We Have A Technical

The Senior Staff pick five first impressions on this week's episode. We don't always get a good sense of a band's ethos and sound at first blush, but what about the cases when we do? From the purest strains of goth rock to mid aughts club bangers, we're talking about tunes which tell you everything you need to know about the artists who made them. All this on We Have a Technical. the official I Die: You Die podcast. 

Settling into the new HQ, the Senior Staff are taking about last weekend's excellent Front 242 show in Seattle and, in keeping things on an Emerald City tip, welcome DJ Savak of Mechanismus to talk about the four day festival he's bringing to Seattle.

The corrected version of Episode 204 is live. Here two tired idiots go on at length about the bands they saw at Vancouver's Verboden festival last weekend, now in "just this side of passable" quality. 

For this month's Patreon-supported bonus commentary podcast, Bruce and Alex chat about And One's 1991 LP Anguish! Speculation runs rampant as our two intrepid hosts jabber about what has made the band so unique, how much of their future is apparent from their very first release and a host of other topics as reflected through the lens of Steve Naghavi and company's debut album. So get out your metal hammers, book your ticket on Devil Airlines, because it's (crime)time for We Have a Commentary! 

Smack between the Boy Harsher/Soft Moon and this weekend's Verboden fest, the Senior Staff come together to discuss records by Modern English and Sturm Cafe...with an absolute minimum of WrestleMania talk, we promise. Does it matter which school post-punk bands attended? Is old school EBM referencing Charlemagne? Find out all that and more on the latest episode of We Have A Technical!

On this week's episode, the Senior Staff caught up with JC Lobo of Ritualz at the tail end of a west coast jaunt. JC speaks about Mexico's DIY electronic scene, his personal history with the witch house diaspora, and the importance of sounding "purple"! Also, run-downs of live shows and the unveiling of the triumvirate line-ups of this year's coast-to-coast Cold Waves Festivals on the newest instalment of We Have A Technical!

With 200 episodes in the bag, Alex and Bruce are opting to offer a jumping-on point for first time or recent listeners of We Have A Technical. How has the purview of the podcast changed over the years? What are these two dudes hunched over mics in a Vancouver apartment actually trying to accomplish? Why don't they ever just shut up and play the new Neubauten record? All these questions and so many more are taken up in an episode which both looks back and (hopefully) points the way forward!

It's the 200th episode of We Have A Technical, and to mark this auspicious occasion Bruce and Alex are putting one of the most celebrated industrial compilations of all time in the spotlight! Ras Dva's "There Is No Time" is remembered and reconsidered by guests Roger Jarvis, Mike Wimer, and Rexx Arkana, who share memories of their contributions to the compilation, its lasting influence, and its late curator, Ric Laciak.

A pair of covers records go under the microscope in this week's episode of We Have A Technical! Are Siouxsie & The Banshees' "Through The Looking Glass" and Apootygma Berzerk's "Sonic Diary" well curated taste showcases, self-indulgent exercises, or something else? Plenty of discussion on those topics, plus festival news awaits on this week's episode of We Have A Technical!

On this, our monthly bonus podcast (supported by the good folks over at Patreon.com) we're doing a commentary on High-Functioning Flesh's debut LP "A Unity of Miseries, a Misery of Unities". The band's roots in strict, stripped-down synth-punk as well as the funky future they'd go on to explore are both present in this tightly packed and tense record, so join us as we look back on the mutant weirdness Susan Subtract and Greg Vand lobbed into the world back in 2014.

It's a classic format episode of the Internet's favourite industrial navel-gazing podcast: Alex and Bruce are discussing albums by Icon Of Coil and Pouppée Fabrikk, and all of the shifts and changes in industrial sounds and styles pertinent to those bands. Futurepop vs EBM? Game on...sort of. Also, news and updates concerning North American festival announcements on this week's episode of We Have A Technical!

On this week's episode of We Have a Technical, Alex and Bruce sit down with Shannon and Jason of Vancouver's Actors. Topics of conversation include their upcoming LP "It Will Come To You", touring and the dangers of post-punk revivalism. Additionally we've got some news regarding the Terminus line-up for 2018, the iVardensphere: Singularity set that went down in Vancouver last week and more! All this week on the official idieyoudie.com podcast! 

It's time to dig into the mailbag on the latest episode of We Have A Techincal! Idieyoudie.com's readers and listeners have sent questions which range from the curatorial to the ethical to the decidedly personal. The Senior Staff are taking up each of these questions plus discussing the recent Drew McDowall show on this week's episode of the podcast that Considers Darker Alternatives.

It's another doozy of a Pick Five episode on We Have A Technical! This week, Bruce and Alex are picking "secret weapons" from their DJ arsenals. From swooning chill-outs to ferocious EBM bangers, the Senior Staff are highlighting left field tunes which never miss on the dancefloor. There's also some discussion on the forthcoming Drew MacDowell show, plus an upcoming mailbag episode!

The first LP in the storied and long-standing collaboration between cEvin Key and Edward Ka-Spel gets the blow by blow treatment on this month's episode of We Have A Commentary! Yes, we're talking about The Tear Garden's "Tired Eyes Slowly Burning", and all of the psychedelic ephemera which accompanies it. How did Skinny Puppy's famed brap ethos manifest in Mushroom Studios? Who was wandering in and out of the sessions? What narrative forms does Edward keep returning to and why? All these questions and more are taken up in the latest edition of our Patreon supported commentary podcast series!

The classic We Have A Technical format gets a nostalgic twist, as Bruce and Alex are each picking gateway records which helped usher them into darker music...even if Fear Factory's "Demanufacture" and The Tea Party's "Splendor Solis" had more in common with metal and blues-rock. How do these tentative first steps into industrial and goth rock hold up more than two decades on? Find out, plus get the latest on live show announcements and plenty more on this week's episode of the idieyoudie.com podcast!

The broad and gloomy realm of post-punk is the subject of the day on this week's episode of We Have A Technical! From its origins shared with goth and industrial, through the mainstream revival of it in the early aughts, up to the present groundswell in underground post-punk, the Senior Staff are hailing the best and jeering the worst of a nebulous, but often sombre style.

The Senior Staff talk are talking about a pair of hybrid records on this week's episode: the dance/rhythmic noise punch of Memmaker's "How To Enlist In A Robot Uprising" and the futurepop/italodisco confectionary of Syrian's "Death Of A Sun". Also, on a more sombre note, they discuss remembrances of Jeremy Inkel of Left Spine Down and Front Line Assembly after his tragic and all too early passing.

On this episode of We Have a Technical we welcome returning guest Matt Fanale of Caustic. We're always keen to catch up with the Man Who Couldn't Stop about what he's up to, and in this instance we were super interested to hear about what went into his terrific new album "American Carrion". We talk politics, anger, Caustic's place in industrial and a little about hot new beat project Klack, along with news about Mechanismus Festival and the dissolution of Tactical Sekt, all this week on We Have a Technical, the idieyoudie.com podcast! 

On this month's Patreon-supported bonus podcast, we're discussing the first LP by legendary Belgian dark electro pioneers The Klinik. "Sabotage", the only record to feature the four person line-up of the band is instructive, in that it threads the origins of the group in the wave scene with distinctly industrial aesthetics. We discuss both how it foreshadows The Klinik's later work, and what is specifically unique about them at this early juncture. All this month on We Have a Commentary, an I Die: You Die bonus podcast.