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We Have a Technical
We 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.
Episodes
- We Have a Technical
We Have A Technical 633: One More Note
Classic two albums formatted episode coming at you folks in the wake of Halloween and the seasonally appropriate bloodbath south of the border. The aggro and…
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We Have A Commentary: Tones On Tail, "Pop"
Are Bauhaus side projects Halloween fare? Who's to say, but Pop, the one LP from the brief but memorable Tones On Tail is the subject of this month's…
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We Have A Technical 632: Have We Used Party Dude?
As we get set for Halloween we're digging into the loosely defined but distinct "mutant" EBM sound or substyle. It's a term we've found useful in describing a…
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We Have A Technical 631: New Jack Swing
This week we're joined by a trio of Patreon backers to chat with them about albums of significance to them. We're discussing the soupy industrial rock of…
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We Have A Technical 630: The Beep Beep Boops
On this week's episode we're joined by all four members of Vancouver's Actors, who talk with us about new LP Our Love Will Live Forever as the culmination of…
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We Have A Technical 629: Vegan Ghost Kitchen
This episode's Pick Five theme is a bit tricky to define - we're talking about band's we often splash out for. Now, that could just be a simple expenditure of…
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We Have A Technical 628: Bruno
On this episode we're discussing the life and legacy of Das Ich's Bruno Kramm in the wake of his tragic passing as well as the one LP released under his solo…
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We Have A Commentary: Claire Voyant, "Time And The Maiden"
Our monthly commentary podcast takes a slightly autumnal turn with the ethereal wave mastery of California's Claire Voyant. Their sophomore LP Time And The…
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We Have A Technical 627: Unaliving Joke
Get Mean, the new LP by Boy Harsher, is up for discussion on this week's episode. We're talking about the record's shift away from the oft-imitated sound…
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We Have A Technical 626: It Can Be Two Things
We're dancing with the ones that brought us to the podcasting hoedown on this episode, as we discuss a pair of industrial records from the might aughts…
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We Have A Technical 625: Poor Al
It's Pick Five time, folks, and dare we say this one turned out pretty well. The "one hit wonder" moniker can be something of a vague appellation when it comes…
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We Have A Technical 624: Put A Dime In You
Alex is back and recharged after his trip to the UK and is recapping all the acts from this year's Infest in Manchester. He's talking festival highlights as…
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We Have A Commentary: "EBM Club Classics (Disc 2)"
The second half of our commentary on Synthetic Symphony's "EBM Club Classics" picks up immediately where Thursday's look at the first disc left off. We're…
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We Have A Commentary: "EBM Club Classics (Disc 1)"
Our monthly We Have A Commentary bonus podcast works a bit differently this month; with Alex being off in the UK we've prerecorded a double dose of discussion…
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We Have a Technical 623: Airport Arrival Time
As we've been telling anyone who'll listen, seeing EBM legends Portion Control attack the Terminus stage with unaging menace and aggression was one of the main…
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We Have A Technical 622: Here We Are
It's a pretty laid back and free form episode of the podcast this week, with each of us tossing a handful of questions or propositions to the other in order to…
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We Have A Technical 621: Go West Young Van
We're happy to present two interviews conducted during Terminus Festival on the podcast this week. We sat down with Justin Chamberlain of Soft Vein to discuss…
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We Have A Technical 620: Terminus 2026 Wrap-Up
We're back home and semi-rested after one of if not the best Terminus Festivals yet. Four days of legendary acts delivering, bands just entering their heyday…
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We Have A Commentary: Project Pitchfork, "¡Chakra : Red!"
We turned the selection of this month's commentary podcast over to our Patreon backers and by a strong margin they opted for ¡Chakra : Red!, the 1997 LP by…
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We Have A Technical 619: Booyaka Booyaka
With one foot out the door for Calgary and Terminus Festival, we're offering up a fairly light and breezy Pick Five episode focusing on sentimental songs. What…
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We Have A Technical 618: Vodka Colonic?
Our pair of records on the podcast this week tilts towards the Germanic, with Die Krupps' 2013 release The Machinists Of Joy holding up as one of the veterans'…
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We Have A Technical 617: Encyclopedia Maiden
This week we're discussing a pair of darkwave records which both show off the range of the genre and also sit quite far away from especially trendy versions of…
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We Have A Technical 616: The Obscuratins
The very website you're reading this on right now turned fifteen years old on Tuesday, and so we're using this week's episode as an opportunity to look back…
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We Have A Commentary: Ladytron, "Witching Hour"
We're flashing back to 2005 for a discussion of Ladytron's Witching Hour, the record that saw the British quartet fully break out of the electro-pop terrain…
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We Have a Technical 615: Mom's Raid
A classic two album format episode of the podcast has us revisiting a couple of eras in which "darkwave" meant something profoundly different from what it does…
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We Have A Technical 614: Dig Deeper
We're each picking five needledrops on this week's episode of We Have A Technical. A little bit different from discussion of soundtrack originals, we're…
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We Have A Technical 613: Ad Hoc Stir Fry
Two bands each linked closely to their own time and place are the subject of this week's podcast, but that's where the similarities between Fiendflug and…
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We Have A Technical 612: It's A Happening
The tenth instalment of Vancouver's own Verboden festival is in the books, and as we've done for years we're here to break the whole affair down and talk about…
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We Have A Commentary: Die Form, "Die Puppe"
This month's commentary podcast makes a detour into the cryptic world of minimal synth with the 1982 debut of Die Form. A far cry from the lush and dramatic…
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We Have A Technical 611: Surely
Scene producer extraordinaire and Inhalt mastermind Matia Simovich joins us for a lengthy discussion of the role of the producer, his philosophies of record…
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We Have A Technical 610: Hank Williams Jr. Predicted All of This
Inspired by this past weekend's site anniversary DJ set, we're delving into the somewhat arbitrary dichotomy between jams and vibes as it pertains to…
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We Have A Technical 609: No Apologies To Sudbury
It's a punk-flavoured side-project twofer on this week's episode of the podcast, as we discuss industrial-punk supergroup Lard's The Last Temptation Of Reid as…
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We Have A Technical 608: I Love You?
The latest album from Slovenian old gods Laibach is an abrupt shift from the sterner and harsher work they've been releasing for the past half decade or so…
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We Have A Commentary: Minuit Machine, "Violent Rains"
A week later than usual we're back with the latest iteration of our Patreon supported We Have A Commentary series, this time looking at Minuit Machine's second…
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We Have A Technical 607: Elite Level Trash
It's a hopefully affable and easy-listening Pick Five formatted episode we have for you this week folks, as we each choose some second LPs we enjoy. From…
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We Have A Technical 606: Get Some Sleep
The new collaborative record from Nine Inch Nails and Boys Noize is all anyone in the larger industrial ecosystem is talking about this week and so we're…
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We Have A Technical 605: What Were We Talking About?
The two records up for discussion in this week's podcast are both from 2006 and have at least some connection to broader post-industrial traditions, but those…
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We Have A Technical 604: Out of Breath Close to Death
HEALTH's star continues to rise both in North America and abroad, and as their weeb-friendly blend of thudding industrial rock and vulnerable fatalism came…
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We Have A Technical 603: Chester Cheevo
On this week's podcast we're firstly talking about the wide roaming genre mix up of Belgian legends The Neon Judgment's Mafu Cage, before taking a look at the…
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We Have a Commentary: The Cure, "Pornography"
Presented with their choice of the first four albums by The Cure, a sizable majority of our Patreon backers selected 1982's "Pornography" as the subject for…
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We Have A Technical 602: Auteur Fanfic
We're back to the beloved Pick Five format this week, folks! This time we're each picking notable guest appearances...or is it guest vocals? Or both? Listen to…
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We Have A Technical 601: Bran-O-Sphere
It's a two albums episode of the podcast, with records by A Projection and Rikk Agnew linked by the very thinnest of (post) punk threads, though the anthemic…
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We Have A Technical 600: Keep Industrial Queer
For our 600th episode we're happy to be joined by Raws of Plack Blague and DJ Starr Noir. Intersections between queer culture and industrial culture go back to…
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We Have A Technical 599: Chelsea Girls
We always like to allude to the "related genres" which abut the core four we work with on We Have A Technical and that's very much the case with the pair of…
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We Have A Technical 598: Monkey's Paw
On this week's podcast we're looking at a pair of records which blend a number of goth-related subgenres and styles. First up is Australian veterans Ikon, with…
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We Have a Technical 597: Awe, Shucks
The glue of any good DJ set, bridge or transition tracks, are our focus on this week's episode of the podcast. We're each picking five song we use to bridge…
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We Have A Technical 596: Dracula Phone
It's the classic two albums format on deck for the podcast this week, folks. First up, after the dissolution of the classic Klinik line-up, Marc Verhaeghen's…
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We Have a Technical 595: Michael Effin Douglas
It's time for one of our roving, topic-driven discussion podcasts, as we talk about what works and what doesn't in different genre hybridizations. From…
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We Have A Technical 594: You're The Expert
A two albums formatted episode of We Have A Technical ends up taking two very different detours into trance music, of all things. First, we're looking at the…
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We Have A Commentary: Absolute Body Control, "Wind[Re]Wind"
This month's commentary podcast has us looking at a retrospective rerecording of selections from the catalog of Absolute Body Control - the Belgian minimal…
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We Have A Technical 593: Hank Shock Me
It's a slightly bulging at the seams episode this week, folks, with the Pick Five format yielding lots of talk, some of it slightly contentious. The concept…
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We Have A Technical 592: Dez Carts
It's a classic two albums episode as we get back into the swing of the ID:UD sched here in 2026. First up, we're discussing the beginning of Die Sektor's…
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We Have A Technical 591: Per My Last E-mail, Squarehead
The last Foetus album in JG Thirlwell's uncompromising four-plus decade run under the fluid moniker has been released, and we're discussing Halt in detail on…
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We Have A Commentary: "Weird Al" Yankovic, "Dare To Be Stupid"
We wanted to continue the tradition of having our December instalment of We Have A Commentary deal with an album well outside of Our Thing, and loved the idea…
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We Have A Technical 590: Nothin Left
As a bit of a denouement to our Year End coverage, we're each picking five tracks we loved from the past year. There's maybe a bit of a club tilt to some (but…
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We Have A Technical 589: 2025 Year End Roundup
With our Top 25 records of the year up and discussed on the website, it's time for our annual year in review episode of We Have A Technical, where in addition…
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We Have A Technical 588: So Tired
As we careen towards Year End coverage we're using this week's podcast to get some formal comments down about new records by long-time deep scene acts in…
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We Have a Technical 587: General Electric Smith
An interview we've been meaning to put together for a long time finally came to fruition, with our friend Abelardo of The Invisible Orange joining us to…
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We Have a Commentary: Rotersand, "Truth is Fanatic"
This month's commentary podcast has us winding the clock back to the days when futurepop still ruled club floors and when German act Rotersand were just…