We Have a Technical

The 301st episode of We Have A Technical finds Bruce and Alex returning to the classic two albums format, and between LPs by The Phantom Limbs and Stendeck they're reaching into about as disparate genres ID:UD covers. We're also catching up with all of the live biz that's been happening in Van.

The 300th episode of We Have A Technical finds Alex and Bruce digging into the pre-history of I Die: You Die. What club trends were popping off in the mid aughts? What would have the site's top records if it had been founded a few years earlier? Tune in and find out if Episode 300 goes "Just Like You Imagined". (That's a very relevant and contemporary joke about the "300" trailer, if you didn't ca...

A monumental album celebrating its 20th anniversary is the subject of this month's Patreon supported commentary podcast. "Empires" helped to establish futurepop as a major force in the history of industrial music, but it's so much more. Alex and Bruce consider the metaphysical and political themes of the record, its deployment of trance sounds, and its enduring emotional impact on the latest We Ha...

EPs or LPs? Brevity or Loquaciousness? Fun-size or Full Meal Deal? We're discussing the pros and cons of short and long form releases in connection with Our Thing on this week's episode of We Have A Technical. Plus, we try to deal with the unstoppable torrent of tour announcements which threaten to annihilate all of our bank accounts.  

The classic two albums format of the I Die: You Die podcast yields discussion of the first Dead When I Found Her LP and a distinctly European "Moonraker" compilation. How has Michael Arthur Holloway negotiated his debt to Skinny Puppy while developing his own style? How do European taxonomies of "wave" translate to a couple of North American listeners? The Senior Staff dog into these topics while...

The millenial (and curiously continental) stylings of US electro act cut.rate.box are discussed on this week's episode of We Have A Technical. We also have a healthy helping of our mailbag to work through, and loads of live news. Tell your friends in the Stonecutters: this is a real royal sampler of an episode of the IDieYouDie.com podcast!

Mailbag time! Yep, we're crowdsourcing this week's episode of We Have A Technical, having asked folks to fire in queries both glib and philosophical dealing with the past and future of Our Thing. Which bands are being overlooked? Which side projects do we miss? And which pro wrestlers are fake goths? All that plus Cold Waves news on the new episode of the idieyoudie.com podcast!

Two classic 90s records on deck in this week's episode of the official podcast, in the form of Cubanate's "Cyberia" and Clan Of Xymox's "Hidden Faces". State of the art rage and finely crafted darkwave from a few decades on as we look backward on  each act and where the albums fit into their legacy. 

For the first We Have a Commentary of 2020, we're digging in on a genre classic that is both representative and wildly divergent from its parent discography; namely Fad Gadget's "Gag"! Thrill to the Senior Staff discussing themes and ideas in Frank Tovey's work, how his final FG LP cinches his status as an all-timer and lots of talk about what a smart producer and performer he was. 

Industrial music is often tagged as being angry or aggressive, but what does that actually mean? How does aggression manifest in different sub-genres? How do dancing, gender, and lyrics factor in? All these big questions plus some discussion of the ongoing Ministry debacle on this week's episode of We Have A Technical  

A rare Vancouver snow storm has the Senior Staff separated in meatspace, but that doesn't stop the podcastin'. Records turning twenty this year are on the table, with In Strict Confidence's Love Kills! and The Echoing Green's Supernova . There's also plenty of talk about the major North American tour announcements from both Ministry and Einsturzende Neubauten on this week's episode of the Internet...

Back in action in 2020 and back to Thursdays, it's the first We Have A Technical of the year! The Senior Staff are each picking five things they're looking forward to in the year ahead. Live events, release trends, new records: find out what's (likely) on the road ahead!  

Your boys Alex and Bruce find themselves at the end of a long grind of Year End coverage plus a slew of pre-recorded podcasts to last over the break...and are keen to talk about pretty much anything OTHER than darker alternatives. Yep, it's the annual Off Topic podcast here at We Have A Commentary, featuring all of the banter about comics, movies, life, books, whisky, watches, and pro wrestling wh...

Hot on the heels of our traditional Year End Top 25, the Senior Staff chops up their choices, talks some honourable mentions and ruminates on the year that was 2019. Insights into our review process, whether our mode of thinking about what constitutes an eligible release is still valid and various statistics from the last nine years of the exercise are discussed, dissected and eventually discarded...

On the last standard issue podcast of the year, we're picking two 90s goth records by female fronted acts...who couldn't really be further apart other than those characteristics. The first record from Faithful Dawn lays down the template for the oft-forgotten electrogoth subgenre, and Miranda Sex Garden's most well-recognized LP points to intersections with broader 90s alt music as well as experim...

We've got an autobiographical-cum-historical Pick Five for you folks this week. What records took a while to reveal their charms to us? Which LPs were we either too provincial or too snobby to enjoy in their own time? We'll fill you in on that plus a recent show from Hide on the latest episode of We Have A Technical!

This month's WHaC is a brief but absolutely frantic run through the roller coaster of emotions, impossibly catchy hooks, and grandiose symphonic ambitions of Kite's 2011 release, "IV". The Swedish duo have transcended synthpop both in terms of sound and reach, and their fourth EP acts nexus of all their sounds and moods, and is also an ideal jumping on point. Whether you're as much in thrall of th...

It's November of 2019, and even if we're not in Los Angeles you'd better believe we're not missing the opportunity to discuss Blade Runner, arguably the film with the most influence on industrial music and culture. Which samples work and which don't? How does Chew's Eye Shop relate to William Burroughs' control machines? We have all the Blade Runner-themed industrial pontificating you never knew y...

We got a classic two album podcast for you this week, with the Senior Staff discussing the baroque technoid elegance of Architect's "Consume Adapt Create" and the chill genre pastiche of Snow In China's "Electromensch". Also: Brazilian drag queen covers of Front 242? We have you covered on the latest episode of We Have A Technical!

Navel gazing ahoy! Our recent forays into both digital and physical releases, as well as recent discussion of high-level physical reissues, has us considering the distinctions between physical and digital releases in Our Thing. Nostalgia, economics, collecting and archiving are all taken up, along with some discussion of recent sets from Physical Wash and Statiqbloom on the lastest episode of We H...

You couldn't find records much further apart from one another in terms of mood than Aghast View's "Carcinopest" and Displacer's "Cage Fighter's Lullaby", but that's what we're working with on this week's episode of We Have A Technical. Deep genre electro-indistrial and fluidlly warming downtempo? We have you covered, along with some talk about recent Legendary Pink Dots shows and FLA reissues.

The Senior Staff have seen a hell of a lot of scene bands in their time, but even they still have their bucket list bands. This week, they're picking five acts they'd still love to see live, as well as introducing not one, but two new musical releases coming soon from the ID:UD camp. Exciting times lie ahead! Fins out all about then on this week's episode of We Have A Technical!