For the last official I Die: You Die podcast of 2016, Bruce and Alex round out Year End coverage by discussing the making of their Top 25 albums of 2016 list, do some honourable mentions and complain about phony promo e-mails! Also some chat about broad musical trends in Our Thing! All this week on We Have a Technical! 

On the heels of their Forma Tadre commentary, Alex and Bruce take another trip back to 1996 to each Pick Five records from that illustrious year. They also comment on the recent news coming out of San Francisco's DNA Lounge. All this week on the official I Die: You Die podcast! 

This week on the official I Die: You Die podcast we chat with Daniel Graves of Aesthetic Perfection! Topics include interacting with people online, his recent move towards releasing individual singles and what motivates him as a performer and artist! A very fun conversation that Alex and Bruce have wanted to have for a long time, all this week on We Have a Technical! 

This month's Patreon-supported bonus commentary podcast takes a trip to the frontier of 1996! Forma Tadre's debut, "Navigator", has remained a touchstone for the Senior Staff in terms of sound design, theme, and so much more. Bruce and Alex have loads to say about Lovecraft, Tangerine Dream, and Blade Runner samples, so join them on a journey through sea and space.

In the wake of the Oakland tragedy, we wanted to pay our respects on this episode of the podcast to the life and work of Cash Askew of Them Are Us Too.

Trying to keep up with the deluge of releases 2016 has brought, Bruce and Alex discuss new records by In Strict Confidence and Black Tape For A Blue Girl, introduce a CD giveaway, and field some questions from listeners. It's a jam-packed episode of We Have A Technical as we start bearing down on the end of the year from hell.

It's a pillar to post interview on the podcast this week, as we talk with Rexx Arkana (Bruderschaft, FGFC820, Coldkill) about his lengthy history with synthpop, industrial, and all points in between as a fan, a DJ, and as an artist. It's a barnburner of a conversation this week on We Have a Technical, the official I Die: You Die podcast! 

The enduring relevance of compilations to dark music is taken up in this week's episode of We Have A Technical, be they archival, thematic, or charity comps. Also: new microphones! The dunces behind the I Die: You Die podcast have never sounded so clear!

On this Patreon supported podcast we do a commentary on Switchblade Symphony's goth/darkwave classic "Serpentine Gallery". From end to end, Bruce and Alex discuss the record's unique place in the history of Our Thing, and exactly what makes it specifically resonate with them some 21 years after its release. 

In the wake of this week's events, we talk a little about a lot of things. This is a pretty freeform episode of We Have a Technical, the official I Die: You Die podcast. 

In this episode of the official I Die: You Die podcast Bruce and Alex discuss albums by Statiqbloom and Jager 90. Thrill to discussions of electro-industrial and anhalt EBM, and cringe at how two people could possibly be this bad at pronouncing words in German! Also, some questions from the Slack, news from our Patreon and much more, all this week on We Have a Technical! 

t's a grimly fiendish episode of We Have A Technical this week as Alex and Bruce each pick five "nightmarish" records to discuss. Don't worry, there's also some Pet Shop Boys to lighten the mood. Happy Halloween from I Die: You Die, kiddies

We're doing a (lengthy) run-down of all the goings-on at Das Bunker's DB20 party this past weekend on this week's episode of the podcast. From the noise room to the main stage, from headliners to newcomers, it was a hell of a celebration, and we've got the full breakdown.

BRUCE AND ALEX GO TO WAR IN... THE GREAT DEBATE II! No longer content to argue about the merits of Blutengel, the Senior Staff do battle over the relative strengths of the early Depeche Mode catalogue in a conflict that will rock I Die: You Die to its very foundations! Feelings are hurt! Accusations are levied! And things will never be the same, here on We Have a Technical! 

It's the first Patreon supported commentary podcast, as voted on by our patrons! Alex and Bruce talk over Front 242's "Tyranny For You", discussing thematics, sounds and where the record sits in the legendary Belgian project's discography! www.idieyoudie.com  www.patreon.com/idieyoudie www.facebook.com/idieudie www.twitter.com/idie_youdie

On this episode, Bruce and Alex discuss albumcraft. Yes, it's another long rambling conversation about stuff like track sequencing, cohesion and the other semi-intangibles that effect the listening experience. Plus some random chatter about shows both recent and upcoming and more, on the official I Die: You Die podcast! 

Alex is back home from Chicago and has a blow by blow account of all the Cold Waves action. Also, we're talking about crossover bands: those who've wandered into our thing from other climes and those who've gone on to different pastures. All this and more on this week's episode of We Have A Technical!

On this episode of We Have A Technical Bruce and Alex take up two albums which, arguably, couldn't be further apart: Haujobb's minimalist masterpiece "ninetynine", and Diamanda Galas' harrowing "The Divine Punishment".

We're dishing a bit of dirt on this week's episode of the podcast...but in the most pleasant and Canadian way possible. We're picking songs we like by bands we don't. All that and much much more on this week's episode of We Have a Technical, the official idieyoudie.com podcast! 

On this episode of the official I Die: You Die podcast we discuss Type O Negative.  No seriously, we spend the whole episode talking about their value as a gateway band, and how their aesthetics intersect with Our Thing in interesting ways. Also some chat about VNV Nation, and our ongoing experiments with Patreon and Slack, all this week on We Have a Technical! 

We've got deep industrial historian and writer (and ID:UD contributor) Sharon Kyronfive on this week's podcast to discuss the recently reissued Remix Wars series, and the larger histories of all of the bands involved in those campaigns. Also: the Slack is popping, the Patreon's rolling, and we're looking to the edge of the year with a batch of records still yet to be released in 2016!        

Albums from Psychic TV and Siouxsie & The Banshees are discussed on this week's episode of the I Die: You Die podcast, plus a whole mess of website biz: books! Slack! Paying the bills! And what sort of tunes -would- Scrooge McDuck be bumping in Launchpad's helicopter? All this and more on We Have A Technical.

On this episode of We Have a Technical we have special guest Sam Rosenthal of Black Tape For a Blue Girl and Projekt Records! Bruce and Alex get to chat with the American darkwave and ethereal music stalwart about revisiting the past on his band's new album, running a label in 2016 and the nature of fan artist relationships! All this week on the official www.idieyoudie.com podcast! 

On this episode of the official I Die: You Die podcast, Bruce and Alex reunite after some weeks in the wilder and woolier reaches of Canada! There's a rundown of what Alex missed at Terminus, and a Pick 5 of records we like to listen to at bedtime! All this and more of the same nonsense we've been doing for the previous 115 episodes of We Have a Technical! 

New records by Dom Fernow and Justin Broadrick are the topics du jour on this episode of the official I Die: You Die podcast! We're talking about the specific sounds and moods carved out by Vatican Shadow and JK Flesh, along with all manner of detours into metaphysical matters (and Bruce's apparent hatred for TV pitchmen).

This week we are joined by Fredrik Djurfeldt of Severe Illusion and Analfabetism to discuss his various projects, North American vs European perspectives on Our Thing and host of other topics. Also Alex gets way too drunk and says some inadvisable things re: S U R V I V E. All this and more on We Have a Technical, the official I Die: You Die podcast. 

Okay so you know how everyone in North American industrial lost their minds over the Das Bunker 20th Anniversary announcement? Well we got Rev John of DB on the horn to talk about putting the fest together, how the line-up reflects the history of the club and the broader scope of the Los Angeles electronic music scene. Plus Alex and Bruce get a little tipsy, all this week on the official I Die: You Die podcast! 

Bruce and Alex are taking a look at futurespast on the latest episode of We Have a Technical. Yes, futurepop, that millennial sensation, is the subject. It's highlights, lowlights, and enduring legacies, are all discussed on the most Metallica-heavy episode (no, really!) of We Have a Technical to date. 

Has it really been fifteen years since ohGr's "Welt" was released? It has! And we're doing an album commentary podcast in its honour. The record's odd mix of pop and industrial, its forecasting of post-reunion S'Puppy, and so much more are taken up on this week's episode of We Have A Technical, the official idieyoudie.com podcast.

It's our birthday! Well, the website's at least. We're spending this week's episode reflecting on five years of idieyoudie.com: how has post-industrial music changed in that time? How have our attitudes towards writing about it evolved? What bands and labels are inseparable from our experiences with the site? All this and so much more indulgent reverie on this week's episode of We Have A Technical.

Alex and Bruce through a few of their fav-o-rite things about the legendary Legendary Pink Dots on this week's episode of the official I Die: You Die podcast! We're also offering updates, and the new gameshow that's sweeping the nation, "Baseball Term or Futurepop Song?"

Join Alex and Bruce for a classic format episode of the official I Die: You Die podcast, as they discuss albums by Bel Canto and The Revolting Cocks. Also we kick off the voting for Daniel Myer's setlist at Terminus festival, spend some time discussing a recent show and generally doing what we do here on We Have a Technical! Rate and subscribe, fool! 

Scott Fox of iVardensphere joins Bruce and Alex to talk about breaking his sound down and reconstructing it on the fly for his improvisational Singularity sets. The full skinny on Vancouver's recent Cure show and some exciting news for Daniel Myer fans are also on this week's episode of the podcast.

The broader state of dark music is being discussed on this week's episode of We Have a Technical, with questions concerning the rise of darker music outside of the boundaries of goth and industrial being kicked about. Alex and Bruce debate whether or not a new dark age is moving beyond the ken of Our Thing, and try to keep baseball and wrestling chatter to a minimum.

On this week's episode of We Have A Technical, Greh Holger of Hive Mind, Pure Ground, and Chondritic Sound stops by on the latest episode to talk noise, LA, and the aesthetic philosophies which underlie curating one's own label. Apologies in advance for the sound problems; for once the name of the podcast is particularly accurate.

On this episode, Bruce and Alex are tackling an album by Dead Voices On Air -and- the very thorny issue of capitalism and its intersection with Our Thing. Don't worry, there are probably at least a couple of fart jokes in there too.

Lyrics are the topic du jour on this episode of the podcast, with Bruce and Alex each picking five songs whose lyrics have personally resonated with them.

On this episode of the podcast, Bruce and Alex sit down with Greg and Susan of High-Functioning Flesh, a chat we recorded when they came through Vancouver on tour with Body Of Light. We're also talking Haujobb, Babyland, and the mysterious Das Bunker anniversary festival!

Encephalon's debut record gets the full commentary treatment on this week's episode of the official I Die: You Die podcast! 2011's "The Transhuman Condition" was the staff's favourite record of ID:UD's inaugural year, and they've got plenty to say about the Ottawa trio's head-trip of an electro-industrial tour de force.

Bruce and Alex keep it hundred on this very special episode of We Have A Technical with an interview with none other than Jerome Reuter of Rome. War, Jacques Brel, and sousaphone: no topic is off the table as WHaT crosses the century mark.

A thoughtful and considered interview with Brant Showers of DAIMON and SOLVE is featured on this week's episode of the podcast. We've also got a recap of the recent Verboden festival and the scoop on Daniel Myer's by-request set at Terminus which we're going to help -you- curate! All this wee on the official I Die: You Die podcast! 

Still recovering from an all-night Leaether Strip trip, Alex and Bruce consider the art of the live set list on the podcast. How long? Which hits? How much new stuff? Is the whole "playing a classic album in its entirety" thing played out? All this and plenty more on the latest episode of We Have A Technical.

On this episode of the official I Die: You Die podcast we talk about two very different albums joined by a simple idea: they represent artists stepping out of their most obvious influences into a wider world of musical ideas. Along with that talk about Rosetta Stone and Necro Facility, we also discuss festival line-up news, the Depeche Mode march madness brackets and plenty more nonsense and hullabaloo! Only on We Have a Technical! 

We're catching up with Youth Code on this week's episode of We Have a Technical! On the eve of the release of their second LP, Sara and Ryan chatted with us about the strife which drove and influenced the creation of "Commitment To Complications", working with Rhys Fulber, and the ethics of adding maple syrup to your coffee. We're also talking about Terminus' first band announcements, and the legacy of Tympanik Audio.

On the occasion of his in-progress North American tour and out of our appreciation for his body of work, we're spending this episode of the podcast talking about Claus Larsen's hugely influential work as Leæther Strip. We talk about his influences, his role in shaping goth/industrial culture in the 90s, and how he's been recently navigating the unruly waters of self-released music. All this and more on this episode of We Have a Technical!

We're back to our not-quite live broadcast after a couple weeks of canned episodes! Alex is back from Italy and we're hitting the ground running with a conversation with legendary designer Steven R. Gilmore! The man behind countless Nettwerk sleeves for Skinny Puppy, The Tear Garden, Images In Vogue and plenty of others is here to give us the stories and method behind many of your favourite record designs.

On yet another slightly shorter episode (only slightly though!) Alex and Bruce take a suggestion from the Mailbag and do a Pick 5 feature on their favourite packaging. What labels get the most love for their fancy format and cool design? You'll have to listen to these two guys yammer on at length to find out! All this week on We Have a Technical, the I Die: You Die podcast. 

In this pre-recorded and slightly appended episode of the podcast, the I Die: You Die Senior Staff spin off from last week's episode about neo-oldschool EBM with some talk about Nexus Kenosis and The Pain Machinery. That and actually only a tiny bit more, this week on We Have a Technical!