Covenant prep for takeoff in 1998. At long last, we’re proud to present the 500th episode of We Have A Technical. We’re joined by Joakim Montelius and Eskil Simonsson of the legendary Covenant to discuss the entire history and discography of the innovative electronic project. From industrial to techno to EBM and from teenage friendships to major label deals to fractures within the band, Joakim and Eskil spent nearly three hours with us laying down what we hope stands as the definitive interview with this storied and beloved act. As always, you can rate and subscribe on iTunes, Google Podcast ..read more

Old Gods: Hacke, Bargeld, Unruh. As we often like to do when a new album by a landmark legacy band is released, we’re setting this week’s podcast aside for the discussion of Rampen – APM: Alien Pop Music, the brand new LP by industrial royalty Einstürzende Neubauten. We’re making some attempts to situate the record in relation to the rest of the latter-era Neubauten catalog, but also spinning off into discussion of Blixa Bargeld’s poetics, the exactitude of the band’s not-so-noisy percussion, and the experience of listening to a new record by a band as storied as Neubauten. As always, you ca ..read more

Pictureplane knows Enigma made sex jams. The thorny issues of social media and general online presentation and how they shape our understanding of artists is the subject of this week’s podcasts. From gaining additional context about a record to seeing other sides of artists to the perils of parasocial delusion, we’re talking about the ins and outs of what we do and don’t see of artists online. All that, plus discussion of the allegations against Arnaud Rebotini and our experience at the HEALTH show. As always, you can rate and subscribe on iTunes, Google Podcasts, download directly, or liste ..read more

Black Tape For A Blue Girl’s Sam Rosenthal – the young artist as a portraitist. Some numeric jiggery-pokery? From us? To do with the chronology of We Have A Technical? Never. On this episode we’re looking at records from Black Tape For A Blue Girl and Black Strobe, plus running down news related to Nitzer Ebb, and the Cold Waves ans Terminus festivals. As always, you can rate and subscribe on iTunes, Google Podcasts, download directly, or listen through the widget down below.  The post We Have A Technical 501: This Is Auspicious appeared first on I Die: You Die ..read more

Our special two-part We Have A Commentary concludes with the second disc of the Gothic Rock compilation. While there are still some cuts by foundational acts to work through, we’re also looking at some refinements and elaborations on original templates through a handful of second wave acts, some ten years after the genre first coalesced. As always, you can rate and subscribe on iTunes, Google Podcasts, download directly, or listen through the widget down below.  The post We Have A Commentary: “Gothic Rock” (Disc 2) appeared first on I Die: You Die ..read more

We have a special two-part version of We Have A Commentary for you this week, as we’re tackling both discs of the Mick Mercer-curated Gothic Rock compilation, a companion record to Mercer’s book of the same name. In the first instalment, we’re discussing some absolutely foundational tracks by the likes of Bauhaus, X-Mal Deutschland, Virgin Prunes, and plenty of others, noting both the variety of sounds and the emergence of unifying tropes across the genre’s early years. Stay tuned for our discussion of the second disc this weekend! As always, you can rate and subscribe on iTunes, Google Podca ..read more

We ain’t getting any younger, and neither are the formative records which turned us into the sort of sick bastards who’d end up running a website for a dozen years and a podcast for nearly 500 episodes dealing with industrial music. To wit, on the occasion of Trent Reznor and so many other people’s comments on the thirtieth anniversary of The Downward Spiral, we’re dusting off our scratched CDs, getting our hand-dubbed tapes out of storage, and reconsidering one of the records which shaped our understanding of music in general, let alone industrial, lo those many years ago. Regular listeners ..read more

What on earth might records by Hocico and Gloria Mundi have in common with one another? In and of themselves, perhaps not much, but given that Hocico’s debut demonstrates how early the band’s decidedly harsher take on European dark electro was formed, and how a case can be made for Gloria Mundi being the first goth band, both fall well within the boundaries of We Have A Technical. In addition to those two records, Alex offers his thoughts on the Vancouver stop of the ongoing tour featuring Front Line Assemble, Gary Numan, and Ministry. As always, you can rate and subscribe on iTunes, Google P ..read more

Current 93: Come Before Christ And Murder Mr. Plod. Photo by Ruth Bayer. It’s a Pick Five episode this week, as a slightly irreverent one, as we’re talking about stupid songs we actually quite like. From brodustrial to novelty tracks to questionable lyrical choices, this one was a lot of fun to record. We’re also talking about the announcement of Front 242’s final shows. As always, you can rate and subscribe on iTunes, Google Podcasts, download directly, or listen through the widget down below.  The post We Have A Technical 497: Please Steal My Stuff appeared first on I Die: You Die ..read more

Teased off and on for several years, it’s our commentary podcast on a singular record in both of the Senior Staff’s understandings of electronics, hip-hop, and industrial: Pop Will Eat Itself’s 1989 sophomore LP, This Is the Day…This Is the Hour…This Is This!. Chock a block with samples, yobbish irreverance and pop culture bricolage, it’s a riotous trip through a long-gone day-glo era of nuclear paranoia and appreciation for everyone from Public Enemy to Alan Moore. As always, you can rate and subscribe on iTunes, Google Podcasts, download directly, or listen through the widget down below.&nb ..read more