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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 302: Beauty is the Enemy
Amidst all of the broader chaos and confusion, a pioneer in industrial music passed away this last week. Bruce and Alex are joined by Alex Reed to discuss the…
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We Have a Technical 301: Charnel Armadillo
The 301st episode of We Have A Technical finds Bruce and Alex returning to the classic two albums format, and between LPs by The Phantom Limbs and Stendeck…
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We Have a Technical 300: We Did It Together
The 300th episode of We Have A Technical finds Alex and Bruce digging into the pre-history of I Die: You Die. What club trends were popping off in the mid…
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We Have a Commentary: VNV Nation, "Empires"
A monumental album celebrating its 20th anniversary is the subject of this month's Patreon supported commentary podcast. "Empires" helped to establish…
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We Have a Technical 299: DELETE THIS
EPs or LPs? Brevity or Loquaciousness? Fun-size or Full Meal Deal? We're discussing the pros and cons of short and long form releases in connection with Our…
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We Have a Technical 298: Two Year Beer
The classic two albums format of the I Die: You Die podcast yields discussion of the first Dead When I Found Her LP and a distinctly European "Moonraker"…
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We Have a Technical 297: Gendered Products
The millenial (and curiously continental) stylings of US electro act cut.rate.box are discussed on this week's episode of We Have A Technical. We also have a…
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We Have a Technical 296: Sports D-Bag
Mailbag time! Yep, we're crowdsourcing this week's episode of We Have A Technical, having asked folks to fire in queries both glib and philosophical dealing…
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We Have a Technical 295: You Think You Know Me
Two classic 90s records on deck in this week's episode of the official podcast, in the form of Cubanate's "Cyberia" and Clan Of Xymox's "Hidden Faces". State…
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We Have a Commentary: Fad Gadget, "Gag"
For the first We Have a Commentary of 2020, we're digging in on a genre classic that is both representative and wildly divergent from its parent discography…
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We Have a Technical 294: Like a Bongo
Industrial music is often tagged as being angry or aggressive, but what does that actually mean? How does aggression manifest in different sub-genres? How do…
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We Have a Technical 293: Rightly Snow
A rare Vancouver snow storm has the Senior Staff separated in meatspace, but that doesn't stop the podcastin'. Records turning twenty this year are on the…
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We Have a Technical 292: Re-Newted
Back in action in 2020 and back to Thursdays, it's the first We Have A Technical of the year! The Senior Staff are each picking five things they're looking…
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We Have a Technical 291: 4 O'Clock in the Morning
Your boys Alex and Bruce find themselves at the end of a long grind of Year End coverage plus a slew of pre-recorded podcasts to last over the break...and are…
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We Have a Technical 290: Year End 2019
Hot on the heels of our traditional Year End Top 25, the Senior Staff chops up their choices, talks some honourable mentions and ruminates on the year that was…
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We Have a Technical 289: Self Checkout
On the last standard issue podcast of the year, we're picking two 90s goth records by female fronted acts...who couldn't really be further apart other than…
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We Have a Technical 288: See You at the Party
We've got an autobiographical-cum-historical Pick Five for you folks this week. What records took a while to reveal their charms to us? Which LPs were we…
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We Have a Commentary: Kite, "IV"
This month's WHaC is a brief but absolutely frantic run through the roller coaster of emotions, impossibly catchy hooks, and grandiose symphonic ambitions of…
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We Have a Technical 287: Skeksis P***
It's November of 2019, and even if we're not in Los Angeles you'd better believe we're not missing the opportunity to discuss Blade Runner, arguably the film…
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We Have a Technical 286: House of Angry Cats
We got a classic two album podcast for you this week, with the Senior Staff discussing the baroque technoid elegance of Architect's "Consume Adapt Create" and…
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We Have a Technical 185: The Smash It Ups
Navel gazing ahoy! Our recent forays into both digital and physical releases, as well as recent discussion of high-level physical reissues, has us considering…
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We Have a Technical 284: Leave the Room
You couldn't find records much further apart from one another in terms of mood than Aghast View's "Carcinopest" and Displacer's "Cage Fighter's Lullaby", but…
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We Have a Technical 283: The Book of the Dud
The Senior Staff have seen a hell of a lot of scene bands in their time, but even they still have their bucket list bands. This week, they're picking five acts…
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We Have a Commentary: Razed in Black, "Damaged"
2003's "Damaged" by Razed In Black is the subject of this month's Patreon backed and Patreon selected We Have A Commentary. A real "call Is coming from inside…
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We Have a Technical 282: Prematurely
How does A Split Second's "...From The Inside" buck that band's reputation, and is The Legendary Pink Dots' "Nemesis Online" the perfect capper to their 90s…
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We Have a Technical 281: Poor Level Design
The Senior Staff break down the anatomy of a club night on this week's episode of We Have A Technical. From format to venue to promotions to DJs to audience…
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We Have A Technical 280: Sleepytime
Coming at you a day earlier than usual (and for the rest of the year), We Have A Technical is discussing a pair of record at opposite historical ends of goth…
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We Have a Commentary: Animal Bodies, "The Killing Scene"
On this month's Patreon-supported bonus podcast, we take on one of the best Vancouver albums of the last decade, synth-punky darkwave modern classic The…
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We Have a Technical 279: Cold Waves Chicago 2019
One half of the Senior Staff took in the four days of rivethead festivities in the Windy City this past weekend, Cold Waves Chicago! We have a full report on…
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We Have a Technical 279: Cold Waves Chicago 2019
One half of the Senior Staff took in the four days of rivethead festivities in the Windy City this past weekend, Cold Waves Chicago! We have a full report on…
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We Have a Technical 278: You Planet
3Teeth's new record, Metawar, comes at an interesting time not only in the industrial metal act's still rising career, but also in the overall trajectory of…
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We Have a Technical 277: What'd I Say
On this week's podcast two very different bands at very different times for Our Thing are discussed as the Senior Staff chat about albums by Linea Aspera and…
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We Have a Technical 276: The Gamut
Alex and Bruce might be talking across purposes this week, but that doesn't stop the We Have A Technical express. They're each picking five intros...though…
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We Have a Technical 275: House Party 2 - The Pajama Jam
The 275th episode of We Have A Technical snuck up on us, but we're rising to the challenge by throwing another impromptu rager, featuring folks working within…
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We Have a Commentary: Klack, "Introducing The 1984 Renault LeCar"
Klack's blend of throwback new beat and self-aware Hi NRG sounds seemed to emerge fully formed with the 2017 "Do You Klack?" EP. That's perhaps no surprise…
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We Have a Technical 274: Ding Dang Dong
It's an accidentally Swedish-heavy episode of WHaT this week, as the Senior Staff discuss "Buried Again" by Colony 5 and "III" by Kite. We're kicking from…
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We Have a Technical 273: No Happy Time
It's still Terminus catch-up season here at the HQ, as we offer interviews with Neuroticfish and Pictureplane garnered from our weekend in Calgary. There's…
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We Have a Technical 272: Terminus Travelogue 2019
Terminus is in the can and we've got the ingredients list...or some such other terrible metaphor. The Senior Staff is breaking down all of the highlights from…
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We Have a Technical 271: Seventy Three
Okay we're gonna level with you: we recorded this episode with our pals from Talking to Ghosts and The Blood of Others like three weeks ago and don't remember…
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We Have a Technical 270: Sadnesse
The new record from Drab Majesty makes brings some interesting new sounds and moods to the dreamy gloom which was so finely honed on "The Demonstation". And as…
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The Virgin Prunes, "...If I Die, I Die"
An ur-source for goth music and thematics, The Virgin Prunes' "...If I Die I Die" is the subject of this month's We Have A Commentary. The secrecy…
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We Have a Technical 269: Who's Afraid of Sylvia Plath
It's a Pick Five episode of We Have a Technical this week, as the Senior Staff chooses bands emblematic of I Die: You Die we think you should know. But this…
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We Have a Technical 268: Ruined the Whole Thing
Avi Roig from Harsh R dropped by the old ID:UD HQ this past weekend in anticipation of his set at Vancouver's Body 2 Body Cascadian EBM showcase. We chatted…
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We Have a Technical 267: ASCII Memes
I Die: You Die turned eight years old this past weekend, and in light of that we're using this week's episode to compare the sort of music the site covered in…
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We Have a Commentary: Ministry, "In Case You Didn't Feel Like Showing Up"
In the same vein as last year's "Ain't It Dead Yet?" episode, this month's We Have A Commentary is a Rifftrax-style accompaniment to MInistry's 1990 tour video…
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We Have a Technical 266: Vocalizations
Looping bass riffs are just about the only thing the two records we're talking about on this week's podcast have in common. Revolting Cocks' "Linger Fickin'…
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We Have a Technical 265: Don't Recognize One of the Letters
The rivet internets were all abuzz this week over Pitchfork's best industrial album's list, and we're certainly not afraid of tossing in our two cents on the…
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We Have a Technical 264: Get the Vibe Going
We're putting a new spin on a classic format with this episode of the podcast. Rather that LPs, we're picking two compilations to discuss - comps by…
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We Have a Technical 263: I Had Forgotten
Hooky Canadian new wave and dubious German EBM are taken up in in this two album episode of We Have A Technical. Cygnets' "Isolator" and Bigod 20's "Supercute"…
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We Have a Technical 262: Hello Boss
What makes an artist name an album after a song, or vice versa? Does this one track manage to sum up all of the musical and thematic energy they've been…
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We Have a Commentary: Haujobb, "Solutions for a Small Planet"
An ahead of its time, genre-busting classic is the subject of this month's Patreon supported We Have A Commentary podcast! Haujobb's 1996 LP "Solutions For A…
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We Have a Technical 261: Sax Guy
On this week's podcast we're striking while the iron's hot and talking about Hatari, the Icelandic BDSM-themed industrial band whose Eurovision run took the…
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We Have a Technical 260: Compact Discordia
It's a classic two album format episode of We Have A Technical this week, with the Senior Staff discussing the glam goth of Gene Loves Jezebel and the…
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We Have a Technical 259: 23 16
A very special friend of the podcast just happened to be in town, so we're joined this week by Real Cardinal of Comaduster! He's sitting in on our…
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We Have a Technical 258: Pike vs Marsden
The new record from FIRES pushes forward with the project's synth rock ethos into punkier territory, and AJ from the band joins the podcast to talk about the…
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We Have a Technical 257: CG Eeyore
Merch. Loot. Tchotchkes. Whatever you call it, bands are hustling it, and fans are buying it. What's the difference between a quality shirt folks would be…
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We Have a Commentary: Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft, "Gold Und Liebe"
DAF's stone classic "Gold Und Liebe" is the subject of this month's We Have A Commentary. An absolute touchstone for all EBM to come, the record is also an…