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As part of their 25th anniversary, the seminal ambient electronic band The Orb, performed live at Brixton Electric in London this past weekend. The current incarnation – Alex Paterson and Thomas Fehlmann – performed a set of highlights from their first 2 albums ”Adventures from Beyond the Ultraworld” and ”U.F.Orb”.

The winter leg of Depeche Mode’s ”Delta Machine Tour” is taking shape as we speak. So far, the following dates have been released: Belfast (November 11), Dublin (November 9), Amsterdam (December 7), Oslo (December 13) and Lodz (February 24).

Eddie & Marina (Page and more), Tyske Ludder and Mr Jones Machine grab the 3 last spots on the Electronic Summer festival line-up.

The Flow Festival will be headlined by, amongst others, Kraftwerk, Grimes, Blixa Bargeld, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds and The Knife. The festival takes place in Helsinki, Finland, on August 7-11.

Brooklyn based label The End Records has just announced the signing of the legendary dark rock band The Mission UK. A new album and tour are expected.

If you’re into old school EBM you’re in luck as the new EP from legendary Swedish EBM band Pouppée Fabrikk just came out. 

Following their 2006 release Vidare, where Adolphson & Falk explored their back catalogue with acoustic versions of the most successful tracks spanning their entire career, an expanded version, entitled ”Ännu vidare”,  with no less than 19 tracks is set to be released on April 8.

Frank Spinath from Seabound and Edge of Dawn has once again joined forces with Jean-Marc Lederman from The Weathermen (among other things, he likes to keep himself busy in a lot of projects) to create the second Ghost & Writer CD.

This year’s E-tropolis in the Columbiagelände in Berlin takes place on Saturday. E-tropolis is an annual one day fest from the people who brings us the fine Amphi Festival.

FKP Scorpio has decided to move the legendary Hultsfred Festival to an event ground in Stoxa near Stockholm’s Arlanda airport. They will keep the name (for now).