In April, we wrote about the new album from The Mission and their signing with The End Records in Brooklyn. Now, they have signed with SPV label Oblivion for Europe and we also learn that the new album is set for a September release. [more...]

Oppenheimer Analysis synthesist Martin Lloyd (born 1950) has just passed away due to liver failure.

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...]

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...]

“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”.

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Blancmange, Das Ich (pic), S.P.O.C.K, Twice a Man, Leaether Strip, Malaise, Neotek, Blipblop and Asfalt make up the line-up for Nostalgifesten #2, a one day nostalgia festival in Malmö on Saturday, April 27. We talked to Blancmange who are preparing a new, fifth album, S.P.O.C.K and one of the organizers. [more...]

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...]