Mesh - An Alternative Solution 2CD

Mesh - An Alternative Solution 2CD
Dependent

This is not a new Mesh album, it's an album of remixes and some rare tracks from 2010's "A Perfect Solution". Some of these remixes are really good. Zeromancer's "If We Stay Here" remix and Iris Feat. Julia Beyer's "Is It So Hard?" are the stand out tracks for me. Parralox's "Hopes, Dreams" remix are really cool and interesting. Get this album if you liked "A Perfect Solution" and want more. 

Icon Of Coil - Serenity Is The Devil

Icon Of Coil -
Serenity Is The Devil (2000)
Tatra

I can't figure out how I missed to mention this album. It's one of my all time favourite albums, and I think it got me even deeper into the futurepop scene!
I still love this record immensely, especially the drums. A true masterpiece!

Beth Ditto - EP

Beth Ditto - EP (2011)
Sony

Ah, I love a good EP! This isn't a big step away from Gossip's sound for Beth. I wonder why she decided to try solo? Ok, it's a bit more electronic sounding and maybe not so punk-ish. Check out both Beth and Gossip if you're not familiar with any of them!

IAMX - Volatile Times

IAMX - Volatile Times (2011)
BMG


I'm sad to say that this is IAMX's least good album. I adored "The Alternative" and "Kiss And Swallow". I didn't like "Kingdom Of Welcome Addiction" as much, but this is much worse. Uninspired. But it's still IAMX and it's better than most electronic pop albums released nowadays.

VA - Kinetik Festival Volume Four

VA - Storming The Base Presents:
Kinetic Festival Volume Four 2CD
(2011) Artoffact

This is the official album for the Kinetik Festival, held in Montreal, Canada between May 19-23, 2011. I soo wish that I could afford going there! The CD is filled with tracks from industrial bands like Aesthetic Perfection, Front Line Assembly, VNV Nation, Assemblage 23, Mind.In.A.Box, Covenant. But that's not all. It also includes the third Bruderschaft song ever to be released, "Trigger (Edge Of Dawn Mix)"! And, by the way, Storming The Base is one of the best online shops for industrial music there is. Check them out!

KYPCK - Nizhe

KYPCK - Nizhe (2011) 

Yellow House Recordings

KYPCK are back! And yet again they deliever the perfect soundtrack to a post nuclear holocaust movie. I'm going to enjoy this Russian-singing doom metal album together with Dmitrij Gluchovskij's praised post holocaust novel "Metro 2033". I hope they will be a perfect match!

Mental Discipline - Fallen Stars DDEP

Mental Discipline - Fallen Stars
DDEP (2011) Synthematik

My first digital download! Of course it's not, but it's the first download only album I've payed for. No, that's not true either. I've bought a download only Pride And Fall EP back in 2005. But this is a different story. I've never even heared of this band before I saw a short article about them in the excellent Blackvector Magazine. Apparently this one man band had gathered two singers to write lyrics and melody for the instrumental version of  "Fallen Stars", and released both versions! As I'm a big fan of one of the singers, Felix Marc (Frozen Plasma, Diorama), I bought this EP as soon as it was released. The other singer is Peter Rainman (People Theatre). The EP is available in a free download version, without some of the remixes, from Synthematik. I bought the Flac version for only $3.99 from Bandcamp's Synthematik shop.