Over the last decade they’ve produced eleven solid albums plus several remix albums veering from stereoscopic EBM to spiky aggrotech. On September 28th last year Funker Vogt released their latest album, entitled ”Wastelands”, marking over two decades of their existence whilst cementing their new, and at the same time old, home at RepoRecords. “Wastelands” sees the German trio scaling new creative …
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Video interview: pronoun on her Great British Bake Off obsession and the upcoming debut album
To say that I’m psyched I’ve discovered pronoun would still be a massive understatement. Her music is a breath of fresh air that makes you feel things. The minimalistic production elements of songs like til your legs give up or a million other things are hyper-effective in giving you that feeling that anything is possible and at the same time that life is a mystery. I absolutely can’t wait …
Read More »Vanguard export Swedish electronic pop to Germany: Interview
The Hybridize Festival embarked on its four-date long tour across Germany at the end of February and made stopovers in Hamburg, Leipzig, Oberhausen and München. Four dates of harsh electronic music with classic EBM bands as Funker Vogt and Agonoize, and Swedish electropoppy act Vanguard used as live bait to haul in people to the festival. Patrik Hansson and Jonas …
Read More »Redefining rock music with Blood Red Shoes V.2.0: Interview with Steven Ansell
Blood Red Shoes released their fifth album “Get Tragic” at the end of January, embarked on a short European promotion tour and made a stopover at a jam-packed Molotow in Hamburg. As a consolation to all those fans that didn’t get in, there’s a new opportunity when they return to Hamburg in beginning of November to play Uebel & Gefährlich. …
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Ronan Harris is on the crest of the electronic music wave with his tenth VNV Nation studio album “Noire”, released in October last year on his own label Anachron Sounds, and continues to earn international success with his critically acclaimed performances. The combination of danceable beats, synthpop, EBM and atmospheric pieces of classical music telling stories of grandeur have contributed …
Read More »Totally Messed!Up: One year of Messed!Up shenanigans
And the day finally arrived! At this day a year ago Messed!Up Magazine went online after months of talking about it and a few more weeks planning for it to happen. The editor and Ms. Sis had talked about it, Ms Anonymous pushed the editor in the right direction and then it just happened out of frustration of not being …
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