We Have A Technical

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 recent Cure show and some exciting news for Daniel Myer fans are also on this week's episode of the podcast.

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 industrial being kicked about. Alex and Bruce debate whether or not a new dark age is moving beyond the ken of Our Thing, and try to keep baseball and wrestling chatter to a minimum.

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 underlie curating one's own label. Apologies in advance for the sound problems; for once the name of the podcast is particularly accurate.

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 least a couple of fart jokes in there too.

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.

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 talking Haujobb, Babyland, and the mysterious Das Bunker anniversary festival!

Encephalon's debut record gets the full commentary treatment on this week's episode of the official I Die: You Die podcast! 2011's "The Transhuman Condition" was the staff's favourite record of ID:UD's inaugural year, and they've got plenty to say about the Ottawa trio's head-trip of an electro-industrial tour de force.

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 off the table as WHaT crosses the century mark.

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 scoop on Daniel Myer's by-request set at Terminus which we're going to help -you- curate! All this wee on the official I Die: You Die podcast! 

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 classic album in its entirety" thing played out? All this and plenty more on the latest episode of We Have A Technical.

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 a wider world of musical ideas. Along with that talk about Rosetta Stone and Necro Facility, we also discuss festival line-up news, the Depeche Mode march madness brackets and plenty more nonsense and hullabaloo! Only on We Have a Technical! 

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 influenced the creation of "Commitment To Complications", working with Rhys Fulber, and the ethics of adding maple syrup to your coffee. We're also talking about Terminus' first band announcements, and the legacy of Tympanik Audio.

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 influential work as Leæther Strip. We talk about his influences, his role in shaping goth/industrial culture in the 90s, and how he's been recently navigating the unruly waters of self-released music. All this and more on this episode of We Have a Technical!

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 Steven R. Gilmore! The man behind countless Nettwerk sleeves for Skinny Puppy, The Tear Garden, Images In Vogue and plenty of others is here to give us the stories and method behind many of your favourite record designs.

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 love for their fancy format and cool design? You'll have to listen to these two guys yammer on at length to find out! All this week on We Have a Technical, the I Die: You Die podcast. 

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 and The Pain Machinery. That and actually only a tiny bit more, this week on We Have a Technical! 

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. Put on a black singlet and some combat pants, crack a tallboy of lager, and settle in with this week's episode of We Have A Technical.

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 while writing about music, and walks us through the processes of creating electronic music well beyond just "writing" it. All this week on We Have a Technical, the I Die: You Die podcast! 

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, Laibach's troll-heavy (or not?) endorsement of boomer rock, and some listener questions all make it into this beggar's banquet which is the newest episode of We Have A Technical.

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 from Wolfsheim's existing discography and contemporary dance floors, its catapulting of Peter Heppner to mainstream stardom in Germany and so much more are discussed on the newest episode of We Have A Technical.