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Blue Images is a synthpop/electro band on the Scanner/Dark Dimensions label in Germany. The music of Blue Images features both dance beat and ballad tracks with a distinctive, melodic sound combined with dark and moody vocal stylings. Blue Images ...

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VNV Nation - Noire

VNV Nation blends poetic, thoughtful lyrics with a vast repertoire of melodic dance beats and anthemic electronic, haunting ballads and post-classical soundtrack pieces. 'Noire' is a cinematic exploration of contrast, dark and light. From the dark, ominous 'A Million' to ...

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Ash Code - Perspektive

Ash Code is an Italian Dark Wave band that masterfully blends influences, ranging from early Depeche Mode, The Sisters of Mercy to post-punk, Synthpop, coldwave, & EBM. On the critically-acclaimed album 'Perspektive', Ash Code combines its influences and innovation to ...

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Eisbrecher - Ewiges Eis - 15 Jahre Eisbrecher (News)
Merciful Nuns - Nekrolog (News)
Your Life On Hold - My name is Legion for we are many (News)
Subskan - Drawback (News)
Aeon Sable - Aether (News)

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Castle Party 2018

Dearest, Castle Party 2018 is already a part of history and honestly I don’t know how it happened. It seems like every year it goes faster. We’ve just arrived and here we are sharing our memories. This year’s edition was a bit different than previous ones. There were some changes made. On the other hand it is still our celebration and Bolków remains a place with friendly atmosphere where everybody ...

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Vanguard - Retribution

Synthpop is a genre represented in large number in Sweden, inter alia by Hjärta, Melody Club, Page, SPOCK and many others. VANGURAD in another band from this country, that fits very well to the '80 atmosphere of electronics. The last day of February 2014 brought us a new album from Gothenburg duo, Jonas Olofsson (synthesizers) and Patrik Hansson (vocal). Released by Conzoom Records "RETRIBUTION" refers to the previous projects of ...

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Einstürzende Neubauten - Lament

And so it happened!. After 7 years of waiting, gentlemen's from Einstürzende Neubauten released a new album. Is it on the same level as the previous ones? Yes and no ….... Why? Avant-grade works has always been difficult to review. They try to overcome certain adopted conventions and for this reason, their reception is always mixed - some hate it and some love. The difficulty of rating was, so to speak, directly ...

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Job Karma - Society Suicide (Music reviews)
Interview with Schnittmuskel (Interviews)
Angelspit - The Product (Music reviews)
Castle Party 2017 (Live reports)
Golden Apes - The Langsyne Litanies (Music reviews)

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Kalisz Ambient Festiwal

Kalisz Ambient Festiwal is an event held in Poland for all ambient, electronic and experimental music fans. 7-th edition will be in third time at Arts and Culture Center in Kalisz, Poland. Line up: Kriistal Ann [GR] Paradox ...

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Roni Size in Poznań!

Go Ahead agency invates You to live show of the Roni Size! A well known artists, one of co-founders of the Full Cycle Records, also known from cooperation with DJ Krust, which have begun already in 1992.

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Algiers in Poznań!

On 8 November Go Ahead agency invites you to autumn's concert of the Algiers band in Poznań in Meskalina club! Algiers is a band that cannot be labelled by one specific music genre. Drawing inspirations from rock, post-punk, industrial ...

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AnimeCon Halloween in Poznań! (Events)
Algiers (Events)
Dotan Solo Tour (Events)
Stu Larsen (Events)
I Am Giant - Playing With Fire Tour (Events)

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Recent publishing

2018-12-07

Hocico
Shalom From Hell Aviv
(CD)
2018-11-30

Studio-X
Wrong
(CD)
2018-11-30

Various Artists
Awake The Machines Vol. 8
(3CD)
2018-11-30

Frosttide
Decedents - Enshrined
(2CD)
2018-11-30

Radioaktivists
Radioakt One
(CD)
2018-11-23

Funker Vogt
Ikarus
(EP)
2018-11-23

Blutengel
Vampire
(MCD)
2018-11-23

Cryo
Sanitarium
(MCD)
2018-11-23

Blue Images
Forgotten Dreams
(MCD)
2018-11-16

Merciful Nuns
Nekrolog
(2LP + DVD + Biography)
2018-11-09

Eisbrecher
Ewiges Eis - 15 Jahre Eisbrecher
(2CD)
2018-11-09

VNV Nation
Noire
(CD)
2018-11-09

Ash Code
Perspektive
(CD)
2018-11-09

Your Life On Hold
My name is Legion for we are many
(CD)

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