Författararkiv: Johan Carlsson

The new album ”Head Buried” by EBM pioneers Portion Control was meant as a digital only release. But now Swedish label Progress Productions has secured the rights to release an extended CD version.

Do you love 80:s music? Do you love Michael Cretu? Sure you do! Then you might be interested in two new cover album projects featuring a massive amount of different synthpop artists.

While the world is in quarantine more and more artists are taking to the internet to perform their music. Next up, Cryo!

”The Unity Tour” with Pet Shop Boys and New Order was just announced, with the two electronic bands going on a joint tour of North America.

Norwegian band Echo Image released their debut album ”Compuphonic” in 2001. It is an astounding all time synthpop classic. Then they almost disappeared  from the scene, except for some small nuggets here and there, like a one off single a couple of years ago and some gigs. But now, things are stirring again…

The classic Front Line Assembly album suite ”Gashed Senses and Crossfire”, ”Caustic Grip”, ”Tactical Neural Implant” and ”Millennium”, owned by Warner, have been largely out of rotation for quite a while now. Now, Canadian label Artoffact has kicked off a crowdfunding campaign to get the licenses and release an amazing looking vinyl box set.

Today, Mute’s John Cage tribute album ”Stumm433” is released, and almost their entire roster is involved.