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Breakcore: 0M01D3*J3W37RYYY - Burn the Witch (2023)

66 / 100
A short, raw burst of breakcore energy with typical noise aesthetics. Not essential, but a nostalgic relic worth preserving for underground digital history.
The digital era brings conveniences that physical releases don’t have like saving space and being portable, but that doesn’t mean it’s absolutely superior. Both are equally perishable: they can be damaged, lost, or deleted. In fact, digital files are even easier to erase, and that’s exactly what happens to countless digital releases, especially from underground and independent artists. Their existence and disappearance are often known only to a handful of people.

One such case is a noise/breakcore project called Omoide*Jewelry or known as 0M0ID3*J3W37RYYY. The main Bandcamp page has completely vanished—including the single Burn the Witch—leaving only fragments in a few compilations and split albums, such as 0m0id3/dgty. Even though they won’t be remembered by many, proof of their existence can still be seen on Rate Your Music (RYM).

Burn the Witch is a two-track single with a total runtime of only 3 minutes, released on November 23, 2023. The album cover clearly reflects typical noise/breakcore aesthetics: a mix of gore, filthy imagery, pornographic elements, and two anime characters: Celestia Ludenberg from Danganronpa and a figure resembling Ritsu Tainaka from K-ON!. Judging from the landscape version of the cover file name, Celestia seems to be the creator’s favorite or waifu.

“High School” opens the single with what sounds like a volume swell effect that goes up then down, followed by glitchy, rapid, technical breakcore-style beats. It uses stereo effects and pitched-up samples from another song, fitting the genre’s hallmark. However, I couldn’t identify the source track used.

The second track, “BBGGMM,” is fully instrumental, so nothing stands out besides the louder volume compared to the first track, resulting in clearer noise from reverb/clipping effects and continuous scratching-like sounds throughout.

Even though Burn the Witch can no longer be easily found online, the single doesn’t leave a strong impression musically, but it remains a personal memory for me. Honestly, something like this deserves archival efforts, either by spreading it on social media or uploading it to the Internet Archive, so it doesn’t fade completely into oblivion.

Thank you for the works, 0M0ID3*J3W37RYYY!
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