After the excellent “Airmech” soundtrack, it seemed like we had a revitalized Front Line Assembly on our hands. The band went into the studio again to work on a new “proper” FLA album, and now we’re getting close to the result. Bill Leeb, Jeremy Inkel, Jared Slingerland and newcomers Craig Johnsen and Sasha Keevil all seem very excited by this release they’re calling “Echogenetic”, and are aiming for a July release. [more...]
Around 2005 I was really bored with electronic music. Nothing was new and exciting anymore and I just felt a need to explore and to find something new, something that reminded me of why I once became an electronic music fan. I discovered the New York based label Minimal Wave, which started to release old obscure tapes and giving them new life on thick vinyl. [more...]
According to a recent video where Vince Clarke interviews Andy Bell (“The Small Chair Interview”), the synthpop duo is working on a Christmas album due out this winter. They’re currently holed up in Vince’s studio in Brooklyn, New York, where they’ve been working on both their own Christmas songs, and some Christmas standards.
Sebastian Rutgersson and Peter Engström are so far perhaps more known under their 047 alias where they play a mix of synthpop and bitpop. Now they’ve started Hjärta (means heart in Swedish). [more...]
Bloc festival earlier this year announced 10 shows at a converted warehouse in East London, their first shows since the problems of the ill-fated Bloc Weekend 2012. [more...]
As part of their 25th anniversary, the seminal ambient electronic band The Orb, performed live at Brixton Electric in London this past weekend. The current incarnation – Alex Paterson and Thomas Fehlmann – performed a set of highlights from their first 2 albums “Adventures from Beyond the Ultraworld” and “U.F.Orb”. [more...]
Depeche Mode plan winter leg as we speak
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The winter leg of Depeche Mode’s “Delta Machine Tour” is taking shape as we speak. So far, the following dates have been released:
Belfast (November 11), Dublin (November 9), Amsterdam (December 7), Oslo (December 13) and Lodz (February 24). [more...]
Electronic Summer program complete
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Eddie & Marina (Page and more), Tyske Ludder and Mr Jones Machine grab the 3 last spots on the Electronic Summer festival line-up. [more...]
The Flow Festival will be headlined by, amongst others, Kraftwerk, Grimes, Blixa Bargeld, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds and The Knife. The festival takes place in Helsinki, Finland, on August 7-11.
Brooklyn based label The End Records has just announced the signing of the legendary dark rock band The Mission UK. A new album and tour are expected.
