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March 21, 2012

In terms of musical variety, Amphi Festival 2012 stands out a mile

Amphi Festival 2012 news keep on coming, and we are very happy, since it’s one of the events we are really looking forward to this summer. Musical diversity gives the extra finishing touches to the superb lineup of the festival. Already announced, The Sisters of Mercy, And One, Eisbrecher, Blutengel, Apoptygma Berzerk, Project Pitchfork, Combichrist, Camouflage, Front Line Assembly, DAF, Mono Inc., Corvus Corax, Nachtmahr, Assemblage 23, Solar Fake, 18 Summers, Coppelius, [:SITD:], Haujobb, Stahlzeit, Seabound, Aesthetic Perfection, A Life Divided, [X]-RX, Tyske Ludder, Whispers in the Shadow, The Other, Eisenfunk, Schoengeist, Lord of the Lost – and many others. Today’s news? Three more acts, and what acts, if we may say so: mind.in.a.box, Love Is Colder than Death and Eklipse – the latter being the name of the seductive quartet, which loves to clothe contemporary pop music and soundtrack elements into a fascinating dress of compelling classic string sounds on our Theater-stage. Without vocals, yet even more emotional and spiced up with an extra portion of sex-appeal, the four ladies interpret songs by Coldplay, Lady Gaga, Hurts, Depeche Mode and many more, cunningly flavored with a magic note of dark-lascivious romanticism, wit and dreamy melancholy.

Also in the news today: Amphi Festival warmup parties – they are numberless! and great occasions to meet other Amphi enthusiasts, plan your trips and get in the mood for the festival, if need be. Apr-07: Paris, Apr-08: Amstelveen, Apr-14: Brighton, Apr-28: Stuttgart, Apr-28: Thessaloniki, Apr-28: Antwerpen; Apr-28: Karlsruche, May-04: Manchester, May-05: Northampton, May-09: Wuppertal, May-12: London, May-16: Heidelberg, May-19: Krefeld, May-19: Zuerich, May-19: Vienna, May-24: Duisburg, May-25: Bonn, May-25: Bielefeld, Jun-02: Frankfurt, Jun-02: Essen, Jun-02: Augsburg, Jun-03: Dresden, Jun-09: Bonn, Jun-09: Bremen, Jun-16: Siegen, Jun-21: Oberhausen, Jun-22: Athens, Jun-29: London, Jun-30: Ingolstadt, Jul-20: Cologne.

Tickets are available via the Amphi ticket shop under http://amphi-festival.de/tickets and also from http://protain-ticket.de, as well in all German CTS/Eventim box offices. For further information please visit http://amphi-festival.de and http://Facebook.com/amphifestival.

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February 29, 2012

More Great News about Amphi Festival 2012!

Filed under: Amphi Festival — Tags: 18 Summers, A Life Divided, aesthetic perfection, amphi festival 2012, and one, and Spetnaz, apoptygma berzerk, assemblage 23, blutengel, Camouflage, combichrist, coppelius, Corvus Corax, DAF, eisbrecher, eisenfunk, front line assembly, haujobb, July 21&22, lord of the lost, mono inc., nachtmahr, project pitchfork, schoengeist, seabound, sitd, solar fake, Spiritual Front, Stahlzeit, the cruxshadows, The Other, the sisters of mercy, The Wars, tyske ludder, Whispers in the Shadow, x rx — admin @ 12:25 pm

Great news from the organizers of Amphi Festival 2012 – the Orkus Open Air festival – the list of confirmed acts is getting an irresistible contour. Band suggestions were volunteered by festival fans as well, and in the end the new and replacement bands that make Amphi Festival the event to be at on July 21&22 at Cologne’s Tanzbrunnen.

Apoptygma Berzerk, The Cruxshadows, Spiritual Front, The Wars, and Spetnaz are some of the new names that are added to the already gorgeous list of acts that will keep you beaming for two days: The Sisters of Mercy, And One, Eisbrecher, Blutengel, Project Pitchfork, Combichrist, Camouflage, Front Line Assembly, DAF, Mono Inc., Corvus Corax, Nachtmahr, Assemblage 23, Solar Fake, 18 Summers, Coppelius, [:SITD:], Haujobb, Stahlzeit, Seabound, Aesthetic Perfection, A Life Divided, [X]-RX, Tyske Ludder, Whispers in the Shadow, The Other, Eisenfunk, Schoengeist, Lord of the Lost – and many others.

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October 26, 2011

Conjure One – “Like Ice”: Viva Music Album Review

Filed under: Album Reviews — Tags: 2011, album review, conjure one, delirium, exilarch, front line assembly, like ice, new single, viva music review — admin @ 8:00 am

Tracklist: “Like Ice (Marcus Schoessow Extended Remix)” * “Like Ice (Album Edit)” * “Like Ice (Rampue Remix)” * “Like Ice (Chris B Remix)” * “Like Ice (Marcus Schoessow Edit)” * “Like Ice (Sine Here Remix)” * “Like Ice (Drop’s Distorted Implant)”

Conjure One – “Like Ice”: Viva Music Album Review:

Rhys Fulber, the Canadian-born artist and producer behind Conjure One, releases “Like Ice”, the remix EP, the lead single from the band’s third album, “Exilarch”. Formerly of Front Line Assembly and Delirium, Rhys Fulber proposes in his third, exodus-like nomadism of sound, “Exilarch” a musical rendition of the various travels we need to make between past and present, darkness and light, serenity and disquietude. Packed with no less than seven versions of the song, included the album edit, “Like Ice” is chanted in its various versions covering a wide floor space from dance to distort, from edits to extended versions. The collaborations included in the single release take the best of “Like Ice” and show us the multitude of facets of the track, and, last but not least, predict its unfathomable charm. Overall impressive, and still allowing for minor crevices and hidden valleys of sound, the single pack is a good deal for the listener who wants to rejoice the variety, and also substantial grounds to admire the musical arrangements and the voice of Jaren Cerf.

Conjure One – Official Website | on Facebook | Discography on Discogs

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September 28, 2011

Leaether Strip – “Untold Stories” Out on Oct-01! Viva Music Album Review

Filed under: Album Reviews — Tags: album review, cd rom disc 2, decoded feedback, front line assembly, implant, leaether strip, new album, october 2011, rummelsnuff, self-released, untold stories, viva music review — admin @ 8:37 pm

“This album has been in my head for many years, and after completing the somewhat aggressive Klutae album “Electro Punks Unite”, I really felt it was time to dig for my roots and to really embrace my melancholic and melodic side more than I have done over the years. The Songs have a very retro electronic sound that most of my listeners knows I love, and on most of the songs you will hear me actually sing like the good boy I also have deep inside. It was a hard job to dig him out.” (Claus Larsen)

Tracklist: Leaether Strip – “Untold Stories – The Melancholic Sessions”: “Reunited with My Bitterness” * “Listen to the Children Pray” * “Blind Man’s Buff” * “Untold Stories” * “True Glory – False Heroes” * “Ever Changing Landscapes” * “Love Is Dead” * “Connubialis” * “Giants” * “I Feel No Shame” * “Silver Mist” * “I Am Him – He Is Me” * “The Queen of the Dusk” * “For the Ones We Lost” | “CD-rom Number One”: “Hate Me 2011” * “Budapaest Noir” * “Unerzaehlte Geschichten feat. Rummelsnuff” * “Leaether Strip and Rummelsnuff – Vollnarkose” * “Reunited with My Bitterness – Club Mix by Psychopomps” * “The End of the Road – Final Words Mix by Front Line Assembly” * “Reunited with My Bitterness – Endless Dark Mix by Why the Misery” * “Listen to the Children Pray – Gospel Mix by Implant” * “Reunited with My Bitterness – Nu retro Rmx by Implant” * “Listen to the Children Pray – Bitch Slap Mix by Decoded Feedback” * “Listen to the Children Pray – Robotiko Rejekto Remix” * “Bonus Track – Reunited with My Bitterness – Deadboy Mix by Decoded Feedback” * “Bonus Track – Reunited with My Bitterness – UCNX Remix”

Other Leaether Strip news on darkwave.ro: Leaether Strip at Amphi Festival 2011 (review) | Leaether Strip at Amphi Festival 2011 (photo gallery) | Leaether Strip at E-tropolis Festival 2010 (review) | Leaether Strip at E-tropolis Festival 2010 (photo gallery)

Leaether Strip “Untold Stories – The Melancholic Sessions” – Viva Music Review:

Self-released on Oct-01, the new material from stage and studio veteran Leaether Strip is a must of the season. “I love and need the direct contact with the listeners and sure I know I will not have a big distributor behind me but to have this contact is more important for me than sales, yes it sounds cheesy , but that’s how I feel.” says Claus Larsen, and we have to agree – this is a step that reduces at the same time the tiresome discussions about how much technology brings us together and rips us apart, and the unwanted hiatus that listeners might feel when not being able to be in contact with the artists they cherish.“Untold Stories – The Melancholic Sessions” is an amazing listen, and definitely one of the most creative and intriguing things we are going to listen to until the end of the year. The impression their album gives is one of plenitude and reassurance, with a mist of cockiness and a solid base of imaginative musicianship. A maverick album of sorts, “Untold Stories – The Melancholic Sessions” is, in Claus Larsen‘s own words, retro electro – the concept itself rhymes and slides – so does the album, listen to it and you will be proud to be able to present to your friends one hell of a music find. (more…)

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April 12, 2011

Kinetik Festival, May 19-23 in Montreal: News!

Filed under: Kinetik Festival — Tags: 2011, aesthetic perfection, agonoize, alifeffekt, assemblage 23, bruderschaft, continues, corrupted suburbs, covenant, die krupps, dj acucrack, e.s.a., everything goes cold, festival, festival concept, festival news, fgf280, front 242, front line assembly, funker vogt, god module, iszoloscope, ivardensphere, Kinetik festival, lineup, mind.in.a.box, modulate, monolith, montreal, news, painbastard, phosgore, sket, solitary experiments, squarehead, suicide commando, system syn, terrorfakt, the klinik, ticket information, unter null, vnv nation, waste, x rx, xotox — admin @ 10:00 am

A non-profit organization founded by a partnership between KAO Production, EBEN Production & [i] Prod to promote the North American Electro-Industrial-Noize scene, Kinetik Productions is proud to bring you back after the success of the last editions, the Kinetik Festival from May 19 to 23 2011 in Montreal, Canada. Don’t miss your chance to be part of this unique experience with some of the best acts of the Electro-Industrial scene performing during those four days!

KINETIK DEFINITION (KINETIC) :

The kinetic energy (also called in the old writings live viva, or sharp force) is the energy which a body because of its movement has. The kinetic energy of a body is equal to work necessary to make pass says it body of the rest to its current rotation and translatory movement.

It is Guillaume d’ Ockham (1280-1349) who introduced, in 1323, the difference between what is called the dynamic movement (that we generate) and the kinetic movement (generated by interactions, of which collisions).*

* Definition supplements via wikipedia

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December 31, 2010

2011 Festivals to Look Forward to

Filed under: International Events — Tags: alien sex fiend, amphi festival, analog angel, apoptygma berzerk, arcana, asp, attrition, belgium, berlin, blackfield festival, brazda lui novac, bucuresti, clan of xymox, cologne, combichrist, covenant, darkwave.ro, das ich, destroid, diary of dreams, die braut, die krupps, diorama, dr. arthur krause, dreadful shadows, dutch order, dv8fest, e-tropolis festival, empusae, end of green, eyes shut tight, faderhead, finland, front line assembly, fuzzbox, gelsenkirchen, germany, gothic festival waregem, grendel, haujobb, hildesheim, in strict confidence, klangstabil, leaether strip, leipzig, lisbon, lumous festival, m'era luna festival, mono inc., MORTIIS, nosferatu, ordo rosario equilibrio, persephone, planet myer day, portugal, pray silence festival, project pitchfork, qntal, rabia sorda, red lorry yellow lorry, romania, rotersand, santa hates you, skinny puppy, solitary experiments, sono, staubkind, subheim, suicide commando, summer darkness, tampere, tenek, teufel, the beauty of gemina, the netherlands, tying tiffany, uk, unheilig, utrecht, vlad in tears, vnv nation, wave gotik treffen, waves under water, whitby gothic weekend, within temptation, york, zin, zita rock festivals — admin @ 9:30 am

Planet Myer Day 9

When: January 7

Where: Leipzig, Germany

Who: Destroid, Brazda lui Novac, Klangstabil, Empusae, Subheim

Official Website: http://www.myspace.com/planetmyerstudios

Darkwave.ro

When: January 29

Where: Bucharest, Romania

Who: Project Pitchfork, Rabia Sorda, Tenek

Official Website: http://www.vivamusic.ro

Whitby Gothic Weekend

When: March 25 & March 26

Where: Whitby, North Yorkshire, UK

Who: Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, Fuzzbox, Dr. Arthur Krause, Dutch Order, The Beauty of Gemina and others to be announced

Official website: http://wgw.topmum.co.uk/

Wave Gotik Treffen

When: June 10 thru June 13

Where: Leipzig, Germany

Who: Analog Angel, Die Braut, Eyes Shut Tight, Nosferatu, Tying Tiffany, Vlad in Tears, and others to be announced

Official Website: www.wave-gotik-treffen.de

Zita Rock Festival

When: June 18 & June 19

Where: Zitadele, Berlin, Germany

Who: Zin, Teufel, Qntal, End of Green, Mono Inc., Project Pitchfork and others to be confirmed

Official Website: http://www.zita-rock.de/

Blackfield Festival

When: June 25 & June 26

Where: Gelsenkirchen, Germany

Who: Apoptygma Berzerk, Dreadful Shadows, Sono and others to be announced

Official Website: www.blackfield-festival.de

Lumous Gothic Festival

When: July 8 thru July 11

Where: Tampere, Finland

Who: Leaether Strip, Nosferatu, Waves Under Water, and others to be announced

Official Website: http://www.lumous.net

Amphi Festival

When: July 16 & July 17

Where: Tanzbrunnen, Cologne, Germany

Who: Die Krupps, Das Ich, Diorama, Grendel, Staubkind, Klangstabil, Persephone, Suicide Commando, In Strict Confidence, and others to be confirmed. Classic & Depeche (piano concert with pianist Lars Arnold) also in the schedule.

Official Website: http://www.amphi-festival.de/

DV8Fest 2011

When: July 21 thru July 24

Where: York, UK

Who: Nosferatu and more than 50 other acts to be announced

Official Website: http://www.dv8fest.com/

Castle Party

When: July 21 thru July 24

Where: Bolkow Castle, Poland

Who: Atari Teenage Riot (de), PROJECT PITCHFORK (de), DIARY OF DREAMS (de), Closterkeller (pl), UMBRA ET IMAGO (de), SUICIDE COMMANDO (be) and many more

Official Website: http://castleparty.com/

Summer Darkness

When: July 29 thru July 31

Where: Utrecht, the Netherlands

Who: Lineup will be announced during the Summer Darkness Winter Edition, on Feb-04 (Combichrist & Mortiis concert)

Official website: http://www.summerdarkness.nl/festival/

M’era Luna Festival

When: August 13 & August 14

Where: Hildesheim, Germany

Who: Within Temptation, ASP, End of Green, Mono Inc., The Beauty of Gemina and others to be confirmed

Official Website: http://www.fkpscorpio.com/meraluna/

E-tropolis Festival

When: September 3

Where: Berlin, Germany

Who: Rotersand, VNV Nation, Haujobb, Faderhead, Solitary Experiments, Santa Hates You, and others to be confirmed

Official Website: http://www.etropolis-festival.de

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December 28, 2010

2010 Album Releases You Want to Listen to

Filed under: Album Reviews — Tags: 2010, 2010 albums, ad inferna, angel theory, angels on acid, chrom, code 64, combichrist, culture kultur, das ich, diary of dreams, faderhead, front line assembly, funker vogt, heimataerde, hocico, how to destroy angels, in strict confidence, iris, killing joke, klangstabil, la femme verte, laurentiu rusen, lost area, massiv in mensch, menschdefekt, Mergel Kratzer, mind.in.a.box, minerve, painbastard, peter murphy, project pitchfork, provision, s-talker, sam, santa hates you, shadow minds, slave republic, solemn novena, solitary experiments, stereomotion, tenek, tense, viva music, wynardtage, zeromancer — admin @ 10:00 am

A rich and provocative year, 2010 meant the release of many new albums from the relevant names from the gothic, industrial and electro scenes, but also the discovery of new artists, that come, layer upon layer of sound, to further enlarge the musical spectrum, reconsider the influences, and at the same time remain under the non-mainstream cone of light.

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December 9, 2010

E-tropolis Festival 2011 news – Front Line Assembly confirmed!

Filed under: E-tropolis — Tags: e-tropolis festival, front line assembly, rotersand — admin @ 7:43 pm

II. E-tropolis Festival 2011 – Press release:

Dear E-tropolis Fans,

it is incredible how fast time passes! Just about one year ago the E-TROPOLIS FESTIVAL emerged with its first official press release and 7 months later over 3500 attendants celebrated a spectacular electro festival at the Columbia compound in Berlin. On 3^rd September 2011 the E-TROPOLIS FESTIVAL returns to Berlin, and the line-up already promises to landmark an exciting highlight of the forthcoming festival season. Shortly before Christmas two additional bands joined in to reinforce the heavy machinery of the second E-TROPOLIS FESTIVAL:

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August 11, 2010

Amphi Festival 2010 review: Day 2

Filed under: International Events (Reviews) — Tags: amphi festival, blitzkid, combichrist, coppelius, depeche mode, diary of dreams, eisbrecher, escape with romeo, ext!ze, frank the baptist, front line assembly, leaves' eyes, letzte instanz, mesh, mono inc., rabia sorda, viva music, vnv nation — admin @ 1:12 pm

Day 2 – July 25, 2010

Photo gallery – participants, venue

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EXT!ZE (Mainstage)

Since 2007, CYB3ERELLA, CYB3RSLUT, IONIC MATRIX, CYB3ERCORE have released 3 albums and their music is very popular with cosmopolitan clubheads. It is very danceable and includes classical pieces such as samples from Carmina Burana. According to side-line.com: “This band can be the next sensation from the dark cyber electro scene!”.

EXT!ZE was the act closest to the hearts of the cyber-goth audience. They stirred the spirits of young cyber fans, and made them dance frantically to electro beats like no other although it was still early afternoon. Their soundscape is redolent of techno, trance, electro and some industrial as well – what’s there not to like?. The cyberaudience was ecstatic with this single 100% cyber band at AMPHI FESTIVAL. More info on: http://www.myspace.com/ext1ze and http://www.extize.com.

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