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Scottish electronica outfit Boards of Canada haven’t released new music since 2006, when ”Trans Canada Highway EP” came out. They’ve finally returned with the track ”Reach for the Dead” in preparation for the album ”Tomorrow’s Harvest” which is out on Warp Records June 10. Check it out after the jump.

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.

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.

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. 

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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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.

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).

If you’re into old school EBM you’re in luck as the new EP from legendary Swedish EBM band Pouppée Fabrikk just came out. 

Frank Spinath from Seabound and Edge of Dawn has once again joined forces with Jean-Marc Lederman from The Weathermen (among other things, he likes to keep himself busy in a lot of projects) to create the second Ghost & Writer CD.