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Echōdead is an excessive blend of Industrial, EBM and Synthpop from Hamburg/Germany.

The music is straight and direct. Full of rage and energy. Full of shouts and growls. Sometimes clubby, sometimes catchy. Founded as a one man band by producer Carsten Roggenbuck in 2019, loose tracks were produced mainly on older Yamaha and Ensoniq synths of the 80s and 90s, combined with modern computerbased soundproduction. This led to the debut album “Random Headnoise Parallax” which will be released soon.

In addition to the coercively music, the voice and lyrics are a carrying and gripping element of the songs by Echōdead. Sometimes shouting, sometimes melodic, sometimes growling, stories of inner demons, hate and general conflicts are told. Inspired by different styles of electronic music (to name names would go beyond the scope), Horror movies (which passionately get sampled in the songs), Industrial and Metal, these influences are not only copied, but always transferred to an individual sound cosmos which is then spun upon. This creates a modern, broadband and unique sound.

RESISTOR is a Colombian electronic band born at the end of 2011, strongly driven by the Old School EBM genre and influenced by the sounds of iconic bands such as Orange Sector, Nitzer Ebb, And One, Die Krupps or Spetsnaz, among many others, and combining these influences with other sources of inspiration coming from experiences related to human strives and transform them into a blast of energy manifested in the form of music with strong basslines and vocals, as well as overwhelming beats.

Resistor’s first release was Breathe EP in 2015, which compiled an interesting amount of remixes by artists like The Horrorist, Xotox, Equitant, Grandchaos and Delectro to name a few. This release brought different shades of sounds which became into an influence for their first long duration album called Ice Cold Gold, released in 2017, which compiled most songs created since the beginning of the project until then. Both releases have been issued in digital format exclusively.

The Retro-EBM / Hardcore Electro band “Deadly Injection” was founded 2013 in Germany by Louis Cyphre. The project was influenced by E.B.M. of the late 80-ies and early 1990-ies and reproduce this sound to fill it with new life. Leæther Strip, Frontline Assembly and Psychopomps serve as role models without to copy them blindly. The first release was the track human disease on “The undesdroyable disease vol. 2” Compilation. After this release some compilation tracks still followed. In 2016 the work for the debut album has begun with FeeLidae as second member of “Deadly Injection”. “Deadly Injection” released in January 29th 2018 their first digitally maxi named “Black Gold” with new remixes and songs.

One foot in the North (Lille) and one foot in the South (Toulouse, Aix-En-Provence), Void kampf is a French EBM band formed in 1999. Mr Body 98 (Music, Lyrics & Vocals), Mr Body 2004 (Lyrics & Vocals), EBMnator (Live drums) and Der Gregolini (Live FX) deliver a combination of Old School Electronic Body Music and Techno Body Music. Their main influences are DAF, Front 242, Nitzer Ebb and Empirion. After two demos “First Assault & Suck My Beat” and one album on Sigsaly Transmissions in 2010 “Sévère Mais Juste”, they are back in 2017 on EKP with a full length album FUNK OFF. The recipe is still the same,  panzer beats, strong analog/FM basslines, poetic lyrics, no melodies and a great sense of humor and self-mockery.

Constant dripping wears the stone…

In 1992 four young electro heads founded a band named “One Cyze” in Frankfurt on Oder/Germany. From the beginning danceability was significant for the new [ocp] sound. Due to an anti-commercial attitude and without managing personnel this project didn´t ever care about making money with making music. It was just for fun and live-playing and for the ambition to make better music than you can listen to in the public media. This is why no official full-length release from the early years exists at the time. Under the side-project name “Brain Dead Society” a ground-breaking CD named “Downfall” was published in 1995 in in-house production. From 2000 to 2005 there were no [ocp] live+audio activities. Just the ambient electronica side-project “Brain Cellar” sent out some signals with the two EPs “Deep Space Mind” and “Polyluxury” (own distribution). After those years of re-creation the second [ocp] phase started in early 2006 with the work on the album “Re-animated” (published 2007/own distribution). First planned as a soloproject of Josef Gruen it developed by the adaptions and influences of JB. to an unconventional journey into dark electronic music. 2008 again with ShallC the full-length “Confused Mental State” followed with powerful dark electro and the outstanding song “Head Crusher”. ShallC quits the project in autumn 2009, Jeannette Z. became the part of the 2nd background voice for a few live performances and for vocal effects recording. The work on the new full-length “Absolute Zero” began with demo recordings in 2009 and was longing till 2014. Meanwhile 2014 [ocp] signed a recording contract with EKP to official release “Absolute Zero”.

Struck9 was consolidated in September 2008 after several years of contributions to other bands and continuing work on the Colombian Industrial and Ebm scene , a country highly receptive musically since the early 80s s. .. This project has strong roots in the Classic Oldschool EBM bands like Frontline Assembly, Signal Aout 42, Nitzer Ebb, Pouppée Fabrikk, Bigod 20, Front 242 were the most important original source for the band in addition to great writers such as Mao Tse-tung and other activists and revolutionaries against the political system. Their latest release “Democracy” (2010) has 9 varied tracks, which range from minimalist and tough anhalt EBM, to more hard hitting and more sound-filled tracks, with some modern EBM influence, and sometimes a little techno. This release also has a great remix from Spanish anhalt EBM masters Tech Nomader. And recently Struck 9 has released a remix album entitled “Default” which includes mixes from various artists, i.e. Equitant.

Invoke The Insult is based in the coastal town of Gothenburg which used to be the central point for electronic music in Sweden. Jonas and Klas found that their common interest in this genre made it natural for them to create music together. In previous projects the music was similar but today they have brought it to a new level. The inspiration from the old factory in which they make their music is one of many things that makes the wheels turn. Invoke The Insult has been active for 5 years. Before ITI they made music under different names in other projects as far back as 1989. Inspiration came from bands like; The Klinik, X Marks The Pedwalk, Invisible Spirit, Skinny Puppy, Front 242, Frontline Assembly, Cat Rapes Dog, Cabaret Voltaire, Ministry, Das Ich and many more along those lines. Invoke The Insult is based on the love for the electronic machines ability to create sound. The fluctuations and unnatural noise takes the experience to a level rarely found in other music. The inspiration of that sound is what has brought Jonas and Klas together. Common interests and endless club visits have resulted in the Invoke The Insult of today. The lack of planning and curiosity in how the next song will sound is one of many things that inspire us. We try to follow as few rules as possible when we make music. Earlier engagements are now a distant memory as we both live for Invoke The Insult. We and the machines are one. Circuits and flashing diodes are the only energy sources we need. The noise and electronic clicking is what moves us forward. The dedication to industrial music is something we always had in common. We try to renew, simplify and strengthen our common interest and thus contribute to the genre we live for. ITI  EBM means something again.

After a couple of years of being a parallel project of Norwegian EBM-band Anstalt, Atropine was formed in 1994/1995 to explore the agressive side of the genre while still maintaining strong melodic content using mainly equipment from late 70’s/early 80’s, as well as a large range of hardware samplers and drum machines. Atropine consists of ALX (programming / synthesizers / computers/samplers / drum-machines/effects) and Cthulberg (vocals / lyrics / tapes / drum-programming). Both members have been and are currently active with several other projects such as Epilektrician (IDM/experimental), Panzerveps (synth-pop/cold-wave) and Pogrom Synod (industrial/noise). ALX also works as a producer and has worked on releases such as Code64’s “Storm” (2003) and Substaat’s self-titled first album as well as their single “Refused” (2011/2012). Coming up is also some remix work for the re-release of minimal/no-wave artist Ike Yard’s first album on Factory America (1982/2012). Previous releases by Atropine includes the seminal, self-released “Master Raze” (2001), which will be added to and re-structured for the first album release on EKP – “Recurring Nightmares”. After the excellent performance of  “Recurring Nightmares” the Norwegian duo-act is ready to impress all the fans with another great album, starting from its amazing sleeve to the last beat of drum-machine. “Assailant”, composed of fifteen advanced EBM / Industrial tracks, characterized by an impressive vocal acidity, disciplined drum-programming automations, disturbing obsessive melodies and by a strong electronic energy.  “Assailant” goes well beyond the best expectations: it comes from an higher electro culture and it has all the qualities to be considered without doubt one of the best EBM / Industrial releases of this last part of 2016.