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Cruise [Ctrl] – It’s Happening Again (Album – M-Tronic)
Genre/Influences: IDM, Electro-Ambient, Minimal-Electronics, Experimental. Format: Digital. Background/Info: The Belgianduo of Cruise has been active since 2006. Driven by John...
Inferno Sound Diaries
I have been working for over 30 years with Side-line as the main reviewer. My taste is eclectic, uncoventional and I prefer to look for the pearls, even if the bands are completely unknown, thus staying loyal to the Side-Line philosophy of nurturing new talents.
Obscure Formats – Cryptid (Album – M-Tronic)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Techno, Techno-Body. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Obscure Formats is a side-project of Snowbeasts and mainly of Raab Codec. An impressive...
Snowbeasts – Energy (Album – M-Tronic)
Genre/Influences: IDM, Electro-Industrial, Trance, Minimal-Electronics. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Raab Codec and Elizabeth Virosa are now active for several years...
Cathode Ray Tube – Katabasis (Album – M-Tronic)
Genre/Influences: Minimal-Electro, IDM, Electro-Ambient, Experimental. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Charles R. Terhune is a French artist who’s already busy for a...
Amantra – Alteration (Album – M-Tronic)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-Techno, Experimental. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Amantra is another solo-project driven by Thierry Arnal (TH.A, Scorched Earth Policy Lab ao)....
Kreign – Kreign II (Album – Scanner / Dark Dimensions)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Format: Digital, 2 CD. Background/Info: Kreign is an American duo set up in 2010 by Ryan Hutman (still...
Twins In Fear – Unification (Album – Scanner / Dark Dimensions)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, Electronic, Punk-Pop, EBM. Format: Digital. Background/Info: We welcome the Ukrainian-Swiss project Twins In Fear. The female duo driven...
‘Click Interview’ with X Marks The Pedwalk: ‘Any New Gear Is A New Trigger For Creativity’
“Transformation” is X Marks The Pedwalk tenth full length album and for sure a milestone in André Schmechta’s aka Sevren...
V/A A Human Scan(ner) – The 20th Anniversary Compilation (Album – Scanner / Dark Dimensions)
Genre/Influences: EBM, Dark-Electro, Electro-Pop, Body-Pop, Electro-Wave. Format: Digital, 2 CD. Background/Info: Scanner is a subdivision of Dark Dimensions, which this...
Dive – Where Do We Go From Here? (Album – Out Of Line)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, Electro-Industrial, Industrial-Ambient. Format: Digital, CD, Box (CD, Vinyl, Vinyl 7”) Background/Info: Dirk Ivens (The Klinik, Absolute Body Control,...
Rave The Reqviem – Stigmata Itch (Album – Out Of Line)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Metal. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: “Stigmata Itch” is the fourth full length album by Swedish power band Rave The...
Blutengel & Massive Ego – Nothing But A Void (EP – Out Of Line)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Wave, Electro-Pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: This EP is the result of a friendship collaboration between Chris Pohl and...
‘Click Interview’ with Paranoia Inducta: ‘We Are Living In The World Of Soulless Technique And Dehumanized People’
Anthony Armageddon Destroyer set up PARANOIA INDUCTA in 2003. His first productions were released in his homeland, Poland, on Beast...
BlakLight – Music In A Time Of Uncertainty (Album – BlakLight)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: BlakLight in a brand-new duo hailing from Los Angeles (USA). The band is driven...
Tokee & Tapage – The Collider Circle (Album – Hymen Records)
Genre/Influences: Glitch, Ambient, Experimental, Cinematographic. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Anatoly Grinberg (Tokee) and Tijs Ham (Tapage) both are artists who like...
Philipp Münch – Plays Ars Moriendi (Album – Ant-Zen)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, Trance, EBM, Experimental, Minimal-Electro. Format: Digital, Cassette. Background/Info: Philipp Münch –known from so many bands and projects, moves...
LivingTotem – Surreal Existence (Album – Ant-Zen)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, Trance, Tribal. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: LivingTotem is back on track unleashing its fourth full length album; the...
Synapscape – A Journey Through Concern (Album – Ant-Zen)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, Minimal-Electronics, EBM, Technoid. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Philipp Münch and Tim Kniep are back on track unleashing a...
Noiseconcrete x 3CHI5 – Trip For Mystery And Pursuing / With Our Own Words (Single – Ant-Zen)
Genre/Influences: Glitch, IDM. Format: Digital, Vinyl (7”). Background/Info: This work is a collaboration between Japanese artists; there’s the music created...
Frett – The World As A Hologram (Album – Ant-Zen)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Industrial, Minimal-Electro. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: Behind Frett ishiding Maciek Frett, a Polish artist who you may know...
Anatoly Grinberg & Mark Spybey – The Failure Of Language (Album – Ant-Zen)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, Cinematographic, Neo-Classic, Glitch. Format: Digital, Vinyl. Background/Info: “The Failure Of Language” is the third album of Russian experimentalist...
‘Click Interview’ with Placebo Effect: ‘Placebo Effect Was Never A ‘Band’ That Met To Make Music Together’
2020 has been the year of the real come-back of PLACEBO EFFECT. This German trio driven by Axel Machens, Christoph...
Coil – A Guide For Beginners – The Voice Of Silver / A Guide For Finishers – A Hair Of Gold (Album – Cold Spring)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, Experimental, Cinematographic, Ambient. Format: Digital, 2 CD. Background/Info: Cold Spring brings us a re-release of this Coil-compilation, originally...
Pulse – Adjusting The Space (Album – NRT-Records)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, Cyber-Metal. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Pulse is an Austrian formation, which this year their second full length album....
‘Click Interview’ with Renard: ‘I Hope That My Album Can Comfort The Listeners’
Markus Reinhardt together with Peter Heppner will be always linked to WOLFSHEIM. The successful German Electro/Wave-Pop duo split after their...
Pouppée Fabrikk – EKM Anthology 1989-2019 (Box – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: EBM, Electro-Metal. Format: Digital, 6 CD Box. Background/Info: Swedish cult EBM formation Pouppée Fabrikk struck back earlier this year...
Implant – Phantom Pain (EP – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop, Trance-Pop. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Implant is back on track! Three years after –what was maybe their best album...
Alien Vampires – World In Denial (EP – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Electro. Format: Digital. Background/Info: The Italian gang Alien Vampires is back on track. They this year first launched their...
808 Dot Pop – Kelvin 7300 + Kelvin 5600 (EP + Single – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Metroland’s ‘Passenger S’ this year released his first solo-album under the 808 Dot Pop moniker....
Acylum – Sieg Oder Walhalla (EP – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Electro. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Five years have passed since the last Acylum album “Pest”. The German duo Pedro- and...
Digital Factor – Come With Me (EP – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: EBM, Body-Pop. Format: Digital. Background/Info: “Come With Me” is for the comeback of the German EBM formation Digital Factor....
Reichsfeind – Chasm Walk (Album – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Electro, Trance-Pop. Format: Digital. Background/Info: “Chasm Walk” is the second full length album from German solo-artist Timo Revna. The...
The Search – Heart’s Racing (Album – Aenaos Records)
Genre/Influences: Pop-Rock, Indie-Rock. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Swedish project The Search is active for more than twenty years and has...