Formed in 2012, Flesh is the French electro duo consisting of Antoine Lauzel (programming and vocals) and Thomas Szodrak (live drums). They have released their first album Skin on Audiotrauma CD and Bandcamp digital download. Flesh have set out to create music that is electric, exhilarating and resonates with a brutal atmosphere, they cite their influences to be The Prodigy, Justice,… 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 →
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 →
Established in August 2011, Aesthetische is the electronic music project from São Paulo, Brazil music pioneers of Aghast View and Biopsy – Fabricio Viscardi and Guilherme Pires. Debuting on Belgian label Alfa Matrix in 2012 with the album Powerswitch and after their follow-up in 2014 of HybridCore, Aesthetische now bring back their unique blend of electronics on a new 9-track EP,… Read more →
Side-Line Magazine is offering a FREE 52-track compilation of industrial, electro and darkwave music titled: Face The Beat: Session 2. The compilation features new talents, and several familiar ‘faces’ from the electro, wave, industrial scene including John Fryer, Acylum, NoyceTM, Desireles, Dario Seraval (Borghesia) and many more! The free compilation, counting 52 tracks, is available now via Bandcamp. The compilation album… Read more →
Using a minimalist approach in creating multiple tracks, the new Metroland album is a pleasure to hear and appreciate. As with its namesake title, the Triadic Ballet carries us through a well choreographed “dance performance” of music which is sculptural and geometric. Belgians Andy de Decker and Sven Lauwers present their follow-up to 2012’s Mind the Gap in three versions: … Read more →
