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Meat Beat Manifesto: “Re-Animator, Pt. 4″ (Storm the Studio, Wax Trax 1989)Signs of where Jack Dangers would take MBM in subsequent years in its dubby low end and delay, but not before a couple more...

Perc: Bitter Music (Perc Trax)Ali Wells has been cultivating his own ruthless techno sound for some time now, whether through Perc, his primary project, or his label, Perc Trax, wherein a...

KMFDM: “Nihil” (Nihil, Wax Trax! 1994)KMFDM’s Nihil was sort of the album where they lost me, even with the return of Raymond Watts (Pig) to the lineup. Their newfound emphasis on thrash guitar...

The Soft Moon : “Wrong” (Deeper, 2015 Captured Tracks)The spirit of EBM lives on in new forms in this techy, biting workout from Oakland producer Luis Vasquez.(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

Crash Course In Science: “Flying Turns” (Signals From Pier Thirteen, Press Records 1981)This Philly trio faded into obscurity for quite a while, but they’ve undergone a renaissance in the digital...

South London Ordnance: “Sex Fortress” (Drown, Aery Metals 2015)Lots of big room reverb on this banger from SLO released a couple years ago. I like its bite, reminding me of Blawan or Randomer with a...

South London Ordnance: “Sex Fortress” (Drown, Aery Metals 2015)Lots of big room reverb on this banger from SLO released a couple years ago. I like its bite, reminding me of Blawan or Randomer with a...

Lumisokea: “Generation Z” (Transmissions from Revarsavr, Opal Tapes 2016)I’ve been digging the visceral clatter of this leading track on Lumisokea’s 2016 entry from Opal Tapes. Koenraad Ecker’s...

Chris Liebing & Speedy J: “Eventide” (Collabs3000: Metalism, NovaMute 2005)I’ve rediscovered this fantastic meeting of the minds that’s now over 10 years old. The contrast of dense ambience and...

Black Lung: “Muzak from the Hive Mind Part XIII” (Music from the Hive Mind, Ant-Zen 2015)David Thrussell continues to impress with his long-running Black Lung project, including this excerpt from...

Monte Cazazza: “A Is For Atom” (The Worst of Monte Cazazza, Mute 1992)Monte Cazazza has always intrigued me as an enfant terrible of the experimental American industrial magazine, profiled by...

Lassigue Bendthaus: “Molecular Modeling” (Render, 1994 KK Records)Uwe Schmidt’s electro-industrial project Lassigue Bendthaus had a good run of albums in the early 90s, and like most of his releases...

X-Marks the Pedwalk: “Meshwork M.1″ (Meshwork, Zoth Ommog 1995)X Marks the Pedwalk’s Meshwork is an album I curiously find myself returning to fairly often. Their earliest stuff was very much in the...

Delerium: “Cloud Barrier” (Spheres I, Dossier 1994)Bill Leeb and Rhys Fulber’s Delerium project is best known for their huge success in the late 90s collaborating with Kirsty Thirsk and Sarah...

Nine Inch Nails: “Burning Bright (Field On Fire)” (Not The Actual Events, The Null Corporation 2016)Brand new music from Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross as Nine Inch Nails. It’s a sharp contrast to...

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