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We haven’t had a Japanese band for a while now, but recently I have been listening to Aural Vampire. They are a strange “Electro / New Wave / Industrial” Japanese electronic band which consists of Exo-Chika and Raveman. They hail from Tokyo and work a dark ,mainly electropopand synthpop music (lots of yummy industrial noises [...]

One of my favourite books is “The Difference Engine” by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling. The book is set in an era where steam power is still widely used, say, an alternate Victorian era England.  Steam won ,silicon never got a look in. (You really should read the book it’s a ripper).
Now if anyone ever [...]

Artist: The Fiery Furnaces
Website: http://www.myspace.com/thefieryfurnaces or http://www.thefieryfurnaces.com/
Track Name: Single Again (woo hoo it’s live)
Playback: mp3/flash
Download?: No

The Fiery Furnaces are a U.S. indie rock band formed in Brooklyn, New York, in 2000. The band’s primary members are Matthew and Eleanor Friedberger. And they were recently written up in the
New York Times:With a Torrent [...]

Artist: Justice
Website: www.myspace.com/etjusticepourtous
Track Name: Waters of Nazareth
Playback: mp3/flash
Download?: Yes
We’re back… I hope you all had a good break. We moved house over Christmas (it seemed like a good idea at the time), so it took us a while to get everything roughly where it belongs.
Still lets get back into it. I cleaned out the [...]

Artist: SUNN 0)))
Website: http://www.southern.net/southern/band/SUNNN/
Track Name: It Took The Night To Believe
Playback: mp3
Download?: Yes
DISCLAIMER: You probably aren’t goint to enjoy this one, but persevere…
So if Metallica are middle of the road metal and thrash/death metal (Early Sepultura for example) are the extreme at one end. What the hell is at the other end?
I think [...]

Artist: BinaryMind
Website: www.binarymind.org/
Track Name: The King of an Old Kind
Playback: mp3
Download?: Yes

Let’s head a bit out of the old comfort zone today. BinaryMind is an industrial project by Antoine and Bastien Liutkus, two french brothers living in Paris and Nantes. BinaryMind could be viewed as a dual project switching from Industrial to Ambient and back [...]