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"Everybody Is Turning To Gold". For
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Dying: Life Is Beautiful.
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Puppy/Palindrones/AkA - Dublin Castle, London - 5 May 2022.
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New Music
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Redskins: Neither Washington, Nor
Moscow and Sickness: The
Fall of Reason.
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(13 February 2022)
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Amherst, Chatham - 30 August 2021. See all Gig Reviews HERE.
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(30 August 2021)
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- BBC Sessions 1982 - 1984, In
The Nursery - Psalter Lane 25.06.81, Sickness'
Loss, Decay and Insanity.
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(25 July 2021)
New Music
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(29 February 2020)
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- 23 November 2019.
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Antidote/Ded.pxl/Landscape Body Machine/Bitman/Witch Of The Vale
- University of Bradford, West Yorkshire - 23 - 25 August 2019.
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(29 September 2019)
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(21 October 2018)
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(7 October 2018)
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Six/Valhall/Zeitgeist Zero/Yura Yura/Promenade
Cinema/Massenhysterie/Def Neon/Flesh Eating Foundation/Adam Is A
Girl/Grave Diggers Union - Bradford University, West Yorkshire -
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(11 September 2018)
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(28 July 2018)
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(24 June 2018)
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(10 May 2018)
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(29 April 2018)
New Live Footage:
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(22 April 2018)
New Gig Review:
xPropaganda/Ekkoes - The Garage, London - 23
March 2018. The complete index of all 340+ gig review is HERE.
(8 April 2018)
New Gig Review: Erasure - Hammersmith Apollo, London - 23
February 2018. The complete index of all 340+ gig review is HERE.
(10 March 2018)
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(2 February 2018)
New Music Review,
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fantastic Post Democracy EP1.
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(24 January 2018)
New Music Review: John Costello's
mightily impressive The Enemy
Is the State album earns a well-deserved !Recommended!
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(13 January 2018)
New Music Review: Subject To No
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This. See A-Z Index for the complete
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(27 December 2017)
New on
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Architecture In The Sun - "Live at Hope and Anchor, London - 2
December 2017 (full show).
(17 December 2017)
New on the
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Doyle Band - Live Hope and Anchor, London (3 songs) - 2 December
2017.
(8 December 2017)
New Gig Review:
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25 November 2017. The A-Z Index of all gig reviews can be
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(3 December 2017)
New on the
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- Live The Water Rats, London (full show) - 19 August 2017.
(28 November 2017)
New Gig Review: Orchestral Manoeuvres In The
Dark (OMD) + Tiny Magnetic Pets - The Roundhouse, London - 13
November 2017. The A-Z Index of all gig reviews can be found
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(24 November 2017)
New Music
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year of its twin creators. See A-Z Index
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(18 November 2017)
New Gig Review: Depeche Mode - Ak-Chin
Pavilion, Phoenix, USA - 27 September 2017. The A-Z Index of
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(29 October 2017)
New on the dsoaudio YouTube channel: The
Pink Diamond Revue - Live The Water Rats, London (full show) -
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(16 October 2017)
New Gig Review: Infest 2017: Revolting
Cocks/Die
Krupps/Rotersand/iVardensphere/Accessory/end.user/Wulfband/NoyceTM/Vampyre
Anvil/The Juggernauts/Empathy Test/Among The Echoes/Chemical
Sweet Kid/Riotmiloo/Sidewalks and Skeletons/They Called Him Zone
- Bradford University, West Yorkshire - 25-27 August 2017.
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(14 October 2017)
New Gig Review: Depeche Mode/Algiers -
Olympiastadion, Berlin, Germany - 22 June 2017. Go here for
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(10 October 2017)
New on the dsoaudio YouTube channel: FIFTH
NEWHEAVY - Private Studio Rehearsal, Bass On Top Studios, Osaka,
Japan - 10 January 2017.
(26 August 2017)
New
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- Live at Hansa Studios, Berlin, Germany - 21 June 2017 (full
show - special Depeche Mode set).
(3 August 2017)
New
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Studios, Berlin, Germany - 21 June 2017.
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(3 August 2017)
New on the
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Oblivion gig playlist featuring Brutalist Architecture In
The Sun, Dead Blood Cells, Turtle Circles and Inverted
Scrotum.
(26 July 2017)
New
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Blood Cells/Brutalist Architecture In The Sun/Turtle
Circles/Inverted Scrotum - Nags Head, Rochester - 8 July
2017. Go here for the complete A-Z
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(23 July 2017)
New Interview: Microchip Junky (aka John
Peacey) + UnMute a two-volume tribute to Mute Records
recording artists released today. A-Z Index of all Interviews HERE.
(2 July 2017)
New
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Also The Trees/In The Nursery/Cult With No Name - Islington
Academy, London - 13 May 2017. Go here for the
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(4 June 2017)
New
Music Reviews of the debut album from Japanese art-rockers FIFTH-NEWHEAVY
- FIFTH and the
stunning latest long-player from Mechanical
Cabaret - Ortonesque
- both dsoaudio
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(27 May 2017)
New
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Vigroux, Antoine Schmitt - Radioland: Kraftwerk's Radio-Activity
Live - The Jazz Cafe, London - 6 May 2017. Go here for the
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(13 May 2017)
New
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- "Radioland/Uranium" - The Jazz Cafe, London - 6 May 2017
(13 May 2017)
New
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Frixion and Gene Serene/The Department Electrowerkz, London - 6
May 2017.
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(11 May 2017)
New
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Norwich Arts Centre, Norwich - 24 March 2017. Go here for the
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(14 April 2017)
New Gig
Review: Synth Wave Live Festival: Mechanical
Cabaret/NINA/Tiny Magnetic Pets/Neon Lines/SoftWave/Steven Jones
& Logan Sky/Nature of Wires/The Department/Brutalist
Architecture In The Sun/Sol Flare/Battery Operated Orchestra - Zigfrid von Underbelly of Hoxton, London -
1 April 2017.
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(8 April 2017)
New
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Rother
- "Live at Under The Bridge, London - 26 September 2016" (full
show)
(2 April 2017)
New Gig Review:
Faust/Slapp Happy - Cafe OTO, London - 12
February 2017. Go here for the complete A-Z
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(18 February 2017)
New Gig Review (flashback to May last year): the live debut of the
brilliantly named Nebula Overdrive - Art
House, Kobe, Japan - 10 May 2016. Go here for the complete A-Z
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(5 January 2017)
New
Music Review of the debut solo album from Cubanate's Marc
Heal - The Hum
!Recommended!.
(A cracking start to the new year!) See A-Z Index
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(4 January 2017)
New
Music Review of the debut album from Brutalist
Architecture In The Sun - Concrète
Pop
!Recommended!.
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(24 December 2016)
New Music Review of Sanction This' Wipe Us Out EP.
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(13 December 2016)
New Music Reviews of Liquid Newt's debut EP
Walk
With Scars and Marsheaux's Ath.Lon album - both !Recommended!.
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(11 December 2016)
New
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show) - 1 October 2016
(19 November 2016)
New on dsoaudio YouTube channel: TwoVolt- "Live at Eclectic Electric III at Hope and
Anchor, London - 1 October 2016" (full show)
(30 October 2016)
New Gig Review: Jean-Michel Jarre/Marco
Grenier - Brighton Centre, Brighton - 6 October 2016. Go
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(23 October
2016)
New
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Apollo, London -24 September 2016, plus Test
Dept: Redux/Feral Five - Amersham Arms, London - 10 September
2016, plus Anthrax/Lamo - The Bow
Bells, London - 3 September 2016. Click for the
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(1 October 2016)
New Gig Review: Electro London 2016:
Wolfgang Flür/Promenade Cinema/The Department/Johnny
Normal/Circuit 3/Vogon Poetry/Meter Bridge/Shiny
Darkness/3D/Neil Francis/Strobegirl - Zigfrid von Underbelly,
London - 10 September 2016. Click for the complete A-Z
Index of all 320+ gig reviews.
(25 September
2016)
New Gig Review: Battery Operated
Orchestra/The Department/Jan Doyle Band/Brutalist Architecture
In The Sun - Hope and Anchor, London - 9 July 2016 (a little
overdue but well worth the wait). Click for the complete A-Z
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(24 September
2016)
New playlist added to dsoaudio YouTube channel: Mechanical Cabaret - "Ortonesque" - Mechanical
Cabaret's Roi Robertson discusses the band's new album - track
by track.
(23 September - 5 October 2016)
New
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Machine (Tara Busch) - Shackelwell Arms, London - 9 September
2016. Click for the complete
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(18 September
2016)
New Gig Review: Infest 2016: Atari Teenage
Riot/Leaether Strip/Pop Will Eat Itself/3Teeth/Velvet Acid
Christ/Dead When I Found Her/Grausame Toechter/Displacer/Monica
Jeffries/Rroyce/Vigilante/Me The Tiger/Hysteresis/Massive
Ego/Tapewyrm/Johnny Normal - Bradford University, West Yorkshire
- 26-28 August 2016. Click for the complete A-Z
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(8 September
2016)
New Music Reviews of Hagar
The Womb retrospective compilation Haigiography and Silent
Scream's Carrion Screaming
album.
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(20 August 2016)
New
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Church Hackney, London - 6 August 2016. Click for the
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(20 August 2016)
New
on dsoaudio YouTube channel: Brutalist Architecture In The Sun Live at Hope
and Anchor, London - 9 July 2016 (full show)
(6 August 2016)
New
(!Recommended!) Review of the
label compilation album Synth
Wave Volume 1 from Electro London Records. All the reviews
accessible from the A-Z Index
(9 June 2016)
New
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Dark - Royal Albert Hall, London - 9 May 2016.
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(28 May 2016)
New
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AkA/Sistrum/Microchip Junky - Hope and Anchor, London - 9 April
2016. Click for the complete
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(22 May 2016)
New
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Sound Of Music at The Forum, London - 12 April 2016
and Kodo at Barbican, London. Click here
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(17 April 2016)
New
Music Reviews of the Anthrax / Hagar The Womb split 7" EP.
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New
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Enemy/Deadcuts - O2 Arena, London - 30 January 2016. Click
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(21 February
2016)
New Gig Review: Massive Ego/The
Department/Johnny Normal/Rodney Cromwell - Electrowerkz, London
- 30 January 2016. Click here for the complete A-Z
Index of all 310+ gig reviews.
(7 February
2016)
New Music Reviews of Tenek's third album
Smoke
& Mirrors, Poison
Girls' reissue of Persons
Unknown/Statement (Orchestral), In
The Nursery's latest Optical Music score The Fall Of The House Of Usher,
Click Click's brilliant Those Nervous Surgeons,
John Foxx's mesmerising My Lost City and Flowers
In The Dustbin's I'm An Artist, Your Rules Don't
Apply. Click here to access the complete A-Z
Index of all Music Reviews
(17 January 2016)
New Gig Review: Chvrches - Alexandra Palace,
London - 27 November 2015. Click here for the complete A-Z
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(31 December
2015)
New on dsoaudio YouTube channel: Mechanical Cabaret - "Live at Marble, Tokyo,
Japan" (full show) - 14 November 2015
(28 December 2015)
New Interview: Mechanical
Cabaret Interview - Bar Shifty, Tokyo, Japan - 15 November 2015
(18 December 2015)
New Music Reviews of the latest album from Penetration
- Resolution
(6 December 2015)
New Gig Review: Penetration/Morgellons/Baddest
- The Garage, London - 24 October 2015. Click here for the
complete
A-Z Index of all
300+ gig reviews.
(6 December
2015)
New
Music Review of the debut single by Thirteen
featuring Gene Serene: Believe/Da
Casio.
(13 November 2015)
New on dsoaudio YouTube channel: Killing Joke - Wardance
- Live at The Roundhouse, London - 6 November 2015 and
IAMX - Tear Garden - Live at Koko,
London - 9 November 2015
(10 November 2015)
New on dsoaudio YouTube channel: Tangerine Dream - Burning
The Bad Seal & The Midnight
Trail - Live Shepherds Bush Empire, London - 23 May
2014
(1 November 2015)
New on dsoaudio YouTube channel: Django Django - Live at Koko, London - 19 May
2015 (full show).
(1 November 2015)
New Gig Review: Dave Gahan
& Soulsavers -
Live at Shepherd's Bush Empire, London - 26 October 2015.
Click here for the complete
A-Z Index of all
300+ gig reviews.
(1 November
2015)
New on dsoaudio YouTube channel: Dave Gahan & Soulsavers - Live at
Shepherd's Bush Empire, London - 26 October 2015 - 40
minutes of show highlights.
(1 November 2015)
New on dsoaudio YouTube channel: Dave Gahan/Soulsavers performing
Depeche Mode's Condemnation and Walking In My Shoes at Shepherd's Bush
Empire, London last night.
(27 October 2015)
New Music Reviews of In
The Nursery's Stone Bruises
single and the Anthrax/Pedagree
Skum/Dogshite/Slug
split 7" EP. All the latest reviews
added to the complete A-Z Index
(27 September 2015)
New Gig Review: Electro London 2015:
Mechanical Cabaret/Sinestar/Johnny Normal/The
Department/EmT/Tiny Magnetic Pets/eleKtroFish/Cloak/AkA -
Zeigfried von Underbelly, London - 12 September 2015. A-Z
Index of all 300+ gig reviews
(27 September 2015)
New Gig Review: Infest
2015: Project
Pitchfork/Mind.In.A.Box/Empirion/Monolith/Klangstabil/Cocksure/Syrian/L'Ame
Immortelle/BhamBhamHara/Chant/Ethan Fawkes/reADJUST/Mechanical
Cabaret/D-K-A-G/AlterRed/Ctrl Alt Del - Bradford University,
West Yorkshire - 28-30 August 2015. Full list of 300+ gig
reviews HERE.
(13 September 2015)
New on dsoaudio YouTube: A short video postcard of dsoaudio's trip to Infest Festival 2015...
(2 September 2015)
New Gig Review: Visions
Festival 2015: Holy Fuck/The Antlers/Hinds Oval Space/St John
Church, London - 8 August 2015. Full list of 300+ gig
reviews HERE.
(16 August 2015)
New Gig Review: Suicide/Henry
Rollins/The Feral Singers - Barbican, London - 9 July 2015.
Full list of 300+ gig reviews since 1999 HERE.
(26 July 2015)
New Gig Review: Moog
Ensemble (feat. Will Gregory)/Charlemange Palestine - Barbican,
London - 8 July 2015. Full list of 300+ gig reviews since
1999 HERE.
(18 July 2015)
New Gig Review: Little
Boots/Femme - Oslo, London - 7 July 2015. Full list of 300+
gig reviews since 1999 HERE.
(12 July 2015)
Our 300th Gig Review
published today: Amon Düül II - Village
Underground, London - 12 June 2015 (written by Naked
Lunch's Cliff Chapman). Plus: the Guinness World
Record-setting gig by Foxes/Red
- House of Vans, London - 24 May 2015 and the still mighty Theatre of
Hate/Folkgrinder at 100 Club, London - 10 May 2015. Full list of gig
reviews since 1999 HERE.
(13 June 2015)
New Music
Reviews of Dreams
Divide's second album Tears From The Night Sky,
the debut album from Beinaheleidenschaftsgegenstand
- Red Threads, Part1's Funeral Parade, third rhivs single Nuit/Feenoir and the
re-release of UK
Decay's Rising
From The Dread (!Recommended!
and only the second release to achieve a 10/10 rating).
All the latest reviews added to the complete A-Z
Index
(7 June 2015)
New Music Review of the Burnt
Cross single Life Is A Battlefield.
Full A-Z list of all
Music Reviews HERE
(4 May 2015)
New
Music Review of the debut album from The
Department
- Alpha. Full
A-Z
index of all Music Reviews HERE
(11 April 2015)
New
Gig Review: Covenant/Analog
Angel/Naked Lunch/Biomechanimal
- Islington O2 Academy, London - 7 March 2015. Full list of
gig reviews since 1999 HERE.
(5 April 2015)
New Gig Review: Wrangler
- Koenji High, Tokyo, Japan - 7 March 2015. Full list of gig
reviews since 1999 HERE.
(22 March 2015)
New Music Review of the Part1
album Pictures
of Pain. Full A-Z list of all
Music Reviews HERE
(7 March 2015)
New Gig Review: Ruts DC
- 100 Club, London - 8 January 2015
(1 March 2015)
New Gig Review: La Roux
- Shepherds Bush Empire, London - 12 November 2014
(22 February 2015)
New on dsoaudio YouTube: Wolfgang
Flür - Overdrive
(Elektric Music) - Live (DJ Set) Hoxton Bar & Kitchen,
London - 24 January 2015 - Full HD
(1 February 2015)
New Gig Review: Anthrax/Slug
- Bar 12, London - 23 November 2014
(1 February 2015)
New Music Review of Gauzes - the
stratospherically surreal (and !Recommended!)
debut album by Mikkokoo. Full A-Z list of all
Music Reviews HERE
(28 January 2015)
New on dsoaudio YouTube: Wolfgang
Flür - Home Computer
(Kraftwerk) - Live (DJ Set) Hoxton Bar & Kitchen, London -
24 January 2015 - Full HD
(24 January 2015)
New Gig Review: Sigue
Sigue Sputnik/Naked Lunch/She Made Me Do It/SHH - Electrowerkz,
London - 10 January 2015
(24 January 2015)
New Gig Review: She
Past Away/Transmission Control Division/Black Light
Ascension/Naevus - Electrowerkz, London - 31 December 2014
(18 January 2015)
New Tour Review: Combichrist/William
Control/Naked
Lunch - Preston, Newcastle, Glasgow, Bristol, London - 10-14
December 2014
(18 January 2015)
New
Gig Review: BBC
Radiophonic Workshop @ BFI Southbank, London - 6 December 2014
(18 January 2015)
New
on dsoaudio YouTube: Laibach
- "Live at Village Underground, London" (Spectre Tour full show)
- 12 March 2014 - Full HD
(18 January 2015)
Merry Christmas! New Music Reviews of Wrangler's
debut album LA Spark
(feat. Stephen Mallinder of Cabaret Voltaire, Benge of John Foxx
& The Maths, and Phil [Tunng] Winter) and the 8
Bit Operators' compilation Enjoy
The Science: Tribute To Depeche Mode. Full A-Z list of all
550+ Music Reviews HERE
(25 December 2014)
New on dsoaudio
YouTube: The
Jesus And Mary Chain - Just
Like Honey - Live at Troxy, London - 19 November 2014
- Full HD
(25
December 2014)
New
on dsoaudio YouTube: The
Department
- "Live at The Macbeth, London - 19 November 2014" (Full show) -
Full HD
(6
December 2014)
Gig
Review of John Foxx,
Steve D’Agostino and Karborn: Evidence of Time Travel/Paul
Prudence: Cyclotone II - BFI Southbank, London - 21 November
2014.
The complete A-Z index of Gig Reviews of all 280+ gigs to
date.
(30 November 2014)
New
on dsoaudio YouTube: Click
Click
- "Drone" - Live Infest Festival, Bradford - 24 August 2013 - HD
(28
November 2014)
New on dsoaudio YouTube: Ebola
Ape
- "Live at Mother Live, London - 13 December 2013" (Full show) - HD
(22
November 2014)
New on dsoaudio YouTube: Mikkokoo
-
"Live at The Boogaloo, London - 6 November 2014" (Full show) -
Full HD
(22
November 2014)
New
on dsoaudio YouTube: Ulrich
Schnauss
- "Live at Electrowerkz, London - 3 July 2014" (Full show) -
Full HD
(22
November 2014)
New on dsoaudio YouTube: Jagga
- You Wanna Know What It
Is? - Live at Electrowerkz, London - 3 July 2014 -
Full HD
(22
November 2014)
Review of the new Anthrax/Burnt
Cross The Beg
Society/Anathema split 7" anarcho-punk
single. Full
A-Z
list of all Music Reviews HERE
(17 November 2014)
New on dsoaudio YouTube: The
Department
- As If Transformed
- Live Hope & Anchor, London - 7 November 2014 -
Full HD
(16
November 2014)
The first ever English-language interview with Japanese
experimental rock outfit rhivs
added to the Interviews
section. Forget
everything
you've heard, or think you know, about Japanese rock. These guys
aren't just re-writing the rules, they've thrown the rule book
away.
(9 November 2014)
New Music Review of As If Transformed - the
debut single by The
Department and Jensen's
Zero One [Redux]
EP. Full A-Z list of all
Music Reviews HERE
(2 November 2014)
New on dsoaudio YouTube: rhivs
-
"Live at Zero, Osaka, Japan - 27 April 2041" (full show) -
Full HD
(1
November 2014)
New on dsoaudio YouTube: Wrangler
-
"Live at Rough Trade East, London - 14 May 2014" (full show) -
Full HD
(26
October 2014)
New
on dsoaudio YouTube: John
Costello-
"Live at The Soul Cellar, Southampton - 26 July 2014" (full
show) - Full HD
(26
October 2014)
New on dsoaudio YouTube: Wrangler
-
"Sensoria" (Cabaret Voltaire) - Live at Red Gallery, London - 18
October 2014 - Full HD
(25
October 2014)
Gig
Review of Claudia
Brücken at Old St. Pancras Church, London - 24 September
2014. The
complete A-Z index of Gig Reviews of all 280+ gigs to
date.
(3 October 2014)
Review
of
the new Mechanical Cabaret single I Lost My Friend To A Video Game. Full A-Z list of all
Music Reviews HERE
(28 September 2014)
Gig
Review: Infest 2014:
VNV Nation/Haujobb/Juno Reactor/Ashbury Heights/Legend/Solar
Fake/Architect/Cyanotic+Rabbit Junk/DJ? Acucrack/Xenturion
Prime/E.S.A./Mr Kitty/Be My Enemy/Dreams Divide/The
Ladder/Syd.31 - Bradford University, West Yorkshire - 22 - 24
August 2014. See
the A-Z index of Gig Reviews for all 285
reviews.
(21 September 2014)
New on dsoaudio YouTube: Die
Krupps
- "Live at The Garage, London - 2 August 2014" (Full show),
Full HD
(24
August 2014)
Reviews
of
the new Erasure
album The Violet Flames,
plus Mechanical Cabaret's Beyond Science And Superstition
(!recommended!) and the Romo
Night's compilation Friends Are Electric Vol.1 - Home
Full A-Z list of all Music Reviews HERE
(12 July 2014)
Gig
Review of Chvrches/Emilie
Nicolas at Somerset House, London - 17 July 2014. The complete A-Z
index of Gig Reviews
of all 280+ gigs to date.
(12 July 2014)
Every
song from Die Krupps' set at The Garage on 2 August added to the
dsoaudio.com YouTube channel: Includes: Fatherland,
To The
Hilt, Metal
Machine Music, Crossfire,
Der Amboss (Visage), The Machineries Of Joy, Bloodsuckers and 7 songs from the new album The
Machinists of Joy. Click here for the Full set playlist.
(9
August 2014)
Every song from Modern English's set at The Garage last month
added to the dsoaudio.com YouTube channel: Includes: Melt With
You, Swans
on Glass, Someone's
Calling, After
The
Snow, 16
Days/Gathering Dust, Tables Turning, and 4 new songs! Full set playlist.
(2
August 2014)
New on dsoaudio.com YouTube channel: Laibach live at Village
Underground, London - 12 March 2014: Eurovision
+ Walk
With Me
(2
August 2014)
Footage from last month's Abattoir Live night in London added to
dsoaudio YouTube channel - Automatic Writing - Strange
Creature, EYESHADOWS
- Here Come The Drugs
and Atlas
- Carousel
(2
August 2014)
Gig Review of day two of BAS
2014 Festival: Mesh/Sinestar/Robert Marlow/EMT - Towngate
Centre, Basildon - 21 June 2014. The complete A-Z
index of Gig Reviews
of all 280+ gigs to date.
(6 July 2014)
Gig
Review of Clan of
Xymox/Partly Faithful/Sebastian Bartz at Electrowerkz, London -
1 March 2014. The complete A-Z
index of Gig Reviews
of all 280+ gigs to date.
(6 July 2014)
Review
of Download's
LingAM album: "an
almighty punch-up between Juno Reactor and Fluke trading blows in
a collapsing skyscraper". dsoaudio
!recommended!
(6 July 2014)
New on dsoaudio YouTube - Jagga
- Let It Rain -
Live at Electrowerkz, London - 3 July 2014
(5
July 2014)
New on dsoaudio
YouTube - Wave
(feat. Mark Cousins) - The
Mother And The Whore - dsomedia, 2002 + BIOsonic - sixovernine
- Northern Plains
dsomedia, 1999
(27
June 2014)
Gig
Review - This time last year Depeche
Mode were in the midst of their epic Delta
Machine Tour, we take a look back to their date last June
at the Olympic Stadium in Berlin: Depeche
Mode
Olympic
Stadium, Berlin- 9 June 2013
(22 June 2014)
Playlist of 13 songs - the ful set of Chvrches - Live at The Forum, London - 14 March
2014 added to dsoaudio's YouTube channel.
(22 June 2014)
Gig Review of Midge Ure
at Only After Dark @ The Apres Bar, Birmingham - 31 May 2014
- "Outstanding". The complete A-Z
index of Gig Reviews
of all 280+ gigs to date.
(15 June 2014)
Gig
Review of Foxes/Pride
at Koko, London - 21 May 2014 -
"Foxes' vocals were out of this world". The complete A-Z
index of Gig Reviews
of all 280+ gigs to date.
(15 June 2014)
Playlist of five cover versions performed by Mechanical
Cabaret
- Live at Dirty Contacts clubnight at The Boogaloo, London - 5
June 2014 added to dsoaudio's YouTube channel.
(8 June 2014)
Review of the new rhivs
single:
rhiVirus - Japanese
Rock that will make you rethink Japanese Rock. dsoaudio !recommended!
(8 June 2014)
Review
of
the latest Das
Flüff album Meditation
and Violence - which comes dsoaudio !recommended!
(2 June 2014)
New on the dsoaudio YouTube channel: rhivs - Acid
Love - Live at Zero, Osaka, Japan - 27 April 2014
(30
May 2014)
New on dsoaudio YouTube: Wave
- Autopia - 2014
"Redux" reconstruction by AkA
(26
May 2014)
Gig Review of Anne
Clark/Eyeless In Gaza/Cult With No Name - The Garage, London -
12 April 2014 - "One of
the best shows I have ever seen". The complete A-Z
index of Gig Reviews
of all 279 gigs to date.
(25 May 2014)
Review of Matt
Berry's Music For Insomniacs
album. See all the reviews in the A-Z of Music Reviews
(25 May 2014)
New on dsoaudio YouTube! Covenant - "Live at Infest 2013 Festival - 25
August 2013" (full show)
(18
May 2014)
New on dsoaudio
YouTube! Heaven
17 - "Live at The Jazz Cafe, London - 20 February 2014" (full
show)
(18
May 2014)
New on dsoaudio YouTube! Wrangler
-
"Live at Servant Jazz Quarters, London - 18 February 2014" (full
show)
(18
May 2014)
New on dsoaudio YouTube! Wrangler
-
"Modern World" - Live Rough Trade East, London - 14 May 2014
(16
May 2014)
Gig
Review of Marc
Almond - Reflex, Gianpula, Malta - 18 March 2014 - "The place was absolutely packed to
the rafters". The complete A-Z
index of Gig Reviews
of all 278 gigs to date.
(30 March 2014)
To accompany our review of their gig last month in Brighton, a
Review
of Anthrax's album All
For
The Cause. See all the music
reviews in our epic A-Z of Music Reviews
(6 April 2014)
Gig
Review of Anthrax/Hagar
The Womb/Part 1 - Green Door Store, Brighton - 22 February 2014
- "A revalatory performance from
Anthrax". The complete A-Z
index of Gig Reviews
of all 277 gigs to date.
(30 March 2014)
Gig Review of Heaven
17 - The Jazz Café, London - 20 February 2014 - "25
minutes of life experience I'll have difficulty matching". The complete A-Z
index of Gig Reviews
of all 276 gigs to date.
(30 March 2014)
Gig Review of Soft
Riot/Mild Peril/Low Cost Life at The Bedroom Bar, London on
8 February 2014 - "A satisfying
night of off-kilter electronic acts". The complete A-Z
index of Gig Reviews
of all 275 gigs to date.
(22 March 2014)
New
on dsoaudio YouTube! Mild
Peril
- "Live at The Bedroom Bar, London - 19 February 2014" (full
show)
(22 March 2014)
New on dsoaudio YouTube! Soft
Riot
- "You Never Know What Might Come Next" - Live in London - 19
February 2014
(16 March 2014)
New
on dsoaudio YouTube! Soft
Riot - "There Just Isn't Enough Time" - Live in London - 19
February 2014
(16 March 2014)
Gig
Review of Wrangler at
Servant Jazz Quarters, London - 18 February 2014 - "Proper
electronic music - an unforgettable night". The complete A-Z
index of Gig Reviews
of all 274 gigs to date.
(16 March 2014)
New
on dsoaudio YouTube! Full set playlist of Wrangler - Live at Servant Jazz Quarters, London
- 18 February 2014
(16 March 2014)
New
on dsoaudio YouTube! Laibach
-
"Tanz Mit Laibach" - Live Village Underground, London - 12 March
2014
(16 March 2014)
Gig Review of Feathers
at Birthdays, London - 1 February 2014 "An
excellent set, superbly rendered". The complete A-Z
index of Gig Reviews
of all 270+ gigs to date.
(9 March 2014)
New
on dsoaudio YouTube! Clan
of
Xymox - "This World" - Live at Electrowerkz, London - 1 March
2014
(9 March 2014)
New full live show on the dsoaudio.com YouTube channel: Læether Strip - "Live at Electrowerkz, London -
7 December 2013".
(9
March 2014)
Review
of Naked
Lunch's debut album Beyond
Planets - released 36 years after the band formed! Just
as well it gets the dsoaudio !Recommended!
then.
See all the reviews in the A-Z of Music Reviews
(2 March 2014)
New
complete set playlist of Heaven 17 - "Live at The Jazz Cafe, London - 20 February 2014"
added to dsoaudio's YouTube channel.
(23 February 2014)
Playlist
of
all The Human League songs performed by Heaven 17 - "Live at The Jazz Cafe, London - 20 February 2014"
added to dsoaudio's YouTube channel.
(23 February 2014)
Gig Review of Polly
Scattergood/Parralox/Daniel Robinson - Road Trip Bar,
London - 7 February 2014.
The complete A-Z index of Gig Reviews of all 270+ gigs to
date.
(22 February 2014)
Gig Review of Lamo/Howls/Econo
- Bird's Nest, London - 14 February 2014. The complete A-Z
index of Gig Reviews
of all 270 gigs to date.
(16 February 2014)
New on dsoaudio
YouTube! Pride and Fall - Sculptor of
Lust and Desire - Live Infest Festival - 23 August
2013 Pride
and Fall - Hollow - Live Infest Festival, Bradford - 23
August 2013 | dsoaudio
(16 February 2014)
New on dsoaudio YouTube! U-Turns
- Venus In Furs
(Official Video) a superb cover of The Velvet
Underground classic
(16 February 2014)
New on dsoaudio
YouTube! Global
Citizen - "Live at Electrowerkz - 7 December 2103". Setlist: 1. Naughty Naked Nude 2. The
Only One 3. Slave
4. Don't Make It Slow 5.
Ain't Over Yet 6.
Your Majesty
(16 February 2014)
E Y E S H A D
O W S - "Live at Mother Live - 29 November 2013" added
to the
dsoaudio.com
YouTube channel. Setlist:
1. Hearts Beat 2. Northern Lights 3. Man
Made 4. Jump 5.
Nobody
(7 February 2014)
New full live show on the dsoaudio.com YouTube channel: Automatic Writing - "Live at The Old Queen's
Head, London - 18 November 2013" Setlist: 1. Continuous
2. Crystal Visions 3. Nostalgia For The Future 4. Strange Creature 5. Falling
6. In Transition
(6
February 2014)
Our
first Gig Review of 2014 brings us tales of Shocks
of
Mighty! performing at The Silver Bullet in London on 1 February. And
here's the complete A-Z index of Gig Reviews.
(6 February 2014)
Promo
video for British alt/electronic newcomers Jensen's single The Corruptor
plus the video for their cover version of Duran Duran's Wild Boys
both added
to the dsoaudio.com
YouTube channel.
(26 January 2014)
Promo
video for Polish noise (and Hands Label) outfit Wieloryb's Sign
plus live footage of them performing a mix of Zuo and
Mujab at Wave Gotik
Treffen - added to the dsoaudio.com
YouTube channel.
(26 January 2014)
Pride and
Fall - "Live at Infest 2013 - 23 August 2013" added to the dsoaudio.com YouTube channel. Setlist: 1. Sculptor
of Lust and Desire 2. Hollow 3. Inside 4. My Little 5. Epilogue 6.
Construct 7. Retrospect 8. Omniscient 9. December (almost full
show)
(18 January 2014)
Two
live video clips of IAMX added to the dsoaudio.com
YouTube channel - Kiss &
Swallow and Sorrow
both Live at The Electric Ballroom, April 2013
(18 January 2014)
Happy New Year! Depeche Mode
Live at the Olympic Stadium, Berlin, Germany - 9 June 2013
(almost full show) added to the dsoaudio.com YouTube channel
(1 January 2014)
Happy
New Year! Three new videos of Das Fluff supporting
Toyah at the O2 Academy, Islington in November added to the dsoaudio.com
YouTube
channel. Songs are: Drop, Break, Slip, Crash, Lucy Lady
and Rage.
(1 January 2014)
The 38 Best
Albums of 2013 - We asked a random selection of artists
we admire what their choice for Best Album of 2013 was. Here's
who
they are and what they came up with.
(31
December 2013)
"Tales of Meditation and Violence"
- A video Interview
with Das Fluff added to the Interviews
section. Filmed at the O2 Islington Academy, London. Also viewable
on the dsoaudio.com YouTube
channel.
(31 December
2013)
Merry Christmas! Blancmange Live
at
The Garage, London - 15 November 2013 (Happy Families Too
Tour) added to the dsoaudio.com
YouTube
channel
(26 December 2013)
Merry Christmas! Complete Phosphor Live
show at The Waiting Room, London - 31 May 2013 (Phosphor are
sadly no more - but still glorious. "The
light that burns twice as bright burns half as long.")
added to the dsoaudio.com
YouTube channel
(26 December 2013)
Merry Christmas! Complete Xeno &
Oaklander show Live at The Waiting Room, London - 31
May 2013 added to the dsoaudio.com
YouTube channel
(26 December 2013)
Merry Christmas! Complete
Depeche Mode
Live at
the O2 Arena, London - 28 May 2013 (filmed from the front
row in HD - stunning quality) added to the dsoaudio.com YouTube channel
(26 December 2013)
Gig Reviews of Little
Boots at Heaven in London on Thursday and Simple
Minds celebrating 40 years of Virgin Records at Koko in
London.
Here's our complete A-Z index of Gig Reviews
(1 December 2013)
3 videos from a great night's music at The Old Queen's Head
pub in Angel. Includes: Automatic Writing's Falling,
Plant Plant's Break Softly and an
unidentified track by Barnacles. the dsoaudio.com YouTube channel.
(1 December 2013)
3 videos of Das Flüff performing at the O2 Academy,
Islington, added to the dsoaudio.com YouTube channel.
(1 December 2013)
11
videos of Blancmange performing in London added to "Happy Families Too" playlist.
Includes: Blind Vision, Living On The
Ceiling, Waves, and God's Kitchen.
(1 December 2013)
Review
of The Mob's Rise Up - their first single
in 30 years(!) added to the Music Review section and it gets the
dsoaudio !Recommended! rating with a mighty 10/10. See all the reviews in
the A-Z of Music Reviews
(24 November
2013)
New Music Reviews of Pride
and
Fall's Of Lust and Desire
album, Concrete Lung's Subtract Nerve EP, and
Naked Lunch's Slipping Again, Again
single.
All added to the A-Z of Music Reviews
(10 November
2013)
Full set of Női
Kabát
- "Live at The Waiting Room, London - 11 July 2013" added to
the
dsoaudio.com
YouTube channel.
(10 November 2013)
Full set of Soft
Riot - "Live at The Waiting Room, London - 11 July 2013"
added to the
dsoaudio.com
YouTube channel.
(10 November 2013)
Official promo video for the new Naked Lunch single Slipping Again,
Again added to the
dsoaudio.com
YouTube channel.
(25 October
2013)
Setlists for Dive, Click Click, Sono and added to our review
of Infest 2013
Festival.
(12 October 2013)
Review and photos of all three days of the 15th
Anniversary
Infest 2013 Festival including: Covenant, Imperative
Reaction, Pride and Fall, Cervello Elettronico, Da Octopusss,
Click Click, Sono, Chrysalide, Dive, Future Trail, Wieloryb,
Inertia, As Able As Kane (AAAK), and Metaltech. Indexed in the A-Z of Gig Reviews.
(12 October 2013)
A belated review of Xeno
& Oaklander and Phosphor's appearance at The Waiting
Room in London in May. Indexed in the A-Z
of
Gig Reviews.
(12 October 2013)
World
premiere of the promo video for Das Fluff's new single Disconnect
added
to the dsoaudio.com
YouTube
channel.
(12 October
2013)
26
videos added to the dsoaudio.com YouTube playlist for the Infest 2013
Festival including: Covenant, Imperative Reaction,
Pride and Fall, Cervello Elettronico, Da Octopusss, Click Click,
Sono, Chrysalide, Dive, Future Trail, Wieloryb, Inertia, As Able
As Kane (AAAK), and Metaltech
(6 October 2013)
Promo video for Black and Blue Orkestre's Frozen Sunset
single added
to the dsoaudio.com
YouTube
channel.
(23 September
2013)
New Music Reviews of
Covenant's
excellent Leaving Babylon album
(which earns our !Recommended!
rating)
and the debut DECAYEDen
album Dead
Angels
& Forgotten Ghosts. Indexed, as ever, in the A-Z
of Music Reviews
(21 September
2013)
New Music Reviews added to the Music
Reviews
database
of Front Line Assembly's
new Echogenetic
album and Neuroderivat by Menschliche
Energie.
(15 September
2013)
"Loads of shit can happen over a
cup of coffee!" - A video Interview
with
Pride and Fall added to the Interviews
section. Filmed at the Infest 2013 festival they spill the beans
on thoughts of quitting, tour plans for the new album Of
Lust And Desire and a weakness for black metal.
(8 September
2013)
Three
videos of Covenant added to a new playlist for Infest
2013
Festival on the dsoaudio.com YouTube channel. Songs are: Feedback, Bullet
and Judge
of My Domain.
(8 September
2013)
Added to the dsoaudio.com YouTube channel: videos of every song of
B-Movie's set from their Hope & Anchor London gig in June.
Includes: Nowhere
Girl, Marylin Dreams, Remembrance Day, Scare Some Life Into Me,
and an acapella version! of A Letter From Afar. A
playlist of the gig in set order is available HERE
(8 September
2013)
Video Interview with
Front Line Assembly's Bill Leeb added to the Interviews
section. Covers everything from being schooled in a convent in
Austria(!), through chocolate cake and Land Rovers, including the
new album Echogenetic and
onto an up-coming FLA+Skinny Puppy double headline tour.
(1 September
2013)
Gig Review of
Anarcho-punks Part 1
- playing live with only their second gig in 30 years.
(1 September
2013)
Review of the 2013
M'era Luna Festival featuring: Nightwish/HIM/ASP/Front
242/Deine
Lakaien/Blutengel/Front Line Assembly/Apoptygma Berzerk/Mesh/The
69 Eyes/The Klinik/End of Green/Nachtmahr/Kirlian
Camera/Haujobb/Diorama/Clan of Xymox/In The Nursery and
Coppelius. Indexed in the A-Z of Gig
Reviews.
(29 August 2013)
For
those unable to attend last night's Front Line Assembly gig in
London, we've uploaded their storming rendition of Mindphaser to the dsoaudio.com YouTube channel. The full gig upload
in glorious HD coming soon! So be sure to subscribe
to the YouTube channel so you never miss a treat.
(22 August 2013)
New Music Reviews added to the Music
Reviews
database
of Covenant's
new Last Dance EP and Alone - the first new Naked
Lunch single since 1984! To accompany our review of Alone
we've also added the band's promo
video (their first ever) for the single to the dsoaudio.com YouTube channel.
(18 August 2013)
New
Music Reviews added to the Music
Reviews
database
of Pouppée
Fabrikk's latest album The
Dirt, I,
Synthesist's 2007 album Art
of Survival, MiXE1's
Module 02 EP and Cynical
Existence's new Beholder
EP.
(4 August 2013)
New Gig
Review of Goat
supported by Teeth of The Sea.
(4 August 2013)
Two new complete gigs (in glorious HD) added to the dsoaudio.com YouTube channel:
Heretics "Live at
Mother Live, London - 15 February 2013", and Fragile Chaos "Live
at SuperByte 2012, Manchester - 1 September 2012",
plus all 10 of the songs from the Heretics set added as individual
videos.
(4
August 2013)
New
label contacts added to the Links
Page.
(4 August 2013)
10 new videos added to the dsoaudio.com YouTube channel. Includes: Official
promo videos for Attrition's Narcissist, Jonteknik's
Unst
and Traffic
and Modovar's Clearly.
Plus live video footage shot from the front row of Depeche Mode at
the O2 Arena in London performing: Intro+Welcome To My World,
Angel,
Walking
In
My Shoes, Policy of Truth, and Precious.
Also: a clip of Demoscene Time Machine live
in London on Friday.
(21
July 2013)
New Music Reviews - Berliners Noblesse Oblige's fourth album Affair of the Heart more
than deserves our
!dsoaudio recommended!, whilst UK synthpopers Spacebuoy unleash
the superb song Breathe on its very own
EP. Indexed in the A-Z
database.
(13
July 2013)
Clips
from Thursday night's first gig in the current Női
Kabát/Soft Riot European tour added to the dsoaudio.com YouTube channel. Includes:
Női Kabát's Industry, Soft
Riot's
Your
Own Personal Underworld and I.F.A. Electronics
performing an untitled
improvisation.
(13
July 2013)
All
the songs from Spizzenergi's entire 229 The Venue show in
London added as individual videos to the dsoaudio.com YouTube channel. Includes: 6000 Crazy, Mega City 3, No Room, Amnesia, European Heroes, Soldier Soldier, Central Park, Red and Black, Scared, Virginia Plain (Roxy
Music cover), Clocks
Are Big, Machines Are Heavy, Spock's Missing, Where's Captain Kirk?, I
Fought The Law (The Clash cover). Or you can watch
the entire unedited gig
here.
(13
July 2013)
Review of In The Nursery performing their score to Carl Theodor
Dreyer's silent classic The
Passion of Joan of Arc at
St. Leonard's church, Shoreditch in London. Support was from
cellist Jo Quail.
Indexed in the the A-Z
of Gig Reviews.
(27
June 2013)
Review of NYC minimal electronics duo Xeno
&
Oaklander in London as part of their European tour plus
support coming from the mightily impressive Phosphor added to the Gig
Reviews section.
(27
June 2013)
Exclusive footage of the Depeche
Mode Fan Exhibition in Berlin added to the dsoaudio.com YouTube channel.
(20
June 2013)
John Costello's Autotron
EP gets the !dso recommended! treatment in a new
Music
Review.
Indexed in the A-Z
database.
(16
June 2013)
Review
of
Molly Beanland
performing at The Lock Tavern in London
added to the Gig
Reviews section.
Plus, video of the full show added to the dsoaudio.com YouTube
channel here.
(16
June 2013)
Depeche Mode performing Never Let Me Down Again at the Olympic Stadium in
Berlin added to the dsoaudio.com YouTube channel.
(12
June 2013)
New
Music Reviews of Modovar's
debut LP The
Sea
Of Unspoken Words, Collapse Under The Empire's
latest EP The Silent Sky,
Blancmange's 2011 comeback album Blanc Burn, Twilight
Electric's first EP for 8bitpeoples Rawk Hard, AlterRed's EP
The
Electro Creep Show. All added to the Music
Review database.
(2
June 2013)
The full show (in glorious HD) of John Foxx and The Maths performing at the
Roundhouse in London last month has been added to the
dsoaudio.com YouTube channel to accompany our recent review
of the gig.
(2
June 2013)
The
full show (in glorious HD) of Orchestral
Manoeuvres In The Dark performing at the Roundhouse in
London last month has been added to the dsoaudio.com YouTube
channel to accompany our recent review
of the gig.
(2
June 2013)
Contact details updated. If you wish to send material for possible
review, please contact us in advance. Please note: The previous
dsoaudio PO Box address for physical releases is NO LONGER VALID.
(27
May 2013)
Reproduktion
13
Festival playlist added to the dsoaudio.com YouTube channel.
Also, every band's performance added as individual gig videos
including: Attrition, Naked Lunch, Cult
With No Name, John
Costello and Mild Peril.
(19
May 2013)
Review of the Reproduktion 13 electronic music festival including:
Attrition/Naked
Lunch/Cult With No Name/John Costello/Mild Peril at
Roundhouse Studio Theatre, London 4 May 2013. Added to the
A-Z of Gig Reviews.
(19
May 2013)
New Gig Reviews of Orchestral
Manoeuvres In The Dark/John Foxx and The Maths at
Roundhouse, London on 3 May 2013, plus the mighty Killing
Joke/Jayce Lewis at The Forum, London on 16 March 2013. All
added to the A-Z of Gig
Reviews.
(12
May 2013)
New Music Reviews of Depeche Mode - "Delta
Machine", i! - "i!pad",
Inertia - "Alive",
Jonteknik - "Giants
Under The Microscope" (R)
and Kubo - "I Dream
Electric". All added to the Music
Review database.
(12
May 2013)
As their debut
single is released this week (and reviewed here),
Irish
minimal wave duo KuBO
give dsoaudio.com their first major interview.
(12 May 2013)
Orchestral
Manoeuvres
In The Dark performing "Metroland"
and "Electricity" last
night at the Roundhouse in London added to the dsoaudio.com YouTube channel.
(4
May 2013)
As a 'thank-you' for reaching our initial 100,000 target on the dsoaudio.com YouTube
channel, we've added 9 hours (!) of new footage
including a whole bunch of rarities, live exclusives and a few
guest surprises too. The Facebook event page is HERE:
(28 April 2013)
Due to viewer demand, new live footage of chipzel performing "Something Beautiful" and "Venice" at SuperByte 2012 added to the
dsoaudio YouTube
Channel,
and added to the SuperByte
2012
Playlist.
(14
April 2013)
New
Music Reviews of the new Tenek EP "Another
Day" plus the superb Reproduktion
13 (R) EP featuring
Attrition, Naked Lunch, Cult With No Name, John Costello and Mild
Peril - all perfoming at the Reproduktion 13 electronic music
festival in London in May. Both added to the Music
Review database.
(7
April 2013)
New
label contacts added to the Links
Page.
(7 April 2013)
Electronic pioneers of Some Bizarre "La Femme" fame, Naked Lunch
reformed in 2012 and played their first gig in 30 years with the
full, original lineup. That seminal gig complete and uncut has
been added to the dsoaudio.com
YouTube channel.
(6
April 2013)
Depeche Mode performing "Enjoy The Silence" live on the Jonathan Ross
Show on ITV1 (UK TV) added to the dsoaudio.com YouTube channel.
(5
April 2013)
Five exclusive live clips of Scant Regard performing material from
his imminent second album at Mother Live in London last month.
Songs include a superb cover of The Normal's "Warm
Leatherette", "Sneaking
Into Godforsaken Territory", "I
Make No Bones", "Beastometer"
and "Eye of The Fly" all
added to the dsoaudio.com
YouTube channel.
(2
April 2013)
Depeche Mode interview and performance of "Heaven" live on the Jonathan Ross Show on ITV1 (UK
TV) added to the dsoaudio.com
YouTube
channel.
(30
March 2013)
A belated but well worth the wait Gig Review of OFFICERS
at The Forum in December. Added to the A-Z of Gig
Reviews.
(24
March 2013)
18 new live gig clips added to the dsoaudio.com YouTube channel featuring
songs (from last year's BASII Festival) by: Blancmange, Naked
Lunch, Marlow, Spacebuoy, Modovar,
Electro Kill Machine, Shiny Darkness and Speak & Spell. Plus Howard
Jones
performing "What Is Love?". BASII Festival playlist updated to include
the 17 new clips.
(23
March 2013)
New Music Reviews including In
The Nursery's latest, Jet
Noir's debut and more from Xeno
& Oaklander, PacificUV,
Mind.In.A.Box, Scant Regard.
All added to the Music
Review database.
(3
March 2013)
New
Gig Reviews of Heretics/Dead
on TV/Scant Regard, plus Bat
For
Lashes/Sylver
Tongue and Zan
Lyons/Quayola with Matthias Kispert and Gregor Riddell. All
added to the A-Z of Gig
Reviews.
(3
March 2013)
Review of Slab's
first new release in more than 20 years - "Revelations
Chapter
1". Also indexed in the Music
Review
database.
(3
February 2013)
It's still not too late to make some New Year resolutions - some
of which should probably include the winners of the 2012
dsoaudio.com Awards.
(10
January 2013)
New Music
Reviews including three that come !dso recommended!: Portion
Control's "Pure Form", Heretics' "Wealth = Success" and
Thermidor's "1929" one of which has bee awarded our Best Album of
2012!
(10
January 2013)
New Gig Reviews
including the epic return of Dead
Can
Dance at the Royal Albert Hall and the perfect Xmas send off
to 2012 with Curxes/Automatic
Writing and Oberheim in a pub in Essex. As ever, the
complete list of all 250+
gig reviews can be found here.
(10
January 2013)
Merry Christmas!
Here's a present from dsoaudio: no fewer than 29 (count 'em) live
gig clips added to our
YouTube channel featuring: Dead Can Dance, Bat For Lashes, Curxes, Automatic Writing, Sylver Tongue and Oberheim. Playlists for each gig
created/updated. Enjoy!
(25
December 2012)
Additional footage of Blancmange, Speak & Spell and Strangers
performing
live at the BAS II Festival in May, added to the dsoaudio YouTube
Channel
and added to the BAS
II
Festival playlist.
(9
December 2012)
Gig Review of electronica duo Animat's
new
live score to John Carpenters cult sci-fi classic "Dark
Star" added
to the Gig Reviews database.
(29
November 2012)
Reviews of "Escape" - the second album from British synthpop
outfit Future
Perfect and the 8-bit Collective compilation "An
8-bit
Tribute to The Smiths" added to the Music Reviews database.
(25 November 2012)
Live footage of every artist who performed at SuperByte 2012 added to the
dsoaudio YouTube
Channel,
and a SuperByte
2012
Playlist created. So, that is: Dubmood,
Henry Homesweet, DeadBeatBlast, SuperPowerless,
chipzel, HarleyLikesMusic, B-Type, _ensnare_, Fragile Chaos!, X
Critical Strike X, and Skin
Walker.
(20
October 2012)
A complete review of the SuperByte 2012 micromusic festival. Every
band that appeared reviewed and photographed: Dubmood,
Henry
Homesweet, DeadBeatBlast, SuperPowerless, Chipzel,
HarleyLikesMusic, B-Type, _ensnare_, Fragile Chaos!, X Critical
Strike X, Skin Walker.
Indexed in the Gig Reviews database.
(13
October 2012)
Live footage of every band who appeared at Infest 2012 added to the
dsoaudio YouTube
Channel,
and an Infest
2012
Playlist created. So, that is: Suicide
Commando, Solitary
Experiments, The
Klinik, Winterkälte,
Absurd Minds, Necro
Facility, XP8, Geistform, A
Split-Second, Blitzmaschine,
Tenek, System:FX,
Suono, Resist,
Dirty K and Spacebuoy.
(7
October 2012)
Setlists for Necro Facility, Geistform and Solitary
Experiments performances added to our review of Infest
2012.
(7
October 2012)
As his new album "Totem & Taboo" is released we interview
Hugh Cornwell and solicit the former Stranglers frontman's
views on everything from his affinity with the Spanish, bumping
into the replacement Stranglers singer at a party and writing solo after
so many creative years.
Hugh also gives us his personal track by track guide to the
new album.
(26 September 2012)
Live footage of Seabound, Global Citizen, Method Cell and Blume
(14 clips in total) performing
live
at the Purple Turtle in London, added to the dsoaudio YouTube Channel.
(22
September 2012)
An
extensive review of Infest 2012 - with every band that appeared
during the three day festival reviewed and photographed featuring:
Suicide Commando,
Solitary Experiments, The Klinik, Winterkälte, Absurd Minds,
Necro Facility, XP8, Geistform, A Split-Second, Blitzmaschine,
Tenek, System:FX, Suono, Resist, Dirty K, Spacebuoy. Added to the Gig
Reviews database.
(18
September 2012)
Additional
footage
of
Inertia, Black Light Ascension and Scant Regard performing live at
the O2 Bar Academy, London, added to the dsoaudio YouTube Channel.
(17
September 2012)
Footage
of
Mechanical Cabaret, Modovar and Schadenfreude performing live at
the Fiddler's Elbow, London, added to the dsoaudio YouTube Channel.
(10
September 2012)
Gig
Reviews of Mechanical
Cabaret/Modovar/Schadenfreude at the Fiddler's Elbow, Camden
Town, London on 13 July, and
of Inertia/Black Light
Ascension/Scant Regard at the O2 Bar Academy, Islington,
London on 21 July added to the Gig
Reviews database.
(27
August 2012)
Footage of Assemblage
23, Das Flüff and
Analog Angel performing live at
the O2 Academy, Islington London, added to the dsoaudio YouTube Channel.
Plus Das Flüff's setlist added to the review
of
the same gig.
(15
August 2012)
Gig Review of Assemblage23/Cybercide/Das
Flüff/Analog
Angel at O2 Academy, Islington in London added to the Gig
Reviews database.
(12
August 2012)
Gig Review of The
Irrepressibles supported by Noblesse Oblige at the Hoxton
Square Bar & Kitchen in London last month added to the Gig
Reviews database.
Plus
live footage of both bands from that gig added to the dsoaudio YouTube
Channel.
(5
August 2012)
Rare video clips of extracts from UK performances dating back to
2002 added to the dsoaudio.com YouTube Channel. Includes: Die Krupps, Komputer, Clear Vision and The Droyds.
(1 August 2012)
Gig Reviews of She
Wants Revenge/Heretics/Cold In Berlin in London and the Mute Club DJ Night in
Tokyo, Japan.
Both added to the Gig Reviews database. Plus live footage of
She Wants Revenge and Heretics from the London gig added to the
dsoaudio YouTube
Channel.
(28
July 2012)
A week ahead of their UK tour as official support to The
Cruxshadows, we interview rising stars of the UK electro scene AlterRed.
(20 July 2011)
Review
of
"Above As Below" - the latest Cult
With
No Name album (featuring Sneaker Pimps' Kelli Ali amongst
others) added to the Music
Reviews database.
(15 July 2012)
Eight (count 'em!) new videos of Front 242's London gig last
December including "Headhunter",
"Religion", "Commando Mix", "No
Shuffle", "Circling
Overland", "Body
To
Body", "Lovely
Day" and "98".
From
the same gig, two new clips of support act Global Citizen
performing "Ain't
Over Yet" and "Early
Morning Star". Plus Blancmange peforming "Drive Me" from their latest album at the BAS II Festival in
May - all added to the dsoaudio.com YouTube Channel.
(1 July 2012)
Reviews
of
Concrete Lung's
"Die Dreaming" single and Global
Citizen's "Don't Make It Slow" (R)
EP - which earns them their second dso Recommended rating. Plus,
exclusive footage of Kodo drummer Shinichi Sogo peforming at the
Kodo Cultural Foundation's Taiko Centre on Sado Island, Japan
added to the dsoaudio YouTube
Channel.
(16 June 2012)
Electro Kill Machine setlist added to our review of the
excellent BAS II Festival.
(8 June 2012)
Epic new live footage: BAS
II
Festival YouTube channel playlist created to complement our
extensive gig review. Every artist reviewed is featured in the
live footage playlist (currently 25 videos) including:
Blancmange, Tenek, Marlow, Speak & Spell, Strangers, Modovar,
Spacebuoy, Naked Lunch, Shiny Darkness, Electro Kill Machine,
Sinestar and Protege Reign.
(22 May 2012)
Reviews
of
two May gigs added - one massive, one tiny - both
great. BAS II Festival
including: Blancmange/Tenek/Marlow/Speak &
Spell/Strangers/Modovar/Spacebuoy/Naked Lunch/Shiny
Darkness/Electro Kill Machine/Sinestar/Protege Reign - in
that home to Depeche Mode: Basildon, Essex and Hydra at
Bridgehouse 2, in London. Both added to the Gig
Reviews database.
(21 May 2012)
Eight new videos added to the dsoaudio
YouTube Channel: Includes: extracts of Karl Bartos' "Neon
Lights/The Message", Eisenfunk's "Pentafunk"
+ "Duck and Cover",
Kommand + Kontrol's "Our
Domain" + "Watched By
Machines" and Modern English's "Swans
On Glass", "Life In
The Gladhouse" and "Soundtrack".
(6 May 2012)
Five videos of
Howard Jones' set at O2 Empire Shepherds Bush added to the dsoaudio YouTube Channel:
Includes: "Hide
and Seek", "Human's
Lib", "Like
To Get To Know You Well", "Look
Mama" and "New
Song".
(29 April 2012)
New
gig review of Howard
Jones, performing his first two albums "Humans Lib" and
"Dream Into Action" in London. Added to the Gig
Reviews database.
(27 April 2012)
Live
footage from the two latest gig reviews added to the dsoaudio
YouTube Channel: Noblesse Oblige's "Jalouse",
Scant Regard's "Crunchy
Church", Eisenfunk's "Pong" and Kommand + Kontrol's "Alive" and "Secret Police".
(22 April 2012)
Two
new reviews added of two stonking gigs featuring: Eisenfunk/Kommand+
Kontrol/Plastic
Autumn/Paresis and Noblesse
Oblige/Neurotic
Mass Movement/James Cook/Scant Regard. Both indexed in the Gig Reviews database.
(19 April 2012)
Some
more music reviews added: AlterRed's
"Dollstown",
Auto-Auto's
"Dancing Through Dark Times" and Jäger
90's "Fleisch Macht Böse".
All indexed in the Music
Reviews database.
(9 April 2012)
New music
reviews including (in democratic alphabetical order): Kommand
+ Kontrol's "Full Frontal Assault - The Second Front", Mechanical
Cabaret's "Disco Vandalism" (R),
Modovar's "The
Covers EP" and Pakt's
"Freiheit".
See the Music Reviews
database
for the full SP.
(31 March 2012)
Three
videos of Cult With No Name's "Above As Below" album launch gig
added to the dsoaudio
YouTube Channel: Includes: "Idi's
Admin", "Raise A Glass"
and The Strangler's cover "Golden
Brown".
(31 March 2012)
New gig review of Cult
With No Name, London on 17th February. Added to the Gig
Reviews database.
(31 March 2012)
New gig review
of Clan of Xymox/Method
Cell/Dreams Divide/Heretics, London on 4th February. Added
to the Gig Reviews
database.
(25 March 2012)
Added
to the dsoaudio YouTube
Channel: more live footage from the Clan of Xymox London gig
last month. Clan of Xymox performing: "A
Day" and "Back Door".
Plus Mirrors with a superb rendition of "Fear
of Drowning" live at Heaven last year.
(4 March 2012)
Another
clip
from the winner of the dsoaudio.com 2011
Best Gig Award: the still mighty Modern English performing
"Tables Turning" at the Colchester Festival last summer
added the dsoaudio YouTube channel.
(4 March 2012)
Review of Tenek's
most-recent release "EP2"
added to the Music
Reviews
section.
(1 March 2012)
Added
to the dsoaudio YouTube
Channel: new live footage from the VNV Nation/AlterRed
London pub gig in January. VNV Nation performing "Streamline"
and "Space & Time"
from the latest album "Automatic" and the remarkable five
minute ovation at the end of the gig. Plus AlterRed performing new songs
"In Recovery" and "And
We Disappear" from their soon-to-be-released second album
"Dollstown".
(26 February 2012)
New
gig review of VNV
Nation playing in a pub in Camden, London on 8th January
with support from rising stars AlterRed.
Added to the Gig
Reviews database.
(26 February 2012)
From
the dsoaudio archives: a short montage of Martin
Gore performing at The Astoria in London in May 2003 added
to the dsoaudio YouTube
Channel.
(26 February 2012)
New
label contacts added to the Links
Page.
(26 February 2012)
Added to the dsoaudio YouTube Channel:
new live footage from the Clan of Xymox London gig from earlier
this month. Clan of Xymox performing the classic "Stranger",
with support from Dreams Divide and "Fly"
and Heretics playing "Epitaph".
(19 February 2012)
A
(very) brief montage from Martin
Gore's performance at The Astoria, London in May 2003 added the dsoaudio
YouTube channel.
(12 February 2012)
A bunch of live footage from the last three reviewed gigs of 2011
added to the dsoaudio
YouTube Channel. Includes - Front
242: "Im Rhythmus Bleiben" and "Welcome
To Paradise", Komputer:
"Looking Down on London" and (I Start Counting's) "Letters
To A Friend", Global
Citizen: "Slave" and "Ain't
Over Yet", Xeno &
Oaklander: "Set and Lights", and Das
Flüff: "Hey You".
(5 February 2012)
OK,
catching up here folks on account of travelling in January -
so cut me some slack. First up belated reviews of two cracking
December gigs to finish the year on: Front
242/Nachtmahr/Empirion/Global Citizen at Koko, London and Komputer/Global
Citizen/Das Flüff at The Finsbury, London. Those take us
over the 230 mark in the Gig
Reviews index.
(5 February 2012)
Live footage of VNV Nation
performing "Nova" and Global
Citizen
performing "Don't Make It Slow" added to the dsoaudio
YouTube Channel.
(30 December 2011)
It may have taken us more than a decade to come up with them,
but ladies and gentlemen, for your pleasure, frustration,
confusion, anger and excitement, we present the first ever
dsoaudio.com Awards.
The complete list of winners is here: dsoaudio.com
Awards
2011!
(30 December 2011)
Likely to be the last few music reviews of 2011, so here they are:
Black Light Ascension's
"ashes" (R), Kommand
+ Kontrol's "Watched By Machines", Lowe's
"Evolver"
album, and the "Expanded Version" of "Plastique People" by Neuropa.
Plus we catch up with Global
Citizen's first album proper "Master Stroke" and a little
gem from 2007 - neongrau's
"spam n space". See the Music
Reviews database
for the full works.
(26 December 2011)
Time to play
Music Review catch up. First up this bunch: Demian
Clav's "Wisteria Lodge", In
The Nursery's "Blind Sound", Javelynn's
"Chimaera
At Heart", K-Nitrate's
"Stark
Punkt" and "Voltage", Lowe's
"Breathe
In Breath Out", Mina
Harker's "Bittersüß" and Zynic's
"My Personal Kryptonite". All, of course, added to the Music
Reviews database.
(4 December 2011)
October
was
a busy gigging month. Gig Reviews added of: VNV
Nation/Solar Fake - Koko, London - 10 October 2011, IAMX
- Heaven, London - 13 October 2011, CyberSoniK Festival:
V2A/Method Cell/Machine Rox/Kommand + Kontrol/Decayed
Reflection/Dreams Divide - Underworld, London - 15 October
2011, John Foxx and The
Maths/Xeno & Oaklander/The Neat - Xoyo, London - 27
October 2011
(27 November 2011)
New
Gig Review of Japanese Taiko drummers from the UK: Mugenkyo
Taiko Drummers with Nobuko Miyazaki. Indexed in the Gig
Reviews database.
(12 November 2011)
First
live footage from London's CyberSoniK Festival addded to the dsoaudio
YouTube Channel. Includes: Machine
Rox, Kommand + Kontrol
and Dreams Divide.
(31 October 2011)
Bunch
of live video clips from the dsoaudio.com archives added to the dsoaudio
YouTube Channel. Including: Yazoo,
Front Line Assembly, IAMX,
and James Ray.
(28 October 2011)
Gig
review of In The Nursery
performing their 1996 score to the German expressionist classic
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari as part of the Portobello Film
Festival in London last month. Also added to the Gig
Reviews database.
(16 October 2011)
New
album reviews of the third Arms
and
Sleepers album "The Organ Hearts" and the latest from The Birthday
Massacre "Imaginary Monsters" added to the Music
Reviews database.
(16 October 2011)
New
live footage of IAMX
performing "Think of England" at Heaven in London last night added to
the dsoaudio YouTube
Channel. Plus
another
clip of VNV Nation opening their Koko set with "Intro"
+ "Chrome". A VNV Nation playlist for this gig has also been
created and the first two videos from that set added.
(14 October 2011)
New
live footage of VNV Nation
performing "Space & Time" from their new album "Automatic"
Tour at Koko, London
added to the dsoaudio
YouTube Channel.
(10 October 2011)
New
live footage of Dreams Divide
performing "Desire" in a cracking support slot on the London leg
of Covenant's Modern Ruin Tour last month added to the dsoaudio
YouTube Channel.
(8 October 2011)
Review
of AlterRed's debut
album "Mind-Forged Manacles" added to the Music
Reviews database.
(25 September
2011)
Review
of Global
Citizen's "Nil By Mouth" (R) -
the best album dsoaudio.com has heard so far this year.
(24 September
2011)
Review
of Swedish electronic popstars Covenant
in London with support from impressive newcomers Dreams Divide
and RBN. Also added to the A-Z
Index.
(18 September
2011)
Live
footage from the archives added to the dsoaudio YouTube channel - montage of Portion
Control playing at the Infest Festival 2007 (original gig
review here).
(18 September
2011)
Exclusive!
Sneaky
peek preview of the second AlterRed album: live
footage of the still-to-be-unveiled title track from their
second album. Which isn't coming until 2012. Added to the dsoaudio
YouTube channel (original
gig
review here).
(17 September
2011)
Modern
English performing "Someone's Calling" at the Colchester
Festival added to the dsoaudio YouTube channel.
(16 September
2011)
Two
live clips from last night's Covenant gig added to the dsoaudio
YouTube channel,
first: newcomers Dreams
Divide play "Complex" and the still mighty Covenant
performing "20 hZ".
(11 September
2011)
Some
photos from this evening's Covenant gig in London added to our facebook
page.
(10 September
2011)
Review
of the legendary Modern
English headlining at the Colchester Festival with exclusive
photos. Also added to the A-Z
Index.
(7 September 2011)
Two
live clips from the archives added to the dsoaudio
YouTube channel,
first: Mechanical Cabaret playing their cover
of
Fad Gadget's "I Discover Love" at Madame Jojo's in London in
April 2006 (original gig review here)
and from July the same year "Join In The Chant" from Nitzer
Ebb's storming
set at the Islington Academy (original gig review here).
(4 September 2011)
A Mechanical
Cabaret
playlist added to the dsoaudio YouTube channel.
(4 September 2011)
Two live clips from the archives added to the dsoaudio
YouTube channel,
first: Thomas
Dolby
live at the ICA in London on 3rd October 2007 (original gig
review here) and from
November 2006, Onetwo
performing
Propaganda and OMD songs "Messages", "Dr. Mabuse" and
"Electricity" (original gig review here).
(3 September 2011)
A
second song from Cult With No
Name's show at the Leytonstone Festival at the Luna Lounge, in July added to the dsoaudio
YouTube channel
- this time performing "Down The Line". A new Playlist for
this gig has also been created.
(28 August 2011)
New
live footage added to the dsoaudio
YouTube
channel of the legendary and still mighty Modern
English headlining at the Colchester Festival yesterday -
performing their hit single "I Melt With You".
(28 August 2011)
Complete
review
of all bands participating at the Music
For A Darkened Theatre Festival in London including: In The
Nursery, Zodiac Youth, Inertia, Mechanical Cabaret, The Ghost of Lamora,
Maleficent, AlterRed, Black Light Ascension, added to the Gig
Reviews index.
(28 August 2011)
Added
to the dsoaudio YouTube
channel:
In The Nursery open their set at the Music For A Darkened
Theatre Festival in London with "Transcript" and "Blueprint".
(28 August 2011)
New
label links added to the Links
Page.
(22 August 2011)
The
dsoaudio YouTube channel
has been updated. Today it's Black
Light Ascension playing "Killing Cycle" - again from the Music
For A Darkened Theatre Festival in London (13 August 2011), and Visage performing "Night Train"
and "Fade To Grey" live in London in 2005.
(21 August 2011)
A
new Playlist has been created for the Music
For A Darkened Theatre Festival in London (13 August 2011) on the dsoaudio
YouTube channel.
(21 August 2011)
Yet
more footage from the Music For A Darkened Theatre Festival in
London (13 August 2011) added to the dsoaudio
YouTube channel. Today it's the rather good AlterRed
performing "Losing Your Shine" from their debut album
"Mind Forged Manacles".
(20 August 2011)
The
dsoaudio YouTube channel
has been updated. Today it's the superb Mechanical
Cabaret in a brilliant rendition of "Tabloid Species" - again from the Music
For A Darkened Theatre Festival in London (13 August 2011)
(17 August 2011)
More
footage from the Music For A Darkened Theatre Festival in London (13
August 2011) added to the dsoaudio
YouTube
channel. Today it's Inertia
performing "Anticulture" from their latest album "Deworlded".
(15 August 2011)
First
of the footage from the Music For A Darkened Theatre Festival in
London (13 August 2011) added to the dsoaudio
YouTube channel. First up: In
The
Nursery performing their classic track: "Mystere" - their
first London appearance in 4 years.
More exclusive footage of this Festival to follow shortly...
(14 August 2011)
New
video montage of the much-missed Dragons
at
Dingwalls, London 3rd February, 2008
added to
the dsoaudio YouTube
channel. More video of Dragons live to come!
(10 August 2011)
New
video clip of Depeche
Mode
performing "Photographic" at the O2 Wireless Festival in Hyde
Park, London 25th June 2006
added to
the dsoaudio YouTube
channel.
(5 August 2011)
New
video montage of Deutsch
Amerikanische Freundschaft
(D.A.F.) peforming live at O2 Academy, London on 28th March
2009 added to
the dsoaudio YouTube
channel.
(4 August 2011)
New
clip of Berliners Warren
Suicide
performing at Electrowerkz, London on
2nd September 2008
added to the dsoaudio
YouTube channel.
(3 August 2011)
12
new Music Reviews including: the new albums from Dance
or Die (R), Accessory,
Parralox. Plus: John Foxx, Ordo Rosarius Equilibrio (R), Inertia,
Zynic (R), Eldar,
Dreams Divide
and yet more! Full
list
of all new reviews: Music
Reviews.
(31 July 2011)
New
video of Cult
With
No Name performing "Flying Ant Day" at the Luna Lounge, London
on
19th July
added to the dsoaudio
YouTube channel.
(31 July 2011)
New
label contact details added
to
the Links page.
(25 July 2011)
New
video montage of Ladytron
performing
live at The Forum, London on
8th June
added to homepage and
the dsoaudio YouTube
channel.
(10 July 2011)
New
Gig Review of the
mighty Meat Beat
Manifesto supported by Empirion at the Purple Turtle in
Mornington Crescent in London on 7th April.
(25 April 2011)
New
video footage of Meat
Beat Manifesto at the Purple Turtle in
Mornington Crescent in London on 7th April added to the dsoaudio
YouTube channel.
(25 April 2011)
New
Music Reviews of the
debut album "Lights and Offerings" from suited Brighton electronic
four-piece Mirrors (R), Blutengel's
7th
album "Tranenherz" and Depeche
Mode's double DVD+CD "Tour of the Universe".
(10 April 2011)
New
Gig Reviews of Killing
Joke at Ether 2011 and Mirrors,
playing underground at Heaven, London.
(10 April 2011)
New
video footage of Mirrors
perfoming live at Heaven in London on 8th March (spotting a
pattern yet to this month's updates?!) plus Empirion
at Purple Turtle on 7th April added to the dsoaudio
YouTube channel.
(10 April 2011)
A
bunch of video clips from the dsoaudio archives added to the dsoaudio
YouTube channel
including a never before seen montage of British
Electric
Foundation and Claudia Brucken performing at the Billy
(Associates) MacKenzie Tribute concert in 2007. Plus clips of:
Apoptygma
Berzerk, Attrition,
Coreline,
Komputer,
Covenant
and Random.
(10 April 2011)
New
Music Reviews this
month are as follows: And
One (R) (2 releases), Concrete
Lung (R), Daft
Punk (R), Digicore,
Nude, Nydhog,
Orchestral Manouvres In The
Dark, and Spectra
Paris.
(26 March 2011)
New
Gig Reviews this
month are as follows: Gand
of Four, supported by John
&
Jehn and Wild Palms,
and Flag Promotions' Peter Gilbert tribute night featuring: Mechanical
Cabaret, Karel
Fialka, Inertia,
Global Citizen and Dead Heaven.
(26 March 2011)
Links
added to the homepage
to our latest social media websites: Twitter
(@dsoaudio), our (gonna be friggin' great) You
Tube channel (/dsoaudio) and Facebook
page (/dsoaudio).
(26 March 2011)
In
democratic alphabetical order the new Music
Reviews to kick off 2011 are of: Ashbury
Heights, Combichrist
(2 releases), Cult
With No Name (R), Culture
Kultür, Greenhaus
(R) (2 releases), Mechanical
Cabaret (R), Method
Cell and Various
Artists bring us "Black Snow 2" (R).
(16 January 2011)
Two
new Interviews -
first an in-depth chat with UK ambient electronica duo Cult
With No Name and we also catch up with Spain's Culture
Kultür who recently returned after 5 years silence.
(16 January 2011)
Gig
Reviews
of Orchestral
Manoeuvres in The Dark (OMD) and Electronica
at the Queen Elizabeth Hall featuring: Will
Gregory, Anne
Dudley, Jonny
Greenwood, compere Jarvis
Cocker and more. Be sure to check out: Gig
Reviews the A-Z Index.
(21
November
2010)
Two
new
live reports... A year off seems to have worked for the Infest
Festival organisers with the 2010 August Bank Holiday three-dayer
turning out to be one of the most enjoyable ever. Full review of
every band here: Infest
2010: Project
Pitchfork/Rotersand/De/Vision/Nachtmahr/[X]-RX/Agonoize/Ayria/PATENBRIGADE:
WOLFF/Memmaker/Heimstatt Yipotash/Parralox/Northern
Kind/Concrete Lung/Mandro1d. Plus the ever reliable Mechanical
Cabaret supported by exciting newcomers Vile
Electrodes in a Camden pub. Click to access all 210
Gig Reviews.
(25
September
2010)
Two
new
!DSO Recommended! Music
Reviews featuring the first new Devo album in 20 years "Something
For Everybody"(R) and "Violently
Alive"(R) the superb new album
from Portion Control.
(25 September 2010)
Front Line Assembly
were the headline act of a terrific evening of industrial
variations courtesy of niche UK label Armalyte Industries. Rock
solid support came from je$us
loves amerika and rising stars Concrete
Lung. Complete A-Z of all 200+
Gig Reviews here!
(11 September 2010)
Interview with cult
American new wave band Devo
and no-one less than founder member Gerry Casale.
(15 July 2010)
Gig Reviews of a
memorable John Foxx's
appearance at The Roundhouse, and the first ever E-tropolis
Festival in Berlin featuring Covenant, Feindflug, DAF,
KMFDM, Combichrist, PATENBRIGADE: WOLFF, Mind.In.A.Box and Merguel
Kratzer.
(15 July 2010)
Music Reviews include
the new album from Front
Line Assembly: "Improvised Electronic Device" and the even
more impressive spin-off single "Shifting Through The Lens" (R);
plus XP8's "Drop The
Mask", and releases from Mind.In.A.Box,
Cdatakill, PATENBRIGADE:
WOLFF, Random
and Portugal's Thisco
label.
(15 July 2010)
Interview
with
Glenn Gregory - lead singer with electronic/funk legends Heaven
17 who return this year to tour their landmark 1981 debut
album "Penthouse and Pavement".
(4 June, 2010)
Extensive
and
exclusive interview with Johan Van Roy of Suicide
Commando fame. The Belgian harsh electro exponent chats to
dsoaudio about everything from those formative years through to
his latest (and one of his very best) releases, the album Implements
Of Hell.
(31 May, 2010)
Interview
with
US female 'glamwave' two-piece Girls
On Film wherein Rio and Kazmhir regale us with tales of
touring the US of A with the likes of Thrill Kill Kult and Gene
Loves Jezebel and bumping into Blondie's Frank Infante in the
studio.
(31 May, 2010)
Eclectic
selection
of new Music Reviews including the new Destroid
EP, astounding downtempo debut from Polish artist Klake(R), a soundtrack DVD release from Cult
With No Name, guilty pleasure in Emmon's(R) second album and the new experimental
album from Whiteberg.
Plus we revisit PATENBRIGADE:
WOLFF's "Demokratischer Sektor"(R), and the superb
second IMAX album +
there's more. See the Music
Reviews for the fill list of new reviews.
(31 May, 2010)
New
labels
added to the Links
page.
(31 May, 2010)
Reviews
of
new releases including the new albums by electro scene legends Nitzer Ebb and Suicide Commando,
the very impressive debut from newcomer Kah(R) and the new EP from death industrial
outfit Concrete
Lung. Plus superb Ultravox
'Best of' CD+DVD compilation and I,
Synthesist's 2004 debut. See Music
Reviews for details.
(5 April, 2010)
Fascinating
and
thoughtful interview with German Electro/Industrial two-piece Hioctan.
(5 April, 2010)
Gig
reviews
of Depeche Mode +
Nitzer Ebb, at London's O2 Arena (one of the best DM gigs
ever and the best NE gig ever!) and Thomas
Dolby and Friends, at The Union Chapel also in London. Full
list of latest reviews here.
(5 April, 2010)
New
labels
added to the Links
page.
(5 April, 2010)
Interview
with
Nitzer Ebb added to
the (wait for it...) Interviews
page!
(28 February, 2010)
Gig
reviews
of Assemblage 23, Karel Fialka, Mechanical
Cabaret, Cassette
Electrik, Cult
With No Name, Uturns
and more. Full list of latest reviews here.
(28 February, 2010)
Reviews
of
releases by PATENBRIGADE:
WOLFF, Gridlock(R), Tavelkoidik(R), Rotersand,
Portion Control(R), Parralox,
Alex Moulton(R) and Twilight
Electric(R). See Music
Reviews for details.
(28 February, 2010)
New
labels
added to the Links
page.
(28 February, 2010)
Review
of
the latest EP from Swedish synthpop duo Dupont.
(17 January,2010)
This
month
we hit the milestone of 200 GIG REVIEWS on dso | audio
with Grendel, Aesthetic
Perfection, SkinjoB, System: FX, Concrete Lung at the Underworld,
London, plus there's Louis
Gordon, Tenek and Lost Controllers at Camden Rocks, London
and Tortoise and
Cluster at the Royal Festival Hall as part of the London
Jazz Festival.
(10 January,2010)
New
video
clip Download of
Covenant performing "We Stand Alone" at the Electric Ballroom on 7
October 2007. A-Z index of all: Downloads.
(10 January, 2010)
Updates
to
the Links page.
(10 January, 2008)
Review
of
the very entertaining alternative Xmas
compilation Black Snow from Black Rain records.
(6 December,2009)
Gig
reviews
of VNV Nation's "Of
Faith, Power and Glory" Tour in London with superb support
from Straftanz and
Ayria, plus
traditional Bedouin music from Suleiman
Sabbah Alzalabih and Mohsen in the middle of the Jordanian
desert. dso | audio = diverse!
(8 November,2009)
New
Music Reviews
including the new Clan
of
Xymox album, the "War on Error" EP from Rotersand,
the terrific debut from KiloWatts
&
Vanek, plus releases from Angel
Theory, AZ-Rotator,
Coleco Music
and Terminal
Sound System.
(8 November,2009)
Interview with Jamie
Watts and Peter Vanek aka KiloWatts
& Vanek about their debut album "Focus and Flow" - an
unusual hybrid of electronica soundtrack and acoustic pop.
(8 November,2009)
Something
old
and something new in the Gig Reviews this month: A
Flock of Seagulls return - but were they actually any good?
Solid support came from: Tenek,
The Modern and Mechanical
Cabaret (now with added Steve Bellamy of Greenhaus fame).
Plus the increasingly impressive Noblesse
Oblige bring a taste of Berlin to Camden Town with Alexander
Price coming up the rear (if you'll pardon the expression).
A-Z index of all: Gig
Reviews.
(20 September, 2009)
NYC's
Mad
e.p. makes hip hop like you've never heard before. We take a look
back at his 2004 debut "Eating Movies" (R).
A-Z index of all: Music
Reviews.
(20 September,2009)
John
Foxx
DNA Exhbition
featuring: John Foxx, Gary Numan and Nick Rhodes. Plus a look back
at Japan's Kodo
drummers at the Royal Festival Hall. Go to Gig
Reviews for the complete A-Z of every live review.
(31 August, 2009)
New
Music
Reviews of Ashbury
Heights' debut "Three cheers for the newlydeads" (R),
Cult With No
Name's "Careful What You Wish For" (R),
Alan Moore & Tim
Perkins' "Angel Passage" (R),
Nitzer Ebb's "Big
Hit" (R), Nude's
"Shame"
and Rubikon's
"Wonderland".
(31 August, 2009)
Updates
to
the Links page to
include new label contacts.
(31 August, 2009)
Myspace page created
for dso | audio.
(1 August, 2009)
1984-2009:
the
25th Anniversary Tour of industrial rock legends KMFDM
comes to ye olde London towne in their only UK date. Support from
Trauma Pet, AlterRed
and old faves Leech
Woman. Go to Gig
Reviews for every live review.
(26 July, 2009)
!DSO Recommended! new Music Review of Coreline's "Bone
and Blood, As Stone and Mud".
(26 July, 2009)
New
Music
Reviews: of Depeche
Mode's 12th studio album "Sounds of The Universe", plus
former Propaganda member Andreas Thein's Leeloo
Kobayashi project's "Playthings", In
The Nursery's latest in their Optical Music series of scores
for silent films is "The Passion of Joan of Arc" and Noxious
Emotion's last release "Senses" all covered this month. A-Z
index of all: Music
Reviews.
(12 July, 2009)
Several
new
Gig Reviews: Depeche
Mode play the Olympic Stadium in Berlin, Seabound,
Auto Aggression and RBN play in Camden, Nitzer
Ebb, De/Vision and Janousch Moldau in Berlin, London
steampunk party with Abney
Park and the eccentric Thomas
Truax plus Squarepusher pushes the patience of our reviewer
to the limit. A-Z index of all: Gig
Reviews.
(12 July, 2009)
Exclusive
(and
final?) interview with Coreline's
Chris
McCall. A-Z index of all interviews: Interviews.
(7 June, 2009)
New
Gig
Review: the now mighty IAMX
return
to London to present their third album "Kingdom of Welcome
Addiction", support coming from quirky electronic nightclubbers Noblesse Oblige. A-Z
index of all: Gig
Reviews.
(7 June, 2009)
New
Music
Reviews: !DSO Recomended! awarded to
Audiowar's first,
Manufactura's
second and Mechanical
Cabaret's third albums. Plus: Sci-Fi
Industries, Auto-Auto,
The Fair Sex and
Schengen. A-Z
index of all: Music
Reviews.
(10 May, 2009)
New
Gig
Review: Ether 09 Festival featuring Warp's Plaid, Rahayu
Supanggah, Jon
Hopkins and the Southbank
Gamelan Players. A-Z index of all: Gig
Reviews.
(10 May, 2009)
Two
new
Downloads of
video clips from the recent Elektrofest Festival featuring Uturns
and Marlow. A-Z
indes of all Downloads.
(10 May, 2008)
Updates
to
the Links page to
include new label contacts.
(10 May, 2008)
With
Infest2009
being a no-show this year the emphasis on alternatives increases.
First up was Elektrofest
2009 - Flag's Promotions' Easter Bank Holiday electro
all-dayer in London. Full review, photos and line up including: XPQ-21/Mechanical
Cabaret/The Modern/Marlow/Uturns/Scarlet Soho/Seize/Cult With No
Name. See Gig
Reviews for full details.
(23 April, 2009)
Two
cracking
gigs to kick start the slow live scene at the start of this year:
electropunk legends Deutsch
Amerikanische
Freundschaft (D.A.F.) return to the UK, and rising UK
industrial act Uberbyte
got superb support from the surreal Coreline.
See Gig Reviews
for full details.
(3 April, 2009)
New
Music
Reviews: !DSO Recomended! bestowed
upon John Foxx &
Louis Gordon's "Retro Future" live album, Anne
Clark's first new material in over a decade, debut releases
from HK 119 and Kutosis, plus: Bondism,
Munkie and Ten
City Nation. A-Z index of all: Music
Reviews.
(15 February, 2009)
The
Joy
Circuit: an exclusive
interview with the first ever Tubeway Army/Gary Numan covers
band Young Things Don't Scream whose return to the live circuit is
only giving covers bands a great name.
(15 February 2009)
What
better
way to end 2008 than with the return of a cult hero in the guise
of Nash The Slash live?
A fantastic return tour of the UK having been away for more than
20 years (support from impressive Numan covers band YTDS,
Global Citizen, Cryogenica and more).
A-Z of Gig Reviews
has the full details.
(21 December, 2008)
A
selection of Music Reviews taking in the amazing "8-Bit
Operators" - Kraftwerk classic's recreated on 80s 8-bit
videogame technology, and Delerium's
1997
album "Karma" a commercial highpoint that retains all credibility
more than a decade on. Plus releases from Mind.In.A.Box,
Random and Mary
X. Links to all from the Music
Reviews
index page.
(21 December, 2008)
Updates
to
the Links page to
include new label contacts.
(21 December, 2008)
Two
new
gig reviews: 32 Crash
(featuring Front 242's Jean Luc De Myer) had support from the
fantastic Berlin band Warren
Suicide, plus System:FX
and I Am Immune.
Then the modish Remodel
played to a small but hip crowd at 93 Feet East. Both reviews a
tad late in coming, but better late then never we say... See Gig
Reviews for full details.
(19 October, 2008)
A
cluster of Gig Reviews: the epic Infest
08:
featuring Front242/And
One/Grendel/Snog/Noisuf-X/5F-X/Heimatadre/Santa Hates You/Tyske
Ludder/Marsheaux/100blumen/Deviant UK/SkinjoB/Coreline -
every band who appeared is reviewed + exclusive photos. Plus: Radiohead and Bat For
Lashes at Victoria Park and Gang
of Four at Meltdown 08. See Gig
Reviews page for full details.
(20 September, 2008)
An
in-depth
interview with Attrition's
Martin Bowes looks at his career to date and the creation of the
latest album "All Mine Enemies Whispers" - due to feature in a
documentary to be shown on ITV3 next month. See Interviews
page for more.
(20 September, 2008)
Music
Reviews:
Yellow6's epic
"When The Leaves Fall Like Snow" double album, a look at Black
Lung's prophetic "The Coming Dark Age", a new Repeat
Records compilation: "Keep Britain Tidy - A Public Service
Announcement With Guitars", and the "Young Blood" single from
newcomers Panama
Kings who impress with their artwork at least.
(31 August, 2008)
An
exclusive
new full track MP3 Download
of "Cuts n Bruises" taken from John
Merrick's Remains' latest album.
(31 August, 2008)
Glory
of
glories: Yazoo live at
Hammersmith Apollo in London in June. See the Gig
Reviews page for the extensive full gig list.
(31 August, 2008)
Exclusive
interview with Yellow6,
aka Jon Attwood. We look back on a decade of ambient soundtracks
and take a look at the latest (double album) recorded over 6 weeks
in Stockholm.
(3 August, 2008)
Two
new
Music Reviews: Universal
Poplab's "Uprising" album unexpectedly disturbs our editor,
plus we've the debut single from Welsh rockers Go-X.
(3 August, 2008)
Two
new
Downloads of
video clips from the Club Robot debut night featuring Komputer
and Random.
(12 May, 2008)
New
Gig
Reviews of electronic Londonders Komputer
(with support from the Game Boy-tastic Random)
and IAMX with
support from Sohodolls.
See the Gig Reviews
page for full listing info.
(12 May, 2008)
Extensive
new
interview with Kinetik
added to the Interviews
page.
(12 May, 2008)
A
bunch of new Music Reviews including the latest foray into
darkness by the mighty Attrition,
plus releases from newcomers Machine,
sveldt and Harald
Bosh. Plus some blasts from the past including Cobalt
60, Seabound,
Pride and Fall,
Conjure One and
Spahn Ranch.
Jump over to the Music
Reviews page for the complete list of new reviews.
(12 May, 2008)
Several
updates
to the Links page
to include new label contact details.
(12 May, 2008)
After
too
many years away, DSO returned to Rough Trade's uber cool RoTa club
at the Notting Hill Arts Club for an evening of chilled glory
featuring: Yellow6,
Winterlight, Televise
and Luga.
(20 April, 2008)
Another
superb
gig and we're only three gigs into the year. As part of their
Spring 2008 European tour DRAGONS
headlined at the Underworld in London. Sublime support came from
an astonishingly impressive Ulrich
Schnauss, plus The
Fluids. Full review
+ photos HERE.
(16 March, 2008)
Exclusive
footage of DRAGONS
performing "Condition" and "Remembrance" at this month's
Underworld gig added to the Downloads
page.
(16 March, 2008)
Music
Reviews
this month focuses on Swedish label Wonderland Records, with
reviews of releases from Thermostatic,
Emmon and Universal
Poplab. Plus reviews of older material from Temposhark,
S.V.D. and Suicide
Commando. Go to the Music
Reviews page for the complete list of new reviews.
(16 March, 2008)
Updates
to
the Links page
including addition of Alternative Magazine (for which I
occasionally write).
(16 March, 2008)
Two
new
Gig Reviews - and
what a way to start 2008! The return of the mighty Die
Krupps saw the German metal industrialists put on a storming
show in London. Support coming from rising stars DRAGONS
and US EMB outift Faderhead.
Then there's Mick (Clash) Jones and Tony (Sigue Sigue Sputnik)
James' Carbon/Silicon
project taking up residency in The Inn on The Green. For a
complete list of all Gig Reviews go HERE.
(12 February, 2008)
Eleven
new
Music Reviews of releases from Rotersand,
DRAGONS, Autons,
Greenhaus, Kinetik,
Decoded
Feedback, Stromkern,
and Notstandskomitee.
Go to the Music Reviews
page for the complete list of new reviews.
(6 February, 2008)
It's
good
to keep in touch, so to make it easier for you to do so, we've
added more links to the Links
page.
(6 February, 2008)
Twelve
new
reviews added of releases from Attrition,
Celluloide, Dekad, Dismantled,
Empire State
Human, Komputer,
Mindless Faith,
Suicide Commando,
Viva Stereo,
plus NTP compilation Noise
Terror 2: World Wide Electronics and more. Go to the Music
Reviews page for the complete list of new reviews.
(2 January, 2008)
Exclusive
IAMX video clips
of their performance at Islington Academy in September added to
the Downloads
page.
(2 January, 2008)
More
website
links added to... wait for it... the Links
page!
(2 January, 2008)
Live
reviews
of Philip Glass at the
Barbican performing his epic "Music in 12 Parts", and label
Out of Line's 2007
Festival comes to the UK - but only just (see the review for
details), featuring four bands new to the DSO website: Spetsnaz,
Proceed, Ashbury
Heights and Din
[A] Tod.
(25 November, 2007)
Three
new
live reviews added of Covenant
at
the Electric Ballroom (support coming from Client and
Mechanical Cabaret), Thomas
Dolby
and the Radio Science Orchestra perform "Sputnik &
Beyond" at the ICA, plus multimedia artist Miguel
Soares' latest installation at the fantastic Electricity
Museum in Lisbon. See the Gig
Reviews page for all the details.
(12 November, 2007)
Reviews
added
of new releases from In
The Nursery, Edge
of Dawn, Thermostatic
and the debut for Delerium's Bill Leeb and Rhys Fulber's Fauxliage
project. Go to the Music
Reviews page for all the details.
(12 November, 2007)
Electronic
cult
hero John Foxx took
over the Institute of Contemporary Arts to show his Tiny Colour
Movies film and perform the seminal Metamatic album. We've a full
review and photos. Plus Chris (Sneaker Pimps) Corner's IAMX
put on a brilliant show at Islington Academy last week. See the Gig Reviews page for
more.
(7 October, 2007)
Live
reviews
and photos of David
Sylvian and Brian
Wilson - both appearing at the Royal Festival Hall in London
this month. See Gig
Reviews for details.
(28 September, 2007)
Live
video
clips of Apoptygma
Berzerk and Portion
Control appearing at the 10th Anniversary Infest festival
last month have been added to the Downloads
page.
(28 September, 2007)
The
Infest
Festival hit its 10th Anniversary this year and with an impressive
lineup of old hands (VNV
Nation, Apoptygma
Berzerk, Portion
Control) and exciting newcomers (Faderhead,
Synnack, Greyhound,
E.S.A.) it promised
to deliver. See our exclusive
review and photos for the full report and roster. See the Gig Reviews page for
more.
(8 September, 2007)
First
live
review of Sheffield odd couple John
Merrick's Remains - a perplexing combination of Elephant Man
imagery and Neil Diamond covers. See the Gig
Reviews page for more.
(12 August, 2007)
More
links
added to the Related Internet sites section of the Links
Page.
(12 August, 2007)
A
pretty eclectic handful of new Music Reviews including: All
Saints' (yes that All Saints!) "Black Coffee", low-fi
punk outfit Deathsquad's swansong compilation "Adventures in
No-Fi", "Injection"
- the debut album from Controlled Collapse, and the
astonishing "Pulse"
by Front 242 (R). See the Music Reviews page
for all links.
(5 August, 2007)
First
review
on DSO of a Bhangra gig with leading genre star Jazzy
B performing at the Big Day Out festival in DSO's home town.
Was this Bhangra novice converted? Find out here.
Or check out the complete A-Z of Gig
Reviews.
(5 August, 2007)
By
way of tribute to the defunct Deathsquad, we've added their promo
video to "Rip and
Burn" to the Downloads
section.
(5 August, 2007)
Several
new
Music Reviews including: Edge
of Dawn's "Enjoy The Fall", Tik+Tok's
"Dream
Orphans", Sub-Fusion's
"Basic
Instincts EP", Haujobb's
"Ninetynine" (R) and the
sampler "Septic
VII" (R). See the Music
Reviews page for all details.
(21 July, 2007)
Some
major
housekeeping with loads of link updates, corrections, images
sorted, repaired links, etc, etc. Yes, there are still some bits
that need updating but I do want a life outside the Matrix.
Overhaul of the Audio
Links page too.
(15 July, 2007)
Review
and
exclusive photos of the triumphant return of Orchestral
Manoevures in the Dark (OMD) performing their landmark album
Architecture & Morality in London with support from Lovers Electric. See
Gig Reviews page
for more.
(11 July, 2007)
Exclusive
live
video clips of Orchestral
Manoevures
in the Dark performing songs from their landmark album Architecture
& Morality in London in May. See Downloads
page for more.
(11 July, 2007)
Review
of
the 3-CD Amp
compilation album All
of Yesterday Tomorrow. See Music
Reviews page for details.
(11 July, 2007)
Review
and
exclusive photos of Gotham
8
(Alpha) Festival in London featuring: In
The Nursery, Lene
Lovich, The
Cassandra Complex and The
Shanklin Freak Show. See Gig
Reviews page for more.
(9 June, 2007)
News - details of the
new Front Line Assembly UK Fallout Tour added to the news
page.
(9 June, 2007)
New
album reviews of two
European releases: Elektrisch!
(Vol.2) and the new album from Days
of
Fate - Traffic.
(3 June, 2007)
Reviews
and
photos of two outstanding gigs: the Billy
MacKenzie Tribute event featuring the first ever gig from
BEF (British Electric Foundation)! Line up includes: BEF,
Onetwo, Electric
Soft Parade, Claudia
Brücken and Andrew Poppy, Howard
Hughes, Subterreaneans
(featuring Paul Haig)
and Mower. Plus
there another astonishing live show from Attrition,
with support from The
Shanklin Freak Show, Greenhaus
and Highrise.
(16 April, 2007)
News
- previews of two new European releases: Elektrisch! (Vol.2)
and the new album from Days of Fate - Traffic.
(16 April, 2007)
Dependent
Special
Tribute update with 19 new Music
Reviews including 5 new !DSO
Recommended! releases, covering new, recent and older
material from Seabound,
Insekt, Rotersand,
Stromkern, Auto
Aggression, Edge
of Dawn, Suicide
Commando, Girls
Under Glass, Fractured,
Dioxyde, Ivory
Frequency and loads more
(20 March, 2007)
New
Gig Review of Nine
Inch Nails at Brixton Academy with support coming from Ladytron.
Plus
an
archive interview with Void
Construct.
(20 March, 2007)
Dependent
label
boss Stefan Herwig
explains his decision to close the label in 2007.
(20 March, 2007)
More
housekeeping, updating links (eg Links),
correcting
typos (eg Cleen),
etcetera, etcetera, etcetera...
(4 March, 2007)
Some
housekeeping,
updating links, correcting typos, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera...
(19 January, 2007)
It
had been a quiet few months on the gig front, so best way to make
up for the drought was to pack in fourteen bands in little
more than a week. This was done easily via the following... Black
Celebration VIII provided plenty of website content in the
form of Suicide
Commando, XPQ-21,
Psyche, Knifeladder,
V2A, Deathboy
and more. My first opportunity to sample Bill (FLA, Delerium, etc)
Leeb's Conjure One
project live was a no-brainer, plus the welcome return of Paul
(OMD) Humphries and Claudia (Propaganda) Brücken's Onetwo
project. See the A-Z
of Gig Reviews for full band and gig details. Happy New
Year!
(7 January, 2007)
Some
cross-linking
added to older reviews
(to newer stuff) to make the most of the hyperlinking
internetisphere...
(17 November, 2006)
Clocks
going
back update... new Music
Reviews including: Dismantled's
Breed To Death EP, John
Foxx's Modern Art (Best of), a couple from Mind.In.A.Box
(Certainty and second album Dreamweb), plus new
release Imaginary Life - an impressive career-spanning 148
minute DVD from Psyche.
(29 October, 2006)
In
depth
coverage of this year's Infest
Festival with a review of every one of the fourteen artists
performing, illustrated for your satisfaction with exclusive
photographs. Plus an interview with one of the UK's most
distinctive acts Mechanical
Cabaret.
(17 September, 2006)
Just
a quick update for now: the addition of a Live
Review of John Foxx and Rubicks at The Scala in London at
the end of last month.
(11 August, 2006)
Second
update
for this month: there's an exclusive interview
with Tik+Tok; a bunch of Music
Reviews including: Tik+Tok's
first
release in 20 years, the new album from Mechanical
Cabaret, intelligent industrial from Interlace,
surprisingly good French synthpop from Foretaste
and ambient elecronica from Ras.Al.Ghul.
Then there's our offer of a terrific free(!)
interview CD with Attrition featuring tracks from their 25th
Anniversary album.
(24 July, 2006)
More
label
details added to the Links
Page.
(24 July, 2006)
Hot
town:
summer in the city... so it must be festival time. Review of the 2006 O2 Wireless Festival
in London's Hyde Park featuring Depeche
Mode, Goldfrapp and Thomas Dolby, plus the almightly live
return of industrial legends Nitzer
Ebb with brutal support from Terence
Fixmer. Full details can be found on the Gig
Reviews page as usual.
(15 July, 2006)
A
varied selection of new music reviews. Includes the astonishing
2002 Wiser album from Halou
- latest entry into the rarifired DSO Recommended league. Plus
signature Jon
Black album Sci-Fi Music, a Yellow6
compilation/remix album, and DJ Vadim contributes to The
Bug's musical take on Coppola's The Conversation. See Music
Reviews for more.
(15
July,
2006)
Review
of
Apoptygma Berzerk live
in London. Norway outfit tour their latest album You And
Me Against The World, but has the rockier sound ruined
earlier electro classics?
(4
June,
2006)
Interview with 80's cult
legends b-Movie! This interview was published when original
members Steve Hovington and Paul Statham first got back together
in the summer of 2004. This is the first time the complete,
unedited interview has been published, and it takes in their
entire career and plans for the future. See the Interviews
page for more
(29 May, 2006)
More
Music
Reviews encompassing a-ha's eighth album Analogue,
Covenant's 2000 Synergy
live album and Box
Set live video, plus Suicide Commando's Face
Of Death single. See the Music
Reviews page for more details
(15 May, 2006)
Review
of
this year's Elektrofest
in London featuring: De/Vision/[:SITD:]/Iris/Client/The
Modern/Tik
+ Tok/Greenhaus/Suzerain. Plus Return of the Robots!
Exclusive download video clips of Tik + Tok at Elektrofest
2006. See Downloads
for more. Plus more links added to the Links
Page (surprisingly)
(15 May, 2006)
New
Gig
Reviews taking in Depeche
Mode at Wembley Arena (with support from The Bravery), 80s
faves a-ha return
supported by Protocol, Sigur
Ros with Amiina, Mechanical
Cabaret and Trademark at Madame Jo Jo's, plus the Arctic
Cricle Orchestra at the Dan Flavin Exhibition at the Hayward
Gallery as part of Ether 2006. Check Gig
Reviews for all the details
(16 April, 2006)
A
shed load of Music Reviews some new, some old, some well-known,
some obscure... including: Altered
States, Deathsquad,
Diefenbach, The Pain
Machinery, Temposhark, Ultraviolence,
Random (02)
mixes of Gary Numan and Velvet
Acid Christ. See the Music
Reviews page for the full SP.
(25 February,
2006)
New
Music
Reviews of: Trademark,
Matt Williamson
and label compilations Masonic
(Hymen) and Septic V
(Dependent). Check out the Music
Reviews page for details
(27 December,
2005)
New
Gig
Reviews featuring: Goldfrapp
in Brighton, Nouvelle
Vague and Hanne Hukkleberg in London, plus Make Mine Music
label event featuring: Yellow6/Portal/July
Skies/Epic45 in Sheffield. See the Gig
Reviews page for full details.
(27 December,
2005)
New
CD Reviews of: Jon
Black, Pride
and Fall and Lionrock.
Check out the Music
Reviews page for more details
(23 October,
2005)
New
CD Reviews of: Chemlab,
Hanzel und
Gretyl, Munkie,
and Irdial~Discs compilation There
Are
Far Too Many Fools Following Too Many Rules. Check out Music
Reviews for full SP
(16 July, 2005)
Several
new
labels added to the Links
page
(16 July, 2005)
New
Gig
Reviews featuring: Elektrofest
2005:
Visage/Girls Under Glass/Lowe, Einstürzende
Neubauten, plus Dependent Double Bill: Seabound/Pride
&
Fall in London. See the Gig
Reviews page for full details.
(26 June, 2005)
New
audio,
video downloads added: Hexstatic,
Schneider TM, The Herbaliser and
One Self (feat. DJ
Vadim). Plus new Downloads
A-Z Index added too.
(26 June, 2005)
New
format
Index including
Google search facility to search the extensive DSO database.
(26 June, 2005)
New
Live
Reviews: Either 2005
featuring: Dieter Moebius and Michael Rother, Githead, They Came
From The Starts, I Saw Them, James
Ray, In The
Nursery and The
Killers. Music: See the Gig
Reviews page for details.
(26 April, 2005)
New
Music
Reviews featuring: Coil,
Delerium, Flesh
Field, Dave
Gahan, John
Merricks Remains, Mechanical
Cabaret and The
Nine. See the Music
Reviews page for full details.
(26 April, 2005)
New
reviews
of releases from Front
242, The Galan
Pixs,
Mind.In.A.Box(R), S.ink, Silence
Is Sexy(R) and Suicide
Commando. See the Music
Reviews page for details.
(7 February,
2005)
Free
Amon Tobin audio and
video downloads from the new soundtrack to the Splinter Cell
computer game. More on the Promo
page.
(7 February,
2005)
Reviews
of
releases from Blaubac,
In The Nursery(R), Rotersand,
Portal(R), Seabound
and VNV Nation. See
the Music Reviews
page for details.
(5 January,
2005)
Live
reviews
of electronic legends The
Human League,featuring support from Trademark,
plus the Beastie Boys
assault Wembley Arena. See the Gig
Reviews page for details.
(5 January,
2005)
New
reviews
of album releases from Attrition,
Dream Into Dust
and Daniel Myer projects Haujobb
and Clear Vision.
See the Music Reviews
page for details.
(16 November,
2004)
Catching
up
with Live Reviews, so we've a big bunch including the first ever
live gig of One
Two (featuring OMD's Paul Humphreys and
Propaganda's Claudia Brucken), Duran
Duran, Goldfrapp,
Wolfsheim, Silence
Is Sexy, Trademark,
Mothboy, Broadcast,
plus Elektrofest 2004
featuring Greenhaus,
Ju Ju Babies and Schmoof. Jim
McLennan also takes a nostalgic look back to the first ever Infest
Festival in 1998.
(16 November,
2004)
Reviews
of
releases from Front Line
Assembly, Snog,
In The Nursery, Dismantled,
Kinetik, plus the
4mg compilation Melodies
& Structures. See the Music
Reviews page for details.
(2 August, 2004)
Free
Ninja
Tune audio and video streams on the Promo
page including Hexstatic, Jaga Jazzist and Coldcut.
(12 April, 2004)
Reviews
of
new releases from Kraftwerk,
Karl Bartos, Seabound, The
Id, Cylobotnia,
plus compilations Septic
IV and Latitude.
Check the Music Reviews
page for the full list.
(12 April, 2004)
Live
reviews
of Radiohead and Asian Dub Foundation
at Earls Court, London added to the Gig
Reviews section.
(8 December,
2003)
CD
Reviews
of new releases from Decoy,
Delerium, Empusae,
Greenhaus, Freudstein,
Gardenbox, H.I.V.+,
Sci-Fi Industries, and
Void Construct.
Check the Music Reviews
page for the full list.
(23 November,
2003)
New
Gig
Reviews (and photos) of Karl
Bartos with support from Client,
plus a screening of Depeche
Mode's
101 (feat. Andy Fletcher, D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus).
Check the Gig Reviews
page for the full list.
(23 November,
2003)
New
Gig
Reviews (and photos) including John
Foxx, Greenhaus,
Zan Lyons, Swarf
and Martina
Topley-Bird. Plus an extensive report of Infest
2003 featuring: VNV
Nation, God
Module, Hypnoskull,
Seabound, Tarmvred,
Culture Kultür, S.I.T.D., Needle
Sharing and more!
Check the Gig
Reviews page for the full list.
(18 October,
2003)
Twenty
new
live artists reviews (plus photos) including Karl
Bartos, Martin
Gore, Dave Gahan,
John Foxx - Cathedral
Oceans Installation, Throbbing
Gristle - TG24 Screening, Robert
Marlow, Matthew
Herbert, Erasure,
James Lidell, Ju
Ju Babies and Mechanical
Cabaret. Plus the DefCon 2 Launch Party featuring:
Action Directe, The Sepia and Interlock
and more!
Check the Gig
Reviews page for the full list.
(7 September,
2003)
Interviews
with
John Foxx, In
The Nursery and Stephan Groth of Apoptygma
Berzerk
(20 July, 2003)
Twelve
new
CD reviews including: Tarmvred, Somatic Responses,
Hydra, Male
or Female, Kinetik, Cabaret
Voltaire, New
Mind, plus the Club
Bizarre 2 compilation and more. See the Music
Reviews page for the full list of titles.
(20 July, 2003)
Fourteen
new
CD reviews including: Male
or Female, Conjure One,
Suicide
Commando, In
The Nursery, Kinetik, Devour
Ensemble, plus the This
Is Hardcore, Atkion
Mekanik, Electro-Fiction
and Septic III
compilations and more. See the Music
Reviews page for the full list of titles
(10 March, 2003)
Reviews
and
photos of electroclashers The
Droyds and Daniel Myer's Clear
Vision at The Mean Fiddler, London
(17 January,
2003)
Fifteen
new
live artists reviews (plus photos) including Cinematic
Orchestra, Komputer
live at Spitalfields Market, in the US: Lords
of Acid and My
Life With The Thrill Kill Kult, a report of the Mute
Irregular #9 featuring: Richard
H. Kirk, Appliance,
Vic 20 plus DJ sets
from Alison Goldfrapp,
Daniel Miller and Client. Plus Schneider
TM, Max Tundra
and Cursor Miner.
Check the Gig
Reviews page for the full list
(6 December,
2002)
Eleven
new
CD reviews including: John
Foxx, VNV Nation,
Apoptygma
Berzerk, Mechanical
Cabaret, Hocico, Railgun,
Sulpher and more.
See the Music Reviews
page for the complete list
(10 November,
2002)
New
live
reviews including the return of Sheep
on Drugs, plus a report of The Big Chill festival at Eastnor
Castle featuring: Fila
Brazilia, Giles
Peterson, Gotan
Project and Different
Drummer
Soundsystem. Check the Gig
Reviews page for full list
(21 September,
2002)
New
Gig
Reviews including Susumu
Yokota, Rothko,
plus a report of the Dark
Jubilee Festival featuring: VNV
Nation, S.P.O.C.K.,
L'ame
Immortelle, Monosect,
In
Strict Confidence, Dust, Angel
Bomb. Check the Gig
Reviews page for full list
(13 July, 2002)
Thirteen
new
CD reviews including: Accessory,
2
by bukowski, Swarf, Yellow6,
Greenhaus,
Inertia, Wave
and more. See the Music
Reviews page for the full list.
(20 April, 2002)
A
bunch of new gig reviews (plus photos) including: Aphex
Twin, Ladytron,
Amp, Apoptygma
Berzerk, Assemblage
23, Funker Vogt,
Yellow6, Portal,
2 by bukowski, Lucky
Dragons, XPQ-21,
Pluxus, July
Skies, Füxa, No Comment, Echo
Image, Microprocessor,
and Seize. See the Gig Reviews page for
the complete list
(21 March, 2002)
New
CD reviews including: Culture
Kultür, In The Nursery,
Ivory
Frequency, Maruta
Kommand, Seabound,
S.P.O.C.K.
and VNV
Nation. See the Music
Reviews page for the complete list
(21 March, 2002)
New
CD reviews including: Delerium,
VNV Nation, Jared
Louche, Cesium:137,
Adam and the Ants, Mr Scruff, Boshetunmay
and Deathsquad
(17 February,
2002)
Yet
more
gig reviews. This time, we've live reports of Ladytron,
Goldfrapp, Alec
Empire, Assemblage
23, Zan Lyons,
cut.rate.box and Olympic Lifts. See the
Gig Reviews page
for the complete list
(10 February,
2002)
Twelve
new
live band reviews including Depeche
Mode, Fad Gadget,
Björk, Matmos,
SMP plus Black
Celebration III featuring Covenant,
Sulpher, Haloblack,
Leech Woman, The
Borg, Synthetic
and Freudstein. See
the Gig Reviews
page for the complete list
(9 January,
2002)
New
gig
reviews including John
Foxx, S.P.O.C.K.,
Yellow 6, Loft,
The Double Life of
Véronique, and Infest
2001 featuring: Covenant,
Dive, Suicide
Commando, Beborn
Beton, P.A.L.,
Monolith, Icon
of Coil, and more. See the gig
reviews page for the full list
(30 November,
2001)
Sixteen
new
live band reviews including Depeche
Mode, Appliance,
Bridge and Tunnel, Flowchart, Ryo-co,
Funker Vogt, Mesh,
Cartagia, Global
Noise Attack, ndot
and more, plus The Big
Chill festival. See the gig
reviews page for the full list
(25 September,
2001)
New
CD reviews including: Ammo,
Boole, db2,
Karda Estra, Faithful
Dawn, man(i)kin,
Narcissus Pool, VNV Nation, Whitberggurdjieffouspenskimarinettiwhite and
compilations
from Cryonica, Dystopian, Cyberpolis,
and Vitamin
Plus Black
Celebration live at Club Noir in London
(1 February,
2001)
New
CD reviews including: Alphastone,
Boards of Canada, Flowchart, The
Galan Pixs, Insides,
Kid Spatula, Plone,
µ-ziq, Yellow
6 and the Dependent Records sampler Septic
(14 January,
2001)
Review
of
Maxdmyz, Greenhaus,
Mechanical Cabaret
and Theda live in
London
(14 January,
2001)
DSO
Project
band Wave announce
work with haujobb, man(i)kin and Mark Cousins
(14 January,
2001)
Complete
the
DSO overhaul questionnaire
and you could WIN loads of music and film goodies!
(6 January,
2001)
Review
of
VNV Nation, The
Strand and Yolibet
live in Phoenix, USA
(11 December,
2000)
Twenty,
yes
20, new live artist reviews (and photos) including Faust,
haujobb, In
The Nursery, Capitol
K, Jega, Kid
Spatula, Michael
Nyman, Alex
Paterson, Michael
Rother and Deiter
Moebius and more. See the gig
reviews page for the full list
(23 November,
2000)
Review
of
Apoptygma Berzerk
and VNV Nation
live at Vynyl in Los Angeles, USA
(6 October,
2000)
Exclusive interview
with British techno industrial exponents man(i)kin
(14 September,
2000)
Review
and
photos of Attrition
and Greenhaus live
at the Underworld in London
(14 September,
2000)
Extensive
report
and exclusive photos of the InFest 2000 festival featuring: In Strict Confidence/VNV
Nation/Ultraviolence/Synapscape/Imminent/MS Gentur/Project X
and more
(8 September,
2000)
Review
of
the Granular Synthesis
Noisegate installation at the NMPFT in Bradford
(8 September,
2000)
Review
and
photos of Ken Ishii
and Speedy J at ULU,
London
(31 August,
2000)
Review
and
photos of Inertia, The Galan Pixs (UK
debut) and The Nine
at Underworld, London
(31 August,
2000)
Review
and
photos of Mouse on Mars,
and Pram at ULU,
London
(31 August,
2000)
New
CD reviews including: Covenant,
Mortal, Node,
Sound Smith, Takshaka,
Orbital, plus Russian
Gothic Project label, Endorphine
label, and Front 242
tribute compilations
(31 August,
2000)
News
on
the new Wave (DSO
project band) album, Tokyo Dub Cafe and the official
launch of a fourth DSO audio project - VCS.
(31 August,
2000)
Loads
of
new label and resource links added to the audio
links page
(31 August,
2000)
Review
of
Clan of Xymox, In
The Nursery, Diary
of Dreams, Killing
Miranda, Greenhaus,
Altered States, Mechanical
Cabaret and Faces
of Sarah at the Gotham festival at Astoria 2
(21 June, 2000)
Review
of
Wire at The Garage
(21 June, 2000)
Review
of
Broadcast, Plone
and Magnetaphone at
The Scala
(21 June, 2000)
Review
of
David Toop and Jeff Noon
at the ICA
(21 June, 2000)
Updates
to
the Promo page
(21 June, 2000)
Review
of
the Sonic Boom event in London featuring Scanner,
Pan sonic and FM
Einheit
(16 May, 2000)
Review
of
the onedotzero VJ event at the ICA featuring Japan's Prince
Tongha and the UK's Hexstatic
(16 May, 2000)
Review
of
Ash Ra Tempel, Julian
Cope and Coil
at The Royal Festival Hall
(16 May, 2000)
Loads
of
new CD reviews including: Convulsion,
Folksongs For The
Afterlife, Project
Pitchfork, Pacifica,
plus every VNV
Nation album and single reviewed!
(16 May, 2000)
A
full report on the Easter Bank Holiday Elektrofest
event featuring: Mesh, Evil's Toy, Hexedene, Angels & Agony,
Intra-venus, man(i)kin, The Borg, The Nine and a certain Sigue
Sigue Sputnik.
(28 April, 2000)
Updates
on
the DSO project bands
including a new page dedicated to the Wave
project and details on how to obtain the new Wave
album exclusively from DSO.
(28 April, 2000)
Live
reviews
of Laika and Capitol
K in London.
(11 April, 2000)
Five
new
CD reviews: Kraftwerk,
In The Nursery, Amethyst, 6th
Sense Approach and These
Crimson Dreams
(11 April, 2000)
Check
out
the new Promo page
for details on FREE club entry for DSO enthusiasts!
(15 March, 2000)
A
gig review of The High
Llamas live in Osaka, Japan.
(15 March, 2000)
A
hypnotic and stunning blend of audio and video hits Kendal with -
:zoviet*france: and Ryoji
Ikeda playing live. An exclusive review by Jonathan Sharp of
Bio-Tek, Hexedene and C-Tec fame.
(23 February,
2000)
Two
new
gig reviews - The Beta
Band and Krautrockers Deiter
Moebius
and Michael Rother do battle with Dead
Voices on Air.
(8 February,
2000)
Two
new
CD reviews The Contino Sessions by Death
in Vegas and the first DSO project band CD by BIOsonic.
(8 February,
2000)
Details
on
how to buy the first DSO project band CD - Northern
Plains by BIOsonic (independent review coming soon!). Plus
additions to the Links
page.
(11 January,
2000)
Twelve
new
CD reviews including Faithful
Dawn, Laptop,
Bill Laswell, Lead
Into Gold, Moby
and Nekromantik.
See the music reviews
page for the full list
(10 January,
2000)
A
full review of Flag Promotions' night of UK industrial acts at
London's Astoria 2, including Cubanate,
VNV Nation, Leech
Woman, and Saints
of Eden. Merry Christmas!
(21 December,
1999)
Thirteen,
yes
13, new live bands reviewed including Mouse
on Mars, Death in
Vegas, C-Tec,
Covenent, FX
Randomiz, Inertia
and more. See the gig
reviews page for the full list
(26 November,
1999)
Brief
updates
to the Projects
and BIOsonic
pages to reflect recent events
(3 November,
1999)
DSO
Privacy Statement
added to site
(28 October,
1999)
DSO
project
band BIOsonic
launch their debut album in Kent, and the following day Philip
Glass performs his new score for the 1931 Dracula film at
the NFT - a pretty good weekend all round really. Reviews of both
added to the gig
reviews page
(27 October,
1999)
Digital
folk
for the new millennium anyone? A review of Italian band Ataraxia
added to the gig
reviews page
(18 October,
1999)
Plug
for
BIOsonic gig added
to DSO Projects
page
(20 September,
1999)
Launch
of
new Audio section
to DSO website
(1 September,
1999)