“When nothing else works, just blast Darius Rucker.” Pictured: some micro-phonies.
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Category: Industrial
As the head of Emily Kaye lay upon the coals, the dead eyes opened.
Synthpop reviews: The Past Made Us One, Endanger, Pomigato (2017).
Minimal synth, EBM and Korean indie synth.
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Reviews: 5TimesZero, Post War Glamour Girls, Vassals (2017).
Record reviews at last! Synthpop, shouty post-punk and grungy ’90s guitar pop. Some good stuff coming out over the next month.
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Reviews: Traitrs, Vanguard (2016, 2017).
Angsty guitar post-punk and angsty EBM half way to Hi-NRG.
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Synths out: Marcelo Andrea Expreso Maniquí, Maine, Syntheads (2016, 2017).
Bleep your life brighter.
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Metal reviews: Blutzukker, Pulvis et Umbra (2015, 2016, 2017).
Metal reviewed by Alli K. In particular, watch the Lego video.
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Essays by Post(Graduate)Punk: Crass, Sisters of Mercy, Psychic TV.
Essays, pointers and rambling opinionation on UK punk and post-punk.
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Electro pop: Cyborgdrive, Lebanon Hanover , Katja von Kassel (2016, 2017).
The sounds, the rhythm and the pop structure. Three good finds today.
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Synthpop reviews: Cloud Spell, Cavendish Laboratory, Seaofsin (2017).
Minimal synth dreampop, extended instrumental noodling and EBM dancefloor.
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Martin Rev: Clouds of Glory (1985).
Unambiguously rock’n’roll for every practical purpose, without involving any of guitars, basses or drums.
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Synthpop reviews: Ida, Missing In STARS, Metrophona (2017).
Remarkable debuts in the synthetic arts.
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Cabaret Voltaire: Doublevision Present (1983).
The Audio And Visual Quality Of This Programme May Be Of A Slightly Lower Standard Than Is Usual Today.
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Reviews: Carrousel, Neuroticfish, Epileptics (2016, 2017).
There’s electronics and there’s electronics. Sonic landscape pop, EBM and glitchy electropunk.
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Industrial reviews: Purple Fog Side, Mari Kattman, Amorphous (2016, 2017).
Recent releases from the bleep side and the noise side.
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Links: Side-Line goes full Nazi, CDDB bought by Nielsen, 23 random Naked Lunch quotes.
Side-Line indulges a straight-up Nazi, Nielsen buys Gracenote metadata, random Burroughs readings from The Naked Lunch.
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Electronic reviews: Epileptics, VvvV, Shiny Darkness (2016).
Electroclash witch house, electric prog and industrial synthpop.
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Reviews: Soviet Soviet, Fossey, Nórdika (2016).
Shoegazy post-punk, synth pop and futurepop.
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Links: Spotify without SoundCloud, 808 classics, the Legendary Pink Dots, millennials.
Spotify rejects SoundCloud again, ten 808 greats, the Legendary Pink Dots and you awful millennials.
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Links: Soviet techno, music as a weapon, archive your damn tapes, oh Earache no.
Have your retro communism techno, enlightening the unwilling, archive your damn tapes, this is not your father’s Earache.
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Reviews: Tetrolugosi, Makoto Kino, A.D. Mana, Foretaste (2016).
sp00py theremin and keyboard, found sound loop atmospheric pop and some industrial bleep.
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Synthpop: Aidan Casserly, Kriistal Ann, Dress Your Headphones (2015, 2016).
A start on the accumulated backlog. Today is synthpop day!
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Lou Reed: Metal Machine Music (1975).
“It’s all folk music, anyway.” — Lester Bangs
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Links: World industrial, the economics of EDM, the eyes have rhythm, fretless bass an octave up.
Have some more links, this time with a video.
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Reviews: Karlo, Moon Mask, Aseasita (2016).
Today, some pop and some electroclash.
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Reviews: Diversant:13, La Vogue vol. 1, Ambrasive, DrawnSword (2016).
’90s style industrial, early ’70s style songwriting, two dance non-reviews.
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Clock DVA: Resistance (1983).
But love, like life, will always stay.
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Cabaret Voltaire: Fool’s Game (Sluggin’ Fer Jesus part 3)/Gut Level (1983).
It’s been a busy day working on the book. So here’s some relaxing early ’80s Crépuscule industrial.
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Nórdika: Blut; El Mundo que Creamos (2016).
A Mexican EBM-industrial synthpop artist with his album from earlier this year and his new single.
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Industrial and post-punk reviews: Siva Six, Sirus, Holygram, Rendez-Vous (2016).
EBM and synthpop, plus guitar-based post-punk revival.
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Links: The Pop Group, the Birthday Party, Plastic Bertrand, Düsseldorf.
A new Pop Group album (and it’s good!), the last Birthday Party record, the truth about Plastic Bertrand and a book about Düsseldorf.
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