The Haxan Cloak - Excavation

I love this so very much.

Yes, pitchfork told me about it I must admit. Clearly , I don't know how to seek out this kind of stuff unless it is highlighted in the same way.

What would you recommend to me that is like this? Heavy bass, still rhythmic, lots of space.
I also loved the latest Andy Stott record.

Raime, Ekoplekz, Vatican Shadow ?

*farts*

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thanks dog latin

Also, anyone else like this record?

i like it but i almost never feel like listening to it. unless it's late at night and i'm studying or something

You might want to check this thread out, has some things that are kind of related: "Mutant slow techno and Kevin Drumm records..." - A thread for Raime, Chasing Voices, Old Apparatus etc.

Thanks! "Mutant slow techno" already sounds close

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btw this record must sound like nothing on earbuds

Aw, man I love me some Haxan Cloak.

Check out Raime, Roly Porter and Emptyset for similar, and the earlier Haxan Cloak stuff, of course, especially the first album and Observatory EP.

"btw this record must sound like nothing on earbuds
― Evan, Friday, 10 May 2013 02:13 (6 hours ago)"

Seconding this. Apparently there are frequencies as low as 8Hz on the record. I have a dedicated sub that only goes as low as 32Hz so who knows how much more is lost on earbuds.

The Haxan Cloak live show is not be missed.

Personally I reckon Luke Younger is his closest contemporary. Emil.y will know him, cos he used to be in a noisy Leeds duo called Birds of Delay, but he's done a few solo records under the name Helm and definitely for me the one to check out is Impossible Symmetry (on the Pan label).

Roly Porter is close too but he tends more towards brutalist bass music. I get more of a dystopian sci-fi vibe from him rather than the creepy horror film stuff that Haxan Cloak evokes.

Deaf Center have been doing the unnerving neo-classical + macabre electronics thing for a good few years and some of their stuff is just plain terrifying in the right circumstances. Last album (Owl Splinters) is a really good place to start, but then there's a whole bunch of other acts associated with them that are also worth investigating like Skodvin's solo stuff as Svarte Greiner. Skodvin also runs Miasmah which is an amazing label - Juv, FNS and especially Kreng might be right up yr alley if you like Haxan Cloak.

One record that feels like a major influence on a lot of the recent Brit stuff is Ben Frost's By The Throat, which is a great mix of surprisingly delicate electronic textures, neo-classical instrumentation, snarling bass sounds and (lots of) full-on noise, but really nails the menacing atmosphere and if you don't know that one, I'd say get on that first.

Probably a bit out on a limb here but I also got a bit of a Shackleton vibe too off the new Haxan, maybe it's just the disembodied voices like the samples of Gregorian chant on the first track that brought him to mind, but for me there's a shared sinister metaphysics embedded in both their work. Shackleton runs rings around him on a rhythm level though, one track on the Haxan album feels like some sort of darkwave triphop in comparison.

thanks nick, lots to explore from those posts.

Yes, thanks everyone!

Nick, great recommendations I'm excited. Never heard any of those.

this album is heavy

It makes me happy for some reason.

you might be a goth if ...

Ha- Pretty far from that, though I had a few gothy friends in high school...

Each time I see this guy live he just gets better and better, the albums are really good but the sheer power and physicality of how he uses bass frequencies and white noise is phenomenal on a huge soundsystem.

Haxan Cloak is a cool name

i just cannot separate this act from Demdike Stare in my mind.

Demdike Stare is my favorite

This...works.

https://pitchfork.com/news/the-haxan-cloak-releasing-score-for-new-film-midsommar/

Heh - would watch. And the soundtracking makes total sense.

I'd totally recommend Paul Jebanasam for this kind of stuff. He's more concerned with vast, sacred spaces than pure bottom-end terrorism, but the dread is the key.

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