Författararkiv: Johan Carlsson

Radioaktivists is a synth super group consisting of Daniel Myer (Haujobb, Covenant, Architect and other project too numerous to mention), Krischan Wesenberg (Rotersand), Sascha Lange (writer of several books about Depeche Mode and underground DJ culture in Germany) and Frank Spinath (Seabound, Edge of Dawn, Lionheart etc etc).

Dave Gahan’s wife Jennifer Sklias-Gahan and her son James Rogers-Gahan have started a production company in New York called 18BleeckerFilms together with Patrick McDevitt.

In conjunction with the recently released ”Planet Jarre” compilation album, Jean-Michel Jarre has recorded a podcast, detailing his career from the humble beginnings in Lyon, to the electronic giant he is today.

Peter Spilles – the mastermind behind Project Pitchfork – started a huge project that began with the last album ”Akkretion”, themed around ”genesis” and the birth of the stars and the planets.

On the release date of Jean-Michel Jarre’s best-of album ”Planet Jarre”, a new track from yet another new Jarre album has been posted online.

In case you missed it, longtime Release favorite Pig (Raymond Watts) and singer, actress and ex porn star Sasha Grey have joined forces to make a cover of KC & The Sunshine Band’s song ”That’s The Way (I Like It)”.

A while ago, Howard Jones managed to get hold of the rights to his earlier material, which used to be owned by his former label. Now that he is in charge again, things have started to happen. Like the upcoming mega box sets of ”Human’s Lib” and ”Dream Into Action”.

Kevin ”Ogre” Ogilvie is out on tour in support of Ohgr’s ”Tricks” album, together with Paul Barker’s Lead Into Gold project. A couple of hours before the Philadelphia show, he was attacked outside the tour bus and consequently his jaw was broken.

In preparation for the fall release, VNV Nation just released some tidbits of info regarding their new album.

This week sees the release of ”Sirius Interstellar”, the latest album from Italian electropoppers Syrian.