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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 489: Okada Danielson
We're casting an eye not to the year ahead, but to the year that was a full decade ago here at I Die: You Die. We're talking about the records which earned top…
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We Have A Commentary: GZA, "Liquid Swords"
For the second time, we're using our December We Have A Commentary as the opportunity to talk about a record we love but which has nothing to do with the…
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We Have A Technical 488: Aren't They All
Our coverage of the year that was is officially completed (though that doesn't quite mean the end of Year End fun) with a Pick Five episode designed to touch…
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We Have A Technical 487: 2023 Year End Roundup
ith our final five top records of the year coming out yesterday, we've effectively discharged our Year End duties...save for recapping that list, looking back…
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We Have A Technical 486: Hackers Up In Here
Bruce and Alex fight their way through the flu to talk about recent records by HEALTH and 3Teeth, with the ins and outs of various form of industrial rock and…
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We Have A Technical 485: Handcuffed To LeVar
On the occasion of the passing of Paranoid's Michael Formberg, we're talking about the German duo's first LP Strain and how it fits very particularly within…
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We Have A Technical 484: Rollercoaster
The Senior Staff are taking stock not only of the specific shows and tracks Skinny Puppy played in their final hometown performances this past weekend, but…
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We Have a Commentary: ACTORS, "It Will Come To You"
For this month's We Have a Commentary, we're joined by Jason and Shannon from Vancouver's ACTORS, to discuss the band's 2015 debut LP It Will Come to You. The…
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We Have A Technical 483: Scooter (Not Actually About Scooter)
On this discussion topic driven episode of We Have A Technical, we're talking about the vague catchall term or genre that is "electro", at least in the…
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We Have A Technical 482: Obscene Jingle
After a bonanza of interviews we're back to what brought us to the dance: talking about goth and industrial records. One apiece, in fact as Suspiria's…
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We Have A Technical 481: Big Peewee
A trio of interviews (which we'd like to think nicely cover the breadth of our coverage here) wraps up with a conversation with Isaac Howlett of Empathy Test…
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We Have A Technical 480: High Highs, Low Lows
We're happy to be joined on this week's episode by Ian Ross of Flesh Field, on the eve of the release of Voice Of The Echo Chamber, the band's first new LP in…
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We Have A Commentary: Light Asylum, self-titled
For this month's commentary podcast, we're looking back at Light Asylum's stunning 2012 self-titled debut (and to this date only) LP. Linking darkwave to a…
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We Have a Technical 479: Bonus Content
We're joined by Ringfinger on this week's podcast to talk about the Vancouver duo's rapid emergence as one of the most highly touted new darkwave bands in…
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We Have A Technical 478: Throw a Thing
Our recurring Pick Five format always gives us the opportunity to take larger or more lateral views of records, and that's what we're doing today as we each…
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We Have A Technical 477: The Double Stinger
We're using our classic two albums format to discuss records we hadn't previously heard (as well as keep our Oktoberfest run of German bands going), namely the…
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We Have A Technical 476: The Jerky Man
Our classic two album format gives us the chance to talk about Cannibal Anthem, a middling record from :wumpscut: in the grey period in that project's…
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We Have A Technical 475: If That Is Your Real Name
For our 475th episode, the Senior Staff are quizzing one another as to their own history with I Die: You Die. That is to say, we've each grabbed passages from…
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We Have A Commentary: The Birthday Party, "Junkyard"
For this month's commentary podcast we asked our patrons which release by Aussie enfents terrible The Birthday Party they'd like us to discuss, and 1982's…
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We Have A Technical 474: Industrial Bowlcut
The aesthetics of cringe, that is to say, the reasons why people within and without darker music are likely to view certain examples of it as profoundly…
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We Have A Technical 473: Evacuated Bon Mots
Records by Noise Unit and Prager Handgriff are prompting Bruce and Alex to get into the weeds regarding cross-pollination of EBM sub-genres, foreshadowing of…
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We Have A Technical 472: Adam Pagecole
It's one of our vaunted Pick Five episodes this week, with Alex and Bruce each asking "How'd this get here?" That is to say, they're both selecting some…
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We Have A Technical 471: Basso Profundo Curly
We're talking about Flesh Field's Viral Extinction and Project Pitchfork's Inferno on this week's episode of the podcast, records which pushed dark electro…
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We Have A Commentary: Electronic, selt-titled
Released in 1991 to critical and commercial success, supergroup Electronic's debut LP was Bernard Sumner and Johnny Marr's opportunity to break from the…
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We Have a Technical 470: The Sound Of Skis On Ice
Bruce and Alex are home from their respective trips, and are getting back in the swing of things by releasing the interview they conducted with longtime IDUD…
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In Conversation With Bess Lovejoy
Welcome to In Conversation, a fill-in/bonus format podcast series wherein each of the Senior Staff invites a friend to sit in for some casual chat about shared…
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In Conversation w/Evilyn 13
Welcome to In Conversation a fill-in/bonus format podcast series wherein each of the Senior Staff invites a friend to sit in for some casual chat about shared…
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We Have A Technical 469: Don't Castigate Me
Four days, thirty acts, one venue, countless pints of 88 Brewing's Wave Pool IPA, two very exhausted but happy podcasters. In one of our favourite annual…
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We Have A Technical 468: Something Salty
A loosely Terminus-themed two albums episode of the podcast has us discussing Trepaneringsritualen's Kainskult and Chrysalide's Don't Be Scared, It's About…
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We Have A Commentary: Devours, "Homecoming Queen"
On this month's patreon-supported commentary podcast, we're hanging out with Devours, AKA Jeff Cancade, to talk about his new record Homecoming Queen track by…
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We Have A Technical 467: Rice Cooker
Bruce and Alex are taking a throwback trip to late 00s dancefloors with Kloq's Move Forward and another into the weird melodies and formal experimentation of…
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We Have A Technical 466: Dollar Bin Micronauts
A rather heavy and somewhat morbid Pick Five formatted episode of We Have A Technical has the Senior Staff selecting opening lines of songs which have stuck…
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We Have A Technical 465: American Males
Records by Shadow Project and A Split Second cover the extremes of the goth and EBM dimensions of ID:UD's purview on this week's episode of We Have A…
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We Have A Commentary: Skinny Puppy, "Back & Forth"
Our latest commentary podcast has us going back to the deepest roots of one of the most important and celebrated industrial bands of all time. Holed up in West…
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We Have A Technical 464: Tiger Driver '91
It's the twelfth anniversary of I Die: You Die this week, and thus we're taking a look back at the road that took us here on this week's podcast. In…
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We Have a Technical 463: Not Working For Me
On this week's podcast, we're discussing the reasons why certain acts seem to cultivate a much more dedicated fan base than others. Charisma? Solid live show?…
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We Have A Technical 462: Boss Of The Bus
Aggrotech and darkwave might not have much in common musically, but we're finding some interesting links between the two albums up for discussion on this…
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We Have A Technical 461: The Absent Centre
We're speaking this week with Raven Rissy and David from Vancouver band Hem Netjer. The band's woven a unique tapestry of industrial and darkwave sounds as…
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We Have A Technical 460: That's On Me Baby
This week's Pick Five formatted podcast has us discussing some unlikely cover selections. What tracks were we surprised to find taken up by various goth…
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We Have A Commentary: "The Remix Wars - Strike One"
This month's Patreon-supported bonus podcast has us taking up a slightly different style of release than the usual LP: we're talking about the first salvo in…
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We Have A Technical 459: Another Hero
We're very happy to have our interview with Alison Lewis of Zanias on this week's episode of We Have A Technical. Lewis spoke frankly and earnestly with us…
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We Have A Technical 458: Tune In Next Week
There's no beating around the bush as the entirety of this episode is dedicated to recapping the three night multi-stage iteration of our local Verboden…
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We Have A Technical 457: Sympathetic Exhaustion
Recorded a couple of days early so as to allow each member of the Senior Staff to fulfill our patriotic duty and go see Skinny Puppy live, this episode has us…
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We Have A Technical 456: A Vow Not to Talk About That
This week we're talking about the gloomy, atmospheric post-punk of Poland's Ziyo, and the odd n' sods Euro electro of Human Decay's swan song. We're also…
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We Have A Commentary: Killing Joke, "Night Time"
As voted on from a selection of early/mid-period Killing Joke LPs, we're talking about 1985's Night Time on this month's commentary podcast. We're discussing…
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We Have A Technical 455: Richard Blood
Prompted by the prospect of finally getting to see Ashbury Heights, we're each picking five bucket list "yet to see" acts we've always hoped to catch live, be…
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We Have A Technical 454: Which Thoughts?
Deep scene records which perhaps bracket a certain history of dark electro are on the docket for this week, as we consider records by Controlled Fusion and…
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We Have A Technical 453: Beats Me
The experience of listening to a new record by a longstanding legacy act is the subject of this week's episode of the podcast. We're looking at how we perhaps…
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We Have A Technical 452: A Concerned Husband
We have something of a news grab-bag episode for you this week, folks, as the list of items we wanted to talk about off the top of the show just kept growing…
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We Have a Technical 451: Spy VS. Spy
It's a very 90s two-fer episode of the podcast, as we look at Swamp Terrorists' Combat Shock and Perfume Tree's A Lifetime Away this week.
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We Have A Commentary: Them Are Us Too, "Remain"
This month's commentary podcast revisits 2015's Remain, the central work of Them Are Us Too. It's a beautiful record which ably fits into darkwave and dreampop…
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We Have A Technical 450: Crossing The Street
We try to make these landmark numbered episodes of the podcast something special, and we think we've come through on that account. This week, we're happy to be…
- We Have a Technical
We Have A Technical 449: We'll Use It, Whatever
After a week missed due to scheduling mishaps, we're back with another instalment of our ever popular Pick Five format on this week's podcast. This time, we're…
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We Have a Technical 448: The :Wumpscast: Revisited
Due to circumstances beyond our control, a new episode of We Have a Technical was not possible this week. In place of the planned episode (which we still hope…
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We Have A Technical 447: Moonsault Out Of My Life
We're joined this week by two of our Patreon backers, Stuart White and Richard Gould, to talk about albums they've each chosen: Bloodline, the reunion LP from…
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We Have A Commentary: Front Line Assembly, "Tactical Neural Implant"
As selected by our Patreon backers from the slate of the four "classic" Front Line Assembly records, 1991's Tactical Neural Implant is the subject of this…
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We Have A Technical 446: Space Flying Tiger Drop
While both of the records we're talking about are from nominal side-projects, you couldn't get much further from one another in sound (and perhaps quality?) on…
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We Have A Technical 445: Back In The Usenet Days
The new LP by industrial legends Laibach is the subject of this week's podcast. The band has perhaps never been more active, releasing a slew of soundtracks…
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We Have A Technical 444: From a Cat's POV
We're joined on the podcast this week by journalist Konstantina Buhalis, for a conversation emerging out of her recent article on the role of social media in…
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We Have A Technical 443: Don't Blame The Nap
Deep scene records from the 80s and 90s make up this episode of the podcast, with the politically savvy EBM of Borghesia's No Hope No Fear and the turn of the…