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With Bruce off to the highlands and Alex recovering under a pile of coats in a hall closet somewhere, this week's episode is a hastily recorded recap of this year's Verboden Festival from right here in Vancouver. You can hear the strain in the quality of our voices at the time of this recording, as we did plenty of cha

We're talking about records by electronic pioneers who need little introduction in Gary Numan and Uwe Schmidt's Lassigue Bendthaus, but while the latter's Matter is an undisputed, hugely influential masterpiece, Numan's Berserker has a more mixed legacy, hinting at the rough sledding ahead. We're also chatting loads of

We love two things here at ID:UD - dark music festivals, and arbitrary competition. We're combining those two passions with a mock draft of our own non-existent music fests, drawing from the line-ups of a handful of this year's real-world parties. Which of our two line-ups seems the most tempting to you? Let us know he

A landmark for minimal, aggressive EBM for decades to come, the debut LP from Swedish legends Pouppée Fabrikk is the subject of this month's commentary podcast. A deceptively varied listen, Rage infused EBM with a unique punk ethos, and as we discuss here, hinted at the voluminous discography frontman Henrik Nordvargr

We're getting into the weeds of US industrial this week, discussing a record that captures a very specific early 90s moment, along with some formal experimentation in D.D.T.'s Discomedia, and one which consolidates the strength and range of cyberpunk stalwarts Cyanotic, The Trigger Effect. We're also looking over the s

How does community lead to the discovery of new music? How do changes in the circles we run in or means through which we communicate lead to changes in our musical diets? How do modern algorithms interrupt or aid those musical flows? These are questions probably best left to serious sociological researchers, but instea