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Swedish / Norwegian powersynth band Xenturion Prime emerged from the ashes of Code 64 when Hasse Mattsson and Bjørn Marius Borg joined forces. They released their excellent debut album ”Mecha Rising” in 2014, and then entered radio silence until now. These days the band have added Cathrine Räisänen Andersen to the roster and is thereby a trio. …
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Report from the very last Electronic Summer festival, with Hocico, Rotersand, The Mobile Homes, Page, The Invincible Spirit, Portion Control, Boytronic etc on stage. Read the text and browse our photo gallery at the end.
Stockholm synthpop veterans The Mobile Homes have hooked up with new label Psykbunkern and are back with a new song, ”It Used to be Fun”. Watch the video below.
Release had the opportunity to get some time with Edward Ka-Spel to speak about the new Tear Garden album “The Brown Acid Caveat”. They started in 1986, a time when vinyl distribution and print magazines were key to getting your band name out. 30 years later, Ka-Spel and Cevin Key are at it again with …
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Release’s Mike Whyte has returned from this year’s Sonar Festival in Barcelona, a celebration of innovative electronic music. Read his reports and watch his photos.
In April, we told you about John Fryer’s new Black Needle Noise track ”A Shiver of Want”, with guest vocals by Bill Leeb from Front Line Assembly and Delerium. On July 13, a full album will be released. Listen below.
Gary Numan keep adding tour dates and his new Ade Fenton-produced ”Savage” album will see the light of day later this summer.
Browse Jonas Carlson Almqvist’s photo gallery from the Skinny Puppy show in Stockholm on June 14, 2017 below.
Swedish duo Daily Planet makes soft, melodic, very analogue synthpop and their 1996 debut ”The Tide” is one of the strongest Swedish synthpop albums ever. After a 18 year hiatus they returned with the follow up ”Two” a few years ago. And now they’ve just released album number three, which gets raving reviews including a …
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In contrast to the 2014 album, “Tales of Us”, the new Goldfrapp full length “Silver Eye” brings us back to the electronic pulse we’ve been presented before. This time a bit rawer but still 100 % Goldfrapp. Peter Marchione from Release had a few words with Will Gregory.