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Pair of Moccasins. Kiowa or Witchita. America, 20th Century.
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Pair of Moccasins. Kiowa or Witchita. America, 20th Century.
Brooklyn Museum.
an interview with witchita — a talk about underground music, anxiety and corruption
today's thorns of the future guest is witchita, once an electronic/witch house artist, now a latin urbano artist from mexico. witchita has been in the scene since 2019, when he released his first ever EP called "untitled" through distrokid. the songs from the EP could be described as energetic, with a dose of experimentality.
[this interview includes strong language and possibly triggering content. viewer discretion is advised.]
thorns of the future: what was the first song you've ever made?
witchita: Witchita from my first EP, named "Untitled" I wanted it to sound like "Baptism" by Crystal Castles, obviously it doesn't resemble that song that much due to lack of expertise at that point, but I do like that the first song I ever produced did ended up in a official release of mine, brings a lot of memories and transports me to that time when I first started learning Ableton, and what's mixing/mastering.
thorns of the future: what are some artists that you really like?
witchita: Crystal Castles, Skrillex, Playboy Carti, Yung Lean, Noisia, Dillom, Snow Strippers, 100 gecs, are like some "big names" I tend to always listen to underground and local projects to know what's really happening in the scenes I'm interested. As a fun fact, the last album I've recently listened is "1" by "estratosfera" from Argentina, I've also recently listened to a band called "Garbage People" they're like "garage rock?" sounded cool too.
thorns of the future: tell us about your craziest live show experience.
witchita: I had a show in Villahermosa, in my home state "Tabasco" in mid 2023, that was one of the first time, playing a couple of new songs, and the response to them from the audience was amazing, I saw everybody connecting and enjoying themselves, at least this was crazy for me, and also hearing the feedback from them at the end was super uplifting, I know this isn't very "crazy" lol but it was for me.
thorns of the future: do you have any new planned releases?
witchita: Yes, there's three songs for upcoming releases, one is called "Olas de un ayer" produced by a friend called Rodrigo, that's a "nostalgic" song about my teenage years. I have another one at the moment called "Por Dentro" produced by Trillfox, that's resembles my anxiety and dumb ways to deal with it. The third one, doesn't have a name yet, but it's a "hoodtrap", that's more on some gansta shit, produced by me, and co produced by razorz.
thorns of the future: tell us about the riskiest or the dumbest thing you've ever done.
witchita: Trusting the wrong people back in 2018 led me to being in a vulnerable situation, caused me to not have any money for basic needs, damaged relationships with friends and family, not having a stable living situation, I had to crash friends couches, all of this while I was student, luckily enough I hustled enough to get out of that situation with call center jobs and side businesses and I'm okay since late 2020, shit was awful. When I released "untitled" in 2019 I thought I was going to die any day.
thorns of the future: if you could resolve one major problem on earth, what would it be?
witchita: War. I'm in awe that we're getting a genocide basically being streamed in front of our eyes, and no one's doing shit to stop it. I'm as dumb as the next guy about these topics, but I think bombing children is just wrong and evil. Although I don't think this will ever be resolved, we will see wars until the sun explodes.
thorns of the future: what's your favourite song that you produced?
witchita: HUMX, my latest single at the moment, it's a very simple beat that combines those Witch House elements with a Jersey and urban percussions. I've gotten feedback from listeners that this one's their favourite song of mine.
thorns of the future: what software do you use to make your music?
witchita: Ableton and I will never leave it, great for producing, great for playing live, my favourite producers use it, but to each it's own, FL Studio, Logic, even if you only have Bandlab, you can make great music, the goal is to have the purpose to create.
thorns of the future: what's the artist you'd love to collaborate with?
witchita: Like, DREAM collab, shit, Skrillex, 100gecs, besides that, I'm really almost open to collaborate with any artist that it's "outside" the box, that might have some cool or fresh sounds going on.
thorns of the future: what's the artist you'd never like to collaborate with?
witchita: I wouldn't like to collaborate with artists that don't want try to make things a bit differently or that their shit doesn't sound authentic, type beat type of crowd, that make songs like is a recipe, like making 2001's pop punk exactly as it sounded in effing 2001.
thorns of the future: how did you come up with the name for your project?
witchita: The project used to be under the name "Cry Horror" but I started to feel less identified overtime with that name, razorz (aka EPILEPTICS) suggested me to use the name of my first track for the new project name when I started really getting into more urban and hyperpop influence, he also pushed me to really dive in, into producing these type of genres more.
thorns of the future: what is your song "V" about?
witchita: V is a song about how we're all corrupted, it's in our nature, that you shouldn't trust your governments and police.
thorns of the future: tell us about your hobbies.
witchita: I'm always listening to music, or try to educate myself more about the craft, I don't consider it a hobby, but a passion though. I really enjoy watching films, I wish I could draw better, since I believe is a great way to express youself artistically, I really like cooking as well.
thorns of the future: what's your biggest regret?
witchita: I wish I started taking this music shit more seriosuly earlier, when I was young there was a lot of scammy producers that didn't even finished your songs, or delivered super late. I wish I could started recroding and producing myself since I was a teen. I did write songs there but they're lost in my mind or in some lazy ass's PC.
thorns of the future: tell us about your biggest wish when it comes to your music.
witchita: I hope to drop music until I pass, my biggest wish is to keep trying to innovate, to make better songs and to my music to find it's audience, so it can fulfill it's purpose.
we would like to thank witchita for answering all of our questions. we really appreciate you. that's all for now.
images & videos: witchita
spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/artist/4EEA2IvXRTLbllO4FvM0sX
instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/witchitamusic/
hyperfollow:
https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/witchita
peace.
YCH for xwingsoffire & glenopski Glenopski went fishing early in the morning to relax from the bustle of city life. During the process of catching fish he was joined by a dragon otter, which with interest decided to join him. :з
Some development regarding Witchita, both for Clockwork and the preceding comic (soon to be coming, if all goes well) Potions. Whichever belongs to which, you'll have to find out 😉 ~Mod Anon (@the1trueanon)
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