Damage, the latest release from Dissonance, builds upon Cat Hall’s talent for bringing pop hooks into dark electronic music and building layered vocal parts, as well as her love for the maxi-single format. The track is a collaboration with Melodywhore, and they ended up with enough remixes for two releases – Damage (1st Assault) and … Read more
A Skeleton Key in the Doors of Depression is a unique new collaborative album from Portland artist/producer King Yosef and LA duo Youth Code. It brings together Yosef’s trap-metal influences with the more electronic/industrial/EBM sound Youth Code is known for and expands into directions neither has gone before. It’s dark and abrasive but also very … Read more
A prolific recording artist and composer for video games, trailers, and film, Megan McDuffee is set to release her first vocal-driven solo album, Inner Demons, on May 21. She has just put out the first single from it, “13th Hour“, a track inspired by the movie Labyrinth. McDuffee has won awards for her work on … Read more
Over the course of his long career, British artist Scanner (Robin Rimbaud) has worked with a variety of electronic musical styles and has been part of numerous collaborations. His projects beyond his own recordings include scoring contemporary dance productions, sound installations, and musical partnerships such as Scanni (with Anni Hogan). Scanner’s 1996 “Trawl” (a collaboration … Read more
Having relocated to Belgrade, Serbia, The Black Heart Procession’s Tobias Nathaniel has teamed up with a group of talented musicians from the city’s garage-rock music scene to unleash The Red Step. The project marks Nathaniel’s debut as a vocalist, and his voice is perfectly suited to the dark blend of post-punk and garage-rock. The Red … Read more
DECOUPLR is a new Philadelphia-based duo that blends soulful vocals with a variety of electronic styles. Built upon such sounds as sampled drums, mellotron flutes, and vintage synths, DECOUPLR’s music has a trip-hop edge but isn’t quite like anything else. It strikes a balance of being dark and somewhat cold with being organic and welcoming. … Read more
On her newly released third album, The Element Of Love, Danielle de Picciotto continues to meld her voice and experimental soundscapes into a highly unique sound. This time around, spoken word gets emphasized over sung vocals, and the music is generally a bit softer. Again, Danielle has integrated her visual art, using a painting of … Read more
This past fall saw the release of TRANSHUMAN, a collaboration between German electronic group U96 and former Kraftwerk member Wolfgang Flür. We previously ran an interview with U96’s Hayo Lewerentz, and now we present an email interview with Flür. Flür played percussion with Kraftwerk from 1973 until 1987. After stepping away from music for many … Read more
Having put out a string of singles last year, Washington D.C.-based dark pop duo Technophobia has released their long-awaited second album, “Some of Us Are Looking at the Stars.” Consisting of Katie and Stephen Petix, Technophobia relies heavily on analog electronic instruments. This time around, they strived to push themselves even further to come up … Read more
With COVID-19 postponing touring plans last year, Front Line Assembly instead focused its energies on new music, resulting in the recently released “Mechanical Soul.” As usual, the group takes its dark, aggressive electronic music into new directions while remaining true to its own unique sound. “Mechanical Soul” features guest appearances from Front 242’s Jean-Luc DeMeyer … Read more