Lisa Gerrard (Dead Can Dance) is featured on four tracks on the first The Mystery of the Bulgarian Voices album in two decades. The music is a mesmerizing fusion of the avant-garde and the Middle Ages. [more...]

Julian Brandt (Lustans Lakejer, Bobby, Julian & Marina) has launched yet another project, this time a synthpop duo with Emily J. Tennant called The Lipz. Listen to their first track below. [more...]

“Ocean” is one of the finest moments on last year’s Goldfrapp album “Silver Eye”. Now, no other than Dave Gahan from Depeche Mode joins Alison Goldfrapp in a new version for the deluxe version of the album (July 6). Listen below. [more...]

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Qntal, pioneers of mixing medieval folk music with impressive electronics, released their eighth album “VIII: Nachtblume” in the beginning of March 2018. We realised we have only interviewed (related band) Deine Lakaien, but never Qntal. So our Hamburg-based writer Jimi Nilsson had a chat with a cheerful Michael Popp, founder of Qntal, an interview entailing the band’s connection to poetry and historical artifacts, and Popp’s passion for new instruments. He reveals that Qntal was born prior to Deine Lakaien, talks about being like a brother to Ernst Horn and the darkwave scene. [more...]

Rhys Fulber from Front Line Assembly, Delerium, Conjure One and many many production jobs (Fear Factory, Youth Code, Paradise Lost etc) has finished a solo album under his own name.

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Never heard of the audiovisual, electronic Splice Festival in East London? Well to be honest, until about a year ago, neither had I. But seeing that acts as established as Coldcut, Mira Calix and DJ Food played at the last one, including the legend that is Mixmaster Morris DJ:ing – well, how could I resist once Splice time came around again. [more...]

No other than DAF will share the stage with Depeche Mode on their two final shows of the “Global Spirit Tour”, on July 23 and 25 at Berlin’s Waldbühne.

“I See Darkness in You” (May 22) will be the last Red Mecca album with Frida Madeleine behind the mic. [more...]

The Orb have released a new single “Rush Hill Road”, to be followed on the 22nd June by the new album “No Sounds Are out of Bounds”. Both form part of the 30th anniversary celebrations of the seminal ambient electronic music group, along with the festival to be held at the Roundhouse in London – Orbfest on the 23rd June. [more...]