Gary Numan keep adding tour dates and his new Ade Fenton-produced ”Savage” album will see the light of day later this summer.  [more...]

In April, we told you about John Fryer’s new Black Needle Noise track ”A Shiver of Want”, with guest vocals by Bill Leeb from Front Line Assembly and Delerium. On July 13, a full album will be released. Listen below. [more...]

Release’s Mike Whyte has returned from this year’s Sonar Festival in Barcelona, a celebration of innovative electronic music. Read his reports and watch his photos. [more...]

Release had the opportunity to get some time with Edward Ka-Spel to speak about the new Tear Garden album “The Brown Acid Caveat”. They started in 1986, a time when vinyl distribution and print magazines were key to getting your band name out. 30 years later, Ka-Spel and Cevin Key are at it again with their 10th release and its a different world now. For this session, Edward was in London and our writer in Zürich.

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Stockholm synthpop veterans The Mobile Homes have hooked up with new label Psykbunkern and are back with a new song, “It Used to be Fun”. Watch the video below. [more...]

Report from the very last Electronic Summer festival, with Hocico, Rotersand, The Mobile Homes, Page, The Invincible Spirit, Portion Control, Boytronic etc on stage. Read the text and browse our photo gallery at the end. [more...]

Swedish / Norwegian powersynth band Xenturion Prime emerged from the ashes of Code 64 when Hasse Mattsson and Bjørn Marius Borg joined forces. They released their excellent debut album “Mecha Rising” in 2014, and then entered radio silence until now. These days the band have added Cathrine Räisänen Andersen to the roster and is thereby a trio. The new album “Humanity Plus” is out now on Progress Productions, and it’s a damn good one. We decided to have a chat with the band about what they’ve been up to since last time. [more...]

Carbon Based Lifeforms are a really experienced duo of Swedish ambient music producers. The pair, Johannes Hedberg and Daniel Segerstad, have been making music together since 1996, and recently released their latest studio album “Derelicts” on the Finnish label Blood Music, known for their extreme metal. Mike Whyte talked to the duo about the story behind the album, influences, and threw in a couple of cheeky questions along the way.

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Mesh is perhaps not a band you associate with classical music. But the electronic Bristol band played a very special concert with orchestra with 65 musicians at the Neues Gewandhaus in Leipzig and recorded it for posterity. The result is finally released: 30 minutes of live tracks together with three orchestral tracks that were recorded in the studio. We were intrigued about this whole project, so we got in touch with the band and asked them a couple of questions.  [more...]

Icelandic band Legend recently released their second album, “Midnight Champion”; five years after the critically acclaimed “Fearless” from 2012. Back then, Release’s Peter Marchione interviewed the singer/frontman, Krummi Björgvinsson. What would be a better follow-up than to let them meet up again – five years later? [more...]