Dark Electro, Aggrotech, Goth, Industrial label, Halotan Records have released a free electronic compilation showcasing hard and aggressive side of the dark independent scene. Sampler 08 is full of club oriented songs that will keep the underground dance floors full. Those always hungry to find new dark electronic sounds will find a proper fix of sounds filled with hard beats,… Read more →
KMFDM presents Salvation, an EP of reworked tracks from the recent Our Time Will Come in conjunction with this summer’s Salvation Tour 2015. The uptempo, hook-laden title track is given the remix treatment from Dope Stars Inc and Jimmy Urine from Mindless Self Indulgence, BLOOD VS.MONEY by KMFDM’s tourmate CHANT and Tom Stanzel, and BRAINWASHED remixed by The Kapt’n himself! The Salvation… Read more →
Ego Likeness, the long running musical project of artist Steven Archer and writer Donna Lynch, are set to release their new album When The Wolves Return on Metropolis Records. This marks the fifth album by the band since creating a 4-track demo called Songs From a Dead City that was self-released in 1999. Since their last studio album Breedless was… Read more →
Belgium’s Alfa Matrix label is celebrating its 14th birthday with the 4th edition of the new Matrix Downloaded series: Matrix Downloaded 004 compilation. This FREE (or pay as you wish) compilation is available in downloadable MP3/FLAC quality on the label’s Bandcamp page that also includes the three previous editions of the Matrix Downloaded albums. The Matrix Downloaded 004 compilation features… Read more →
Wax Trax! Records commence a Kickstarter campaign for the documentary film Monumentary. The film includes 40-plus interviews of artists, staff and family. The Kickstarter campaign is needed since the focus is now on a funding goal of 45k to complete the current phase of post-production which will be used primarily for color correction, audio mixing, and music clearance. Work on the film incorporates Joe Losurdo and Christina Tillman who… Read more →
Storm The Studio by Meat Beat Manifesto released in 1989 on Wax Trax! Records was then and is still today a masterpiece of electronic sound. In it you find an unbelievable combination of funk, industrial rhythms, break beats, hip-hop, noise and rap that to this day sounds as groundbreaking as when it debuted. Four tracks “God O.D.,” “Re-Animator,” “Strap Down,”… Read more →
Side-Line Magazine has received a huge number of emails from people interested to download the first volume of the industrial, electro and darkwave compilation Face The Beat: Session 1 in addition to the recently released Face The Beat: Session 2. Side-Line traced back the masters of the first volume and uploaded this today. You can download the first volume –… Read more →
As they describe themselves, the members of Consumer Junk from Utrecht, Gerwin van Ruiswijk, Niels Muijen, Marcel Verschoor, and Etienne Baegen produce music that is “rough, technoid, brutal and full of energy – and that is all you need to know.” Their new album Pusher accentuates all those points. Pusher displays loud, high energy techno beats along with a range of… Read more →
The New Order line-up of Bernard Sumner, Gillian Gilbert, Stephen Morris, Tom Chapman and Phil Cunningham have announced the release of their new album, Music Complete, out on September 25th, 2015. This is to be the first New Order album without original bassist Peter Hook. The long awaited album will be New Order’s first full studio release since 2005’s Waiting For The… Read more →
UPDATE 08/13/2015: An album review of A Worthy Compensation by Beborn Beton is now available. Beborn Beton release a new album this September on German label Dependent. “SO HERE WE ARE, FINALLY, PRESENTING YOU WITH THE BEST ALBUM WE WILL PROBABLY EVER MAKE.” The liner notes of A Worthy Compensation, Beborn Beton’s first album since 1999, speak volumes. Such… Read more →
