Like many folks in Vancouver and around the world, we were shocked and saddened to learn of the passing of Phil Western last weekend. This week's episode of We Have A Technical is meant to be a celebration and examination of his genre-bending electronic forays.

An off the cuff conversation with none other than Daniel Myer is featured on this week's episode of We Have A Technical. Myer was passing through Vancouver to play a DJ set at a techno party, so we wanted to take the opportunity to discuss how his recent work in a myriad of projects relates to the ever broadening world of dark techno. Additiona ...…

How - if at all - does the craft of DJing fit into Our Thing in 2019? In a loose (read: boozy) revisitation of an older topic from a more personal perspective. Get ready for hot takes, side eye, and plenty of polemical ranting in the first episode of We Have A Technical recorded in the new HQ!

Whether it's a matter of strangers getting on the same elevator, twins separated at birth, or just two great tastes which taste great together, Our Thing has plenty of collaborations across its history and styles worthy of consideration and discussion...including the ol' Pick Five treatment. From power noise to drone, the Senior Staff have a cl ...…

For the first Patreon-supported commentary podcast of 2019, we're listening to American industrial rock classic Burnout at the Hydrogen Bar by Chemlab. How did the record both presage what was to come while speaking to the history of the North American sound? Has it aged well? Is Jared Louche an amazing frontman? Listen and find out!…

We're acting like a pair of old fashioned Germaniacs on the latest episode of We Have A Technical. Records by Lacrimosa and Steril are on the docket, alongside discussion of some new comments from Blixa Bargeld regarding industrial music, and the news of Ant-Zen withdrawing from the physical media business. Life may not be easy in Germany, but ...…

It's the 242nd episode of WHaT, and you'd better believe the Senior Staff are making the most of it. They're welcoming an all-star cast of friends of the podcast to celebrate and discuss the music and legacy of Front 242. From their famous live shows to the radical changes made across their discography, folks from across Our Thing are dropping ...…

I Die: You Die kick the new year off with an extended discussion of Laibach's new record: a representation of tunes from "The Sound Of Music" for their tour of North Korea. All of the bugbears and thorns which come with Slovenia's most stoic cultural product are in the mix, along with consideration of socialist realism, Anschluss, and Rogers & ...…

Hey folks, it's the last We Have a Technical of the year and the Senior Staff recorded it half in the bag and completely burned out from writing Year End coverage. You know what that means: it's the annual off-topic podcast! To be frank we scarcely remember what we talked about on this episode last week, but rest assured there's probably someth ...…

It's the Year End episode of We Have a Technical, and we're talking lists, honourable mentions and the broad trends of 2018 in Our Thing. If you ever wanted to hear two very tired people stumble their way through an animated but barely coherent series of observations about the year that was, this is the episode of WHaT for you! Seriously though ...…

Our last Patreon-supoorted commentary podcast of the year has us listening to the sophomore (?) record from Ontario's The Birthday Massacre. The record's combination of darkwave and broader rock and pop sounds made it a huge hit in 2004: how does it hold up? How were the band's enduring sounds and themes cemented here? Can we talk about a band ...…

As Year End coverage waits in the wings, your favourite post-industrial palookas are taking a look back at the year that was. Yes, it's a Pick Five episode with the dead simple theme of tracks from 2018. Yep, tunes which represented this year's broader trends as well as plain old earworms are being picked up and discussed, alongside recent live ...…

It's a very English and very apocalyptic episode of We Have A Technical as recent records by Gazelle Twin and Current 93. Be it political, personal, or religious, endings and great changes are taken up in fraught and anxious ways on "Pastoral" and "The Light Is Leaving Us All". Bruce and Alex also take a look at the just announced Mechanisms Fe ...…

Legendary producer John Fryer has had a hand in just about all of the genres of music we discuss on We Have A Technical, and we're chatting with him this week about his legacy behind the decks and his open-ended musical project Black Needle Noise featuring a revolving cast of guest vocalists. All that plus some talk about And One taking touring ...…

This month's We Have A Commentary podcast takes a tour through the diabolical world of Everything Goes Cold. "Vs General Failure," the first LP of Eric Gottesman's coldwave project brings all of the manic suppervillainy that we've come to expect from EGC, but also has a surprisingly human and vulnerable core. Alex and Bruce discuss the history ...…

Helium Vola and Solvent's connections to Our Thing may take the form of winding paths demanding historical context, but that's exactly why your old pals Alex and Bruce are here. From the sacred music root of Enrst Horn's extravagance to the strange intersections of electroclash, synthpop, and analog whimsy Jason Amm taps into, we're here to gui ...…

The new album from Dead Can Dance, replete with high concept and worldly instrumentation, is the subject of this week's We Have A Technical. How does it fit (or not) with the storied dynamic betwixt Brendan Perry and Lisa Gerrard? Are its Nietzschean ambitions vindicated? And since when has Dionysus been a psychologist? All these questions, plu ...…

You'd be hard pressed to find records as different from each other within Our Thing as Hypnoskull's "Electronic Music Means War To Us" and Solemn Novena's "Kiss The Girls". But that's not gonna stop Alex and Bruce from discussing them and hell, even finding some commonalities between raw power noise and second wave goth rock revisited. All that ...…

Okay, okay, ahem - Alex and Bruce absolutely were ready to have a podcast up the day after Halloween and definitely didn't cobble something together at the last minute because their all-night spook-tacular rager left them without research or a tangible topic. No sir-ee. So when they're picking five Halloween party deep cuts, you can rest assure ...…

In anticipation of Halloween, Alex and Bruce are talking about the role horror literature, imagery, and themes have played across the breadth and history of dark music. From the theological torment of Christian Death through the techno-horror of Skinny Puppy up to the camp horror cribbing of aggrotech, a broad ranging (and slightly raucous) con ...…

No less classic a record than Bauhaus' "Mask" gets the full length editorial treatment in this month's Patreon supported We Have A Commentary episode! We discuss the band's moves away from the angular aggression of "In The Flat Field" and toward the polished and ornamented singles which still mark their legacy, the press' legendary contempt for ...…

You'd be hard pressed to find albums more dichotomous than the two the Senior Staff are discussing on this week's podcast. That said, Foetus' "Hole" and Deine Lakaien's "Dark Star" are both records Alex and Bruce have spent years listening to and fit them like gloves despite being maniacally destructive and melodramatic, respectively. All that ...…

This episode of We Have A Technical offers up an interview with none other than C-Tec! Jean-Luc De Meyer and Marc Heal join us to talk about the origins and future of arguably the greatest industrial supergroup of all time, how it frees them up to take different paths than their other projects, and which members of the band would taste best. Al ...…

This week the Senior Staff are on the mean streets of LA, catching all the goings on at the third and final stop of the Cold Waves festival tour. Alex and Bruce discuss all the sets from bands new and old and are joined throughout the episode by bands and other friends who offer their thoughts on and memories of the fest. It's a full-throttle t ...…

On the occasion of Storming The Base scaling back and changing their operations, the Senior Staff are taking up the topic of mail order. From filling out money orders for Steril singles to trying to figure out which format a Bandcamp purchase should be in, Bruce and Alex are looking at mail order from both a nostalgic and business-minded perspe ...…

With industrial supergroup C-Tec back in action touring across the continent, the Senior Staff are revisiting their second LP, 2000's "Cut". What do each of Heal, Denton, and De Meyer bring to the project? How does it hold up in comparison to its predecessor? And how many Edith Piaf and Jacques Brel references can be shoehorned into an industri ...…

Hot on the heels of last week's knock down dragout fisticuffs, Bruce and Alex kick back with a good old fashioned Pick 5 episode of We Have a Technical. Yes, B-Sides are the topic, as each of the Senior Staff picks a couple personal faves and then expounds on why they enjoy them so well. Plus we talk the recent Die Krupps Visa Issues, some unex ...…

Things get personal, very personal, as the Senior Staff embark upon the third Great Debate. Each is acting as a representative of their favourite album of all time, and no punches are pulled as Alex and Bruce champion the virtues of two undisputed classics. The Cure's "Disintegration". Joy Division's "Unknown Pleasures". Two albums enter. One l ...…

The ol' ID:UD mailbag is pulled open in this episode of the podcast, with all manner of questions ranging from the ruminatively serious to the frothily flippant being taken up by the Senior Staff. How will Die Sektor, Emilie Autumn -and- Tomohiro Ishii all make their way onto the world's premier podcast for post-industrial pedantry? There's onl ...…

Matia Simovich of Inhalt joins Alex and Bruce on the podcast this week to discuss how that project's trilogy of EPs responds to the crisis of late capitalism, the rhythm of the German language, and how Deleuzean rhizomes can destabilize genres. We also have a bit of a preview of the upcoming Cold Waves LA festival which we'll be attending, and ...…

The Senior Staff is back at full force! Back from vacation, Alex and Bruce are talking about records from Spetsnaz and Gatekeeper. Also on the docket is Resident Advisor's piece on EBM...which may have had some influence on our choice of albums this week. We're charged up and ready to go: I Die: You Die, you know what it is!…

It's a special two-guest episode of We Have a Technical as we welcome Eric Sochocki of FIRES and Jamie Blacker of ESA to the podcast. We had the pleasure of sitting down with both artists at Terminus, and each offered insight into their history, goals and what the future might hold. Did you wonder what (highly danceable) direction FIRES might b ...…

It's a very special We Have a Commentary, as for the first time ever Bruce and Alex sit down with the artist who made the album we're commenting on. Yes, Réal Cardinal joins us to talk about Hollow Worlds, his astonishing LP of post-rock and bass music flavoured IDM. Stories about it's inspiration, construction, and legacy are told, and secrets ...…

With Bruce away for a few weeks of well-deserved vacation, Alex digs into the interviews we collected during Terminus Festival for a conversation with Claus Larsen of Leaether Strip. Needless to say this was a bucket list interview for the Senior Staff, and Claus obliged with numerous fascinating stories and perspectives from the past and prese ...…

It's a very special travelogue episode of We Have a Technical as Bruce and Alex record their impressions of Terminus Festival in Calgary, along with a ton of special guest appearances from performers and friends of the site. Who brought the goods? What did we think of each and every performance? How much can two dudes record in one weekend on l ...…

On the heels of bidding adieu to their subcultural home away from home for years on end, the Senior Staff are talking about Vancouver's late great Club 23 West. Alex and Bruce talk about the club's history in Vancouver as well as how the club's fate points towards larger trends continent wide. They're joined by some long-time friends and fellow ...…

The Senior Staff try to save records of note from the memory hole on this episode of We Have A Technical. Alex and Bruce petitioj for why each of the five records they've picked which are currently out of print deserve a reissue. What oddball corners of genre crossover will be explored? Which overlooked pioneers will be championed? Tune in to f ...…

It's a different kind of commentary episode, as Bruce and Alex take a cue from The Satellite of Love and do a live video commentary! The Senior Staff are watching Skinny Puppy's legendary live concert video "Ain't It Dead Yet?" There's plenty of oozing, gurgling live brappage to be discussed, with our beloved S'Puppies sitting at a transition p ...…

A pair of true school post-industrial records are taken up in this week's We Have A Technical! Individual Totem's squelchy alien soundscapes on "S.E.T.I." and the strangely approachable ambient industrial of Deutsch Nepal's "Benevolence" are taken up in this episode. We also have the scoop on the Terminus pre-party, plus a dash of shade being t ...…

It's a free form discussion episode of We Have A Technical this week, with the subject of rivethead culture being taken up. Is it distinct from industrial culture (whatever that might be)? Is it still relevant? How does it pertain to its long suffering cousin, goth? All these questions and so many more (along with countless shoutouts to Reconst ...…

Our classic two albums format gets a bit of a rework on this episode of We Have A Technical. We weigh how Nine Inch Nails' "Bad Witch", the newest record by a band so successful we rarely talk about them, bucks the trend of accomplished but somewhat uninspired records from Trent Reznor. Also, a harrowing live performance from Lingua Ignota prom ...…

Texture and rhythm heavy records by Mlada Fronta and Zex Model come under the microscope in this week's episode of We Have A Technical! From Rémy Pelleschi's stockade of breaks, dub, and techno beats to Paul Von Aphid finding ways of reworking the classic drippy electro-industrial template of Skinny Puppy, Bruce and Alex are ready to talk turke ...…

David Thrussell's 1997 opus "Buy Me... I'll Change Your Life" goes under the microscope for this month's We Have A Commentary podcast, made possible by our Patreon backers! Snog's staunchly anti-capitalist, anti-corporate ethos was blended with a melange of folk, pop, and country sounds. How have Thrussell's screeds aged on the other side of 9/ ...…

A Pick Five episode aims for the singles charts this week on the IDieYouDie.com podcast! Bruce and Alex are picking songs whose single versions they prefer to album versions. Expect some big names (and a couple of smaller ones), plus some discussion of upcoming C-Tec dates and how you might be able to help out ArtOfFact in their hour of need. A ...…

It's an odd couple of records being discussed on this week's episode of the podcast. The early darkwave stylings of Love Is Colder Than Death's "Mental Traveller" are considered: what are its connections to modern understandings of ethereal and neoclassical? Also under the microscope is the debut LP from Destroid, "Future Prophecies": how does ...…

Patreon backers join Alex and Bruce to discuss albums which tickle their fancy. Releases from Urceus Exit, The. Invalid, and Kite have been chosen and are considered from historical and biographical perspectives. Also, in a move without precedent, we assure you, the Senior Staff gush on and on about Encephalon for a while. Join us for all that ...…

It's a Q & A episode of We Have A Technical this week, with Patreon backers suoplyng questions both broad and specific. From drugs to Gridlock, from DJing to Trust Obey, Bruce and Alex are fielding queries dealing with all corners of Our Thing!

This episode of We Have A Technical doubles down on ur-goth realness with discussion of early records by Alien Sex Fiend and Sopor Æternus and the Ensemble of Shadows. In addition, we've got takes on the new Nine Inch Nails track and a recent line performance from Merzbow. All that plus all the horsing around you've come to expect from the offi ...…

This month's Patreon-Supported bonus podcast is about The Mission's "God's Own Medicine", an important and dare we say controversial entry into the UK goth rock canon. What insights do Alex and Bruce have into the songwriting, arrangement and influences of Wayne Hussey and co's debut? Listen and find out. Oh, and yes, we do talk about the Siste ...…

The I Die: You Die podcast takes a somewhat epistemological bent this week, with the issues of the archiving and collecting of dark music being taken up. Has the Internet archived everything from Our Thing? What responsibilities, if any, do we have as collectors? If an obscure futurepop demo arpeggiates in the woods, does it make a sound? Alex ...…