https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StFCfNOFaYA
The next video is kind of NSFW :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AA13-Ykrob4&feature=related
This isn't dubstep, ist it ? Well whatever, I'm totally in love with this kind of screwed-up minimalistic electronic musicit's the the perfect soundtrack for sleepless nights in a big city during a heatwave...
And what else should I check that sounds like this ?
― Jamie Harley (Snowballing), Thursday, 9 July 2009 16:50 (fourteen years ago) link
Hmmm, made a mistake, this one is the NSFW one :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WjvaeyYJTo
― Jamie Harley (Snowballing), Thursday, 9 July 2009 16:51 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah i really liked their first ep. Do they have an album out? Still a bit rough around the edges but looking fwd to their next release
― baaderonixx, Thursday, 9 July 2009 17:11 (fourteen years ago) link
I think there's only a couple of EPs from last year and a recent single (with Sweat on it).http://www.myspace.com/jjhhmm
― Jamie Harley (Snowballing), Thursday, 9 July 2009 17:19 (fourteen years ago) link
sounds great. has anyone sped up their tracks to 45 to see what they really sound like?
― A. Roddick City (jaxon), Thursday, 9 July 2009 17:54 (fourteen years ago) link
Ha, that's a fun idea. I'm going to try that.
― Jamie Harley (Snowballing), Thursday, 9 July 2009 18:14 (fourteen years ago) link
Saw these guys play in Rome and they just stood on stage and shared a cigarette while car crash footage played behind them. I have a feeling David Lynch c. "Fire Walk With Me" would've loved them.
― Marcus Brody Ta-Dow! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Thursday, 9 July 2009 18:20 (fourteen years ago) link
They recently did a 27 min mix that is downloadable there : http://www.20jazzfunkgreats.co.uk/wordpress/2009/06/11/pink-fog/
― Jamie Harley (Snowballing), Thursday, 9 July 2009 18:39 (fourteen years ago) link
i've been digging them since I heard one of their tracks on 20jfg last year but that story above just made me officially love them
― .rar .rar riot (surfboard dudes get wiped out, totally), Thursday, 9 July 2009 21:28 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWmOeU5Spmg
― .rar .rar riot (surfboard dudes get wiped out, totally), Thursday, 9 July 2009 21:30 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eah5aN1JZpI
― .rar .rar riot (surfboard dudes get wiped out, totally), Thursday, 9 July 2009 21:42 (fourteen years ago) link
I really love the ep (it's on eMusic, incidentally). If the Italians do it Better stuff sounds like the soundtracks to Umberto Lenzi cannibal movies, Salem sounds like the soundtrack to some sick under-the-video-nasty radar snuff loops. Utterly terrifying.
The ep has the bass deliberately so far in the red that on good headphones it's almost nauseating (in, uh, the best possible way).
― Metro Video Centers, Thursday, 9 July 2009 22:06 (fourteen years ago) link
i dunno if you're on noise board, but someone just posted a canibal soundtrack comp in leo
― A. Roddick City (jaxon), Thursday, 9 July 2009 22:20 (fourteen years ago) link
Saw these guys play in Rome and they just stood on stage and shared a cigarette while car crash footage played behind them.Love that story too. Salem is like The Tough Alliance evil twin.
― Jamie Harley (Snowballing), Friday, 10 July 2009 08:46 (fourteen years ago) link
Trapdoor is pretty awesome.
― baaderonixx, Friday, 10 July 2009 09:50 (fourteen years ago) link
"goth crunk"
Nice! Thanks for the tip!!!
― Metro Video Centers, Friday, 10 July 2009 09:53 (fourteen years ago) link
Another C&P style track:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76RneFRYJSY
― baaderonixx, Friday, 10 July 2009 10:00 (fourteen years ago) link
"EVP Pop"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94IKAEAEBvE&feature=channel
― Jamie Harley (Snowballing), Friday, 10 July 2009 10:58 (fourteen years ago) link
This is my favourite track by these guyshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weDQIkGhEkY
― Number None, Friday, 10 July 2009 11:11 (fourteen years ago) link
Re: Salem In Rome - Metro Video OTM in a strange way. They came onstage after a serious set by Peter Christopherson (sp?) of TG/Coil fame where one of the pieces was accompanied by snuff footage from a 2nd-hand cellphone of a man being executed (didn't watch. I walked out after his warning to senstive audience members and just listened from the lobby). I filmed a bit of Salem's set and may Youtube it if I ever get an account together.
― Marcus Brody Ta-Dow! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Friday, 10 July 2009 18:13 (fourteen years ago) link
This is NSFW I guess, and a little bit scary too :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mi7HgmGgTpw
Also if you want to get in touch with Salem, here's where to write (according to the website) :Nick Vonrudolphsky inmate # m02899Vandalia correctionp.o. box 500Vandalia, IL.62471
― J4mi3 H4rl3y (Snowballing), Wednesday, 12 August 2009 17:50 (fourteen years ago) link
So it's not the Israeli death metal band called Salem then?
― Neotropical pygmy squirrel, Wednesday, 12 August 2009 17:57 (fourteen years ago) link
No this one is three guys from Chicago.
― J4mi3 H4rl3y (Snowballing), Wednesday, 12 August 2009 18:00 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.myspace.com/whytering
another goth crunk band. i guess this is like the opposite of chillwave
― jaxon, Wednesday, 9 September 2009 06:10 (fourteen years ago) link
Thx jaxon, this is really cool. Sounds so close to Salem I'd be surprised if there isn't some kind of connection.
― J4mi3 H4rl3y (Snowballing), Wednesday, 9 September 2009 06:26 (fourteen years ago) link
love how the thread's initial question has now been answered by "goth crunk"
― spiny doughboy (baaderonixx), Wednesday, 9 September 2009 07:31 (fourteen years ago) link
Yes "Goth Crunk" is indeed a very good way to decribe that genre. Well done Baaderonixx !
― J4mi3 H4rl3y (Snowballing), Wednesday, 9 September 2009 10:30 (fourteen years ago) link
The new sound for the 10ies!
― spiny doughboy (baaderonixx), Wednesday, 9 September 2009 10:49 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.buttmagazine.com/?p=2102
Here's a nice interview with John Holland, one of the members of the band.
the interview makes the band sound awful awful awful somehow, but I listened to one of the clips and it ain't half bad
― Ivan, Thursday, 10 September 2009 00:41 (fourteen years ago) link
How did I miss their cover of 'Streets of Philadelphia'?
― spiny doughboy (baaderonixx), Thursday, 10 September 2009 08:10 (fourteen years ago) link
that butt article is sooooo o_O
― jaxon, Thursday, 10 September 2009 18:44 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.sendspace.com/file/6q5ayn
― Fox Force Five Punchline (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 23 September 2009 16:09 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.thefader.com/2009/10/01/salem-remix-gucci-mane/
― jaxon, Saturday, 3 October 2009 07:49 (fourteen years ago) link
so I'm kinda smitten with this band. Heavy rotation the past two days.
― Ivan, Wednesday, 7 October 2009 02:54 (fourteen years ago) link
salem are great.
― samosa gibreel, Wednesday, 7 October 2009 03:00 (fourteen years ago) link
so these guys are about to get big, right?
― spiny doughboy (baaderonixx), Wednesday, 7 October 2009 17:27 (fourteen years ago) link
yep, they should be on the front cover of the NME
― djmartian, Friday, 9 October 2009 11:43 (fourteen years ago) link
Big like The Knife, maybe, big like My Morning Jacket, not a chance. Because life is unfair and people are stupid.
Totally my favorite band of the year so far
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Friday, 9 October 2009 19:07 (fourteen years ago) link
It seems that Salem released a full 12 track album (on CDR) in 2008 on Disaro Records in Texas. It was called "Fuckt." I'm assuming that it was released in an insanely small run (the label just lists it as "out of print"). It shows up on SLSK and as Rapidshare .rars, but in really shitty sounding rips (one seems to be a 96 kbps rip, and the other is, strangely, a 384 kbps rip (whatever that is) - both sound really bad). I guess none of the people who ever bought the thing were rip-savvy or whatever... how can I track down a decent sounding copy of this?
The obscurity of Salem's music in physical/digital form is obviously part of their mystique (last couple 7"s, "Ohk" and "Yes I Smoke Crack" were one time runs of 500 - both are selling for about 50 pounds on eBay). They do have the one ep on eMusic and iTunes, which is great.... I just want to hear more songs!
― Hobocamp, Tuesday, 17 November 2009 22:00 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.thefader.com/2009/11/24/we-make-it-good-mix-series-v-11-salem
― jaxon, Wednesday, 25 November 2009 05:43 (fourteen years ago) link
i guess i meant to link this one (more direct)http://wemakeitgood.com/mix-series/volume-11-salem
― jaxon, Wednesday, 25 November 2009 05:44 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.thefader.com/2009/12/09/fadersouthern-comfort-7-inch-series-11-salem-and-tanlines/
split thing with Tanlines, who I wasn't familiar with before. both are good songs.
― Ivan, Thursday, 24 December 2009 05:25 (fourteen years ago) link
tanlines is eric emm of the brothers and one of the dudes from professor murder. fun stuff.
― bum-sniff deviant (cutty), Thursday, 24 December 2009 13:54 (fourteen years ago) link
Have the potential to make either a half-way there disappointment or one of the coolest records of all-time
― dreamsonvhs, Friday, 8 January 2010 03:43 (fourteen years ago) link
I've seen it called Juke-Goth, goth juke and other variants. I have no idea wtf it means though.
PS: if you like it, you should also check out OoOoO. Search for it on The Hype Machine. There are also some good SALEM remixes. Great stuff.
― dikonstrukt, Friday, 8 January 2010 06:31 (fourteen years ago) link
i only really like the blends with rap vocals. can't seem to get with their own vocals much
― rionat, Friday, 8 January 2010 06:47 (fourteen years ago) link
in the nyt now
― just sayin, Friday, 8 January 2010 09:44 (fourteen years ago) link
― spiny doughboy (baaderonixx), mercredi 7 octobre 2009 19:27 (3 months ago) Bookmark
― spiny doughboy (baaderonixx), Friday, 8 January 2010 11:37 (fourteen years ago) link
According to the NME Radar special for 2010, the debut Salem album is due in May
― djmartian, Friday, 8 January 2010 11:43 (fourteen years ago) link
My question wasn't meant to be sarcastic or ironic. I'm far removed from the music industry. I do write quite a lot, though I never consider it work exactly. I've never gotten paid for my writings. Any kind of work involves a certain labor, yet also when a lot of strain and stress is involved I question the joy and quality of the work. Not that writing always comes easy and that certainly can be stressful. Maybe that's why I choose work that doesn't concern my loves, taste, and pleasures. When music becomes work are you really listening with the same ears you once had?
― JacobSanders, Saturday, 9 April 2011 10:49 (thirteen years ago) link
That's a question for yourself not for me. And, no slight intended, I think it shows a lack of imagination.
This is my job. I love it. I don't think the scale of listening I do or the fact it pays my rent affects my appreciation of it.
The truth of the matter is I don't really see it as work, in a 9 - 5 job sense, I see it as an utterly pointless and mainly harmless calling that allows me to get loads of music and to get into all the gigs I want to go to and to hang out with other people like me so I don't feel like so much of a fucking mentally ill freak.
Music fills the space in my life that other people would fill with religious or spiritual concerns. It has also given me a solid framework to help me get over my genetic predisposition toward thirstiness and narcotic use and, to a certain degree, has helped me with low level mental health issues.
― PG Harpy (Doran), Saturday, 9 April 2011 11:33 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/dailydish/detail?entry_id=91272
― markers, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 18:28 (twelve years ago) link
And he looks so happy!
― ...wow! (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 19:20 (twelve years ago) link
what a cute couple
― chupacabra - a delicious burrito (DJP), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 19:21 (twelve years ago) link
Such a perfect meeting of minds. Is he the rapper? Please let him be the rapper.
― Position Position, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 20:23 (twelve years ago) link
There's our boy!
A small fire broke out early Thursday morning in Courtney Love’s West Village home, a Fire Department official said.The fire, in a fourth-floor bedroom of Ms. Love’s town house, at 250 West 10th Street near Hudson Street, was probably started by a candle next to the curtains, the official said. Ms. Love discovered the fire, the official said, although it was not clear whether she placed the 911 call, at 1:52 a.m. There was also a male occupant at the home at the time.
The fire, in a fourth-floor bedroom of Ms. Love’s town house, at 250 West 10th Street near Hudson Street, was probably started by a candle next to the curtains, the official said. Ms. Love discovered the fire, the official said, although it was not clear whether she placed the 911 call, at 1:52 a.m. There was also a male occupant at the home at the time.
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/23/small-fire-in-courtney-loves-town-house/#
― Position Position, Friday, 24 June 2011 00:10 (twelve years ago) link
Killing Courtney with fire lol
― Frogbs Day Afternoon (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 24 June 2011 00:39 (twelve years ago) link
so who overdoses first?
― frogbracist (J0rdan S.), Friday, 24 June 2011 00:40 (twelve years ago) link
he'll be the one to drop. you can't kill courtney.
― scott seward, Friday, 24 June 2011 00:46 (twelve years ago) link
i think you're right
― frogbracist (J0rdan S.), Friday, 24 June 2011 00:46 (twelve years ago) link
omfg
― sleeve, Friday, 24 June 2011 00:49 (twelve years ago) link
Listen, and understand. Courtney Love is out there. She can't be bargained with. She can't be reasoned with. She doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And she absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead.
― Actual LOL Tolhurst (Doran), Friday, 24 June 2011 00:54 (twelve years ago) link
the only person who'll remember the Fader Fort performance will be markers
http://i53.tinypic.com/xaxo2a.jpg
― markers, Monday, 26 September 2011 21:37 (twelve years ago) link
SHE SAY I DOWN WIH HUH I SAY BITCH YOU ALOOOOONE
― i'm not a ★, somebody lied (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 26 September 2011 21:42 (twelve years ago) link
^^^^
― markers, Monday, 26 September 2011 21:43 (twelve years ago) link
she say im down wih huh, i say bitch you aloneyou lyin wit the flesh, lyin with the boneshe say i'm lyin wih huh, my mind in the SKREETi say i'm not with me, i'm with she, i'm with shenow plane lights blinkin, off in da eveningot me thinkin, wish i was leavinit's not that i'm tryna be somewhere elsei'm not tryna be here... by myselfif you were here too i'd still be with myselfi talk real loud, i don't wanna hear myselfi'm faraway lost and i don't want helpif you could bring me back, i kill myself... haaanot myself, that's just myselfi don't know if you could tell, but i'm in helli don't know if you noticed, but i haven't spokenmy arm might be broken, i'm so sick of jokin
― i'm not a ★, somebody lied (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 26 September 2011 21:43 (twelve years ago) link
hahaha eeeeee
― markers, Monday, 26 September 2011 21:54 (twelve years ago) link
LMFAO!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJ7pRqaIX64
― markers, Tuesday, 15 November 2011 15:51 (twelve years ago) link
"Salem's cover of Alice Deejay's immortal trance anthem "Better Off Alone""
(((d-_-b)))
― markers, Tuesday, 15 November 2011 15:53 (twelve years ago) link
I'll start paying attention when they cover Ian Van Dahl.
― Admins did ILX Haven (crüt), Tuesday, 15 November 2011 15:56 (twelve years ago) link
this is apparently from a new ep they have coming out
― markers, Tuesday, 15 November 2011 16:00 (twelve years ago) link
does this band still exist?
― badg, Wednesday, 14 November 2012 21:15 (eleven years ago) link
naw...they're out on the skreets
― too many encores (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, 15 November 2012 00:27 (eleven years ago) link
lol
― ya bish called wanda (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 15 November 2012 05:53 (eleven years ago) link
http://rapgenius.com/Salem-sick-lyrics#note-587099
― ya bish called wanda (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 15 November 2012 05:57 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktsBvDm9-Bk
no one seems to have posted this here yet. it's pretty amazing...
― rock 'em sock 'em (Treeship), Friday, 3 May 2013 11:17 (eleven years ago) link
i love seam
― groovy replacement (electricsound), Friday, 3 May 2013 11:32 (eleven years ago) link
after a few years of avoidance due to all the hype at the time of release, i picked the SALEM album up today.3 spins in ..love it.are they still working together, or have things fallen apart due to vice magazine related excess ..
― mark e, Thursday, 29 August 2013 21:11 (ten years ago) link
I think theyre still together. The album is great though. Also check out their remix of gucci mane's "round one"
― Treeship, Thursday, 29 August 2013 21:19 (ten years ago) link
yeah .. i need to track that remix down due to the love on this thread.the album still sounds amazing.love the dark claustrophobia vibe.
― mark e, Thursday, 29 August 2013 21:25 (ten years ago) link
a one off album i guess.
― mark e, Thursday, 11 February 2016 23:22 (eight years ago) link
To this day every time I hear "Fader Fort" I initially assume it's shorthand for the band's performance there, like it's some sort of "Never Forget" reference
― Evan R, Monday, 27 June 2016 21:04 (seven years ago) link
lol. Me too.
― how's life, Monday, 27 June 2016 21:42 (seven years ago) link
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wWHhV5TDKnA
new mixtape
― boxedjoy, Monday, 14 September 2020 21:23 (three years ago) link
gross
― shout-out to his family (DJP), Monday, 14 September 2020 22:13 (three years ago) link
Lol
― treeship., Monday, 14 September 2020 22:22 (three years ago) link
They're no Mora Prokaza.
― pomenitul, Monday, 14 September 2020 22:27 (three years ago) link
i tried to give this a relisten lately and i couldn't believe how bad it sounded
― the late great, Tuesday, 15 September 2020 00:08 (three years ago) link
i mean just in terms of the production, they should have hired someone to clean it up
― the late great, Tuesday, 15 September 2020 00:09 (three years ago) link
we did this recently
defend the indefensible: Salem
― the late great, Tuesday, 15 September 2020 00:11 (three years ago) link
I still laugh at this SXSW performance:
https://youtu.be/Ej7s8Bnq5_o
New article on stereogum about salem / witchhouse:
https://www.stereogum.com/2089949/witch-house-salem-king-night-turns-10/franchises/columns/sounding-board/
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 28 September 2020 17:09 (three years ago) link
skreets is watchin
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 28 September 2020 17:11 (three years ago) link
That pan across the audience at 1:57 is the best.
― Quiet Storm Thorgerson (PBKR), Monday, 28 September 2020 18:26 (three years ago) link
xps that could be said of a lot of music c2010 tbf
― Specific Ocean Blue (dog latin), Monday, 28 September 2020 19:25 (three years ago) link
that Fader video though..
― Specific Ocean Blue (dog latin), Monday, 28 September 2020 19:30 (three years ago) link
Although it was overlooked in many reviews (including, regrettably, my own), King Night’s penultimate track “Tair” features a vocalist unspooling a druggy tale of criminal exploits that seemingly includes the following couplet: “These niggas calling me, it’d be rude if I don’t go.” The questionably reliable user-contributed lyrics site Genius appears to confirm Salem’s use of the word, but in a statement to Stereogum today, Salem refute that transcription; per the band, the actual lyric is “Think it’s calling me it’d be rude if I don’t go.”
Oh look, Salem is still full of shit
― shout-out to his family (DJP), Monday, 28 September 2020 20:13 (three years ago) link
new salem is what the new opn wants to be? strange times ...
― Vapor waif (uptown churl), Saturday, 31 October 2020 17:14 (three years ago) link
i tried to give this a relisten lately and i couldn't believe how bad it sounded― the late great, Monday, September 14, 2020 7:08 PM (one month ago) bookmarkflaglinki mean just in terms of the production, they should have hired someone to clean it up― the late great, Monday, September 14, 2020 7:09 PM (one month ago) bookmarkflaglink
― the late great, Monday, September 14, 2020 7:08 PM (one month ago) bookmarkflaglink
― the late great, Monday, September 14, 2020 7:09 PM (one month ago) bookmarkflaglink
this struck me from the very beginning — lots of hard digital clipping iirc
― real muthaphuckkin jeez (crüt), Saturday, 31 October 2020 21:30 (three years ago) link