Italy and dark wave, it always was a perfect duo. Carlo DiSimone and Valeria Buono are pioneers in the genre as they both were involved in Fear Of The Storm, a cult band from the 90s. When this band, that was signed to the famous Energeia label, stopped in 1995, the two decided to start DPERD. Their first material (just a CD-R) was praised in various fanzines, and Regalero Il Mio Tempo was released on…

In the early 80s, Liquid Liquid was one of the most important bands of the New York no wave scene (a reaction to the commercial new wave). The big success for the band came only afterwards. In the mid 80s Grandmaster Flash used one of their tracks (Cavern) as one of the most important samples of his super hit White Lines (Do Not Do It) and later Liquid Liquid was picked up by LCD Soundsystem,…

Jean-Marc Lederman Experience “The Last Broadcast On Earth” multiplatform (digipak/website/videogame) “Time passes, inexorably passes – and I can do nothing about it,” says Tom Shear in his love letter ‘I Love You Sandy’. Earth without a doubt needs to reconnect itself through concept albums like this one. See it as a (mental) healing process – used over and over again, until the mind of each human being re-clicks into doing noble things, constructive things, ridding…

  Outside Belgium they know it for years: The Arch belongs to the absolute top of the goth rock scene, even though the band is so much more than that! The latest CD Fates is again a good example of that: thirteen tracks with one common characteristic: quality! Gasoline Lady begins with a melancholic guitar that seems to come from a Chameleons record, but it turns quickly into an energetic electro-rock song that sounds like…

Music fans don’t stop talking about Parade Ground. For most people, Jean-Marc and Pierre Pauly are just two musicians that had (in fact have) a connection with Daniel B. and Patrick Codenys of Front 242. Of course Parade Ground is much more than that! Perhaps no one manages to describe the definite sound of Parade Ground. Is it minimal synth pop? Perhaps, albeit with a very destructive side. The original records by Parade Ground are…

  Music has a lot to do with luck. Every day dozens of records are released and there’s no human ear that can hear it all, let alone handle it. By sheer coincidence we received the debut album of the Dutch Non-Alignment Pact, and what a record it is! Eight delightful post-punk tracks that are dominated by rousing guitars, tight rhythms, energetic songs and the necessary portion of melancholy. From opener End? you hear that…

One of the nicest elements of music is its diversity. Nothing is more distressing than music fans who, for whatever reason, are narrow minded. Geert Vandekerkhof is not that kind of guy. Of course, you know him as the frontman of the new wave band Der Klinke or the founder of the minimal electro project Story Off, but he also makes alternative ambient music with Hidden In Treetops. The music of Hidden In Treetops is…

  Last year, the debut album of the French duo Mad Masks was released on the British label Peripheral Minimal. The record features eleven instrumental tracks, and they all have something in common: they suggest fear. This is the kind of music that will make you shiver as you might think someone touches your shoulder, even if there is no one behind you. It’s hard to stick a label on this album. One considers it…

  A new release from this alternative treat from Istanbul, Turkey named “Sonic Rabbit Hole” is a five track EP released on April the 5th 2016. It was surely interesting enough to listen to and write a few lines about. Even though I don’t really know much about the band itself and this is the first thing I hear from them, the EP caught my attention. They draw their inspiration from alternative and garage rock,…