the obvious, how about I introduce
the genres?  Sub-genres?  (Again: an argument I opt to file under None Of My Business)
of

Witch House † Ghost Drone † Zombie Rave † Drag

With origins as questionable as to what extent they’ll have an effect, they’re like
strands of the same virus—or a dark & murky exploration
into a game of  Choose Your Own Adventure.

Whatever the case, I’m backin’ the brilliant post “Enthralled By Thee Witch” by My Pal The Crook
(creative director,co-owner & founder of the streetwear line Мишка NYC),
who describes this mysterious burgeoning mileu as

“Goth music for a new generation & a new millennium, fully embracing all the things
that drew kids into the genre through the 70s and 80s—the secrecy, the occultism, the suspense,
the danger, & the moodiness—but minus all the things that turned people off from it in the 90s:
the neon dreads,the vinyl pants, the fangs, & the platform industrial boots.”

Fucking dead-on, that! Brings to mind a relevant aside from Hex Files: Resurrection to which
I’m hereby formally applying an asterisk… I’ve got a choke-hold on A.D.H.D. at the moment,
& want to turn you on to the prolific nightmare collective that MPTC’s blogature
high—or, rather: LOW—lights, & whose death drones & surreal liquid dreamscapes
have been dominating my laptop as of late.

:: MATER SUSPIRIA VISION ::

The Drone Cabinet of Doctor Trance (2010) from Mater Suspiria Vision
:: complete with cornea-melting accompaniment by Cosmotropia de Xam ::

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Zombie Rave Mix-Tape: Special Edition

ℑ⊇≥◊≤⊆ℜ —another challenge in the dept of pronunciation—of MSV creates maddeningly
ultra-limited-edition sets (the first of which was capped at a hundred downloads; the next, at 200;
the third, bumped to 300…a supply nowhere near ample, nonetheless).
The Special Edition that’s linked above, however, has an

✶ OPEN-ENDED DOWNLOAD POLICY ✶
( Translation: You want it? Then G E T . S O M E ! )

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“IDK IDGAF”: Editorial for Auxiliary Magazine

August/September 2010

✷ No, Dr. Hines: I have not forgotten how to utilize a semicolon; on the contrary,
the omission is a result of Auxiliary Magazine‘s ‘style guide.’ ✷

Otherwise,
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