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Witch house (sometimes referred to as drag) is a music genre. The term witch house started out as a joke that was originally used to describe occult-based house music by Travis Egedy (commonly known by the stage name Pictureplane) and his friends in 2009.[1][2][3] As the internet meme grew in popularity, shortly after being pitched to Pitchfork Media,[4] blogs and other mainstream music press began to actively continue the use of the term for marketing purposes, and thus now the label is loosely used to describe a subgenre of industrial music.
It generally features a fusion of techniques rooted in Swishahouse hip hop – sluggish tempo with skipping, stop-timed beats[5] – coupled with elements from genres such as noise, drone, and shoegaze.[6] Witch house is also influenced by hazy 1980s goth bands, including Cocteau Twins, The Cure, Christian Death and Dead Can Dance,[7] as well as being heavily influenced by certain early industrial bands.[8][9] Many artists in the genre have released slowed-down remixes of pop and rap songs,[10] or long mixes of different songs that have been slowed down significantly. Common typographic elements in artist and track names include triangles, crosses, and other geometric shapes,[11][12] which is seen by some as being part of a larger unified aesthetic within the scene as well as a method of keeping it underground and harder to search for on the internet.[13][14]
As of August 2, 2011, Pitchfork Media are continuing the use of the term, but are now using witch house to market and describe †††, a solo project of Chino Moreno, of the American alternative metal band Deftones,[15] whose EP Crosses features a collection of minimal and soothing, electronic-based, ambient rock tracks,[16] further contributing to the controversy over the vagueness of the term.