Episodes
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We Have A Technical 633: One More Note
Classic two albums formatted episode coming at you folks in the wake of Halloween and the seasonally appropriate bloodbath south of the border. The aggro and almost proto-dark electro EBM of prolific side project Insekt's Stress, as well as the synthpunk of Magas' Friends Forever which emerged in...
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We Have A Commentary: Tones On Tail, "Pop"
Are Bauhaus side projects Halloween fare? Who's to say, but Pop, the one LP from the brief but memorable Tones On Tail is the subject of this month's commentary. Daniel Ash and Kevin Haskins' attempts to both continue and break from the experimental side of their recently dissolved main band, the...
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We Have A Technical 632: Have We Used Party Dude?
As we get set for Halloween we're digging into the loosely defined but distinct "mutant" EBM sound or substyle. It's a term we've found useful in describing a slew of bands and records from recent years, but what exactly is it? What are its sonic features and influences? And why is it so damned...
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We Have A Technical 631: New Jack Swing
This week we're joined by a trio of Patreon backers to chat with them about albums of significance to them. We're discussing the soupy industrial rock of Kidneythives' Trickster, the high-def nu-metal-cum-industrial of Celldweller's self titled debut, and the glitchy magick of Furnace, the first…
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We Have A Technical 630: The Beep Beep Boops
On this week's episode we're joined by all four members of Vancouver's Actors, who talk with us about new LP Our Love Will Live Forever as the culmination of the band's first era, road stories, and their place within the broader Canadian musical ecosystem. We're also discussing the band's recent...
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We Have A Technical 629: Vegan Ghost Kitchen
This episode's Pick Five theme is a bit tricky to define - we're talking about band's we often splash out for. Now, that could just be a simple expenditure of money but could also encompass travel or time spent researching and keeping up with. To use wrestling parlance, which specific bands are…
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We Have A Technical 628: Bruno
On this episode we're discussing the life and legacy of Das Ich's Bruno Kramm in the wake of his tragic passing as well as the one LP released under his solo project, Coeur by Kramm. We're also recapping a couple of shows from this past weekend.
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We Have A Commentary: Claire Voyant, "Time And The Maiden"
Our monthly commentary podcast takes a slightly autumnal turn with the ethereal wave mastery of California's Claire Voyant. Their sophomore LP Time And The Maiden isn't just a watershed moment for the band, but arguably for an entire wave of likeminded 90s acts who never quite reached the depths…
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We Have A Technical 627: Unaliving Joke
Get Mean, the new LP by Boy Harsher, is up for discussion on this week's episode. We're talking about the record's shift away from the oft-imitated sound pioneered by the duo, its releases on a major label, and the new metrics by which its sound and songwriting need to be evaluated.
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We Have A Technical 626: It Can Be Two Things
We're dancing with the ones that brought us to the podcasting hoedown on this episode, as we discuss a pair of industrial records from the might aughts: Landscape Body Machine's Manifest Destiny and Haujobb's Vertical Theory. There's loads to be said about each LP in their own historical moment,...
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We Have A Technical 625: Poor Al
It's Pick Five time, folks, and dare we say this one turned out pretty well. The "one hit wonder" moniker can be something of a vague appellation when it comes to a niche scene, but we're not naming those tracks or bands, but instead flagging songs other than the Big Hit (not the Nitzer album)...
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We Have A Technical 624: Put A Dime In You
Alex is back and recharged after his trip to the UK and is recapping all the acts from this year's Infest in Manchester. He's talking festival highlights as well as the larger culture the fest's cultivated across its multiple decades. Which hitherto unknown to us acts made an impression? How did…
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We Have A Commentary: "EBM Club Classics (Disc 2)"
The second half of our commentary on Synthetic Symphony's "EBM Club Classics" picks up immediately where Thursday's look at the first disc left off. We're looking at familiar favourites from Nitzer Ebb and the Klinik, flagging the likes of Poesie Noire and Inside Treatment for further research…
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We Have A Commentary: "EBM Club Classics (Disc 1)"
Our monthly We Have A Commentary bonus podcast works a bit differently this month; with Alex being off in the UK we've prerecorded a double dose of discussion of Synthetic Symphony's 1998 comp "EBM Club Classics", with the first disc dropping today and the second this coming Sunday. Disc one...
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We Have a Technical 623: Airport Arrival Time
As we've been telling anyone who'll listen, seeing EBM legends Portion Control attack the Terminus stage with unaging menace and aggression was one of the main highlights of our recent trip to Calgary, and we were able to interview John Whybrew and Dean Piavanni about their legacy as electronic...
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We Have A Technical 622: Here We Are
It's a pretty laid back and free form episode of the podcast this week, with each of us tossing a handful of questions or propositions to the other in order to get their takes. Desert island labels, Sophie's choices, and leading questions abound.
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We Have A Technical 621: Go West Young Van
We're happy to present two interviews conducted during Terminus Festival on the podcast this week. We sat down with Justin Chamberlain of Soft Vein to discuss the increasingly melodic and bright sound of that project, his approach to songwriting, and the artistic roots of his new music video. We...
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We Have A Technical 620: Terminus 2026 Wrap-Up
We're back home and semi-rested after one of if not the best Terminus Festivals yet. Four days of legendary acts delivering, bands just entering their heyday making excellent showings, and a handful of unexpected surprises from hitherto unknown to us acts still has us buzzing, so join us on our...
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We Have A Commentary: Project Pitchfork, "¡Chakra : Red!"
We turned the selection of this month's commentary podcast over to our Patreon backers and by a strong margin they opted for ¡Chakra : Red!, the 1997 LP by German darkwave-cum-electro-industrial oddballs Project Pitchfork. It's a record which taps into both the band's then established core...
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We Have A Technical 619: Booyaka Booyaka
With one foot out the door for Calgary and Terminus Festival, we're offering up a fairly light and breezy Pick Five episode focusing on sentimental songs. What in particular do we mean by that? Nostalgic? Melancholy? A little cheesy? Personally resonant? Listen and find out.
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We Have A Technical 618: Vodka Colonic?
Our pair of records on the podcast this week tilts towards the Germanic, with Die Krupps' 2013 release The Machinists Of Joy holding up as one of the veterans' strongest efforts upon review, and Oklahoman act Karger Traum's III still shining as an homage to classic NDW experimentation. We're also...
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We Have A Technical 617: Encyclopedia Maiden
This week we're discussing a pair of darkwave records which both show off the range of the genre and also sit quite far away from especially trendy versions of the style which have perhaps worn out their welcome. Fist up is the classic Gala from Argentinian legends Euroshima, which helped…
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We Have A Technical 616: The Obscuratins
The very website you're reading this on right now turned fifteen years old on Tuesday, and so we're using this week's episode as an opportunity to look back and the hows and whys of one and a half decades of our work here. We're also talking about our friend Rexx Arkana, and next year's…
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We Have A Commentary: Ladytron, "Witching Hour"
We're flashing back to 2005 for a discussion of Ladytron's Witching Hour, the record that saw the British quartet fully break out of the electro-pop terrain (and electro-clash pigeonholing) of their early work with a record that was inescapable in goth clubs far beyond. From indie and shoegaze...
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We Have a Technical 615: Mom's Raid
A classic two album format episode of the podcast has us revisiting a couple of eras in which "darkwave" meant something profoundly different from what it does today. First up is Bay Area act The Razor Skyline's rough and tumble and broad reaching 1996 debut, "Journal Of Trauma", followed by the...
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We Have A Technical 614: Dig Deeper
We're each picking five needledrops on this week's episode of We Have A Technical. A little bit different from discussion of soundtrack originals, we're talking about the use of existing songs in film and television, often for the purposes of a particular effect (and hopefully more than just the...
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We Have A Technical 613: Ad Hoc Stir Fry
Two bands each linked closely to their own time and place are the subject of this week's podcast, but that's where the similarities between Fiendflug and Tearist end. The debate and controversy surrounding the former's tapping of Nazi history and aesthetics invariably overshadowed their music,...
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We Have A Technical 612: It's A Happening
The tenth instalment of Vancouver's own Verboden festival is in the books, and as we've done for years we're here to break the whole affair down and talk about the live sets we caught from a slew of acts across a wide spread of dark genres, originating both from the fest's home in the Pacific...
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We Have A Commentary: Die Form, "Die Puppe"
This month's commentary podcast makes a detour into the cryptic world of minimal synth with the 1982 debut of Die Form. A far cry from the lush and dramatic club darkwave the French act would go on to be known for throughout the 1990s, Die Puppe is instead an exercise in atmosphere and an at…
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We Have A Technical 611: Surely
Scene producer extraordinaire and Inhalt mastermind Matia Simovich joins us for a lengthy discussion of the role of the producer, his philosophies of record production, and of a couple of specific landmark scene records he's helped bring to fruition.
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We Have A Technical 610: Hank Williams Jr. Predicted All of This
Inspired by this past weekend's site anniversary DJ set, we're delving into the somewhat arbitrary dichotomy between jams and vibes as it pertains to nightclubs in Our Thing. Are people seeking a particular mood or expecting specific tracks when they head out to goth night? How do the different...
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We Have A Technical 609: No Apologies To Sudbury
It's a punk-flavoured side-project twofer on this week's episode of the podcast, as we discuss industrial-punk supergroup Lard's The Last Temptation Of Reid as well as the only record from Spetsnaz side project Turnbull A.C.'s. We're also talking about the long, long, LONG awaited announcement of…
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We Have A Technical 608: I Love You?
The latest album from Slovenian old gods Laibach is an abrupt shift from the sterner and harsher work they've been releasing for the past half decade or so, and turns to the recent history of pop music to comment on, well, pop music. Musick bears many of the hallmarks of Laibach's satirizing of...
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We Have A Commentary: Minuit Machine, "Violent Rains"
A week later than usual we're back with the latest iteration of our Patreon supported We Have A Commentary series, this time looking at Minuit Machine's second LP, 2015's "Violent Rains". We're talking about the record's connections to preceding and future generations' visions of darkwave, what…
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We Have A Technical 607: Elite Level Trash
It's a hopefully affable and easy-listening Pick Five formatted episode we have for you this week folks, as we each choose some second LPs we enjoy. From records which consolidate a band's aesthetic to those which point to career-long versatility, we're kicking across a pretty wide range of all…
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We Have A Technical 606: Get Some Sleep
The new collaborative record from Nine Inch Nails and Boys Noize is all anyone in the larger industrial ecosystem is talking about this week and so we're adding our two cents regarding the track selection, emotional import, and club appeal of Nine Inch Noize. We're also talking about some…
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We Have A Technical 605: What Were We Talking About?
The two records up for discussion in this week's podcast are both from 2006 and have at least some connection to broader post-industrial traditions, but those might be the only links between Dioxyde's aggrotech-inflected Social Phobia and the Lovecraftian ambience of Flint Glass' Nyarlathotep.…
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We Have A Technical 604: Out of Breath Close to Death
HEALTH's star continues to rise both in North America and abroad, and as their weeb-friendly blend of thudding industrial rock and vulnerable fatalism came through Vancouver we were able to speak with bassist and programmer John Famiglietti. We touch upon HEALTH's appeal in the age of the...
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We Have A Technical 603: Chester Cheevo
On this week's podcast we're firstly talking about the wide roaming genre mix up of Belgian legends The Neon Judgment's Mafu Cage, before taking a look at the spacious ethereality and vocal power of Scotland's Witch Of The Vale. We're also discussing Brendan Perry's ill-considered comments...
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We Have a Commentary: The Cure, "Pornography"
Presented with their choice of the first four albums by The Cure, a sizable majority of our Patreon backers selected 1982's "Pornography" as the subject for this month's commentary podcast, and so here we are, tackling the densest, darkest, and most monolithic statement in the band's legendary...
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We Have A Technical 602: Auteur Fanfic
We're back to the beloved Pick Five format this week, folks! This time we're each picking notable guest appearances...or is it guest vocals? Or both? Listen to find out as we discuss duets, reunions, styles clashes, and more.
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We Have A Technical 601: Bran-O-Sphere
It's a two albums episode of the podcast, with records by A Projection and Rikk Agnew linked by the very thinnest of (post) punk threads, though the anthemic synthpop of the former's In A Different Light and the latter's clarification of the influence he'd have on hardcore and deathrock in All By...
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We Have A Technical 600: Keep Industrial Queer
For our 600th episode we're happy to be joined by Raws of Plack Blague and DJ Starr Noir. Intersections between queer culture and industrial culture go back to the very beginning of the latter, and Raws and Starr share their personal experiences and historical observations about those…
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We Have A Technical 599: Chelsea Girls
We always like to allude to the "related genres" which abut the core four we work with on We Have A Technical and that's very much the case with the pair of records up for discussion on this week's podcast. First up is the vaguely industrial metal of 90's shock rockers Genitorturers' 1993 debut,...
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We Have A Technical 598: Monkey's Paw
On this week's podcast we're looking at a pair of records which blend a number of goth-related subgenres and styles. First up is Australian veterans Ikon, with their excellent 1998 LP This Quiet Earth. Next, US synth act Fiction 8's Chaotical from 2000.
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We Have a Technical 597: Awe, Shucks
The glue of any good DJ set, bridge or transition tracks, are our focus on this week's episode of the podcast. We're each picking five song we use to bridge different moods, tempos, and genres in the club as seamlessly (?) as possible. This ended up being a really fun discussion which got us...
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We Have A Technical 596: Dracula Phone
It's the classic two albums format on deck for the podcast this week, folks. First up, after the dissolution of the classic Klinik line-up, Marc Verhaeghen's attempt to find a balance between the project's past and future with 1992's Contrast is on the table. We're then jumping to a much more...
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We Have a Technical 595: Michael Effin Douglas
It's time for one of our roving, topic-driven discussion podcasts, as we talk about what works and what doesn't in different genre hybridizations. From sub-genres which emerged out of the blending of styles, to artists within Our Thing reaching out to mainstream music's sounds of the day, to...
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We Have A Technical 594: You're The Expert
A two albums formatted episode of We Have A Technical ends up taking two very different detours into trance music, of all things. First, we're looking at the just remastered and digitally reissued sole LP from Portland duo Violet Arcana, 1994's In The Scene Of The Mind, which takes the road less...
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We Have a Technical brings I Die: You Die's discussions of industrial, EBM, goth, dark electro, and related music genres to the podcast format. Join Alex, Bruce, and guests as they explore music's darker alternatives.
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