Gary Flanagan – Son Of Parkway (Album – Gary Flanagan)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, electro-wave. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Canadian synth-pop artist Gary Flanagan started composing his music in 1999. You might have...
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A Tribute to The Legendary Pink Dots & The Tear Garden hits Bandcamp in February: ‘Love Notes to a Velvet Apocalypse’
Out on February 14th is the a tribute to The Legendary Pink Dots & The Tear Garden. "Love Notes to...
NØIR set to release new EP ‘A Pleasure’ incl. Fad Gadget cover
The New York City-based dark electronic act NØIR will be releasing a 6-song EP entitled "A Pleasure". It will be...
Tribute to Legendary Pink Dots/Tear Garden coming out via Coitus Interruptus Productions: ‘Love Notes to a Velvet Apocalypse’
Coitus Interruptus Productions in association with Auricle Media are currently working on a very special non-for-profit tribute album for the...
Fad Gadget best of released on vinyl for the very first time + 2020 boxset in the making
(Photo Credit: Peter Gruchot) Mute Records will release a silver double vinyl release of "The Best of Fad Gadget" on...
The Normal returns on Mute Records after 40 years of silence… with more silence
Earlier this year, in January to be precise, we posted this article "When an April Fools prank becomes reality: ‘STUMM433’...
‘Click Interview’ with La Mécanique: ‘DIY Is A Good Way To Produce And Share Our Passion’
Canadian musician Francis Nothingwater set up La Mécanique in 2016. He got featured on a few samplers, released a few...
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”...
Jean-Marc Lederman Experience – 13 Ghost Stories (CD Album – Dependent)
Genre/Influences: Electronic, cinematographic, down-tempo. Background/Info: If I say Jean-Marc Lederman you quite spontaneously will think about bands such as The...
When an April Fools prank becomes reality: ‘STUMM433’ (feat. Laibach, Depeche Mode, …)
Last year we had the idea to create an April Fools prank with a fake compilation with a lot of...
Lederman / De Meyer – Atoms In Fury (Digital EP – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Background/Info: After the promising debut album “Eleven Grinding Sounds” the duo Lean-Marc Lederman – Jean-Luc De Meyer released...
Techniques Berlin – Breathing (DCD Album – Nadanna)
Genre/Influences: Minimal-electronics, wave-pop. Background/Info: Some of you for sure know Andreas Gregor and Dave Rout from their involvement with bands...
How did Jean-Marc Lederman end up with The The at The The Marquee gigs in 1982?
A few days ago Jean-Marc Lederman - the man who worked with numerous bands including Fad Gadget, Gene Loves Jezebel,...
‘Click Interview’ with Zwaremachine: ‘Minimal Hypnotic Industrial Body Music’
Did you ever heard of Zwaremachine before? Based in Minneapolis (USA), ‘Mach Fox’ released different productions on German-, Italian-, French-...
‘Click Interview’ with Lederman / De Meyer: ‘A Fun And Easy-Going Process’
Lederman / De Meyer maybe doesn’t sound as the most ‘sexy’ band name, but when you realize this ‘new’ group...
Lederman / De Meyer – Eleven Grinding Songs (DCD Album – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: EBM, body-pop, experimental. Background/Info: Earlier this year we discover the surprising duo Jean-Marc Lederman – Jean-Luc De Meyer joining...
10 tips and composing advice from Jean-Marc Lederman (Lederman / De Meyer, The Weathermen, Fad Gadget, …)
The recently released “Eleven Grinding Songs”, the debut album by Lederman / De Meyer (a new project between 2 electronic...
Lederman / De Meyer – A Tribe Of My Own (Digital EP – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: EBM, body-pop. Background/Info: This project is the surprising meeting between two Belgian electronic pioneers and ‘Godfathers’ of EBM. Jean-Marc...
Side-Line interviews Mute label boss Daniel Miller: ‘The Lederman / De Meyer version (of ‘Back To Nature’) is very good!’
(Photo by Diane Zillmer) Out next month is the debut album by Lederman / De Meyer. On that album (titled...
Black Needle Noise – Lost In Reflections (Digital Album – Black Needle Noise)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, experimental. Background/Info: Black Needle Noise has been introduced as ‘music for the movies you haven’t dream of yet…’...
Paradox Obscur – Artifact (Vinyl Album – Young & Cold Records)
Genre/Influences: Minimal-electronics, electro-wave. Background/Info: Greek duo Kriistal Ann – Toxic Razor is back on track unleashing their third album. “Artifact”...
Front 242 side-project Lederman / De Meyer launches debut download EP ‘A Tribe Of My Own’
The first release from Lederman / De Meyer is a fact! Out now - and available only on Bandcamp for...
All new Front 242 sideproject Lederman / De Meyer launched – check out the first track as livecasted on Facebook
The announcement of Die Krupp's EBM-only side project Die Robo Sapiens wasn't the only surprise on EBM-day this weekend. A...
Enzo Kreft – Wasteland (CD Album – Enzo Kreft)
Genre/Influences: Minimal-electro, new-wave. Background/Info: Enzo Kreft (real name Eric Vandamme) is a Belgian artist who started his music activities and...
Ono Scream – Ono Scream (CD Album – Unknown Pleasures Records)
Genre/Influences: Cold-wave, shoegaze, new-wave. Background/Info: Ono Scream is a Belgian solo-project driven by Bart Willems (also known from Apparaat). This...
Legendary label Mute Records visually documented in hardback book ‘Mute: A Visual Document’ incl. Depeche Mode, Erasure, …
Mute and Thames & Hudson have announced details of "Mute: A Visual Document", a 320-page hardback book, available November 28,...
Dive – Underneath (CD album – Out Of Line)
Genre/Influences: Electro-industrial. Background/Info: Dive aka Dirk Ivens (The Klinik, Absolute Body Control, Sonar, Blok 57) is back with his legendary...
Brand new album by Jean-Marc Lederman available now – check out the trailer
Out via Wool-E Discs is the brand new album by Jean-Marc Lederman: "The Space Between Worlds Label". This 14-track album...
Roxy Music almost ended up with a Belgian EBM pioneer on keyboards
Belgian keyboard player, producer and EBM pioneer Jean-Marc Lederman has revealed an interesting story earlier today on his Facebook page...
Aidan Casserly launches new ‘Spoken’ album featuring a huge array of collaborators incl. Martin Bowes (Attrition), Monica Brito (poet, artist), Jean-Marc Lederman (The Weathermen, Fad Gadget), Maggie K. DeMonde (Scarlet Fantastic), Kriistal Ann (Paradox Obscur), …
Aidan Casserly (Empire State Human & KuBO) has just released an album called "Spoken", which contains 15 new poems of...
‘Click Interview’ with Llumen: ‘I Strive To Make Llumen Very Much My Own’
LLUMEN is the newest Belgian formation that joined the Alfa Matrix stable. It all started as a real band featuring...
Enzo Kreft – Turning Point (CD Album – Enzo Kreft)
Genre/Influences: Minimal-electronics, electro-wave. Background/Info: Enzo Kreft (real name Eric Vandamme) is a Belgian artist who was mainly active during the...
Diorama to release new ‘Zero soldier army’ album this Fall, re-issue ‘Pale’ album with bonus tracks
3 and a half year after their latest album, the German electropop band Diorama returns with their all new album,...