“Happiness is a sad song” – that’s something Jean Michel Jarre already knew in 1969. If he would have stayed on that track, maybe his current music would sound like the new album from Taxim. Well, assuming one or two long-term psychiatry stays.
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The moscow based band, which combines modern electronic with retro sounds and the dark aesthetics, is inspired by criminal cinema of the middle XX century.
Just a few weeks before the release of LPF12’s new album “A SENSE OF LOSS” on Ionium Records, german soundscaper Sascha Lemon releases a powerful full-length-appetizer.
3 of our bands have made it into the Top 15 of the German Electronic WebCharts in calendar week 5 (30.01.2011).
The days get shorter, the nights longer. Seems like it’s the time for cosiness and melancholy. But our steps remain the same, time never rests. Free yourself, fight, forgive, finish and dream. Solidarity, longing and the reflection of what we …
On the 1st of January 2011 the Welle:Erdball-listeners-club will release a double-CD called “XV”. This is Roman for “15″, which is also the anniversary of the club in 2011. On these 2 CD’s you will find 29 bands with 2,5 …

Amazing 17 years after it’s original release on tape and on time with x-mas LPF12s album “Bacterial” is re-released as free download.
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What should a dark-electro and futurepop project like Schwarzes Fragment do, after releasing a whole album to step into a new world of creativity? Right – Making a music video! Schwarzes Fragment was hard working on a music video for …
This is a special for late deciders, bargain hunters or those of you who already have the download: Get the CD with a 6-page-digipak plus one of the new mind.area T-shirts until Christmas for one price! Colours black or camouflage, …
The Schwarzes Fragment song “Eisenherz” in the ‘Soul in Sadness Remix’, which is to find on the current debut album “Seelenkiller“, was selected by the label ZYX Music to be released on their Gothic Hit-Compilation “Gothic Spirits …
In the current Gothic Magazine No. 68 are an article and review about the actual release “long-distance side trip” by mind.area. The magazine is available on www.gothic-shopper.de, details of the current issue are available on www.gothic-magazine.de…

From today the first CD compilation of the Gothic web radio Schwarze Welle is available in stores. Besides many well known scene bands there are mind.area with the song “being suffering (HUMAN DECAY rmx)” on it. Among many other stores …
After the first single remixes from “Hammer the gear” (take a look here) have been downloaded by over 4500 users so far and also entered the Top 15 German Electronic Web Charts, Halo Effect decided to release four …
A long-lasting cooperation becomes a commercial partnership: Ionium Records merges with Xenobiotic Records and distributes all releases on the authority of afmusic with immediate effect. Henceforth, Ionium Records’ founder Thomas Teehaa and Falk Merten, the founder of afmusic, will be …
Decence stürmen gleich 2x die German Electronic Webcharts, zum einen mit der Single ”The Storm”, zum anderen ist das Album ”IANUS” diese Woche Neuvorstellung. ”The Storm” schaffte in der ersten Woche den Einstieg auf Platz 8 und ist nun …
“Ianus” ist das bereits dritte Album des Bonner Projektes Decence, welches wieder einmal den Facettenreichtum und die Kreativität von Decence beweist: “Ianus” ist der Gott mit den zwei Gesichtern – “Black Face” zeigt die dunkle, die clubtaugliche Seite von …