The 10 best synthpop / electropop albums of all times (and 5 more)
Electropop is a hybrid music genre combining elements of electronic and pop genres. During the late 1970s bands such as...
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Rector Scanner – Das Mädchen Aus Dem All EP I (EP – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Driven by the German EBM veteran René Nowotny (AD:KeY), this year Rector Scanner returned with...
Interview with Trial: ‘Quality Will Stand The Measure Of Time’
Set up in 1991 by Torsten Schröder (vocals, drums) and Erick Miotke (keyboards), Trial gained instant success in the early...
Early Swedish electronic pop compilation ‘Synthetic Sounds From Accelerating Blue Fish’ gets a digital release after 33 years
Accelerating Blue Fish was a Swedish label releasing S.P.O.C.K and Page among others during the eighties and early nineties. In...
Minor Key – Bionic (Album – Minor Key)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Swedish artist Andreas Sandberg released the second full length of his sonic brainchild, Minor...
When Kraftwerk ‘talked’ with Coldplay
Photo by Florencia Viadana on Unsplash Here's a story of something many people are unaware of. When Coldplay released "Talk"...
‘Click Interview’ with Rector Scanner: ‘There Is No Longer A Total Work Of Art‘
Rector Scanner was the first project set up by René Nowotny. Known from his EBM project AD:KeY, Rector Scanner is...
Datapop – Sterne (Album – Razgrom Music)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Five years after their debut-album “Pop”, Swedish duo Mikael Larsson – Anders Wilhelm strikes...
Rector Scanner – Radioteleskop (Album – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop, Body-Pop. Format: Digital, 2CD. Background/Info: Set up in 1997 by Rene Nowotny –who’s actually more known from his...
Cubic – The Cubic Alphabet (Album – Alfa Matrtix)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: After the excellent “Alphabet Hymn”-EP and having revisited the 808 Dot.Pop-album “Cubic Temperature” Belgian...
‘Click Interview’ with Transmission: ‘I Think That There Will Be More And More Female Electronic Underground Artists’
By the end of 2020 Transmission unleashed the debut album “Cosmos” on Wave Records. The French solo-project is driven by...
KRAFTman ready to release ‘Electrique Fabrique’ – a clear sonically inspired hommage to Kraftwerk
KRAFTman aka UK based artist Gary Hunter will be releasing the album called "Electrique Fabrique" on August 13th. The album...
Swedish electro pop duo Datapop returns with second album
Datapop, a Swedish electro pop duo consisting of Anders Wilhelm and Mikael Larsson and bringing Kraftwerk like material, is back...
(Ex-)Members from Kraftwerk, Portishead, Devo, etc. pay respect to electronic music and krautrock pioneer Dieter Moebius in Moebius Strips audio installation by Tim Story
(Photo by Irene Moebius - Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Dieter Moebius in 2008) Moebius Strips is an audio installation by Tim...
P.S. Stamps Back – Au Bout De La Nuit (Album – Ant-Zen / 1000+1 TiLt)
Genre/Influences: Minimal-Electro, IDM, Industrial, Experimental. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: P.S. Stamps Back is a Greek solo-project driven by Iason –who’s...
Legendary Welsh experimental duo Datblygu – Kraftwerk with a hangover – reissue first two albums on vinyl
Datblygu were an experimental Welsh rock group formed in 1982. They are regarded as a catalyst of the new wave...
Cubic – Alphabet Hymn (EP – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Cubic is a Belgian solo-project driven by Franky Deblomme. EBM freaks will remind him as...
808 Dot Pop – The Cubic Temperature (Album – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop. Format: Digital. Background/Info: After having remixed the song “Kelvin” for 808 DOT POP’s last single, Franky Deblomme aka...
Novocibirsk – Télévision 1945 Volume II (Album – productionB)
Genre/Influences: Minimal-Electro, Electro-Pop, Experimental-Pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: French solo-project Novocibirsk was the sonic brainchild of Hervé Isar. He was...
Click Interview‘ with ENZO KREFT: ‘The Future Looks Bright’
ENZO KREFT is a Belgian solo-project set up in the 80s by Eric Vandamme. After a long break the artist...
KRAFTman to release new 4 track EP ‘Electrique Musique’
Following on from the release of the KRAFTman single "Florian" (which included remixes by 808 Dot Pop and Maschine Brennt)...
Novocibirsk returns with 2nd installment ‘Télévision 1945 (Volume II)’ – Kraftwerk fans pay attention
Here's a release which will interest the more eclectic readers. The 'Novocibirsk' project is the product of experiments conducted by...
808 Dot Pop – Kelvin 7300 + Kelvin 5600 (EP + Single – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Metroland’s ‘Passenger S’ this year released his first solo-album under the 808 Dot Pop moniker....
‘Click Interview’ with Reakton: ‘How Would It Sound If Kraftwerk Continued To Write Music?’
I never heard of the Berliner project REAKTON before the listening of the album “Weltall: Erde: Mensch” released on Electro...
Finkseye – The Liquidators (Album – Finkseye)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Ambient, Cinematographic. Format: Digital. Background/Info: We all know Henrik Fink Nilsson aka Finkseye for his dark EBM. He released...
Reakton – Weltall : Erde : Mensch (Album – Electro Shock Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop. Format: Digital, CD, USB stick. Background/Info: Reakton is a Berlin based artist inspired by the sound of Kraftwerk....
Die Robo Sapiens – FanFanFanatisch / The Düsseldorf EP (EP – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Format: Digital. Background/Info: The Die Krupps gang (cf.Jürgen Engler, Ralf Dörper and Marcel Zürcher) is back on track...
Top 8 Music Genres That You Should Be Aware Of
You can understand the music genre as a conventional category, which defines some types of music as belonging to a...
Signal Bruit – Hyperborēe (Album – ProductionB)
Genre/Influences: Electro-ambient, experimental, minimal-electro. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: Signal Bruit strikes back with a second album, which comes nearly...
U96 and Wolfgang Flür (ex-Kraftwerk) release collaboration album + new Wolfgang Flür album in the making
German techno/electronic legends U96 will release a new album with former Kraftwerk member Wolfgang Flür on September 4th. The album,...
She Hates Emotions – Melancholic Maniac (Album – Out Of Line)
Genre/Influences: Wave-pop, electro-pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: With She Hates Emotions, the Blutengel front man Chris Pohl wanted to pay...
A visit at ‘Electronic: from Kraftwerk to The Chemical Brothers’
(Photo & Text by UK correspondent Simon Helm) If you are curating an exhibition on electronic music and design, how...
‘Click Interview’ with Finkseye: ‘I Have A Rough Outline For A Fake “Mad Max”-Movie Type Soundtrack’
Before Finkseye, Henrik Fink Nilsson was involved with Struma. The common element between both bands is EBM! The name of...
