Salem - What kind of music genre is this ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StFCfNOFaYA

The next video is kind of NSFW :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AA13-Ykrob4&feature=related

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StFCfNOFaYA

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 ?

Hmmm, made a mistake, this one is the NSFW one :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WjvaeyYJTo

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

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

sounds great. has anyone sped up their tracks to 45 to see what they really sound like?

Ha, that's a fun idea. I'm going to try that.

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.

They recently did a 27 min mix that is downloadable there : http://www.20jazzfunkgreats.co.uk/wordpress/2009/06/11/pink-fog/

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWmOeU5Spmg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eah5aN1JZpI

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).

i dunno if you're on noise board, but someone just posted a canibal soundtrack comp in leo

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.

Trapdoor is pretty awesome.

"goth crunk"

i dunno if you're on noise board, but someone just posted a canibal soundtrack comp in leo

Nice! Thanks for the tip!!!

Another C&P style track:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76RneFRYJSY

"EVP Pop"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94IKAEAEBvE&feature=channel

This is my favourite track by these guys
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weDQIkGhEkY

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.

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 # m02899
Vandalia correction
p.o. box 500
Vandalia, IL.62471

So it's not the Israeli death metal band called Salem then?

No this one is three guys from Chicago.

http://www.myspace.com/whytering

another goth crunk band. i guess this is like the opposite of chillwave

Thx jaxon, this is really cool. Sounds so close to Salem I'd be surprised if there isn't some kind of connection.

love how the thread's initial question has now been answered by "goth crunk"

Yes "Goth Crunk" is indeed a very good way to decribe that genre. Well done Baaderonixx !

The new sound for the 10ies!

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

How did I miss their cover of 'Streets of Philadelphia'?

that butt article is sooooo o_O

http://www.sendspace.com/file/6q5ayn

http://www.thefader.com/2009/10/01/salem-remix-gucci-mane/

so I'm kinda smitten with this band. Heavy rotation the past two days.

salem are great.

so these guys are about to get big, right?

so these guys are about to get big, right?

yep, they should be on the front cover of the NME

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

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!

http://www.thefader.com/2009/11/24/we-make-it-good-mix-series-v-11-salem

i guess i meant to link this one (more direct)
http://wemakeitgood.com/mix-series/volume-11-salem

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.

tanlines is eric emm of the brothers and one of the dudes from professor murder. fun stuff.

Have the potential to make either a half-way there disappointment or one of the coolest records of all-time

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.

i only really like the blends with rap vocals. can't seem to get with their own vocals much

in the nyt now

so these guys are about to get big, right?

― spiny doughboy (baaderonixx), mercredi 7 octobre 2009 19:27 (3 months ago) Bookmark

According to the NME Radar special for 2010, the debut Salem album is due in May

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?

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.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/dailydish/detail?entry_id=91272

And he looks so happy!

what a cute couple

Such a perfect meeting of minds. Is he the rapper? Please let him be the rapper.

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.

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/23/small-fire-in-courtney-loves-town-house/#

Killing Courtney with fire lol

so who overdoses first?

he'll be the one to drop. you can't kill courtney.

i think you're right

omfg

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.

the only person who'll remember the Fader Fort performance will be markers

http://i53.tinypic.com/xaxo2a.jpg

SHE SAY I DOWN WIH HUH I SAY BITCH YOU ALOOOOONE

^^^^

she say im down wih huh, i say bitch you alone
you lyin wit the flesh, lyin with the bone
she say i'm lyin wih huh, my mind in the SKREET
i say i'm not with me, i'm with she, i'm with she
now plane lights blinkin, off in da evenin
got me thinkin, wish i was leavin
it's not that i'm tryna be somewhere else
i'm not tryna be here... by myself
if you were here too i'd still be with myself
i talk real loud, i don't wanna hear myself
i'm faraway lost and i don't want help
if you could bring me back, i kill myself... haaa
not myself, that's just myself
i don't know if you could tell, but i'm in hell
i don't know if you noticed, but i haven't spoken
my arm might be broken, i'm so sick of jokin

hahaha eeeeee

LMFAO!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJ7pRqaIX64

"Salem's cover of Alice Deejay's immortal trance anthem "Better Off Alone""

(((d-_-b)))

I'll start paying attention when they cover Ian Van Dahl.

this is apparently from a new ep they have coming out

does this band still exist?

naw...they're out on the skreets

lol

http://rapgenius.com/Salem-sick-lyrics#note-587099

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktsBvDm9-Bk

no one seems to have posted this here yet. it's pretty amazing...

i love seam

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 ..

I think theyre still together. The album is great though. Also check out their remix of gucci mane's "round one"

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.

a one off album i guess.

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

lol. Me too.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wWHhV5TDKnA

new mixtape

gross

Lol

They're no Mora Prokaza.

i tried to give this a relisten lately and i couldn't believe how bad it sounded

i mean just in terms of the production, they should have hired someone to clean it up

we did this recently

defend the indefensible: Salem

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/

skreets is watchin

That pan across the audience at 1:57 is the best.

xps that could be said of a lot of music c2010 tbf

that Fader video though..

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

new salem is what the new opn wants to be? strange times ...

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) bookmarkflaglink

i 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

this struck me from the very beginning — lots of hard digital clipping iirc