We Have a Technical

Bruce and Alex do one of their semi-regular jaw sessions with a selection of Patreon Supporters about albums of their choosing! In this batch we discuss Winterkälte, The Echoing Green, Zebra Katz and Iszoloscope, and what the specific album selection means to the friend of the site who chose it. Lotsa chatter, all this week on We Have a Technical! 

We've said this before, but you'd be hard-pressed to explain to your Skynard-loving uncle what the two records up for discussion on this week's episode of We Have A Technical have in common. Katscan's 2005 Weapons Of Crass Dysfunction and Sad Lovers And Giants' E-Mail From Eternity are a yobbing electrogoth kiss-off and a fan-curated trove of deep cut post-punk gems, respectively, but Bruce and Al...

The dreamy, high-camp Edwardian gothic of The Damned's Phantasmagoria is the subject of this month's podcast. What happens when one of the UK's most beloved punk acts steers itself right towards the gloomier sounds which they've always skirted? How many baby-bats experienced a sexual awakening to the "Shadow Of Love" video? Does lamping around with The Young Ones make you more like The Cramps or T...

In an age in which music is digital and albums are increasingly ephemeral, surely record art doesn't matter anymore, right? Dead frigging wrong. The Senior Staff discuss the changing role and value of album art in the digital age on this week's episode of the podcast, tracking how artists and labels continue to tap into symbolic codes and create their own micro-scenes via visual aesthetics.

It's a cosmic dyad of a podcast episode this week, as the Senior Staff go space trucking with Kangarot and Negative Format for their respective Nursery Of New Stars and Distant Pulses LPs. Both records address space as a theme, but as is discussed the execution of Kangarot's lo-fi kosmische electro-industrial and Negative Format's smooth combo of trance and breaks are quite distinct. All that plus...

We're joined by renaissance woman Andi Harriman to talk about DJing during quarantine and her new EP for aufnahme + wiedergabe, Corpse To Corpus . How do you heat the floor when it's spread across multiple time zones? What might a more feminine approach to EBM sound like? And do real goths love freestyle? All of these questions and so many more are discussed on the latest episode of We Have A Tech...

As an incidental observation of Canada Day, the Senior Staff are selecting a pair of albums from above the 49th to discuss: Volt 9000's Mutronix and Decree's Fateless . Representing some of the lesser celebrated sides of Canuckistan industrial, we have Cory Gorski's satirical journey through bio-punk dystopias and Chris Peterson & co.'s absolutely churning and punishing demonstration of fully text...

The absolute stone classic that is Leaether Strip's Solitary Confinement is given the commentary treatment in this month's installment of the Patreon-back We Have A Commentary series. The sound of 90s dark electro was established with this LP, but there's so much more to love and discuss about Claus Larsen's exploration of spiritual and psychological alienation and the horrors of war. The Senior S...

It's turned into an accidentally synthpunk-themed week here at I Die: You Die, and in keeping with that we're looking at two albums proximal to the sounds we normally discuss on the podcast, but that made inroads into goth/industrial club play in the early '00s: The Faint's Danse Macabre and The Vanishing's Still Lifes Are Failing . All that plus catch-up on the third Telekompilation release and s...

With the 'teens in the rearview, the Senior Staff are reflecting on the club tracks which defined the past decade. We're each picking five great club tracks from 2011-2020. Not our faves or personal go-tos, mind you, but the nigh-ubiquitous tracks that shaped the last ten years of life in dark clubs. In addition, we're introducing the third volume of our Telekompilation series of releases featurin...

Bruce and Alex are talking about records by Light Asylum and The Final Cut on this week's episode of the podcast. Topics include Shannon Funchess' ability to move between countless moods and genres and the pioneering techno-industrial programming of Jeff Mills. All that plus some continuing discussion of Black artists within Our Thing in light of ongoing events, on the latest edition of We Have A...

We're taking a break from our usual episode formats to speak with Danesha Artis of Standard Issue Citizen and Jairus Khan of Ad·ver·sary and Antigen Shift. We wanted to hear their thoughts on race and anti-racist work as it relates to industrial culture and music at this particular point in history, and thank them for joining us on short notice to speak on what can be difficult and painful topics.

For this month's Patreon-backed commentary podcast, the Senior Staff are looking 2015's Night Maze . Glass Apple Bonzai's sophomore record simultaneously demonstrates Daniel Belasco's talents for precise and minimal synthpop arrangements and melodies and his ability to flesh out and enlarge the scope of his music with his vocal talents. Add in a well-executed theme throughout the record and you ha...

Long-time pal and frequent guest Brian Graupner is dropping by ID:UD HQ this week...although he's not here to talk about The Gothsicles. Nope, the man behind the scene's premiere industrial comedy act has a lot of other irons in the fire, including his Gasoline Invertebrate project, the eerily prescient Space Couch streaming show, and his label endeavours via Tigersquawk Records. We're talking abo...

A new record by Einsturzende Neubauten is always cause for celebration and discussion, and so the Senior Staff are using this week's podcast to examine "Alles In Allem". A record that's approachable even by the standards of contemporary Neubauten releases, it has its pros and cons but ultimately reminds us of why the German godfathers of industrial remain so compelling to us.

There's very little that binds the two albums we're discussing on the latest podcast. The downtempo dark ambient slash rhythmic industrial of Tzolk'in's "Haab" and Cure-indebted post-punk act Veil Veil Vanish's sole LP "Change In The Neon Light" have likely never been mentioned in the same breath, but the Senior Staff are noting some of the subtle shading that comes with deep genre work in both re...

Few acts have been as aesthetically or technologically prepared for the weird new era of streaming concerts as Panther Modern. After an incredibly immersive and groundbreaking livestream performance, we got on the line with Brady of Panther Modern to discuss the future of altered reality performances, the project's roots in cyberpunk, and how to make a virtue of virtuality.    

The two albums format yields discussion of some sophisticated and slightly low-key European releases on this week's podcast. The charms of Melotrons's "Sternenstaub" and Cryo's "Hidden Aggression" are examined by the Senior Staff, alongside some impressive live streaming sets from Mr. Kitty and Panther Mordern (good week for cat-related acts, we guess). All that and plenty more jackassery on the l...

An inversion of the traditional Pick Five format has the Senior Staff firing hypothetical situations to each other to find out what sort of Choose Your Own Adventure path they'd elect to go down...all with an industrial flavour, of course. Whether it's a Sophie's Choice or a lesser of two (or more) evils, Bruce and Alex are putting the screws to one another to find out how they'd react under press...

1985's "Halber Mensch" was a watershed moment for Einsturzende Neubauten, with the industrial legends expanding their creative vision beyond noise and performance to embrace composition and rich lyrical themes. It's the subject of this month's We Have A Commentary podcast, as chosen by the same Patreon backers who made this episode possible. The Senior Staff consider the emergence of Blixa Bargeld...

The two album's format has the Senior Staff traversing the rather broad gap betwixt aggrotech and minimal synth as records from Tactical Sekt and Snowy Red are discussed on the latest episode of We Have A Technical. We've also got all the hot, cold, and lukewarm news concerning Neubauten, Puppy, and Consolidated for you this week.      

The legendary Henrik Nordvargr Björkk joins the podcast to discuss Pouppée Fabrikk's fantastic new raw EBM LP, "Armén". Björkk's work across a wide swath of dark genres is also discussed, as are his thoughts on the history and present state of EBM. The Senior Staff are also pitching in their two cents on the EBM/Industrial "Blind Test" that's been sweeping the internet on the latest episode of We...

The arrival of two new Nine Inch Nails "Ghosts" releases amidst all of the chaos and confusion seems telling. The Senior Staff are discussing the ins and outs of Ross & Reznor's new instrumental releases insofar as they relate to the still-shifting legacy of NIN as an entity as well as the uncertainty we're all living with. All that plus some discussion of how you can help out artists in Our Thing...

It's a real mix of the bitter and the sweet on this week's episode of the podcast. The passings of Gabi Delgado and Bill Rieflin sent shockwaves through the industrial world which are still being felt. But on a more positive tip, the Senior Staff are doing a Pick Five episode which focuses on pick me ups: tracks which never fail to improve one's mood      

Amidst all of the broader chaos and confusion, a pioneer in industrial music passed away this last week. Bruce and Alex are joined by Alex Reed to discuss the life and legacy of Genesis P-Orridge on this week's podcast. Gen's wide ranging and hugely influential body of work, and at times deeply troubling life, are considered in a round table episode which tries to avoid reductive hagiography or ca...