Fractal – Access Denied (Album – Aliens Production)
Genre/Influences: IDM, Minimal-Electro. Format: IDM. Background/Info: The Polish Fractal project this year signed to Aliens Production and already released three...
Inferno Sound Diaries
I have been working for over 30 years with Side-line as the main reviewer. My taste is eclectic, uncoventional and I prefer to look for the pearls, even if the bands are completely unknown, thus staying loyal to the Side-Line philosophy of nurturing new talents.
The Ultimate Dreamers – Live Happily While Waiting For Death (Album –Wool-E Discs)
Genre/Influences: Cold-Wave, Post-Punk. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: Belgian formation The Ultimate Dreamers were active between 1986 and 1990. After...
Thelxinoe – Inner Subspace (Album – Avalanche Organisation)
Genre/Influences: Soundscape, Cinematographic, Drone. Format: Digital, Cassette. Background/Info: “Inner Subspace” is the second work released by Avalanche Organization. This album...
Ruined Conflict – God & Sinners Part 1 (Mini-Album – Infacted Recordings)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop, Future-Pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: American project Ruined Conflict strikes back with six new songs. Xavier Morales is...
Hybryds – Mythopia (Album – 3RIOART)
Genre/Influences: Cinematographic, Ethereal, Ethereal-Pop, Ambient, Ritual. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Belgian legendary Hybryds is back with a new work, the...
Accolade – Tria Prima (Album – Danse Macabre)
Genre/Influences: Ethereal. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Accolade is a Seattle (USA) based band, which joined hands with Danse Macabre to...
Jarl – Spectrum Confusion (Album – Reverse Alignment)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, Experimental, Cinematographic. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Erik Jarl already strikes back with a new album; he released three...
Jakob Schauer – In Death I Am Caressing You (Album – Forwind)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, Electro-Acoustic, Industrial, Dark-Ambient. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Vienna (Austria) based Jakob Schauer is not exactly a familiar name...
Deine Lakaien – Dual+ (Album – Chrom Records / Prophecy Productions)
Genre/Influences: Dark Wave-Pop, Cinematographic-Pop. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: Set up in 1985, Deine Lakaien rapidly became a renowned name...
Vaev – Drømmenes Spejl (Album – Winter-Light)
Genre/Influences: Cinematograpic, Dark-Ambient. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Vaev is a Danish solo-project, unleashing its official debut work on Winter-Light. Vaev...
30 Years Of Journalism – Celebration Interview with Bernard Van Isacker (Side-Line & Alfa Matrix): ‘Consider Us As An Incubator For Talents’
Back in 1991 I started writing my first reviews for Side-Line magazine. I would have never thought to go on...
Kloob – Parallel States (Album – Winter Light)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Ambient. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Spanish musician Daniel Ferreira aka ‘Dany Kloob’ seems to have found a home at...
Ajna & Onasander – Canidia (Album – Winter-Light)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Ambient. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: “Canidia” resulted from the collaborative efforts between Chris F (Ajna) and Maurizio Landini (Onasander)....
Subterranean Source – Ellipsis (Album – Winter Light)
Genre/Influences: Cinematographic, Dark-Ambient. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: “Ellipsis” is the third album ever released by this Italian project driven by...
Beatbox Machinery – Nuclear Devastation (EP – Werkstatt Recordings)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop, EBM. Format: Digital, CD, Cassette. Background/Info: ‘Toxic Razor’ (Paradox Obscur, Metal Disco) seems to be a musician who...
Metal Disco – Καμία Εξουσία (EP – Werkstatt Recordings)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Wave, EBM, Electroclash. Format: Digital, CD, Cassette. Background/Info: Greek musician/producer and Werkstatt Recordings owner Toxic Razor has been extremely...
Metal Disco – Rough & Dirty (EP – Werkstatt Recordings)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Wave, Minimal-Electro, EBM, Electroclash. Format: Digital, CD, Cassette. Background/Info: After having released the album “Techno Electronics 2015-2020” earlier this...
Click Interview with Elektrostaub: ‘I Don’t Really Like To Look Back, I Love To Look Forward’
Patrick Knoch set up Elektrostaub in 2007. Elektrostaub can be defined as Electro/Future-Pop and is a solo-project with guest singers....
John-Lord Fonda – Walk Again (Album – Citizen Records)
Genre/Influences: Techno, Electro-Clash, Techno-Body. Format: Digital, Vinyl. Background/Info: Cyril Thévenard aka ‘John-Lord Fonda’ never expected to release a new full...
DJ YumYum – Decisions (EP – PH17)
Genre/Influences: Experimental-Techno. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: I never heard of this German DJ before, but he seems to have already...
Andreas Karperyd – Entanglement (EP – Novoton)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, Minimal-Electro. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Earlier this year Swedish artist Andreas Karperyd released his second full length “GND” and...
DID – End Of Xibalba (Album – Zoharum)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Ambient. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: There’s not a lot of information available about DID while Xibalba refers to the...
Sphyxion – 3 (Album – Zoharum)
Genre/Influences: Minimal-Electro, Cinematographic, Experimental. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: TheFrench brothers Frédéric and Olivier Charlot (also involved with the great Maninkari-project)...
Matter – Raw Material (Album – Ant-Zen)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-Techno. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Italian producer Fabrizio Matrone strikes back with his new album, which comes twenty years after he...
Click Interview with Instans: ‘Trying To Be Perfect Tends To End Up As Self-Censorship’
After the previous album “Derailed” released in 2017, it seemed that there were no further plans for Instans. Luckily the...
Notstandskomitee – Theme From Space Guards (EP – Block 4)
Genre/Influences: Minimal-Electro, Experimental, Soundtrack. Format: Digital, Vinyl. Background/Info: Malte Steiner gained a reputation in the 90s, first with Das Kombinat...
Meta Meat – Infra Supra (Album – Ant-Zen / Le Label Beige)
Genre/Influences: Tribal, Trance, Industrial. Format: Digital, Vinyl. Background/Info: This is the second album by the french duo Hugues Villette (2Kilos...
Ander – Potrwa Wiecznie (Album – Zoharum)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, Cinematographic, Abstract. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: “Potrwa Wiecznie” –which means ‘it will last forever’ in Polish, is the...
Gutenberg – Coordinate (Album – Ant-Zen)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, Abstract, Industrial, IDM. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Japanese project Gutenberg strikes back with a new album, which is the...
SynthAttack – Damnation (Album – darkTunes Music Group)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Electro, Aggrotech. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: “Damnation” is the fifth album by Martin Schindler aka SynthAttack. We get twelve...
Paolo F. Bragaglia & Ganzfeld Frequency Test – The Man From The Lab (Album – Minus Habens Records)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, Minimal-Electro, Cinematographic, Ambient. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: This album resulted from the collaborative efforts between established Italian composer/producer...
The Opposer Divine – Instrumentalcode (Album – Electrofrequent)
Genre/Influences: EBM, IDM, Cinematographic. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Boris Mutina (still involved with other projects like Terminal State, Minor Float...
Oneiros Way – The Dawn Is Near (Album – I Dischi Del Minollo)
Genre/Influences: Dream-Pop. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Oneiros Way is a Milan (Italy) based male-female duo unleashing their debut album of nine...