thread of nu-EBM and INDUSTRIALish techno 2020

xp

yes het bestaan rules, one of the EPs that really got me into this whole thing. he has a show on red light radio called antikunst that's fantastic. he and identified patient are roommates iirc, i think of them as the amsterdam young dude EBM duo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4z1VHf0SXhA

new cardopusher. barcelona based guy with a good bit of acid in his sound and more 80's flourishes. first heard him in a josh cheon (dark entries) mix

I was asking myself "what's in bounds for this thread?" and was wondering what we collectively think about this wiki entry that somehow exists without getting deleted for being a spurious musical genre page:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_techno

in my mind industrial is the goth mirror universe existing parallel to balearic's all-inclusive druggy beach umbrella, and i would therefore advocate a loose interpretation of the thread's boundaries. that said i liked blawan's bohla in 2011 but i never thought aggro post-dubstep techno was v industrial, and once that wiki gets to contrasting techno industrial with industrial techno it has completely lost me

at inc miami people performed scuzzy rhythmic noise while wearing bdsm gear and i don't think they thought they were playing techno-industrial-not-industrial-techno

tried getting a friend who was into Perturbator (which is.. synth wave, I guess?) into Ancient Methods w/o much success

on the other hand, there are definitely ebm purists who have this parallel scene, at least as far as I've seen in north america, who don't like the crossover

I was attending a festival last year and was mildly disappointed when Blawan had to cancel but definitely enthused when Veronica Vasicka took over his spot

i had the same exact experience with a friend who was into Perturbator (he also likes Umberto) and have been able to get him more into EBM through Kontravoid and SARIN, he also really likes the spotify playlist that i shared above. i think the trick for converting people that are already cool with vaguely gothic electronic music is to not go too techno too fast, start with boy harsher, kontravoid, etc. soon enough they will learn to love the brutal snare+kick and forget silly melodies

^^ pro tip

good thread!

I've got my own spotify playlist where I've been accumulating this kind of stuff here, though I'm not sure all of it fits: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/42xegQ5NiSxwmzmJ1HYvxF?si=hQ4iiO_dTdexExrIqL9qOg

followed!

just now getting around to alessandro adriani's album from last year and it's soooo good. he loves to churn your brain around with rapidly panning staticky textures

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPlT1muuKZw

Panorama Channel & Pletnev ‎– Blavatsky

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwSTnYuYY5Y

idk, i think it belongs here

black merlin - verticle shadow

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ut81sSvVvo

black merlin is seriously the best, the whole sformator 2 EP is stunning

D.K. - Storm of Steel

https://youtu.be/6-W8ii0rk08

as an aside, recent DK live album is not thread appropriate but is great

https://12thisle.bandcamp.com/album/live-at-the-edge

the dude is stylistically all over the place! loved his first EP. “the goddess is dancing” from last year is pretty cool too!

yeah, he is! there's a certain lightness to his sound that is a constant between styles though

oh man, kewl thread. this is way old but super sick imo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGIEYIqF0o0

jesus how did i miss that mika vainio had died :(

great track. def post old stuff, love hearing ilxors' picks in this style

i only recently found out about that too :(

I’m sorry you guys are just now dealing with that :(

I’ve got the memorial book w/cd but can’t remember if the audio is out there elsewhere

is that book worthwhile? i have had my eye on it

this came up in my bandcamp feed https://gentledefect.bandcamp.com/

container is cool. gets a lot out of his legitimately shitty gear

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBfgeFeftOI

die orangen is kris baha and dreems' industrial kraut band (with a lot of references to the australian outback which i'm indifferent to,) this track rules

I think this filmmaker track fits this thread

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzRUR72NTnA

new RA mix from VTSS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9hgJPLkF_k

Schwefelgelb - Im Wasser

a few years old now but enjoying it today. more melodic 80's new beatish feel

this is a from a few years ago but it rules so hard

https://www.discogs.com/Schwefelgelb-Dahinter-Das-Gesicht/master/1231021

Ha omg xp didn’t even see your post, Karl

it's just a schwefelgelb kinda wednesday

https://youtu.be/FiN8QUjEmzU

Djedjotronic - Take Me Down feat. Douglas McCarthy

also a couple years old but it rules

f yeah, catching up on this thread is gonna be fun. and not to self-promote but 100% of the tracks from my last post in the 'djs post yr mixes for downloads' thread belong here, most from this and last year.

i'm especially excited to find wonderful crossover material between UK bass and new beat, recently.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDSVh20uAQg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4HxVBxqkG8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0o3IpeOeFY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Z7OcRxNctI

"not your time" off this one a slap

https://nitefields.bandcamp.com/album/a-voyeur-makes-no-mark

as does the anthony naples remix of WORKING MEN'S CLUB's "teeth"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvVzvFfrLx4

i meant to say on that thread that i enjoyed your mix davey, a lot of good tracks i hadn't heard

ty ty ^__^

stoked to follow this thread ... just checkin in ...

yee yee what up deej!

https://youtu.be/f1scjGj4OWk

Fractions - I.B.M.

another fav, this track's mean

deconstructed goth club

https://lurka.bandcamp.com/album/rhythm-hi-tek-ep

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqZUONqWQCE

new maenad veyl album fucking rips

https://veyl.bandcamp.com/album/reassessment

I think I love this: Earth To Mickey - Brace & Bit

https://youtu.be/Fa-slscp0Qc

https://open.spotify.com/album/6Nv66VETR9GiPR3o8DODFE?si=PhXTecKsQjy5FxVCMB66GA

new regis lp (!!)

different territory for Regis, felt very un-tracky

'i see fire' was the standout for me after two listens

a few recent finds:

Architectural - Rhythms & Souls
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFdHQW7mnrI

Nite Fields - Not Your Time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eMp1QnAELw

Chekov - Bierce EP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p70uCXzZh_A

new Djedjotronic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4D1zWaBpOqo

love the architectural track

https://soundcloud.com/darkentriesrecords/crushed-soul-family-of-waves-ep-clips

clips for upcoming steffi ep on dark entries sound tite

is stuff like beau wanzer overlapping w this? i used to see him dj a lot in chicago

https://www.mixcloud.com/NTSRadio/beau-wanzer-14th-april-2016/

i think he leans toward the mutant lo-fi LIES techno end but still fits into the vibe. he records tons of stuff and some is more EBM, something like this fits for sure

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRHvq4ORJ6A

he's on a new LIES comp this week!

but yeah, more toward the lo-fi electronics/noize-crossover realm.

speaking of LIES, ron morelli with a bit of the EBM on this ep

https://biterecords.bandcamp.com/album/exhibition-of-counterfeits-vol-1

I've definitely tried to embrace a certain level of unironic cheesiness in my sets, if a track is ridiculous and makes me laugh for some obscure reason, I'm 100% playing that shit no matter how serious the techno headz want to be

anyway. the world could do with more music that's funny and silly outright. serious heads for anything "underground" are scarce 'round these parts, anyway, so i got nothing to lose

Amen

I had a set of >200 dark/scary songs locked + loaded for my gig last weekend, but the party people only got stoked on my set when I changed course completely, starting over with cute Taylor's request for Doja Cat. and yeah ok, the new collab w/ SZA is good fun, but man if i can't even get people to rally for Ministry or New Order on a Halloween weekend then where the hell can i play it? i know about half the people who were there, thought they were more adventurous.

anyway. my girl Jasmine put me on to this EP from 2018. good stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PR_9beuFDk
Sextile - Disco

I'm always amazed by what gets classed as campy/cheesy. When I was a teenager in Glasgow in the early 00s, trance and hard house was big with the tough, hyper-masculine lads, but whenever I play that stuff I can hear the sound of bottles of poppers being opened.

trance heads have a tendency to take themselves overly seriously for some reason

xp dying at the name "sextile". that is indeed a good one.

Kompromat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8_SIEvP_fQ

(this video directed by Betrand Mandico is quite a thing)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQFx7lF8b_s

Galakthorro label stuff seems VERY relevant to this thread, maybe under people's radar as they're better distributed in industrial/power electronics circles...

Haus Arafna
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z48KUf-RiGw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWeUeKK46m8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIq5eXn6su0

November Novelet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1NLcyenoOg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJ2q9LrVP5Y

Tanz Ohne Musik
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiXxo3pWa9k

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvMDKa5OIsE

Herz Juhning
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWB56807FCs

Maska Genetik

Aska

Ice Ages - The Wheel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNDLjmu-hcU

i think the trick for converting people that are already cool with vaguely gothic electronic music is to not go too techno too fast, start with boy harsher, kontravoid, etc. soon enough they will learn to love the brutal snare+kick and forget silly melodies
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Tuesday, 25 February 2020

Or smack the sad spectacle of the blubby white goth out of them and get them to listen to Waveform Transmission vol. 1 and anything resembling its pounding mutant metallic funk, like this banger from 2014. Been caning it for 6 years.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9u9esEKFtw

Anyway, Thomas Heckmann is the best for this kind of EBM-techno hybrid, noone else really comes close. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Utp7AC5WAYk

Pimenthe 8 Jun 2020
Caret Down
Just to say, I don't know about police in foreign countries but this one hits harder than french government

Quite, old chap, quite.

This one, ancient Methods and Orphx - Answer my prayer. Dark mystical semi-trance vibe in the background, but not as you are used to it, much more pcp type gloomcore influenced. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XniAFfwmznA

this one from swarm intelligence is extremely gothic, like no-u-turn circa '97, brought bang up to date for the berlin dancefloor. disgustingly good. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rrUiArPsyc

if you're willing to branch out into the electro end of things, the dark melodic vibe is no better represented by Umwelt and crew.
Spectrum Data Forces - Urano (from 2010 but illustrates the point I'm getting at.) Gloom rave perfection.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1NXyhhqSOY

Umwelt - Gravitational Lens
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKh96uFahkA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKh96uFahkA

Really great clanging death trance electro from Privacy - hypnotising all your bad trips recalibrating your nervous system for the new normal of the darkside — remember that Sadism is the supreme Kantian pleasure, and hence extremely adequate to our late capitalist times.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9Eqj7J_UjY

amazed by this weird one

cabizbajo, colossio - ley

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VZZoKCO1WM

killer!

this 3-tracker from George T & Johnny Aux is my new favorite release from Optimo and their family of imprints. it maintains a consistent mood and sense of purpose across a variety of approaches that i found very impressive. packs punch. and i didn't realize there was a music video until just now. all quite fun and sinister.

George T & Johnny Aux - Back
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgBPhFxmquA

yeah i dig that EP

lately digging

https://cosmovitelli.bandcamp.com/track/high-blood-pressure

and

these two curses tracks

Curses - Blood Oath

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rqISlQfqdg

You Know Its Right (Curses Remix)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0qrv1dCKgQ

https://domtrojga.bandcamp.com/album/new-life-ep

tite EP

https://samorecords.bandcamp.com/track/orchid-talgif

the sample in this track cracks me up, don't wanna say what it is and give away the surprise though (the vocal hook, not the part mentioning jayda g)

Enjoying this today, the entire album is chock full of malevolent goodness

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4U-K-Ygf7g

also nice to see Adam X still doing his thing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZJ3-h4IdzE

I remember fifteen years ago meeting a girl who was a friend of the guy I was dating who said she "loved dance music, but Adam X is the only person I can go see and not need to take a pill for" lol

Damn straight

https://soundcloud.com/lsangre/its-only-lightning-lsangre

fun mix

https://dekadenzrecords.bandcamp.com/album/murky-dream

incredible EP

https://thecreativetechnologyconsortiumctc.bandcamp.com/album/panoramic-coloursound

this album rips, idk where else to post it. it's traxx, steve summers/confused house, and another guy that idk

damn!

two tracks in and this is amazing

forever getting Jacek Sienkiewicz & Jason Letkiewicz mixed up

this is pretty sweet:

https://randolphandmortimer.bandcamp.com/album/the-incomplete-truth

i often don't post dance music on ilm b/c idk where to post it. a lot of what i like these days doesn't feel very bobbinsy but much of it i wouldn't necessarily categorize as ebm or industrialish techno, so i think i might start posting stuff itt until someone complains

https://pinkman.bandcamp.com/album/electric-vampire

https://anastasiazems.bandcamp.com/track/b2-push-the-tempo-down

https://marcopassarani.bandcamp.com/track/feel-the-struggle

https://dadalusbikarus.bandcamp.com/track/tous-tes-mensonges-andrei-rusu-remix

https://malkatuti.bandcamp.com/album/andrei-rusu-ive-lost-control

andrei rusu is putting out my favorite tracks atm, he's one of the khidja guys

please do, karl. always appreciate your picks

glad to hear it mh :)

some chuggy cosmic stuff that doesn't feel very bobbins to me

https://shkema.bandcamp.com/track/afrodelic-je-naime-pas-les-f-tes-shkema-remix

https://darknesshasneverbeensobright.bandcamp.com/track/copyshop-narcis-gazeebo-rmx

https://82j6.bandcamp.com/album/geschlossen

https://paisleydarkrecords.bandcamp.com/track/popopopom

Naum Gabo (Johnny Wilkes & James Savage) album sits better here maybe?

https://naumgabo.bandcamp.com/album/f-lux

oh yeah! thanks for the reminder, been meaning to check that one out

https://ombrainternational.bandcamp.com/album/stsfxn-ombra-intl-029

heater alert! made me actually go "heh heh heh" aloud while sitting alone at my desk, embarrassingly

loved the naum gabo album, btw, esp 'nothing in my hand' and 'parasymptofelia'