We Have A Technical

The Senior Staff is back at full force! Back from vacation, Alex and Bruce are talking about records from Spetsnaz and Gatekeeper. Also on the docket is Resident Advisor's piece on EBM...which may have had some influence on our choice of albums this week. We're charged up and ready to go: I Die: You Die, you know what it is!

It's a special two-guest episode of We Have a Technical as we welcome Eric Sochocki of FIRES and Jamie Blacker of ESA to the podcast. We had the pleasure of sitting down with both artists at Terminus, and each offered insight into their history, goals and what the future might hold. Did you wonder what (highly danceable) direction FIRES might be going in? Are you wondering about the beast in the latest ESA record? Tune in true believers! 

It's a very special We Have a Commentary, as for the first time ever Bruce and Alex sit down with the artist who made the album we're commenting on. Yes, Réal Cardinal joins us to talk about Hollow Worlds, his astonishing LP of post-rock and bass music flavoured IDM. Stories about it's inspiration, construction, and legacy are told, and secrets are revealed as we go over every inch of this modern classic of sound design and production! 

With Bruce away for a few weeks of well-deserved vacation, Alex digs into the interviews we collected during Terminus Festival for a conversation with Claus Larsen of Leaether Strip. Needless to say this was a bucket list interview for the Senior Staff, and Claus obliged with numerous fascinating stories and perspectives from the past and present alike. What can you expect from his forthcoming album World Molæster and his new project with members of Die Krupps and Fear Factory, Die Klute? Listen to We Have a Technical and find out!

It's a very special travelogue episode of We Have a Technical as Bruce and Alex record their impressions of Terminus Festival in Calgary, along with a ton of special guest appearances from performers and friends of the site. Who brought the goods? What did we think of each and every performance? How much can two dudes record in one weekend on less than average sleep and with incredibly hoarse voices from yelling? You'll have to listen to find out!     

On the heels of bidding adieu to their subcultural home away from home for years on end, the Senior Staff are talking about Vancouver's late great Club 23 West. Alex and Bruce talk about the club's history in Vancouver as well as how the club's fate points towards larger trends continent wide. They're joined by some long-time friends and fellow DJs on this, the latest episode of We Have Technical, along with some last minute Terminus prep!

The Senior Staff try to save records of note from the memory hole on this episode of We Have A Technical. Alex and Bruce petitioj for why each of the five records they've picked which are currently out of print deserve a reissue. What oddball corners of genre crossover will be explored? Which overlooked pioneers will be championed? Tune in to find out, as well as getting the skinny on recent sets by Rational Youth and Psyche.

It's a different kind of commentary episode, as Bruce and Alex take a cue from The Satellite of Love and do a live video commentary! The Senior Staff are watching Skinny Puppy's legendary live concert video "Ain't It Dead Yet?" There's plenty of oozing, gurgling live brappage to be discussed, with our beloved S'Puppies sitting at a transition point live in Toronto. So grab some snacks, crack a beer, and make a call to the Green Guy as you cue up and watch some classic electro-industrial madness alongside your pals Alex and Bruce!

A pair of true school post-industrial records are taken up in this week's We Have A Technical! Individual Totem's squelchy alien soundscapes on "S.E.T.I." and the strangely approachable ambient industrial of Deutsch Nepal's "Benevolence" are taken up in this episode. We also have the scoop on the Terminus pre-party, plus a dash of shade being thrown Marilyn Manson's way on the idieyoudie.com podcast!

 It's a free form discussion episode of We Have A Technical this week, with the subject of rivethead culture being taken up. Is it distinct from industrial culture (whatever that might be)? Is it still relevant? How does it pertain to its long suffering cousin, goth? All these questions and so many more (along with countless shoutouts to Reconstruction bands) will be taken up in the latest episode of the IDieYouDie.com podcast!  

Our classic two albums format gets a bit of a rework on this episode of We Have A Technical. We weigh how Nine Inch Nails' "Bad Witch", the newest record by a band so successful we rarely talk about them, bucks the trend of accomplished but somewhat uninspired records from Trent Reznor. Also, a harrowing live performance from Lingua Ignota prompts us to consider the project's just reissued second release, "All Bitches Die". All that plus the goods on the upcoming ohGr and Lead Into Gold tour, plus our annual anticipation of the now imminent Terminus Fest on this week's instalment of the idieyoudie.com podcast!

Texture and rhythm heavy records by Mlada Fronta and Zex Model come under the microscope in this week's episode of We Have A Technical! From Rémy Pelleschi's stockade of breaks, dub, and techno beats to Paul Von Aphid finding ways of reworking the classic drippy electro-industrial template of Skinny Puppy, Bruce and Alex are ready to talk turkey about "High Tension" and "Mind Slaughter". All that, some live updates and plenty more on this week's episode of the IDieYouDie.com podcast!

David Thrussell's 1997 opus "Buy Me... I'll Change Your Life" goes under the microscope for this month's We Have A Commentary podcast, made possible by our Patreon backers! Snog's staunchly anti-capitalist, anti-corporate ethos was blended with a melange of folk, pop, and country sounds. How have Thrussell's screeds aged on the other side of 9/11 and Trump? Can we ever have too much nihilism? How does Lee Hazlewood translate into a post-industrial context? We're pulling no punches with this one, folks!

A Pick Five episode aims for the singles charts this week on the IDieYouDie.com podcast! Bruce and Alex are picking songs whose single versions they prefer to album versions. Expect some big names (and a couple of smaller ones), plus some discussion of upcoming C-Tec dates and how you might be able to help out ArtOfFact in their hour of need. All that and more on the latest episode of We Have A Technical.

It's an odd couple of records being discussed on this week's episode of the podcast. The early darkwave stylings of Love Is Colder Than Death's "Mental Traveller" are considered: what are its connections to modern understandings of ethereal and neoclassical? Also under the microscope is the debut LP from Destroid, "Future Prophecies": how does it fit in not only with Daniel Myer's discography but also post millennial club trends? All this and plenty more on the new episode of We Have A Technical!

Patreon backers join Alex and Bruce to discuss albums which tickle their fancy. Releases from Urceus Exit, The. Invalid, and Kite have been chosen and are considered from historical and biographical perspectives. Also, in a move without precedent, we assure you, the Senior Staff gush on and on about Encephalon for a while. Join us for all that and more on the latest iteration of the IDieYouDie.com podcast!

It's a Q & A episode of We Have A Technical this week, with Patreon backers suoplyng questions both broad and specific. From drugs to Gridlock, from DJing to Trust Obey, Bruce and Alex are fielding queries dealing with all corners of Our Thing!

This episode of We Have A Technical doubles down on ur-goth realness with discussion of early records by Alien Sex Fiend and Sopor Æternus and the Ensemble of Shadows. In addition, we've got takes on the new Nine Inch Nails track and a recent line performance from Merzbow. All that plus all the horsing around you've come to expect from the official IDieYouDie.com podcast!

This month's Patreon-Supported bonus podcast is about The Mission's "God's Own Medicine", an important and dare we say controversial entry into the UK goth rock canon. What insights do Alex and Bruce have into the songwriting, arrangement and influences of Wayne Hussey and co's debut? Listen and find out. Oh, and yes, we do talk about the Sisters a bunch. 

The I Die: You Die podcast takes a somewhat epistemological bent this week, with the issues of the archiving and collecting of dark music being taken up. Has the Internet archived everything from Our Thing? What responsibilities, if any, do we have as collectors? If an obscure futurepop demo arpeggiates in the woods, does it make a sound? Alex and Bruce dig into these issues and recap recent live shows in the PNW on this week's episode of We Have A Technical!