Red Mecca have just released the third single “Pictures” from last year’s album “You Were Never Here”. Watch the video, recorded in a forest in Northern Sweden where Red Mecca resides, below. The second album from this electronic postpunk duo “Covered with Rain” is scheduled for September.
A new box from Electronic Body Music pioneers Klinik will see the light of day later this year. “The Klinik Box” will contain 8 CD:s including all Klinik releases, unreleased studio and live recordings and all rare and out-of-print material Dirk Ivens and Marc Verhaegen released between 1984 and 1991. [more...]
Watch the new video for the Tiamat-flavoured song “All the Devil’s Toys” from electro goth rock act Deathstars below.
All 32 European tour dates in May and June are now set for Canadian electropop project Trust. See the list below.
Klinik vocalist Dirk Ivens have recorded “Go (Bring It) Back” together with Swedish electro rock band Agent Side Grinder and the result is released tomorrow. The song is a musical mashup of the Klinik classic “Go Back” and Agent Side Grinder’s “Bring It Back”.
Eddie Bengtsson has been creating catchy analogue synthpop since the early eighties, primarily as the driving force behind Page. I have always been more partial to his other project, Sista Mannen På Jorden (Last Man on Earth), and after a long break – the last album “Tredje våningen” came out in 2007 – we’re soon getting new material.
Diamond Version is a collaborative project between Alva Noto (Carsten Nicolai) and Byetone (Olaf Bender), and they’ve released a few EP:s on Mute Records. They’ve opened for Depeche Mode on the latest tour, and have been working on an album to come out in June.
The Gothenburg synthpop and EBM festival Electronic Summer has announced the final acts. [more...]
Haujobb are back again, and as usual Dejan and Daniel have developed a new sound. Jean-Luc De Meyer from Front 242 is taking care of vocals this time, as we told you about a while ago, and the song wouldn’t feel out of place on Front 242′s debut album “Geography”.
In a recent statement (below), singer of dark rock act Tiamat Johan Edlund said he quits but today he posted “Ha ha.. Not so sure anymore. Bring up the wages”. [more...]