Flashing Heat and Spinning Wild Desire : A Mix
April 18, 2012 by Clint Catalyst · 5 Comments
of aural fixations ||| gathered especially for TXTBK’s
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Sexed-Up Hexed-Out Vice-Riddled Foul-Mouthed Synthetic-Driven Dirty Beats for Pricey-Ass Prick-Teasing Tit-Tweaking Boot-Licking Finger-Frigging Lip-Smacking Mother-Fucking Ball-Busting Witch-Kraftwerkin’ Tragic Magic 8-Ballin’ Bad Behavior and Goddamn Better Times
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though rather than my own hyper-hyphenated description, please allow me to offer verbiage of Thee Almighty Blam Lord —[ whom I adore, incidentally ]— via re-bloggification / review of mix #62 : Flashing Heat and Spinning Wild Desire
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” Thee dark alt god himself, Clint Catalyst descended onto TXTBK’S CHVяCH XV BяXK3N 7ANGvAG3 and pummeled thee sound tonight. Gliding gracefully through cavernous depths ov dance and depravity I absolutely loved his whole persona. And all guns instantly went off in Blambodia when he complimented me on my music taste in thee chat. Thee natives chests all swelled with pride. INFINITE BLAM.
Every Sunday, 7pm Pacific / 10pm EST you can get on Bummer Bit Radio and hear Textbeak or choice guests bringing you down into thee dark nether regions ov thee CHVяCH XV BяXK3N 7ANGvAG3. “
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I’m Coming Hardcore – M.A.N.I.C. (Veil of Thorns remix) : Veil of Thorns
6Ξ† NΛKΞD (! 60† Λ PLΛN VV!†H !SΛΛC) : BLΛCK RΛ!NB0VV
Lemon/Lime : Richard X
Unspeakable : Mount Sims
Minty – The Grid (powwowW remix) : powwowW
girlz : GL▲SS †33†H
Voodoo Pussy : Miss Prada
Put It There : Princess Tinymeat
ƒ∀ġĝɵŧ (feat. Jack Norworth) : Three Spaces
Cish Cash (Basement Jaxx Featuring Siouxsie Sioux) : Mr. M, Henry Self & Barbeau
New Fashion (T666 remix) : a;GRUMH
N20 : h∞d∞
hAD yOu : Nattymari
Model For Me : Jer Ber Jones
Analogically Reacting : Nancy Fortune
Séance Infernale : Mater Suspiria Vision feat. How I Quit Crack and Scott Klaus
ŵǂŦʗħ Ƨɚx đųb : Kaos Sigil
WITCH•KRAFT•WERK : ▲|▼|▲
Saturated Love : Locust
Ham & Eggs : GVCCI HVCCI
Kinky Nation (Kingdom Kum) : Egyptian Lover
Topsy Turvy : Johnny Dangerous
Beez in the Trap (Physical Therapy Remix) : Nicki Minaj
Nightmare : Kid Unknown
We Evil Sin : Monotrona
Lick It – Karen Finley (Veil of Thorns remix) : Veil of Thorns
Travesty : Din
Shake Your Body (△AIMON Remix) : Tyra Banks
Queenie (MK Dub Mix) : Ethyl Meatplow
Why Won’t You Call Me Back : My Robot Friend
The Biggest Fan (Black Strobe Mix) : Märtini Brös
The Song Of Shadows : Mondkopf
The Fudge Punch : Wiseblood
Heaven : Until December
Flowers Of Evil (Ghoul Remix) : GHXST
C ø † † ø N : I††
Anal Staircase (Dionysian Remix) : Coil
Spoken by Stephanie from Versailles, Yes I Do : Chicks on Speed
6’7 : Angel Haze
Be Quick! To Pick Up $LØW HE4D
August 27, 2011 by Clint Catalyst · 2 Comments
Lukewarm news to the deltoid devotees among internet enthusiasts, perhaps—
though still a hot tip for most :
Whether recent release or ‘not-so’ . . . latch onto the sound sculptures of
$LØW HE4D when & if chance presents.
two LPs, Two Thousand Eleven
[ Veins : Phantasma Disques ]
[ Night Glitters : Disaro Records ]
Haven’t had the best luck with Soundcloud embeds in recent days, so
for a limited time—as in: cue the immediacy of infomercials here, kids—
I thought I’d share a track that doesn’t appear on aforementioned albums
but remains among my personal favorites.
With brooding bass-lines and vocals so shrouded in glacial electronics, they
can induce gooseflesh on even the most brutal August eve: click-through
to DL “ i will nvr get ovr u & will die w/ u on my mind “
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Also!
As if the [ far from ] Slow Head isn’t prolific enough on his own,
an individual known as ‘Denounce’ & he have a side project
is the name of said endeavor, & I’m living for ” Sky Opener “—
total synthed-out sensory dream-pop for hazy days & lazy ways
[ Release forthcoming, via Haunted Cassette Tapes ]
However, since laziness won’t help me with the novella
currently known as my To-Do list :
consider this my cue . . .
Though please do be sure & peep beneath the cut, where
a video for the single ” Speaking in Tongues to Ghosts “
[ from Night Glitters ]
awaits
[ Video Directed by Farson's Army ]
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Till Next Time —
Many Thanks !
“It’s Hard To Remember/What We Did Last November…”
December 29, 2010 by Clint Catalyst · 8 Comments
As audio animatronics of the
anomaly
continue cackling & crackling from lap-tops to parties to venue stages at such a high-voltage, even
the most obstinate blogger who scoffed six months ago that this [quote] “tumblr hipster bullshit”
[that] “just live[s] on blogs and MySpace ha ha” might dare agree that—run-on sentences &
forum snark notwithstanding—indeed there’s something/something’s in the air…
∞ ❖ ∞
∞ ❖ ∞
Not only are the groups’ names being spoken—†‡† is pronounced “Rrritualzzz,” FYI < /½LOL, bby >—
but these makers of music & mayhem have also entered the arena of giggery.Personal appearances.
Merchandising. Just, you know, going through the motions, as if they were *AHEM!* actual artists
rather than the punch-line of an elaborate internet hoax.
Wait.A.Minute. // O. HAI GUISE! I C U THURR
in those newspaper articles , snot-slick magazine pages…why, the cover of XLR8R, even!
Not bad for a micro-genre, complete-with-mocking-air-quotes. A genre, incidentally, that’s escaped
the internet ethers within which it was once confined: fodder for chat rooms, flame wars,
skeezy mp3-swaps-&-swipes via Rapidshare…
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No, this isn’t the first time I’ve written about witch house, & it’s highly unlikely this will be my last. Point of the matter is: I’m not alone. There’s been a veritable tidal wave of media addressing the subject as of late, some of which I’ll provide links to here in a hot little minute . However, first and foremost, I feel compelled to acknowledge Tom Ewing of The Guardian (UK), who—albeit indirectly—alluded to a correlation between the cinematic quality of the genre and what Samuel Taylor Coleridge referred to as the ‘willing suspension of disbelief.’
Ewing’s articles concludes:
“That is why witch house isn’t for the casual listener—not because it’s hard to find, or expensive, or particularly “difficult,” but because it requires a certain sacrifice of reserve, maybe even of dignity: you buy into it whole or not at all. In that sense it fits its horror trappings perfectly—a ghost story requires exactly the same willingness to be affected. You might still come away thinking it’s rubbish—aesthetics can be poorly realised or fundamentally flawed, after all (and ghost stories not scary). But what witch house tells me is that genres now aren’t exercises in innovation or marketing, so much as ways of framing an experience. And if you won’t feel open to that experience, your investigation of it won’t get far.”
Coleridge coined the phrase ‘willing suspension of disbelief’ in regard to poetry and literature. At this juncture in time (1817), writings involving the supernatural were no longer en vogue, in part “due to the declining belief in witches and other supernatural agents among the educated classes, who embraced the rational approach to the world offered by the new science.”
Seduction
December 11, 2010 by Clint Catalyst · 5 Comments
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Collecting Hearts. Another Love [is]
Another Place To Stay/Another Face…
Seduction is
Teen Porn, till
the “Living End.”
A Bath
With
Lovely Bloodflows.
Asger Juel Larsen‘s
Sleek Chic.
Seduction
is that which is close enough to touch, yet at the same time
just out of reach…
“Finally Get Away…”
November 22, 2010 by Clint Catalyst · 2 Comments
from the “Rain Rain” massive remix project
curated by Vlad Stoian of Warmer Climes —
Please allow me to introduce
&
if you’ve been paying attention at all,
you already know I effing love §
also known as ‘§ilver §train’
image created by §ilver §train
Hence,
it’s an honor for me to premiere
Loredana – Rain Rain (PO§E§ION Remix by §)
:: Click Arrow :: To Download ::
Full Project Release Date: November 30, 2010 at
http://warmer-climes.blogspot.com/2010/10/loredana-rain-rain-remixed-by-vlad.html
M O R E ± I N F O ± A V A I L A B L E
Beneath The Cut…
Drag. Drug. Drugged.
November 11, 2010 by Clint Catalyst · 3 Comments
Hear It Here
:: first ::
“Ph4D3 70 9R3y”
by
:: Cue & Ey!ed* ::
(as in: “Ey,” the exclamation used to attract attention…ya naw mean?)
E A V E S D R O P ± W I T H ± Y O U R ± E Y E S
[Clinty] So you do drag, huh? That’s cute: a straight dude who cross-dresses. Very James Franco-for-Candy-Magazine.
[N△tty] I’m comfortable with the term drag because it was one of the earliest terms used to describe “Screw” music.
Oh, I’ve totally screwed to music. “The Fudge Punch” by Wiseblood gives some serious soundtrack, if you know what I mean. Got any faves that rev you up for a sesh of runp-wranglin’, ol’ nasty Nattymaster?
I really consider my only influences the dub pioneers: Robert Earl Davis (DJ Screw), and probably The Early Sheffield (Cabaret Voltaire, The Future, etc.) I’ve been a fan of Screw music since about 1998. Incidentally, I also listen to a lot of darker music; so of course when artists started blending the two I got very excited—especially since I’d been leaning in that direction already, [experimenting with drag remixes].
Now, hold on just a durn minute. Dark music? You mean that Kiss-The-Goat kindly stuff them anhk-wearin’ P.I.B.s listen to?
image source: his dark nostalgia
Geraldo Riviera did a special about that whole…”scene”…a bunch a years ago. Yeah, I know me a thing or two about “dark music.” Sure as shit, I do!
Basically, during the 90s, I toyed with the concept of being a working DJ. I was writing for the [L.A.] New Times and doing occasional dj gigs: mainly art openings and loft parties. These led to a short residence at The Parlour [club]. Back then—and still on my blog—I fuse[d] a number of sounds: disco, house, minimal synth, electro…all in the style of Ron Hardy and Larry Levan, who are still my mentors as a DJ [in addition to] the Cosmic DJs (Danielle Baladelli and Beppe Loda), who I didn’t find out about [till] later. Oh—and as far as live DJs, I was really influenced by the Wicked crew out of San Francisco, and the Idjut Boys and Harvey.
[At any rate], this sound remains intact in my blog mixes. As a producer of tracks, I am really trying to do something more. I try not to get too high concept about it, but there’s definitely a ‘MEDIUM IS THE MESSAGE’ component to my music.
All-caps, huh? O I C. Hearkens back to the early ‘Aughts when the phrase MASHUP was being spread around as insistent & insidious(ly) as a scabies outbreak from a strip-club’s dressing room. Some remixes are just remixes, you know—but when they’re really remixed, they get an extended title: complete with parentheses and clever little phrases signified by caps-lock. The most srs of bsns, maing.
:: experience . the inspiration :: via international download lovin’, provided by Electrocasts ♡ ::
Never mind my obnoxious enthusiasm over A + D (ditto, their rump-shakin’, world obliteratin’, full-on overtakin’-the-gayme endeavor: Club Bootie), Girl Talk, & D.J. Raw-burt; matter of fact, consider this a rare instance in which I acknowledge—
[interrupts] I pretty much despire the term or concept of mash-up.
Oh, c’mon Natty! Sure, the term remains so frickin’ mashed to this day that more often than not, it’s denied a hyphen. But insofar as the act thereof? When it’s done well, it’s not just brilliant; shit’s incandescent. Proof/pudding: Hawkins‘ xXx.
DJs have been blending and fusing styles from day one. The [categories] “disco” or “house,” for example, were really blanket terms used to describe the music played in clubs.
Or not played. Someone much witter than I am described Witch House as “the genre for people who don’t leave theirs.” Unfortunately, I’m not even sharp enough to recall whom it was, nor where I read it. All the same—
Ron Hardy played a fusion of really gay disco, italo disco and new wave/synth…and later included minimal beat tracks created by his friends and club-goers.
‘Really gay’? How do people respond to that? I mean, ‘some of my best friends are‘ queers & flamboya feministing fagocytronics & everything—but HAPPY?! That’s a ‘lifestyle choice’ I’m just not sure I can accept…
Well, I’ve been receiving really encouraging emails all along from artists. Gyratory System and Yellow Ostrich had contacted me about the ‘post production’ I did over their tracks, but my main introduction to the drag community actually was by way of a disagreement I had with GuMMy†Be▲R!
(.GIF created by “Freeny”)
Goth’s Mutant Offspring: Witch House/Ghost Drone/Zombie Rave/Drag
September 3, 2010 by Clint Catalyst · 18 Comments
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 ::
†
The music they craft induces ripples of gooseflesh; the visual accompaniment renders a viewer spellbound.
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 ! )
