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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
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We Have a Technical 158: A Bunch of Garbage
Bruce and Alex each pick five best of and singles compilations. Are greatest hits albums for posers only? Tune in to the latest episode of We Have A Technical…
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We Have a Technical 157: Derrida or Die
We're gettin' down with our bad selves on this episode of We Have A Technical as the influence of funk and all things funky on Our Thing are on the docket…
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We Have a Commentary: Clan of Xymox, "Medusa"
We're delving deep into the roots of darkwave for this month's We Have A Commentary bonus podcast! Yep, it's not less a foundational record than Clan Of…
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We Have a Technical 156: Pub Dogs
Alex is returned and he and Bruce celebrate by talking at length about recent shows they have seen. Thrill to an hour of talk about bands from Bestial Mouths…
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WHaT 155: The Mount Rushmore Conversations - Babyland
Bruce and Alex chisel the last profiles into our Mount Rushmore Conversations with some discussion of the enduring power of the late, great Babyland in this…
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WHaT 154: The Mount Rushmore Conversations - Skinny Puppy
Perhaps more than any band in existence, Skinny Puppy remains the essential to our fandom and understanding of Our Thing. Beyond their critical function in the…
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WHaT 153: The Mount Rushmore Conversations - Front 242
The second of our Mount Rushmore Conversations centers on a band we talk about a lot, maybe more than any other. Its Bruce and Alex waxing, fawning and…
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WHaT: The Mount Rushmore Conversations - Haujobb
Taking the place of We Have a Commentary this month is the first in our 4 part Mount Rushmore Conversations series. Essentially designed to reflect a more…
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We Have a Technical 151: Sabrina
Alex and Bruce catch up with Mr.Kitty on this week's episode of We Have a Technical! Forrest clues us in on the process behind his recent album A.i…
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We Have A Technical 150: Sesquicentennial House Party!
Bruce and Alex are throwing a big old house party in honour of the 150th episode of We Have A Technical, and you're invited! Which familiar faces and…
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We Have a Technical 149: Posse on Broadway
In anticipation of Industrial Summer Camp, Bruce and Alex are discussing albums by two acts set to play Cold Waves and Terminus respectively, KMFDM and…
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We Have a Technical 148: Publicize This
In this week's episode of We Have A Technical, Bruce and Alex pick up the weighty question of technology: how has it guided the productoon and evolution of…
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We Have a Commentary: The Gothsicles, "Nesferatu"
On this Patreon-supported podcast we do a commentary track for The Gothsicles 2006 scene-skewering classic "Nesferatu". We run down the nature of parody, the…
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We Have a Technical 147: Overjacked
On this episode of We Have a Technical Bruce and Alex play the Pick 5 game with projects that only had one release! Plus we chat the final Terminus…
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We Have a Technical 146: The Smoothening
We return to the venerable two album discussion format of We Have a Technical this week, with some chit chat about Numb and Liquid Divine. We also get real…
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We Have a Technical 145: Oh, Umpire
Bruce and Alex tackle a bevy of recent news items in this week's episode of the podcast, including the recent controversy involving Death In June and…
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We Have a Technical 144: Spit Test
On this week's episode of We Have a Technical Bruce and Alex speak with one of I Die: You Die's perennial favourite acts, Swedish electropop masters Kite!…
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We Have a Technical 143: 2D in 3D
It's a Swedish synth two-fer on this week's episode of We Have a Technical, as we discuss records by Henric De La Cour and S.P.O.C.K.! Nostalgia and the…
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We Have a Commentary: Laibach, "Opus Dei"
It's the time of the month when we record and release one of our special We Have a Commentary podcasts, supported by our backers at www.patreon.com/idieyoudie!…
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We Have a Technical 142: Danceteria Leaks
It's a Schrodinger's Goth episode of We Have A Technical! Bruce and Alex Pick Five goth records by non-goth artists. What is goth? What is not goth? These are…
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We Have a Technical 141: The Blundertaker
On this episode of We Have a Technical, Bruce and Alex take up the shadowy and nebulous notion of occult and Satanic imagery in industrial and goth music. How…
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We Have a Technical 140: Ball Stories
Alex and Bruce catch up with Kanga on their West Coast jaunt to talk about pop in industrial, the perils of the entertainment biz, and how your vocals never…
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We Have a Technical 139: A Ten Out of Ten
It's an opposites attract episode of We Have A Technical, as Alex and Bruce discuss the softer side of the avant garde with Controlled Bleeding, and the…
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We Have a Commentary: Ashbury Heights, "Take Cair Paramour"
Bruce and Alex listen to their mutual favourite album of 2010: Ashbury Heights' "Take Cair Paramour"! The discussion touches upon synthpop's straddling of the…
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We Have a Technical 138: Crystal Fuggles
The Senior Staff is back from winter hiatus with a look back at how their hopes and wishes for 2016 fared, and a look ahead at records and trends are on the…
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We Have a Technical 137: Tobey, You Raw
The yearly off-topic episode of We Have A Technical is here, ready to eat an hour of your life with aimless discussion of music and culture wholly unrelated to…
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We Have a Technical 136: The Lugubrious Jerk
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…
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We Have a Technical 135: Cereal is Good
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…
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We Have a Technical 134: In the News Again
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…
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We Have a Commentary: Forma Tadre, "Navigator"
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…
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We Have a Technical 133: Eudaemonia
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.
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We Have a Technical 132: Big Wheel at the Cracker Factory
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…
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We Have a Technical 131: Sage Words
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…
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We Have a Technical 130: Media Training
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…
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We Have a Commentary: Switchblade Symphony, "Serpentine Gallery"
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…
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We Have a Technical 129: Here We Are
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…
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We Have a Technical 128: Comically Overpronounced
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…
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We Have a Technical 127: Born Spoopy
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…
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We Have a Technical 126: Let Them Eat Chilaquiles
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…
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We Have a Technical 125: The Great Debate II
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…
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We Have a Commentary: Front 242, "Tyranny For You"
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…
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We Have a Technical 124: Leave Aristotle Out of This
On this episode, Bruce and Alex discuss albumcraft. Yes, it's another long rambling conversation about stuff like track sequencing, cohesion and the other…
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We Have a Technical 123: The Wrongs of Spring
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…
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We Have a Technical 122: The Pain of it All
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…
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We Have a Technical 121: The Hatchet Within
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…
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We Have a Technical 120: It's Steve Lombardi
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…
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We Have a Technical 119: Remix Wars & Peace
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…
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We Have a Technical 118: Gothic Duck
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!…
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We Have a Technical 117: Modified Chaps
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…
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We Have a Technical 116: Crunk Juice
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…
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We Have a Technical 115: Heaven is a Holodeck
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…
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We Have a Technical 114: How to Deal with Leprosy
This week we are joined by Fredrik Djurfeldt of Severe Illusion and Analfabetism to discuss his various projects, North American vs European perspectives on…
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We Have a Technical 113: Our Emissary
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…
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We Have a Technical 112: Not the Passenger
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…
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We Have a Technical 111: GohGurt
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…
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We Have a Technical 110: A Noble Endeavour
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…
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We Have a Technical 109: Prog in Prague
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!…
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We Have a Technical 108: Cane Dewey
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…
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We Have a Technical 107: No!
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…
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We Have a Technical 106: Pip Pip Cheerio M'erF'er
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…