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Orbital to reform November 28, 2008 | By: Mike Whyte (London, UK) Seminal electronic music pioneers Orbital are to headline The Big Chill 2009, with the Hartnoll brothers reforming for what will be their first live show together in more than five years. The festival, which will be held between August 7 and 9 next year, promises to be a fine event, with the Orbital boys having provided some of the greatest live electronic sets in recent memory, especially on the festival stage. Although little is known about what they intend to play in their set, it should be fair to guess that there will be room for some of their classics, namely "Belfast", "Chime" and "The Box". It is also pretty sure to guess that we will see the return of the famed "torch glasses", implements which were highlighted in arguably their greatest performances, the now legendary Glastonbury sets. Expect much more to come from this event as the other acts slowly get announced. The Knife writes opera music November 27, 2008 | By: Mikael Kahrle (Gothenburg, Sweden)
We hear that The Knife's Olof Dreijer is currently recording sounds from fishes in the Amazonas. Why? He, and Karin Dreijer Andersson have been working on music for a new opera since last spring. Danish Hotel Pro Forma's "Tomorrow in a Year", which will have its premiere in September 2009, is connected to the 150 year anniversary of Charles Darwin's "The Origin of the Species". Recoil: racing music? November 27, 2008 | By: Mikael Kahrle (Gothenburg, Sweden)
Sequences from three Recoil tracks are included in the "Need for Speed - Undercover" game, released one week ago. In the game, you can become an undercover police officer venturing into the criminal underground of the fictional "Tri-City". Twice a Man release "Slow Swirl" on CD November 27, 2008 | By: Mikael Kahrle (Gothenburg, Sweden)
Twice a Man are currently involved in two theatre plays. Their latest theatre-commission "Om kärleken" (About Love) premiered one week ago at Hallands Teater in Varberg, Sweden. In the spring, it will go on tour. Twice a Man have also made music and video for "Drottningens juvelsmycke" at The Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm. The last performances are in December. Leather Strip plan for concerts November 26, 2008 | By: Mikael Kahrle (Gothenburg, Sweden)
We organised one of few live concerts with Danish EBM project Leather Strip in the mid-90:s. We brought Claus Larsen and his crew over from Aalborg not far from Gothenburg. After years off the roads, Claus Larsen is finally considering playing live again in 2009, on smaller venues, starting with one show in Denmark. – I need to do it on my terms totally because of my health issues. I will perform all I possibly can live and I will also involve some improvisation and stuff, because most of my songs are very vocal orientated, then I need focus on that with the "normal" songs. No theater, just pure EBM, he says. Larsen was surprised to be given a Danish Golem Award in Odense, five days ago. See video here. Dave Grohl guests new Prodigy album November 24, 2008 | By: Johan Carlsson (Stockholm, Sweden) Liam Howlett lets us know that the new Prodigy album is coming out in 2009 and will be a return to the bands "DIY roots". And now The Prodigy can add Foo Fighters' Dave Grohl to their list of collaborators. Dave actually emailed and asked if they wanted to work with him, and he is now drumming on the track "Run with Wolves". The Prodigy has also worked with James Rushent from Does It Offend You, Yeah? this time around. Nitzer Ebb leaves Mute for SPV November 22, 2008 | By: Mikael Kahrle (Gothenburg, Sweden) Nitzer Ebb are hopefully closer to a new record release now, when they are about to join German indie SPV. They have left Mute Records, owned by EMI these days. DAF on new European tour November 19, 2008 | By: Mikael Kahrle (Gothenburg, Sweden)
Gabi Delgado and Robert Görl are planning for a new DAF tour leg under the flag "Der 30-jährige Krieg - als wär's das letzte Mal". Starting in Berlin on January 7, the new tour consists (so far) of 10 dates in Germany, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Sweden and UK in January and February. In Sweden, DAF play alongside Klinik in Gothenburg. MoMT Records carries on lovin' November 19, 2008 | By: Johan Carlsson (Stockholm, Sweden) British electronic label MoMT is celebrating its fifth year, and has just released the compilation album "Carry on Lovin". It features rare and exclusive tracks from the bands on the label, and is availalbe as a free download or as a low cost CD. Artists include K-Nitrate, Audiowar, UCNX, Skink and many more. Check it out for yourselves here. New Combichrist CD announced November 17, 2008 | By: Mikael Kahrle (Gothenburg, Sweden)
Today, Norwegian/US EBM act Combichrist announced their new album "Today We Are All Demons", which is scheduled for a CD, vinyl and digital release on January 20 via Out of Line and Metropolis. A full tour is being put together for Winter/Spring 2009. Check out sound clips, album cover and many new photos at MySpace. |
