As a Christmas gift, continuing its annual tradition, the Malta-based label Music Analysis Discussions Records released the sixth volume of its M.A.D. series on December 26th. This is a massive album, featuring over one hundred tracks at a very enticing price, and includes a PDF booklet with information on each of the 107 collaborating artists. This...
2025 has emerged as a period of remarkable dynamism and definition for Molecular Recordings, a label that has consolidated its distinctive voice within the contemporary techno landscape through an ambitious and coherent release strategy. Far from being a simple numerical increase, this intensified activity represents a deep dive into its sonic identity, built upon...
Undertheskin weaves a hypnotic and devastatingly beautiful sonic proposition. Their music is a crucible where minimal wave aesthetics and post-punk shadows converge, generating icy and enveloping atmospheres influenced by the elegant darkness of gothic pioneers. This project reconstructs nostalgia and condenses it into a contemporary coldwave experience. With deep rhythmic sequences, powerful bass lines,...
Charlène Dannancier, previously known under aliases such as UNN in the experimental scene, signs her first work under her given name. The French composer, performer, and artist embarks here on an incisive exploration of the emotional vertigo generated by ambiguous relationships, those destabilizing gray areas where desire and unease intertwine. The album meticulously traces the...
In the often predictable landscape of many music releases, certain collaborations shine with the promise of a collision of eras that can momentarily redefine the contours of a genre. It is within this space that "Aggression (CJ Bolland Remix)" is positioned, the first single with which Rogue Unit vs Darkvolt introduce a series...
The multimedia project, and collective, La Furnasetta is an important part of Italian post-industrial underground scene. Active since 2018, they have worked during their career with names as She Spread Sorrow, Silvia Cignoli, Mademoiselle Bistouri, Paolo Bandera, Viviankrist, Luca Sigurtá, Andrea Prevignano, Gian Maria Aprile, Attila Folklor, Leather Parisi, Petrolio, Daniele Brusaschetto. After the collaborative...
A pivotal name in the first wave of industrial music, Clock DVA has become during the years synonymous with experimental and ever-changing music, pioneering mutant jazz and post-punk sounds, avant-garde takes on new wave, and cyberpunk-inspired ventures into electronic music, too. Born out of the Sheffield scene and lead by multimedia artist Adi Newton (Gary...
William Maybelline's project Qual has been for ten years an outlet for his interest in hard-hitting EBM/electro-industrial music informed by 80s and 90s dark electro, as well as contemporary techno EBM. Walking the same fine line between self-awareness, camp, irony and seriousness, he walks in his main project Lebanon Hanover (there playing post-punk/darkwave together...
The Christine Plays Viola is an Italian darkwave/post-punk band with a well-established career spanning over a decade. Following their debut album, Innocent Awareness (2011), they have maintained a prolific output with several EPs and conceptual albums such as Vacua (2014) and Spooky Obsessions (2016). Their international recognition includes being named Band of the Year...
Following the successful completion of their second European tour, Industrial Synth Crust artist Schkeuditzer Kreuz, the pseudonym of New Zealand-born, Australia-based Kieren Hills, releases Schkeuditzer Kreuz is Reinventing Axel F (Swan Grinder Remixed). This remix collection serves as a companion piece to his third studio album, Swan Grinder, and precedes his upcoming Oceania tour. This...
