Oslo’s annual Elektrostat festival is coming up this weekend (October 5-6 at Månefisken). Marsheaux (pic), Karin Park, Kant Kino and Spektralized are some of the live acts, The Hacker, John Fryer and Gothminister some of the DJ:s.

Even though Chrysalide’s album “Don’t Be Scared – It’s About Life” has been out in France since 2011, Dependent decided that they wanted to sign them and spread the word. According to the press release they manage to mix hip-hop, dubstep with harsh and noisy industrial. [more...]

Chris Corner is currently working on the fifth IAMX album. Instead of doing it all by himself this time around, he’s brought in the Grammy winning producer Jim Abbiss to help out. This has resulted in a slightly different sound, with an “acoustic warmth, electronic sex and an emotional strength that can only come from collaboration”. [more...]

The British electrorock two-piece Mesh have just announced the title of their upcoming album. It’s going to be called “Automation Baby” and it’s out on Dependent in February 2013. [more...]

Some of you might have wondered what Chris Peterson’s new project would be after he left Front Line Assembly. We can now reveal that he and his pal Craig Huxtable (also involved with FLA and Noise Unit, as well as his own excellent project Landscape Body Machine) have been silently working on a new project called Ohm. [more...]

Throughout 2012 Swedish TV viewers have be able to watch 10 half hour long shows filled with music videos, background stories and new interviews with 80:s stars. Now EMI in collaboration with SVT have put together a 3 CD and digital compilation with most of the hits from the TV show. [more...]

Today, Electronic Winter in Gothenburg announced that US synthpop band Iris has been added to the January 12 festival line-up. [more...]

Trent Reznor just posted on his Facebook that we can expect a lot of new material from his camp in the upcoming months. [more...]

Electronic Summer in Gothenburg on August 31-September 1 was a great success. After all the cheers and hurrays, the organisers Depeche Mode Party have already made plans for an Electronic Winter festival (and loosely another Electronic Summer festival 2013). [more...]

Vince Clarke has helped Norwegian artist Ane Brun to cover Depeche Mode’s “Fly on the Windscreen”. [more...]