Depeche Mode

Chris Liebing signs to Mute Records – here’s a first new track

Bernard - Side-Line Staff April 5, 2018 0

Chris Liebing has signed to Mute records and now the label has released a brand new track, “Novembergrey”. “Novembergrey” was...

Junksista – Promiscuous Tendencies (DCD Album – Alfa Matrix)

Inferno Sound Diaries March 28, 2018 0

Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, indie-pop. Background/Info: Junksista Duo Diana S. and Boog are back on track and have unleashed their fourth full...

Psyche compîled on mega limited CD ‘Under the radar’

Bernard - Side-Line Staff March 19, 2018 0

Released in collaboration with Other Voices records is the digipak (limited to 300 copies) "Under the radar" by Psyche. The...

Black Nail Cabaret – Dichromat (CD Album – Basic Unit Productions)

Inferno Sound Diaries February 23, 2018 0

Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: London based duo Emese Arvai-Illes (vocals) - Krisztian Arvai (music and production) released the Dichromat album back...

Soft Cell call it quits – final show in September in London

Bernard - Side-Line Staff February 21, 2018 0

The English synthpop duo Soft Cell, consisting of Marc Almond and Dave Ball, have announced a farewell reunion concert. The...

Click Interview’ with Noyce™: ‘Music Has Lost Its Value Through Spotify And Others’

Inferno Sound Diaries January 31, 2018 0

Set up and driven by the creative spirit of Florian Schäfer and Oliver Goetz, German formation Noyce™ is already active...

‘Click Interview’ with C-Lekktor: ‘I Don’t Compose Music For A Competition Or So’

Inferno Sound Diaries January 26, 2018 0

C-Lekktor progressively became one of the leading formations at the wider fields of dark-electronics. Master mind Marco Antonio Barrientos (Markko)...

Our Banshee – 4200 (CD Album – Dependent Records)

Inferno Sound Diaries January 24, 2018 0

Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, body-pop, EBM. Background/Info: Our Banshee is one of the newest signings on Dependent. The band seems to have...

Equatronic – Pulsatile (CD Album – Koi Records)

Inferno Sound Diaries December 28, 2017 0

Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, rock-pop. Background/Info: Zoith Ommog was the label which discovered German synth-pop project Equatronic. That was back in the...

Boxing Week sale at Storming The Base – here’s the link

Bernard - Side-Line Staff December 26, 2017 0

The industrial mailorder Storming The Base has launched its Boxing Week sale. The sale holds a choice between hundreds of...

Mind.In.A.Box – Broken Legacies (CD Album – Thyx Records)

Inferno Sound Diaries December 16, 2017 0

Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: Stefan Poiss is back with his ‘Mother ship’ project Mind.In.A.Box for a new voyage throughout sci-fi electro-pop...

‘Click Interview’ with Root4: ‘When You Release Two Or Three Singles, The Album Has A Bigger Chance To Be Heard’

Inferno Sound Diaries November 22, 2017 0

Root4 is not exactly the most famous and renowned underground electro band. Set up in 1990 the German formation went...

Boytronic – Jewel (CD Album – Oblivion/SPV)

Inferno Sound Diaries November 8, 2017 0

Genre/Influences: Synth-pop. Background/Info: Eleven years after their last album (cf. “Dependence”) German synth-pop formation Boytronic are finally awakening from a...

Kurt Uenala aka Null + Void may not be a familiar name for many music fans, but chances are you've heard his work. The Swiss-born New Yorker is the kind of prodigious musician you'd call a "lifer": no matter where he is or what he's doing, music is the focus. He first made his name in 2003, debuting as Kap10Kurt on the essential compilation The Sound Of Young New York. His song "Die Sleeping" was an early classic of dreamy, club-ready synth pop, and it caught the attention of fans and artists around the world. It eventually landed him a gig recording with Depeche Mode singer Dave Gahan, not to mention a long list of major acts such as Moby and The Kills. The collaboration with Dave was especially fruitful—the two became friends, and it wasn't long before Kurt began writing original songs for Depeche Mode. His love for vintage synthesizers, dark electronic music, and exploring unusual chord structures was a natural fit. The more Kurt worked with Dave and Depeche Mode, the more time he spent at his Manhattan studio. He started writing his own shadowy, melancholic songs, filling them with angular beats and moody atmospheres. After a while, the basis of Kurt's new solo project, Null + Void, took shape.

Depeche Mode frontman Dave Gahan featured in newest Null + Void video for the track ‘Where I Wait’

Bernard - Side-Line Staff October 16, 2017 0

Out now is the newest video by Null + Void for the track "Where I Wait" featuring Dave Gahan from...

Black Line / Douglas J. McCarthy (Nitzer Ebb) click interview: ‘Black Line' Is A Typographic Legal Term, Similar To ‘Red Line’

Douglas J. McCarthy (Black Line / Nitzer Ebb) interview: ‘It was something we never planned to do’

Inferno Sound Diaries October 6, 2017 0

Black Line is fascinating concept, which was originally set up in 2016 as a continuation of DJM|REX, a project by...

Legendary label Mute Records visually documented in hardback book ‘Mute: A Visual Document’ incl. Depeche Mode, Erasure, …

Bernard - Side-Line Staff October 4, 2017 0

Mute and Thames & Hudson have announced details of "Mute: A Visual Document", a 320-page hardback book, available November 28,...

‘Click Interview’ with Gimme Shelter: ‘ I Do Not Know What Is So Funny About Being Named After A Title Of The Rolling Stones’

Inferno Sound Diaries September 26, 2017 0

German duo Robert Grolms - Niko Kötzsch are active under the Gimme Shelter moniker for a couple of years now....

Nitzer Ebb / Depeche Mode / Skinny Puppy personnel powered Black Line to open for Depeche Mode’s forthcoming winter European Global Spirit Tour

Bernard - Side-Line Staff September 20, 2017 0

Black Line are opening for Depeche Mode for their forthcoming winter European Global Spirit Tour dates passing through Poland, Belarus,...

Black Line – Treason, Sedition, And Subversive Activities (CD Album – Black Line)

Inferno Sound Diaries September 17, 2017 0

Genre/Influences: Experimental, EBM, industrial, cinematographic. Background/Info: Black Line is a crazy, but fascinating concept, which was originally set up in...

Dead Man Recovering – Panic In Slow Motion (CD Album – Space Race Records)

Inferno Sound Diaries September 15, 2017 0

Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: Kenneth Larsen was born in Denmark, but based in Malmö (Sweden). Active as Dead Man Recovering you...

Depeche Mode release Anton Corbijn directed ‘Cover Me’ videoclip – view it now

Bernard - Side-Line Staff September 14, 2017 0

Out now is a brand new videoclip by Depeche Mode, this time for "Cover Me" taken from the band's latest...

Depeche Mode has launched new video for 'Where's the Revolution' - watch now

Depeche Mode chased by Hurricane Irma – forced to cancel gig

Bernard - Side-Line Staff September 13, 2017 0

Hurricane Irma is after the Depeche Mode fans that live in the Tampa, Florida area so it seems. Depeche Mode...

After The Rain – The Other Side Of The Crown + Kings Without A Crown (DCD Album – Scentair Records)

Inferno Sound Diaries September 8, 2017 0

Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: After The Rain is a Spanish electro-pop trio hailing from Madrid. I discovered the band by the...

Ultranoire – Intronaut (CD Album – Scentair Records)

Inferno Sound Diaries September 6, 2017 0

Genre/Influences: Synth-pop. Background/Info: Ultranoire is Hungarian-German duo unleashing their second opus on Scentair Records. They define their music as ‘synth-noir’-music....

Transponder – Hammer And Anvil (DCD Album – Scentair Records)

Inferno Sound Diaries September 5, 2017 0

Genre/Influences: EBM. Background/Info: Transponder is ‘Freund 242’ aka Stefan Rukavina (also known from Rhesus Factor and the industrial formation Bleiburg)...

Model 1 presents a tribute to Depeche Mode

Model1 releases Depeche Mode tribute album

jrstange August 26, 2017 0

(By our Norwegian correspondent Jan Ronald Stange) Isak Rypdal, producer, keyboard player and one half of the Norwegian synth-pop act...

Rome – Hansa Studios Session (CD Album – Trisol)

Inferno Sound Diaries August 22, 2017 0

Genre/Influences: Dark-rock, folk, chanson, ballad. Background/Info: When Rome finished their last tour in Berlin they got the opportunity to visit...

Hand In Waves – Hover In Remedy (Digital EP – Hands In Waves)

Inferno Sound Diaries August 19, 2017 0

Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: Hand In Waves is a German electronic music project mainly inspired and driven through electro-pop music. A...

Marsheaux re-records Depeche Mode classic ‘Get the balance right’ for 5-track EP – listen to the title track

Bernard - Side-Line Staff July 24, 2017 0

Out in a few weeks from now is the EP "Get the balance right" by Marsheaux (and already available for...

Spectra*Paris – Retromachine Betty (CD Album – Dependent Records)

Inferno Sound Diaries July 20, 2017 0

Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, pop-rock. Background/Info: Spectra*Paris is back after a hiatus of 7 years! Kirlian Camera singer Elena Alice Fossi has...

Depeche Mode cancels concert in Minsk, singer Dave Gahan hospitalized! (UPDATE)

Filip Wildhoney July 17, 2017 0

Update: Dave Gahan's condition has improved last night and the band will be continuing onwards to Ukraine today for the show in...

Veikchild – Dark Hellectro Monument (CD Album – Veikchild)

Inferno Sound Diaries July 10, 2017 0

Genre/Influences: Gothic, horror-electro. Background/Info: Veikchild is a French music project, which claims to be inspired by bands like Blutengel and...

Loewenhertz – Echtzeit (CD Album – Echozone)

Inferno Sound Diaries June 6, 2017 0

Genre/Influences: Synth-pop. Background/Info: Alex Pfahler and Andy Pfiefer ever started with a synth-pop band called L’Image, but later on moved...