Experimental Electronic Music
Clock DVA’s White Souls in Black Suits returns not just as a remaster, but as a vital rediscovery—an album that helped define the early intersections of industrial, post-punk, and proto-EBM. Issued by The Grey Area of Mute with expanded material and a proper remaster for the first time, it reasserts the record’s place as both historical artifact and enduring sonic statement.
Dire Days, the new release from Snowbeasts (Robert Galbraith and Elizabeth Virosa), is a fierce evolution—sharpened, volatile, and unflinchingly direct. Virosa’s commanding vocals cut through scorched industrial soundscapes, turning noise into political weaponry. Less abstraction, more confrontation, Dire Days is a brutalist manifesto for a world on edge.
Antler Records, the iconic label born in 1981 from the vision of Roland Beelen, rose anew in 2024—reborn, recharged, and resonating once more. Delving into its vaults, the label unveils a treasure trove of rare sonic artifacts, painstakingly compiled by Lieven De Ridder of Walhalla Records. But this revival isn’t just about the past—retrospective (and new) releases are on the horizon. The legacy lives on as history spins forward—until 2026.
Despite the black matter of the eight tracks, the floor is not forgotten with the Leipzig outfit delivering some angular and angry body music amongst their lancing electro and psychological experiments. A soundtrack for the world we, somehow, find ourselves in.
The album’s almost cyber-punk and relentlessly austere energy also veers into musical territory inhabited by Ghostly International-signed acts.
This show embodies their moodiest and darkest sounds of their late 80s and early 90s classics using true to period instruments to pound out the beats. Loaded with organic sounds and analog vocal effects that mesh perfectly with their electronic gear.
Chaos Never Dies is the embittered lovechild of EBM and techno, a harsh and unrelenting hybrid of both styles dipped in a pool of ill-will […]
Chipped and stinking of smoke, this collective has plundered styles and produced something demanding, gnarled and gloriously pock marked. A record living up to the […]
New Beat has taken a back seat and despite notable exceptions this very Belgian sound has remained on the margins. And perhaps that’s where it […]
Beautifully creepy, hypnotic, with brooding and tense atmospheres seconded by an avalanche of electronic grooves obtained by the machines. A few months after the publication […]
