Celebrating the new year with electro music on line?
Want to ring in the new year with some electronic music? Here you go – http://radio.electro-music.com.
Side-Line Music Awards – the results
Side-Line Music Awards are now ready, each year Side-Line nominates the best songs, bands and acts in the electro, synth, EBM etc space and now the final results are here, as voted by the Side-Line readers. And it seems Recoil got a fair share of the prices
The results of the Side-Line Music Awards 2010 are in. Yes, it did take us a few days more than we had originally planned. But then again, we never imagined getting stuck in London and Brussels the past week due to the unexpected harsh winter conditions circling over Europe. We spent the last two days counting the votes and deleting the invalid ones. But before we give the results, we really want to thank all those readers who have cast their votes in the past two election rounds. You were among the 39,203 people (!!) to have cast a valid vote. That is an all-time record for Side-Line.
Best Band:
- Combichrist (5,391)
- Unter Null (4,985)
- Front Line Assembly (3,818)
- Front 242 (3,803)
- Mesh (2,756)
- Recoil (2,542)
- Suicide Commando (2,459)
- Hocico (2,327)
- Depeche Mode (2,314)
- Leaether Strip (2,201)
- A-ha (2,227)
- Kant Kino (1,837)
- De/Vision (1,571)
- Edge Of Dawn (589)
- Diorama (383)
Best Album:
- Recoil – “Selected” (10,442)
- Front Line Assembly – “IED” (8,252)
- Unter Null – “Moving On” (7,898)
- OMD – “History Of Modern” (6,908)
- Angelspit – “Larva Pupa Tank Coffin” (5,811)
Best Single:
- Covenant – “Lightbringer” (10,330)
- Combichrist – “Scarred” (8,983)
- Rotersand – “Waiting To Be Born” (7,038)
- In Strict Confidence – “Silver Bullets” (6,825)
- I:Scintilla – “Prey On You” (6,027)
Best Label:
- Mute (13,072)
- Alfa Matrix (10,736)
- Metropolis/Dependent (10,479)
- Trisol (4,916)
Best Live Band:
- Recoil (14,545)
- Combichrist (9,107)
- Depeche Mode (6,032)
- Front Line Assembly (4,851)
- Leaether Strip (4,668)
Cryo brings us new material in 2011
Martin Rudefelt, the mastermind behind Swedish synth band Cryo, will soon to start working on new material. Martin has taken a break after the latest full length album “Hidden Aggression”, excluding some remix work for other artists during the year. Together with drummer Torny Gottberg (known from Project-X) has also been featured at several festival venues in 2010, including Arvika and electrostatic.
In addition to new material with Cryo so Martin will also offer content from its previous projects Sound Sequence for free download.
New C/A/T album – featuring Erica Dunham of Unter Null
Fresh off the release of a career retrospective album, “Music To Piss You Off”, Ben Arp has announced that he has begun work on a new C/A/T album – this time featuring a collaboration with Erica Dunham of Unter Null and Stray fame. Dunham recently rejoined the live line-up for C/A/T and will now also move into a production role in the studio.
Arp states this will be “my first collaborative effort since I began writing as C/A/T in 1998 and I am very excited about it”. The new album, “The Scene Broke My Heart” will be the first new C/A/T full length album since 2008’s “The Great Crisis” and will progress stylistically from 2009’s “We Are Still Alive” EP release.
While no release date has been set for the new album, Arp says he “hopes to have this album released at some point in 2011” but goes on to say that C/A/T is “not bound by any label contracts so I plan to explore release options for this album”.
C/A/T can be found online at: www.benarp.com , www.facebook.com/chaosandterrormusic and www.myspace.com/cat .
Kari Berg of Ashbury Heights takes on new projects
Model and singer Kari Berg, former singer of Swedish Ashbury Heights is now current with a variety of new projects.
In addition to various guest appearances in Ad Inferna, The Tot Cor and Psy’Aviah which releases with Karis vocal performance is in question in 2011, she is also part of the Chaos All Stars along with OlkK and Nik.
The trio is now current with new material on the legendary Nangijala Records has given new life.
In cooperation with Echolize is the introduction by two songs for free download – here! Enjoy!
Via ES
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvFMV_NSfkY
Ashbury Heights – Invisible Man – live @ electriXmas 2010
Stockholm Goes Alternative line-up
The new outdoor synthpop, EBM and goth festival Stockholm Goes Alternative (June 17-18) has hired all live acts (but one which will be picked from a contest in February). The line-up looks like this:
Lights of Euphoria, Psyche, De/Vision, Gravitonas, Grendel, Funker Vogt, Assemblage 23, Clan of Xymox, Solitary Experiments, XP8, Autodafeh, Elegant Machinery, Uberbyte, Etage Neun, C-Lekktor, Undecimber, Virgins or Pigeons, Project Rotten, Minerve, Mr Jones Machine, Gothika, Marlow, Cephalgy, Lost Area, Mergel Kratzer, Suicidal Romance, D-Tox, and System.
After 17 years LPF12 re-releases Bacterial as a free download
Amazing 17 years after it’s original release on tape and on time with x-mas LPF12s album “Bacterial” is re-released as free download.
“Bacterial” is one of 9 tapes that Sascha Lemon released between 1993 and 1995 on various labels. Because of their complex and brute force-sound the LPF12-tapes are still much sought after by fans of acts like Mentallo & The Fixer or DIVE. It’s time for some deep old school dark electro! Enjoy!
Download “Bacterial” now for free and in various formats like FLAC or 320 kbit mp3 at lpf12.bandcamp.com, archive.org or last.fm.
Holiday treat from Alfa Matrix
Belgian Alfa Matrix offers five songs for free download. Enjoy!
Code 64 goes robotic
Greetings from Code 64
Advanced Robotics (video Edit) from our forthcoming album “Trialogue”.
Inside Mute
Mute will host 2 days (13-14 May 2011) at London’s historic Roundhouse as part of the annual Short Circuit Electronic Music Festival. Featuring performances and unique collaborations from Mute artists past, present and future alongside talks, workshops, screenings and installations, the occasion will celebrate Mute’s unique and influential work as a label.
Tickets have gone on sale today (Friday 3 December) and will include a limited premium ticket, which will give access to both Mute days, entry to an exclusive aftershow party, as well as specifically created Mute objects that will only be available with this ticket. Tickets can be ordered right here and are priced as follows:
- Fri 13 May 30 UK Pound (6 pm-1 am)
- Sat 14 May 45 UK Pound (12 pm-12 am)
- Fri & Sat 65 UK Pound
- Limited Premium Ticket 100 UK Pound
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