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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 256: Whatever Happened
Verboden Festival came through Vancouver like a tornado, leaving us in a dazed state with the memories and merch of umpteen post-punk, darkwave, and related…
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We Have a Technical 255: Pazuzu's Petals
Back in action after a couple weeks of pre-recorded episodes, the Senior Staff are getting back to basics with discussion of records by Ulver and yelworC…
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We Have a Technical 254: Smiles und Sunshine
The second part of our Pick 5 doubleheader is here! After wallowing in the deep-friend excesses of Americana, we're crossing the Atlantic to discuss some bands…
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We Have a Technical 253: I Blame Society
The first of two Pick 5 episodes of the podcast recorded well ahead of time, so much so that we don't remember much of what was said! We know it had something…
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We Have a Commentary: Grendel, "Timewave Zero"
On this month's Patreon supported bonus podcast, Bruce and Alex tackle Grendel's "Timewave Zero". A notable change in approach and thematics from the project…
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We Have a Technical 252: Seems Appropriate
On this week's episode, the Senior Staff delve headfirst into the history and enduring legacy of one of the most iconic record labels of all time. Julia Nash…
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We Have a Technical 251: Gets a Haircut
With the heavy doses of last week's truth serum finally wearing off, the Senior Staff is back to a tried and true style of episode. Yep, we're sticking with…
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We Have a Technical 250: Truth Serum
We've reached our sestercentennial episode of We Have A Technical! Yep, that's right: 250 episodes are in the can, and to celebrate that anniversary and…
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We Have a Technical 249: I Was Worried
This week's episode of We Have A Technical careers through a plethora of the genres and sounds we like to talk about, thanks to our Patreon backers! Yep, we…
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We Have a Commentary: Coil, "Horse Rotorvator"
As selected by our Patreon backers, this month's We Have A Commentary finds the Senior Staff discussing the sophomore (but certainly not sophomoric) LP by…
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We Have a Technical 248: Mute Your Giggles
Chris Peterson and Craig Huxtable of Ohmelectronic sit down withe the Senior Staff to discuss their second album of deep Vancouver electro-industrial. From the…
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We Have a Technical 247: It's Always Changing
Like many folks in Vancouver and around the world, we were shocked and saddened to learn of the passing of Phil Western last weekend. This week's episode of We…
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We Have a Technical 246: How Much?
An off the cuff conversation with none other than Daniel Myer is featured on this week's episode of We Have A Technical. Myer was passing through Vancouver to…
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We Have a Technical 245: Industrial Standup
How - if at all - does the craft of DJing fit into Our Thing in 2019? In a loose (read: boozy) revisitation of an older topic from a more personal perspective…
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We Have a Technical 244: Sonny Bono's Corpse
Whether it's a matter of strangers getting on the same elevator, twins separated at birth, or just two great tastes which taste great together, Our Thing has…
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We Have a Commentary: Chemlab, "Burnout at the Hydrogen Bar"
For the first Patreon-supported commentary podcast of 2019, we're listening to American industrial rock classic Burnout at the Hydrogen Bar by Chemlab. How did…
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We Have a Technical 243: Teutonic Twosome
We're acting like a pair of old fashioned Germaniacs on the latest episode of We Have A Technical. Records by Lacrimosa and Steril are on the docket, alongside…
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We Have a Technical 242: To/For You
It's the 242nd episode of WHaT, and you'd better believe the Senior Staff are making the most of it. They're welcoming an all-star cast of friends of the…
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We Have a Technical 241: Magi'd Each Other
I Die: You Die kick the new year off with an extended discussion of Laibach's new record: a representation of tunes from "The Sound Of Music" for their tour of…
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We Have a Technical 240: Monét
Hey folks, it's the last We Have a Technical of the year and the Senior Staff recorded it half in the bag and completely burned out from writing Year End…
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We Have a Technical 239: Let's Call It
It's the Year End episode of We Have a Technical, and we're talking lists, honourable mentions and the broad trends of 2018 in Our Thing. If you ever wanted to…
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We Have a Commentary: The Birthday Massacre, "Violet"
Our last Patreon-supoorted commentary podcast of the year has us listening to the sophomore (?) record from Ontario's The Birthday Massacre. The record's…
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We Have a Technical 238: Mary Alan Julian
As Year End coverage waits in the wings, your favourite post-industrial palookas are taking a look back at the year that was. Yes, it's a Pick Five episode…
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We Have a Technical 237: A Catharsis of Humpty Dumpty
It's a very English and very apocalyptic episode of We Have A Technical as recent records by Gazelle Twin and Current 93. Be it political, personal, or…
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We Have a Technical 236: Kinda Sisters
Legendary producer John Fryer has had a hand in just about all of the genres of music we discuss on We Have A Technical, and we're chatting with him this week…
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We Have a Commentary: Everything Goes Cold, "Vs General Failure"
This month's We Have A Commentary podcast takes a tour through the diabolical world of Everything Goes Cold. "Vs General Failure," the first LP of Eric…
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We Have a Technical 235: Zauberschlosshed
Helium Vola and Solvent's connections to Our Thing may take the form of winding paths demanding historical context, but that's exactly why your old pals Alex…
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We Have a Technical 234: Chrysanthemums of Regret
The new album from Dead Can Dance, replete with high concept and worldly instrumentation, is the subject of this week's We Have A Technical. How does it fit…
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We Have a Technical 233: Terrence
You'd be hard pressed to find records as different from each other within Our Thing as Hypnoskull's "Electronic Music Means War To Us" and Solemn Novena's…
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We Have a Technical 232: Just Be Foolish
Okay, okay, ahem - Alex and Bruce absolutely were ready to have a podcast up the day after Halloween and definitely didn't cobble something together at the…
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We Have a Technical 231: De Zha-Day
In anticipation of Halloween, Alex and Bruce are talking about the role horror literature, imagery, and themes have played across the breadth and history of…
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We Have a Commentary: Bauhaus, "Mask"
No less classic a record than Bauhaus' "Mask" gets the full length editorial treatment in this month's Patreon supported We Have A Commentary episode! We…
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We Have a Technical 230: THUD!
You'd be hard pressed to find albums more dichotomous than the two the Senior Staff are discussing on this week's podcast. That said, Foetus' "Hole" and Deine…
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We Have a Technical 229: Rubbish Mate
This episode of We Have A Technical offers up an interview with none other than C-Tec! Jean-Luc De Meyer and Marc Heal join us to talk about the origins and…
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We Have a Technical 228: My Memes
This week the Senior Staff are on the mean streets of LA, catching all the goings on at the third and final stop of the Cold Waves festival tour. Alex and…
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We Have a Technical 227: Emergency Socks
On the occasion of Storming The Base scaling back and changing their operations, the Senior Staff are taking up the topic of mail order. From filling out money…
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We Have a Commentary: C-Tec, "Cut"
With industrial supergroup C-Tec back in action touring across the continent, the Senior Staff are revisiting their second LP, 2000's "Cut". What do each of…
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We Have a Technical 226: Classic Nera Nebb
Hot on the heels of last week's knock down dragout fisticuffs, Bruce and Alex kick back with a good old fashioned Pick 5 episode of We Have a Technical. Yes…
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We Have a Technical 225: The Great Debate III
Things get personal, very personal, as the Senior Staff embark upon the third Great Debate. Each is acting as a representative of their favourite album of all…
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We Have a Technical 224: Don't Say Ideas
The ol' ID:UD mailbag is pulled open in this episode of the podcast, with all manner of questions ranging from the ruminatively serious to the frothily…
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We Have a Technical 223: Omega Pentagon
Matia Simovich of Inhalt joins Alex and Bruce on the podcast this week to discuss how that project's trilogy of EPs responds to the crisis of late capitalism…
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We Have a Technical 222: Smoked Licorice
The Senior Staff is back at full force! Back from vacation, Alex and Bruce are talking about records from Spetsnaz and Gatekeeper. Also on the docket is…
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We Have a Technical 221: A GD Human Being
It's a special two-guest episode of We Have a Technical as we welcome Eric Sochocki of FIRES and Jamie Blacker of ESA to the podcast. We had the pleasure of…
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We Have a Commentary: Comaduster, "Hollow Worlds"
It's a very special We Have a Commentary, as for the first time ever Bruce and Alex sit down with the artist who made the album we're commenting on. Yes, Réal…
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We Have a Technical 220: Say Hi
With Bruce away for a few weeks of well-deserved vacation, Alex digs into the interviews we collected during Terminus Festival for a conversation with Claus…
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We Have a Technical 219: Don't Want to Talk
It's a very special travelogue episode of We Have a Technical as Bruce and Alex record their impressions of Terminus Festival in Calgary, along with a ton of…
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We Have a Technical 218: A Regular CCR
On the heels of bidding adieu to their subcultural home away from home for years on end, the Senior Staff are talking about Vancouver's late great Club 23…
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We Have a Technical 217: Almost as Much
The Senior Staff try to save records of note from the memory hole on this episode of We Have A Technical. Alex and Bruce petitioj for why each of the five…
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We Have a Commentary: Skinny Puppy, "Ain't It Dead Yet"
It's a different kind of commentary episode, as Bruce and Alex take a cue from The Satellite of Love and do a live video commentary! The Senior Staff are…
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We Have a Technical 216: Soyrizo
A pair of true school post-industrial records are taken up in this week's We Have A Technical! Individual Totem's squelchy alien soundscapes on "S.E.T.I." and…
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We Have a Technical 215: A Monocle
It's a free form discussion episode of We Have A Technical this week, with the subject of rivethead culture being taken up. Is it distinct from industrial…
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We Have a Technical 214: Hard for ABBA
Our classic two albums format gets a bit of a rework on this episode of We Have A Technical. We weigh how Nine Inch Nails' "Bad Witch", the newest record by a…
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We Have a Technical 213: TV's Police
Texture and rhythm heavy records by Mlada Fronta and Zex Model come under the microscope in this week's episode of We Have A Technical! From Rémy Pelleschi's…
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We Have a Commentary: Snog, "Buy Me... I"ll Change Your Life"
David Thrussell's 1997 opus "Buy Me... I'll Change Your Life" goes under the microscope for this month's We Have A Commentary podcast, made possible by our…
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We Have a Technical 212: Rollerball Rock
A Pick Five episode aims for the singles charts this week on the IDieYouDie.com podcast! Bruce and Alex are picking songs whose single versions they prefer to…
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We Have a Technical 211: Shirt
It's an odd couple of records being discussed on this week's episode of the podcast. The early darkwave stylings of Love Is Colder Than Death's "Mental…
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We Have a Technical 210: A Technical Foul
Patreon backers join Alex and Bruce to discuss albums which tickle their fancy. Releases from Urceus Exit, The. Invalid, and Kite have been chosen and are…
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We Have a Technical 209: His Name Is
It's a Q & A episode of We Have A Technical this week, with Patreon backers suoplyng questions both broad and specific. From drugs to Gridlock, from DJing to…
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We Have a Technical 208: Brother Hero
This episode of We Have A Technical doubles down on ur-goth realness with discussion of early records by Alien Sex Fiend and Sopor Æternus and the Ensemble of…
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We Have a Commentary: The Mission, "God's Own Medicine"
This month's Patreon-Supported bonus podcast is about The Mission's "God's Own Medicine", an important and dare we say controversial entry into the UK goth…