We Have A Technical

On this episode of the official I Die: You Die podcast Matt Gifford from Encephalon drops in to chat about his band's excellent new album "Psychogenesis". Also Bruce and Alex chat fallout from The Great Debate, whether people should be sore at Laibach, some fun shows we're gonna attend and much much more! 

After nearly a month of carefully calculated hype and ballyhoo, it's finally here. The Great Debate, in which Alex and Bruce square off in opposing corners, ready to fight dirty, throw low blows, and endanger our decade-plus friendship all for the sake of winning an argument about goth/industrial music. With a little help from a surprise guest MC, we think we were able to put together the symphony of rhetorical attacks, parries, and counterstrikes which we've been building towards...or at least a reasonable facsimile of what it's like to be stuck at a pub table with us when we happen upon a point of disagreement (which was half of the goal in starting this site in the first place). 

It's the fight (or congenial meet-up) of the century as We Have a Technical and Talking to Ghosts collide! What happens when the number 1 and 2 goth and industrial podcasts meet-up to hash out some topics? Why, a bunch of chat about tours vs festivals, laptops on stage and industrial dance videos amongst other topics! Plus, a few more hints about THE GREAT DEBATE! All this week on TALKING TO TECHNICALS. 

On this week of the world's premier industrial, gothic and related musics podcast Bruce and Alex return to the "TOP 5" format, and bust out lists of their favourite closing tracks. Plus they discuss recent shows they saw, upcoming events and the same wholesome family friendly chitter chatter that has become the hallmark of the official I Die: You Die podcast! 

On this episode of the official I Die: You Die podcast Bruce and Alex do a commentary for Gary Numan's classic 1980 album "Telekon". Thrill to our mildly amusing historical anecdotes and baseless theories about Uncle Gary's mental state at the time of recording on another sure-to-be-classic episode of We Have a Technical. 

In this particularly gushy episode of the world's greatest industrial and related musics podcast, we talk about Killing Joke and Ulver. Both bands beloved to the senior staff at I Die: You Die, both bands with storied careers and distinct musical phases and both bands we can (and do!) go on about at length! If that sounds like it's up your alley, then crank it up, Bruce and Alex get real excited on this one. 

On this episode of the official podcast, Bruce and Alex discuss live shows: what makes them good, how a good performer sets themself apart and what performances we've seen that have stuck with us over the years. Plus all the off-topic chit chat and general goth industrial hoo-ha you've come to expect from the accept-no-substitutes world's greatest industrial-goth-ebm-darkwave podcast (suck it Talking To Ghosts)!  

This week on our official I Die: You Die podcast, we chat with returning guest Matt Fanale of Caustic about crowdfunding. We got the do's, the don'ts, the goods, the bads and yeah, the do it as long as you can get away with its straight from the wild frontier of money wrangling in the wild and wooly landscape of 21st century music. All that and lots more on this episode of the best goth and industrial podcast on the internet! 

Our experiment with running the podcast as a weekly venture continues, as we talk to New York/New Orleans goth-pop duo Azar Swan. On the heels of their latest, percussion-laden LP And Blow Us A Kiss and a vinyl reissue of debut Dance Before The War, Josh Strawn and Zohra Atash are getting prepped to play at this year's instalment of Terminus, so the timing seemed perfect to sit down and have a chat with the affable pair.

We're back with another jam-packed episode of We Have A Technical! Alex and Bruce are doing a few new things on this episode, from field testing a new feature (Lists! Drafts! Swerves!) to dropping some news regarding the future programming of this here podcastery. We're also responding to some listener questions, and giving a sneak peak (and possibly world premiere?) of the brand spankin' new mind.in.a.box record!

On this episode of the OFFICIAL idieyoudie.com podcast Bruce and Alex discuss a record by Die Form and the Swans side-project Skin/World of Skin. Also some chitter chatter about upcoming shows, the first announcements for festival season, some amusing anecdotes and Vampire: The Masquerade. This is one of those kitchen sink kind of episodes, so strap in, we talk fast and get very excited. 

On this album commentary podcast Alex and Bruce discuss the legacy of :wumpscut:'s classic album "Bunkertor 7" on the occasion of its twentieth anniversary. How has Rudy Ratzinger's third LP held up within the :wumpscut: catalog, and what is its place within broader industrial history? Proceed, gentle listener.

On this episode of the official I Die: You Die podcast Alex and Bruce chat with Sara and Ryan from Youth Code! Topics include the deliciousness of coffee, the enduring radness of :Wumpscut: and what the future holds for YC now that they've completed a tour with Skinny Puppy and Front Line Assembly. Industrial fans buckle up, this is one hell of a convo! 

On the first episode of We Have a Technical for 2015 Bruce and Alex talk about expectations, hopes, dreams and wishes for the year to come. We also discuss some recent gigs we attended and some ol' nonsense that went down in Our Thing while we were on vacay. You like industrial, goth rock, all the jazz? Face it tiger, you just hit the jackpot! 

Alex and Bruce got drunk after finishing their year end coverage and recorded this interstitial episode of the podcast. We don't talk about new music much, it's more just wrestling, comics, TV whatever. It might be terrible, we don't know. 

Bruce and Alex stumble across the finish line of I Die: You Die's Year End coverage, drunk and exhausted. We talk our top 25 of 2014, the recent amazing shows we've seen from Haujobb, Skinny Puppy, Front Line Assembly and Author & Punisher and a few other topics related to industrial and related musics. 

In this episode of We Have a Technical, Bruce and Alex listen to and comment on Apoptygma Berzerk's futurepop classic "Welcome to Earth". Thrill to our take on a 15 year old record as we excorcise our feelings about one of the seminal EBM acts' pinnacle moments and try to figure out exactly what it means in the here and now. 

On this episode of the I Die: You Die podcast Bruce and Alex talk about darkwave: its origins, its definition, and a bunch of bands that fall under its aegis; Switchblade Symphony, Xymox, Kirlian Camera, and many many more! 

On this episode of We Have a Technical, we bro down with Michael and Wes from the delightful Talking to Ghosts podcast. We discuss their goals with TTG, their music projects [product] and reakt[ion] and a couple of albums we're all high on right now. It's a regular bropocalypse now up in the internet's finest industrial and related musics podcast, as hosted by Alex and Bruce from I Die: You Die! 

On this extremely rambly episode of We Have a Technical Alex and Bruce have a jaw with Vancouver ex-pat Jack Duckworth of Soft Riot. It's a fun conversation sandwiched between a lot of blather about Spotify, records we're enjoying and a lot of other nonsense that will undoubtedly test your patience.