Podcasts by We Have a Technical
We Have a Technical brings I Die: You Die's discussions of industrial, EBM, goth, dark electro, and related music genres to the podcast format. Join Alex, Bruce, and guests as they explore music's darker alternatives.
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We Have A Technical 485: Handcuffed To LeVar from 2023-12-07T13:44
On the occasion of the passing of Paranoid's Michael Formberg, we're talking about the German duo's first LP Strain and how it fits very particularly within the mores and sounds of classi...
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We Have A Technical 484: Rollercoaster from 2023-11-30T10:00
The Senior Staff are taking stock not only of the specific shows and tracks Skinny Puppy played in their final hometown performances this past weekend, but also how those moments and moods conne...
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We Have a Commentary: ACTORS, "It Will Come To You" from 2023-11-26T19:44
For this month's We Have a Commentary, we're joined by Jason and Shannon from Vancouver's ACTORS, to discuss the band's 2015 debut LP It Will Come to You. The genesis and evolution of the...
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We Have A Technical 483: Scooter (Not Actually About Scooter) from 2023-11-23T10:00
On this discussion topic driven episode of We Have A Technical, we're talking about the vague catchall term or genre that is "electro", at least in the European usage of the term. How and why is...
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We Have A Technical 482: Obscene Jingle from 2023-11-16T10:00
After a bonanza of interviews we're back to what brought us to the dance: talking about goth and industrial records. One apiece, in fact as Suspiria's hybridizing of second wave goth rock and el...
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We Have A Technical 481: Big Peewee from 2023-11-09T10:00
A trio of interviews (which we'd like to think nicely cover the breadth of our coverage here) wraps up with a conversation with Isaac Howlett of Empathy Test. Catching up with Isaac amidst the b...
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We Have A Technical 480: High Highs, Low Lows from 2023-11-02T09:00
We're happy to be joined on this week's episode by Ian Ross of Flesh Field, on the eve of the release of Voice Of The Echo Chamber, the band's first new LP in nearly twenty years. Ian had...
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We Have A Commentary: Light Asylum, self-titled from 2023-10-29T12:00
For this month's commentary podcast, we're looking back at Light Asylum's stunning 2012 self-titled debut (and to this date only) LP. Linking darkwave to a whole slew of other sounds and genres,...
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We Have a Technical 479: Bonus Content from 2023-10-26T09:00
We're joined by Ringfinger on this week's podcast to talk about the Vancouver duo's rapid emergence as one of the most highly touted new darkwave bands in North America. We talk balancing synth ...
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We Have A Technical 478: Throw a Thing from 2023-10-19T09:00
Our recurring Pick Five format always gives us the opportunity to take larger or more lateral views of records, and that's what we're doing today as we each pick five album covers which communic...
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We Have A Technical 477: The Double Stinger from 2023-10-12T09:00
We're using our classic two albums format to discuss records we hadn't previously heard (as well as keep our Oktoberfest run of German bands going), namely the debut LP by Das Ich and the most r...
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We Have A Technical 476: The Jerky Man from 2023-10-05T09:00
Our classic two album format gives us the chance to talk about Cannibal Anthem, a middling record from :wumpscut: in the grey period in that project's trajectory, and A Sign Of Life Listen
We Have A Technical 475: If That Is Your Real Name from 2023-09-28T09:00
For our 475th episode, the Senior Staff are quizzing one another as to their own history with I Die: You Die. That is to say, we've each grabbed passages from reviews the other wrote years back,...
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We Have A Commentary: The Birthday Party, "Junkyard" from 2023-09-24T18:56
For this month's commentary podcast we asked our patrons which release by Aussie enfents terrible The Birthday Party they'd like us to discuss, and 1982's Junkyard was the resounding answ...
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We Have A Technical 474: Industrial Bowlcut from 2023-09-21T09:00
The aesthetics of cringe, that is to say, the reasons why people within and without darker music are likely to view certain examples of it as profoundly embarrassing or amateurish, is the subjec...
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We Have A Technical 473: Evacuated Bon Mots from 2023-09-14T09:00
Records by Noise Unit and Prager Handgriff are prompting Bruce and Alex to get into the weeds regarding cross-pollination of EBM sub-genres, foreshadowing of artists' future directions, and what...
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We Have A Technical 472: Adam Pagecole from 2023-09-07T09:00
It's one of our vaunted Pick Five episodes this week, with Alex and Bruce each asking "How'd this get here?" That is to say, they're both selecting some artists whose inclusion within the worlds...
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We Have A Technical 471: Basso Profundo Curly from 2023-08-31T09:00
We’re talking about Flesh Field’s Viral Extinction and Project Pitchfork’s Inferno on this week’s episode of the podcast, records which pushed dark electro into a denser, cyber-orc...
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We Have A Commentary: Electronic, selt-titled from 2023-08-27T08:00
Released in 1991 to critical and commercial success, supergroup Electronic's debut LP was Bernard Sumner and Johnny Marr's opportunity to break from the respective legacies of New Order and The ...
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We Have a Technical 470: The Sound Of Skis On Ice from 2023-08-24T09:00
Bruce and Alex are home from their respective trips, and are getting back in the swing of things by releasing the interview they conducted with longtime IDUD faves Ashbury Heights at Terminus Fe...
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In Conversation With Bess Lovejoy from 2023-08-17T09:00
Welcome to In Conversation, a fill-in/bonus format podcast series wherein each of the Senior Staff invites a friend to sit in for some casual chat about shared interests relevant to the normal g...
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In Conversation w/Evilyn 13 from 2023-08-10T09:00
Welcome to In Conversation a fill-in/bonus format podcast series wherein each of the Senior Staff invites a friend to sit in for some casual chat about shared interests relevant to the normal go...
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We Have A Technical 469: Don't Castigate Me from 2023-08-03T09:00
Four days, thirty acts, one venue, countless pints of 88 Brewing's Wave Pool IPA, two very exhausted but happy podcasters. In one of our favourite annual traditions, we're discussing all of the ...
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We Have A Technical 468: Something Salty from 2023-07-27T09:00
A loosely Terminus-themed two albums episode of the podcast has us discussing Trepaneringsritualen's Kainskult and Chrysalide's Don't Be Scared, It's About Life on the eve of our h...
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We Have A Commentary: Devours, "Homecoming Queen" from 2023-07-23T20:22
On this month's patreon-supported commentary podcast, we're hanging out with Devours, AKA Jeff Cancade, to talk about his new record Homecoming Queen track by track, discussing in turn it...
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We Have A Technical 467: Rice Cooker from 2023-07-20T09:00
Bruce and Alex are taking a throwback trip to late 00s dancefloors with Kloq's Move Forward and another into the weird melodies and formal experimentation of Domagoj Krsic with the Cyborg...
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We Have A Technical 466: Dollar Bin Micronauts from 2023-07-13T09:00
A rather heavy and somewhat morbid Pick Five formatted episode of We Have A Technical has the Senior Staff selecting opening lines of songs which have stuck with them, and considering their powe...
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We Have A Technical 465: American Males from 2023-07-06T09:00
Records by Shadow Project and A Split Second cover the extremes of the goth and EBM dimensions of ID:UD's purview on this week's episode of We Have A Technical, and as it turns out, lead to at l...
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We Have A Commentary: Skinny Puppy, "Back&Forth" from 2023-07-02T23:22
Our latest commentary podcast has us going back to the deepest roots of one of the most important and celebrated industrial bands of all time. Holed up in West End apartments, Ogre and cEvin Key...
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We Have A Technical 464: Tiger Driver '91 from 2023-06-29T09:00
It's the twelfth anniversary of I Die: You Die this week, and thus we're taking a look back at the road that took us here on this week's podcast. In particular, we're (briefly) discussing record...
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We Have a Technical 463: Not Working For Me from 2023-06-22T09:00
On this week's podcast, we're discussing the reasons why certain acts seem to cultivate a much more dedicated fan base than others. Charisma? Solid live show? Tapping into hitherto unexplored th...
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We Have A Technical 462: Boss Of The Bus from 2023-06-15T09:30
Aggrotech and darkwave might not have much in common musically, but we're finding some interesting links between the two albums up for discussion on this week's podcasts in terms of aesthetic fo...
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We Have A Technical 461: The Absent Centre from 2023-06-08T09:00
We're speaking this week with Raven Rissy and David from Vancouver band Hem Netjer. The band's woven a unique tapestry of industrial and darkwave sounds as well as broader folk instrumentation f...
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We Have A Technical 460: That's On Me Baby from 2023-06-01T09:00
This week's Pick Five formatted podcast has us discussing some unlikely cover selections. What tracks were we surprised to find taken up by various goth, industrial, and EBM acts, seemingly at o...
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We Have A Commentary: "The Remix Wars - Strike One" from 2023-05-28T15:57
This month's Patreon-supported bonus podcast has us taking up a slightly different style of release than the usual LP: we're talking about the first salvo in that most 90s of rivethead conflicts...
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We Have A Technical 459: Another Hero from 2023-05-25T09:00
We're very happy to have our interview with Alison Lewis of Zanias on this week's episode of We Have A Technical. Lewis spoke frankly and earnestly with us about the personal and musical changes...
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We Have A Technical 458: Tune In Next Week from 2023-05-18T09:00
There's no beating around the bush as the entirety of this episode is dedicated to recapping the three night multi-stage iteration of our local Verboden Festival which went down this past weeken...
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We Have A Technical 457: Sympathetic Exhaustion from 2023-05-11T09:00
Recorded a couple of days early so as to allow each member of the Senior Staff to fulfill our patriotic duty and go see Skinny Puppy live, this episode has us scratching our heads and offering t...
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We Have A Technical 456: A Vow Not to Talk About That from 2023-05-04T09:00
This week we're talking about the gloomy, atmospheric post-punk of Poland's Ziyo, and the odd n' sods Euro electro of Human Decay's swan song. We're also pushing back a bit against the presumpti...
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We Have A Commentary: Killing Joke, "Night Time" from 2023-04-30T20:43
As voted on from a selection of early/mid-period Killing Joke LPs, we're talking about 1985's Night Time on this month's commentary podcast. We're discussing Jaz Coleman's pet lyrical the...
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We Have A Technical 455: Richard Blood from 2023-04-27T09:00
Prompted by the prospect of finally getting to see Ashbury Heights, we're each picking five bucket list "yet to see" acts we've always hoped to catch live, be they legacy acts or idosyncratic Eu...
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We Have A Technical 454: Which Thoughts? from 2023-04-20T09:00
Deep scene records which perhaps bracket a certain history of dark electro are on the docket for this week, as we consider records by Controlled Fusion and vProjekt. From the dry double kicks of...
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We Have A Technical 453: Beats Me from 2023-04-13T09:00
The experience of listening to a new record by a longstanding legacy act is the subject of this week's episode of the podcast. We're looking at how we perhaps grade records by bands we love on a...
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We Have A Technical 452: A Concerned Husband from 2023-04-06T09:00
We have something of a news grab-bag episode for you this week, folks, as the list of items we wanted to talk about off the top of the show just kept growing until we had to give the full hour t...
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We Have a Technical 451: Spy VS. Spy from 2023-03-30T09:00
It’s a very 90s two-fer episode of the podcast, as we look at Swamp Terrorists’ Combat Shock and Perfume Tree’s A Lifetime Away this week.
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We Have A Commentary: Them Are Us Too, "Remain" from 2023-03-26T19:09
This month's commentary podcast revisits 2015's Remain, the central work of Them Are Us Too. It's a beautiful record which ably fits into darkwave and dreampop traditions, but more import...
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We Have A Technical 450: Crossing The Street from 2023-03-23T09:00
We try to make these landmark numbered episodes of the podcast something special, and we think we've come through on that account. This week, we're happy to be joined by bass player, Wax Trax le...
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We Have A Technical 449: We'll Use It, Whatever from 2023-03-16T09:30
After a week missed due to scheduling mishaps, we’re back with another instalment of our ever popular Pick Five format on this week’s podcast. This time, we’re each picking tracks from our respe...
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We Have a Technical 448: The :Wumpscast: Revisited from 2023-03-09T10:00
Due to circumstances beyond our control, a new episode of We Have a Technical was not possible this week. In place of the planned episode (which we still hope to record), we are re-presenting ep...
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We Have A Technical 447: Moonsault Out Of My Life from 2023-03-02T10:00
We're joined this week by two of our Patreon backers, Stuart White and Richard Gould, to talk about albums they've each chosen: Bloodline, the reunion LP from formative UK goth-punk act 1...
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We Have A Commentary: Front Line Assembly, "Tactical Neural Implant" from 2023-02-26T15:40
As selected by our Patreon backers from the slate of the four "classic" Front Line Assembly records, 1991's Tactical Neural Implant is the subject of this month's commentary podcast. It's...
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We Have A Technical 446: Space Flying Tiger Drop from 2023-02-23T10:00
While both of the records we’re talking about are from nominal side-projects, you couldn’t get much further from one another in sound (and perhaps quality?) on the industrial spectrum than Santa...
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We Have A Technical 445: Back In The Usenet Days from 2023-02-16T10:00
The new LP by industrial legends Laibach is the subject of this week’s podcast. The band has perhaps never been more active, releasing a slew of soundtracks and other releases, but Sketches O...
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We Have A Technical 444: From a Cat's POV from 2023-02-09T10:00
We're joined on the podcast this week by journalist Konstantina Buhalis, for a conversation emerging out of her Listen
We Have A Technical 443: Don't Blame The Nap from 2023-02-02T10:00
Deep scene records from the 80s and 90s make up this episode of the podcast, with the politically savvy EBM of Borghesia's No Hope No Fear and the turn of the millennium trance/coldwave e...
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We Have A Commentary: The Creatures, "Feast" from 2023-01-29T10:00
The subject of this month's commentary podcast blends post-punk with exotica, and tranquility with brutality. Yes, we're taking a look back at Feast, the first LP from Siouxsie & The Bans...
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We Have A Technical 442: A Tough Sell from 2023-01-26T10:00
Now is the winter of our discontent, as the Senior Staff are each picking five tracks which scratch a particularly misanthropic itch for them. We're also talking about the upcoming Cruel World a...
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We Have A Technical 441: I Have Lost You Or Something from 2023-01-19T10:00
We're joined by longtime friend of the site Rexx Arkana to discuss the release of his new 4-CD compilation, <...
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We Have A Technical 440: 2023 Is Ruined from 2023-01-12T10:00
After last week's odd couple pairing, there's at least a spiritual link between the two solo/side project records we've chosen for this week's podcast: the sculpted technoid of Daniel Myer's S'A...
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We Have A Technical 439: Dvorak Gaming Rig from 2023-01-05T10:00
The first podcast of the new year has us returning to the classic two albums format. Here's where we'd normally make some pithy contrast or comparison between the two records, or some comment ab...
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We Have A Commentary: Little Boots, "Hands" from 2022-12-31T23:56
We're hybridizing traditions right at the end of 2022, as we combine our customary off-topic episode of We Have A Technical and our monthly commentary episodes. We asked our Patreons what sort o...
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We Have A Technical 438: Happy Holidays Dwayne from 2022-12-29T10:00
The site might be on hiatus for the annual holiday break, but we're still gonna be recording the recently established traditional "Pick 5 songs from this year" episode of We Have a Technical. Fi...
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We Have A Technical 437: Best of 2022 Roundup from 2022-12-22T10:00
As is traditional, we're capping off our Year End Coverage with a discussion of our Top 25 list, as well as getting into some statistical analysis of the last 12 years of this exercise and of co...
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We Have A Technical 436: Better Than Jazz Fusion from 2022-12-15T10:00
This week's We Have A Technical is a bit of a housecleaning episode, as we're talking about our favourite record of the year which fits just outside of our normal purview - Endure by Spec...
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We Have A Technical 435: The Lore Is Real from 2022-12-08T10:00
The two albums format has us shifting from an Oz goth debut in Ikon's In The Shadow Of The Angel to a US electro swansong in Alter Der Ruine's I Will Remember It All Differently. W...
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We Have A Technical 434: Silicon Heaven from 2022-12-01T10:00
This iteration of our ever popular Pick Five format has us casting our minds back to the days before we were the worldly and jaded connoisseurs of all things goth and industrial we are today. We...
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We Have a Commentary: Various Artists, "Shut Up Kitty: A Cyber-Based Covers Compilation" from 2022-11-28T00:30
As selected by our Patreon backers, this month’s commentary subject is Re-constriction Records’ 1993 covers comp Shut Up Kitty. A document of both the emerging US coldwave sound as well a...
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We Have A Technical 433: Peanut Butter in the Keys from 2022-11-24T10:00
This week's episode of We Have A Technical features an interview with none other than London After Midnight mastermind and all around goth icon Sean Brennan, who's joining us to discuss the band...
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We Have A Technical 432: Canadian Tire Reference from 2022-11-17T10:00
We're joined on the podcast by Jill Sheridan and Eric Oehler of long-running midwest synthpop act Null Device to discuss their new record, The Emerald Age. Between broader world events an...
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We Have A Technical 431: Robble Robble from 2022-11-10T10:00
It doesn't get much more broad or accessible than a discussion of records by Joy Division and The Cure, but to put a particular spin on this episode we're each discussing our favourite live reco...
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We Have A Technical 430: Watermute from 2022-11-03T09:25
On the occasion of this past week's Kanga/Kaelan Mikla show, we're using this podcast as an opportunity to discuss the experience of watching bands change and grow over the course of multiple li...
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We Have a Commentary: Rasputina, "Thanks for the Ether" from 2022-10-30T19:27
This month’s We Have A Commentary has the Senior Staff flipping back through musty old scrapbooks both personal and historical, as they discuss Rasputina’s debut LP, Thanks For The Ether....
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We Have A Technical 429: Meta-Commentary from 2022-10-27T09:00
On this week's podcast we're joined by Jack Armondo to talk about Psychogoria, the big and sweeping new record of darkwave and goth from Panic Priest. It's a record marked as much by AM r...
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We Have A Technical 428: Rhys' Recent Releases from 2022-10-20T09:00
It's a two albums episode this week, with FLA's forays into game soundtracking and the high-modernist deathrock of Cinema Strange up for discussion. We're also recapping set we caught from the l...
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We Have A Technical 427: Less Scumbags In The Sex Shop from 2022-10-13T09:00
The ascent of Italo disco and related sounds within the broader world of body music has been in effect for a year or two now, and we're more than happy about that fact. That's why this week's po...
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We Have A Technical 426: Dis Gust or Dat Gust from 2022-10-06T09:00
It's a classic two albums episode of the podcast this week, and there's a pretty wide gulf between our selections. The melting-pot approach to industrial rock taken on Circle Of Dust's Diseng...
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We Have a Technical 425: Cold Waves X from 2022-09-29T09:00
Back home and at least somewhat rested, Alex and Bruce are giving a full run-down of this past weekend’s mammoth four day iteration of Chicago’s Cold Waves festival, topped off with a trio of pe...
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We Have A Technical 424: Right to the End from 2022-09-22T09:00:12
Inspired by a conversation with DJ Major Tom of Seattle, we're switching up our venerable Pick Five format on this week's podcast. In this "Prompt Five" episode, we'll each be prompting the othe...
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We Have A Commentary: Current 93, "Earth Covers Earth" from 2022-09-18T19:24:45
Our monthly commentary podcast finds us pondering mortality and the passage of time with David Tibet and a broad and motley crew of Current 93 collaborators on 1988's Earth Covers Earth. ...
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We Have A Technical 423: The Legacy Of Dave Heckman from 2022-09-15T09:00:09
The passing of Metropolis Records founder Dave Heckman has been keenly felt by countless people in dark alternative music across the world over the past several weeks. To get a better sense of w...
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We Have A Technical 422: Bublé Water from 2022-09-08T09:00:58
We're joined this week by the charming duo of DJs Hate Mior and Vernal Trash of Darkness Forever Toronto. The pair spoke with us at Terminus about making the most out of streaming platforms duri...
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We Have A Technical 421: Shoe X from 2022-09-01T09:00:33
After a healthy run of interviews, we're back to our classic two albums format for this week's podcast. We're talking about the anxious and aggressive EBM laid down by The Invincible Spirit on t...
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We Have A Commentary: Wulfband, self-titled from 2022-08-28T17:08:42
This month's Patreon-supported commentary podcast finds the Senior Staff careening through the over-caffeinated mania of Wulfband's debut LP. Offering a unique spin on neo-oldschool EBM, the mys...
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We Have a Technical 420: Legolas Hair from 2022-08-25T09:00:02
Shannon Hemmett of Actors joins the podcast this week to talk about the development and upcoming live premiere of her other project, Leathers. We discuss the project's embracing of smoother shoe...
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We Have A Technical 319: Mmmokada from 2022-08-18T09:00:50
Recorded just before her smashing performance at Terminus, this week on the podcast we're proud to bring you our interview with Louisahhh. Considered, impassioned, and substantive, this intervie...
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We Have A Technical 318: The Sound Of Sheffield from 2022-08-11T09:00:36
Few first-time festival acts piqued our interest as much as Randolph & Mortimer, who made their North American debut at Terminus. The project's combination of groove-heavy EBM and subtly sardoni...
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We Have A Technical 417: At A Moment's Notice from 2022-08-04T09:00:51
We're back home and moderately well-rested (though as you'll hear not entirely organized) after a weekend of Industrial Summer Camp fun at Calgary's Terminus Festival. This is our recap episode,...
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We Have A Technical 416: Grag Bagisode from 2022-07-28T09:00:30
With one foot out the door to meet up with all of our fellow Industrial Summer Campers at Terminus today, we're doing a grab-bag episode of the podcast. Various bits of live news, forthcoming re...
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We Have a Commentary: Din [A] Tod, "Westwerk" from 2022-07-24T18:41:59
This month's We Have A Commentary bonus podcast has the Senior Staff casting their eyes back to 2009 and the release of Din A Tod's second and final LP Westwerk. While it's a record that ...
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We Have a Technical 415: Drag Bret Hart Down from 2022-07-21T09:00:42
This week’s episode has us each picking five pairs of tracks we’ve come to have linked in our minds, whether it be through our personal mixtape or DJ histories, or some other mystery of the huma...
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We Have A Technical 414: The Whippisode from 2022-07-14T09:00:23
Inland Empire coldwave and Bay Area no wave are far more different than nomenclature and physical proximity might suggest, as we find out in this episode of We Have A Technical. The loosely thra...
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We Have a Technical 413: A Number One from 2022-07-07T09:00:22
Bruce is away this week, which means we've tapped our good friend Mildred Strange from the excellent History Lessons for Misanthropes to joi...
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We Have A Technical 412: KISS.fm Truther from 2022-06-30T09:00
From post-futurepop to post-witch house, we're hopping across some big gulfs in style with this week's podcast's two records. First, the tasteful to a fault Edge Of Dawn's Enjoy The Fall ...
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We Have a Commentary: Twin Tribes, "Shadows" from 2022-06-27T04:30:48
Settle in for a lot of fast talk, as the Senior staff power their way through the debut LP from Texas' Twin Tribes. A modern darkwave classic through and through, be prepared for a lot of gushin...
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We Have A Technical 411: Excoriate Me If You Must from 2022-06-23T18:02:27
One of our chin-stroking big topic episodes is coming your way this week, as we discuss the thorny question of the cost of digital releases within the culture of the darker music scenes. What sh...
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We Have A Technical 410: Destrucity from 2022-06-16T09:00:16
Two rather different records in terms of era, sound, and (presumably) audience make up this week's episode of We Have A Technical. We're talking about Ashbury Heights' debut Three Cheers For ...
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We Have a Technical 409: Whither Roc from 2022-06-09T09:00:45
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We Have A Technical 408: You Know Who I'm Talking About from 2022-06-02T09:00:18
It’s a slightly spicy episode of We Have A Technical this week, as we find ourselves sharing an appreciation for the thoughtful dark ambient of Blink Twice…and debating the foibles of the nomina...
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We Have A Technical 407: Smiley Face from 2022-05-26T09:00:42
As we recently opined, the new album by The Legendary Pink Dots ranks among the best wo...
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We Have A Commentary: KMFDM, "NIHIL" from 2022-05-22T22:20:41
This month's We Have A Commentary brings you an album-length discussion of KMFDM's 1995 LP, NIHIL, as selected by our Patreon backers from a range of records by the long-standing German/A...
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We Have A Technical 406: S-Tier Graphs from 2022-05-19T09:00:14
We'e getting right to business with a jumbo-sized podcast breaking down each and every act from Vancouver's five day (FIVE DAY!) Verboden Festival. It was a slew of performances at different ven...
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We Have A Technical 405: Not a Funny Bit from 2022-05-12T09:00:28
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We Have a Technical 404: Le Petit Mort from 2022-05-05T09:00:02
We’re taking a detour from anything remotely related to industrial with this week’s two albums formatted podcast. First up is the goth-inflected machine rawk of Ulterior’s proper debut, Wild ...
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We Have a Commentary: The Legendary Pink Dots "Curse" from 2022-04-30T09:00:06
This month's Patreon-supported commentary podcast has the Senior Staff revisiting Curse, an early chapter in the massive discography of The Legendary Pink Dots. Both Alex and Bruce hold L...
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We Have A Technical 403: High Five Through the Computer from 2022-04-28T09:00:52
We're joined on this week's episode of We Have A Technical by Robert Katerwol, who's discussing the fifth iteration of Vancouver's Verboden Festival. After having had to forestall the fest by tw...
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We Have A Technical 402: Be Kind from 2022-04-21T09:00:51
Three of our fantastic Patreonies are joining us to talk about some records near and dear to them. We're discussing Too Deep by Kontravoid, Berlin 2007 by Collapsed System, and ...
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We Have A Technical 401: Bebop and Rocksteady from 2022-04-14T09:00:14
The Senior Staff is back in the saddle and returning to our tried and true Pick Five format in this week's episode. In an homage to the scen...
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We Have a Technical 400: The Quartercentenary from 2022-04-07T09:00:21
The Senior Staff is celebrating 400 (actually a lot more, but officially 400) episodes of We Have a Technical by having a big ol’ party, and by party we mean we had on several friends of the pod...
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We Have A Technical 399.875: That's Got Some Colour To It from 2022-03-31T09:00:28
Alex rejoins the podcast in a lead-up episode before our 400th one. By way of catch up, we're talking about recent records from melodic Swedish post-punk act Principe Valiente, and Devours side-...
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We Have A Technical 399.75: Darker Arthurnatives from 2022-03-24T09:00:38
We're joined on the podcast this week by guest host Sharon Kyronfive. In addition to having written some great 199X columns for ID:UD, Sharon's tenures at 21st Circuitry and Industrialnation mak...
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We Have a Technical 399.5: Maniacal Repetition from 2022-03-17T09:00:17
With Alex still tending to family matters, we're once again tagging in a friend of the site to co-host. This week, musician, scholar, and all around authority concerning industrial and goth musi...
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We Have a Technical 399: Lost To The Aether from 2022-03-10T10:00:25
With Alex dealing with a family emergency, we've asked long-time friend of the site and frequent guest Matt Fanale to co-host this episode of We Have A Technical. There's lots of news to catch u...
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No Episode This Week from 2022-03-03T10:00:25
Hi folks,
Due to a family emergency we're unable to record and offer an episode this week. Thanks for your understanding, and we hope to be back as soon as possible.
We Have a Technical 398: Goats From the Universe from 2022-02-24T10:00:10
It’s EBM Day and everyone’s celebrating. Well, at least we are. The not so terminal state of EBM is the subject of the day, as we move through our initial conceptions of and experiences with the...
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We Have A Commentary: iVardensphere, "Ragemaker" from 2022-02-20T20:07:26
This month's commentary podcast is one of the rare ones in which we invite an artist to walk through their new record, track by track. It's a great time to catch up with long-time friend of the ...
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We Have a Technical 397: Dad Rock Rap from 2022-02-17T10:00:47
We don’t necessarily intend for our two albums format episodes to end up mapping the reach of genres we discuss on We Have A Technical, but they often end up that way. This week is no exception ...
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We Have A Technical 296: Astro Boy Didn't Lie from 2022-02-10T10:00:34
After a far too long absence, it's the return of our popular Pick Five format! Slower club tunes are the subject of the day, with Alex and Bruce each selecting five lower-BPM tracks they like to...
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We Have a Technical 395: Change the Temperature from 2022-02-03T10:00:47
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We Have A Commentary: In The Nursery, "L'Esprit" from 2022-01-30T17:21:07
This month's We Have A Commentary podcast features the Senior Staff's discussion of In The Nursery's landmark 1990 LP L'Esprit. Questions of acoustic versus synthesized symphonics, milita...
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WE HAVE A TECHNICAL 394: COMICS WITH? from 2022-01-27T10:00:45
Both Boy Harsher’s new film The Runner and its accompanying soundtrack have been released, offering us the chance to talk about how both works draw upon and move beyond the group’s aest...
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We Have A Technical 393: Thank You Mike Wells from 2022-01-20T10:00
In the wake of the passing of Mike Wells, we're discussing his legacy both as one half of the legendary Gridlock and as a mastering engineer. We're thankful to Alex Reed, Daniel Graves, David Du...
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We Have A Technical 392: Reconsider that Nickname from 2022-01-13T10:00
Inspired by last week's discussion of legacy acts, we have a very specific iteration of our two albums format for this week's episode of We Have A Technical. It's a 'masters of dark electro' the...
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We Have a Technical 391: 2022 is Ruined from 2022-01-06T10:00
The role of legacy acts (and their definition) in the broader industrial and goth diasporas is the subject of our first podcast of the year. How are festivals and club nights shaped by them, and...
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We Have a Technical 390: Off Topic 2021 from 2021-12-30T10:00
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We Have a Technical 389: A Funny Stinger from 2021-12-23T11:00:47
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We Have a Commentary: Seabound, "No Sleep Demon" from 2021-12-19T10:00
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We Have a Technical 388: Best of 2021 Round Up from 2021-12-17T10:00
We're tying up some Year End odds and sods on this week's podcast, with a quick rundown of our Top 25, and then some discussion of a whopping twenty releases we're putting forth as honourable me...
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We Have A Technical 387: Abby Content from 2021-12-09T15:42:19
It's a bit of an odd catch-up episode of the podcast this week, friends, as we're discussing three recent albums released too late to be given regular review coverage. Records by Deine Lakaien, ...
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We Have A Technical 386: Nylon Tracksuits from 2021-12-02T10:00
We're talking records by Mesh and Mlada Fronta on this week's podcast, as synthpop/alt rock and rhythmic noise/IDM combos are considered. Also, talk about the first major concert the Senior Staf...
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We Have a Commentary: Throbbing Gristle, 20 Jazz Funk Greats from 2021-11-28T16:36:11
As selected by our Patreon backers, an album which needs no introduction whatsoever is the subject of this month's We Have A Commentary podcast. We're discussing 20 Jazz Funk Greats' recu...
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We Have A Technical 385: Uncouth Beast from 2021-11-25T10:00
We're talking about the changing roles served by vocals in industrial and post-industrial music in this week's episode of the podcast. Whether tilting towards pop conventions or serving to explo...
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We Have A Technical 384: Welcome To Health from 2021-11-18T10:00
Was 1998 a peak year for darkwave? You decide after listening to this episode of We Have A Technical, which discusses the broad-reaching electro-acoustic laments of Deathwatch Beetle Repairman's...
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We Have a Technical 383: Ziggy Says from 2021-11-11T10:00
From an uncertain electroclash hangover to an experiment in pure drone, this week's two albums formatted episode covers a lot of ground. First up it's a discussion of Mount Sims' 2004 Wild Li...
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We Have a Technical 382: You Swerved Me from 2021-11-04T09:00
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We Have A Commentary: Boy Harsher, "Country Girl" from 2021-10-31T09:00
This month's commentary podcast conveniently coincides with news of a new Boy Harsher LP and tour as we discuss the duo's 2017 EP, Country Girl. Though short in run-time, the EP's sound a...
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We Have a Technical 381: Ain't Listening from 2021-10-28T09:00
This week we are picking five "easy records". What does that mean? Who knows, listen and find out!
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We Have A Technical #380: Why Choose from 2021-10-21T09:00
It's a down the pipe two albums episode of the podcast this week, with Bruce picking a record by semi-notable German goth rock band and Alex picking a record by a distinctly obscure German indus...
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We Have A Technical 379: Sanctioned Yelling from 2021-10-14T09:00
The thematic complexity, musical variety, and labyrinthine discography of Current 93 is the subject of this week's We Have A Technical. David Tibet's work has had a profound impact on both of us...
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We Have A Technical 378: 10 Hours of Sleep from 2021-10-07T09:00
Our two album discussion episodes don't get much more down the pipe than this! Two fun and funky EBM records of different stripes are on the docket. First, we're catching up with Randolph & Mort...
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We Have A Technical 377: Xoxchitla from 2021-09-30T09:00
On the cusp of the release of their sophomore record Acts Of Worship, we're joined on the podcast this week by Jason Corbett and Shannon Hemmett of Actors. There's lots on the table as we...
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We Have A Technical 376: Two Slabs Of Meat from 2021-09-23T09:00
It's a Pick Five episode of the podcast this week, with each of us talking about some samples which stuck with us for better or worse. It's somewhat bitterly ironic that that's our subject, as t...
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We Have a Commentary: Choke Chain, "Invoking Shadows" from 2021-09-19T09:00
Mark Trueman of Choke Chain joins Alex and Bruce to discuss his new release Invoking Shadows, his history with EBM and industrial and how this release is distinct from its predecessors.
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We Have A Technical 375: The Arbiters of Industrial from 2021-09-16T09:00
For too long we have been delinquent in our duties as supreme judges of the nature of industrial music and culture. For too long we have hidden behind mealy-mouthed equivocation out of a desire ...
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We Have A Technical 374: John Senile from 2021-09-09T09:00
A classic two albums episode has us kicking between darkwave and industrial metal. Diva Destruction's debut Passion's Price, with its synth strings and high-goth aesthetic, is considered ...
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We Have A Technical 373: Furnas and LaFon from 2021-09-02T09:00
After four weeks of our New Canon series, the regular We Have A Technical podcast is back! This week we're discussing Sinner Get Ready, the new album from Lingua Ignota. Its rural mood an...
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The New Canon: Darkwave from 2021-08-26T09:00
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The New Canon: Industrial from 2021-08-19T09:00
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The New Canon: Goth from 2021-08-12T09:00
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The New Canon: EBM from 2021-08-05T09:00
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We Have A Commentary: Moev, "Yeah Whatever" from 2021-07-31T09:00
This month's We Have A Commentary takes up the third LP from Vancouver's chameleonic Moev. Yeah Whatever brought together elements of synthpop, post-punk, funk, nascent alt-rock, goth, an...
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We Have A Technical 372: Sex Lives Of The Thundercats from 2021-07-29T09:00
On the last episode of We Have A Technical before our special podcast series The New Canon takes over the month of August, we're talking about the classic mid-90s fusion of industrial programmin...
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We Have A Technical 371: More Obnoxious from 2021-07-22T09:00
The sometimes strained and sometimes incredibly powerful crossover between industrial and hip-hop is the subject of this week's We Have A Technical. From both genres' shared roots in sampling to...
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We Have A Technical 370: Heat With Kevin Thorn from 2021-07-15T09:00
The return of the listener-favourite Pick Five format has us considering records we like to listen to whilst traveling on airplanes. Being stuck in a tightly compacted space hurtling through the...
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We Have A Technical 369: A Cheaper Kind Of Sauce from 2021-07-08T09:00
After a few weeks of holidays, medical leave, and 10th anniversary celebrations we're back to our usual schedule here at the site, including a classic two albums format episode of the podcast. T...
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We Have A Technical 368: FOREVER! FOREVER! from 2021-07-01T09:00
I Die: You Die turns 10 years old this year, so naturally this week's podcast is of a reflective tack. We're looking back at the very first writing posted to the site, and talking about how the ...
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We Have A Technical 368: FOREVER! FOREVER! from 2021-07-01T09:00
I Die: You Die turns 10 years old this year, so naturally this week's podcast is of a reflective tack. We're looking back at the very first writing posted to the site, and talking about how the ...
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We Have A Commentary: London After Midnight, "Psycho Magnet" from 2021-06-27T17:27:34
This month's We Have A Commentary episode, made possible as always by the generous financial support of our Patreon backers, has us taking up the sophomore record from London After Midnight. An ...
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We Have A Technical 367: I Want A New Meme from 2021-06-24T01:40:14
A most contentious of crossover genres is the subject of this week's podcast, dear listener. Yep, Alex and Bruce are tackling the neon-veined beast that is synthwave, and try to wrestle with its...
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We Have a Technical 366: He Does That from 2021-06-17T09:00
From the sugariest of highs to the most oppressive of lows, it's tough to imagine records with vibes as different than the pair up for discussion on this week's podcast. The mature synthpop of B...
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We Have a Technical 365: Pod Costas from 2021-06-10T09:00
After almost a full month away from it, we're back to the classic two albums format in this week's episode of We Have A Technical. Voices, the 1998 LP from Lights Of Euphoria, is discusse...
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We Have a Technical 364: UK Music Twilight Zone from 2021-06-03T09:00
The new record from the website and podcast’s namesake is up for discussion on this week’s podcast. Yep, Uncle Gary’s new record Intruder looks to be following in the footsteps of its pre...
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We Have A Commentary: Aesthetic Perfection, "A Violent Emotion" from 2021-05-30T17:55:38
This month's Patreon-supported bonus commentary podcast finds us heading back to the still-oontz driven days of the industrial club scene circa 2008 with Aesthetic Perfection's breakthrough LP <...
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We Have a Technical 363: Nice at Bomberman from 2021-05-27T09:00
In this week's episode, Jeff Cancade - AKA Devours - joins the Senior Staff in East Van's bucolic Robson Park to talk about his fantastic new genre-hopping LP Escape From Planet Devours. ...
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We Have A Technical 362: Take A Pils from 2021-05-20T09:00
Our popular Pick Five format has us choosing a selection of Down To Mope records. What the hell does that mean? Well, you'll just have to listen to this week's episode to learn about the particu...
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We Have A Technical 361: Gas Crisis Dynamite from 2021-05-13T09:00
Obscure, murky electro-industrial and brightly anthemic post-punk are the subjects of this week's podcast, as we discuss records by Yeht Mae and Spectres. We're also talking about the recent HEA...
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We Have A Technical 360: The Latter from 2021-05-06T09:00
We're on the cusp of a new double-LP from one of our favourite bands at I Die: You Die, Kirlian Camera. And before we dig into the elaborately titled Cold Pills (Scarlet Gate of Toxic Daybrea...
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We Have A Technical 359: Pit-Fighter On Game Boy from 2021-04-29T09:00
The podcast is taking a rambling and conceptual route this week, with some discussion of changing perceptions of Our Thing within broader culture. Is the "Sure, kind of like Nine Inch Nails" exp...
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We Have A Commentary: The Sisters Of Mercy, "Vision Thing" from 2021-04-25T15:30:17
We're hunting big game with this month's commentary podcast, as we tackle the last release from one of the most infamous bands we're ever likely to cover - Andrew Eldritch's attempt to finally t...
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We Have a Technical 358: From All Angles from 2021-04-22T10:00
A two albums episode of the podcast finds us discussing Klanstabil's strange journey from Ant-Zen minimalism to the surfeit of passion and pop of Math & Emotion. Next, we take up Witchman...
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We Have a Technical 357: Very Very Relaxed from 2021-04-15T09:00
We say this a lot, but trust us: you'd be very hard-pressed to find a more different pair of records than the one's we're discussing in this week's podcast that still have some relevance to the ...
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We Have A Technical 356: Was That Too Gross? from 2021-04-08T09:00
As much as we'd like to convey the image of austere, stoic hermits who only listen to music when we're giving it our full attention in a darkened room with top-of-the-line stereo equipment, like...
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We Have A Technical 355: A Good Point from 2021-04-01T09:00
The gents from Sturm Café are our guests on the podcast this week, and we had a blast chatting with them about their changing relationships with EBM, the importance of a catchy melody, and the n...
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We Have A Technical 354: Two Chew Toys from 2021-03-25T09:00
The mean and gritty retro-futurism of Pure Ground's brand of minimal synth and Absurd Minds' uncanny obsession with a particular era of Project Pitchfork's work inspires this episode of We Have ...
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We Have A Commentary: Cabaret Voltaire, "Micro-Phonies" from 2021-03-21T16:13:35
This month's bonus commentary podcast finds us discussing the charming confidence of Cabaret Voltaire's overt push into funk and pop territory, 1983's Micro-Phonies. A band whose evolutio...
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We Have A Technical 353: Bonobos from 2021-03-18T09:00
Scene-rooted cover tracks are the subject du jour in this episode of We Have A Technical. The expressive, the rote, and the crassly commercial versions of other artists' work which we've been dr...
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We Have A Technical 352: Dunks on The Office from 2021-03-11T10:00
A striking pair of electro-industrial and EBM debuts are the focus of this week's podcast, as we turn our attention to Necro Facility's The Black Paintings and NTRSN's People Like Gods...
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We Have a Technical 351: John Ramgo from 2021-03-04T10:00
After going ham with some rather abrasive rants on last week's episode, we're taking the backseat this week and welcoming on some Patreon backers who are keen to talk about records from a bands ...
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We Have A Commentary: Faith And The Muse, "Evidence Of Heaven" from 2021-02-28T10:00
This month's Patreon supported commentary podcast is dedicated to the infinitely varied and strikingly confident expression of high goth prowess that is Faith And The Muse's third LP. On Evid...
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We Have A Technical 350: Hot Takes! from 2021-02-25T10:00
Do not adjust your podcasting device - We Have A Technical has not been replaced by that sports radio station you hear annoying ads for. We are, however, coming into our 350th episode guns a'bla...
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We Have A Technical 349: Bortles? from 2021-02-18T10:00
Our two albums format finds us talking about retro dark electro and the outer limits of technoid in this week's episode of We Have A Technical. The last record from Necrotek has us discussing th...
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We Have A Technical 348: Bombers Content from 2021-02-11T10:00
From the perspective of your co-workers who really wish you'd turn your headphones down, industrial music seems as far removed from pop as is possible. But that ain't the whole truth! Thi...
We Have A Technical 347: Like Last Week from 2021-02-04T10:00
Deep genre records from Z Prochek and Manuskript have Alex and Bruce talking about the odd intersections of sounds and styles only possible at particular periods in industrial and goth history. ...
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We Have A Commentary: Spark!, "Hela Din Värld" from 2021-01-31T18:48:44
The Senior Staff are discussing a modern EBM classic in Spark!'s Hela Din Värld in this month's Patreon-supported commentary podcast! In 2012 Mattias Ziessow and Stefan Brorsson added amb...
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We Have A Technical 346: What A Horrible Night To Have A Curse from 2021-01-28T10:00
The Pick Five format returns, with Alex and Bruce each highlighting some behind the scenes folks. Be they engineers, writers, label heads, or DJs, there are countless people who've helped to sha...
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We Have a Technical 345: What Would You Have Me Do from 2021-01-21T10:00
The classic two albums format brings discussion of Minuit Machine's Violent Rains - an early example of the current wave of European darkwave we're continuing to enjoy - and Moskwa TV's <...
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We Have a Technical 344: Take Two from 2021-01-14T10:00
FLA mastermind, studio wizard, and all around industrial legend Rhys Fulber joins the Senior Staff this week for an illuminating conversation. Rhys discusses the process behind the new Front Lin...
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We Have A Technical 343: A Real Boy from 2021-01-07T10:00
We're starting the year off with our classic two records format for the podcast. First up its the sui generis 2012 12" from Aussie act Forces, which brought together classic body music and techn...
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We Have a Technical 342: Birds Have Had ENOUGH from 2020-12-31T10:00
It's the annual off topic podcast! Recorded weeks ago in a haze of pre-holiday cheer, we honestly have no idea what we spoke about on this cast. Probably a lot of tired banter about our usual of...
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We Have A Technical 341: A Thanksgiving Movie from 2020-12-24T10:00
The written coverage on the site might be taking a holiday hiatus, but the podcasting doesn't stop. As a coda to our Year End coverage, the Senior Staff are each picking five fave tracks of the ...
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We Have A Commentary: Neuroticfish, "Gelb" from 2020-12-20T21:05:01
The last commentary podcast of 2020 has the Senior Staff discussing the deep songwriting and production charms of Neuroticfish's Gelb. The emotional and psychological complexity of the 20...
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We Have a Technical 340: Best of 2020 Round Up from 2020-12-18T10:00
With the Top 25 releases of the year written up and posted, Bruce and Alex are looking back at the year that was, not just in the form of those specific records, but also honorable mentions, sta...
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We Have a Technical 339: Thats the Stinger from 2020-12-10T10:00
It's a bittersweet and emotional episode of the podcast, as we are joined by Chris Peterson to talk about the life and work of Jeremy Inkel, specifically focusing on the recent posthumous releas...
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We Have a Technical 338: Still Jacked from 2020-12-03T10:00
This week's classic two-albums podcast format brings discussion of the sole record by the enigmatic industrial/black metal project The Bleeding Light and some late 90s envelope-pushing dark elec...
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We Have A Technical 337: Wendytaker from 2020-11-26T10:00
For genres with a lot of clearly recognizable visual markers, industrial and goth can live and die by how they finesse them. In a high-concept episode of We Have A Technical, Alex and Bruce are ...
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We Have A Commentary: Love Like Blood: "Chronology Of A Love Affair" from 2020-11-22T21:09:44
It's a pretty left-field choice for this month's track-by-track commentary podcast, with the Senior Staff discussing the final record by German goth rock/gothic metal act Love Like Blood. Made u...
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We Have A Technical 336: Kill Hellektro from 2020-11-19T10:00
This classic two albums format episode of the podcast couldn't more clearly convey the range of sounds we like to talk about on We Have A Technical if we'd planned it that way. The field testing...
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We Have A Technical 335: Something About Gangrel from 2020-11-12T10:00
The lasting impact and intensity of groundbreaking UK act Portion Control is discussed on this week's podcast, with a specific focus on their first and most recent LPs: 1982's I Staggered Men...
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We Have A Technical 334: Self-Bowdlerize from 2020-11-05T10:00
Recorded in ages past, in the Before Times preceding the election (ie, last Monday), the latest episode of We Have A Technical finds the Senior Staff discussing two very different records which ...
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We Have A Technical 333: Fat Drax from 2020-10-29T09:00
It's a Halloween like no other for which the Senior Staff are gearing up, or, more accurately gearing down. In anticipation of a more laid back Halloween, Bruce and Alex are each picking five cu...
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We Have A Commentary: Meat Beat Manifesto, "99%" from 2020-10-25T16:03:39
As selected by our Patreon backers, this month the Senior Staff is running a track by track commentary on the third LP from Jack Dangers' genre-hopping, sample-mad Meat Beat Manifesto project. W...
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We Have a Technical 332: We've Arrived from 2020-10-22T09:00
We're talking about The Mighty Killing Joke on this week's podcast, specifically the 2013 documentary The Death And Resurrection Show which is just getting some recent wider distributio...
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We Have a Technical 331: Cereal Box Hank from 2020-10-15T09:00
It's a wintry and atmospheric Swedish two'fer on this week's episode of We Have A Technical. As the air chills and nights grow longer, the Senior Staff take up and discuss In Slaughter Natives' ...
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We Have a Technical 330: Too Special from 2020-10-08T09:00
We're cracking open the venerable ID:UD mailbag this week, answering questions fired our way via Patreon and Twitter. How can or should we parse genre? Is nostalgia anathemic to a theoretically ...
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We Have a Technical 329: Don't Even Know Her from 2020-10-01T09:00
It's an odd couple pair of records being discussed on this week's episode of We Have A Technical, with the proto-goth, proto-industrial, proto-Ministry work of Blackouts sitting next to the thou...
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We Have A Commentary: Assemblage 23, "Mourn" from 2020-09-24T09:00
For this month's commentary podcast we're honored to be joined by Tom Shear of Assemblage 23, who takes us on a track by track overview of his new record, Mourn. It's a deeply personal re...
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We Have a Technical 328: Sub Grinder from 2020-09-17T09:00
We have records from the peak of late 90s electronica mania and the new(ish) wave of goth-punk on the docket this week in the form of Pitchshifter's www.pitchshifter.com and Belgrado's se...
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We Have a Technical 327: Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out from 2020-09-10T09:00
Ain't no one getting younger right now, and that certainly includes the Senior Staff. With both Alex and Bruce hurtling though middle age, we thought we'd address the thorny questions that come ...
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We Have a Technical 326: Kanemaru Is Not My Boy from 2020-09-03T09:00
A pair of recent surprising releases from long-standing acts make up this week's episode of the podcast. An unexpected return to early darkwave glory from The Birthday Massacre charms the Senior...
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We Have A Commentary: Mortal Kombat Original Motion Picture Soundtrack from 2020-08-30T09:00
It's a slightly goofier iteration of We Have A Commentary which we bring you this month, as the 25th anniversary of the Mortal Kombat movie and its accompanying soundtrack seems as good a time a...
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We Have a Technical 325: Local Idiots Sent to Jail from 2020-08-27T09:00
With some assistance from Uatu the Watcher, we're using this Pick Five-styled episode of the podcast to speculate about, er, peer into the Multiverse and perceive possible alternate histories of...
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We Have a Technical 324: The Days Are Just Sacked from 2020-08-20T09:00
We're delivering a bit of a twist on the classic two albums format this week, with the podcast taking up both the first and the most recent LP by that pioneering and chameleonic dark electro pro...
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We Have a Technical 323: Fango On The Horn from 2020-08-13T09:00
Back to the classic two albums format this week, the Senior Staff are discussing a pair of morbidly-minded concept records: Pain Station's Cold and Bernard Szajner's Some Deaths Take F...
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We Have a Technical 322: Pasthole from 2020-08-06T09:00
Bruce and Alex do one of their semi-regular jaw sessions with a selection of Patreon Supporters about albums of their choosing! In this batch we discuss Winterkälte, The Echoing Green, Zebra Kat...
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We Have A Technical 321: Scrooge Thing from 2020-07-30T09:00
We've said this before, but you'd be hard-pressed to explain to your Skynard-loving uncle what the two records up for discussion on this week's episode of We Have A Technical have in common. Kat...
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We Have A Commentary: The Damned, "Phantasmagoria" from 2020-07-26T17:36:03
The dreamy, high-camp Edwardian gothic of The Damned's Phantasmagoria is the subject of this month's podcast. What happens when one of the UK's most beloved punk acts steers itself right ...
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We Have a Technical 320: Chrome Corks from 2020-07-23T01:32:20
In an age in which music is digital and albums are increasingly ephemeral, surely record art doesn't matter anymore, right? Dead frigging wrong. The Senior Staff discuss the changing role and va...
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We Have a Technical 319: Too Beautiful for this Stable from 2020-07-16T09:00
It's a cosmic dyad of a podcast episode this week, as the Senior Staff go space trucking with Kangarot and Negative Format for their respective Nursery Of New Stars and Distant Pulses<...
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We Have A Technical 318: Table Beer from 2020-07-09T02:34
We're joined by renaissance woman Andi Harriman to talk about DJing during quarantine and her new EP for aufnahme + wiedergabe, Corpse To Corpus. How do you heat the floor when it's sprea...
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We Have A Technical 317: I Was A Dracula from 2020-07-02T09:00
As an incidental observation of Canada Day, the Senior Staff are selecting a pair of albums from above the 49th to discuss: Volt 9000's Mutronix and Decree's Fateless. Representing...
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We Have A Commentary: Leaether Strip, "Solitary Confinement" from 2020-06-28T09:00
The absolute stone classic that is Leaether Strip's Solitary Confinement is given the commentary treatment in this month's installment of the Patreon-back We Have A Commentary series. The...
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We Have a Technical 316: Glockenspiel and Ukulele from 2020-06-25T09:00
It's turned into an accidentally synthpunk-themed week here at I Die: You Die, and in keeping with that we're looking at two albums proximal to the sounds we normally discuss on the podcast, but...
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We Have a Technical 315: Unfortunate Connotations from 2020-06-18T09:00
With the 'teens in the rearview, the Senior Staff are reflecting on the club tracks which defined the past decade. We're each picking five great club tracks from 2011-2020. Not our faves or pers...
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We Have a Technical 314: Google Troubles from 2020-06-11T09:00
Bruce and Alex are talking about records by Light Asylum and The Final Cut on this week's episode of the podcast. Topics include Shannon Funchess' ability to move between countless moods and gen...
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We Have a Technical 313: Black Lives Matter from 2020-06-04T09:00
We're taking a break from our usual episode formats to speak with Danesha Artis of Standard Issue Citizen and Jairus Khan of Ad·ver·sary and Antigen Shift. We wanted to hear their thoughts on ra...
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We Have a Commentary: Glass Apple Bonzai, "Night Maze" from 2020-05-31T19:56:22
For this month's Patreon-backed commentary podcast, the Senior Staff are looking 2015's Night Maze. Glass Apple Bonzai's sophomore record simult...
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We Have a Technical 312: Subreddits of the Brain from 2020-05-28T09:00
We Have a Technical 311: Brewery Spit from 2020-05-21T09:00
We Have a Technical 310: Calypso Fantastique from 2020-05-14T13:49:27
There's very little that binds the two albums we're discussing on the latest podcast. The downtempo dark ambient slash rhythmic industrial of Tzolk'in's "Haab" and Cure-indebted post-punk act Ve...
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We Have a Technical 309: Good Legs from 2020-05-07T09:00
We Have a Technical 308: 50 Jar Jars from 2020-04-30T09:00
We Have a Technical 307: Done Professionally from 2020-04-23T09:00
We Have a Commentary: Einstürzende Neubauten, "Halber Mensch" from 2020-04-19T17:30:24
We Have a Technical 306: limewire.exe from 2020-04-16T09:00
We Have a Technical 305: On Twitter? from 2020-04-09T09:00
We Have a Technical 304: Canadian Standoff from 2020-04-02T09:00
We Have a Technical 303: Horse Hooves from 2020-03-26T09:00
We Have a Technical 302: Beauty is the Enemy from 2020-03-19T09:00
Amidst all of the broader chaos and confusion, a pioneer in industrial music passed away this last week. Bruce and Alex are joined by Alex Reed to discuss the life and legacy of Genesis P-Orridg...
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We Have a Technical 301: Charnel Armadillo from 2020-03-12T09:00
The 301st episode of We Have A Technical finds Bruce and Alex returning to the classic two albums format, and between LPs by The Phantom Limbs and Stendeck they're reaching into about as dispara...
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We Have a Technical 300: We Did It Together from 2020-03-05T10:00
The 300th episode of We Have A Technical finds Alex and Bruce digging into the pre-history of I Die: You Die. What club trends were popping off in the mid aughts? What would have the site's top ...
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We Have a Commentary: VNV Nation, "Empires" from 2020-02-29T18:32:37
A monumental album celebrating its 20th anniversary is the subject of this month's Patreon supported commentary podcast. "Empires" helped to establish futurepop as a major force in the history o...
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We Have a Technical 299: DELETE THIS from 2020-02-27T10:00
We Have a Technical 298: Two Year Beer from 2020-02-20T10:00
We Have a Technical 297: Gendered Products from 2020-02-13T10:00
The millenial (and curiously continental) stylings of US electro act cut.rate.box are discussed on this week's episode of We Have A Technical. We also have a healthy helping of our mailbag to wo...
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We Have a Technical 296: Sports D-Bag from 2020-02-06T10:00
We Have a Technical 295: You Think You Know Me from 2020-01-30T09:00
We Have a Commentary: Fad Gadget, "Gag" from 2020-01-26T20:45:04
For the first We Have a Commentary of 2020, we're digging in on a genre classic that is both representative and wildly divergent from its parent discography; namely Fad Gadget's "Gag"! Thrill to...
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We Have a Technical 294: Like a Bongo from 2020-01-23T03:16:48
We Have a Technical 293: Rightly Snow from 2020-01-16T10:00
A rare Vancouver snow storm has the Senior Staff separated in meatspace, but that doesn't stop the podcastin'. Records turning twenty this year are on the table, with In Strict Confidence's L...
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We Have a Technical 292: Re-Newted from 2020-01-09T10:00
We Have a Commentary: The Black Box Disk 3 from 2020-01-02T10:15:18
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We Have a Commentary: Black Box Disk 2 from 2019-12-26T10:00
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We Have a Commentary: The Black Box Disk 1 from 2019-12-21T10:00
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We Have a Technical 291: 4 O'Clock in the Morning from 2019-12-19T09:52:55
Your boys Alex and Bruce find themselves at the end of a long grind of Year End coverage plus a slew of pre-recorded podcasts to last over the break...and are keen to talk about pretty much anyt...
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We Have a Technical 290: Year End 2019 from 2019-12-13T10:00
Hot on the heels of our traditional Year End Top 25, the Senior Staff chops up their choices, talks some honourable mentions and ruminates on the year that was 2019. Insights into our review pro...
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We Have a Technical 289: Self Checkout from 2019-12-04T10:00
On the last standard issue podcast of the year, we're picking two 90s goth records by female fronted acts...who couldn't really be further apart other than those characteristics. The first recor...
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We Have a Technical 288: See You at the Party from 2019-11-27T10:00
We've got an autobiographical-cum-historical Pick Five for you folks this week. What records took a while to reveal their charms to us? Which LPs were we either too provincial or too snobby to e...
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We Have a Commentary: Kite, "IV" from 2019-11-24T00:34:08
This month's WHaC is a brief but absolutely frantic run through the roller coaster of emotions, impossibly catchy hooks, and grandiose symphonic ambitions of Kite's 2011 release, "IV". The Swedi...
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We Have a Technical 287: Skeksis P*** from 2019-11-20T10:00
It's November of 2019, and even if we're not in Los Angeles you'd better believe we're not missing the opportunity to discuss Blade Runner, arguably the film with the most influence on industria...
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We Have a Technical 286: House of Angry Cats from 2019-11-13T10:00
We got a classic two album podcast for you this week, with the Senior Staff discussing the baroque technoid elegance of Architect's "Consume Adapt Create" and the chill genre pastiche of Snow In...
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We Have a Technical 185: The Smash It Ups from 2019-11-06T10:00
Navel gazing ahoy! Our recent forays into both digital and physical releases, as well as recent discussion of high-level physical reissues, has us considering the distinctions between physical a...
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We Have a Technical 284: Leave the Room from 2019-10-30T09:00
You couldn't find records much further apart from one another in terms of mood than Aghast View's "Carcinopest" and Displacer's "Cage Fighter's Lullaby", but that's what we're working with on th...
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We Have a Technical 283: The Book of the Dud from 2019-10-23T09:00
The Senior Staff have seen a hell of a lot of scene bands in their time, but even they still have their bucket list bands. This week, they're picking five acts they'd still love to see live, as ...
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We Have a Commentary: Razed in Black, "Damaged" from 2019-10-21T01:38:48
2003's "Damaged" by Razed In Black is the subject of this month's Patreon backed and Patreon selected We Have A Commentary. A real "call Is coming from inside the house" record, RiB's unabashed ...
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We Have a Technical 282: Prematurely from 2019-10-16T09:00
How does A Split Second's "...From The Inside" buck that band's reputation, and is The Legendary Pink Dots' "Nemesis Online" the perfect capper to their 90s period? We have opinions, to no one's...
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We Have a Technical 281: Poor Level Design from 2019-10-09T09:00
The Senior Staff break down the anatomy of a club night on this week's episode of We Have A Technical. From format to venue to promotions to DJs to audience, what makes a club night work or fail...
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We Have A Technical 280: Sleepytime from 2019-10-02T09:00
Coming at you a day earlier than usual (and for the rest of the year), We Have A Technical is discussing a pair of record at opposite historical ends of goth rock, which may have some less than ...
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We Have a Commentary: Animal Bodies, "The Killing Scene" from 2019-09-29T00:13:13
On this month's Patreon-supported bonus podcast, we take on one of the best Vancouver albums of the last decade, synth-punky darkwave modern classic Th...
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We Have a Technical 279: Cold Waves Chicago 2019 from 2019-09-26T01:52:58
One half of the Senior Staff took in the four days of rivethead festivities in the Windy City this past weekend, Cold Waves Chicago! We have a full report on all the goings on from both the main...
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We Have a Technical 278: You Planet from 2019-09-19T09:00
3Teeth's new record, Metawar, comes at an interesting time not only in the industrial metal act's still rising career, but also in the overall t...
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We Have a Technical 277: What'd I Say from 2019-09-12T09:00
On this week's podcast two very different bands at very different times for Our Thing are discussed as the Senior Staff chat about albums by Linea Aspera and MOEV. All the banter and mildly drun...
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We Have a Technical 276: The Gamut from 2019-09-05T09:00
We Have a Technical 275: House Party 2 - The Pajama Jam from 2019-08-29T09:00
The 275th episode of We Have A Technical snuck up on us, but we're rising to the challenge by throwing another impromptu rager, featuring folks working within and around the fringes of Our Thing...
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We Have a Commentary: Klack, "Introducing The 1984 Renault LeCar" from 2019-08-25T17:52:28
Klack's blend of throwback new beat and self-aware Hi NRG sounds seemed to emerge fully formed with the 2017 "Do You Klack?" EP. That's perhaps no surprise given the resumes of Eric Oehler and M...
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We Have a Technical 274: Ding Dang Dong from 2019-08-22T09:00
It's an accidentally Swedish-heavy episode of WHaT this week, as the Senior Staff discuss "Buried Again" by Colony 5 and "III" by Kite. We're kicking from post-futurepop to synthpop this week, a...
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We Have a Technical 273: No Happy Time from 2019-08-15T09:00
It's still Terminus catch-up season here at the HQ, as we offer interviews with Neuroticfish and Pictureplane garnered from our weekend in Calgary. There's plenty on the table from artists who m...
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We Have a Technical 272: Terminus Travelogue 2019 from 2019-08-08T09:00
Terminus is in the can and we've got the ingredients list...or some such other terrible metaphor. The Senior Staff is breaking down all of the highlights from this year's installment of Industri...
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We Have a Technical 271: Seventy Three from 2019-08-01T09:00
Okay we're gonna level with you: we recorded this episode with our pals from Talking to Ghosts and The Blood of Others like three weeks ago and don't remember a god damn thing about it. We might...
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We Have a Technical 270: Sadnesse from 2019-07-25T09:00
The new record from Drab Majesty makes brings some interesting new sounds and moods to the dreamy gloom which was so finely honed on "The Demonstation". And as it happens, the Senior Staff have ...
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The Virgin Prunes, "...If I Die, I Die" from 2019-07-21T09:00
An ur-source for goth music and thematics, The Virgin Prunes' "...If I Die I Die" is the subject of this month's We Have A Commentary. The secrecy, world-building, and religious/mythic imagery o...
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We Have a Technical 269: Who's Afraid of Sylvia Plath from 2019-07-18T02:47:55
We Have a Technical 268: Ruined the Whole Thing from 2019-07-11T01:30:12
Avi Roig from Harsh R dropped by the old ID:UD HQ this past weekend in anticipation of his set at Vancouver's Body 2 Body Cascadian EBM showcase. We chatted with him about his roots in hardcore,...
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We Have a Technical 267: ASCII Memes from 2019-07-04T09:00
I Die: You Die turned eight years old this past weekend, and in light of that we're using this week's episode to compare the sort of music the site covered in its infancy with what's on the tabl...
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We Have a Commentary: Ministry, "In Case You Didn't Feel Like Showing Up" from 2019-07-01T21:14:36
In the same vein as last year's "Ain't It Dead Yet?" episode, this month's We Have A Commentary is a Rifftrax-style accompaniment to MInistry's 1990 tour video "In Case You Didn't Feel Like Show...
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We Have a Technical 266: Vocalizations from 2019-06-27T09:00
Looping bass riffs are just about the only thing the two records we're talking about on this week's podcast have in common. Revolting Cocks' "Linger Fickin' Good" and Iron Curtain's "Desertion" ...
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We Have a Technical 265: Don't Recognize One of the Letters from 2019-06-20T02:16:06
The rivet internets were all abuzz this week over Pitchfork's best industrial album's list, and we're certainly not afraid of tossing in our two cents on the subject. In addition to discussing t...
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We Have a Technical 264: Get the Vibe Going from 2019-06-13T09:00
We're putting a new spin on a classic format with this episode of the podcast. Rather that LPs, we're picking two compilations to discuss - comps by Subconscious and X-IMG, to be precise. What h...
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We Have a Technical 263: I Had Forgotten from 2019-06-06T09:00
Hooky Canadian new wave and dubious German EBM are taken up in in this two album episode of We Have A Technical. Cygnets' "Isolator" and Bigod 20's "Supercute" are discussed, along with some tal...
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We Have a Technical 262: Hello Boss from 2019-05-30T09:00
We Have a Commentary: Haujobb, "Solutions for a Small Planet" from 2019-05-25T22:19:28
We Have a Technical 261: Sax Guy from 2019-05-23T02:25:37
On this week's podcast we're striking while the iron's hot and talking about Hatari, the Icelandic BDSM-themed industrial band whose Eurovision run took the world by storm. How are they connecte...
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We Have a Technical 260: Compact Discordia from 2019-05-16T09:00
We Have a Technical 259: 23 16 from 2019-05-09T09:00
A very special friend of the podcast just happened to be in town, so we're joined this week by Real Cardinal of Comaduster! He's sitting in on our conversations about news and events pertaining ...
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We Have a Technical 258: Pike vs Marsden from 2019-05-02T09:00
We Have a Technical 257: CG Eeyore from 2019-04-25T09:00
Merch. Loot. Tchotchkes. Whatever you call it, bands are hustling it, and fans are buying it. What's the difference between a quality shirt folks would be happy to rock and an ugly as sin one wh...
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We Have a Commentary: Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft, "Gold Und Liebe" from 2019-04-22T22:27:59
DAF's stone classic "Gold Und Liebe" is the subject of this month's We Have A Commentary. An absolute touchstone for all EBM to come, the record is also an intriguing mix of krautrock and disco ...
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We Have a Technical 256: Whatever Happened from 2019-04-18T13:15:37
Verboden Festival came through Vancouver like a tornado, leaving us in a dazed state with the memories and merch of umpteen post-punk, darkwave, and related bands swirling about our heads and ou...
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We Have a Technical 255: Pazuzu's Petals from 2019-04-11T09:00
Back in action after a couple weeks of pre-recorded episodes, the Senior Staff are getting back to basics with discussion of records by Ulver and yelworC. Also, they're doing their best to catch...
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We Have a Technical 254: Smiles und Sunshine from 2019-04-04T14:49:21
The second part of our Pick 5 doubleheader is here! After wallowing in the deep-friend excesses of Americana, we're crossing the Atlantic to discuss some bands who only could have come from Euro...
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We Have a Technical 253: I Blame Society from 2019-03-28T09:00
The first of two Pick 5 episodes of the podcast recorded well ahead of time, so much so that we don't remember much of what was said! We know it had something to do with North American bands in ...
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We Have a Commentary: Grendel, "Timewave Zero" from 2019-03-24T09:00
On this month's Patreon supported bonus podcast, Bruce and Alex tackle Grendel's "Timewave Zero". A notable change in approach and thematics from the project, it's a record that pushed the proje...
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We Have a Technical 252: Seems Appropriate from 2019-03-21T09:00
On this week's episode, the Senior Staff delve headfirst into the history and enduring legacy of one of the most iconic record labels of all time. Julia Nash, daughter of Wax Trax Records founde...
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We Have a Technical 251: Gets a Haircut from 2019-03-14T09:00
With the heavy doses of last week's truth serum finally wearing off, the Senior Staff is back to a tried and true style of episode. Yep, we're sticking with what brought us to the dance: each pi...
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We Have a Technical 250: Truth Serum from 2019-03-07T10:00
We've reached our sestercentennial episode of We Have A Technical! Yep, that's right: 250 episodes are in the can, and to celebrate that anniversary and everyone who's joined us along the way, w...
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We Have a Technical 249: I Was Worried from 2019-02-28T03:35:49
This week's episode of We Have A Technical careers through a plethora of the genres and sounds we like to talk about, thanks to our Patreon backers! Yep, we have four of our listeners joining us...
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We Have a Commentary: Coil, "Horse Rotorvator" from 2019-02-24T19:16:35
As selected by our Patreon backers, this month's We Have A Commentary finds the Senior Staff discussing the sophomore (but certainly not sophomoric) LP by Coil, "Horse Rotorvator". The record's ...
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We Have a Technical 248: Mute Your Giggles from 2019-02-21T10:00
Chris Peterson and Craig Huxtable of Ohmelectronic sit down withe the Senior Staff to discuss their second album of deep Vancouver electro-industrial. From the murky origins of Chris and Craig's...
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We Have a Technical 247: It's Always Changing from 2019-02-14T10:00
Like many folks in Vancouver and around the world, we were shocked and saddened to learn of the passing of Phil Western last weekend. This week's episode of We Have A Technical is meant to be a ...
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We Have a Technical 246: How Much? from 2019-02-07T10:00
An off the cuff conversation with none other than Daniel Myer is featured on this week's episode of We Have A Technical. Myer was passing through Vancouver to play a DJ set at a techno party, so...
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We Have a Technical 245: Industrial Standup from 2019-01-31T10:00
How - if at all - does the craft of DJing fit into Our Thing in 2019? In a loose (read: boozy) revisitation of an older topic from a more personal perspective. Get ready for hot takes, side eye,...
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We Have a Technical 244: Sonny Bono's Corpse from 2019-01-24T10:00
Whether it's a matter of strangers getting on the same elevator, twins separated at birth, or just two great tastes which taste great together, Our Thing has plenty of collaborations across its ...
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We Have a Commentary: Chemlab, "Burnout at the Hydrogen Bar" from 2019-01-20T10:00
For the first Patreon-supported commentary podcast of 2019, we're listening to American industrial rock classic Burnout at the Hydrogen Bar by Chemlab. How did the record both presage wha...
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We Have a Technical 243: Teutonic Twosome from 2019-01-17T10:00
We're acting like a pair of old fashioned Germaniacs on the latest episode of We Have A Technical. Records by Lacrimosa and Steril are on the docket, alongside discussion of some new comments fr...
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We Have a Technical 242: To/For You from 2019-01-10T10:42
It's the 242nd episode of WHaT, and you'd better believe the Senior Staff are making the most of it. They're welcoming an all-star cast of friends of the podcast to celebrate and discuss the mus...
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We Have a Technical 241: Magi'd Each Other from 2019-01-03T10:00
I Die: You Die kick the new year off with an extended discussion of Laibach's new record: a representation of tunes from "The Sound Of Music" for their tour of North Korea. All of the bugbears a...
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We Have a Technical 240: Monét from 2018-12-27T19:53:04
Hey folks, it's the last We Have a Technical of the year and the Senior Staff recorded it half in the bag and completely burned out from writing Year End coverage. You know what that means: it's...
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We Have a Technical 239: Let's Call It from 2018-12-21T10:00
It's the Year End episode of We Have a Technical, and we're talking lists, honourable mentions and the broad trends of 2018 in Our Thing. If you ever wanted to hear two very tired people stumble...
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We Have a Commentary: The Birthday Massacre, "Violet" from 2018-12-16T10:00
Our last Patreon-supoorted commentary podcast of the year has us listening to the sophomore (?) record from Ontario's The Birthday Massacre. The record's combination of darkwave and broader rock...
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We Have a Technical 238: Mary Alan Julian from 2018-12-13T10:00
As Year End coverage waits in the wings, your favourite post-industrial palookas are taking a look back at the year that was. Yes, it's a Pick Five episode with the dead simple theme of tracks f...
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We Have a Technical 237: A Catharsis of Humpty Dumpty from 2018-12-06T10:00
It's a very English and very apocalyptic episode of We Have A Technical as recent records by Gazelle Twin and Current 93. Be it political, personal, or religious, endings and great changes are t...
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We Have a Technical 236: Kinda Sisters from 2018-11-29T10:00
Legendary producer John Fryer has had a hand in just about all of the genres of music we discuss on We Have A Technical, and we're chatting with him this week about his legacy behind the decks a...
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We Have a Commentary: Everything Goes Cold, "Vs General Failure" from 2018-11-25T10:00
This month's We Have A Commentary podcast takes a tour through the diabolical world of Everything Goes Cold. "Vs General Failure," the first LP of Eric Gottesman's coldwave project brings all of...
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We Have a Technical 235: Zauberschlosshed from 2018-11-22T04:10:21
Helium Vola and Solvent's connections to Our Thing may take the form of winding paths demanding historical context, but that's exactly why your old pals Alex and Bruce are here. From the sacred ...
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We Have a Technical 234: Chrysanthemums of Regret from 2018-11-15T10:00
The new album from Dead Can Dance, replete with high concept and worldly instrumentation, is the subject of this week's We Have A Technical. How does it fit (or not) with the storied dynamic bet...
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We Have a Technical 233: Terrence from 2018-11-08T10:00
You'd be hard pressed to find records as different from each other within Our Thing as Hypnoskull's "Electronic Music Means War To Us" and Solemn Novena's "Kiss The Girls". But that's not gonna ...
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We Have a Technical 232: Just Be Foolish from 2018-11-01T09:00
Okay, okay, ahem - Alex and Bruce absolutely were ready to have a podcast up the day after Halloween and definitely didn't cobble something tog...
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We Have a Technical 231: De Zha-Day from 2018-10-25T09:00
In anticipation of Halloween, Alex and Bruce are talking about the role horror literature, imagery, and themes have played across the breadth and history of dark music. From the theological torm...
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We Have a Commentary: Bauhaus, "Mask" from 2018-10-21T22:33:48
No less classic a record than Bauhaus' "Mask" gets the full length editorial treatment in this month's Patreon supported We Have A Commentary episode! We discuss the band's moves away from the a...
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We Have a Technical 230: THUD! from 2018-10-18T09:00
You'd be hard pressed to find albums more dichotomous than the two the Senior Staff are discussing on this week's podcast. That said, Foetus' "Hole" and Deine Lakaien's "Dark Star" are both reco...
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We Have a Technical 229: Rubbish Mate from 2018-10-11T09:00
This episode of We Have A Technical offers up an interview with none other than C-Tec! Jean-Luc De Meyer and Marc Heal join us to talk about the origins and future of arguably the greatest indus...
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We Have a Technical 228: My Memes from 2018-10-04T09:00
This week the Senior Staff are on the mean streets of LA, catching all the goings on at the third and final stop of the Cold Waves festival tour. Alex and Bruce discuss all the sets from bands n...
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We Have a Technical 227: Emergency Socks from 2018-09-27T09:00
On the occasion of Storming The Base scaling back and changing their operations, the Senior Staff are taking up the topic of mail order. From filling out money orders for Steril singles to tryin...
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We Have a Commentary: C-Tec, "Cut" from 2018-09-23T20:53:39
With industrial supergroup C-Tec back in action touring across the continent, the Senior Staff are revisiting their second LP, 2000's "Cut". What do each of Heal, Denton, and De Meyer bring to t...
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We Have a Technical 226: Classic Nera Nebb from 2018-09-20T09:00
Hot on the heels of last week's knock down dragout fisticuffs, Bruce and Alex kick back with a good old fashioned Pick 5 episode of We Have a Technical. Yes, B-Sides are the topic, as each of th...
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We Have a Technical 225: The Great Debate III from 2018-09-13T09:00
Things get personal, very personal, as the Senior Staff embark upon the third Great Debate. Each is acting as a representative of their favourite album of all time, and no punches are pulled as ...
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We Have a Technical 224: Don't Say Ideas from 2018-09-06T09:00
The ol' ID:UD mailbag is pulled open in this episode of the podcast, with all manner of questions ranging from the ruminatively serious to the frothily flippant being taken up by the Senior Staf...
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We Have a Technical 223: Omega Pentagon from 2018-08-30T09:00
Matia Simovich of Inhalt joins Alex and Bruce on the podcast this week to discuss how that project's trilogy of EPs responds to the crisis of late capitalism, the rhythm of the German language, ...
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We Have a Technical 222: Smoked Licorice from 2018-08-23T09:00
The Senior Staff is back at full force! Back from vacation, Alex and Bruce are talking about records from Spetsnaz and Gatekeeper. Also on the docket is Resident Advisor's piece on EBM...which m...
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We Have a Technical 221: A GD Human Being from 2018-08-16T09:00
It's a special two-guest episode of We Have a Technical as we welcome Eric Sochocki of FIRES and Jamie Blacker of ESA to the podcast. We had the pleasure of sitting down with both artists at Ter...
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We Have a Commentary: Comaduster, "Hollow Worlds" from 2018-08-12T07:30
It's a very special We Have a Commentary, as for the first time ever Bruce and Alex sit down with the artist who made the album we're commenting on. Yes, Réal Cardinal joins us to talk about
We Have a Technical 220: Say Hi from 2018-08-09T09:00
With Bruce away for a few weeks of well-deserved vacation, Alex digs into the interviews we collected during Terminus Festival for a conversation with Claus Larsen of Leaether Strip. Needless to...
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We Have a Technical 219: Don't Want to Talk from 2018-08-02T09:00
It's a very special travelogue episode of We Have a Technical as Bruce and Alex record their impressions of Terminus Festival in Calgary, along with a ton of special guest appearances from perfo...
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We Have a Technical 218: A Regular CCR from 2018-07-26T09:00
On the heels of bidding adieu to their subcultural home away from home for years on end, the Senior Staff are talking about Vancouver's late great Club 23 West. Alex and Bruce talk about the clu...
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We Have a Technical 217: Almost as Much from 2018-07-19T09:00
The Senior Staff try to save records of note from the memory hole on this episode of We Have A Technical. Alex and Bruce petitioj for why each of the five records they've picked which are curren...
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We Have a Commentary: Skinny Puppy, "Ain't It Dead Yet" from 2018-07-15T09:00
It's a different kind of commentary episode, as Bruce and Alex take a cue from The Satellite of Love and do a live video commentary! The Senior Staff are watching Skinny Puppy's legendary live c...
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We Have a Technical 216: Soyrizo from 2018-07-12T09:00
A pair of true school post-industrial records are taken up in this week's We Have A Technical! Individual Totem's squelchy alien soundscapes on "S.E.T.I." and the strangely approachable ambient ...
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We Have a Technical 215: A Monocle from 2018-07-05T09:00
We Have a Technical 214: Hard for ABBA from 2018-06-28T09:00
Our classic two albums format gets a bit of a rework on this episode of We Have A Technical. We weigh how Nine Inch Nails' "Bad Witch", the newest record by a band so successful we rarely talk a...
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We Have a Technical 213: TV's Police from 2018-06-21T09:00
Texture and rhythm heavy records by Mlada Fronta and Zex Model come under the microscope in this week's episode of We Have A Technical! From Rémy Pelleschi's stockade of breaks, dub, and techno ...
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We Have a Commentary: Snog, "Buy Me... I"ll Change Your Life" from 2018-06-17T09:00
David Thrussell's 1997 opus "Buy Me... I'll Change Your Life" goes under the microscope for this month's We Have A Commentary podcast, made possible by our Patreon backers! Snog's staunchly anti...
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We Have a Technical 212: Rollerball Rock from 2018-06-14T09:00
A Pick Five episode aims for the singles charts this week on the IDieYouDie.com podcast! Bruce and Alex are picking songs whose single versions they prefer to album versions. Expect some big nam...
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We Have a Technical 211: Shirt from 2018-06-07T09:00
It's an odd couple of records being discussed on this week's episode of the podcast. The early darkwave stylings of Love Is Colder Than Death's "Mental Traveller" are considered: what are its co...
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We Have a Technical 210: A Technical Foul from 2018-05-31T09:00
Patreon backers join Alex and Bruce to discuss albums which tickle their fancy. Releases from Urceus Exit, The. Invalid, and Kite have been chosen and are considered from historical and biograph...
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We Have a Technical 209: His Name Is from 2018-05-24T09:00
It's a Q & A episode of We Have A Technical this week, with Patreon backers suoplyng questions both broad and specific. From drugs to Gridlock, from DJing to Trust Obey, Bruce and Alex are field...
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We Have a Technical 208: Brother Hero from 2018-05-17T09:00
This episode of We Have A Technical doubles down on ur-goth realness with discussion of early records by Alien Sex Fiend and Sopor Æternus and the Ensemble of Shadows. In addition, we've got tak...
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We Have a Commentary: The Mission, "God's Own Medicine" from 2018-05-13T17:01:46
This month's Patreon-Supported bonus podcast is about The Mission's "God's Own Medicine", an important and dare we say controversial entry into the UK goth rock canon. What insights do Alex and ...
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We Have A Technical 207: Catch the Taste from 2018-05-10T09:00
The I Die: You Die podcast takes a somewhat epistemological bent this week, with the issues of the archiving and collecting of dark music being taken up. Has the Internet archived everything fro...
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We Have a Technical 206; The Cassingle from 2018-05-03T09:00
The Senior Staff pick five first impressions on this week's episode. We don't always get a good sense of a band's ethos and sound at first blush, but what about the cases when we do? From the pu...
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We Have a Technical 205: As We Get Older from 2018-04-26T09:00
Settling into the new HQ, the Senior Staff are taking about last weekend's excellent Front 242 show in Seattle and, in keeping things on an Emerald City tip, welcome DJ Savak of Mechanismus to t...
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We Have a Technical 204: Learn to Shut Up from 2018-04-22T03:09:41
The corrected version of Episode 204 is live. Here two tired idiots go on at length about the bands they saw at Vancouver's Verboden festival last weekend, now in "just this side of passable" qu...
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We Have a Commentary: And One, "Anguish" from 2018-04-14T21:49:14
For this month's Patreon-supported bonus commentary podcast, Bruce and Alex chat about And One's 1991 LP Anguish! Speculation runs rampant as ou...
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We Have a Technical 203: Almost Dignified from 2018-04-12T08:00
Smack between the Boy Harsher/Soft Moon and this weekend's Verboden fest, the Senior Staff come together to discuss records by Modern English and Sturm Cafe...with an absolute minimum of Wrestle...
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We Have a Technical 202: Purple is the Colour from 2018-04-05T09:00
On this week's episode, the Senior Staff caught up with JC Lobo of Ritualz at the tail end of a west coast jaunt. JC speaks about Mexico's DIY electronic scene, his personal history with the wit...
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We Have a Technical 201: Secret Sass from 2018-03-29T09:00
With 200 episodes in the bag, Alex and Bruce are opting to offer a jumping-on point for first time or recent listeners of We Have A Technical. How has the purview of the podcast changed over the...
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We Have a Technical 200: State of the Art (on 4 Discs) from 2018-03-22T09:00
It's the 200th episode of We Have A Technical, and to mark this auspicious occasion Bruce and Alex are putting one of the most celebrated industrial compilations of all time in the spotlight! Ra...
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We Have a Technical 199: The Mariner Moose from 2018-03-15T09:00
A pair of covers records go under the microscope in this week's episode of We Have A Technical! Are Siouxsie & The Banshees' "Through The Looking Glass" and Apootygma Berzerk's "Sonic Diary" wel...
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We Have a Commentary: High-Functioning Flesh, "A Unity of Miseries, a Misery of Unities" from 2018-03-10T23:10:32
On this, our monthly bonus podcast (supported by the good folks over at Patreon.com) we're doing a commentary on High-Functioning Flesh's debut LP "A Unity of Miseries, a Misery of Unities". The...
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We Have a Technical 198: Cheaper in Estonia from 2018-03-08T10:00
It's a classic format episode of the Internet's favourite industrial navel-gazing podcast: Alex and Bruce are discussing albums by Icon Of Coil and Pouppée Fabrikk, and all of the shifts and cha...
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We Have a Technical 197: Beholder Metal from 2018-03-01T06:03:02
On this week's episode of We Have a Technical, Alex and Bruce sit down with Shannon and Jason of Vancouver's Actors. Topics of conversation include their upcoming LP "It Will Come To You", touri...
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We Have a Technical 196: A Sandy Grave from 2018-02-22T10:00
It's time to dig into the mailbag on the latest episode of We Have A Techincal! Idieyoudie.com's readers and listeners have sent questions which range from the curatorial to the ethical to the d...
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We Have a Technical 195: Leather Sweater Weather from 2018-02-15T10:00
It's another doozy of a Pick Five episode on We Have A Technical! This week, Bruce and Alex are picking "secret weapons" from their DJ arsenals. From swooning chill-outs to ferocious EBM bangers...
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We Have a Commentary: The Tear Garden, "Tired Eyes Slowly Burning" from 2018-02-11T02:22:28
The first LP in the storied and long-standing collaboration between cEvin Key and Edward Ka-Spel gets the blow by blow treatment on this month's episode of We Have A Commentary! Yes, we're talki...
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We Have a Technical 194: Between Alt Metal and a Hard Place from 2018-02-08T10:00
The classic We Have A Technical format gets a nostalgic twist, as Bruce and Alex are each picking gateway records which helped usher them into darker music...even if Fear Factory's "Demanufactur...
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We Have a Technical 193: The Mania Within from 2018-02-01T10:00
The broad and gloomy realm of post-punk is the subject of the day on this week's episode of We Have A Technical! From its origins shared with goth and industrial, through the mainstream revival ...
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We Have a Technical 192: Try Everything from 2018-01-25T10:00
The Senior Staff talk are talking about a pair of hybrid records on this week's episode: the dance/rhythmic noise punch of Memmaker's "How To Enlist In A Robot Uprising" and the futurepop/italod...
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We Have a Technical 191: Here Comes the Chairstepper from 2018-01-18T10:00
On this episode of We Have a Technical we welcome returning guest Matt Fanale of Caustic. We're always keen to catch up with the Man Who Couldn't Stop about what he's up to, and in this instance...
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We Have a Commentary: The Klinik, "Sabotage" from 2018-01-14T00:00:14
On this month's Patreon-supported bonus podcast, we're discussing the first LP by legendary Belgian dark electro pioneers The Klinik. "Sabotage", the only record to feature the four person line-...
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We Have a Technical 190: Burrito Math from 2018-01-11T10:00
We talk post-2000 Kirlian Camera on the second 2018 episode of We Have a Technical! Yes, Bruce and Alex chew over what exactly Elena brought to the table and how it changed KC, along with Angelo...
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We Have a Technical 189: Wonderscore from 2018-01-04T10:00
Back in action, the Senior Staff return from the holidays refreshed and ready to talk about the releases which lie just ahead in the early months of 2018, plus some family friendly faves they li...
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We Have a Technical 188: Mayo Dip (Vegan) from 2017-12-28T10:00
Our annual off-topic podcast lands with a resounding thud, as the Senior Staff chatter endlessly about working at bars, Rupaul's Drag Race, pro-wrestling and more! Yes, you'll thrill to lengthy ...
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We Have a Commentary: V/A: Random, A Tribute to Gary Numan from 2017-12-21T10:00
On this very special (?!) double length We Have a Commentary Bruce and Alex tackle "Random", 1997's hit and miss tribute to Gary Numan. You ever wonder what our thoughts are on bands as diverse ...
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We Have a Technical 187: Mention Deleuze from 2017-12-15T10:00
The capper on our year end coverage is here, as our two tired hosts give a few final thoughts on our favourite albums of 2017, talk some honourable mentions and also discuss recent nonsense with...
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We Have a Technical 186: Slightly Less Dumb from 2017-12-07T10:00
The Senior Staff sit down with Danish-Canadian synth artist Sally Dige to talk about life in Berlin and the astonishingly dense compositional process underlying her excellent new record "Holding...
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We Have a Technical 185: The Little Shorts from 2017-11-30T10:00
A philosophically ambitious record from Laibach and a record from Odonis Odonis which reinterprets the legacy of industrial rock make up the bulk of this week's episode of We Have A Technical. H...
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We Have a Technical 184: White Castle of Fear from 2017-11-23T10:00
The Senior Staff are playing pre-emptove year's end catch up by discussing recent records by Godflesh and Lionhearts. From grinding industrial metal threshers to the elegantly tasteful vocal sty...
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We Have a Technical 183: Ghrossts from 2017-11-16T10:00
In this week's episode of the podcast, the Senior Staff are investigating the breadth and resonance of instrumental music in the broader post-industrial milieu. Whether it's noise which rejects ...
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We Have a Commentary: Collide, "Chasing the Ghost" from 2017-11-12T00:06:15
On this supporter-selected commentary podcast, Bruce and Alex are discussing the enduring appeals of Collide's sophomore record, "Chasing The Ghost". The nexus of goth and industrial, the import...
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We Have a Technical 182:IDYDRPDRP from 2017-11-09T10:00
In this week's podcast, we're speaking with Lynette Cerezo, the creative force behind the cacophonic maelstrom that is Bestial Mouths! Lynette had plenty to say about her vision for the project ...
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We Have a Technical 181: Detourrito from 2017-11-02T09:00
On this episode of We Have a Technical, Bruce and Alex do a Pick Five topic segment selected by the winner of our Pick Five contest! The Senior Staff select non-English tunes we enjoy, with lots...
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We Have a Technical 180: Cemetery Confections from 2017-10-26T09:00
Join Alex and Bruce for a full-time Monster Mash of an episode of We Have A Technical! The Count from The Belfry Network and Cemetery Confessions drops by to talk about the ins and outs of runni...
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We Have a Commentary: ∆AIMON, "Flatliner" from 2017-10-21T23:25:23
Every month we do a special Patreon supported bonus album commentary podcast, and for October we decided to talk about a record that is very important to the history of I Die: You Die, ∆AIMON's ...
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We Have a Technical 179: Bort from 2017-10-19T09:00
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We Have a Technical 178: Dashiki from 2017-10-12T09:00
Alex talks about the fun he had in Los Angeles at Das Bunker 21, and Bruce gets real worked up about Blade Runner on this week's episode of We Have a Technical. Yes, the senior staff have plenty...
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We Have a Technical 177: 3 Books 7 Swords from 2017-10-05T09:00
Alex and Bruce tackle classic early albums from now-veteran acts who have new work on the docket in this week's episode of WHaT! Mentallo & The Fixer and mind.in.a.box's legacies stretching all ...
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We Have a Technical 176: Motherfather from 2017-09-28T09:00
Bruce and Alex are joined by friend of I Die: You Die Réal Cardinal of Comaduster to discuss his incredible recent album "Solace". The ins and outs of his creative process, the expansive univers...
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We Have a Commentary: Kirlian Camera, "Still Air" from 2017-09-23T20:15:10
On this special Patreon supported bonus podcast Bruce and Alex discuss Kirlian Camera mid-career highlight "Still Air (Aria Immobile)". We discuss the lyrical themes, the ongoing evolution of th...
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We Have a Technical 175: Some Kinda Lodge from 2017-09-21T09:00
It's the 175th episode of We Have A Technical, and to mark this somewhat (but not really) auspicious milestone, Alex and Bruce are discussing the pros and cons of "Savage", the new record by the...
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We Have a Technical 174: Don't Pivot from 2017-09-14T09:00
We got takes on albums by Zentriert Ins Antlitz and Imperative Reaction on this week's episode, along with some discussion of the 3 Teeth 9/11 controversy and a couple more upcoming albums for t...
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We Have a Technical 173: Trapped in a Sad Head from 2017-09-07T09:00
In this week's episode of the podcast, Alex and Bruce are picking and discussing songs with befuddling and baffling lyrics. Mixed metaphors? Vague wording? Density on their part? All possibiliti...
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We Have a Technical 172: FMK? ECW! from 2017-08-31T09:00
It's a special Patreon-backer episode of We Have A Technical! Listeners of the podcast are joining us to talk about records by [peak], Laibach, Imminent Starvation, and Faith & The Muse! We're a...
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We Have a Technical 171: Bonitis from 2017-08-24T09:00
Records by Access To Arasaka and I, Parasite are on the docket for a soy steak n potatoes episode of We Have A Techincal. Join Alex and Bruce as they consider the glitchier side of technoid and ...
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We Have a Technical 170: Hornby Street from 2017-08-17T09:00
An interview with the newly reunited and still wholly fierce Cubanate is the main feature of this week's episode of We Have A Technical! Phil and Marc talk about the layoff from the legendary pr...
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We Have a Commentary: Necro Facility, "Wintermute" from 2017-08-12T23:03:38
This month's Patreon-supported commentary podcast takes up an exquisitely crafted piece of industrial-pop fusion, Necro Facility's 2011 LP "Wintermute". Alex and Bruce try to identity the secret...
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We Have a Technical 169: I Don't Care from 2017-08-10T09:00
It's part 1 of a special two part podcast we recorded with Talking to Ghosts during Terminus Festival! We sit down with Michael, Wes and various guests including Brian from The Gothsicles, Jessi...
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We Have a Technical 168: Tell Yuri We Sent Ya from 2017-08-03T09:00
Back from Calgary fully sated and scratchy voiced, Alex and Bruce are giving a blow by blow account of all the happening at this year's installment of Terminus Festival. Plus, an interview with ...
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We Have a Technical 167: SPITESBITESPITES from 2017-07-27T09:00
A year of exciting new releases from artists who've made some of our favourite music of the past few years continues! The sophomore LP from Seeming is just around the corner, so we got on the ho...
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We Have a Technical 166: The Blue Pages from 2017-07-20T09:00
Cheap Thrills are the subject du jour on this week's Pick Five style episode of We Have A Technical. What tracks, bands, and trends do Bruce and Alex find themselves repeatedly drawn to despite ...
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We Have a Commentary: Pretentious, Moi? self-titled from 2017-07-15T19:00:45
On this month's Patreon-supported and selected bonus commentary podcast we're running through the paces on their favourite pure goth rock record of the new millennium; the long-gestating debut o...
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We Have a Technical 165: Kalan We Are Not from 2017-07-13T09:00
Hey listener! Are you excited to listen to two guys who where almost exclusively band t-shirt and jeans talk about the fashion of Our Thing? Well boy howdy, have we got a podcast for you: this o...
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We Have a Technical 164: Gosh Darn Pizza from 2017-07-06T09:00
On this episode of the podcast, Alex and Bruce take up records by By Any Means Necessary and Evils Toy. Plus, a response to an article doing the rounds about the demographic shifts happening in ...
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We Have a Technical 163: The Sixtennial from 2017-06-29T09:00
The six year anniversary of I Die: You Die is being celebrated on this episode of We Have A Technical! Bruce and Alex are discussing each of the site's six favourite records of the year from a r...
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We Have a Technical 162: Progressive Skiffle from 2017-06-22T09:00
We Have a Commentary: Ministry, "With Sympathy" from 2017-06-17T20:32:31
On this month's Patreon-supported and selected bonus commentary podcast Alex and Bruce talk Ministry's love-it-or-hate-it new wave debut "With Sympathy". This is definitely the record we like th...
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We Have a Technical 161: Waxed Mustache from 2017-06-15T09:00
Bruce and Alex jibber jabber about the role of sampled voices in industrial music. From staccato cut ups and obscure manipulations to easily recognizable movie samples from cinematic blockbuster...
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We Have a Technical 160: Bite Your Tongue from 2017-06-08T09:00
This week some of our Patreon backers join us to talk about a trio of records that hail from right here in Vancouver. This kind of came together completely by coincidence, but we're always happy...
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We Have a Technical 159: Jean Luc Orders a Pizza from 2017-06-01T09:00
We return to our classic "Two Albums" format on this episode, chatting about records by Mild Peril and C-Tec. The line between pop and kosmische and whether the Heal/De Meyer alliance constitute...
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We Have a Technical 158: A Bunch of Garbage from 2017-05-25T09:00
Bruce and Alex each pick five best of and singles compilations. Are greatest hits albums for posers only? Tune in to the latest episode of We Have A Technical to find out! Also includes discussi...
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We Have a Technical 157: Derrida or Die from 2017-05-18T09:00
We're gettin' down with our bad selves on this episode of We Have A Technical as the influence of funk and all things funky on Our Thing are on the docket. What goes into an EBM bassline? Does i...
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We Have a Commentary: Clan of Xymox, "Medusa" from 2017-05-13T23:36:26
We're delving deep into the roots of darkwave for this month's We Have A Commentary bonus podcast! Yep, it's not less a foundational record than Clan Of Xymox's "Medusa" which we're discussing. ...
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We Have a Technical 156: Pub Dogs from 2017-05-11T09:00
Alex is returned and he and Bruce celebrate by talking at length about recent shows they have seen. Thrill to an hour of talk about bands from Bestial Mouths to Neubauten as two slightl...
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WHaT 155: The Mount Rushmore Conversations - Babyland from 2017-05-04T09:00
Bruce and Alex chisel the last profiles into our Mount Rushmore Conversations with some discussion of the enduring power of the late, great Babyland in this week's episode of the podcast. They d...
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WHaT 154: The Mount Rushmore Conversations - Skinny Puppy from 2017-04-27T09:00
Perhaps more than any band in existence, Skinny Puppy remains the essential to our fandom and understanding of Our Thing. Beyond their critical function in the history of industrial post the ini...
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WHaT 153: The Mount Rushmore Conversations - Front 242 from 2017-04-20T09:00
The second of our Mount Rushmore Conversations centers on a band we talk about a lot, maybe more than any other. Its Bruce and Alex waxing, fawning and wistfully recillecting Front 242, mostly f...
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WHaT: The Mount Rushmore Conversations - Haujobb from 2017-04-15T09:00
Taking the place of We Have a Commentary this month is the first in our 4 part Mount Rushmore Conversations series. Essentially designed to reflect a more conversational and discussion between B...
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We Have a Technical 151: Sabrina from 2017-04-13T09:00
Alex and Bruce catch up with Mr.Kitty on this week's episode of We Have a Technical! Forrest clues us in on the process behind his recent album A.i., performing and connecting with listeners and...
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We Have A Technical 150: Sesquicentennial House Party! from 2017-04-06T05:01:09
Bruce and Alex are throwing a big old house party in honour of the 150th episode of We Have A Technical, and you're invited! Which familiar faces and industrial luminaries might drop by? What ar...
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We Have a Technical 149: Posse on Broadway from 2017-03-30T09:00
In anticipation of Industrial Summer Camp, Bruce and Alex are discussing albums by two acts set to play Cold Waves and Terminus respectively, KMFDM and Wulfband! That plus some discussion of a q...
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We Have a Technical 148: Publicize This from 2017-03-23T09:00
In this week's episode of We Have A Technical, Bruce and Alex pick up the weighty question of technology: how has it guided the productoon and evolution of industrial music over the past decades...
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We Have a Commentary: The Gothsicles, "Nesferatu" from 2017-03-19T01:05:47
On this Patreon-supported podcast we do a commentary track for The Gothsicles 2006 scene-skewering classic "Nesferatu". We run down the nature of parody, the substance of satire and big up every...
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We Have a Technical 147: Overjacked from 2017-03-16T09:00
On this episode of We Have a Technical Bruce and Alex play the Pick 5 game with projects that only had one release! Plus we chat the final Terminus announcements, the upcoming Canadian Severed H...
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We Have a Technical 146: The Smoothening from 2017-03-09T10:00
We return to the venerable two album discussion format of We Have a Technical this week, with some chit chat about Numb and Liquid Divine. We also get real excited about forthcoming albums from ...
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We Have a Technical 145: Oh, Umpire from 2017-03-02T10:00
Bruce and Alex tackle a bevy of recent news items in this week's episode of the podcast, including t...
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We Have a Technical 144: Spit Test from 2017-02-23T10:00
On this week's episode of We Have a Technical Bruce and Alex speak with one of I Die: You Die's perennial favourite acts, Swedish electropop masters Kite! Topics include being open and emotional...
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We Have a Technical 143: 2D in 3D from 2017-02-16T10:00
It's a Swedish synth two-fer on this week's episode of We Have a Technical, as we discuss records by Henric De La Cour and S.P.O.C.K.! Nostalgia and the cross-pollination of sounds are on the ta...
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We Have a Commentary: Laibach, "Opus Dei" from 2017-02-11T21:42:59
It's the time of the month when we record and release one of our special We Have a Commentary podcasts, supported by our backers at www.patreon.com/...
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We Have a Technical 142: Danceteria Leaks from 2017-02-09T10:00
It's a Schrodinger's Goth episode of We Have A Technical! Bruce and Alex Pick Five goth records by non-goth artists. What is goth? What is not goth? These are the angels on the head of a pin typ...
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We Have a Technical 141: The Blundertaker from 2017-02-02T10:00
On this episode of We Have a Technical, Bruce and Alex take up the shadowy and nebulous notion of occult and Satanic imagery in industrial and goth music. How does it differ from metal in this r...
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We Have a Technical 140: Ball Stories from 2017-01-26T10:00
Alex and Bruce catch up with Kanga on their West Coast jaunt to talk about pop in industrial, the perils of the entertainment biz, and how your vocals never sound how you think. All that plus th...
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We Have a Technical 139: A Ten Out of Ten from 2017-01-19T10:00
It's an opposites attract episode of We Have A Technical, as Alex and Bruce discuss the softer side of the avant garde with Controlled Bleeding, and the industrial big beat stylings of The Retro...
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We Have a Commentary: Ashbury Heights, "Take Cair Paramour" from 2017-01-14T22:04:08
Bruce and Alex listen to their mutual favourite album of 2010: Ashbury Heights' "Take Cair Paramour"! The discussion touches upon synthpop's straddling of the mainstream and underground, extende...
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We Have a Technical 138: Crystal Fuggles from 2017-01-12T10:00
The Senior Staff is back from winter hiatus with a look back at how their hopes and wishes for 2016 fared, and a look ahead at records and trends are on the horizon in 2017. All that plus a big ...
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We Have a Technical 137: Tobey, You Raw from 2017-01-05T10:00
The yearly off-topic episode of We Have A Technical is here, ready to eat an hour of your life with aimless discussion of music and culture wholly unrelated to the podcast's regular purview. Sor...
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We Have a Technical 136: The Lugubrious Jerk from 2016-12-29T18:22:06
For the last official I Die: You Die podcast of 2016, Bruce and Alex round out Year End coverage by discussing the making of their Top 25 albums of 2016 list, do some honourable mentions and com...
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We Have a Technical 135: Cereal is Good from 2016-12-22T10:00
On the heels of their Forma Tadre commentary, Alex and Bruce take another trip back to 1996 to each Pick Five records from that illustrious year. They also comment on the recent news coming out ...
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We Have a Technical 134: In the News Again from 2016-12-15T10:00
This week on the official I Die: You Die podcast we chat with Daniel Graves of Aesthetic Perfection! Topics include interacting with people online, his recent move towards releasing individual s...
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We Have a Commentary: Forma Tadre, "Navigator" from 2016-12-11T03:17:02
This month's Patreon-supported bonus commentary podcast takes a trip to the frontier of 1996! Forma Tadre's debut, "Navigator", has remained a touchstone for the Senior Staff in terms of sound d...
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We Have a Technical 133: Eudaemonia from 2016-12-08T10:00
In the wake of the Oakland tragedy, we wanted to pay our respects on this episode of the podcast to the life and work of Cash Askew of Them Are Us Too.
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We Have a Technical 132: Big Wheel at the Cracker Factory from 2016-12-01T10:00
Trying to keep up with the deluge of releases 2016 has brought, Bruce and Alex discuss new records by In Strict Confidence and Black Tape For A Blue Girl, introduce a CD giveaway, and field some...
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We Have a Technical 131: Sage Words from 2016-11-24T10:00
It's a pillar to post interview on the podcast this week, as we talk with Rexx Arkana (Bruderschaft, FGFC820, Coldkill) about his lengthy history with synthpop, industrial, and all points in bet...
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We Have a Technical 130: Media Training from 2016-11-17T10:00
The enduring relevance of compilations to dark music is taken up in this week's episode of We Have A Technical, be they archival, thematic, or charity comps. Also: new microphones! The dunces be...
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We Have a Commentary: Switchblade Symphony, "Serpentine Gallery" from 2016-11-12T23:05:25
On this Patreon supported podcast we do a commentary on Switchblade Symphony's goth/darkwave classic "Serpentine Gallery". From end to end, Bruce and Alex discuss the record's unique place in th...
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We Have a Technical 129: Here We Are from 2016-11-10T10:00
In the wake of this week's events, we talk a little about a lot of things. This is a pretty freeform episode of We Have a Technical, the official I Die: You Die podcast.
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We Have a Technical 128: Comically Overpronounced from 2016-11-03T09:00
In this episode of the official I Die: You Die podcast Bruce and Alex discuss albums by Statiqbloom and Jager 90. Thrill to discussions of electro-industrial and anhalt EBM, and cringe at how tw...
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We Have a Technical 127: Born Spoopy from 2016-10-27T09:00
t's a grimly fiendish episode of We Have A Technical this week as Alex and Bruce each pick five "nightmarish" records to discuss. Don't worry, there's also some Pet Shop Boys to lighten the mood...
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We Have a Technical 126: Let Them Eat Chilaquiles from 2016-10-20T09:00
We're doing a (lengthy) run-down of all the goings-on at Das Bunker's DB20 party this past weekend on this week's episode of the podcast. From the noise room to the main stage, from headliners t...
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We Have a Technical 125: The Great Debate II from 2016-10-13T09:00
BRUCE AND ALEX GO TO WAR IN... THE GREAT DEBATE II! No longer content to argue about the merits of Blutengel, the Senior Staff do battle over the relative strengths of the early Depeche Mode cat...
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We Have a Commentary: Front 242, "Tyranny For You" from 2016-10-10T09:00
It's the first Patreon supported commentary podcast, as voted on by our patrons! Alex and Bruce talk over Front 242's "Tyranny For You", discussing thematics, sounds and where the record sits in...
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We Have a Technical 124: Leave Aristotle Out of This from 2016-10-06T09:00
On this episode, Bruce and Alex discuss albumcraft. Yes, it's another long rambling conversation about stuff like track sequencing, cohesion and the other semi-intangibles that effect the listen...
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We Have a Technical 123: The Wrongs of Spring from 2016-09-29T09:00
Alex is back home from Chicago and has a blow by blow account of all the Cold Waves action. Also, we're talking about crossover bands: those who've wandered into our thing from other climes and ...
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We Have a Technical 122: The Pain of it All from 2016-09-22T03:04:46
On this episode of We Have A Technical Bruce and Alex take up two albums which, arguably, couldn't be further apart: Haujobb's minimalist masterpiece "ninetynine", and Diamanda Galas' harrowing ...
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We Have a Technical 121: The Hatchet Within from 2016-09-15T09:00
We're dishing a bit of dirt on this week's episode of the podcast...but in the most pleasant and Canadian way possible. We're picking songs we like by bands we don't. All that and much much more...
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We Have a Technical 120: It's Steve Lombardi from 2016-09-08T09:00
On this episode of the official I Die: You Die podcast we discuss Type O Negative.
No seriously, we spend the whole episode talking about their value as a gateway band, and how the...
We Have a Technical 119: Remix Wars&Peace from 2016-09-01T09:00
We Have a Technical 118: Gothic Duck from 2016-08-25T09:00
Albums from Psychic TV and Siouxsie & The Banshees are discussed on this week's episode of the I Die: You Die podcast, plus a whole mess of website biz: books! Slack! Paying the bills! And what ...
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We Have a Technical 117: Modified Chaps from 2016-08-18T09:00
On this episode of We Have a Technical we have special guest Sam Rosenthal of Black Tape For a Blue Girl and Projekt Records! Bruce and Alex get to chat with the American darkwave and ethereal m...
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We Have a Technical 116: Crunk Juice from 2016-08-10T09:00
On this episode of the official I Die: You Die podcast, Bruce and Alex reunite after some weeks in the wilder and woolier reaches of Canada! There's a rundown of what Alex missed at Terminus, an...
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We Have a Technical 115: Heaven is a Holodeck from 2016-08-04T09:00
New records by Dom Fernow and Justin Broadrick are the topics du jour on this episode of the official I Die: You Die podcast! We're talking about the specific sounds and moods carved out by Vati...
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We Have a Technical 114: How to Deal with Leprosy from 2016-07-28T09:00
This week we are joined by Fredrik Djurfeldt of Severe Illusion and Analfabetism to discuss his various projects, North American vs European perspectives on Our Thing and host of other topics. A...
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We Have a Technical 113: Our Emissary from 2016-07-21T09:00
Okay so you know how everyone in North American industrial lost their minds over the Das Bunker 20th Anniversary announcement? Well we got Rev John of DB on the horn to talk about putting the fe...
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We Have a Technical 112: Not the Passenger from 2016-07-14T09:00
Bruce and Alex are taking a look at futurespast on the latest episode of We Have a Technical. Yes, futurepop, that millennial sensation, is the subject. It's highlights, lowlights, and enduring ...
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We Have a Technical 111: GohGurt from 2016-07-07T09:00
Has it really been fifteen years since ohGr's "Welt" was released? It has! And we're doing an album commentary podcast in its honour. The record's odd mix of pop and industrial, its forecasting ...
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We Have a Technical 110: A Noble Endeavour from 2016-06-30T09:00
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We Have a Technical 109: Prog in Prague from 2016-06-23T09:00
Alex and Bruce through a few of their fav-o-rite things about the legendary Legendary Pink Dots on this week's episode of the official I Die: You Die podcast! We're also offering updates, and th...
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We Have a Technical 108: Cane Dewey from 2016-06-16T09:00
Join Alex and Bruce for a classic format episode of the official I Die: You Die podcast, as they discuss albums by Bel Canto and The Revolting Cocks. Also we kick off the voting for Daniel Myer'...
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We Have a Technical 107: No! from 2016-06-09T09:00
Scott Fox of iVardensphere joins Bruce and Alex to talk about breaking his sound down and reconstructing it on the fly for his improvisational Singularity sets. The full skinny on Vancouver's re...
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We Have a Technical 106: Pip Pip Cheerio M'erF'er from 2016-06-02T09:00
The broader state of dark music is being discussed on this week's episode of We Have a Technical, with questions concerning the rise of darker music outside of the boundaries of goth and industr...
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We Have a Technical 105: Edit This Out from 2016-05-27T09:00
On this week's episode of We Have A Technical, Greh Holger of Hive Mind, Pure Ground, and Chondritic Sound stops by on the latest episode to talk noise, LA, and the aesthetic philosophies which ...
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We Have a Technical 104: The Pronunciation Episode from 2016-05-19T09:00
On this episode, Bruce and Alex are tackling an album by Dead Voices On Air -and- the very thorny issue of capitalism and its intersection with Our Thing. Don't worry, there are probably at leas...
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We Have a Technical 103: Breaking One Off with Ol' Eddie from 2016-05-12T09:00
Lyrics are the topic du jour on this episode of the podcast, with Bruce and Alex each picking five songs whose lyrics have personally resonated with them.
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We Have a Technical 102: The Devil's Pillow - A Velveteen Glove from 2016-05-05T09:00
On this episode of the podcast, Bruce and Alex sit down with Greg and Susan of High-Functioning Flesh, a chat we recorded when they came through Vancouver on tour with Body Of Light. We're also ...
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We Have a Technical 101: The Transhuman Musicians from 2016-04-28T09:00
We Have a Technical 100: Wepisodes of the Ebsite from 2016-04-21T09:00
Bruce and Alex keep it hundred on this very special episode of We Have A Technical with an interview with none other than Jerome Reuter of Rome. War, Jacques Brel, and sousaphone: no topic is of...
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We Have a Technical 99: Classy Stephan from 2016-04-14T09:00
A thoughtful and considered interview with Brant Showers of DAIMON and SOLVE is featured on this week's episode of the podcast. We've also got a recap of the recent Verboden festival and the sco...
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We Have a Technical 98: Chokeslam Kids from 2016-04-07T09:00
Still recovering from an all-night Leaether Strip trip, Alex and Bruce consider the art of the live set list on the podcast. How long? Which hits? How much new stuff? Is the whole "playing a cla...
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We Have a Technical 97: Thirty Three and a Bird from 2016-03-31T08:00
On this episode of the official I Die: You Die podcast we talk about two very different albums joined by a simple idea: they represent artists stepping out of their most obvious influences into ...
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We Have a Technical 96: A Talking Motorcycle from 2016-03-24T08:00
We're catching up with Youth Code on this week's episode of We Have a Technical! On the eve of the release of their second LP, Sara and Ryan chatted with us about the strife which drove and infl...
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We Have a Technical 95: You Know What They Say from 2016-03-17T02:45:15
On the occasion of his in-progress North American tour and out of our appreciation for his body of work, we're spending this episode of the podcast talking about Claus Larsen's hugely influentia...
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We Have a Technical 94: Cocktails with Cockroaches from 2016-03-10T10:00
We're back to our not-quite live broadcast after a couple weeks of canned episodes! Alex is back from Italy and we're hitting the ground running with a conversation with legendary designer Steve...
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We Have a Technical 93: Not Afraid of Bats from 2016-03-03T10:00
On yet another slightly shorter episode (only slightly though!) Alex and Bruce take a suggestion from the Mailbag and do a Pick 5 feature on their favourite packaging. What labels get the most l...
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We Have a Technical 92: Geoffrey's Obsession from 2016-02-25T10:00
In this pre-recorded and slightly appended episode of the podcast, the I Die: You Die Senior Staff spin off from last week's episode about neo-oldschool EBM with some talk about Nexus Kenosis an...
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We Have a Technical 91: Lifting Heavy Things from 2016-02-18T10:00
It's a roots-EBM episode of the podcast this week. Old-school, anhalt, traditional, whatever you want to call it, it's big in Europe with guys with Guile Mohawks, and we're here to talk about it...
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We Have a Technical 90: It's Big, It's Huge from 2016-02-11T10:00
This episode's offering nothing short of a Masterclass in recording and production from Réal Cardinal of Comaduster! Réal delineates a lot of the terms we tend to throw around indiscriminately w...
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We Have a Technical 89: In All the Land from 2016-02-04T10:00
It's a grab bag episode this week, as Bruce and Alex tackle topics wide and far-reaching: recent shows, the changing realities of accessing music files, the much-ballyhooed Black Queen record, L...
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We Have a Technical 88: Once in a Podcast from 2016-01-28T10:00
The Senior Staff return to the popular full-album commentary format! This time, it's Wolfsheim's 1999 breakthrough LP "Spectators" which is getting the deluxe treatment. The album's distinction ...
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We Have a Technical 87: The Erotic Adventures of R. from 2016-01-21T10:00
The Senior Staff are back to their classic two albums format on this episode of We Have A Technical, with records by Daniel Myer's Clear Vision project and Christian Death. The year's first fest...
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We Have a Technical 86: Falls W*nking to the Floor from 2016-01-13T10:00
This week, like everyone else, Bruce and Alex are talking about David Bowie. They do their best to draw lines between his work and goth and industrial, but like Bowie himself, a discussion of hi...
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We Have a Technical 85: I Swear I Said Pouppée from 2016-01-07T10:00
To kick off 2016, Bruce and Alex each pick five things they'd like to see in the year ahead. New albums, trends, reissues, it's all fair game as the Senior Staff dig into the new year with all t...
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We Have a Technical 84: Son of a Shape from 2015-12-30T10:00
In our yearly off topic episode Bruce and Alex pay homage to Lemmy by drinking an ocean of Jack and Cokes. Some discussion of books, pro wrestling and non-scene music is also had. It's pretty lo...
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We Have a Technical 83: Somebody Once Told Me from 2015-12-23T10:00
Bruce and Alex take a final look back at the trends and topics of 2015 and send last minute shout outs to some overlooked LPs on this episode of We Have A Technical, the penultimate of the year!...
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We Have a Technical 82: The Digital Bone from 2015-12-18T10:00
With the blog's Top 25 Records of 2015 list published, Alex and Bruce look at some honourable mentions and notable reissues, and give some thought to the ins and outs of what does and doesn't fa...
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We Have a Technical 81: Business Analysis, Man from 2015-12-10T10:00
On this episode of the podcast, the Senior Staff takes up the question of the label's role in 2025. Curation, distribution, legacies: what can labels do for fans and ...
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We Have a Technical 80: Rowdy in the Bathtub from 2015-12-03T10:00
Alex and Bruce each offer takes on a pair of electo-industrial records from the mid-aughts, and respond to some of the blowback from last week's discussion of Front 242.
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We Have a Technical 79: That Would Be 5 from 2015-11-26T10:00
Alex and Bruce return to the Pick Five format to discuss "difficult" music of all stripes and sizes, and talk through the issues pertaining to industrial-esque artist...
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We Have a Technical 78: Some Effin' Mozart from 2015-11-19T10:00
Alex and Bruce offer up 2 for 1 interviews this week as photographer Jill Grant and Gregg McGillivray of Urusai stop by for some chats. They also touch on the ever-present controversi...
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We Have a Technical 77: A Familiar Problem from 2015-11-12T10:00
Bruce and Alex are joined by Michael Arthur Holloway of Dead When I Found Her. New album "All The Way Down"'s connections to end of life care, the history of sampling in industrial mu...
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We Have a Technical 76: Hoagies in the Bathroom from 2015-11-05T10:00
This week on We Have a Technical, Bruce and Alex go on at length about the club scene as it pertains to Our Thing. Changes in the music, style of promotion, the role of attendees, DJs, owners an...
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We Have a Technical 75: This Industrial Life from 2015-10-29T09:00
Bruce and Alex flip through the Rolodex for the 75th episode of We Have a Technical and have eleven friends of the podcast drop in to comment on albums they hold near and dear to thei...
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We Have a Technical 74: Coarse Undergarments from 2015-10-22T09:00
On this episode of the official (accept no substitutes) podcast of Spoopoween, the Senior Staff of I Die: You Die talk to industrial podcast OG DJ Todd of Real Synthetic Audio! Topics include th...
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We Have a Technical 73: Posthumous Pitfalls from 2015-10-15T09:00
On this episode of the official I Die: You Die podcast, Bruce and Alex give some thought to the great beyond with a discussion of the pragmatics and ethics of posthum...
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We Have a Technical 72: Jerk O' Lantern from 2015-10-08T09:00
Alex and Bruce take a look at the paths carved out by two bands they've been tracking for the past few years - Terminal Gods and Mircalla - and cut through the hype surrounding the ne...
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We Have a Technical 71: Vegan Food Tourists from 2015-10-01T09:00
Bruce and Alex run through all of the recent goings on in Chicago for Cold Waves and in LA for Front 242. But the Industrial Summer Camp madness doesn't stop there! K...
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We Have a Technical 70: All Credibility Lost from 2015-09-24T09:00
On this episode of We Have A Technical, Bruce and Alex field questions from listeners, ranging from the function and quality of lyrics to their preferred shooter recipes! It's an all request, al...
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We Have a Technical 69: Solid Gold Easy Hustler from 2015-09-18T09:00
On this episode of We Have a Technical, Bruce and Alex dig into the influences of two very disparate acts on the shape and sound of Our Thing: Pet Shop Boys and Converter. Odball tribute albums ...
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We Have a Technical 68: New Chairs from 2015-09-11T09:00
On this episode of We Have A Technical, Jason Novak joins the senior staff for a chat about the origins and new realizations of the Cold Waves festival in Chicago, his work in reviving the old W...
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We Have a Technical 67: The Handsome One from 2015-09-03T09:00
After a couple of weeks away (not that the listening public would know), Bruce and Alex take a look a...
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We Have a Technical 66: Where's My Tambourine? from 2015-08-27T09:00
A few weeks back Bruce and Alex met up with Aaron Fuleki and Alex Reed on the eve of their amazing performance at Terminus Festival to chat improvisation, the fan/artist relationship and how to ...
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We Have a Technical 65: Europa Europa from 2015-08-20T09:00
On this episode of We Have a Technical, Bruce and Alex run a commentary on one of their mutual favourite 90s EBM albums, the majestic electropop journey that is Covenant's "Europa". These album ...
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We Have a Technical 64: Tell 'Em Steve-Dave from 2015-08-14T10:00
Fresh back from a road trip to Seattle Alex and Bruce are ready to talk about records by And One and Din [A] Tod, do a bit of crate digging, and turn an eye to what's happening in Toronto. There...
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We Have a Technical 63: A Band is a Business from 2015-08-06T13:17:47
On this episode of We Have a Technical, Bruce and Alex chatting with our friend Troy Hilton of Darker Side of Light Productions about the upcoming Aftermath Festival in Toronto! Additionally we ...
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We Have a Technical 62: God Dammit Tobey from 2015-07-31T09:00
Bruce and Alex do a wrap-up of Calgary's Terminus Festival and talk to JD and Mel from Grendel! We go over some of our favourite performances, chat a bit about what separated this iteration from...
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We Have a Technical 61: Wenis Have a Technical from 2015-07-23T09:00
On this episode, Bruce and Alex go to the movies! "Industrial Soundtrack For The Urban Decay", "The Ballad Of Genesis And Lady Jaye", and a recently translated Belgian documentary on Front 242 a...
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We Have a Technical 60: Coke with Scooby Doo from 2015-07-16T10:00
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We Have a Technical 59: Steve Ouroboros from 2015-07-09T10:00
On this episode of the official I Die: You Die podcast, Bruce and Alex quiz each other on their predilections for albums by Pretentious, Moi? and Ghost & Writer. Also Alex has a lot of thoughts ...
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We Have a Technical 58: Jiggery Potpourri from 2015-07-02T10:00
This week Bruce and Alex have Erica Mulkey of Unwoman and returning superguest Matt Fanale of Caustic on to chat the new release from their collaborative Beauty Queen Autopsy project! Lots of in...
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We Have a Technical 57: Summer Camp is Nigh from 2015-06-25T10:00
On this episode of We Have a Technical Bruce and Alex talk to Chris Hewitt, organizer of Calgary Alberta's Terminus Festival. Lots of interesting chat about festival economics, booking and what ...
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We Have a Technical 56: Both a Little Bit Right from 2015-06-18T10:00
In this episode of the official I Die: You Die podcast Alex and Bruce are tackling the ever t...
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We Have a Technical 55: Blabbity Schloo Music from 2015-06-11T10:00
Alex and Bruce are very excited to chat with Cory from Volt 9000, one of the most interesting bands from the current wave of Canadian industrial! We talk about the new album "Timeshift", why dif...
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We Have a Technical 54: Rose McDeeznutz from 2015-06-04T09:00
Ont this episode of the official I Die: You Die podcast, Alex and Bruce each make a list of five bands based on a very specific criteria. Also some chat about Laibach, some very cool industroal ...
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We Have a Technical 53: Intangible Tangerine Tangents from 2015-05-28T10:00
Oh man podcast listeners, Bruce and Alex fucked up real bad and forgot to come up with a topic or a guest for We Have a Technical (the official I Die: You Die podcast!) this week. So they did wh...
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We Have a Technical #52: The Band, Not the Act from 2015-05-22T10:00
Bruce and Alex look back at an older Ministry record in light of the band's legacy since then, and talk about the new Prurient record and how it connects to the broader spectrum of noise/industr...
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We Have a Technical #51: Your Daddy Don't Know from 2015-05-14T09:30
On this episode of the official I Die: You Die podcast Matt Gifford from Encephalon drops in to chat about his band's excellent new album "Psychogenesis". Also Bruce and Alex chat fallout from T...
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We Have a Technical #50: The Great Debate from 2015-05-07T09:00
After nearly a month of carefully calculated hype and ballyhoo, it's finally here. The Great Debate, in which Alex and Bruce square off in opposing corners, ready to fight dirty, throw low blows...
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We Have a Technical #49: Talking to Technicals from 2015-04-30T09:00
It's the fight (or congenial meet-up) of the...
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We Have a Technical #48: No Laser Beams, Just Apples from 2015-04-23T10:00
On this week of the world's premier industrial, gothic and related musics podcast Bruce and Alex return to the "TOP 5" format, and bust out lists of their favourite closing tracks. Plus they dis...
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We Have a Technical #47: The Telekon Telekast from 2015-04-16T09:30
On this episode of the official I Die: You Die podcast Bruce and Alex do a commentary for Gary Numan's classic 1980 album "Telekon". Thrill to our mildly amusing historical anecdotes and baseles...
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We Have a Technical #46: Noted Fruitcake from 2015-04-09T10:00
In this particularly gushy episode of the world's greatest industrial and related musics podcast, we talk about Killing Joke and Ulver. Both bands beloved to the senior staff at I Die: You Die, ...
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We Have a Technical #45: Don't Be Boring from 2015-04-02T11:00
On this episode of the official podcast, Bruce and Alex discuss live shows: what makes them good, how a good performer sets themself apart and what performances we've seen that have stuck with u...
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We Have a Technical #44: Expired Potato Salad from 2015-03-26T10:00
This week on our official I Die: You Die podcast, we chat with returning guest Matt Fanale of Caustic about crowdfunding. We got the do's, the don'ts, the goods, the bads and yeah, the do it as ...
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We Have a Technical #43: Let's Shoot This from 2015-03-19T10:00
Our experiment with running the podcast as a weekly venture continues, as we talk to New York/New Orleans goth-pop duo Azar Swan. On the heels of their latest, percussion-laden LP And Blow Us...
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We Have a Technical #42: A Lotta Dirks from 2015-03-12T10:00
We're back with another jam-packed episode of We Have A Technical! Alex and Bruce are doing a few new things on this episode, from field testing a new feature (Lists! Drafts! Swerves!) to droppi...
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We Have a Technical #41: Roman Numerals and Porno from 2015-02-26T11:00
On this episode of the OFFICIAL idieyoudie.com podcast Bruce and Alex discuss a record by Die Form and the Swans side-project Skin/World of Skin. Also some chitter chatter about upcoming shows, ...
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We Have a Technical #40: The :Wumpscast: from 2015-02-13T14:59
On this album commentary podcast Alex and Bruce discuss the legacy of :wumpscut:'s classic album "Bunkertor 7" on the occasion of its twentieth anniversary. How has Rudy Ratzinger's third LP hel...
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We Have a Technical #39: Ow My Neck from 2015-01-29T11:00
On this episode of the official I Die: You Die podcast Alex and Bruce chat with Sara and Ryan from Youth Code! Topics include the deliciousness of coffee, the enduring radness of :Wumpscut: and ...
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We Have a Technical #38: F**k That Band from 2015-01-15T11:00
On the first episode of We Have a Technical for 2015 Bruce and Alex talk about expectations, hopes, dreams and wishes for the year to come. We also discuss some recent gigs we attended and some ...
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We Have a Technical #37: An Excuse to Talk Wrestling from 2015-01-02T10:00
Alex and Bruce got drunk after finishing their year end coverage and recorded this interstitial episode of the podcast. We don't talk about new music much, it's more just wrestling, comics, TV w...
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We Have a Technical #36: The Worst Stallone from 2014-12-19T11:00
Bruce and Alex stumble across the finish line of I Die: You Die's Year End coverage, drunk and exhausted. We talk our top 25 of 2014, the recent amazing shows we've seen from Haujobb, Skinny Pup...
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We Have a Technical #35: Welcome to Erf from 2014-12-04T11:00
In this episode of We Have a Technical, Bruce and Alex listen to and comment on Apoptygma Berzerk's futurepop classic "Welcome to Earth". Thrill to our take on a 15 year old record as we excorci...
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We Have a Technical #34: Snooki Bat Machine from 2014-11-20T11:00
On this episode of the I Die: You Die podcast Bruce and Alex talk about darkwave: its origins, its definition, and a bunch of bands that fall under its aegis; Switchblade Symphony, Xymox, Kirlia...
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We Have a Technical #33: Drank It All Up from 2014-11-07T11:00
On this episode of We Have a Technical, we bro down with Michael and Wes from the delightful Talking to Ghosts podcast. We discuss their goals with TTG, their music projects [product] and reakt[...
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We Have a Technical #32: Anonymous and Euphoric from 2014-10-23T10:00
On this extremely rambly episode of We Have a Technical Alex and Bruce have a jaw with Vancouver ex-pat Jack Duckworth of Soft Riot. It's a fun conversation sandwiched between a lot of blather a...
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We Have a Technical #31: I Got It Now from 2014-10-09T09:00
On this episode of We Have a Technical Alex and Bruce revisit the format that time forgot, namely the discussion of two recent albums. This time out it's a proto-EBM excursion from Henrikk Björk...
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We Have a Technical #30: The Crowcast from 2014-09-25T09:00
Bruce and Alex record a commentary track for the Crow Soundtrack. That's right, the good, the bad and the ugly of everyone's favourite goth-alternative soundtrack of the 1990s. Thrill to the ane...
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We Have a Technical #29: Kiss The Blade Flesh from 2014-09-12T06:01
Bruce returns to the official I Die: You Die podcast! We talk about his travels in the British isles (and seeing Kate Bush), get excited for Cold Waves and then chat about some of the rad dark m...
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We Have a Technical #28: All Manner of Jovial Whatnots from 2014-08-28T07:30
Alex takes the easy way out and assembles a clip show comprised from the first two episodes of the podcast, never before available on iTunes! Take a trip into the distant past of 2013 as we disc...
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We Have a Technical #27: Oui, Oui, Oui! from 2014-08-14T10:00
Matt Fanale of Caustic joins Alex for this episode of the Official I Die: You Die podcast as we discuss Chicago's Cold Waves III! We even get on the horn with fest organizer Dave Schock and Bruc...
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We Have a Technical #26: Réal's Cat Noises from 2014-07-31T04:14:05
With Bruce away, Alex is joined by Réal Cardinal of Comaduster to discuss the history of the project, his process, how he approaches remixes and what he's up to post the release of his excellent...
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We Have a Technical #25: The Headhunter 2Kast from 2014-07-18T08:00
Alex and Bruce get drunk and do a running commentary on Front 242's Headhunter 2000. It gets kind of gnarly, so sit back, crack a beer and let the dulcet sounds of the official I Die: You Die po...
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We Have a Technical #24: Two Scoops of Hell from 2014-07-04T07:30
In this installment of the official www.idieyoudie.com podcast Bruce and Alex talk about how much fun they had at Terminus Festival in Calgary, chat with friend of the site Eric Gottesman about ...
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We Have a Technical #23: It'd be "Coup" from 2014-06-20T07:12:44
In this episode of the official I Die: You Die podcast Bruce and Alex discuss a special number (seriously) and talk to Michael Treveloni of Alter Der Ruine about the band's upcoming album!
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We Have a Technical #22: We Won't Stop from 2014-06-06T08:00
Bruce and Alex do a final AFTERMATH decompression before diving into the amazing line-up of Calgary's Terminus Festival, including an interview with organizer Chris Hewitt!
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We Have a Technical #21: Dad Magazines from 2014-05-21T05:38:18
Alex and Bruce get pranked by Volt 9000 and chat Ottawa industrial (including Encephalon, Apriorism, and Wychdoktor) on this pre-AFTERMATH episode of the official I Die: You Die podcast!
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We Have a Technical #20: Impressed By How Evil You Are from 2014-05-09T06:53:53
In this episode of the official I Die: You Die podcast Daniel X Belasco joins Alex and Bruce to talk about his new album as Glass Apple Bonzai. Plus the guys talk some lost Vancouver records and...
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We Have a Technical #19: Princes of Atlantis from 2014-04-25T11:00
Bruce and Alex talk AFTERMATH Festival, Cold Waves III, the new Haujobb single, Front Line Assembly's remix album and just a mess of other topics on this episode of the official Idieyoudie.com p...
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We Have a Technical #18: Not Talking About Jambalaya from 2014-04-10T05:39:57
Bruce and Alex kvetch about the cancellation of Festival Kinetik, then talk about releases by High-Functioning Flesh and Kindest Cuts in this episode of the official idieyoudie.com podcast.
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We Have a Technical #17: Would I Kill a Drifter??? from 2014-03-27T06:05:51
Alex and Bruce talk remix culture in the goth and industrial scene, get mad about :Wumpscut:'s "Totmacher" and generally find a way to kill an hour blathering on. Music by Front 242, 3 Teeth, Fo...
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We Have a Technical #16: You Ain't Nothin' from 2014-03-14T03:18:57
Bruce and Alex chat about the history of I Die: You Die, the definition of "Our Thing" and answer some listener questions in this episode of the official idieyoudie.com podcast!
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We Have a Technical #15: Down the Rabbit Hole from 2014-02-28T01:23:24
In this episode of the official I Die: You Die podcast chat with Jason Amm of Solvent about his work on the modular synth documentary
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We Have a Technical #14: Not a Time I Don't Think Even from 2014-02-13T01:22:59
The senior staff chats with homeboy Rev John (aka John G) of Das Bunker about that club night's glorious finale and rebirth, as well as the science and magic of club promotion.
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We Have a Technical #13: Smooth Jazz 'Round the Midnight Hour from 2014-01-23T06:52
Scott Fox of iVardensphere joins Alex and Bruce for a fun chat about the origins and future of the rhythmic tribal project.
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We Have a Technical #12: Bruce Hates EDM from 2014-01-16T18:17
The senior staff have a long and winding conversation about synthpop.
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We Have a Technical #11: Clubstitute from 2013-12-31T08:45
Matt Fanale of Caustic joins the senior staff for the first episode of the new year!
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We Have a Technical #10: It's Still Recording from 2013-12-22T02:36
The Senior Staff talks their best of 2013 list and some broader trends in Our Thing from the year that was!
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We Have a Technical #9: Right in the Feels from 2013-12-05T00:58
Music journalist Ned Raggett joins Bruce and Alex for a lengthy chat about the enduring appeal of VNV Nation.
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WHaT #8: Shopping Cart Down an Elevator Shaft from 2013-11-21T06:14
In this episode of the official I Die: You Die podcast we discuss records by Skinny Puppy, Download and Dubcon. Read the annotations at Listen
We Have a Technical #7: Industrial Hype Men from 2013-11-06T02:52
In this episode we're joined by Alex Reed, author of "Assimilate: A Critical History of Industrial Music" to chat about his book, his new band Seeming and engage with us in some general industri...
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We Have a Technical #6: Jump Back, Germany! from 2013-10-24T07:36
In this episode we discuss records by Individual Totem and Volt 9000 and the line-up of acts for our stage at Festival Kinetik!
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We Have a Technical #5: Self-Assigned Hairshirt from 2013-10-10T07:15
In this episode we compare and contrast records from Kite and Henric de la Cour and Architect and Comaduster. Annotations can be found here: Listen
We Have a Technical #4: Poor Axl from 2013-09-26T05:59
In this episode we discuss recent albums by Front Line Assembly and Stefan Poiss of mind.in.a.box.
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We Have a Technical #3: A Friggin' Academy Award from 2013-09-12T06:24
In our third episode of the official I Die: You Die podcast we discuss new records from Nine Inch Nails and Caustic and blather on about some recent goings on around the HQ. Annotations can be f...
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