We Have a Technical

We're back to our not-quite live broadcast after a couple weeks of canned episodes! Alex is back from Italy and we're hitting the ground running with a conversation with legendary designer Steven R. Gilmore! The man behind countless Nettwerk sleeves for Skinny Puppy, The Tear Garden, Images In Vogue and plenty of others is here to give us the stories and method behind many of your favourite record...

On yet another slightly shorter episode (only slightly though!) Alex and Bruce take a suggestion from the Mailbag and do a Pick 5 feature on their favourite packaging. What labels get the most love for their fancy format and cool design? You'll have to listen to these two guys yammer on at length to find out! All this week on We Have a Technical, the I Die: You Die podcast. 

In this pre-recorded and slightly appended episode of the podcast, the I Die: You Die Senior Staff spin off from last week's episode about neo-oldschool EBM with some talk about Nexus Kenosis and The Pain Machinery. That and actually only a tiny bit more, this week on We Have a Technical! 

It's a roots-EBM episode of the podcast this week. Old-school, anhalt, traditional, whatever you want to call it, it's big in Europe with guys with Guile Mohawks, and we're here to talk about it. Put on a black singlet and some combat pants, crack a tallboy of lager, and settle in with this week's episode of We Have A Technical.

This episode's offering nothing short of a Masterclass in recording and production from Réal Cardinal of Comaduster! Réal delineates a lot of the terms we tend to throw around indiscriminately while writing about music, and walks us through the processes of creating electronic music well beyond just "writing" it. All this week on We Have a Technical, the I Die: You Die podcast! 

It's a grab bag episode this week, as Bruce and Alex tackle topics wide and far-reaching: recent shows, the changing realities of accessing music files, the much-ballyhooed Black Queen record, Laibach's troll-heavy (or not?) endorsement of boomer rock, and some listener questions all make it into this beggar's banquet which is the newest episode of We Have A Technical.

The Senior Staff return to the popular full-album commentary format! This time, it's Wolfsheim's 1999 breakthrough LP "Spectators" which is getting the deluxe treatment. The album's distinction from Wolfsheim's existing discography and contemporary dance floors, its catapulting of Peter Heppner to mainstream stardom in Germany and so much more are discussed on the newest episode of We Have A Techn...

The Senior Staff are back to their classic two albums format on this episode of We Have A Technical, with records by Daniel Myer's Clear Vision project and Christian Death. The year's first festival announcements and new releases are also kicked about as We Have A Technical begins to properly dig into 2016.

This week, like everyone else, Bruce and Alex are talking about David Bowie. They do their best to draw lines between his work and goth and industrial, but like Bowie himself, a discussion of his influence can't be tied to just one or two points. Lotsa talk about Outside, the Berlin records and so much more on this episode of We Have a Technical. 

To kick off 2016, Bruce and Alex each pick five things they'd like to see in the year ahead. New albums, trends, reissues, it's all fair game as the Senior Staff dig into the new year with all the gusto you've come to expect from the official I Die: You Die podcast! 

In our yearly off topic episode Bruce and Alex pay homage to Lemmy by drinking an ocean of Jack and Cokes. Some discussion of books, pro wrestling and non-scene music is also had. It's pretty long, and meanders a lot, and both hosts are pretty drunk by the end of it. It's probably not that great? You be the judge! 

Bruce and Alex take a final look back at the trends and topics of 2015 and send last minute shout outs to some overlooked LPs on this episode of We Have A Technical, the penultimate of the year! 

With the blog's Top 25 Records of 2015 list published, Alex and Bruce look at some honourable mentions and notable reissues, and give some thought to the ins and outs of what does and doesn't fall within the purview of niche music writing. It's a sober second look at the year that was, just before 2015 gets rung out in a far more inebriated style on the latest episode of We Have A Technical.

On this episode of the podcast, the Senior Staff takes up the question of the label's role in 2025. Curation, distribution, legacies: what can labels do for fans and bands in the digital age? That and more on this week's episode of We Have a Technical, the official I Die: You Die podcast. 

Alex and Bruce each offer takes on a pair of electo-industrial records from the mid-aughts, and respond to some of the blowback from last week's discussion of Front 242.

Alex and Bruce return to the Pick Five format to discuss "difficult" music of all stripes and sizes, and talk through the issues pertaining to industrial-esque artists who've received mainstream plaudits, all on this episode of the official I Die: You Die podcast. 

Alex and Bruce offer up 2 for 1 interviews this week as photographer Jill Grant and Gregg McGillivray of Urusai stop by for some chats. They also touch on the ever-present controversies surrounding Death In June as the band embarks on a North American tour.

Bruce and Alex are joined by Michael Arthur Holloway of Dead When I Found Her. New album "All The Way Down"'s connections to end of life care, the history of sampling in industrial music, and plenty more are taken up in the latest episode of the idieyoudie.com podcast!

This week on We Have a Technical, Bruce and Alex go on at length about the club scene as it pertains to Our Thing. Changes in the music, style of promotion, the role of attendees, DJs, owners and the social incentives for going out dancing (and drinking!) are explored in the patented style of this, the official I Die: You Die podcast! 

Bruce and Alex flip through the Rolodex for the 75th episode of We Have a Technical and have eleven friends of the podcast drop in to comment on albums they hold near and dear to their hearts. Special Appearances by Matt Fanale of Caustic, Adam Williams of amodelofcontrol.com, Ned Ragget, Kathleen Chausse, Rexx Arkana of FGFC820, Sara Taylor of Youth Code, Eric Gottesman of Everything Goes Cold, W...

On this episode of the official (accept no substitutes) podcast of Spoopoween, the Senior Staff of I Die: You Die talk to industrial podcast OG DJ Todd of Real Synthetic Audio! Topics include the history of RSA, the role of the DJ in the club and on the internet and changes we've seen in the last 15 plus years in the game. Also some chat about the recently announced Swans reissues, our regular rec...

On this episode of the official I Die: You Die podcast, Bruce and Alex give some thought to the great beyond with a discussion of the pragmatics and ethics of posthumous releases.

Alex and Bruce take a look at the paths carved out by two bands they've been tracking for the past few years - Terminal Gods and Mircalla - and cut through the hype surrounding the new New Order LP on the latest episode of We Have A Technical!

Bruce and Alex run through all of the recent goings on in Chicago for Cold Waves and in LA for Front 242. But the Industrial Summer Camp madness doesn't stop there! Kathleen Chausse drops by to talk about the Voidstar festival happening this weekend in Boston!

On this episode of We Have A Technical, Bruce and Alex field questions from listeners, ranging from the function and quality of lyrics to their preferred shooter recipes! It's an all request, all mailbag episode of the world's spoopiest industrial podcast.