We Have a Technical
615 episodes - English - Latest episode: 15 days ago - ★★★★★ - 34 ratingsWe Have a Technical brings I Die: You Die's discussions of industrial, EBM, goth, dark electro, and related music genres to the podcast format. Join Alex, Bruce, and guests as they explore music's darker alternatives.
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We Have a Technical 200: State of the Art (on 4 Discs)
March 22, 2018 09:00 - 1 hour - 68.3 MBIt's the 200th episode of We Have A Technical, and to mark this auspicious occasion Bruce and Alex are putting one of the most celebrated industrial compilations of all time in the spotlight! Ras Dva's "There Is No Time" is remembered and reconsidered by guests Roger Jarvis, Mike Wimer, and Rexx Arkana, who share memories of their contributions to the compilation, its lasting influence, and its late curator, Ric Laciak.
We Have a Technical 199: The Mariner Moose
March 15, 2018 09:00 - 1 hour - 54 MBA pair of covers records go under the microscope in this week's episode of We Have A Technical! Are Siouxsie & The Banshees' "Through The Looking Glass" and Apootygma Berzerk's "Sonic Diary" well curated taste showcases, self-indulgent exercises, or something else? Plenty of discussion on those topics, plus festival news awaits on this week's episode of We Have A Technical!
We Have a Commentary: High-Functioning Flesh, "A Unity of Miseries, a Misery of Unities"
March 10, 2018 23:10 - 27 minutes - 22.3 MBOn this, our monthly bonus podcast (supported by the good folks over at Patreon.com) we're doing a commentary on High-Functioning Flesh's debut LP "A Unity of Miseries, a Misery of Unities". The band's roots in strict, stripped-down synth-punk as well as the funky future they'd go on to explore are both present in this tightly packed and tense record, so join us as we look back on the mutant weirdness Susan Subtract and Greg Vand lobbed into the world back in 2014.
We Have a Technical 198: Cheaper in Estonia
March 08, 2018 10:00 - 57 minutes - 46 MBIt's a classic format episode of the Internet's favourite industrial navel-gazing podcast: Alex and Bruce are discussing albums by Icon Of Coil and Pouppée Fabrikk, and all of the shifts and changes in industrial sounds and styles pertinent to those bands. Futurepop vs EBM? Game on...sort of. Also, news and updates concerning North American festival announcements on this week's episode of We Have A Technical!
We Have a Technical 197: Beholder Metal
March 01, 2018 06:03 - 1 hour - 49 MBOn this week's episode of We Have a Technical, Alex and Bruce sit down with Shannon and Jason of Vancouver's Actors. Topics of conversation include their upcoming LP "It Will Come To You", touring and the dangers of post-punk revivalism. Additionally we've got some news regarding the Terminus line-up for 2018, the iVardensphere: Singularity set that went down in Vancouver last week and more! All this week on the official idieyoudie.com podcast!
We Have a Technical 196: A Sandy Grave
February 22, 2018 10:00 - 1 hour - 50.1 MBIt's time to dig into the mailbag on the latest episode of We Have A Techincal! Idieyoudie.com's readers and listeners have sent questions which range from the curatorial to the ethical to the decidedly personal. The Senior Staff are taking up each of these questions plus discussing the recent Drew McDowall show on this week's episode of the podcast that Considers Darker Alternatives.
We Have a Technical 195: Leather Sweater Weather
February 15, 2018 10:00 - 54 minutes - 43.5 MBIt's another doozy of a Pick Five episode on We Have A Technical! This week, Bruce and Alex are picking "secret weapons" from their DJ arsenals. From swooning chill-outs to ferocious EBM bangers, the Senior Staff are highlighting left field tunes which never miss on the dancefloor. There's also some discussion on the forthcoming Drew MacDowell show, plus an upcoming mailbag episode!
We Have a Commentary: The Tear Garden, "Tired Eyes Slowly Burning"
February 11, 2018 02:22 - 43 minutes - 35 MBThe first LP in the storied and long-standing collaboration between cEvin Key and Edward Ka-Spel gets the blow by blow treatment on this month's episode of We Have A Commentary! Yes, we're talking about The Tear Garden's "Tired Eyes Slowly Burning", and all of the psychedelic ephemera which accompanies it. How did Skinny Puppy's famed brap ethos manifest in Mushroom Studios? Who was wandering in and out of the sessions? What narrative forms does Edward keep returning to and why? All these qu...
We Have a Technical 194: Between Alt Metal and a Hard Place
February 08, 2018 10:00 - 1 hour - 50.2 MBThe classic We Have A Technical format gets a nostalgic twist, as Bruce and Alex are each picking gateway records which helped usher them into darker music...even if Fear Factory's "Demanufacture" and The Tea Party's "Splendor Solis" had more in common with metal and blues-rock. How do these tentative first steps into industrial and goth rock hold up more than two decades on? Find out, plus get the latest on live show announcements and plenty more on this week's episode of the idieyoudie.com...
We Have a Technical 193: The Mania Within
February 01, 2018 10:00 - 1 hour - 49.8 MBThe broad and gloomy realm of post-punk is the subject of the day on this week's episode of We Have A Technical! From its origins shared with goth and industrial, through the mainstream revival of it in the early aughts, up to the present groundswell in underground post-punk, the Senior Staff are hailing the best and jeering the worst of a nebulous, but often sombre style.
We Have a Technical 192: Try Everything
January 25, 2018 10:00 - 56 minutes - 45.3 MBThe Senior Staff talk are talking about a pair of hybrid records on this week's episode: the dance/rhythmic noise punch of Memmaker's "How To Enlist In A Robot Uprising" and the futurepop/italodisco confectionary of Syrian's "Death Of A Sun". Also, on a more sombre note, they discuss remembrances of Jeremy Inkel of Left Spine Down and Front Line Assembly after his tragic and all too early passing.
We Have a Technical 191: Here Comes the Chairstepper
January 18, 2018 10:00 - 1 hour - 58.4 MBOn this episode of We Have a Technical we welcome returning guest Matt Fanale of Caustic. We're always keen to catch up with the Man Who Couldn't Stop about what he's up to, and in this instance we were super interested to hear about what went into his terrific new album "American Carrion". We talk politics, anger, Caustic's place in industrial and a little about hot new beat project Klack, along with news about Mechanismus Festival and the dissolution of Tactical Sekt, all this week on We H...
We Have a Commentary: The Klinik, "Sabotage"
January 14, 2018 00:00 - 41 minutes - 33.4 MBOn this month's Patreon-supported bonus podcast, we're discussing the first LP by legendary Belgian dark electro pioneers The Klinik. "Sabotage", the only record to feature the four person line-up of the band is instructive, in that it threads the origins of the group in the wave scene with distinctly industrial aesthetics. We discuss both how it foreshadows The Klinik's later work, and what is specifically unique about them at this early juncture. All this month on We Have a Commentary, an ...
We Have a Technical 190: Burrito Math
January 11, 2018 10:00 - 1 hour - 53.3 MBWe talk post-2000 Kirlian Camera on the second 2018 episode of We Have a Technical! Yes, Bruce and Alex chew over what exactly Elena brought to the table and how it changed KC, along with Angelo's enduring lyrical themes and how regal and magesterial the band has become over their last four albums. Where else are you gonna find that kind of discussion?
We Have a Technical 189: Wonderscore
January 04, 2018 10:00 - 1 hour - 53.4 MBBack in action, the Senior Staff return from the holidays refreshed and ready to talk about the releases which lie just ahead in the early months of 2018, plus some family friendly faves they like to spin around the holidays. It's 2018, and I Die: You Die's champing at the bit!
We Have a Technical 188: Mayo Dip (Vegan)
December 28, 2017 10:00 - 1 hour - 55.7 MBOur annual off-topic podcast lands with a resounding thud, as the Senior Staff chatter endlessly about working at bars, Rupaul's Drag Race, pro-wrestling and more! Yes, you'll thrill to lengthy anecdotes that go nowhere and hideously uncomfortable recollections of Dean Koontz novels as Bruce and Alex finish their year in a haze of nonsense with none of the incisive commentary or trenchant insight you've come to expect. Face it tigers, you just hit the jackpot!
We Have a Commentary: V/A: Random, A Tribute to Gary Numan
December 21, 2017 10:00 - 2 hours - 96.6 MBOn this very special (?!) double length We Have a Commentary Bruce and Alex tackle "Random", 1997's hit and miss tribute to Gary Numan. You ever wonder what our thoughts are on bands as diverse as The Rentals, EMF, Jesus Jones and The Orb are? Find out as we struggle for two hours to make sense of electronica, the British music press and the enduring influence of Uncle Gary.
We Have a Technical 187: Mention Deleuze
December 15, 2017 10:00 - 57 minutes - 46.3 MBThe capper on our year end coverage is here, as our two tired hosts give a few final thoughts on our favourite albums of 2017, talk some honourable mentions and also discuss recent nonsense with Patreon. Do you like episodes heavily edited because we made a lot of mistakes because we were tired and drunk? Then this is the episode of We Have a Technical, the idieyoudie.com podcast for you! Giddy up!
We Have a Technical 186: Slightly Less Dumb
December 07, 2017 10:00 - 1 hour - 51.9 MBThe Senior Staff sit down with Danish-Canadian synth artist Sally Dige to talk about life in Berlin and the astonishingly dense compositional process underlying her excellent new record "Holding On". There's some consideration of the function and execution of writing about records to boot as we head towards our Year End coverage at I Die: You Die.
We Have a Technical 185: The Little Shorts
November 30, 2017 10:00 - 1 hour - 55.9 MBA philosophically ambitious record from Laibach and a record from Odonis Odonis which reinterprets the legacy of industrial rock make up the bulk of this week's episode of We Have A Technical. How does the NSK take up the theme of the Ubermensch? Have Odonis Odonis been researching jungle? Find out all of that, plus the scoop on the current Gary Numan tour on the latest episode of We Have A Technical!
We Have a Technical 184: White Castle of Fear
November 23, 2017 10:00 - 1 hour - 51.7 MBThe Senior Staff are playing pre-emptove year's end catch up by discussing recent records by Godflesh and Lionhearts. From grinding industrial metal threshers to the elegantly tasteful vocal stylings of Frank Spinath, it's a gamut-running episode of We Have A Technical, with some anticipatory discussion of the Vancouver appearance of the site's namesake, Mr. Gary Numan, to boot.
We Have a Technical 183: Ghrossts
November 16, 2017 10:00 - 1 hour - 54.4 MBIn this week's episode of the podcast, the Senior Staff are investigating the breadth and resonance of instrumental music in the broader post-industrial milieu. Whether it's noise which rejects any semblance of legibility, the specific genres which have developed to conjure moods without words, or bands having dalliances with instrumentals, it's all being talked about in this chin-stroking episode of We Have A Technical.
We Have a Commentary: Collide, "Chasing the Ghost"
November 12, 2017 00:06 - 49 minutes - 39.8 MBOn this supporter-selected commentary podcast, Bruce and Alex are discussing the enduring appeals of Collide's sophomore record, "Chasing The Ghost". The nexus of goth and industrial, the import of Statick's engineering chops, and the elegance of kaRin's vocal restraint are just some of the topics covered. It's time to get down to one of the grooviest darkwave records of all time on this month's We Have A Commentary!
We Have a Technical 182:IDYDRPDRP
November 09, 2017 10:00 - 1 hour - 58.1 MBIn this week's podcast, we're speaking with Lynette Cerezo, the creative force behind the cacophonic maelstrom that is Bestial Mouths! Lynette had plenty to say about her vision for the project through all of its permutations, the contrasts in new dark music in North America and Europe, and the personal roots of the macabre themes explored in Bestial Mouths' work. We're also chatting about the glut of new records rushing in during 2017's last quarter, Blanck Mass, and the sticky issue of eth...
We Have a Technical 181: Detourrito
November 02, 2017 09:00 - 1 hour - 50.1 MBOn this episode of We Have a Technical, Bruce and Alex do a Pick Five topic segment selected by the winner of our Pick Five contest! The Senior Staff select non-English tunes we enjoy, with lots of the terrible pronunciation you've come to expect from the internet's foremost industrial, goth and related musics podcast. We also talk about recent shows by Depeche Mode, Youth Code and Chelsea Wolfe! Come in and soothe that Halloween hangover!
We Have a Technical 180: Cemetery Confections
October 26, 2017 09:00 - 1 hour - 57.9 MBJoin Alex and Bruce for a full-time Monster Mash of an episode of We Have A Technical! The Count from The Belfry Network and Cemetery Confessions drops by to talk about the ins and outs of running an in-depth podcast dedicated to examining all angles of gothdom, from the personal to the academic. Recent live show talk and a very special guest MC round out the dootiest, most spoopiest Halloween episode of the I Die: You Die podcast ever!
We Have a Commentary: ∆AIMON, "Flatliner"
October 21, 2017 23:25 - 32 minutes - 25.8 MBEvery month we do a special Patreon supported bonus album commentary podcast, and for October we decided to talk about a record that is very important to the history of I Die: You Die, ∆AIMON's "Flatliner"! Not only does the Senior Staff dig into our long term thoughts and feelings on this classic dare-we-call-it witchhouse release, but we also go deep on what it means to us now that we know a little bit more about the still-mysterious duo. All brought to you with the kind assistance of our ...
We Have a Technical 179: Bort
October 19, 2017 09:00 - 1 hour - 53.3 MBThis week on the idieyoudie.com podcast, Alex and Bruce are sitting down with Statiqbloom as their tour with Skeleton Hands and Crimes AM comes through Vancouver. Fade and Denman talk about bringing the fury and anger of Statiqbloom's atmospheric electro-industrial to the stage and plenty more!
We Have a Technical 178: Dashiki
October 12, 2017 09:00 - 1 hour - 65.5 MBAlex talks about the fun he had in Los Angeles at Das Bunker 21, and Bruce gets real worked up about Blade Runner on this week's episode of We Have a Technical. Yes, the senior staff have plenty to say about recent happenings and releases, and as luck would have it, they have a venue to hold forth on them. So pull up a chair, crack a beverage of some description and get ready for a particularly long edition of the official I Die: You Die podcast, straight from our gaping maws to your ears.
We Have a Technical 177: 3 Books 7 Swords
October 05, 2017 09:00 - 1 hour - 48.9 MBAlex and Bruce tackle classic early albums from now-veteran acts who have new work on the docket in this week's episode of WHaT! Mentallo & The Fixer and mind.in.a.box's legacies stretching all the way back to "Revelations 23" and "Lost Alone" are considered as those two records are analyzed in their own timeframe and in the cold light of history. All that, the expected festival updates and the even more expected horsing around about sub-par fantasy novels await you, the listener, on the new...
We Have a Technical 176: Motherfather
September 28, 2017 09:00 - 1 hour - 61.7 MBBruce and Alex are joined by friend of I Die: You Die Réal Cardinal of Comaduster to discuss his incredible recent album "Solace". The ins and outs of his creative process, the expansive universe in which the album takes place and the live translation all get chewed thoroughly over! Additionally we chat :Wumpscut:, some upcoming festivals and more on this week's episode of the www.idieyoudie.com podcast!
We Have a Commentary: Kirlian Camera, "Still Air"
September 23, 2017 20:15 - 59 minutes - 47.3 MBOn this special Patreon supported bonus podcast Bruce and Alex discuss Kirlian Camera mid-career highlight "Still Air (Aria Immobile)". We discuss the lyrical themes, the ongoing evolution of the band and how this particular record occupies a specific place in the long-running darkwave act's catalogue.
We Have a Technical 175: Some Kinda Lodge
September 21, 2017 09:00 - 1 hour - 57.2 MBIt's the 175th episode of We Have A Technical, and to mark this somewhat (but not really) auspicious milestone, Alex and Bruce are discussing the pros and cons of "Savage", the new record by the namesake of the website and podcast, Gary Numan! How does this latest chapter in Numan's industrial-cum-synth rock renaissance compare with its predecessors? Find out on this, the latest episode of the I Die: You Die podcast.
We Have a Technical 174: Don't Pivot
September 14, 2017 09:00 - 1 hour - 56.9 MBWe got takes on albums by Zentriert Ins Antlitz and Imperative Reaction on this week's episode, along with some discussion of the 3 Teeth 9/11 controversy and a couple more upcoming albums for the last third of 2017. Thrill to the discussion, chill to the pointed commentary and kill some time with Alex and Bruce on the official I Die: You Die podcast.
We Have a Technical 173: Trapped in a Sad Head
September 07, 2017 09:00 - 1 hour - 49 MBIn this week's episode of the podcast, Alex and Bruce are picking and discussing songs with befuddling and baffling lyrics. Mixed metaphors? Vague wording? Density on their part? All possibilities are considered in the latest episode of We Have A Technical, the I Die: You Die podcast.
We Have a Technical 172: FMK? ECW!
August 31, 2017 09:00 - 1 hour - 67.8 MBIt's a special Patreon-backer episode of We Have A Technical! Listeners of the podcast are joining us to talk about records by [peak], Laibach, Imminent Starvation, and Faith & The Muse! We're also chatting about a recently unearthed chapter in Vancouver industrial history on the Internet's blankiest industrial podcast.
We Have a Technical 171: Bonitis
August 24, 2017 09:00 - 1 hour - 49.4 MBRecords by Access To Arasaka and I, Parasite are on the docket for a soy steak n potatoes episode of We Have A Techincal. Join Alex and Bruce as they consider the glitchier side of technoid and the notion of "singer-songwriter" industrial, plus the wacky crossover between EBM and vintage new wave which is apparently a bankable demographic in Belgium. Join us, won't you?
We Have a Technical 170: Hornby Street
August 17, 2017 09:00 - 1 hour - 62.4 MBAn interview with the newly reunited and still wholly fierce Cubanate is the main feature of this week's episode of We Have A Technical! Phil and Marc talk about the layoff from the legendary project and how its renewal has gone thus far. Recent live sets from iVardensphere, VNV Nation, and Gost are also on the docket.
We Have a Commentary: Necro Facility, "Wintermute"
August 12, 2017 23:03 - 42 minutes - 34.2 MBThis month's Patreon-supported commentary podcast takes up an exquisitely crafted piece of industrial-pop fusion, Necro Facility's 2011 LP "Wintermute". Alex and Bruce try to identity the secret sauce the duo added to their electro-industrial recipe to develop such an immediate and engaging entree, and end up making some rather unexpected comparisons in the process.
We Have a Technical 169: I Don't Care
August 10, 2017 09:00 - 1 hour - 78.6 MBIt's part 1 of a special two part podcast we recorded with Talking to Ghosts during Terminus Festival! We sit down with Michael, Wes and various guests including Brian from The Gothsicles, Jessi from Wire Spine and industrial drummer extraordinaire Galen Waling to talk about a vast variety of topics! We also have some chat about the upcoming Das Bunker 21 and Cloak and Dagger fests in Los Angeles and an unexpected double A side single that may leave you scratching your head. All this week on...
We Have a Technical 168: Tell Yuri We Sent Ya
August 03, 2017 09:00 - 1 hour - 65.9 MBBack from Calgary fully sated and scratchy voiced, Alex and Bruce are giving a blow by blow account of all the happening at this year's installment of Terminus Festival. Plus, an interview with Tom Shear of Assemblage 23 about the band's long-earned legacy, songwriting, and his relationship with his fans. Fix yourself a snack and a drink: it's a bonus-sized edition of We Have A Technical this week!
We Have a Technical 167: SPITESBITESPITES
July 27, 2017 09:00 - 1 hour - 49.9 MBA year of exciting new releases from artists who've made some of our favourite music of the past few years continues! The sophomore LP from Seeming is just around the corner, so we got on the horn with Alex Reed (and some ghosts who may have stowed away on Skype) to talk about "SOL: A Self-Banishment Ritual". What lies beyond an ending? Is there a continuum between jazz and noise? Is listening to too much EBM causing a crick in your back? The ever-eloquent Dr. Reed holds forth on these topic...
We Have a Technical 166: The Blue Pages
July 20, 2017 09:00 - 1 hour - 54.3 MBCheap Thrills are the subject du jour on this week's Pick Five style episode of We Have A Technical. What tracks, bands, and trends do Bruce and Alex find themselves repeatedly drawn to despite their "better" critical judgement? It's an expedition into some of the cheesier realms of Our Thing. That plus what's happening with new material from Nine Inch Nails, Gary Numan, and The Klinik on this week's episode of We Have A Technical, the I Die: You Die podcast.
We Have a Commentary: Pretentious, Moi? self-titled
July 15, 2017 19:00 - 1 hour - 52.3 MBOn this month's Patreon-supported and selected bonus commentary podcast we're running through the paces on their favourite pure goth rock record of the new millennium; the long-gestating debut of London's Pretentious, Moi? Contradictions abound in the band and in the record: it's a solo project but also a supergroup, the record's a classic return to the second wave of goth rock but also the debut record from a band formed during the second wave, it's as pure as goth rock can get but consiste...
We Have a Technical 165: Kalan We Are Not
July 13, 2017 09:00 - 1 hour - 51.9 MBHey listener! Are you excited to listen to two guys who where almost exclusively band t-shirt and jeans talk about the fashion of Our Thing? Well boy howdy, have we got a podcast for you: this one! Of course we will end up discussing some other stuff, namely the news that our beloved Encephalon have a new album completed! Golly, what a great week to check out We Have a Technical, the official I Die: You Die podcast!
We Have a Technical 164: Gosh Darn Pizza
July 06, 2017 09:00 - 1 hour - 51.4 MBOn this episode of the podcast, Alex and Bruce take up records by By Any Means Necessary and Evils Toy. Plus, a response to an article doing the rounds about the demographic shifts happening in darker subcultures. Get out of the sun and into the shade of some darker alternatives with the latest episode of We Have A Technical!
We Have a Technical 163: The Sixtennial
June 29, 2017 09:00 - 1 hour - 58.3 MBThe six year anniversary of I Die: You Die is being celebrated on this episode of We Have A Technical! Bruce and Alex are discussing each of the site's six favourite records of the year from a retrospective perspective.
We Have a Technical 162: Progressive Skiffle
June 22, 2017 09:00 - 1 hour - 54.2 MBRecords by Grendel and The Hope Blister are on the docket in this week's episode of the podcast. How does "Timewave Zero" rework aggrotech sounds for a brighter future? Does "...Smile's Okay" merit a break from the legacy of This Mortal Coil? All these questions plus some tour news on the latest installment of We Have A Technical!
We Have a Commentary: Ministry, "With Sympathy"
June 17, 2017 20:32 - 38 minutes - 31.9 MBOn this month's Patreon-supported and selected bonus commentary podcast Alex and Bruce talk Ministry's love-it-or-hate-it new wave debut "With Sympathy". This is definitely the record we like the least of any we've done a commentary for, but behind the cheese and the fake accents there's some pretty fascinating connections both to Al's later work and the origins of the project. What he say? Find out on We Have a Commentary!
We Have a Technical 161: Waxed Mustache
June 15, 2017 09:00 - 1 hour - 57.6 MBBruce and Alex jibber jabber about the role of sampled voices in industrial music. From staccato cut ups and obscure manipulations to easily recognizable movie samples from cinematic blockbusters, what role does the human voice play in a non singing capacity in Our Thing? We also chat about some upcoming tours and the great Severed Heads show we just saw, all this week on We Have a Technical.