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La Famiglia

Spettro Family – La Famiglia Spettro

Over the years, there have been very few releases that I can admit having fully regretted not picking up as there is more than enough music flowing into our headquarters on a daily basis to keep me busy for more than a few lifetimes; this, on top of the enormous amount of music that I […]

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Protect

Corso – (Protect)

Marco Saviolo has been at the new wave game for only a short few years now via his solo alias, Corso, but — with the help of his label TDMC Records — he appears to have reached a level of production quality that few artists in his specific realm of music currently have the good […]

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Nove Code and Erich Zahn and Troy Southgate ‎– Nove Code / Erich Zahn / Troy Southgate

Over the years those familiar with the musical output of Troy Southgate with Seelenlicht, and Horologium would have experienced his lengthy spoken word passages with over perhaps some of the most warm, and dramatic string and timpani arrangements held buoyantly aloft by textures that are at times dense and at others minimal, all of that […]

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Hidden Place

An Italian Spirit: An Interview with Hidden Place

From the short-lived Neofolk project Lupi Gladius comes Hidden Place, an alternative electronic new wave band born in Italy in 2004 and formed by siblings SaraLux and Fabio V., Giampiero Di B., Antonio L. We sat down with them (albeit virtually) to discuss their upcoming release on Calembour Records called ‘Novecento’ (due out on December […]

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Black Light Ascension – Ashes

Black Light Ascension is a project that has taken the electro world by storm — only, rather than being able to mean that in an overtly positive way, it seems more like it has left many people confused and unable to know what to think of the debut album in “Ashes”.  After all, Andrew Trail’s […]

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Till the Last Night

Bleiburg – Till the Last Night

Bleiburg, for now over a decade, has long been one of the most unique and, frankly, infuriatingly difficult artists in the post-industrial realm to define on any number of levels.  Though nearly always rhythmic, the music can switch out from the modestly abrasive nature of industrial to dreamy synthpop, militant martial to straight-up dance-floor EBM, […]

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Aïboforcen – Dédale

Written by: VITRIOL Artist Link Country:   Label: Alfa Matrix Genre: Electronic/Industrial/Synth pop Tracklisting: 01 Dédale 02 Everything Gets Sacrificed – feat. Ayria 03 Shadows 04 Time & Space 05 Light 06 Poem of Life – feat. Leather Strip 07 Sordide Sentimental 08 Lhassa 09 The World Below – feat. Ego Likeness 10 New Year’s […]

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Thought Thieves – Krista EP

Written by: Sage Artist link Country: Label: Self-released Genre: Dark Rock/Synthpop /EBM Tracklisting: 01 Krista 02 Remorse 03 Paralyzed 04 Say Goodbye 05 13 06 Krista (Encouraging Remix by Heliosphere) Initially, I’m not sure what to think about Thought Thieves.  You give an album a non-descript name, with non-descript artwork, with fairly non-descript track titles […]

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