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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 586: Read the Messages
An alliteratively themed two albums episode has us discussing the debut LPs of House Of Harm and Multiple Man. We're digging into the former's infectious and…
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We Have A Technical 585: Sisyphus Pasta
It's a Pick Five ep this week folks, and we're opting for a theme so basic and simple we had to triple check that we hadn't done it before: side projects…
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We Have A Technical 584: Teak Daggers
We're looking at a pair of industrial records, albeit in fairly different styles on this week's podcast. First up, it's the 2007 reactivation of cult German…
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We Have A Technical 583: That's Repetitive
It's an open topic episode of the podcast this week, as we're discussing what factors go into choosing songs for club play. Novelty vs. familiarity, immediacy…
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We Have a Technical 582: Pride Cometh
On the eve of the first new albums from S:cage and Das Ich since 2006, we're talking about those records from both of those bands from nearly twenty years ago…
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We Have a Commentary: Dead Can Dance, self-titled
As selected by our Patreon backers for a loosely spookily themed commentary episode, we're talking about the 1984 debut of beloved ethereal mainstays Dead Can…
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We Have A Technical 581: Fetch Me the View-O-Scope
The two albums featured on this week's podcast are about as far away from one another as we're likely to get on this podcast, with the abstracted dream-pop and…
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We Have a Technical 580: The Way it Deserves to Be Seen
Our first Pick Five episode in a while is a bit of a tricky one. We're each nominating tracks which break from traditional pop song structure, with the caveat…
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We Have a Technical 579: The Jay Offs
We're happy to be joined this week by renaissance man Antoni Maiovvi to talk about the recent trilogy of records from his Ye Gods project. We touch upon what…
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We Have a Technical 578: AI Caramba
In a "we had to get to it sooner or later" topic-driven episode of the podcast, we're discussing our reactions to how AI generated visuals and music have…
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We Have a Commentary: Comaduster, "Memory Echoes"
This month's commentary podcast features a special returning guest, as Real Cardinal joins us to talk us track by track through Comaduster's heady new LP…
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We Have A Technical 577: Watch It With That Drink
The latest score from Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross isn't being released under their names, but under the Nine Inch Nails handle, which raises the stakes and…
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We Have A Technical 576: Sutherland's Unit
We're testing the limits of Sweden's sonics as well as our own self-imposed genre limitations with our two records up for discussion this week. First, the soft…
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We Have A Technical 575: South Van's Boring
For the minor occasion of our 575th episode we're taking a somewhat personal and sociological detour and talking about the city we live in and from whence grew…
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We Have A Technical 574: Chu Chu Weighs In
The two album format draws up records of vastly different style and intensity as the final LP from German electro act The Dust Of Basement and a definitive…
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We Have A Commentary: Rosetta Stone, "An Eye For The Main Chance"
The debut album from Rosetta Stone and one of the landmark achievements in the second wave of goth rock is the subject of this month's commentary episode. The…
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We Have A Technical 573: Lamb Bear
Your latest hotly anticipated, or at least blithely accepted pick five formatted episode of We Have A Technical is here. We're zeroing in on our recurring…
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We Have A Technical 572: Baseball Fury
After a lengthy hiatus, Austin cautionary tales Street Sects are back. They're turning their combination of noise, post-hardcore, and sample-driven industrial…
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We Have A Technical 571: Hot Sandwiches
The second of our interviews stemming from Terminus is here, with rising synthpop/EBM act Sleek Teeth joining us. The band's use of harmonies, threading of the…
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We Have A Technical 570: The Nether Regions of Synth Funk
Fresh off her performance at Terminus Festival, we're happy to present our interview with Mari Kattman on this week's episode of We Have A Technical. Her new…
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We Have A Technical 569: Terminus 2025 Recap
Our favourite time of the year's come and gone with Terminus: Modulation in the books. Four days, thirty-one acts, and a goodly amount of beer later, we're…
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We Have a Commentary: Flesh Field, "Viral Extinction"
On the occasion influential 1999 debut "Viral Extinction" being remastered, we're happy to welcome back Flesh Field's Ian Ross to the podcast to discuss the…
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We Have A Technical 568: Baguettes of Spaghetti
It's a "Born To Runner Up" themed episode this week, as we're each picking five of our second favourite records by specific artists. From underrated comebacks…
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We Have A Technical 567: Never Make Eye Contact
This week's two albums format has us discussing two records separated by a number of years but both abutting upon dark electro even as both artists work to…
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We Have A Technical 566: My Boo
As is our custom when there's a new record from industrial legends Laibach, we're taking to the podcast to discuss it rather than simply knocking out a review…
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We Have a Technical 565: Undead King Of Cartoons
In a wide-ranging open topic conversation, we discuss our thoughts about the purpose, value, and reception of negative music reviews in Our Thing. What's the…
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We Have a Commentary: Cold Cave, "Cherish the Light Years"
For this month's Patreon-supported bonus podcast, we're talking about the second LP from Wes Eisold's post-punk/synthpop act Cold Cave. A record that has taken…
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We Have a Technical 564: Get It Together
We have a classic two albums episode for you this week folks, including the last decidedly industrial-related work from German act The Galan Pixs, plus the…
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We Have a Technical 563: Khan and Hammer
We're catching up with a whole slew of news and live show business off the top of this episode as your regularly scheduled ID:UD programming resumes, and we're…
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We Have a Technical 562: To The Left
The passing of legendary Nitzer Ebb frontman Douglas J. McCarthy is the only thing we could talk about on this week's podcast. Forgive us if this episode is a…
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We Have a Technical 561: A Place on Earth
On this week's episode of We Have a Technical, Alex is joined by Chris Hewitt of Terminus Festival to discuss the history of our favourite annual gathering of…
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We Have a Commentary: Jason Pettigrew on his 33 1/3 for Ministry's "The Land of Rape and Honey"
This month's We Have a Commentary takes on a special form as Alex welcomes Jason Pettigrew to the podcast, where the longtime Ministry chronicler fills us in…
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We Have a Technical 560: Bloot-A-Thon
On this week's episode of the official I Die: You Die podcast, we welcome Barrett and Panther from Bootblacks, who gave us the skinny on their excellent…
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We Have a Technical 559: Sanctuary
On this week's episode, we're taking some time to talk with Canadian synthpop legend Darrin Huss of Psyche, in an interview recorded a few hours before his set…
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We Have a Technical 558: Verboden 2025 Recap
With Bruce off to the highlands and Alex recovering under a pile of coats in a hall closet somewhere, this week's episode is a hastily recorded recap of this…
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We Have A Technical 557: Budgie's Over-Under
We're talking about records by electronic pioneers who need little introduction in Gary Numan and Uwe Schmidt's Lassigue Bendthaus, but while the latter's…
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We Have A Technical 556: Taking Mushrooms
We love two things here at ID:UD - dark music festivals, and arbitrary competition. We're combining those two passions with a mock draft of our own…
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We Have A Commentary: Pouppée Fabrikk, "Rage"
A landmark for minimal, aggressive EBM for decades to come, the debut LP from Swedish legends Pouppée Fabrikk is the subject of this month's commentary…
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We Have A Technical 555: Jeeves & Wooster Meet Who?
We're getting into the weeds of US industrial this week, discussing a record that captures a very specific early 90s moment, along with some formal…
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We Have A Technical 554: A Wizard Did It
How does community lead to the discovery of new music? How do changes in the circles we run in or means through which we communicate lead to changes in our…
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We Have A Technical 553: Bon-Bon
We're offering up one of classic, easy going Pick Five episodes this week folks, as we each look back at some underrated singles. Which tunes came out too…
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We Have A Technical 552: Bears Of Industrial
We're going hard in the powernoise paint this week, as we look back on records from very different periods in the history of the subgenre, Tarmvred's Subfusc…
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We Have A Commentary: Test Dept., "The Unacceptable Face Of Freedom"
On this month's commentary we look at a nearly 40 year old classic which feels as though it could have been released in response to the world at large today…
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We Have A Technical 551: An Oubliette Of Electronics
We're reaching just across some borders this week, talking about a pair of records which abut upon the industrial and goth worlds but aren't entirely part and…
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We Have A Technical 550: The Veal
It's our sesexacentennial anniversary here at We Have A Technical, and no, that's not a mispronunciation of some oddly named aggrotech album, but cod-Latin for…
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We Have A Technical 549: Baby Man
We're joined by a pair of Patreon backers, Gustav of Sturm Café and Eric of Everything Goes Cold, to talk about a pair of records: the throwback…
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We Have a Technical 548: Hellraiser First AD
On this week's podcast, we're talking about an everything and the kitchen sink industrial crossover record reflective of its late 90s era in Pail's Epidemic…
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We Have a Technical 547: Pineapple X-Mas Movie
Ottawa's Encephalon join the podcast for the first time in nearly a decade to discuss the Ottawa act's latest high-concept, high-def electro-industrial LP…
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We Have A Commentary: "The Gothic Sounds of Nightbreed"
We're breaking from the usual LP format of our commentary episodes to bring you a discussion of a label compilation, specifically the first volume of…
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We Have A Technical 546: Caesar Ford vs. Andy Baron
It's a two albums formatted podcast this week folks, and one of a decidedly industrial cast. Up first, we're talking about X-Marks The Pedwalk side-project…
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We Have A Technical 545: Heart Shaped Pizza Pockets
It's time for a Pick Five episode, dear listener, and as luck would have it it's also time for a particular time, or at least records suited specifically to…
- We Have a Technical
We Have A Technical 544: Dire Quokka
It's a classic two records formatted episode of the podcast this week, folks. The first full length record from Informatik and the sole release from…
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We Have A Technical 543: Show Us How You Do It Here, Brussels
Hot on the heels of a fantastic retirement concert from Front 242, the Senior Staff are discussing the ins and outs of legacy bands' retirements. When's the…
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We Have a Commentary: Cubanate, "Cyberia"
This month's commentary podcast has Bruce and Alex ripping through Cubanate's unrelenting "Cyberia", a combination of industrial guitars and contemporary…
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We Have A Technical 542: Hair Vs. Hair
The thorny issue of requests and how they do and don't fit into goth-industrial club formats is the subject of this week's podcast, with Alex and Bruce talking…
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We Have A Technical 541: Wisdom & Moss
The first classic, two albums formatted episode of the new year has us looking at the finely balanced ethereal darkwave of Double Echo, and the immediate and…
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We Have A Technical 540: Dadbach
We're jumping into the new year with a podcast previewing forthcoming releases we expect to come in 2025 from a slew of our favourite artists: Encephalon…
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We Have A Commentary: Iron Maiden, "Somewhere In Time"
Our still recently minted annual tradition of the off-topic commentary is back! After records by Little Boots and GZA in previous years, we're once again…
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We Have A Technical 539: Soup Victory
As an addendum to our main roster Year End coverage, we're poking out of our Tofurkey comas to each pick five tracks from the past year which stuck with us…
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We Have A Technical 538: 2024 Year End Roundup
Wrapping up our week of Year End coverage we have an episode of the podcast discussing some common trends and notable factors in our Top 25 records of the…