We Have a Technical

We Have a Technical 67: The Handsome One

After a couple of weeks away (not that the listening public would know), Bruce and Alex take a look at the insurmountable stack of records yet to be released in 2015, and each pick five records which point to the music of the future...

We Have a Technical 66: Where's My Tambourine?

A few weeks back Bruce and Alex met up with Aaron Fuleki and Alex Reed on the eve of their amazing performance at Terminus Festival to chat improvisation, the fan/artist relationship and how to bring music as varied as theirs to the stage. It was fun and brisk convo that touched on a lot of concepts and ideas, had numerous intriguing diversions and occasionally descended into some good natured silliness, we hope you enjoy listening as much as we enjoyed recording it!

We Have a Technical 65: Europa Europa

On this episode of We Have a Technical, Bruce and Alex run a commentary on one of their mutual favourite 90s EBM albums, the majestic electropop journey that is Covenant's "Europa". These album commentaries are a bit of a rare bird, so come on a ride that goes from millenial clubs to the edge of history, and, yes, to the water and the stone.

We Have a Technical 64: Tell 'Em Steve-Dave

Fresh back from a road trip to Seattle Alex and Bruce are ready to talk about records by And One and Din [A] Tod, do a bit of crate digging, and turn an eye to what's happening in Toronto. There's also a little bit of local show scouting and overall (if vague) excitement over a whole bunch of upcoming projects and releases on this, the latest episode of your snooty roommate's favourite music podcast, We Have A Technical.

We Have a Technical 63: A Band is a Business

On this episode of We Have a Technical, Bruce and Alex chatting with our friend Troy Hilton of Darker Side of Light Productions about the upcoming Aftermath Festival in Toronto! Additionally we get him to talk booking and tour managing, getting him to pull back the curtain and really dig into what it takes to get a multi-city tour happening, from the band, to the local promoters and even the fans! Lots to chew on in this episode, so make sure you pay close attention. Also we have to apologiz...

We Have a Technical 62: God Dammit Tobey

Bruce and Alex do a wrap-up of Calgary's Terminus Festival and talk to JD and Mel from Grendel! We go over some of our favourite performances, chat a bit about what separated this iteration from others, and toss in a bit of New Order nitpicking for good measure.

We Have a Technical 61: Wenis Have a Technical

On this episode, Bruce and Alex go to the movies! "Industrial Soundtrack For The Urban Decay", "The Ballad Of Genesis And Lady Jaye", and a recently translated Belgian documentary on Front 242 are all being discussed on the latest episode of the podcast as the Senior Staff gets ready to roll out to Terminus.

We Have a Technical 60: Coke with Scooby Doo

We Have a Technical 59: Steve Ouroboros

On this episode of the official I Die: You Die podcast, Bruce and Alex quiz each other on their predilections for albums by Pretentious, Moi? and Ghost & Writer. Also Alex has a lot of thoughts and feelings about the announcement of a new New Order record, Bruce reads Japanese science fiction and we announce the winner of our "Death to False EBM" t-shirt contest! All this week on the internet's pre-eminent goth and industrial music podcast (more the former than the latter for once). 

We Have a Technical 58: Jiggery Potpourri

This week Bruce and Alex have Erica Mulkey of Unwoman and returning superguest Matt Fanale of Caustic on to chat the new release from their collaborative Beauty Queen Autopsy project! Lots of interesting stuff about process, how they approached things differently creatively and promotionally, and a strange new idea for merch! Also some discussion of our anniversary show, and all the other chit chat you've come to expect from the internet's preeminent industrial and related musics podcast! w...

We Have a Technical 57: Summer Camp is Nigh

On this episode of We Have a Technical Bruce and Alex talk to Chris Hewitt, organizer of Calgary Alberta's Terminus Festival. Lots of interesting chat about festival economics, booking and what makes a collection of bands over three nights into an experience. Also some chat about our upcoming anniversary and some recent sad news for the Canadian industrial scene. 

We Have a Technical 56: Both a Little Bit Right

In this episode of the official I Die: You Die podcast Alex and Bruce are tackling the ever thorny issue of the DJ in the goth/industrial scene. Obviously this ties in with all sorts of other changes to the musical landscape that have happened in the past fifteen or so years, so we'll try to restrict ourselves to talking about DJing in the goth/industrial end of the pool, but this should still prove to be a rather careening convo. 

We Have a Technical 55: Blabbity Schloo Music

Alex and Bruce are very excited to chat with Cory from Volt 9000, one of the most interesting bands from the current wave of Canadian industrial! We talk about the new album "Timeshift", why difficult can be inspiring and the paranormal, plus chit chat about our upcoming anniversary, recent articles and more! Also, what is BLABITTY SCHMOO MUSIC???

We Have a Technical 54: Rose McDeeznutz

Ont this episode of the official I Die: You Die podcast, Alex and Bruce each make a list of five bands based on a very specific criteria. Also some chat about Laibach, some very cool industroal memorabilia that showed up on eBay and a whole lot of off-topic chitty chit chat, all this week on the internet's number one industrial, goth and related musics talk podcast! 

We Have a Technical 53: Intangible Tangerine Tangents

Oh man podcast listeners, Bruce and Alex fucked up real bad and forgot to come up with a topic or a guest for We Have a Technical (the official I Die: You Die podcast!) this week. So they did what any self-respecting industrial music nerds would do and fell back on talking about Forma Tadre and Interlace because they could literally drone on and on about those two acts for hours on end. Plus some updates to our thoughts about the Laibach tour, a and more sedate general chit chat than usual, ...

We Have a Technical #52: The Band, Not the Act

Bruce and Alex look back at an older Ministry record in light of the band's legacy since then, and talk about the new Prurient record and how it connects to the broader spectrum of noise/industrial crossover. All that plus some reflective chatter on favourite articles on the occasion of the site's 900th post (and more!) on the latest episode of We Have A Technical.

We Have a Technical #51: Your Daddy Don't Know

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! 

We Have a Technical #50: The Great Debate

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 le...

We Have a Technical #49: Talking to Technicals

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. 

We Have a Technical #48: No Laser Beams, Just Apples

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! 

We Have a Technical #47: The Telekon Telekast

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. 

We Have a Technical #46: Noted Fruitcake

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. 

We Have a Technical #45: Don't Be Boring

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)!  

We Have a Technical #44: Expired Potato Salad

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! 

We Have a Technical #43: Let's Shoot This

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 Have a Technical #42: A Lotta Dirks

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!

We Have a Technical #41: Roman Numerals and Porno

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. 

We Have a Technical #40: The :Wumpscast:

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.

We Have a Technical #39: Ow My Neck

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! 

We Have a Technical #38: F**k That Band

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! 

We Have a Technical #37: An Excuse to Talk Wrestling

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. 

We Have a Technical #36: The Worst Stallone

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. 

We Have a Technical #35: Welcome to Erf

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. 

We Have a Technical #34: Snooki Bat Machine

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! 

We Have a Technical #33: Drank It All Up

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! 

We Have a Technical #32: Anonymous and Euphoric

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.   

We Have a Technical #31: I Got It Now

On this episode of We Have a Technical Alex and Bruce revisit the format that time forgot, namely the discussion of two recent albums. This time out it's a proto-EBM excursion from Henrikk Björk Nordvargr of Poupée Fabrikk fame and the latest from long-running German conceptual synthpop project Welle:Erdball. We also chat about how much you would have to pay us never to hear songs we like ever again, some upcoming records we enjoy and recount a bit of our adventures in Chicago for Cold Waves...

We Have a Technical #30: The Crowcast

Bruce and Alex record a commentary track for the Crow Soundtrack. That's right, the good, the bad and the ugly of everyone's favourite goth-alternative soundtrack of the 1990s. Thrill to the anecdotes about The Cure and My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult, listen to us bury For Love Not Lisa and marvel at how much two nerds have to say about Machines of Loving Grace. 

We Have a Technical #29: Kiss The Blade Flesh

Bruce returns to the official I Die: You Die podcast! We talk about his travels in the British isles (and seeing Kate Bush), get excited for Cold Waves and then chat about some of the rad dark music happening in Vancouver like Koban, Spectres and Animal Bodies! 

We Have a Technical #28: All Manner of Jovial Whatnots

Alex takes the easy way out and assembles a clip show comprised from the first two episodes of the podcast, never before available on iTunes! Take a trip into the distant past of 2013 as we discuss Mr.Kitty, Freezepop, Distorted Memory and Derniere Volonte! Thrill to the garbage production values of our earliest efforts! Marvel at how many times a grown man can say "uh" in the course of a short interstitial segment! Witness the origins of the web's premiere commentary podcast for industrial ...

We Have a Technical #27: Oui, Oui, Oui!

Matt Fanale of Caustic joins Alex for this episode of the Official I Die: You Die podcast as we discuss Chicago's Cold Waves III! We even get on the horn with fest organizer Dave Schock and Bruce calls in from Scotland so we can chit chat about his adventures and the pitfalls of organizing a fest! This is a long one, so strap yourselves in and get ready for that sweet industrial gold! 

We Have a Technical #26: Réal's Cat Noises

With Bruce away, Alex is joined by Réal Cardinal of Comaduster to discuss the history of the project, his process, how he approaches remixes and what he's up to post the release of his excellent 2013 LP "Hollow Worlds". 

We Have a Technical #25: The Headhunter 2Kast

Alex and Bruce get drunk and do a running commentary on Front 242's Headhunter 2000. It gets kind of gnarly, so sit back, crack a beer and let the dulcet sounds of the official I Die: You Die podcast (www.idieyoudie.com) carry you away on wings of drunken blabbering. 

We Have a Technical #24: Two Scoops of Hell

In this installment of the official www.idieyoudie.com podcast Bruce and Alex talk about how much fun they had at Terminus Festival in Calgary, chat with friend of the site Eric Gottesman about the new album from his band Everything Goes Cold and reminisce about the first three years of ID:UD. 

We Have a Technical #23: It'd be "Coup"

In this episode of the official I Die: You Die podcast Bruce and Alex discuss a special number (seriously) and talk to Michael Treveloni of Alter Der Ruine about the band's upcoming album! 

We Have a Technical #22: We Won't Stop

Bruce and Alex do a final AFTERMATH decompression before diving into the amazing line-up of Calgary's Terminus Festival, including an interview with organizer Chris Hewitt! 

We Have a Technical #21: Dad Magazines

Alex and Bruce get pranked by Volt 9000 and chat Ottawa industrial (including Encephalon, Apriorism, and Wychdoktor) on this pre-AFTERMATH episode of the official I Die: You Die podcast!

We Have a Technical #20: Impressed By How Evil You Are

In this episode of the official I Die: You Die podcast Daniel X Belasco joins Alex and Bruce to talk about his new album as Glass Apple Bonzai. Plus the guys talk some lost Vancouver records and a little Ashbury Heights! 

We Have a Technical #19: Princes of Atlantis

Bruce and Alex talk AFTERMATH Festival, Cold Waves III, the new Haujobb single, Front Line Assembly's remix album and just a mess of other topics on this episode of the official Idieyoudie.com podcast. 

We Have a Technical #18: Not Talking About Jambalaya

Bruce and Alex kvetch about the cancellation of Festival Kinetik, then talk about releases by High-Functioning Flesh and Kindest Cuts in this episode of the official idieyoudie.com podcast.