IAMX Unfall Caroline International/Universal Music At the heart of all revolutions is a seed of madness, a frustrated intelligence that cries for transformation. In a time when electronic music was just entering the mainstream, Chris Corner was [...]
Terminus: Impact 2017 | #terminusfestival @ Dicken’s Pub, Calgary July 28-30, 2017 Industrial summer camp take two: the dust is just starting to settle on Calgary after the explosive dark electronic music festival that has become a [...]
Laibach Also Sprach Zarathustra Mute Records Laibach gained popularity in industrial clubs through a relatively small subset of their songs that fit in with the military aesthetic fetishism prevalent in the scene. At the core of their black [...]
K.Flay Every Where Is Some Where Interscope Don’t you ever dare cram K.Flay into the narrow box of hip-hop music — she’ll shred the damn thing apart, tape-gun your eyelids open, and run off with scissors. Yes, she is a superlative MC, but [...]
This Morn’ Omina Kundalini Rising Dependent Records In the obscure and bewitching realm of rhythmic noise, This Morn’ Omina is among the most celebrated catalogue entries. Nothing even begins to compare to the experience of this [...]
Dismantled The Hero EP Metropolis Records Dismantled’s debut in the limelight was on an illustrious compilation containing names like Front Line Assembly and Seabound. Catching the attention of Dependence Records spoke volumes of its [...]
Rational Youth Future Past Tense Artoffact Records If you’re part of the Alternative Electronic music community in Canada today, know well that you owe your scene’s existence to pioneers like Tracy Howe and Bill Vorn. Rational Youth were proudly [...]
Tricky (Ft. DJ Milo & Luke Harris) Skilled Mechanics False Idols/!K7 Records Under the new handle Skilled Mechanics, Tricky once again brings us cutting-edge talent from the most unlikely corners of the music world. Tricky’s mercurial tastes [...]
Conjure One Holoscenic Armada Music Rhys Fulber is legendary in the ranks of Canadian electronic music engineers, a visionary artist with a magnificent range of talent who has impacted the industrial, EBM and synthpop scenes for decades. Conjure [...]
Die Form ÷ Musique Concrète Cinema Obscura Trisol Music Group/Bain Total Cinema Obscura is a menacing oddity that harkens a return to the experimental and obscure roots of Philippe Fichot’s body of work. This new disk was strategically released [...]
Killing Joke Pylon Spinefarm Records Post-punk is a flat label that fails to encapsulate Killing Joke’s multifarious sound, and the astonishing reach they have in the alternative music industry. The recently reunited band members have been [...]
Electronic Substance Abuse (ESA) Themes Of Carnal Empowerment Pt. 3: Penance WTII Records After two years of nail-biting anticipation, the third part of Themes of Carnal Empowerment by Electronic Substance Abuse is finally out; and once again [...]
VNV Nation Resonance Anachron Sounds If you’ve partied in a goth club from Atlanta to Warsaw, you’ve likely heard VNV Nation’s futurepop anthems enough to absorb the lyrics by osmosis. Ronan and Mark’s music has a ubiquitous, international [...]
