Conjurers' Dub (mix)

image via The Afflicted Yard

There is no silence in that Abyss: for all that men
call Silence is Its Speech.
- the book of lies

For some time now I've wanted to assemble a mix comprised of the deep, dark, dubby tunes that soundtrack my late night writing sessions and dark nights of soul. This mix rides a thick black night groove through headier Shackleton productions, stripped back dubstep and echo drenched, slow burn dub-techno. It's laced with a haunting Tikiman vocal and The Space Ape's hypnotic delivery and bookended by TKDE's glorious doomjazz.

It's built more for head-nodding meditation than peek time dancing. A sustaining anti-lullaby for babes of the abyss

Conjurers' Dub (mix)  by  kelcey

(00:00) Demdike Stare - Extwistle Hall
(01:40) The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble - Seneca
(05:35) Harmonia '76 - Sometimes In Autumn (Shackleton Remix)
(09:50) Shackleton - Asha In The Tabernacle
(15:35) Vindixatrix - Private Places (Shackleton & Mordant Music Version)
(20:50) Emika - Drop The Other (Scuba's Vulpine Remix)
(25:00) Pangaea - Dead Living
(29:20) CV313 - Subtraktive
(30:35) Rhythm and Sound feat. Tikiman - Na Fe Throw It
(38:00) STL - Checkmate (cv313 Remodel)
(39:35) Fever Ray - Seven (Marcel Dettmann remix)
(44:15) Martyn feat. Space Ape - Is This Insanity? (Ben Klock Remix)
(47:00) Red Shape - Dark & Sticky
(50:00) Pendle Coven -Uncivil Engineering (Calm Mix)
(52:05) Deadbeat - Teach The Devil's Son
(58:00) Beat Pharmacy feat. Space Ape - Ghostship (Deadbeat dub)
(62:00) Appleblim - Within
(65:15) The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble - Embers

The Daughters of Erzulie

"I reach the corner of Washington Square Park and my feet freeze up short of the curb. My ears draw whispers from the bushes. My mind populates the shadows with darting figures. The small patch of artificial wild appears alive with menace. I gaze up at a towering elm with the moon nestled in its high branches. The Hangman’s Elm, as they call it on the walking tours."

My new story, The Daughters of Erzulie, is up at Troubadour 21. It's my contribution to the excellent T21 horror series and is paired with another cracking essay by Chris Deal. You can find the previous installments of the horror series here. I recommend each of them highly.

Erzulie is my take on the classic ghost story, set in my old Greenwich Village stomping grounds. It owes a debt to Pete Hamill's brilliant novel Forever for it's initial inspiration and to Carly's exhaustive research into paranormal NYC.

I hope it's as much fun to read as it was to write.

Some days you wake up and...

During a rather dark and reclusive stretch of my life, this Jenny Holzer postcard always sat on my desk next to my laptop. I used it as a talisman (and judging by the drink rings also as a coaster), focusing my paranoid fancies onto something external and benign while I stared deep into the abyss. The casual, moderate voice normalized grand delusions into everyday occurrences.

To this day, when the days get short and the nights get cold, I wake to find myself repeating the phrase to myself. A mantra to get me through the morning dread.