We Have a Technical

This week on our official I Die: You Die podcast, we chat with returning guest Matt Fanale of Caustic about crowdfunding. We got the do's, the don'ts, the goods, the bads and yeah, the do it as long as you can get away with its straight from the wild frontier of money wrangling in the wild and wooly landscape of 21st century music. All that and lots more on this episode of the best goth and indust...

Our experiment with running the podcast as a weekly venture continues, as we talk to New York/New Orleans goth-pop duo Azar Swan. On the heels of their latest, percussion-laden LP And Blow Us A Kiss and a vinyl reissue of debut Dance Before The War , Josh Strawn and Zohra Atash are getting prepped to play at this year's instalment of Terminus, so the timing seemed perfect to sit down and have a ch...

We're back with another jam-packed episode of We Have A Technical! Alex and Bruce are doing a few new things on this episode, from field testing a new feature (Lists! Drafts! Swerves!) to dropping some news regarding the future programming of this here podcastery. We're also responding to some listener questions, and giving a sneak peak (and possibly world premiere?) of the brand spankin' new mind...

On this episode of the OFFICIAL idieyoudie.com podcast Bruce and Alex discuss a record by Die Form and the Swans side-project Skin/World of Skin. Also some chitter chatter about upcoming shows, the first announcements for festival season, some amusing anecdotes and Vampire: The Masquerade. This is one of those kitchen sink kind of episodes, so strap in, we talk fast and get very excited. 

On this album commentary podcast Alex and Bruce discuss the legacy of :wumpscut:'s classic album "Bunkertor 7" on the occasion of its twentieth anniversary. How has Rudy Ratzinger's third LP held up within the :wumpscut: catalog, and what is its place within broader industrial history? Proceed, gentle listener.

On this episode of the official I Die: You Die podcast Alex and Bruce chat with Sara and Ryan from Youth Code! Topics include the deliciousness of coffee, the enduring radness of :Wumpscut: and what the future holds for YC now that they've completed a tour with Skinny Puppy and Front Line Assembly. Industrial fans buckle up, this is one hell of a convo! 

On the first episode of We Have a Technical for 2015 Bruce and Alex talk about expectations, hopes, dreams and wishes for the year to come. We also discuss some recent gigs we attended and some ol' nonsense that went down in Our Thing while we were on vacay. You like industrial, goth rock, all the jazz? Face it tiger, you just hit the jackpot! 

Alex and Bruce got drunk after finishing their year end coverage and recorded this interstitial episode of the podcast. We don't talk about new music much, it's more just wrestling, comics, TV whatever. It might be terrible, we don't know. 

Bruce and Alex stumble across the finish line of I Die: You Die's Year End coverage, drunk and exhausted. We talk our top 25 of 2014, the recent amazing shows we've seen from Haujobb, Skinny Puppy, Front Line Assembly and Author & Punisher and a few other topics related to industrial and related musics. 

In this episode of We Have a Technical, Bruce and Alex listen to and comment on Apoptygma Berzerk's futurepop classic "Welcome to Earth". Thrill to our take on a 15 year old record as we excorcise our feelings about one of the seminal EBM acts' pinnacle moments and try to figure out exactly what it means in the here and now. 

On this episode of the I Die: You Die podcast Bruce and Alex talk about darkwave: its origins, its definition, and a bunch of bands that fall under its aegis; Switchblade Symphony, Xymox, Kirlian Camera, and many many more! 

On this episode of We Have a Technical, we bro down with Michael and Wes from the delightful Talking to Ghosts podcast. We discuss their goals with TTG, their music projects [product] and reakt[ion] and a couple of albums we're all high on right now. It's a regular bropocalypse now up in the internet's finest industrial and related musics podcast, as hosted by Alex and Bruce from I Die: You Die! 

On this extremely rambly episode of We Have a Technical Alex and Bruce have a jaw with Vancouver ex-pat Jack Duckworth of Soft Riot. It's a fun conversation sandwiched between a lot of blather about Spotify, records we're enjoying and a lot of other nonsense that will undoubtedly test your patience.   

On this episode of We Have a Technical Alex and Bruce revisit the format that time forgot, namely the discussion of two recent albums. This time out it's a proto-EBM excursion from Henrikk Björk Nordvargr of Poupée Fabrikk fame and the latest from long-running German conceptual synthpop project Welle:Erdball. We also chat about how much you would have to pay us never to hear songs we like ever aga...

Bruce and Alex record a commentary track for the Crow Soundtrack. That's right, the good, the bad and the ugly of everyone's favourite goth-alternative soundtrack of the 1990s. Thrill to the anecdotes about The Cure and My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult, listen to us bury For Love Not Lisa and marvel at how much two nerds have to say about Machines of Loving Grace. 

Bruce returns to the official I Die: You Die podcast! We talk about his travels in the British isles (and seeing Kate Bush), get excited for Cold Waves and then chat about some of the rad dark music happening in Vancouver like Koban, Spectres and Animal Bodies! 

Alex takes the easy way out and assembles a clip show comprised from the first two episodes of the podcast, never before available on iTunes! Take a trip into the distant past of 2013 as we discuss Mr. Kitty, Freezepop, Distorted Memory and Derniere Volonte! Thrill to the garbage production values of our earliest efforts! Marvel at how many times a grown man can say "uh" in the course of a short i...

Matt Fanale of Caustic joins Alex for this episode of the Official I Die: You Die podcast as we discuss Chicago's Cold Waves III! We even get on the horn with fest organizer Dave Schock and Bruce calls in from Scotland so we can chit chat about his adventures and the pitfalls of organizing a fest! This is a long one, so strap yourselves in and get ready for that sweet industrial gold! 

With Bruce away, Alex is joined by Réal Cardinal of Comaduster to discuss the history of the project, his process, how he approaches remixes and what he's up to post the release of his excellent 2013 LP "Hollow Worlds". 

Alex and Bruce get drunk and do a running commentary on Front 242's Headhunter 2000. It gets kind of gnarly, so sit back, crack a beer and let the dulcet sounds of the official I Die: You Die podcast (www.idieyoudie.com) carry you away on wings of drunken blabbering. 

In this installment of the official www.idieyoudie.com podcast Bruce and Alex talk about how much fun they had at Terminus Festival in Calgary, chat with friend of the site Eric Gottesman about the new album from his band Everything Goes Cold and reminisce about the first three years of ID:UD. 

In this episode of the official I Die: You Die podcast Bruce and Alex discuss a special number (seriously) and talk to Michael Treveloni of Alter Der Ruine about the band's upcoming album! 

Bruce and Alex do a final AFTERMATH decompression before diving into the amazing line-up of Calgary's Terminus Festival, including an interview with organizer Chris Hewitt! 

Alex and Bruce get pranked by Volt 9000 and chat Ottawa industrial (including Encephalon, Apriorism, and Wychdoktor) on this pre-AFTERMATH episode of the official I Die: You Die podcast!

In this episode of the official I Die: You Die podcast Daniel X Belasco joins Alex and Bruce to talk about his new album as Glass Apple Bonzai. Plus the guys talk some lost Vancouver records and a little Ashbury Heights!