Well, this was a surprise. Today the Pet Shop Boys decided to release “Axis” (see video below), the first single from the upcoming album “Electric”. It’s available on iTunes starting today, and a remix by Boyz Noize is coming soon. [more...]
Caroline Hervé aka Miss Kittin has just released her third album “Calling from the Stars”. It’s her most personal album yet, and is released as a double disc where the first disc consists of upbeat electroclash while the second disc is instrumental techno with a sort of ambient vibe. [more...]
Lawyer by day, Gothminister by night
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Norway’s own Gothminister are back again with their fourth album of hard hitting industrial metal. Gothminister will release “Utopia” via AFM Records on May 17, and the album deals with the schizophrenic existance of band leader Bjørn Alexander Brem who is working as a lawyer by day and transforms into the Gothminister by night. [more...]
Hard rhythms from the North
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“Elements of Rage” is the title of the new album, coming this summer, from hard electronic band Tolchock from Sundsvall in Northern Sweden. The rhythmic and danceable “Down in the Hole” it the first single. [more...]
Iceland’s Legend have released a video for their song “Benjamite Bloodline”.
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...]
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...]