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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 351: John Ramgo
After going ham with some rather abrasive rants on last week's episode, we're taking the backseat this week and welcoming on some Patreon backers who are keen…
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We Have A Commentary: Faith And The Muse, "Evidence Of Heaven"
This month's Patreon supported commentary podcast is dedicated to the infinitely varied and strikingly confident expression of high goth prowess that is Faith…
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We Have A Technical 350: Hot Takes!
Do not adjust your podcasting device - We Have A Technical has not been replaced by that sports radio station you hear annoying ads for. We are, however…
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We Have A Technical 349: Bortles?
Our two albums format finds us talking about retro dark electro and the outer limits of technoid in this week's episode of We Have A Technical. The last record…
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We Have A Technical 348: Bombers Content
From the perspective of your co-workers who really wish you'd turn your headphones down, industrial music seems as far removed from pop as is possible. But…
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We Have A Technical 347: Like Last Week
Deep genre records from Z Prochek and Manuskript have Alex and Bruce talking about the odd intersections of sounds and styles only possible at particular…
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We Have A Commentary: Spark!, "Hela Din Värld"
The Senior Staff are discussing a modern EBM classic in Spark!'s Hela Din Värld in this month's Patreon-supported commentary podcast! In 2012 Mattias Ziessow…
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We Have A Technical 346: What A Horrible Night To Have A Curse
The Pick Five format returns, with Alex and Bruce each highlighting some behind the scenes folks. Be they engineers, writers, label heads, or DJs, there are…
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We Have a Technical 345: What Would You Have Me Do
The classic two albums format brings discussion of Minuit Machine's Violent Rains - an early example of the current wave of European darkwave we're continuing…
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We Have a Technical 344: Take Two
FLA mastermind, studio wizard, and all around industrial legend Rhys Fulber joins the Senior Staff this week for an illuminating conversation. Rhys discusses…
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We Have A Technical 343: A Real Boy
We're starting the year off with our classic two records format for the podcast. First up its the sui generis 2012 12" from Aussie act Forces, which brought…
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We Have a Technical 342: Birds Have Had ENOUGH
It's the annual off topic podcast! Recorded weeks ago in a haze of pre-holiday cheer, we honestly have no idea what we spoke about on this cast. Probably a lot…
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We Have A Technical 341: A Thanksgiving Movie
The written coverage on the site might be taking a holiday hiatus, but the podcasting doesn't stop. As a coda to our Year End coverage, the Senior Staff are…
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We Have A Commentary: Neuroticfish, "Gelb"
The last commentary podcast of 2020 has the Senior Staff discussing the deep songwriting and production charms of Neuroticfish's Gelb. The emotional and…
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We Have a Technical 340: Best of 2020 Round Up
With the Top 25 releases of the year written up and posted, Bruce and Alex are looking back at the year that was, not just in the form of those specific…
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We Have a Technical 339: Thats the Stinger
It's a bittersweet and emotional episode of the podcast, as we are joined by Chris Peterson to talk about the life and work of Jeremy Inkel, specifically…
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We Have a Technical 338: Still Jacked
This week's classic two-albums podcast format brings discussion of the sole record by the enigmatic industrial/black metal project The Bleeding Light and some…
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We Have A Technical 337: Wendytaker
For genres with a lot of clearly recognizable visual markers, industrial and goth can live and die by how they finesse them. In a high-concept episode of We…
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We Have A Commentary: Love Like Blood: "Chronology Of A Love Affair"
It's a pretty left-field choice for this month's track-by-track commentary podcast, with the Senior Staff discussing the final record by German goth…
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We Have A Technical 336: Kill Hellektro
This classic two albums format episode of the podcast couldn't more clearly convey the range of sounds we like to talk about on We Have A Technical if we'd…
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We Have A Technical 335: Something About Gangrel
The lasting impact and intensity of groundbreaking UK act Portion Control is discussed on this week's podcast, with a specific focus on their first and most…
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We Have A Technical 334: Self-Bowdlerize
Recorded in ages past, in the Before Times preceding the election (ie, last Monday), the latest episode of We Have A Technical finds the Senior Staff…
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We Have A Technical 333: Fat Drax
It's a Halloween like no other for which the Senior Staff are gearing up, or, more accurately gearing down. In anticipation of a more laid back Halloween…
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We Have A Commentary: Meat Beat Manifesto, "99%"
As selected by our Patreon backers, this month the Senior Staff is running a track by track commentary on the third LP from Jack Dangers' genre-hopping…
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We Have a Technical 332: We've Arrived
We're talking about The Mighty Killing Joke on this week's podcast, specifically the 2013 documentary The Death And Resurrection Show which is just getting…
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We Have a Technical 331: Cereal Box Hank
It's a wintry and atmospheric Swedish two'fer on this week's episode of We Have A Technical. As the air chills and nights grow longer, the Senior Staff take up…
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We Have a Technical 330: Too Special
We're cracking open the venerable ID:UD mailbag this week, answering questions fired our way via Patreon and Twitter. How can or should we parse genre? Is…
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We Have a Technical 329: Don't Even Know Her
It's an odd couple pair of records being discussed on this week's episode of We Have A Technical, with the proto-goth, proto-industrial, proto-Ministry work of…
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We Have A Commentary: Assemblage 23, "Mourn"
For this month's commentary podcast we're honored to be joined by Tom Shear of Assemblage 23, who takes us on a track by track overview of his new record…
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We Have a Technical 328: Sub Grinder
We have records from the peak of late 90s electronica mania and the new(ish) wave of goth-punk on the docket this week in the form of Pitchshifter's…
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We Have a Technical 327: Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out
Ain't no one getting younger right now, and that certainly includes the Senior Staff. With both Alex and Bruce hurtling though middle age, we thought we'd…
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We Have a Technical 326: Kanemaru Is Not My Boy
A pair of recent surprising releases from long-standing acts make up this week's episode of the podcast. An unexpected return to early darkwave glory from The…
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We Have A Commentary: Mortal Kombat Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
It's a slightly goofier iteration of We Have A Commentary which we bring you this month, as the 25th anniversary of the Mortal Kombat movie and its…
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We Have a Technical 325: Local Idiots Sent to Jail
With some assistance from Uatu the Watcher, we're using this Pick Five-styled episode of the podcast to speculate about, er, peer into the Multiverse and…
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We Have a Technical 324: The Days Are Just Sacked
We're delivering a bit of a twist on the classic two albums format this week, with the podcast taking up both the first and the most recent LP by that…
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We Have a Technical 323: Fango On The Horn
Back to the classic two albums format this week, the Senior Staff are discussing a pair of morbidly-minded concept records: Pain Station's Cold and Bernard…
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We Have a Technical 322: Pasthole
Bruce and Alex do one of their semi-regular jaw sessions with a selection of Patreon Supporters about albums of their choosing! In this batch we discuss…
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We Have A Technical 321: Scrooge Thing
We've said this before, but you'd be hard-pressed to explain to your Skynard-loving uncle what the two records up for discussion on this week's episode of We…
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We Have A Commentary: The Damned, "Phantasmagoria"
The dreamy, high-camp Edwardian gothic of The Damned's Phantasmagoria is the subject of this month's podcast. What happens when one of the UK's most beloved…
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We Have a Technical 320: Chrome Corks
In an age in which music is digital and albums are increasingly ephemeral, surely record art doesn't matter anymore, right? Dead frigging wrong. The Senior…
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We Have a Technical 319: Too Beautiful for this Stable
It's a cosmic dyad of a podcast episode this week, as the Senior Staff go space trucking with Kangarot and Negative Format for their respective Nursery Of New…
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We Have A Technical 318: Table Beer
We're joined by renaissance woman Andi Harriman to talk about DJing during quarantine and her new EP for aufnahme + wiedergabe, Corpse To Corpus. How do you…
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We Have A Technical 317: I Was A Dracula
As an incidental observation of Canada Day, the Senior Staff are selecting a pair of albums from above the 49th to discuss: Volt 9000's Mutronix and Decree's…
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We Have A Commentary: Leaether Strip, "Solitary Confinement"
The absolute stone classic that is Leaether Strip's Solitary Confinement is given the commentary treatment in this month's installment of the Patreon-back We…
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We Have a Technical 316: Glockenspiel and Ukulele
It's turned into an accidentally synthpunk-themed week here at I Die: You Die, and in keeping with that we're looking at two albums proximal to the sounds we…
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We Have a Technical 315: Unfortunate Connotations
With the 'teens in the rearview, the Senior Staff are reflecting on the club tracks which defined the past decade. We're each picking five great club tracks…
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We Have a Technical 314: Google Troubles
Bruce and Alex are talking about records by Light Asylum and The Final Cut on this week's episode of the podcast. Topics include Shannon Funchess' ability to…
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We Have a Technical 313: Black Lives Matter
We're taking a break from our usual episode formats to speak with Danesha Artis of Standard Issue Citizen and Jairus Khan of Ad·ver·sary and Antigen Shift. We…
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We Have a Commentary: Glass Apple Bonzai, "Night Maze"
For this month's Patreon-backed commentary podcast, the Senior Staff are looking 2015's Night Maze. Glass Apple Bonzai's sophomore record simultaneously…
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We Have a Technical 312: Subreddits of the Brain
Long-time pal and frequent guest Brian Graupner is dropping by ID:UD HQ this week...although he's not here to talk about The Gothsicles. Nope, the man behind…
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We Have a Technical 311: Brewery Spit
A new record by Einsturzende Neubauten is always cause for celebration and discussion, and so the Senior Staff are using this week's podcast to examine "Alles…
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We Have a Technical 310: Calypso Fantastique
There's very little that binds the two albums we're discussing on the latest podcast. The downtempo dark ambient slash rhythmic industrial of Tzolk'in's "Haab"…
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We Have a Technical 309: Good Legs
Few acts have been as aesthetically or technologically prepared for the weird new era of streaming concerts as Panther Modern. After an incredibly immersive…
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We Have a Technical 308: 50 Jar Jars
The two albums format yields discussion of some sophisticated and slightly low-key European releases on this week's podcast. The charms of Melotrons's…
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We Have a Technical 307: Done Professionally
An inversion of the traditional Pick Five format has the Senior Staff firing hypothetical situations to each other to find out what sort of Choose Your Own…
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We Have a Commentary: Einstürzende Neubauten, "Halber Mensch"
1985's "Halber Mensch" was a watershed moment for Einsturzende Neubauten, with the industrial legends expanding their creative vision beyond noise and…
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We Have a Technical 306: limewire.exe
The two album's format has the Senior Staff traversing the rather broad gap betwixt aggrotech and minimal synth as records from Tactical Sekt and Snowy Red are…
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We Have a Technical 305: On Twitter?
The legendary Henrik Nordvargr Björkk joins the podcast to discuss Pouppée Fabrikk's fantastic new raw EBM LP, "Armén". Björkk's work across a wide swath of…
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We Have a Technical 304: Canadian Standoff
The arrival of two new Nine Inch Nails "Ghosts" releases amidst all of the chaos and confusion seems telling. The Senior Staff are discussing the ins and outs…
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We Have a Technical 303: Horse Hooves
It's a real mix of the bitter and the sweet on this week's episode of the podcast. The passings of Gabi Delgado and Bill Rieflin sent shockwaves through the…