E-TROPOLIS FESTIVAL 2025 - SOLAR FAKE, ROTERSAND, EMPATHY TEST & MORE BANDS CONFIRMED!
While the impressions of the latest edition are fresh, E-tropolis presents us their second wave of bands!
Continuing their triumphant journey, SOLAR FAKE are going to deliver a powerful and charming performance at E-tropolis 2025 again, while ROTERSAND and EMPATHY TEST will serve up a fine selection of clever electro-pop gems, as well.
Look forward to body-moving electro beats from ORANGE SECTOR, whose 2016 hit "Farben" recently garnered millions of streams after turning into a social media phenomenon, and enjoy the highly requested RUE OBERKAMPF, set to enrich the E-tropolis Festival with their unique sound for the first time next year.
Confirmed Line-Up 2025 (so far):
SOLAR FAKE * HOCICO * ROTERSAND * EMPATHY TEST
CHROM * ORANGE SECTOR * RUE OBERKAMPF * ALIENARE
+ many more bands to be announced
E-tropolis Festival 2025 will take place on 22. March 2025 at Turbinenhalle Oberhausen. Original tickets and 5+1 bundles are available at www.amphi-shop.de! E-tropolis Festival tickets can also be purchased at all known CTS/EVENTIM box offices and online at www.eventim.de (also available as print@home)!
DIE SEXUAL Highlights Submission, Devotion & Nightlife Slavery With New EP
Dark electronic duo, DIE SEXUAL recently unveiled their newest EP, Inservio. The EP is a testament to submission, devotion and slavery to the dark nights, strobing lights and the pulsating beat of the music.
Says founding member, Anton Floriano: "We wanted to capture that feeling in these songs, the surrendering of your body and soul to the night, the music, your desires, letting go of all cares and just being "slaves to the tempo".
"Lights Down Low"'s idea of losing one's self to pulsating rhythms while a "safe space" for someone to be who they want at no cost is explored in "House Of God". It's there where we are free of judgement, devoid of cares and stress of our daily grind.
Lastly, "Need To Sin" presents a tantalizing roleplay scenario where the subject submits to her ultimate desires and hedonistic fantasies, knowing any hesitation of guilt should be discarded as forgiveness will always be granted.
Inservio is self-produced and crafted in the band's home studio of vintage analog and modular synthesizers, fueled by their inspiration of classic EBM and modern techno, to be enjoyed on the dancefloors, in the basements and in the bedrooms.
Inservio is available on all major digital platforms including Bandcamp and Spotify.
Today 18 years ago, Nine Inch Nails released ‘Every Day Is Exactly the Same’ as their third single taken from the album With Teeth. It became NIN 21st official release thus baring the Halo 21 catalogue number.
The radio single reached #1 on the Billboard Modern Rock singles chart in the Modern Rock Tracks category and #12 in the Mainstream Rock Tracks category. The song also reached number one on the Canadian Singles Chart, and received a nomination for Best Hard Rock Performance at the 49th annual Grammy Awards. Though a planned music video was scrapped in the post-production stage, "Every Day Is Exactly the Same" still topped Billboard's 2006 year-end Hot Dance Singles Sales chart, it has so far spent 94 weeks on the chart.
Every Day is Exactly the Same (US CD EP tracklist)
1 "Every Day Is Exactly the Same" – 4:57
2 "The Hand That Feeds" (DFA Mix) – 9:03
3 "The Hand That Feeds" (Photek Straight Mix) – 7:47
4 "Only" (El-P Mix) – 4:22
5 "Only" (Richard X Mix) – 7:25
6 "Every Day Is Exactly the Same" (Sam Fog vs. Carlos D Mix) – 5:03
Every Day is Exactly the Same (Lyrics)
I believe I can see the future
'Cause I repeat the same routine
I think I used to have a purpose
But then again, that might have been a dream
I think I used to have a voice
Now I never make a sound
I just do what I've been told
I really don't want them to come around, oh no
Every day is exactly the same
Every day is exactly the same
There is no love here and there is no pain
Every day is exactly the same
I can feel their eyes are watching
In case I lose myself again
Sometimes I think I'm happy here
(Sometimes)
Sometimes, yet I still pretend
I can't remember how this got started
Oh, but I can tell you exactly how it will end
Every day is exactly the same
Every day is exactly the same
There is no love here and there is no pain
Every day is exactly the same
I'll write it on a little piece of paper
I'm hoping, someday, you might find
Well I'll hide it behind something
They won't look behind
I am still inside her
A little bit comes bleeding through
I wish this could've been any other way
But I just don't know, I don't know what else I can do
Every day is exactly the same
Every day is exactly the same
There is no love here and there is no pain
Every day is exactly the same
Every day is exactly the same
Every day is exactly the same
There is no love here and there is no pain
Every day is exactly the same (every day is the same)
OUR FRANKENSTEIN Addresses Betrayal & Revenge With New Single, 'Judas Dance'
Gothic rock band, OUR FRANKENSTEIN has just unleashed their new video & single, "Judas Dance". This is the first single from the band's highly-anticipated forthcoming album due out later this year.
"Judas Dance" touches on topics such as betrayal and revenge. It’s about moving past a period in your life where you may feel as if the world and the people around you are against you.
It’s about how you can pick yourself up off of the ground after falling over multiple times.
The music video for "Judas Dance" was directed by Dazecraft Media in association with Futureframe Productions. It was shot in Los Angeles in the beautiful Glass Slipper Palace.
"Judas Dance" is available on all major digital platforms including Bandcamp and Spotify.
On this day, 22 years ago, Frank Tovey / Fad Gadget died at the age of 45.
Today it’s been already 22 years since Frank Tovey, also known as Fad Gadget, passed away at the age of 45 (°8 September 1956 – † 3 April 2002). He was a pioneer of both (electronic) New-wave and Industrial music. As no other, and we even dare to say upon today, he succeeded in fusing together darkish electro-pop with industrial and noisy experiments.
His sarcastic and darkly humorous view on life reflected his lyrics that were mostly filled with biting social commentary towards subjects such as machinery, industrialization, consumerism, human sexuality, mass media, religion, domestic violence and dehumanization.
In 1978 Frank Tovey sent a demo tape of Back to Nature to Daniel Miller, who had just released his own, and thus first Mute label single, as The Normal.
Tovey signed as Fad Gadget to Daniel Miller's Mute Records made him the first artist to sign to Mute and ”Back to Nature" the second release on Mute Records. The single was recorded on a 8-track recorder and released in 1979. After this successful single release, the follow-up single Ricky’s Hand record was recorded and released. Tovey also began recording a full album, his iconic debut album Fireside Favorites which was released by Mute in November 1980.
In 1981 Tovey released another single “Make Room", featuring the "Lady Shave" on the b-side, the latter went on to become one of his most known and played tracks.
For Tovey the ideas and concepts behind his live performances were just as important as his music. His live appearances quickly became known for his confrontational stage antics.
In total Frank Tovey recorded four albums under the moniker Fad Gadget, four as Frank Tovey and two as Frank Tovey & The Pyros.
After the release and tour from Frank Tovey & The Pyros album Worried Men In Second-Hand Suits (1992) he withdrew from the music scene for almost a decade.
In 2001 he started performing again as Fad Gadget supporting label mates Depeche Mode on their world tour. Fad Gadet was invited by Depeche Mode themselves as they once supported Fad Gadget on tour in 1980.
On April 3rd 2002, only a few days after he had returned home from a Fad Gadget come-back tour through Europe, Frank Tovey died due to a heart failure. Apparently he was aware of the risks of a heart failure that were already diagnosed when he was a chid. This could explain why he called one of the track on his Fireside Favorite debut album the Arch Of The Aorta.
Album Discography
As Fad Gadget
• Fireside Favourites (1980)
• Incontinent (1981)
• Under the Flag (1982)
• Gag (1984)
• The Best of Fad Gadget (2001)
As Frank Tovey
• Easy Listening for the Hard of Hearing (1984) (with Boyd Rice)
• Snakes and Ladders (1986)
• The Fad Gadget Singles (1986)
• Civilian (1988)
• Tyranny & the Hired Hand (1989)
• Grand Union (1991)
• Worried Men in Second Hand Suits (1992)
• Fad Gadget by Frank Tovey (2006)
