One of the most talked-about Japanese cult films of all time makes its way onto blu-ray for the first time EVER with a brand new high definition transfer supervised by Shinya Tsukamoto!

Synopsis:

Goda (Shinya Tsukamoto) is a thirty-something documentary filmmaker. While his work may seem intriguing to some, his life is absolutely average - long hours at the office, drinks after work, an equally busy girlfriend, Kiriko, who he's been with for a decade. No surprises. No detours. No shocks. That is until he returns home one night to find police cars surrounding the entrance to his apartment building and he's told that Kiriko has committed suicide with a bullet to the head. With Japan having some of the strictest set of gun control laws Goda is left with not just the "why" of her suicide, but also the "how", "where" and "who". How did Kiriko get a gun? From where? And most importantly, from who? Goda goes on a quest into the gritty criminal underworld of Tokyo in order to answer these questions, and maybe inhabit the last days of Kiriko's life.

This movie is out on Blu-Ray & DVD from 30th December on.

Watch the trailer here!


 

With only one week ago to go we like to present you the complete program of the already 12th Industrial Festival in the beautiful Polish city Wroclaw.

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ONE

The new True Zebra album is mixed and will be mastered in november by the one and only 

Uwe Teichert (dEUS, Soulwax, The Subs, Gabriel Rios, Meat Beat Manifesto and many more…)

TWO

True Zebra is previewing the new album live this halloween together with Vive La Fête in CC 'T Vondel, Halle.

THREE

True Zebra is featured on the 10th anniversary limited edition boxset of La Fille d'O: UNDER COVERS. 

TZ doing the vocals on "Temporary Secretary" a song originally by Paul Mccartney.

Part Time Punks (Pascal Oorts, Mintzkov) did the music. Other bands on this compilation

include : Vive La Fête, Triggerfinger, The Subs, The Hicky Underworld and a few more…

FOUR

True Zebra can use any help possible. Everything is still done by True Zebra but a booker, plugger, 

record label is more than welcome.

TRUE ZEBRA IS KEVIN STRAUWEN.

CONCEIVED AS ROCK BUT MISTAKEN WITH ELECTRONIC TRIES AND TECHNIQUES.

IN THE PAST COMPARED TO: LCD SOUNDSYSTEM, DEPECHE MODE, NINE INCH NAILS, FAD GADGET,...

Not ones to rest, Cryogenic Echelon are back with their latest release Taste of Failure. Cryogenic Echelon's previous album Anthology took you on a tour of their history with some previous released tracks but remade and remixed as well as new material. Taste of Failure is a companion to Anthology, which contains remixes but some of the Industrial and EBM scenes top artists while introducing a new track by Cryogenic Echelon called Full Throttle. Lending their craft to Taste of Failure are Grendel, Nitro/Noise, The.invalid, Studio-X and many more tearing up and remixing it making the Taste of Failure delicious.

Out on Static Distortion Records October 19th.

Tracklist
1) Full Throttle
2) Fall of the Reptiles (Grendel Remix)
3) Elixir (The.invalid Remix)
4) Pandora (Sagitario Remix)
5) Soulstorm (Machine Rox Remix)
6) Hate Yourself (Nitronoise Remix)
7) Soulstorm (Ctrl Alt Del Remix)
8) Pandora (Defeat Remix)
9) Indigo Children (Studio-X Club Mix)
10) Elixir (Draconic Elimination Projects Remix)
11) Space Monkey (Feat. Studio-X)
 

The voice of Athan Maroulis will always be linked to the seminal Los Angeles based trio Spahn Ranch, a band that pounded the ’90s Industrial scene with a daring mix of electro-flavored Synth Pop fused with a menacing pall of atmospheric Goth. To this day, a number of Spahn Ranch songs like “Vortex” and “Heretic’s Fork” still pack dark dance floors around the globe. In the aftermath of Spahn Ranch, Athan returned to his native New York City where he took a decade-long break from performing, and instead produced countless reissues of 1930s and 1940s jazz and blues music while working behind the scenes advising a number of varied Darkwave bands. In those years, Athan occasionally appeared as a guest on albums by Razed in Black and Black Tape for a Blue Girl. He joined the latter officially in 2009, cutting an album while also completing tours both here and abroad, highlighted by a packed show at the Leipzig Opera House during the 2011 Wave-Gotik-Treffen Festival.

While on hiatus from Black Tape, Athan conceptualized NOIR as a project where his Industrial and Gothic past would walk the wire between retro and futuristic sounds, brought into a moody electronic present by synth-laced hooks meshed with elements of dance, dark ambient and touches of glitch-induced EBM. The result is Darkly Near, an album influenced by an idealized black-and-white perception of New York City, where yesteryear’s views of tomorrow are pressed against the machinery of today. Lyrically, Darkly Near is an album of endings, a montage that travels through a dreamy death trip of sensuality littered with faded film stars, Rod Serling scripts, Weegee snapshots, con artists, replicants, and the layered recollections of a solitary man waiting for a train.

Released on the heels of 2012’s successful digital single “My Dear” (that featured an exclusive Assemblage 23 remix), NOIR’s mature yet strikingly refreshing Darkly Near album will be supported by a select string of exclusive live dates.