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Fever Ray announce further live dates March 12, 2010 | By: Mike Whyte (London, UK) It appears that due to overwhelming demand for the phenomena that is Fever Ray two more dates have been announced. These will be Brixton Academy, London on September 8 and La Cigale, Paris September 9. Read our newly published review of "Tomorrow, in a Year" by The Knife. AD Release at the Bloc festival with Autechre this weekend March 11, 2010 | By: Mike Whyte (London, UK)
As Release readers may know, the Bloc Festival, held in Minehead between March 12-14 is becoming a favourite with UK electronic music festival-goers – with acts as diverse as Aphex Twin, Future Sound of London, Karl Bartos (Kraftwerk) and Lee "Scratch" Perry having played in the past. This years line-up is just as strong – Luke Slater, Autechre and Model 500 will all play live at this years festival – and Release will be there to document it all. Read our report of the 2009 festival here. New Front 242 DVD in April March 10, 2010 | By: Mikael Kahrle (Gothenburg, Sweden)
On April 30, Front 242 will release their second official DVD. "Moments in Budapest" was filmed on December 6, 2008, and the DVD will hold 81 minutes of live show plus interviews and a photo gallery. The first edition will be limited to 4 000 copies including a metal pin, embroidered "Helicopter 242" military patch, a printed card and a label compilation. Current 93 celebrates 25 years March 9, 2010 | By: Mikael Kahrle (Gothenburg, Sweden)
Current 93 celebrates their 25 years of existence with two different, major performances in London on May 28-29 together with guests such as Nurse with Wound and Comus. This is the first time Current 93 and Nurse with Wound share the stage. The new album "Baalstorm, Sing Omega (December 1971" (released under the name '.'93 CURRENT 93'.') will be released on May 28 and available at the shows. Movie score by Goldfrapp and Portishead men March 8, 2010 | By: Mikael Kahrle (Gothenburg, Sweden) A new movie score for "The Passion of Joan of Arc" from 1928 will be recorded by Goldfrapp's Will Gregory and Portishead's Adrian Utley. The music will be presented live on a Bristol screening in May. Goth and industrial festivals in BeNeLux March 5, 2010 | By: Mikael Kahrle (Gothenburg, Sweden)
The three-day Gothic Festival in Waregem, Belgium, takes place during July 16-18. The extensive program includes stars like Skinny Puppy (pic), Front Line Assembly, Covenant, Funker Vogt, VNV Nation, Alien Sex Fiend, Dive, Unheilig, Marsheaux and Rabia Sorda. The festival stands out a bit by booking a group of bands from the neofolk, neoclassical, martial industrial and ambient genres, for instance Triarii, Triore, Ordo Rosarius Equilibrio, Arcana, In the Nursery and Faith and the Muse. Skinny Puppy also headlines Gothicfest 2010 on July 30 in Steenwijk, The Netherlands. Other live acts there are, for instance, Das Ich, Destroid and Mindless Faith. Sami Sirviö plays guitar on the new Familjen single March 4, 2010 | By: Mikael Kahrle (Gothenburg, Sweden)
Familjen's "Det snurrar i min skalle" was a hit in Sweden 2008 and gave him plenty of live opportunities, not only in his home country but in the rest of Scandinavia, Australia, UK, Germany and Italy. Expect some serious touring after the new album; gigs are being booked as we speak. Familjen has also made a name for himself as a remixer, for artists like Kent, Rex the Dog, Fever Ray and Lykke Li. The Klinik and X Marks the Pedwalk to WGT March 3, 2010 | By: Mikael Kahrle (Gothenburg, Sweden)
Wave Gotik Treffen is busy booking live acts for this year's festival which takes place all over the city of Leipzig during May 21-24. The organisers have just confirmed The Klinik, X Marks the Pedwalk, Sol Invictus, S.P.O.C.K, Rotersand, Diary of Dreams, Elegant Machinery, Arcana, Catastrophe Ballet, Faith & the Muse, Mona Mur & En Esch, Trial, Sex Gang Children, Orange Sector, Lacrimosa and many more. Sturm Café is open again March 2, 2010 | By: Tobias Eliasson (Gothenburg, Sweden)
The Swedish EBM-act Sturm Café consisting of Jonatan Löfstedt and Gustav Jansson called it quits in April 2009, just when it seemed it was time for a new album after “So seelish, so schön!” from 2005. They did two farewell shows, one in Sweden and one in Germany where they have a big fanbase. This however didn’t last a year, because now the band have returned and the result is “Koka Kola Freiheit”, a 7” single limited to 200 copies on their own Sturm Café Records. We contacted Gustav to find out what happened. – Jonatan and me have continued to be good friends, and one day we went into the studio just to play around, without any demands. The result of that became “Koka Kola Freiheit”. It felt vital and fresh; so we decided to start again. You have left Progress Productions and started your own label instead. – We wanted to try something new, run everything ourselves and have 100% control. Progress was really good for us, and they have helped us a lot during these years, but in combination with the restart we felt that this was the natural step. What are your future plans? – Well, we really don’t want to plan too much ahead; we want everything to be spontaneous and free. But I wouldn’t be surprised if we have one or two more releases in 2010. AD 17th Sónar in June March 1, 2010 | By: Mikael Kahrle (Gothenburg, Sweden)
This year's Sónar will take place on June 17-19. The 17th Barcelona festival of "advanced music and multimedia art" has just released new live acts and some of the headlines are The Chemical Brothers, LCD Soundsystem, Air, Plastikman and Hot Chip. Previous Sónar festivals have hosted stars like Yazoo, Devo, Goldfrapp, Orbital, Beastie Boys, Martin L Gore and Massive Attack. Heaven 17, Alphaville and Simple MInds to Danish 80:s fest February 26, 2010 | By: Mikael Kahrle (Gothenburg, Sweden)
Esbjerg Rock Festival in Denmark, that always book its fair share of 80:s stars, has booked Heaven 17 (pic), Alphaville, Simple Minds and Boy George to this year's spectacle on June 5. Diorama return with "Child of Entertainment" February 25, 2010 | By: Niklas Forsberg (Kungälv, Sweden) A few weeks ago Torben Wendt's brainchild Diorama returned with the new EP "Child of Entertainment". A single filled with versions of the title track as well as bonus tracks. A full new album entitled "Cubed" will be released on March 19. Wendt and more prolific partner Felix Marc continue to produce darkwave-tinted electropop. Acoustic Rome album scheduled for May February 24, 2010 | By: Mikael Kahrle (Gothenburg, Sweden) After releasing their new EP "L'Assassin", Rome now announces a new album called "Nos Chants Perdus" (May 14, Trisol). They will move farther away from the apocalyptic realms and the use of electronics, into melancholic, minimalistic singer-songwriter territory with the use of piano, guitar, strings and accordion. The song-titles are in French this time around, but the lyrics in English. New Spark album on Progress February 18, 2010 | By: Mikael Kahrle (Gothenburg, Sweden)
Progress Productions has signed bodypop duo Spark and a new EP will be followed by an album in the summer. The EP will contain the two tracks "Genom stormen" and "Tankens mirakel". "Genom stormen" will also be featured in a Leæther Strip remix. We gave their 2009 album "Ett lejon i dig" an eight. cAlan Wilder talks about joining Depeche Mode live in London February 18, 2010 | By: Mikael Kahrle (Gothenburg, Sweden) Alan Wilder played live with Depeche Mode at yesterday's concert in Royal Albert Hall in London, Release' Fredrik "Schlatta" Svensson reports. - My best day in a long time. I'm wiping my tears, Fredrik says. Wilder, who left Depeche Mode 15 years ago, played piano during "Somebody" and then gave Marin Gore and Andy Fletcher a hug. - Dave contacted me a few weeks back and asked if I'd be willing to join them on-stage. He assured me that everyone in the band was into the idea. I was very happy to accept, especially as it was all in a good cause and we were long overdue some kind of reunion of this sort. It was great to see everyone again and catch up a bit, and it was also the first time I have actually "seen" Depeche Mode perform!, Alan Wilder comments. New Spark album on Progress February 18, 2010 | By: Mikael Kahrle (Gothenburg, Sweden)
Progress Productions has signed bodypop duo Spark and a new EP will be followed by an album in the summer. The EP will contain the two tracks "Genom stormen" and "Tankens mirakel". "Genom stormen" will also be featured in a Leæther Strip remix. We gave their 2009 album "Ett lejon i dig" an eight. AD Fifth Goldfrapp album takes off in one month February 17, 2010 | By: Mikael Kahrle (Gothenburg, Sweden)
After the calm "Seventh Tree", UK duo Goldfrapp will release their most powerful album to date on March 22. "Head First" is preceded by single "Rocket" on March 8, a track that has been remixed by among others Richard X and Tïësto. "Head First", Goldfrapp's fifth album, is written and produced by the band - Alison Goldfrapp and Will Gregory - and was recorded last year in London and Bath. A tour will follow later this year. Arcana summarizes the first era February 16, 2010 | By: Mikael Kahrle (Gothenburg, Sweden)
Neo classical band Arcana has compiled a four CD box set called "The First Era 1996-2002" for a March release on label Cyclic Law. The set will include the first four albums (the first three remastered) and bonus tracks from different compilations and mini albums. Mastermind Peter Bjärgö released a beautiful solo album in 2009 called "A Wave of Bitterness". New Portion Control album in one month February 15, 2010 | By: Tobias Eliasson (Gothenburg, Sweden) The hard hitting British band Portion Control will release a new album on March 12. The title is "Violently Alive" and the product will be released as CD, digital download and also in an "Operator Edition" with a large sample pack included. 83 industrial artists help fight cancer February 12, 2010 | By: Mikael Kahrle (Gothenburg, Sweden) Several of us here at Release have witnessed the horrors of cancer, so we salute the initiative to raise money for cancer research by releasing a box set with exclusive tracks from the industrial music scene. The four CD Metropolis Records box set "Electronic Saviors: Industrial Music to Cure Cancer" is compiled by cancer survivor, promoter and DJ Jim Semonik. 83 (!) artists from all over the world are participating, including Leæther Strip, Combichrist, Suicide Commando, Aesthetic Perfection, Assemblage 23, Iris and Stromkern. A fifth "CD" can be downloaded after purchasing the box, which is out now. Andy Bell calls himself Mimó on new solo single February 11, 2010 | By: Mikael Kahrle (Gothenburg, Sweden) Erasure frontman Andy Bell is back with a new solo single, this time under the name Mimó. "Will You Be There" is out this week in the UK (USA will follow in March). It is produced by Bell and Pascal Gabriel (Dido, Kylie, Ladyhawke) and sounds like middle of the road dance pop. A musician already working as Mimo has legally challanged Andy Bell's right to use a variation of that name, so Andy will go back to releasing material under his own name on future releases. IAMX album with reworked versions February 10, 2010 | By: Mikael Kahrle (Gothenburg, Sweden) March 19 marks the release of the next IAMX product. "Dogmatic Infidel Comedown OK" features reworked songs from the latest album "Kingdom of Welcome Addiction". Among the participants we find Combichrist, Terence Fixmer, Alec Empire and Black Light Odyssey. New album from Twice a Man in April February 8, 2010 | By: Tobias Eliasson (Gothenburg, Sweden) After some live shows earlier this winter, Twice a Man now have a date set for the new album "Icicles". On April 14 we get to see the result, said to be a trip back to 80:s. Some new songs are up on their MySpace. Release visited their concert in their home city Gothenburg last December and found that the band sounded better than in a long time, still acting as true pioneers. Devo will perform at the Olympic Winter Games February 5, 2010 | By: Mikael Kahrle (Gothenburg, Sweden)
36 years after their birth, Devo will be perform after a victory ceremony at the Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver on February 22, for a potential TV audience of three billion. They say they will play old favourites and new songs from the upcoming Warner album. - We are really excited to have the opportunity to let everyone know that De-evolution is real!, Devo founder Jerry Cascale says. Devo are planning festival gigs and a proper tour in North and South America, Europe, Japan, Australia. Industrial compilation mixes stars and newcomers February 4, 2010 | By: Mikael Kahrle (Gothenburg, Sweden) The fourth "Industrial for the Masses" compilation is scheduled for March 3 by Out of Line. Combichrist, Dulce Liquido (pic), Nachtmahr, Northborne and UnterART are some of the featured artists, ranging from techno club to harsh industrial. The majority of the acts are fairly unknown. A maxi from Maelstrom Inc makes up a second disc in this double package. Rome EP includes stringed versions of classic songs February 2, 2010 | By: Mikael Kahrle (Gothenburg, Sweden) The new EP from Luxemburg duo Rome "L'assassin" is out now after a slight delay. The EP does not contain anything from the latest album "Flowers from Exile"; instead two new songs - "L'assassin" and "One Flesh" - as well as new stringed versions of the classics "Der Brandtaucher" and "Der erscheinungen Flucht" from the older "Masse Mensch Material" album. Second Edge of Dawn album in May February 1, 2010 | By: Mikael Kahrle (Gothenburg, Sweden) Dependent has scheduled the second Edge of Dawn album "Anything That Gets You Through the Night" for May. Edge of Dawn is a German electronic music duo consisting of Frank Spinath (Seabound) and Mario Schumacher and they released their debut "Enjoy the Fall" in 2007. Arvid Manifest winner January 30, 2010 | By: Mikael Kahrle (Gothenburg, Sweden) Arvid won the "synth" award at last night's Manifest awards in Stockholm. The other nominees were Dupont, Rupesh Cartel and Emmon. Emmon performed live during the show. Cryo takes it to the second stage January 27, 2010 | By: Mikael Kahrle (Gothenburg, Sweden)
Release gave the debut from Cryo an eight four years ago. "The music is sweeping, cold, dark and heavy. It conjures up all the images that this kind of music should.", Johan Carlsson wrote and later interviewed Martin Rudefelt from Cryo. On February 24 (what some call "International EBM day", 24/2), the second album "Hidden Aggression" can be expected. The tracks have been recorded in France and Sweden during 2008-2009. Three new songs are up at the Cryo Facebook page. Anna Wildsmith brings Sow back January 26, 2010 | By: Mikael Kahrle (Gothenburg, Sweden) | Thanks to: Kristoffer Noheden Release' Kristoffer Noheden interviewed Anna Wildsmith (Sow) back in 1999 and we're glad to hear that she will be bring us a new album, "Dog", on US label I, Absentee on March 16. This will be the third album in 20 years from the industrial spoken word project. "Dog" is co-produced and co-written by Raymond Watts from Pig and Rob Henry from Euphonic and features guest appearances from Steve White from KMFDM and Mike Watts from Pig. A video for the new track "Crybaby" is available here. M'era Luna update January 22, 2010 | By: Mikael Kahrle (Gothenburg, Sweden) Skinny Puppy, Combichrist, Feindflug, Agonoize and Amduscia are some of the new additions to the M'era Luna fest in Hildesheim (August 7-8). Previously announced live acts include Nitzer Ebb, The Sisters of Mercy, Placebo, In Extremo, Unheilig, Das Ich, Qntal, Colony 5 and Faith and the Muse. Slovenia calling: the return of Borghesia January 21, 2010 | By: Mikael Kahrle (Gothenburg, Sweden)
Legendary industrial act Borghesia from Slovenia is preparing a completely new album for later this year. First however, a double CD displays the best work from the days of old. "20th Century Selected Works" is an anthology compiled and remastered by Borghesia's Aldo Ivanovic and released by FV Music. San Francisco based label Dark Entries will be re-releasing "Ljubav je hladnija od smrti" on vinyl in the near future. On a side note, member Dario Seraval has recorded music for a theatre play by Dragan Zivadinov, one of the founding members of Neue Slowenische Kunst. A record will be released at a later date. Autechre release "Oversteps" January 20, 2010 | By: Mike Whyte (London, UK)
It has been announced through Bleep (the download store associated with Warp Records) that Autechre will release a new album on March 22. This album - the tenth studio recording - will be named “Oversteps”, and will be released on CD and deluxe vinyl (with a free super high quality download version included with each format). The artwork will be supplied by the iconic Designers Republic, who had a huge hand in shaping some of the earlier Warp products. As is typical with Autechre, the 14 tracks largely consist of indecipherable song titles, with the album being available for pre-order, though not issued until the set day of release. The release will be backed up by a two-month European tour. Swans reborn January 19, 2010 | By: Mikael Kahrle (Gothenburg, Sweden) | Thanks to: Kristoffer Noheden - I have decided to focus my energy on Swans once again. I'm reactivating that project, Michael Gira says. A new Swans album is in the works, and a tour is scheduled for the autumn. - In order to help raise funds/help defray the considerable costs of recording and promoting the new album, I have made a special CD/DVD limited edition handmade package called "I Am Not Insane". "FIX": the Ministry movie January 18, 2010 | By: Alex Veronac (Geneva, Switzerland)
Since Al Jourgensen committed to ending the band Ministry, an assemblage of video looks to surface under the aptly named FIX. "FIX: The Ministry Movie" highlights the abusive industrial journey of Ministry. In the posted trailer, most live concert scenes come from "Sphinctour" (2002) and the earlier "In Case You Didn't Feel Like Showing up" (1990) with backstage and tour bus footage of course documented. New content presented in "FIX" includes the "C U LaTouR Final World Tour" and obligatory never seen before scary surprises. Commentary comes from Trent Reznor, Jonathon Davis, Dave Navarro, Maynard James Keenan as well as Barker and Jourgensen's contemporaries during the industrial era of the late 80:s and early 90:s. "FIX" is set to arrive this summer from Gigantic Pictures. Skinny Puppy headline Amphi Festival January 14, 2010 | By: Mikael Kahrle (Gothenburg, Sweden)
In December Cologne's Amphi Festival booked Front Line Assembly. Now, they add Skinny Puppy as headliner. Among the other live acts we find And One, Project Pitchfork, Mesh, Diary of Dreams, Anne Clark, Welle:Erdball and VNV Nation. Wall of Sound signs The Human League January 14, 2010 | By: Mikael Kahrle (Gothenburg, Sweden) Wall of Sound has signed The Human League and a new album will see the light of day during 2010. It is a worldwide multi-album deal. Project-X celebrates 15 years with new album January 11, 2010 | Edited: January 14, 2010 | By: Johan Carlsson (London, UK) Swedish EBM band Project-X celebrates their 15th anniversary this year and marks that occasion with booking a tour as well as releasing a new EP and album. The band's last full length was "Modus Operandi" in 2003. Members Torny Gottberg, Mattias Werdenskog and Jouni Ollila have been working quite some time on and off on the new material but in December they entered the studio for the last touches and the result will see the light of day in February. The EP is called "Needles and Control"(Memento Materia) and track one is the Joy Division cover "She's Lost Control", which is also remixed by Leaether Strip. An album will follow later in the year. Project-X will also upload unreleased material and remixes to their Facebook page. Manifest awards nominations January 11, 2010 | By: Mikael Kahrle (Gothenburg, Sweden) The four nominations in the "synth" category of the Release partner Manifest awards in Sweden have been announced: Arvid, Dupont, Emmon and Rupesh Cartel. Johan and Tobias from Release make up half of the jury. Listen to over 50 artists January 11, 2010 | By: Mikael Kahrle (Gothenburg, Sweden) The Electrixmas festival has published a stream page with over 50 tracks, most of them from small and medium-sized Swedish electronic music artists as well as some foreign: Rotersand and Psyche, for instance. The page could be used as a quick look at the Swedish scene. All the festival visitors were given the option to download the songs. Combichrist continue to support Rammstein January 6, 2010 | By: Mikael Kahrle (Gothenburg, Sweden) Combichrist has once again been selected as support act for Rammstein. The band will support Rammstein on their January-March tour leg, and play some gigs on their own as well. Alice in Videoland - on Wonderland January 6, 2010 | By: Mikael Kahrle (Gothenburg, Sweden)
Alice in Videoland have left National for Wonderland Records. A new single will see the light of day in late February or early March. The Knife's opera music on CD January 6, 2010 | By: Mikael Kahrle (Gothenburg, Sweden) On March 1, The Knife, Mt Sims and Planningtorick plan to release the music from the opera "Tomorrow, in a Year" on a double CD. The first track "Coloring of Pigeons" is downloadable here. Recoil album and event tour this spring January 5, 2010 | By: Mikael Kahrle (Gothenburg, Sweden) Alan Wilder says a Recoil compilation called "Selected" will see the light of day in the spring, probably in April or May. - The collection is made up of my personal favourites, remastered and edited together into what I consider a cohesive and total listening experience, Wilder reveals. There will also be an "event tour" (whatever that means) throughout Europe and USA between March and May. In addition, Alan Wilder has remixed the Nitzer Ebb track "I Am Undone" on the "Industrial Complex" bonus CD. Live release from Pet Shop Boys imminent January 5, 2010 | By: Mikael Kahrle (Gothenburg, Sweden)
Early this year Pet Shop Boys will release a live CD and DVD, recorded at their final concert at the London O2 arena in December. There will be one DVD/CD package and the music will also be released a digital download. David Barnard ("Cubism") is directing the DVD and Stuart Price is producing the soundtrack. SPV relaunch with new releases from Skinny Puppy, Covenant and Die Krupps January 3, 2010 | Updated: January 5, 2010 | By: Mikael Kahrle (Gothenburg, Sweden)
The first News from 2010 is regarding the German record label SPV that was declared insolvent last year but now, a number of releases are scheduled for the first half of 2010, distributed by Sony. We are talking about new releases from Skinny Puppy (the new studio album), Funker Vogt (new studio album), Welle Erdball ("Operation: Zeitsturm" DVD and CD), Die Krupps (new studio album), Covenant (EP first, then the "Modern Ruin" album in June) and The Mission ("The Final Chapter Live"). A new version in the "Advanced Electronics" compilation series is also to be expected soon. |
