Well, this was a surprise. Today the Pet Shop Boys decided to release ”Axis” (see video below), the first single from the upcoming album ”Electric”. It’s available on iTunes starting today, and a remix by Boyz Noize is coming soon.
Månatliga arkiv: april 2013
Miss Kittin returns with personal double album
Caroline Hervé aka Miss Kittin has just released her third album ”Calling from the Stars”. It’s her most personal album yet, and is released as a double disc where the first disc consists of upbeat electroclash while the second disc is instrumental techno with a sort of ambient vibe.
Lawyer by day, Gothminister by night
Norway’s own Gothminister are back again with their fourth album of hard hitting industrial metal. Gothminister will release ”Utopia” via AFM Records on May 17, and the album deals with the schizophrenic existance of band leader Bjørn Alexander Brem who is working as a lawyer by day and transforms into the Gothminister by night.
Hard rhythms from the North
”Elements of Rage” is the title of the new album, coming this summer, from hard electronic band Tolchock from Sundsvall in Northern Sweden. The rhythmic and danceable ”Down in the Hole” it the first single.
New video from Legend: ”Benjamite Bloodline”
Iceland’s Legend have released a video for their song ”Benjamite Bloodline”.
Time travel with Blancmange, Das Ich, Twice a Man and S.P.O.C.K
Blancmange, Das Ich (pic), S.P.O.C.K, Twice a Man, Leaether Strip, Malaise, Neotek, Blipblop and Asfalt make up the line-up for Nostalgifesten #2, a one day nostalgia festival in Malmö on Saturday, April 27. We talked to Blancmange who are preparing a new, fifth album, S.P.O.C.K and one of the organizers.
Front Line Assembly goes ”Echogenetic” in July
After the excellent ”Airmech” soundtrack, it seemed like we had a revitalized Front Line Assembly on our hands. The band went into the studio again to work on a new ”proper” FLA album, and now we’re getting close to the result. Bill Leeb, Jeremy Inkel, Jared Slingerland and newcomers Craig Johnsen and Sasha Keevil all …
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Label portrait: Minimal Wave from New York
Around 2005 I was really bored with electronic music. Nothing was new and exciting anymore and I just felt a need to explore and to find something new, something that reminded me of why I once became an electronic music fan. I discovered the New York based label Minimal Wave, which started to release old …
Erasure working on Christmas album in Brooklyn
According to a recent video where Vince Clarke interviews Andy Bell (”The Small Chair Interview”), the synthpop duo is working on a Christmas album due out this winter. They’re currently holed up in Vince’s studio in Brooklyn, New York, where they’ve been working on both their own Christmas songs, and some Christmas standards.
Synthpop with Swedish lyrics from 047 side project Hjärta
Sebastian Rutgersson and Peter Engström are so far perhaps more known under their 047 alias where they play a mix of synthpop and bitpop. Now they’ve started Hjärta (means heart in Swedish).