Palais Ideal – Pressure Points (CD Album – Cold Transmission Music)
Genre/Influences: Cold-wave, rock-wave. Background/Info: Last year I discovered the German duo John Edwards (guitars, vocals, synths, programming) - Richard van...
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Rosi – Grey City Life (CD Album – Cold Transmission Music)
Genre/Influences: Cold-wave, gothic. Background/Info: Sven Rosenkötter and Mirco Rappsilber set up Rosi in 2014. A first album “Grey City Life”...
V/A Zeitgeist Vol.8 (Digital Album – Cold Transmission Music)
Genre/Influences: Cold-wave, dark-rock, post-punk, gothic. Background/Info: This is volume number eight from the “Zeitgeist”-compilation series set up by German label...
The New Blockaders – Live At Sonic City (CD + DVD Album – Cold Spring)
Genre/Influences: Noise. Background/Info: The New Blockaders are commonly considered as one of the noise pioneers. They were inspired by the...
Anni Hogan – Lost In Blue (CD Album – Cold Spring)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, jazz, cabaret. Background/Info: Anni Hogan belongs to this list of mythical artists from the 80s underground movement. She...
Stahlgeist – Escape Reality (Digital Album – Stahlgeist)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Background/Info: Stahlgeist is a new Hungarian EBM duo set up in 2017. The band is driven by Istvan...
Jowisz / H.ø.s.t. – Ages Of Determination (CD Album – Spatha Production)
Genre/Influences: Martial, dark-ambient, industrial. Background/Info: “Ages Of Determination” is a split release featuring two Polish projects dealing with dark-military music....
Mr.Kitty – Ephemeral (DCD Album – Negative Gain Productions)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, wave-pop. Background/Info: ‘Forrest LeMaire’ aka Mr.Kitty is without a shadow of a doubt one of the hottest electro-pop...
Nature Of Wires – Reborn (CD EP – Echozone)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, dance-pop. Background/Info: Set up in the 80s, Nature Of Wires after a long hibernation came back to life...
Parade Ground – Life (CD Album – VUZ Records / Other Voices Records)
Genre/Influences: EBM, wave-pop. Background/Info: Belgian brothers Jean-Marc and Pierre Pauly are back on track releasing their first live album ever....
People Theatre – Chapter II / Staring At The Sun (CD EP – GoM Production / Foundry Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, dance-pop. Background/Info: Four years have passed since the first chapter “Dare At Dawn”. French producer, composer, producer Peter...
Waiting For Words – Egocracy (CD Album – Foundry Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, wave-pop. Background/Info: French trio ‘ZeN’ (vocals, keyboards, programming), ‘Soe V’ (vocals, keyboards) and Peter Rainman (keyboards, programming and...
Frozen Plasma – Pakt (CD Album – Infacted Recordings)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: Frozen Plasma strikes back with a particular album; kind of ‘featuring’-releasing on, which the German duo invited...
Uncreated – Eternal (CD Album – Conzoom Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: After a few noticeable EP’s it’s not time to Patrik Hansson (Vanguard) to unleash his debut solo-album....
Felix Marc – Substance (Digital Album – Felix Marc)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, future-pop. Background/Info: We all know Felix Marc as the singer of Frozen Plasma and member of Diorama. But...
V/A Anthology Of Contemporary Music From Africa Continent (CD Album – Unexplained Sounds Group)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, abstract, dark-ambient, minimal-electro, industrial. Background/Info: Italian label Unexplained Sounds Group has already taken us away on different ‘cultural’...
Uncreated – Not Your Soldier (CD EP – Conzoom Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: This is the next EP/single released by Patrik Hansson (Vanguard) and another song that will get featured...
Uncreated – Evolve (CD EP – Conzoom Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: Uncreated is a new Swedish solo-project set up by the singer of Vanguard Patrik Hansson. He released...
Tommy Four Seven – Veer (Vinyl Album – 47)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, experimental, d’n’b, techno. Background/Info: Operating from Berlin (Germany), British producer Tommy Four Seven –owner of 17 and also...
Résonance Magnétique – Sign (CD Album – Neris Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, ambient-gothic. Background/Info: Four years after the debut album “Revoke”, French artist Ludovic Dhenry (Exponentia, Zauber) strikes back with...
Phantoms vs. Fire – WLDLFE (CD Album – Blackjack Illuminist Records)
Genre/Influences: Electronic, ambient, cinematographic. Background/Info: This is the second album from Brazilian multi-artist Thiago C. Desant. The first work entitled...
Arkademode & Robin Boot – Weird Connection (Digital EP – Space Factory)
Genre/Influences: Minimal-electro, electroclash. Background/Info: “Weird Connection” resulted from the common efforts between Spanish DJ/producer Arkademode and Irish DJ/producer Robin Boot....
Finlay Shakespeare – Domestic Economy (Vinyl Album – Editions Mego)
Genre/Influences: Electro-wave, technoid-pop. Background/Info: Finlay Shakespeare is a new and young artist based in Bristol (UK). I noticed that last...
Liquid G. – Barbed Wire Scrap (Digital Album – Liquid Produkts)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro. Background/Info: Peter Van Bogaert is a Belgian dark-elector artist I’ve kept an eye on since the late 80s....
Agent Side Grinder – A/X (CD Album – Progress Productions)
Genre/Influences: Electro-wave. Background/Info: Agent Side Grinder has been active since 2005 and are now releasing their fifth studio-album to date....
Chris Shape + Dave Inox – Fake Truths (Digital EP – +Closer²)
Genre/Influences: EBM, techno-body music. Background/Info: This EP is the meeting between Italian producer Cristian Camporesi aka Chris Shape and Spanish...
Ascorbite – Macroscopic Framework (Vinyl Double Album – Corseque Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-techno. Background/Info: Edgar Ariza aka Ascorbite is a Swedish producer based in Malmö and owner of Corseque Records (label...
Parallel Worlds – Tonal Paintings (Vinyl Album – Lost In It)
Genre/Influences: Cinematographic, electro-ambient, experimental. Background/Info: Greek artist Bakis Sirros has already been active for several years now. After having released...
Nocte – Circumeuntes (CD Album – Corvus Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-cinematographic, dark-ambient, ritual. Background/Info: Nocte is hailing from Scotland. I didn’t really find relevant information about this band, but...
Black Front – We March (Vinyl 12” – Corvus Records)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, dark-ambient. Background/Info: Black Front is a Turkish formation, that released a debut album (cf. “Unutulanlar”) in 2014 and,...
Angelic Foe – An Evil Of Nature (CD Album – Dark Chamber Records)
Genre/Influences: Ethereal, neo-classic. Background/Info: Angelis Foe has been active since 2006 and is driven by former Arcana singer Annmari Thim ...
Voin Oruwu – Etudes From A Starship (CD Album – Kvitnu)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, ambient, cinematographic. Background/Info: Voin Oruwu is a project driven by Ukrainian artist Dmitriy Avksentiev. "Etudes From A Starship”...
Sômbre – Linsay (CD Album – Uproar For Veneration Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-rock, Background/Info: Sômbre is a French duo set up in 2011 by Cédric Manine (vocals) and Axel Wursthorn (composer...