Posted on 18 Nov, 2008 - Bookmark at del.icio.us Belgium's best known old school EBM act Ionic Vision has a new album out since a few months, "Bitter Isolation". Here's the Ionic Vision interview "Modern EBM begins where "That Total Age" stops" which Side-Line made with Sven, Andy and Louis. Ionic Vision also announced that the collaboration they had with the Hannover EBM act Orange Sector, continues. Included on the Orange Sector EP "Untertage" is the Ionic Vision collaboration "Die Macht" remixed by Orange Sector.
Here's a video of the band live with "Push" at "Familientreffen 2 Electric Tremor Festival" at Sandersleben, Germany.
Posted on 18 Nov, 2008 - Bookmark at del.icio.us "Teletai" is a double CD, celebrating fifteen years of music from Orphx, the industrial electronica pioneers from Toronto. Disc 1 features 12 rare and mostly deleted tracks compiled from compilations and earlier vinyl only releases. Disc 2 features unreleased remixes of 12 different orphx tracks done by Surgeon, Sleeparchive, Fluxion, Winterkälte, Imminent, Sonar, Contagious Orgasm, Huren, Xabec, Mimetic, Tropism, and a new version of "Chalice" done by Orphx themselves.
Posted on 18 Nov, 2008 - Bookmark at del.icio.us 5 years the new (7th) Color Theory album "The Thought Chapter" has been in the making. The CD, the follow-up to 203's "Color Theory presents Depeche Mode", is packaged in a 6-panel Digipak with original (excellent) drawings by Maya Klein. The album features 11th new originals and one cover, "Photobooth" by Death Cab for Cutie. The band's mastermind Brian Hazard is currently maintaining a new blog at www.passivepromotion.com which chronicles the promotion of the new album from the earliest stages. An interesting read really, especially for all those that think it is all very easy to release and promote albums. An interesting point of view from Brian: social networking and recommendation engines like Pandora, iTunes Genius, and Last.fm will have a larger impact on the album's success or failure than traditional efforts like promoting to radio or securing brick-and-mortar distribution. Any thoughts on this? Let us know ! More info at www.colortheory.com and www.passivepromotion.com .
Posted on 18 Nov, 2008 - Bookmark at del.icio.us Rupesh Cartel will release their new album "Anchor Baby" early 2009, and claim they have solved the problem with illegal downloads. "We were damn fed up with the fact that our previous album leaked before its release. This time we made the impossible possible. The whole album has been mixed to tape and locked in a safe place", says singer Viktor Ginner. The exception is the new single "Oh No Oh No!" released on November 5th. The 5-track single includes remixes by Code 64, Iris and Pulce next to a radio version, plus the bonus track "Chronometer".
Watch the (very funny and well made) video for "Oh No Oh No!".