We Have A Technical 591: Per My Last E-mail, Squarehead
Release Date: 01/08/2026
We Have A Technical 606: Get Some Sleep
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The new collaborative record from Nine Inch Nails and Boys Noize is all anyone in the larger industrial ecosystem is talking about this week and so we're adding our two cents regarding the track selection, emotional import, and club appeal of Nine Inch Noize. We're also talking about some exciting Forma Tadre reissue news and offering a preview of new music from Spike Hellis!
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We Have A Technical 605: What Were We Talking About?
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The two records up for discussion in this week's podcast are both from 2006 and have at least some connection to broader post-industrial traditions, but those might be the only links between Dioxyde's aggrotech-inflected <u>Social Phobia</u> and the Lovecraftian ambience of Flint Glass' <u>Nyarlathotep</u>. It's also a news heavy week with discussion of Joy Division and New Order's inductions into the Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame, and the lineups for the Cold Waves and Absolution festivals.
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We Have A Technical 604: Out of Breath Close to Death
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HEALTH's star continues to rise both in North America and abroad, and as their weeb-friendly blend of thudding industrial rock and vulnerable fatalism came through Vancouver we were able to speak with bassist and programmer John Famiglietti. We touch upon HEALTH's appeal in the age of the terminally online, the band's free flowing philosophy of collaboration, the odd parallels between the band's evolution and that of industrial music itself, and so much more.
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We Have A Technical 603: Chester Cheevo
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On this week's podcast we're firstly talking about the wide roaming genre mix up of Belgian legends The Neon Judgment's <u>Mafu Cage</u>, before taking a look at the spacious ethereality and vocal power of Scotland's Witch Of The Vale. We're also discussing Brendan Perry's ill-considered comments regarding AI generated album art.
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We Have a Commentary: The Cure, "Pornography"
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Presented with their choice of the first four albums by The Cure, a sizable majority of our Patreon backers selected 1982's "Pornography" as the subject for this month's commentary podcast, and so here we are, tackling the densest, darkest, and most monolithic statement in the band's legendary discography. We work to tease out the poetic and emotional particulars of Robert Smith's expressions of guilt, corruption, and misery, as well as the sonic and structural qualities which both make "Pornography" The Cure's non plus ultra in terms of weight, and yet also link it to the band's past and...
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We Have A Technical 602: Auteur Fanfic
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We're back to the beloved Pick Five format this week, folks! This time we're each picking notable guest appearances...or is it guest vocals? Or both? Listen to find out as we discuss duets, reunions, styles clashes, and more.
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We Have A Technical 601: Bran-O-Sphere
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It's a two albums episode of the podcast, with records by A Projection and Rikk Agnew linked by the very thinnest of (post) punk threads, though the anthemic synthpop of the former's <U>In A Different Light</u> and the latter's clarification of the influence he'd have on hardcore and deathrock in <u>All By Myself</u> are profoundly different records. We're also talking about the rivethead-focused lineup of this year's Terminus Festival.
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We Have A Technical 600: Keep Industrial Queer
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For our 600th episode we're happy to be joined by Raws of Plack Blague and DJ Starr Noir. Intersections between queer culture and industrial culture go back to the very beginning of the latter, and Raws and Starr share their personal experiences and historical observations about those intersections as performers, DJs, and promoters within the scene.
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We Have A Technical 599: Chelsea Girls
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We always like to allude to the "related genres" which abut the core four we work with on We Have A Technical and that's very much the case with the pair of records up for discussion on this week's podcast. First up is the vaguely industrial metal of 90's shock rockers Genitorturers' 1993 debut, followed up by a record from dungeon synth act Frailord which cannily lifts from darkwave, synthpop, and dark electro. We're also discussing recent news about the cessation of Godflesh.
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We Have A Technical 598: Monkey's Paw
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On this week's podcast we're looking at a pair of records which blend a number of goth-related subgenres and styles. First up is Australian veterans Ikon, with their excellent 1998 LP <u>This Quiet Earth</u>. Next, US synth act Fiction 8's <u>Chaotical</u> from 2000.
info_outlineThe last Foetus album in JG Thirlwell's uncompromising four-plus decade run under the fluid moniker has been released, and we're discussing <u>Halt</u> in detail on this week's podcast. What's changed and what hasn't with regards to Thirlwell's brand of misanthropy, as well as how his increasingly ambitious orchestral arrangements have been folded back into the free-roaming experimental industrial project are just some of the points we're touching upon.