We Have A Technical

We're catching up with Youth Code on this week's episode of We Have a Technical! On the eve of the release of their second LP, Sara and Ryan chatted with us about the strife which drove and influenced the creation of "Commitment To Complications", working with Rhys Fulber, and the ethics of adding maple syrup to your coffee. We're also talking about Terminus' first band announcements, and the legacy of Tympanik Audio.

On the occasion of his in-progress North American tour and out of our appreciation for his body of work, we're spending this episode of the podcast talking about Claus Larsen's hugely influential work as Leæther Strip. We talk about his influences, his role in shaping goth/industrial culture in the 90s, and how he's been recently navigating the unruly waters of self-released music. All this and more on this episode of We Have a Technical!

We're back to our not-quite live broadcast after a couple weeks of canned episodes! Alex is back from Italy and we're hitting the ground running with a conversation with legendary designer Steven R. Gilmore! The man behind countless Nettwerk sleeves for Skinny Puppy, The Tear Garden, Images In Vogue and plenty of others is here to give us the stories and method behind many of your favourite record designs.

On yet another slightly shorter episode (only slightly though!) Alex and Bruce take a suggestion from the Mailbag and do a Pick 5 feature on their favourite packaging. What labels get the most love for their fancy format and cool design? You'll have to listen to these two guys yammer on at length to find out! All this week on We Have a Technical, the I Die: You Die podcast. 

In this pre-recorded and slightly appended episode of the podcast, the I Die: You Die Senior Staff spin off from last week's episode about neo-oldschool EBM with some talk about Nexus Kenosis and The Pain Machinery. That and actually only a tiny bit more, this week on We Have a Technical! 

It's a roots-EBM episode of the podcast this week. Old-school, anhalt, traditional, whatever you want to call it, it's big in Europe with guys with Guile Mohawks, and we're here to talk about it. Put on a black singlet and some combat pants, crack a tallboy of lager, and settle in with this week's episode of We Have A Technical.

This episode's offering nothing short of a Masterclass in recording and production from Réal Cardinal of Comaduster! Réal delineates a lot of the terms we tend to throw around indiscriminately while writing about music, and walks us through the processes of creating electronic music well beyond just "writing" it. All this week on We Have a Technical, the I Die: You Die podcast! 

It's a grab bag episode this week, as Bruce and Alex tackle topics wide and far-reaching: recent shows, the changing realities of accessing music files, the much-ballyhooed Black Queen record, Laibach's troll-heavy (or not?) endorsement of boomer rock, and some listener questions all make it into this beggar's banquet which is the newest episode of We Have A Technical.

The Senior Staff return to the popular full-album commentary format! This time, it's Wolfsheim's 1999 breakthrough LP "Spectators" which is getting the deluxe treatment. The album's distinction from Wolfsheim's existing discography and contemporary dance floors, its catapulting of Peter Heppner to mainstream stardom in Germany and so much more are discussed on the newest episode of We Have A Technical.

The Senior Staff are back to their classic two albums format on this episode of We Have A Technical, with records by Daniel Myer's Clear Vision project and Christian Death. The year's first festival announcements and new releases are also kicked about as We Have A Technical begins to properly dig into 2016.

This week, like everyone else, Bruce and Alex are talking about David Bowie. They do their best to draw lines between his work and goth and industrial, but like Bowie himself, a discussion of his influence can't be tied to just one or two points. Lotsa talk about Outside, the Berlin records and so much more on this episode of We Have a Technical. 

To kick off 2016, Bruce and Alex each pick five things they'd like to see in the year ahead. New albums, trends, reissues, it's all fair game as the Senior Staff dig into the new year with all the gusto you've come to expect from the official I Die: You Die podcast! 

In our yearly off topic episode Bruce and Alex pay homage to Lemmy by drinking an ocean of Jack and Cokes. Some discussion of books, pro wrestling and non-scene music is also had. It's pretty long, and meanders a lot, and both hosts are pretty drunk by the end of it. It's probably not that great? You be the judge! 

Bruce and Alex take a final look back at the trends and topics of 2015 and send last minute shout outs to some overlooked LPs on this episode of We Have A Technical, the penultimate of the year! 

With the blog's Top 25 Records of 2015 list published, Alex and Bruce look at some honourable mentions and notable reissues, and give some thought to the ins and outs of what does and doesn't fall within the purview of niche music writing. It's a sober second look at the year that was, just before 2015 gets rung out in a far more inebriatedstyle on the latest episode of We Have A Technical.

On this episode of the podcast, the Senior Staff takes up the question of the label's role in 2025. Curation, distribution, legacies: what can labels do for fans and bands in the digital age? That and more on this week's episode of We Have a Technical, the official I Die: You Die podcast. 

Alex and Bruce each offer takes on a pair of electo-industrial records from the mid-aughts, and respond to some of the blowback from last week's discussion of Front 242.

Alex and Bruce return to the Pick Five format to discuss "difficult" music of all stripes and sizes, and talk through the issues pertaining to industrial-esque artists who've received mainstream plaudits, all on this episode of the official I Die: You Die podcast. 

Alex and Bruce offer up 2 for 1 interviews this week as photographer Jill Grant and Gregg McGillivray of Urusai stop by for some chats. They also touch on the ever-present controversies surrounding Death In June as the band embarks on a North American tour.

Bruce and Alex are joined by Michael Arthur Holloway of Dead When I Found Her. New album "All The Way Down"'s connections to end of life care, the history of sampling in industrial music, and plenty more are taken up in the latest episode of the idieyoudie.com podcast!