Rare live footage: Kraftwerk - Pocket Calculator 1981 live at Utrecht

The iconic stage presence of the forefathers of electronic music and the legendary machineries of Kling Klang Studios used to turn every live gig of Kraftwerk into a (retro?)futuristic theatrical play. In this rare footage Kraftwerk performs Pocket Calculator, from their 1981 album Computer World. Dive into the future as it used to be.

A emblemática presença de palco dos pioneiros da música eletrônica e o lendário maquinário do Kling Klang Studio sempre transformaram cada show do Kraftwerk em uma peça teatral (retro?)futurista. Nesta filmagem rara, o Kraftwerk executa a clássica Pocket Calculator, do álbum Computer World de 1981. Mergulhe no futuro, como ele costumava ser.

AESTHETISCHE - New project from former Aghast View members!

Red Alert! Our electronic warfare systems have spotted hostile emitions on the electromagnetic spectrum. 

Fabricio Viscardi and Guilherme Pires - former members of Brazilian industrial cult bands Aghast View and Biopsy - have teamed up on a new EBM project named Aesthetische. According to Viscardi their sound will resemble the EBM of Aghast View and they're finishing the first track. An album is expected to be released in 2012 both as a CD and digital release. A But a few tracks might emerge as a single or EP later this year. 

Stay tuned for more fresh news on Aesthetische and more Brazilian electro bands.

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Alerta vermelho! Nossos sistemas de guerra eletrônica detectaram emissões hostis no espetro eletromagnético.

Fabricio Viscardi e Guilherme Pires - ex-membros das cultuadas bandas industriais Aghast View eBiopsy - agruparam-se em um novo projeto de EBM chamado Aesthetische. De acordo com Viscardi o som lembrará a EBM do Aghast View e uma faixa já está sendo finalizada. Há previsão de um álbum até meados de 2012 em CD e em formatos digitais, mas alguma faixas podem emergir como um EP ou single até o final de 2011. 

Continue sintonizado para mais notícias sobre o Aestetische.

Hurra Torpedo - Poker face

Not sure if you should cook dinner, do your laudry or play a cover of Lady Gaga? Oslo based Hurra Torpedo has no doubts: take your laundry machine and your stove and play Poker Face! 

They have already performed Bonnie Tyler's Total Eclipse of the Heart, Britney Spears' Toxic and Tatu's All the Things She Said... and have outshined the originals in each and everyone. Now it's time to give a new life to the pop queen dancefloor hit. 

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Está em dúvida entre preparar o almoço, lavar roupa e tocar um cover de Lady Gaga? Os noruegueses do Hurra Torpedo não tem dúvidas: pegue seu fogão e sua máquina de lavar e capriche em Poker Face! 

Depois de versões de Total Eclipse of the Heart (Bonnie Tyler), Toxic (Britney Spears) and All the Things She Said (Tatu) - sempre superando as originais - é hora de reconstruir o sucesso da atual rainha pop. Confiram: Hurra Torpedo - Poker Face.

 

music for a small planet: Electrovot - Turning Point

Electrovot has built its reputation over live gigs and compilation appearances and kept faithful to it in their just released debut album Turning Point. The Tijuana (Mexico)/San Diego(US) based band delivers catchy melodies, throbbing basslines and dancefloor driven beats. The synth programming is impressive, but we couldn't expect less from an album produced by Krischan Wesenberg (ROTERSAND) and Tom Lesczenski ([:SiTD:]). The clean vocals of Roberto Sandoval and the exciting electronics in Turning Point will please the ears of those into the melodic EBM style of bands like Solitary Experiments, Rotersand and early Apoptygma Berzerk. It's more than futurepop. It's music for a small planet.

Electrovot construiu sua reputação com apresentações ao vivo e participações em coletâneas e manteve-se fiel a esta reputação em seu álbum de estréia Turning Point. A banda opera baseada em Tijuana (Mexico) e San Diego(US) de onde nos despacha melodias pegajosas, linhas de baixo pulsantes e batidas prontas para as pistas. A programação de sintetizadores chama atenção, mas não esperaríamos menos de um álbum com produção de Krischan Wesenberg (ROTERSAND) e Tom Lesczenski ([:SiTD:]). Os vocais limpos de Roberto Sandoval e os teclados em Turning Point são um prato cheio para os fãs de uma EBM mais melódica no estilo de bandas como Solitary Experiments, Rotersand e dos primeiros trabalhos do Apoptygma Berzerk. É mais do que futurepop. É música para um planeta pequeno.

Turning Point (Remote Music | 2011)
01. The One 
02. Fate 
03. Dagger Doll 
04. Control 
05. Wasted Life 
06. Turning Point 
07. Night Soldier 
08. Not Enough 
09. Faded Memory 
10. End Of The Line 
11. Winter Day (Red Flag Mix) 
12. The One (Acoustic Mix) 
13. Wasted Life (Lights Of Euphoria Mix)

People Are Still Having Sex.

There's a lot of buzz on the interwebz about today being Sex Day. I'm not sure this is a worldwide holiday, but it's still a good opportunity to recall a 20 year old club classic. Chigago based studio project La Tour advocates the most ancient human activity in this 1991 song.

Have a nice day. And Have a lot of sex.

La Tour - People Are Still Having Sex.

Watch and Learn (part 1): Haujobb - Dead Market.

It takes more than a bunch a software synths and fancy voice effects to make a true electro-industrial anthem.
But Daniel Myer and Dejan Samardzic seem to be quite aware of that for what we can hear in Hajobb's new EP Dead Market. While most of the releases out there sounds like redundant and disposable collections of distorted vocals, preset beats and factory default synth patches, Dead Market is a polished gem to our grinded years. Intricated and catchy melodies, hard dance beats and several layers of delicious synth goodness are there to make the title track a newborn industrial classic.

The EP is available as an 8 track digital album at bandcamp including the official video (Director: Boris May - Director of photography: Dominik Kuhn).

Watch and learn kids.

Years ahead of its time: Harry - Genebra (live @ Brazilian TV)

If there's something that can cost you really high is being far ahead of your time. Being a pioneering artist must be the hardest path to track, but it's hard to avoid it when real talent is involved. Brazilian industrial/synthpop/electro-rock band Harry is a canonical case of pioneering leading to oblivion. Their fusion of beats, experimentalism and guitars may sound common place to fans of nowadays hyped bands, but back in the '80s they were unique in the genre and despite becoming a cult among alternative listeners they never really succeeded in the mainstream. Sadly, they were too good for radio.

In this video , Harry announces their second full lenght release Vessel's Town (1990) and performs Genebra, from their 1988 album Fairy Tales at the tv show Boca Livre hosted by Kid Vinyl. Their full discography has been rereleased in a fancy luxurious box entitled Taxidermy by Fiber Records in 2005.

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Anos à frente de seu tempo: Harry - Genebra (ao vivo no programa Boca Livre)

Existe algo com um custo realmente alto na arte: estar à frente de seu tempo. O pioneirismo é um caminho duro e tortuoso, mas inevitável quando o talento o impele nessa direção. Um caso canônico de pioneirismo levando ao ostracismo é o da banda santista de industrial/synthpop/electro-rock Harry. Sua fusão de batidas, experimentalismo e eletrônica pode parecer lugar comum para os fãs de bandas sintonizadas com as tendências atuais, mas no fim dos anos 80 o Harry é praticamente único nesta vertente e embora tenha se tornado um cult entre fãs de música alternativa, nunca chegou a estourar comercialmente. Infelizmente eram bons demais para as rádios.

Neste vídeo o Harry anuncia seu segundo álbum - Vessel's Town (Stilleto, 1990) - e toca Genebra, do primeiro álbum - Fairy Tales (Wob Bop, 1988) - no programa Boca Livre, apresentado por Kid Vinyl. A discografia completa do Harry foi relançada no luxuoso box Taxidermy em 2005 pelo selo Fiber Records.

Happy Birthday Douglas McCarthy!

Douglas McCarthy, lead singer of Nitzer Ebb, has just turned 45 but his voice and stage performance are just as  powerful as in the early days of NE.

Along with Bon Harris in Nitzer Ebb, McCarthy recorded countless industrial anthemns which soon became club classics worldwide, sometimes crossing the boundaries of the underground and hitting the mainstream. McCarthy have also collaborated with Recoil's (former Depeche Mode member Alan Wider) and the German industrial masters Die Krupps.

During the 2000's McCarthy paired with the DJ Terence Fixmer in the succesful project Fixmer/McCarthy. Having split in 1995 after the release of the album Big Hit, Nitzer Ebb reunited in 2006 and have perfomed several concerts since then. In each of the live appearances, the audience witnesses all the wilderness and rage that have become the trademark of Nitzer Ebb's concerts since the early 80's.