Konqistador and HanHan Team for Darkwave Hip-Hop on “Visaya”
Detroit-based electronic/industrial outfit, Konqistador team with Toronto hip-hopper HanHan for "Visaya", a song that blends darkwave and rap into an incendiary combination.
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‘The Upward Spiral’ Is Nicolas Bougaïeff’s Layered and Unique Approach to Techno
On his debut album for Mute, Berlin-based producer Nicolas Bougaïeff applies meticulous care and a deft, trained ear to each track, and the results are marvelous.
Evicshen Is the Mad Scientist of Industrial Noise with ‘Hair Birth’
Experimental sound artist Evicshen brings uniquely crafted dissonance to her striking debut LP Hair Birth.
Regis’ New LP Reaffirms His Gift for Grinding Industrial Terror
Regis' music often feels so distorted, so twisted out of shape, even the most human moments feel modular. Voices become indistinguishable from machines on Hidden in This Is the Light That You Miss.
Wetware Ratchet Up the Intensity to a Nightmarish Degree on ‘Flail’
Brooklyn's Wetware have created a wild collection of industrial noise on Flail that sounds more like an intense fever dream than anything else.
ONO Confronts American Racial Oppression with the Incendiary ‘Red Summer’
Decades after their initial formation, legendary experimentalists ONO have made an album that's topical, vital, uncomfortable, and cathartic. Red Summer is an essential documentation of the ugliness and oppression of the United States.
40 Years of Finely Tuned Nonsense: An Interview with Severed Heads
At Severed Heads' third-last show in New York, after decades of playing electronic, art-pop, Tom Ellard swung a noose around his band's head and, with an imitable grin, slowly pulled tighter. After 40 years, Severed Heads is done, and Ellard muses on his long career.
Throbbing Gristle Sounded Only Half Alive on ‘Part Two: The Endless Not’
The promised new album emerged in 2007 mashing together an EP's worth of new Throbbing Gristle, four outtakes from the band members' solo work, and two songs hanging around since their reformation in 2004.
Throbbing Gristle’s 2004 EP ‘TG Now’ Offered Hope for the Future
The demon stepchild shadowing punk's footsteps in the 1970s, Throbbing Gristle, returned in this new century making the case that they had something new to say with TG Now.
Mute’s Throbbing Gristle Reissue Campaign Enters the Reformation Years
In the latest component of a comprehensive reissue series, three limited-edition releases from the 2004-2007 iteration of Throbbing Gristle are back in print. We begin with Live December 2004: A Souvenir of Camber Sands.
Kris Baha and the EBM Revival
As a DJ and an artist, Kris Baha picks up on the most ideologically charged 1980s electronic dance music and introduces it to a new and growingly voracious audience.
Negativland Tell the Tale of “Certain Men” (premiere)
Your favorite sound collage maestros Negativland return with a meditation on greed that could have been written in the 1980s or the 1790s.