A grab-bag of last year’s dance-friendly EBM and electro with the latest releases by Hioctan, Ascii.Disko, Prospective and Absurd Minds.
Tag: black rain
Dexy Corp_ – Fragmentation
CD, Black Rain, 2009 www.myspace.com/dexycorp Dexy Corp_, the next, best thing in contemporary French industrial rock, make life difficult for a reviewer: objectivity, the most fundamental requirement of any journalistic [ … ]
Tyske Ludder – Anonymous
CD, Black Rain, 2009 www.tyske-ludder.de Once again combining old-school EBM sensibilities with contemporary electro construction, Tyske Ludder bring us some of the catchiest electronic body music from the “dark side” [ … ]
V/A – 12. Elektrisch Festival
CD, Black Rain, 2008 www.blackrain.de Reading like a “who’s who” of old-school industrial and EBM, the tracklist for this compilation will have aging rivetheads foaming at the mouth. A live [ … ]
Tyske Ludder – SCIENTific technOLOGY
CD EP, Black Rain, 2008 www.tyske-ludder.de With a name as destined for controversy as this, the listener automatically expects some massive statement in musical form – whether pro- or anti-Xenu. [ … ]
Supreme Court – Hypocrites + Saints
CD, Black Rain, 2007 www.supreme-court.tk This dark electro/EBM offering can, for me, be summed up in three sections – issues, influences and impression – each of which I will elaborate [ … ]
V/A – A Compilation Vol.2
CD, Black Rain, 2007 www.blackrain.de Generally speaking, reviewing any compilation is a daunting task – more often than not, each individual track has some aspect that makes it stand out [ … ]
Tyske Ludder – Trinity
3 CD, Black Rain, 2006 www.tyske-ludder.de Where more and more self-styled EBM acts of today come dangerously close to the darkwave and futurepop genres, these re-releases of Tyske Ludder’s first [ … ]
IWR – Ground Zero
CD, Black Rain, 2006 www.iwrband.com “Calling you to help me play my role”, screeches IWR front man in a song imaginatively titled “Calling You”, and it was this, the only [ … ]
Cyborg Attack – Stoerf***tor
CD, Black Rain, 2006 www.cyborg-attack.de Black Rain, along with its three sublabels (Ars Musica Diffundére, Noitekk and Funkwelten) has been the home of many great names in the industrial, EBM [ … ]