Scene Hub
Witch house, wave & the dark electronic underground
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Untitled Burial
Record label for dark electronic music.
Witch house · Dark electronic
SubGoth / El Cuco Recordings (ECR)
Arizona record label with a dark aesthetic, on Bandcamp as SubGoth / ECR.
Witch house · Dark electronic · US (Arizona)
Re:Mission Entertainment
Record label based in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
Witch house · Dark electronic · US (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma)
Blvsphemy Records
Chicago record label; its Bandcamp tagline is "Infernal Frequencies".
Witch house · Dark electronic · US (Chicago, Illinois)
Liquid Ritual
London wave label and collective founded in 2017, also behind club nights.
Wave · UK
Tri Angle
Robin Carolan's London/New York label (2010-2020), one of the first homes for the witch house era before branching into wider experimental electronics. Closed in 2020; the catalogue is history worth knowing.
Witch house · Experimental · UK / US
Labels 20
Untitled Burial
Record label for dark electronic music.
Witch house · Dark electronic
SubGoth / El Cuco Recordings (ECR)
Arizona record label with a dark aesthetic, on Bandcamp as SubGoth / ECR.
Witch house · Dark electronic · US (Arizona)
Re:Mission Entertainment
Record label based in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
Witch house · Dark electronic · US (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma)
Blvsphemy Records
Chicago record label; its Bandcamp tagline is "Infernal Frequencies".
Witch house · Dark electronic · US (Chicago, Illinois)
93.93
Serbian DIY publisher of dark, strange underground music.
Witch house · Experimental · Serbia
Aural Sects
Internet-born witch house netlabel active 2011-2016. Closed, but the back catalogue is still up.
Witch house
Darkfloor Sound
Independent label and online radio (Mantis Radio) that has covered witch house and its outer edges since the early days.
Experimental · Dark ambient / drone · UK
Liquid Ritual
London wave label and collective founded in 2017, also behind club nights.
Wave · UK
MALIGNA
Underground dark electronic label with witch house in the mix.
Witch house · Experimental
NECROMANCIA
Dark music label covering witch house, darkwave, dark ambient and industrial.
Witch house · Darkwave · Dark ambient / drone · Industrial / EBM
💀▼💀 (Skull Triangle Skull)
Sapporo "haunted house / vapor" netlabel, curated 2012-2018 and revived 2021-2023.
Witch house · Vaporwave · Japan
Terrorhythm
Plastician's London label, home of the Wavepool releases that brought wave to a wider audience.
Wave · UK
Tri Angle
Robin Carolan's London/New York label (2010-2020), one of the first homes for the witch house era before branching into wider experimental electronics. Closed in 2020; the catalogue is history worth knowing.
Witch house · Experimental · UK / US
Vertigo Cult
Netlabel for witch house, ghost drone and dark ambient, with free downloads.
Witch house · Dark ambient / drone
vibe.digital
US wave label; co-organised the Pantheon wave festival in Seattle.
Wave · US
wavemob
Community label started by Klimeks, whose 2016 compilation wave 001 helped name the wave sound.
Wave · UK
Wave Records
Brazilian label for coldwave, post-punk, minimal and electro.
Darkwave · Post-punk / coldwave · Brazil
Witch-House (label)
Community label started by members of the witch-house.com forum. Compilations and releases from across the scene.
Witch house · UK
WITCHCORE
Saint Petersburg netlabel for dark experimental electronics, witch house included.
Witch house · Darkwave · Experimental · Russia
Witch Spectra Netlabel
Chilean netlabel behind compilations such as Witch House Latinoamérica (2018); now shares occasional archive releases.
Witch house · Experimental · Chile
Collectives 2
B O G U S // COLLECTIVE
Vaporwave netlabel collective (since 2016) releasing producers from around the world.
Vaporwave · Fiji
Cyberwave Collective
Washington, D.C. collective of wave artists who started as friends supporting each other.
Wave · Hardwave · US
Communities 1
WITCH-HOUSE.com
Long-running witch house forum with yearly best-of lists, a scene timeline and its own label and video channel.
Witch house
Playlists 4
Dark is a Music Genre
Spotify playlist of darkwave, dark electro and darksynth.
Darkwave
Darkwave (Void)
Spotify playlist focused on darkwave.
Darkwave
VALKIN trashwave playlists
Large Spotify playlists of trashwave, witch house and dark electronica.
Trashwave · Witch house
WAVE PORTAL
Huge, regularly updated wave playlist on Spotify.
Wave
YouTube & channels 7
Aim To Head
YouTube mixes and uploads across witch house, hardwave and dark phonk.
Hardwave · Witch house · Wave
Midnight Goth Community
Darkwave, coldwave and post-punk premieres, plus a big darkwave playlist.
Darkwave · Post-punk / coldwave
The Wave Corridor
Wave and hardwave uploads, plus a weekly-updated hardwave playlist.
Wave · Hardwave
Wave Nation
YouTube channel sharing wave and hardwave tracks.
Wave · Hardwave
WITCH HOUSE (@WitchHouseMusic)
YouTube channel dedicated to witch house uploads.
Witch house
WITCH HOUSE TV
Video channel of witch-house.com and the Tales From The Crypt mixes.
Witch house
Глэк8 (gleck888)
Trashwave and witch house mixes on YouTube.
Trashwave · Witch house
Radio & mix series 3
Communion After Dark
Weekly dark music radio show and stream: darkwave, EBM, synthpop, industrial and goth.
Darkwave · Industrial / EBM · Post-punk / coldwave · US
Dark Wave (SiriusXM 1st Wave)
Weekly satellite radio show of goth, post-punk and darkwave; Slicing Up Eyeballs posts the playlists.
Darkwave · Post-punk / coldwave · US
Tales From The Crypt
Witch house mix series from the witch-house.com community.
Witch house
Blogs & zines 11
Brutal Resonance
Webzine for industrial, EBM, darkwave and dark electronic music.
Darkwave · Industrial / EBM
Electrozombies
Magazine covering EBM, synthpop, darkwave and future pop.
Darkwave · Industrial / EBM
ElektroSpank
Athens-based online magazine for goth, post-punk, coldwave and dark electro.
Darkwave · Post-punk / coldwave · Industrial / EBM · Greece
FUXWITHIT
Electronic music blog that has covered the wave scene for years.
Wave · Hardwave
Gothic & Amazing
Goth culture magazine that also features music.
Darkwave · Post-punk / coldwave
I Die: You Die
Long-running webzine on industrial, goth and related dark music.
Industrial / EBM · Darkwave
+LURID ATMOSPHERE+
Free digital webzine about witch house and dark underground art (issue III, 2022).
Witch house · Chile
Post-Punk.com
News and features on post-punk, goth, darkwave and synth.
Post-punk / coldwave · Darkwave
ReGen Magazine
Reviews, news and podcast for industrial, EBM and synthpop; has reviewed witch house releases.
Industrial / EBM · Darkwave
Side-Line Magazine
Daily news on EBM, industrial, synthpop and dark electronics, plus Bandcamp compilations.
Darkwave · Industrial / EBM · Belgium
Sounds and Shadows
Blog and webcast for darkwave, post-punk, industrial and witch house.
Darkwave · Witch house · Post-punk / coldwave
Resources & history 12
Remember Witch House? (Stereogum)
A 2020 look back at the genre ten years on.
Witch house
Wave music (Wikipedia)
How wave grew out of SoundCloud around 2013 and how hardwave split off later.
Wave · Hardwave
Wave Music: Why You Need This New Genre (Highsnobiety)
A 2016 snapshot of the early SoundCloud wave scene and its collectives.
Wave
What is Witch House? (Micro Genre Music)
Short explainer on the sound and its key artists (2023).
Witch house
Why Wavepool 2 Is a Critical Moment for Wave Music (UKF)
Interview-led feature on the wave scene's labels, collectives and club nights.
Wave
Witch house (Wikipedia)
Encyclopedia overview of the genre: origins, sound, key artists and labels.
Witch house
Witch House: A Denver Joke That Became a National Movement (Westword)
How the name started as a joke among Denver musicians and grew into a scene.
Witch house · US
Witch House: An Intro (Complex)
A 2023 introduction to the microgenre and its influence on later music.
Witch house
Witch House Latinoamérica (2018 compilation)
Free compilation of witch house artists from across Latin America, archived on the Internet Archive.
Witch house · Latin America
Witch house on MusicBrainz
Open music database genre page: browse artists and releases tagged witch house.
Witch house
Witch house on Rate Your Music
Community-ranked charts and lists of witch house albums.
Witch house
The Witch House Timeline
witch-house.com's dated timeline of the scene from 2005 to 2013, with links to discussion threads.
Witch house
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