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Punch ‘n’ Judy – Rum, Soda & Punch (CD Album – Danse Macabre)
Genre/Influences: Folk-rock & metal, punk-rock & folk. Background/Info: Punch ‘n’ Judy is a German formation, which is already active for a couple of years now..
Date archives: February, 2017
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Time to submit songs for the 2nd volume of the super successful Alfa Matrix 4CD box compilation series ‘Electronic Body Matrix’
A few years ago the Belgian label Alfa Matrix released a massive 4CD set titled “Electronic Body Matrix vol. 1” (there are still a few.
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Dageist – 40 (CD Album – Danse Macabre)
Genre/Influences: Electro cold-wave, new-wave. Background/Info: Set up in 2008 this French duo from Lille (Northern part of France) has released its debut album revealing 8.
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Side-Line introduces Mystified – listen now to ‘Lick’ (Face The Beat profile series)
The 48th track on our free download compilation “Face The Beat: Session 4” (featuring 92 tracks) is by the excellent Saint Louis, Missouri based ambient.
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‘Click Interview’ with Llumen: ‘I Strive To Make Llumen Very Much My Own’
LLUMEN is the newest Belgian formation that joined the Alfa Matrix stable. It all started as a real band featuring several members, but throughout the.
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Norwegian trio Essence Of Mind are returning to Germany this spring doing a club tour – here are the dates!
It will be the first time that Essence Of Mind will play a headline tour in Germany after playing at famous festivals like M’era Luna.
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Haiku Funeral – Hallucinations (CD Album – Aesthetic Death)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-rock, doom, metal. Background/Info: What would you expect from a band that saw the daylight on Halloween night? Nothing serious or a band inspired.
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Side-Line introduces My Dear Killer – listen now to ‘Sea Of Trees’ (Face The Beat profile series)
The 47th track on our free download compilation “Face The Beat: Session 4” (featuring 92 tracks) is by My Dear Killer. My Dear Killer is.
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Digital Geist – ROTOR Rewired (USB Album – Digital Geist)
Genre/Influences: Cinematographic, electronic. Background/Info: Alex Kourelis aka Digital Geist is an American artist I discovered by his “The Zero Engine”-album (2006). A few more productions.
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Severe Illusion has 2003 album ‘Discipline Is Reward Enough’ re-released as 2cd set
In 2003 Severe Illusion released the album “Discipline Is Reward Enough”. 13 years later that album now sees a re-release, this time as a double-cd.
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Justin Bennett (Skinny Puppy / Askew) and Stefano Rossello (Banter / Detune-X) return with Ketvector project incl. Nivek Ogre, Edward Ka-Spel etc.
Ketvector, created by Justin Bennett (Skinny Puppy / Askew) and Stefano Rossello (Banter / Detune-X), is back with the follow-up to it’s 2008 debut “The.
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a-ha’s frontman Morten Harket will be a mentor on the popular TV show ‘The Voice’
Some fan news for the commercial TV show fans in Scandinavia. Earlier this month, a-ha frontman Morten Harket announced via a video on the a-ha.
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Tunnels Of Ǡh – Surgical Fires (CD Album – Cold Spring)
Genre/Influences: Ambient-noise, experimental, dark-ambient. Background/Info: In a previous life Stephen Reuben Burroughs got involved in Head Of David. Today he has found a new sonic.
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Burial Hex – Throne (CD Album – Cold Spring)
Genre/Influences: Horror-electronics, death-industrial. Background/Info: Clay Ruby gained a serious reputation in the private and selected universe of ‘horror-electronics’. This prolific artist can look back on.
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We The North – Dayblind (CD Album – Space Race Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, body-pop. Background/Info: Behind We The North is hiding a solo-project set up and driven by Johan Hansson who you should know from his.
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Llumen – The Memory Institute (DCD Album – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Cinematographic-EBM, ambient-EBM. Background/Info: Llumen is a Belgian solo-project driven by the creative spirit of Pieter Coussement. The band ever started as a 3 member.
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Click Interview’ with Deleyaman: ‘Music Is A An Honest Friend You Can Be With When You Are All Alone’
Deleyaman has been set up in 2000 by multi-instrumentalist Aret Madilian (USA) and singer Beatrice Valantin (France) plus Gerard Madilian. The band deals with a.
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Erasure to release 17th studio album ‘World Be Gone’ in May on cassette, vinyl and CD
Andy Bell and Vince Clarke aka Erasure will release their 17th studio album, “World Be Gone”, on 19 May 2017 (and it must be said.
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Click Interview’ with Grandchaos: ‘I Don’t Find Digital Synths Appealing At All’
Tcheleskov Ivanovitch is already into music since the late 80s. He together with his brother set up the Belgian project Ivanovitch Dans L’Ombre, but gained.
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It’s EBM day at Alfa Matrix! Use code ebmday242 and get 30% of on all releases (incl. Front 242 vinyls)
“Today he has no means He’s alone and anonymous, but written in his cells he’s got the marks of a genius”, with these Front 242.