For several years, I've raved about the dubby, samply, dark ambient music of Demdike Stare, a collaboration between the UK's Miles Whittaker and Sean Canty. Whittaker is a producer affiliated with Modern Love records while Canty is essentially a professional crate digger, seeking out weird horror soundtracks, Kollywood rarities, avant-garde curiosities, and other obscure vinyl for reissue by Finders Keepers records. Demdike Stare, the pair's own musical collaboration, was named for one of England's most notorious Pendle Witches of the 17th century. They've recently been releasing an excruciatingly-limited series of 12" vinyls in a series called Testpressing. The (NSFW) video above is for the track "Transmission" from "Fail," the fourth Testpressing, due out later this year. On December 13 at the British Film Institute in London, Demdike Stare will perform a new score for the classic 1922 horror documentary Haxan: Witchcraft Through The Ages. The duo is also on the cover of the new issue of The Wire magazine. (via The Wire)
And for more about Demdike Stare and hauntological music, don't miss Mark Pilkington's classic special Boing Boing feature on the subject here!
