Författararkiv: Mikael Kahrle

The Gothenburg synthpop and EBM festival Electronic Summer will host a Depeche Mode covention on August 30, as part of this year’s festival. They have initiated the production of a Depeche Mode fan video documentary with the working title ”The Depeche Mode fans of Gothenburg”.

Last year, the vocalist of German EBM band Funker Vogt, Jens Kästel, departed. But this was not the end of Funker Vogt. Mastermind Gerrit Thomas says a new vocalist is hired, although his identity is yet to be revealed.

Our latest reviews are of the new albums from Little Dragon, Vanguard, Plaid and Vogon Poetry.

Synthpop veterans Rational Youth and Psyche just toured Scandinavia together and have just announced a 5-date German tour in October. Rational Youth will also perform an additional show without Psyche.  

Deine Lakaien have announced their 10th studio album: ”Crystal Palace” (August 8). ”Crystal Palace” will hold 10 songs, with an additional 3 on the Special Edition.

Code 64 men Bjørn Marius Borg and Hans-Olof Mattsson have completed the first Xenturion Prime album in their studio Spacebound. ”Mecha Rising” is scheduled for June 18.

Our latest reviews are of the new albums from Front Line Assembly, Kent, Scaremeister (Cevin Key project) and Nimon.

Chris Corner (IAMX) will perform a worldwide on line concert on May 31. It will be a special acoustic peformance with music from the IAMX debut album ”Kiss+Swallow”.

French synthpop and electronic music label Boredom Product reports that new albums from Celluloide (pic) and Dekad are on their way.

Don’t miss our latest reviews of the 2 Ant-zen artists Hologram and Kommando as well as Welle:Erdball and Client.