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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 537: Tacoma Klezmer
Just ahead of next week's year end coverage, we're playing catch-up on this week's podcast. Four records from Black Nail Cabaret, Orange Sector, Vision Video…
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We Have A Technical 536: The Sad Nature Of The History Of Everything
The criteria and membership of a (entirely hypothetical) industrial hall of fame is the subject of this week's podcast. What sort of criteria would be used to…
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We Have A Technical 535: That's Disgusting
It's a down the pipe two albums episode of the podcast this week, as we discuss the cinematic body disco of Molasar and the late period dark…
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We Have A Commentary: My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult, "I See Good Spirits And I See Bad Spirits"
The debut LP of Wax Trax sleaze peddlers extraordinaire, My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult, is the subject of this month's commentary podcast. Between the duo…
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We Have a Technical 534: You Put Me On the Spot
In an episode dedicated to splitting the finest of hairs and analyzing the specific dance steps of angels on pinheads, we're each picking five micro-genres for…
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We Have A Technical 533: I Stand
It's a pretty diverse two albums formatted episode this week; we're talking about the freeform, hip-hop and rock tinged EBM chaos of Scapa Flow's final LP…
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We Have A Technical 532: Something Wicked This Way Comes
Hey, folks. As we talk about off the top, it's both the larger global news and a much more personal tragedy that we're both wrestling with this week. We're…
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We Have A Technical 531: A Handful Of Popcorn
On this week's Halloween-themed episode of the podcast, we're simulating an experience that'll be familiar to all DJs: fielding requests at a Halloween party…
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We Have A Technical 530: Not Gonna
Keeping the momentum going from last week we're sticking with a decidedly industrial pair of records to discuss from Worms Of The Earth and C-Drone Defect…
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We Have A Commentary: Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, "Talk About The Weather"
The tar-black, mechanically thrashing blast of negativity and angst which is Red Lorry Yellow Lorry's debut LP is the subject of this week's commentary…
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We Have A Technical 529: A New Bistro
We have a slightly industrial metal themed two albums episode of the podcast for you this week, dear listener, as we chat a record needing no introduction in…
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We Have A Technical 528: Kevin For Life
The return of the Pick Five format has us telling on ourselves, revealing some of our own apathies, and possibly taking some contentious positions as we talk…
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We Have A Technical 527: Who Can Resist
After dalliances with the meaning of goth and post-punk royalty, we're back to what brought us to the dance on this episode: obscure industrial releases scant…
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We Have A Commentary: Portion Control, "..Step Forward"
This month's commentary podcast dives into the often overlooked mid-period work of synthpunk pioneers Portion Control. Having an outsized influence on…
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We Have A Technical 526: Maniacism
Having just seen Peter Hook & The Light, we're spending this episode discussing not just Hooky's presentation of the Joy Division and New Order catalogs, but…
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We Have A Technical 525: Clod Man
We like to mark every 25th episode of the podcast with some sort of special theme or format, and so on this episode we're taking up the hefty topic of to what…
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We Have a Technical 524: Mea Culpa
It's a mixed format episode this week, with Alex giving a rundown of his trip to Edmonton for the Purple City Festival this past weekend, including the I Die…
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We Have a Technical 523: In Space
We're back to the classic two albums format for the first time in a hot minute, with the grinding industrialized noise rock of Head Of David and The Horror's…
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We Have A Technical 522: Dot Dom
Our least favourite records by some of our favourite artists is the subject of this week's Pick Five formatted episode of the podcast. Is it a real Sophie's…
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We Have A Technical 521: Our Songs Are Better
The third and final of our Terminus interviews features longtime site fave Kontravoid. Cam spoke with us about new LP "Detachment", the shifting scope and…
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We Have A Commentary: Cygnets, "Isolator"
This month's Patreon-supported commentary podcast tackles the glammy-gothy new wave fusion of Edmonton's dearly departed Cygnets. Featuring captivating vocals…
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We Have A Technical 520: Woodview
Our post-Terminus afterglow continues with another interview recorded during the festival - we're joined by James and Jordan from Male Tears about new album…
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We Have a Technical 519: Leave Blank Space
The first of our Terminus-related interviews is here, and with their new LP The Tower set to drop in just over a week, we're very happy to share our…
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We Have a Technical 518: Terminus 2024
Our annual wrap-up of our favourite festival of the year is year, with night by night recaps of all four days of Terminus. Which hungry up and comers grabbed…
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We Have a Technical 517: Street Eatery
As we head out the door for Terminus, the schedule of written content on the site is going on a break but the podcast keeps rolling. This week we're looking at…
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We Have A Commentary: Linea Aspera, self-titled
As selected by our patrons, this month's commentary podcast takes us back to the heyday of the minimal wave revival, with the self-titled debut of Linea…
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We Have A Technical 516: Cryptid Normie
On this week's episode of the podcast, the very amorphous topic of non-musical points of attraction to Our Thing is taken up. Half cod-anthropology, half…
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We Have A Technical 515: Adrenal-Eyes
We're talking about an of its era European electro record by Chrom and some off the beaten path video game soundtracking by Daniel Myer on this week's podcast…
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We Have a Technical 514: Nineties Name Change
In a "wishful beginning" themed episode, we're each picking five projects which have effectively started and ended in the time that we've been running the…
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We Have A Commentary: Spahn Ranch, "The Coiled One"
We're joined by Matt Green and Athan Maroulis on this month's commentary podcast to discuss their memories of and reflections upon Spahn Ranch's 1995 sophomore…
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We Have A Technical 513: Vampy-Jay
We're navigating some illness on the Senior Staff's part to bring you discussion of records we missed last year by Container 90 and Vacious Cuerpos. We're also…
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We Have A Technical 512: Birdwatching
Prompted by catching an absolutely electric show from all around cross-genre rock legends The Damned this past weekend, we're dedicating this week's episode to…
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We Have A Technical 511: Codwave Soupviolence
It's a very specially formatted episode of the podcast this week, as we're joined by three of our Patreon backers to discuss records by Steril, Black Light…
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We Have A Technical 510: Bounce Pass
We're happy to present an interview with Mark Burgess of legendary UK act Chameleons on this week's podcast. The band was in town on the first leg of their…
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We Have A Technical 509: Scabby Jim
We have a Pick Five episode of the podacst for you folks this week, as we're trekking twenty years back to look at some representative records from 2004…
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We Have A Commentary: [:SITD:], "Rot"
Fifteen years on from its release, we're looking back at Rot, the high watermark for Germany's [:SITD:], on this month's commentary podcast. It's a record…
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We Have A Technical 508: Pretty Fly
The odd pairing of Gitane Demone and Mark Ickx for the Demonix project, as well as some of David Thrussell's earliest dark ambient experimentation as Black…
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We Have A Technical 507: Duff Gardens Hurrah
Despite our post-fest blues and exhaustion, we're back to bring you a plus-sized version of the podcast breaking down each and every act we caught this past…
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We Have A Technical 506: A Genteel Performance
In this week's episode of We Have A Technical, we're jumping off from a discussion Bruce had last week with our friends at Cemetery Confessions in order to…
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We Have A Technical 505: Dr. Contemptuous
Classic two albums format of the podcast for you this week folks, with a pair of fairly obscure records from a couple of decades back under the microscope…
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We Have A Commentary: Stromkern, "Armageddon"
A 2001 record which was rather out of step with industrial club styles of the time, Stromkern's Armageddon proved to cast a long thematic shadow as well as…
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We Have A Technical 504: Self-Saboteur
It's a Pick Five formatted episode this week, and we're each trying to find tunes which summarize or represent the larger catalogs and aesthetics of the…
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We Have a Technical 500: We Were Both Magic Users
At long last, we're proud to present the 500th episode of We Have A Technical. We're joined by Joakim Montelius and Eskil Simonsson of the legendary Covenant…
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We Have A Technical 503: A Utica Expression
As we often like to do when a new album by a landmark legacy band is released, we're setting this week's podcast aside for the discussion of Rampen - APM…
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We Have A Technical 502: The Book Of Bo Bichette
The thorny issues of social media and general online presentation and how they shape our understanding of artists is the subject of this week's podcasts. From…
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We Have A Technical 501: This Is Auspicious
Some numeric jiggery-pokery? From us? To do with the chronology of We Have A Technical? Never. On this episode we're looking at records from Black Tape For A…
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We Have A Commentary: "Gothic Rock" (Disc 1)
We have a special two-part version of We Have A Commentary for you this week, as we're tackling both discs of the Mick Mercer-curated Gothic Rock compilation…
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We Have A Technical 499: We're Not Here To Talk About Trent's Neck
We ain't getting any younger, and neither are the formative records which turned us into the sort of sick bastards who'd end up running a website for a dozen…
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We Have A Technical 498: Dividing Follicles
What on earth might records by Hocico and Gloria Mundi have in common with one another? In and of themselves, perhaps not much, but given that Hocico's debut…
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We Have A Technical 497: Please Steal My Stuff
It's a Pick Five episode this week, as a slightly irreverent one, as we're talking about stupid songs we actually quite like. From brodustrial to novelty…
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We Have A Commentary: Pop Will Eat Itself, "This Is the Day...This Is the Hour...This Is This!"
Teased off and on for several years, it's our commentary podcast on a singular record in both of the Senior Staff's understandings of electronics, hip-hop, and…
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We Have A Technical 495: Slayer T-Shirt on an Ardene Rack
Hot on the heels of their new album Pendulum and some touring for it, Twin Tribes join us on this week's episode. Luis and Joel offer their thoughts on the…
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We Have a Technical 495: Teddy Riley?
On this week's podcast we're using the occasion of Meat Beat Manifesto and Merzbow's new collaborative record as an opportunity to talk about each project as…
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We Have A Technical 494: Internal Life of a Skeleton
This week's two albums-formatted episode of the podcast takes up Psyche's 2001 return to dark dancefloors with the futurepop-flavoured The Hiding Place and…
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We Have a Technical 493: Ford Topos
Cosmic, stygian, abyssal, impassive, call dark ambient what you will, just don't call it late for dinner. On this week's episode we're discussing how this…
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We Have a Commentary: Chris & Cosey, "Heartbeat"
Coming hot on the heels of the dissolution of Throbbing Gristle, Chris & Cosey's debut LP Heartbeat doesn't just function as a bridge between their work as…
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We Have A Technical 492: Moose-N-Effect
We're looking back at specific live performances which left an impression on us in this episode of the podcast. Whether it's the humanization of icons…
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We Have A Technical 491: A Doctorow Joint
One goth rock record and one EBM record: not sure there's a more down the pipe format for an episode of We Have A Technical than that! Sunshine Blind's debut…
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We Have A Technical 490: The Stinger Should Be Fun
An oft-overlooked record by a crucial artist about to make their big move, and a reunion record which is surprisingly of a piece with the artists' earliest…