And Then You Die – Lord Of The Flies (CD Album – Skithund Records)
Genre/Influences: Psychdelic, rock, electronics, industrial. Background/Info: “Lord Of The Flies” is the seventh album by Finnish formation And Then You...
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Bio + Pavlov & Computers – SynthieScheme (CD Album – Scentair Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, experimental. Background/Info: Bio (written БИО) is a Russian synth-pop formation set up in 1990 by Alexander Yakovlev. From...
Crisis Actor – Slave New World (CD Album – Ant-Zen)
Genre/Influences: Minimal-electronics, technoid, rhythmic-ambient. Background/Info: Crisis Actor is the meeting between David Thrussell (Snog, Black Lung…) and Tony D’Oporto (mainly...
Spectra*Paris – Retromachine Betty (CD Album – Dependent Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, pop-rock. Background/Info: Spectra*Paris is back after a hiatus of 7 years! Kirlian Camera singer Elena Alice Fossi has...
Welle: Erdball – Gaudeamus Igitur (CD Album – Oblivion/SPV)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: One of the most unique electro-pop formations from the scene strikes back with a new (mini)-album. The...
Ever wondered what those 4 Kraftwerk dudes are exactly doing behind their keyboards? Check this video!
A video on YouTube, filmed at the Amsterdam club Paradiso (back in 2015), is picking up steam again as it...
Sine Silex – Schachmatt (CD Album – Werkstatt Recordings)
Genre/Influences: Electro-wave & pop. Background/Info: Sine Silex is the meeting between Greek artist Kriistal Ann (also active under her own...
Proxies – Groovin’Over Beirut (CD Album – Anna Logue Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop & new-wave. Background/Info: Anna Logue Records takes us back in time to Greece. Proxies was originally set up...
Kraftwerk & early Depeche Mode fans, here’s the new Metroland video: ‘Cube (Small)’ – watch it here
https://youtu.be/Iqj8AtSBWgU The Belgian electronic act Metroland is back with a new single and video. The "Cube" single (counting 5 tracks)...
iEuropean releases debut album ‘Into The Unknown’
(By our Norwegian correspondent Jan Ronald Stange) The People’s Electric, record label founded in 2016 by Jon ‘Jonteknik’ Russell, are...
Metroland launches brand new download single ‘Cube’ + video
“Cube” is already the 12th release in Metroland's young but very prolific career. This new 5-track EP makes the junction...
Vitalic – Voyager (CD Album – Citizen Records)
Genre/Influences: Electroclash, electro-pop, techno-body. Background/Info: Pascal Arbez-Nicolas better known as Vitalic gained a serious reputation in the selected and intelligent...
Side-Line introduces Növö – listen now to ‘The Shortwaves’ (Face The Beat profile series)
The 51st track on our free download compilation "Face The Beat: Session 4" (featuring 92 tracks) is by the Belgian...
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...
Pitch Yarn Of Matter – It’s New, Sounds Old And I Love It (CD Album – Wave Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: Pitch Yarn Of Matter (P.Y.M.) is a Brazilian formation that was active during the 90s releasing a...
“Skylines” – a musical journey through Europe by Jonteknik
Jonteknik, the electronic project by Jon Russel, just released their 5th album 'Skylines'. It's described as "a soundtrack to a...
Am Tierpark – Cherry Blossom (Vinyl 12” – Distortion Productions)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: After the promising debut album “Uncaged” (2015) Danish duo Claus Larsen (Leaether Strip, Klutae, Sequential Access) and...
Reed & Caroline – Buchla And Singing (CD Album – Very Records)
Genre/Influences: Synth-pop, experimental. Background/Info: Reed Hays and Caroline Schutz is a duo based in New York who met at college....
Side-Line introduces Finkseye – listen now to ‘Give In To Me (Feat Suzy VP)’ (Face The Beat profile series)
The 32nd track on our free download compilation "Face The Beat: Session 4" (featuring 92 tracks) is by the Trelleborg...
Euphorbia – Eternal Lie (CD Album – Euphorbia)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro. Background/Info: Euphorbia is a Brazilian duo consisting of Cirion Barboza and Ulisses Righi. The band has already been...
Side-Line introduces Elektroklänge – listen now to ‘Approach To Tokyo (Straight Connection Mix)’ (Face The Beat profile series)
The 25th track on our free download compilation "Face The Beat: Session 4" (featuring 92 tracks) is by the Swedish...
DI⁺ove – DI⁺vided (CD Album – DI⁺ove)
Genre/Influences: EBM, body-pop. Background/Info: DI⁺ove is a Belgian formation set up by Eric ‘Manchiniste’ who’s a guy I remember from...
‘Click Interview’ with Signal~Bruit: ‘Turning The Knobs And Pushing The Faders Until It Has An Hypnotic Feel’
“Planisphère(s)“ is the debut album from the brand-new French project Signal~Bruit. The full length has been released on the brand-new...
Apoptygma Berzerk – Exit Popularity Contest (CD Album – Rough Trade/The End Records)
Genre/Influences: Minimal-electro, EBM, electro-ambient. Background/Info: Apoptygma Berzerk is a band that doesn’t need any further introduction. Founded by Stefan Groth...
Deutsche Bank – Autopop / Deluxe Edition (CD Album – Electro Shock Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: Deutsche Bank is not a German, but a Swedish electro-pop formation set up by Mats From. I...
Metroland – Brother (Digital EP – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: “Brother” is an appropriated title-track to close the homage to Metroland’s ‘Passenger L’ aka Louis Zachert. The...
Stephan Groth of Apoptygma Berzerk on Spotify vs. vinyl, his inspirations and the new alter ego ♠TP
(By our Norwegian correspondent Jan Ronald Stange. Photos by Tarjei Krogh and Jan Ronald Stange) An extensive interview with Stephan...
Apoptygma Berzerk: Exit Popularity Contest – reinvention by going back to the roots
(By our Norwegian correspondent Jan Ronald Stange, w/inputs from John-Erik Bye Johansen. Photos by Tarjei Krogh and Jan Ronald Stange)...
Did you know this (very fake) Kraftwerk sitcom ‘pilot’?
In the Summer of 2009 a video landed on YouTube claiming it was from a tape discovered at a Dusseldorf...
Foretaste – Space Echoes (CD Album – BOREDOMproduct)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: The French Foretaste duo consisting of ‘XX’ (vocals) and ‘XY’ (machines) has already released so many cool...
Növö launch video for ‘The Shortwaves’ to announce upcoming EP
Out now is the video for "The Shortwaves", the leading track for the recently released album by Növö with the...
Apoptygma Berzerk drops video teaser ‘Exit popularity contest’ and it fucking sounds awesome! Order your copy on cassette, vinyl and CD right here.
As we reported a few weeks ago, Apoptygma Berzerk's Stephan Groth is reinventing his sound on the new 10-track album...
Karl Bartos releases ‘Communication’ deluxe fanbox with bonus track and lots more!
Out in October, but available in pre-order right here, is a deluxe fanbox version of "Communication", the debut solo album...
Apoptygma Berzerk pays tribute to his roots on ‘Exit popularity contest’ – to be released on vinyl, cassette and CD – you can order your copy here
Apoptygma Berzerk is reinventing its sound which is different from, but complementary to, the electro rock future pop stylings of...
Metroland’s new double single ‘Brother’ out now via Spotify, iTunes, etc.
Out now via Spotify, iTunes and other online stores is "Brother", the third and final single from "Things Will Never...
A★I – Le Chant Du Cygne Noir (CD Album – Unknown Pleasures Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-pop. Background/Info: My first feeling was that this band was the logical new project of Pedro Peñas Robles after...
Rational Youth – Future Past Tense (CD EP – Artoffact)
Genre/Influences: Synth-pop. Background/Info: Set up and mainly active during the 80s, the Canadian electro-pop formation Rational Youth got reactivated in...
Metroland selected by the official Swedish Stockholm underground to score OST for promo video
Major news from the Belgian electronica act Metroland, known for their updated Kraftwerk sound. The band's 2012 song "The Passenger"...
Promo video trailer Elektroklänge’s label debut EP ‘Mechanische Tänze Nos. 1-4’ available – watch now (especially Kraftwerk fans)!
Back in April we reported about the debut of the Swedish minimalistic electro pop act Elektroklänge on the Belgian electro...
SubatractiveLAD – Nucleus (Digital Album – SubatractiveLAD)
Genre/Influences: Electro-ambient, IDM, cinematographic. Background/Info: For more than 10 years now, Stephan Hummel (aka SubatractiveLAD) is releasing music like hell....
More Swedish kling klang sounds via Elektroklänge’s label debut EP ‘Mechanische Tänze Nos. 1-4’ on Alfa Matrix
Back in April we reported about the debut of the Swedish minimalistic electro pop act Elektroklänge on the Belgian electro...
‘Click Interview’ with Metroland: ‘Famous Or Not, We Triggered Many And Not Just By The Music’
Passenger A and Passenger S (aka Andy de Decker and Sven Lauwers) both are the machine operators active at Metroland....
Metroland – Under The Roof (Digital EP – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: “Under The Roof” is not just an EP taken from the newest Metroland album “Things Will Never...
Elektroklänge debuts on Alfa Matrix with ‘Approach To Tokyo’ track – Kraftwerk fans rejoice!
A few days ago we announced that Alfa Matrix had started to distribute its free "Sounds Of The Matrix 017"...
The Ukrainians re-release their cover of Kraftwerk’s ‘Radioactivity’
Out today, exactly 30 years after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, the Ukrainian record label Aby Sho Music releases The Ukrainians’...
Karl Bartos – Communication (CD Album – Trocadero)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: Karl Bartos entered into history as a Kraftwerk-member, but also as the one who left the band...
Metroland – Things Will Never Sound The Same Again (CD Album – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: electro-pop. Background/Info: The third album by Belgian duo of Metroland is for sure the most special one, which is...
2 new Karl Bartos (ex-Kraftwerk) 7inch vinyls hit the shops: ‘I’m the message’ + ’15 minutes of fame’
Yesterday we informed you about the re-release of Karl Bartos' “Communication” as a vinyl+CD package. Today we can announce you...
Ex-Kraftwerk member Karl Bartos re-releases video for ‘I’m the Message (Matthew Herbert’s Doctor Rockit Mix)’ to coincide with release new ‘Communication’ album as vinyl+CD set
Former Kraftwerk member Karl Bartos has released the re-release of the album "Communication" as a vinyl+CD package (you can order...
Portion Control – “We aren’t musicians so for us the mouse is still the best tool!” – Tech-Talk with DJ Wildhoney
In 1980 Portion Control, one of the biggest and most underground and influential electropunk/industrial/EBM acts of the UK was formed...
Former Kraftwerk member Karl Bartos re-releases new ‘Communication’ album as vinyl+CD set (incl. bonus track) – order now
Former Kraftwerk member Karl Bartos has released the first single ("Life") from the re-release of the album "Communication" out by...
Alfa Matrix webstore goes in International EBM week mode and starts sales 25% off on normal prices
It's International EBM-day tomorrow and the Belgian label is celebrating this all week long. From today on everyone using the...
Junksista – Trust No Bitch (Digital EP – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-pop & electro-clash, minimal-pop; Background/Info: Junksista can be considered as one of the hottest Alfa Matrix singings in the...
Rodney Cromwell – Age Of Anxiety (CD Album – Happy Robots)
Genre/Influences: Synth-pop. Background/Info: Rodney Cromwell is a new solo-project set up by Adam Cresswell. This artist was formerly involved in...
Metroland pays tribute to the late Louis Zachert on new album ‘Things Will Never Sound The Same Again’ (CD + download)
In August 2015 the belgian scene but in particular the electropop act Metroland suffered a tragic blow when their sound...
Datamaskin reveals first ‘Airport’ video taken from new minimal electro album ‘Retrosonic Voices’
This is something for Kraftwerk fans. Out now is the newest Datamaskin "Airport", taken from their recently released 10-track debut...
Orange Sector – Monoton (CD EP – Infacted Recordings)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Content: Orange Sector is an EBM ‘veteran’ band, which does not need a big introduction. Back in the...
I European feat. ex-Kraftwerk’s Wolfgang Flür will see ‘Activity of Sound’ EP released in 3 different physical versions
I European (Seán Barron from Empire State Human) and Wolfgang Flür have announced the physical release of their 2014 collaboration...
Apoptygma Berzerk and Wolfgang Flür headlining excellent Kraftwerk weekend in Norway
(By our Norwegian correspondent Jan Ronald Stange) In August we posted a story about an upcoming evening of Kraftwerk and...
Imagine a map featuring the history of electronic music… it exists!
(All pictures by Dorothy) A map featuring the history of electronic music (albeit without dates), who could ever have imagined...
Kraftwerk’s ‘Die Roboter’ covered by a bunch of dressed up kids – absolutely adorable!
Here is a rather amusing video shot at the Lemmchen Grundschule in Mainz, Germany. Lars Reimers, the music teacher of...
First ever Kraftwerk gig from 1970 lands on YouTube
(Source/Credits) In 1970 Kraftwerk played for the very first time live, and that was at Berlin’s techno club Tresor in...
Celluloide – L’Amour Est Géométrique (CD Album – BOREDOM Product)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Content: Last year Celluloide released their album “Art Plastique”, which already featured a few outstanding electro-pop songs with...
Atom™ – Riding The Void (Vinyl EP + DVD – Raster-Noton)
Genre/Influences: Technoid, minimal-electro. Content: We don’t often get promo material from Atom™ (also known as Atom Heart) and that’s a...
Tyske Ludder – Meskalin (CD EP – Golden Core/Zyx)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Content: Tyske Ludder is back on track with a new EP while the new full length (cf. “Evolution”)...
Dancing With Ruby – In The Interest Of Beats (CD Album – Sexy Units)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Content: Dancing With Ruby is a very interesting discovery in the wider fields of electro-pop music. The duo...
