thread of nu-EBM and INDUSTRIALish techno 2020

right on, thank u

and right before it, the 2-fer Come Visit the Big Bigot with Dead Eyes Open, slightly less poppy, probably my favorite Severed Heads release.

a couple older ones and a couple newer ones

https://soundcloud.com/platform/identified-patient-boiler-room-x-dekmantel-festival-2018

https://soundcloud.com/platform/job-sifre?si=80a619b321914d4a88882a40d057df95

https://soundcloud.com/hate_music/phase-fatale-hate-podcast-232

https://soundcloud.com/pinkmanrecords/marsman-pinkman-district

mixes that include new stuff in this vein, that is ^ xpost to deej

came to post that Derrumbes Y Escaleras EP! good shit.

this 5-track EP on the Robert Johnson label gets campy but i'm not mad at it
https://liveatrobertjohnson.bandcamp.com/album/and-you

Rebolledo & Roman Flügel - Star Stuff
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxeJmGyoARI

this one seems to come up in my recommended tracks a lot

i like when this stuff gets a bit campy tbh

i do too. if i ever get regular DJ gigs again i might see how far i can push the crowd into Cheeseland

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'