Music Appreciation: Hauntology

In the future, the past is the present. Don't miss our Boing Boing Music feature on hauntology, in which Mark Pilkington connects the dots between Arthur Machen, Demdike Stare, 70s British television, Ghost Box Music, TC Lethbridge, and Coil. It's a heady trip down memory lane with a stunning soundtrack of spectral sounds crackling from the car speakers. "Hauntologists mine the past for music's future"

David Pescovitz is Boing Boing's co-editor/managing partner. He's also a research director at Institute for the Future. On Instagram, he's @pesco.

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Warren Ellis, the writer, not the musician, regularly talks about hauntological things on his web site, warrenellis dot com
http://codeflow.org/ Florian Bösch

I think this belongs here: Caravan Palace: Clash (Electro Swing)
- darladoon
  
  I think that might be a little too intense for hauntological consideration
  - http://codeflow.org/ Florian Bösch
    
    “Hauntologists mine the past for music’s future”
    
    Swing: Roaring Twenties, past [check]
    Electro Swing: A bit of the future of music [check]
    - darladoon
      
      Dive beneath the headline. It’s gotta be at least somewhat haunted. Whimsy is important, but it’s hardly “fun.”
      
      Here’s a quintessential example of the genre:
      
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXPS2d-nKUI&feature=relmfu
5onthe5

I was slow to the party on the original post, so can I just say this:

Broadcast were an absolutely brilliant band, and their first two releases The Noise Made By People and (especially) HaHa Sound are very much worth your time and listening energy.
- darladoon
  
  barring a few brief moments throughout their relatively short-lived career (before the singer? abruptly died), it wasn’t really until later in their oeuvre that they became hauntological. see their last album w/ The Focus Group for full-on Hauntology
http://www.facebook.com/ketut.marsa.3 Ketut Marsa

great music, the sound made me more energy…
http://twitter.com/robertdee robertdee

Excellent article by Mark. Lifelong fan of Coil and an appreciator of Belbury Poly. I love the mash up between electronic music, the past and magic. Made all the more haunting by a link in the comments to an old COI film that overlapped with a story I started writing last night. I must have dipped my toe into the right current. Don’t know if this counts as Hauntology but it’s a classic ambient track: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2g4nqi6Xug
- darladoon
  
  I remember those Woob comps! Great tune (!!) but unfortunately not Hauntology.
darladoon

damn, this is pretty much the best kind of sunday morning music. it does all the work for you, cuz your brain ain’t working yet.

cheers, david
darladoon

Actually, I’d like to add what I think is hip-hop’s take on Hauntology. It’s an old song, tucked away on the B-side, of Yesterday’s New Quintet (aka Madlib) “Elle’s Theme,” called ‘Sunrays.’ It’s absolutely hypnotic, melancholic. By far, Madlib’s finest moment…..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_6B33gOLEA
http://www.facebook.com/AlessandroAutomageddon Alessandro Automageddon

Weird how this has been posted at the same time as I started re-reading and re-editing parts of my music past.
I’m trying to face those songs that even if I never liked them as a kid, came back to haunt me in my adult times. Going face to face armed with my sampling skills only.
So far I’ve only completed 2 tracks of my “Un-making a man” project, dealing with two different artists from my Italian background.
http://soundcloud.com/automageddon/giornata-nein

http://soundcloud.com/automageddon/jovanotti-vasco-rituale-per
http://twitter.com/smknghrtdesigns SmokingHeartDesigns

Haunta, Yo!