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....
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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...
Electronica project 808 DOT POP returns with 2 brand new singles AND an exclusive 7 inch vinyl – 2 videos out as well
After the “Blackbodies” single release and the recent release of the first full length album “The Colour Temperature”, Metroland’s Passenger...
Juergen Engler EBM-project Die Robo Sapiens launches ‘FanFanFanatisch – The Düsseldorf EP’ – 7-track EP available now exclusively via Bandcamp
The German city of Düsseldorf has always been seen as the mecca for electronic music since the early 1970s, when...
‘Disarm’: Apoptygma Berzerk releases 2nd B-sides and rarities collection
(By our Norwegian correspondent Jan Ronald Stange. Cover art by Halvor Bodin) Exactly a month after the previous release 'Faceless...
R.I.P. ex-Kraftwerk member Florian Schneider – news is confirmed
UPDATE: Kraftwerk co-founder Ralf Hütter has confirmed the sad news. (Photo by Daniele Dalledonne, Trento, Italy) According to various reports...
‘Click Interview’ with Circumpolar: ‘There Is So Much Great New Music Within Our Genre Yet To Discover’
Circumpolar is a Swedish duo driven by Jonas Mattson and Patrik Wallin. They last year self-released their debut-EP “Until The...
Celluloide – Futur Antérieur (Album – BOREDOMproduct)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: Five years have passed since the previous Celluoide-album (cf. “L’Amour Est Géométrique”). The...
‘Click Interview’ with MOYA81: ‘“ESP” Is The Synthesis Of My Life’
MOYA81 is a rather unknown name active at the wider fields of eletro-pop music. Based in Helsinki (Finland), this artist...
Moya81 – ESP (Mini-Album – ScentAir Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, Italo-disco, techno-pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Moya81 was introduced as the ‘history of an artist and music fan...
Amber Teaser – Human Ritual (Album – ScentAir Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, wave-pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Amber Teaser is an Italian formation that saw the light of day in...
Rheingold’s Bodo Staiger is no more – RIP
Bodo Staiger is no more, he died today from an unknown cause. Staiger became famous in the eighties with the...
Metroland member launches 808 DOT POP solo electropop project with Helalyn Flowers frontwoman Noemi Aurora – 2 download singles available now
Alfa Matrix has some more good news coming up today. They also have announced the signing of the new side-project...
DIE KRUPPS – Vision 2020 Vision (CD Album – SPV/Oblivion Records)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-metal, Neue Deutsche Haerte, EBM Background/Info: DIE KRUPPS are a phenomenon in the German music scene, active since 1980...
The Cassandra Complex re-release 20-year old ‘Wetware’ in 3 linked releases
(Picture by Daniela Vorndran) Almost 20 years ago (it's like yesterday if you ask us) the influential goth-electro-industrial-cyberpunk band The...
Jonteknik – Tectonics (CD Album – The People’s Electric)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: Based in Brighton (UK) Jon Russell better known as Jonteknik, has just released his ninth full length...
Electronica duo Komputer reboot for London show
Komputer, the Mute artists who joined the influential label in 1984 as I Start Counting, are rebooting for a live...
Dirty Vocoder (project by Escape With Romeo frontman) offers brand new video and single for ‘Cocaine Dawn’
Dirty Vocoder is a new electronic solo project by Cologne based Thomas Elbern, founder and frontman of the German new...
‘Click Interview’ with A Spell Inside: ‘We Live The Ideal Of An Independent Band’
Michael (Mel) Roeder and Peter Kirchmeyer set up A Spell Inside in 1989! The German electro-pop duo this year celebrates...
Deutsche Bank – Transmission (CD Album – Electro Shock Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: Despite of the band name, Deutsche Bank is a Swedish project driven by Mats From. The album...
The Cassandra Complex release debut album ‘Grenade’ in a 2019 remastered version
(Picture by Xavier Marquis) The classic The Cassandra Complex album "Grenade" from 1986 is once again available. Over 30 years...
Human Steel – Invaders (CD Album – Human Steel)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Background/Info: Set up in 2007 by the Polish duo Wojciech Gierowski (aka ‘Lindey Lindstorm’) and Marcin Wanat “Invaders”...
Why Kraftwerk Should Be Inducted into The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Kraftwerk are one of the most important and influential bands of all time, the most influential for us, and yet...
Kraftwerk wins sampling case in EU top court: permission needs to be obtained to sample another musician’s song
A verdict in the EU top court - which lasted for 22 years (!) - is defining the rules of...
‘Click Interview’ with Novocibirsk: ‘The Approach That Was Mine, Was Not To Compose Music’
Electro-pop lovers know the French label BOREDOMproduct. This label is the host of bands such as Celluloide, Dekad, Foretaste… but...
‘Click Interview’ with Mark Burghgraeve: ‘We Were Multicultural Anarchists With A Rainbow Of Tastes And Opinions’
Does the name Mark Burghraeve make ring a bell? No doubt about it, ‘older’ electro heads know this Belgian artist...
Click Interview with The Overlookers: ‘We Wanted To Break The Rock‘N’roll Codes’
The French electro-pop label BOREDOMproduct doesn’t often sign new bands. So I was really wondering who was hiding behind this...
