Unholy Progeny: Psychic TV and Witch House at the Crossroads of Occultism in the Information Age
Journal of Musicological Research January 2, 2018 Daniel Siepmann 4 citations
This article compares two underground music movements that used creative communication to attract followers while concealing their activities: Genesis P-Orridge's chaos magick group Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth and its musical outlet Psychic TV (1981–1991), and the internet-based electronic micro-genre witch house (2008–2013). Although they appear aesthetically and operationally aligned, examining their occult purposes reveals an exploitative dynamic: witch house adopts the style of the Psychic TV/TOPY project but simultaneously undermines the ritual-based "cultural engineering" that originally defined it.