We Have A Technical 574: Chu Chu Weighs In
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The two album format draws up records of vastly different style and intensity as the final LP from German electro act The Dust Of Basement and a definitive live statement from Dive are on the docket. We're also discussing a recent live set from Vancouver's percussive industrial group Norillag.
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We Have A Commentary: Rosetta Stone, "An Eye For The Main Chance"
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The debut album from Rosetta Stone and one of the landmark achievements in the second wave of goth rock is the subject of this month's commentary episode. The ways in which <u>An Eye For The Main Chance</u> bends Rosetta Stone's influences to suit their own stormy and driving read on anthemic goth rock, the style and quality of Porl King's songwriting, and so much more are all delved into.
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We Have A Technical 573: Lamb Bear
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Your latest hotly anticipated, or at least blithely accepted pick five formatted episode of We Have A Technical is here. We're zeroing in on our recurring fascination with the role of soundtracks in forming our tastes in Our Thing by each selecting tracks which stand out for good or bad in various film soundtracks. Are there a number of chalk choices by well-established bands? Sure, but that's with an eye to digging into the lesser known moments and aspects of those giants' discographies, we promise. There's also some New Order ephemeral trivia off the top!
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We Have A Technical 572: Baseball Fury
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After a lengthy hiatus, Austin cautionary tales Street Sects are back. They're turning their combination of noise, post-hardcore, and sample-driven industrial to investigate some extremely painful territory related to addiction and recovery with their new <u>Dry Drunk</u> record, but also have something quite different on the go in their more electro-pop influenced Street Sex incarnation and its <u>Full Color Eclipse</u> debut. Given their similarities and differences, we thought a full episode dedicated to the discussion of these records and their thematics was...
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We Have A Technical 571: Hot Sandwiches
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The second of our interviews stemming from Terminus is here, with rising synthpop/EBM act Sleek Teeth joining us. The band's use of harmonies, threading of the needle between pop and aggression, and flair for the uncanny and occluded have made them one of the new bands we're most impressed by these days, and they were happy to speak with us about all that and more. We're also offering some thoughts on the Vancouver stop of the ongoing Nine Inch Nails tour.
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We Have A Technical 570: The Nether Regions of Synth Funk
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Fresh off her performance at Terminus Festival, we're happy to present our interview with Mari Kattman on this week's episode of We Have A Technical. Her new record <u>Year Of The Katt</u> is a statement of arrival of Kattman as a solo artist and producer after having heard her in collaborative capacities for years, and she talks with us extensively about her own creative process and aims with the record. We're also introducing the ID:UD co-presented stage at this year's Purple City Festival in Edmonton!
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We Have A Technical 569: Terminus 2025 Recap
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Our favourite time of the year's come and gone with Terminus: Modulation in the books. Four days, thirty-one acts, and a goodly amount of beer later, we're here to break down all of the festivities which took place this past weekend in Calgary. Pleasant surprises, hot prospects, and the odd swing and a miss, you'll get the blow by blow details on this episode of We Have A Technical.
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We Have a Commentary: Flesh Field, "Viral Extinction"
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On the occasion influential 1999 debut "Viral Extinction" being remastered, we're happy to welcome back Flesh Field's Ian Ross to the podcast to discuss the record in its entirety with us. We're touching on how the record reflected Ian's influences but also pointed towards a new vision for dark electro, how limitations in gear both hindered and helped the creation of the record, and so much more.
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We Have A Technical 568: Baguettes of Spaghetti
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It's a "Born To Runner Up" themed episode this week, as we're each picking five of our second favourite records by specific artists. From underrated comebacks to idiosyncratic personal faves, we had a lot of fun making cases for each of these. We're also chiming in on the new NIN track from the forthcoming <u>Tron: Ares</u> soundtrack.
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We Have A Technical 567: Never Make Eye Contact
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This week's two albums format has us discussing two records separated by a number of years but both abutting upon dark electro even as both artists work to define their own separate aesthetic: <u>Moral Cleansing</u>, the first full-length from TBM producer SARIN, and <u>Contempt</u>, the debut of Tom Shear's Assemblage 23. We're also talking the Pixel Grip/Travis Scott debacle, a forthcoming Coil tome, and some rumblings in The Tear Garden.
info_outlineWe love two things here at ID:UD - dark music festivals, and arbitrary competition. We're combining those two passions with a mock draft of our own non-existent music fests, drawing from the line-ups of a handful of this year's real-world parties. Which of our two line-ups seems the most tempting to you? Let us know here or on socials, or give us your own line-up from the same pool.