Mexico's premier electronic duo Hocico (cousins Erk Aicrag and Racso Agroyam) are one of the major projects from the late 90s and early 2000s EBM scene, in their case the harsh EBM subgenre to be precise. Together with names like Combichrist, Suicide Commando, Wumpscut, and others, they survived the decline of that scene, still...
GIVE/TAKE, a label split between Los Angeles and Minneapolis, releases Group Exhibition 006, the latest installment in its artist compilation series, available completely free on Bandcamp. The album brings together twelve tracks from projects spanning multiple countries, and stands as a precise and compelling snapshot of what is happening on the margins of contemporary...
American artist Madeline Goldstein has been quite active in the world of underground synth music for several years. The former front woman of Portland's Fringe Class, she started a solo career after relocating to Los Angeles. The self-released Forget This showcased a minimal synth-pop sound with electro elements, while the single Lost In...
The mysterious musical entity Heimito Künst returns with the aptly titled Vol. 3, the third album in the discography of the project. If the previous entries, the self-titled debut and the sophomore Post Exoticism, had more of an abstract, ambient approach informed by drone music, this new installment is quite rhythmic and more structured in...
Emerging from the Scandinavian cold with a sound rooted in industrial and EBM, Tazer carries in its DNA the legacy of giants such as Rammstein — yet far from confining itself to a reverential imitation, it forges its own identity, one that proves as distinctive as it is effective. The lineup operates as a...
Some records arrive as the result of meticulous planning; others are born from the moment itself, from a chance encounter. Nostis belongs unequivocally to the second category, and it is precisely for this reason that it proves so fascinating. Behind downGate stand two essential names from the Baltic industrial and experimental scene: Oorchach, the alias...
Fade Kainer's brainchild Statiqbloom returns with a 7-track release called The Casket Nest, published by HANDS. This new output comes after a period of deep experimentation and research for the American artist, who relocated in Berlin some years ago, a period exemplified by self-releases like Bled From All Sides, Memory Remode, and Winter. In...
There are collaborations born of convenience and collaborations born of conviction. Paradoxical Implants clearly belongs to the second category. What began as a remix request between The Ultimate Dreamers and Len Lemeire, known in electronic music circles for his work at the helm of Implant, ultimately became a creative dialogue between two projects...
It is always heartening to discover that projects we once admired still have the capacity to surprise us. We have already spoken with Graeme Revell about the return of SPK under its updated and renamed guise, The SPKtR. In fact, Industrial Complexx will shortly be publishing the first volume of a new fanzine in which...
Some recordings arrive as documents from the past, and this album is exactly that — a time capsule transporting us back to the mid-eighties. Schönste Muziek, originally released in 1986 on the German label Dossier and now reissued by Cold Spring with a remastering that truly does it justice, stands as one of the...
