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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 207: Catch the Taste
The I Die: You Die podcast takes a somewhat epistemological bent this week, with the issues of the archiving and collecting of dark music being taken up. Has…
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We Have a Technical 206; The Cassingle
The Senior Staff pick five first impressions on this week's episode. We don't always get a good sense of a band's ethos and sound at first blush, but what…
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We Have a Technical 205: As We Get Older
Settling into the new HQ, the Senior Staff are taking about last weekend's excellent Front 242 show in Seattle and, in keeping things on an Emerald City tip…
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We Have a Technical 204: Learn to Shut Up
The corrected version of Episode 204 is live. Here two tired idiots go on at length about the bands they saw at Vancouver's Verboden festival last weekend, now…
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We Have a Commentary: And One, "Anguish"
For this month's Patreon-supported bonus commentary podcast, Bruce and Alex chat about And One's 1991 LP Anguish! Speculation runs rampant as our two intrepid…
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We Have a Technical 203: Almost Dignified
Smack between the Boy Harsher/Soft Moon and this weekend's Verboden fest, the Senior Staff come together to discuss records by Modern English and Sturm…
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We Have a Technical 202: Purple is the Colour
On this week's episode, the Senior Staff caught up with JC Lobo of Ritualz at the tail end of a west coast jaunt. JC speaks about Mexico's DIY electronic…
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We Have a Technical 201: Secret Sass
With 200 episodes in the bag, Alex and Bruce are opting to offer a jumping-on point for first time or recent listeners of We Have A Technical. How has the…
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We Have a Technical 200: State of the Art (on 4 Discs)
It'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…
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We Have a Technical 199: The Mariner Moose
A 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…
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We Have a Commentary: High-Functioning Flesh, "A Unity of Miseries, a Misery of Unities"
On 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…
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We Have a Technical 198: Cheaper in Estonia
It'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…
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We Have a Technical 197: Beholder Metal
On 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…
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We Have a Technical 196: A Sandy Grave
It'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…
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We Have a Technical 195: Leather Sweater Weather
It'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…
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We Have a Commentary: The Tear Garden, "Tired Eyes Slowly Burning"
The 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…
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We Have a Technical 194: Between Alt Metal and a Hard Place
The 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…
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We Have a Technical 193: The Mania Within
The 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…
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We Have a Technical 192: Try Everything
The 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…
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We Have a Technical 191: Here Comes the Chairstepper
On 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…
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We Have a Commentary: The Klinik, "Sabotage"
On this month's Patreon-supported bonus podcast, we're discussing the first LP by legendary Belgian dark electro pioneers The Klinik. "Sabotage", the only…
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We Have a Technical 190: Burrito Math
We 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…
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We Have a Technical 189: Wonderscore
Back 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…
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We Have a Technical 188: Mayo Dip (Vegan)
Our 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…
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We Have a Commentary: V/A: Random, A Tribute to Gary Numan
On 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…
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We Have a Technical 187: Mention Deleuze
The 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…
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We Have a Technical 186: Slightly Less Dumb
The Senior Staff sit down with Danish-Canadian synth artist Sally Dige to talk about life in Berlin and the astonishingly dense compositional process…
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We Have a Technical 185: The Little Shorts
A philosophically ambitious record from Laibach and a record from Odonis Odonis which reinterprets the legacy of industrial rock make up the bulk of this…
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We Have a Technical 184: White Castle of Fear
The Senior Staff are playing pre-emptove year's end catch up by discussing recent records by Godflesh and Lionhearts. From grinding industrial metal threshers…
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We Have a Technical 183: Ghrossts
In this week's episode of the podcast, the Senior Staff are investigating the breadth and resonance of instrumental music in the broader post-industrial…
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We Have a Commentary: Collide, "Chasing the Ghost"
On this supporter-selected commentary podcast, Bruce and Alex are discussing the enduring appeals of Collide's sophomore record, "Chasing The Ghost". The nexus…
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We Have a Technical 182:IDYDRPDRP
In 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…
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We Have a Technical 181: Detourrito
On 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…
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We Have a Technical 180: Cemetery Confections
Join 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…
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We Have a Commentary: ∆AIMON, "Flatliner"
Every 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…
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We Have a Technical 179: Bort
This 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…
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We Have a Technical 178: Dashiki
Alex 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…
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We Have a Technical 177: 3 Books 7 Swords
Alex 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…
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We Have a Technical 176: Motherfather
Bruce 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…
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We Have a Commentary: Kirlian Camera, "Still Air"
On this special Patreon supported bonus podcast Bruce and Alex discuss Kirlian Camera mid-career highlight "Still Air (Aria Immobile)". We discuss the lyrical…
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We Have a Technical 175: Some Kinda Lodge
It'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…
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We Have a Technical 174: Don't Pivot
We 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…
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We Have a Technical 173: Trapped in a Sad Head
In this week's episode of the podcast, Alex and Bruce are picking and discussing songs with befuddling and baffling lyrics. Mixed metaphors? Vague wording?…
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We Have a Technical 172: FMK? ECW!
It'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…
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We Have a Technical 171: Bonitis
Records 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…
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We Have a Technical 170: Hornby Street
An 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…
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We Have a Commentary: Necro Facility, "Wintermute"
This month's Patreon-supported commentary podcast takes up an exquisitely crafted piece of industrial-pop fusion, Necro Facility's 2011 LP "Wintermute". Alex…
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We Have a Technical 169: I Don't Care
It'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…
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We Have a Technical 168: Tell Yuri We Sent Ya
Back 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…
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We Have a Technical 167: SPITESBITESPITES
A 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…
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We Have a Technical 166: The Blue Pages
Cheap 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…
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We Have a Commentary: Pretentious, Moi? self-titled
On 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…
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We Have a Technical 165: Kalan We Are Not
Hey 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…
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We Have a Technical 164: Gosh Darn Pizza
On 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…
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We Have a Technical 163: The Sixtennial
The 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…
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We Have a Technical 162: Progressive Skiffle
Records 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…
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We Have a Commentary: Ministry, "With Sympathy"
On 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…
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We Have a Technical 161: Waxed Mustache
Bruce and Alex jibber jabber about the role of sampled voices in industrial music. From staccato cut ups and obscure manipulations to easily recognizable movie…
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We Have a Technical 160: Bite Your Tongue
This week some of our Patreon backers join us to talk about a trio of records that hail from right here in Vancouver. This kind of came together completely by…
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We Have a Technical 159: Jean Luc Orders a Pizza
We return to our classic "Two Albums" format on this episode, chatting about records by Mild Peril and C-Tec. The line between pop and kosmische and whether…