We Have a Technical

On this week's episode, the Senior Staff caught up with JC Lobo of Ritualz at the tail end of a west coast jaunt. JC speaks about Mexico's DIY electronic scene, his personal history with the witch house diaspora, and the importance of sounding "purple"! Also, run-downs of live shows and the unveiling of the triumvirate line-ups of this year's coast-to-coast Cold Waves Festivals on the newest insta...

With 200 episodes in the bag, Alex and Bruce are opting to offer a jumping-on point for first time or recent listeners of We Have A Technical. How has the purview of the podcast changed over the years? What are these two dudes hunched over mics in a Vancouver apartment actually trying to accomplish? Why don't they ever just shut up and play the new Neubauten record? All these questions and so many...

It's the 200th episode of We Have A Technical, and to mark this auspicious occasion Bruce and Alex are putting one of the most celebrated industrial compilations of all time in the spotlight! Ras Dva's "There Is No Time" is remembered and reconsidered by guests Roger Jarvis, Mike Wimer, and Rexx Arkana, who share memories of their contributions to the compilation, its lasting influence, and its la...

A pair of covers records go under the microscope in this week's episode of We Have A Technical! Are Siouxsie & The Banshees' "Through The Looking Glass" and Apootygma Berzerk's "Sonic Diary" well curated taste showcases, self-indulgent exercises, or something else? Plenty of discussion on those topics, plus festival news awaits on this week's episode of We Have A Technical!

On this, our monthly bonus podcast (supported by the good folks over at Patreon.com) we're doing a commentary on High-Functioning Flesh's debut LP "A Unity of Miseries, a Misery of Unities". The band's roots in strict, stripped-down synth-punk as well as the funky future they'd go on to explore are both present in this tightly packed and tense record, so join us as we look back on the mutant weird...

It's a classic format episode of the Internet's favourite industrial navel-gazing podcast: Alex and Bruce are discussing albums by Icon Of Coil and Pouppée Fabrikk, and all of the shifts and changes in industrial sounds and styles pertinent to those bands. Futurepop vs EBM? Game on...sort of. Also, news and updates concerning North American festival announcements on this week's episode of We Have...

On this week's episode of We Have a Technical, Alex and Bruce sit down with Shannon and Jason of Vancouver's Actors. Topics of conversation include their upcoming LP "It Will Come To You", touring and the dangers of post-punk revivalism. Additionally we've got some news regarding the Terminus line-up for 2018, the iVardensphere: Singularity set that went down in Vancouver last week and more! All t...

It's time to dig into the mailbag on the latest episode of We Have A Techincal! Idieyoudie.com's readers and listeners have sent questions which range from the curatorial to the ethical to the decidedly personal. The Senior Staff are taking up each of these questions plus discussing the recent Drew McDowall show on this week's episode of the podcast that Considers Darker Alternatives.

It's another doozy of a Pick Five episode on We Have A Technical! This week, Bruce and Alex are picking "secret weapons" from their DJ arsenals. From swooning chill-outs to ferocious EBM bangers, the Senior Staff are highlighting left field tunes which never miss on the dancefloor. There's also some discussion on the forthcoming Drew MacDowell show, plus an upcoming mailbag episode!

The first LP in the storied and long-standing collaboration between cEvin Key and Edward Ka-Spel gets the blow by blow treatment on this month's episode of We Have A Commentary! Yes, we're talking about The Tear Garden's "Tired Eyes Slowly Burning", and all of the psychedelic ephemera which accompanies it. How did Skinny Puppy's famed brap ethos manifest in Mushroom Studios? Who was wandering in a...

The classic We Have A Technical format gets a nostalgic twist, as Bruce and Alex are each picking gateway records which helped usher them into darker music...even if Fear Factory's "Demanufacture" and The Tea Party's "Splendor Solis" had more in common with metal and blues-rock. How do these tentative first steps into industrial and goth rock hold up more than two decades on? Find out, plus get th...

The broad and gloomy realm of post-punk is the subject of the day on this week's episode of We Have A Technical! From its origins shared with goth and industrial, through the mainstream revival of it in the early aughts, up to the present groundswell in underground post-punk, the Senior Staff are hailing the best and jeering the worst of a nebulous, but often sombre style.

The Senior Staff talk are talking about a pair of hybrid records on this week's episode: the dance/rhythmic noise punch of Memmaker's "How To Enlist In A Robot Uprising" and the futurepop/italodisco confectionary of Syrian's "Death Of A Sun". Also, on a more sombre note, they discuss remembrances of Jeremy Inkel of Left Spine Down and Front Line Assembly after his tragic and all too early passing.

On this episode of We Have a Technical we welcome returning guest Matt Fanale of Caustic. We're always keen to catch up with the Man Who Couldn't Stop about what he's up to, and in this instance we were super interested to hear about what went into his terrific new album "American Carrion". We talk politics, anger, Caustic's place in industrial and a little about hot new beat project Klack, along...

On this month's Patreon-supported bonus podcast, we're discussing the first LP by legendary Belgian dark electro pioneers The Klinik. "Sabotage", the only record to feature the four person line-up of the band is instructive, in that it threads the origins of the group in the wave scene with distinctly industrial aesthetics. We discuss both how it foreshadows The Klinik's later work, and what is sp...

We talk post-2000 Kirlian Camera on the second 2018 episode of We Have a Technical! Yes, Bruce and Alex chew over what exactly Elena brought to the table and how it changed KC, along with Angelo's enduring lyrical themes and how regal and magesterial the band has become over their last four albums. Where else are you gonna find that kind of discussion? 

Back in action, the Senior Staff return from the holidays refreshed and ready to talk about the releases which lie just ahead in the early months of 2018, plus some family friendly faves they like to spin around the holidays. It's 2018, and I Die: You Die's champing at the bit!

Our annual off-topic podcast lands with a resounding thud, as the Senior Staff chatter endlessly about working at bars, Rupaul's Drag Race, pro-wrestling and more! Yes, you'll thrill to lengthy anecdotes that go nowhere and hideously uncomfortable recollections of Dean Koontz novels as Bruce and Alex finish their year in a haze of nonsense with none of the incisive commentary or trenchant insight...

On this very special (?!) double length We Have a Commentary Bruce and Alex tackle "Random", 1997's hit and miss tribute to Gary Numan. You ever wonder what our thoughts are on bands as diverse as The Rentals, EMF, Jesus Jones and The Orb are? Find out as we struggle for two hours to make sense of electronica, the British music press and the enduring influence of Uncle Gary. 

The capper on our year end coverage is here, as our two tired hosts give a few final thoughts on our favourite albums of 2017, talk some honourable mentions and also discuss recent nonsense with Patreon. Do you like episodes heavily edited because we made a lot of mistakes because we were tired and drunk? Then this is the episode of We Have a Technical, the idieyoudie.com podcast for you! Giddy up...

The Senior Staff sit down with Danish-Canadian synth artist Sally Dige to talk about life in Berlin and the astonishingly dense compositional process underlying her excellent new record "Holding On". There's some consideration of the function and execution of writing about records to boot as we head towards our Year End coverage at I Die: You Die.

A philosophically ambitious record from Laibach and a record from Odonis Odonis which reinterprets the legacy of industrial rock make up the bulk of this week's episode of We Have A Technical. How does the NSK take up the theme of the Ubermensch? Have Odonis Odonis been researching jungle? Find out all of that, plus the scoop on the current Gary Numan tour on the latest episode of We Have A Techni...

The Senior Staff are playing pre-emptove year's end catch up by discussing recent records by Godflesh and Lionhearts. From grinding industrial metal threshers to the elegantly tasteful vocal stylings of Frank Spinath, it's a gamut-running episode of We Have A Technical, with some anticipatory discussion of the Vancouver appearance of the site's namesake, Mr. Gary Numan, to boot.

In this week's episode of the podcast, the Senior Staff are investigating the breadth and resonance of instrumental music in the broader post-industrial milieu. Whether it's noise which rejects any semblance of legibility, the specific genres which have developed to conjure moods without words, or bands having dalliances with instrumentals, it's all being talked about in this chin-stroking episode...

On this supporter-selected commentary podcast, Bruce and Alex are discussing the enduring appeals of Collide's sophomore record, "Chasing The Ghost". The nexus of goth and industrial, the import of Statick's engineering chops, and the elegance of kaRin's vocal restraint are just some of the topics covered. It's time to get down to one of the grooviest darkwave records of all time on this month's W...