As a dedicated music fan, I really respect musicians who do everything on their own. You know, no marketing tricks, just convincing the public with your talent and not using manufactured promo talk we read too much these days. Because yes, everybody thinks he’s brilliant nowadays. Even if that’s everybody’s right to do so, we can only quote Ian Curtis: where will it end? Monica Jeffries is different though. She needed just two years before…

Andy Oppenheimer is a regular guest on AltVenger. Obviously because he is one of the pioneers of the minimal scene (the first release on the legendary Minimal Wave was by his band Oppenheimer Analysis), but of course because we love his music too. Last years Andy is involved in both Touching The Void (with Mark Warner who played in Sudeten Creche) and Oppenheimer MK II (with  Mahk Rumbae of Konstruktivists). So far Oppenheimer MK II…

Perhaps you’re not familiar with the name of  Patenbrigade Wolff, but in the alternative electro circuit this Berlin-based band is pure cult. Sven Wolff (in the 90s he was founding member of The Dust Of Basement) and Lance Murdock never hide their adoration for Kraftwerk, and you can hear that. Just as with Metroland from Belgium or the UK-based Komputer, you don’t have to be a specialist to quickly discover the influences of the electronic…

To be honest, I loathe the thought that many music lovers are convinced that today no original music is made. But it will be difficult to find a band that sounds as original as Tuxedomoon. This American band was formed by Blaine L. Reininger and Steven Brown at the end of the 70 (later joined by Peter Principle and Luc Van Lieshout). Their style?Almost impossible to describe, but let’s keep it to a quirky hybrid of…

It’s kind of simple: make dark music and call your band Noir. Someone has to be the first, and Athan Maroulis was the one. If the name sounds familiar to you, then you know a lot about the dark underground, because Athan is the guy behind EBM legend Spahn Ranch, and he was involved in recordings by Black Tape For A Blue Girl and Razed In Black. With his new band Noir, he makes something completely…

Introducing Claus Larsen would be like pretending that you know nothing about dark music. But we’re quite sure that many of you have never heard Am Tierpark, the synth pop project by the Leather Strip-frontman that is formed with John R. Mirland. Because of the high amount of covers Claus made it’s obvious that he has a huge passion for 80s music, and so does John! If you are actually wondering what this German word…