“Blood Thirsty Times” is a dark electronic, industrial, and EBM release by Velax, released by the record label S H I S H I, based in Tbilisi, Georgia.
Velax – Blood Thirsty Times [SHI011]
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VA – Made by Humans [GOTT21]
‘Made By Humans’ is a new compilation by Wie Ein Gott Records, bringing together a selection of the label’s favorite contemporary underground artists. Set in a not-so-distant future, music creation has become heavily automated. Algorithms compose, mix, and master tracks with surgical precision, gradually sidelining human creators. Over time, people are no longer seen as contributors but as inefficiencies, until they are removed from the process altogether. The tipping point comes when a Nobel Prize is awarded to an entity CPK1310-5L for discovering a mathematical model nicknamed God’s Formula: a set of harmonic ratios and progression templates capable of generating the “perfect” song. With it, machines begin spawning infinite near-perfect variations across all known genres, optimally structured, flawlessly balanced. Amid this sterile sonic landscape, a new music movement emerges. Rooted in imperfection, accidents and emotional intensity, qualities machines discard as noise, it refuses to conform. This music stutters, distorts, bleeds. To bypass the algorithmic gatekeepers, it’s shared through HUMDRM, an anti-DRM encryption system accessible only to biological listeners, unlocked using heartbeat verification. These tracks are marked as “Made by Humans.” Rare and difficult to trace, these sonic artefacts ripple through the underground until they begin taking over dim basements and industrial warehouses across the world. Featuring contributions by Pink Stiletto, Brood Faye, Sleek Teeth, Desolate Discotheque, Blood Handsome, Fuedal, Blood Rave, Abby Knives & Manuel Matarasso, Dildox, Healng, Static Ghost, Temptrix, Inhalt, GOD TONGUE and Leere Menge, the compilation captures a raw spectrum of industrial EBM, dark disco, rave and post-club experimentation shaped by human volatility rather than machine perfection.
Parissior – Human Control LP [ECV002]
‘Human Control’ presents a broader sonic vision of Parissior, moving between EBM, dark disco, indie dance and electronic music while blending analog and digital production. The album brings together tracks that originally didn’t belong to previous EPs but eventually formed a coherent narrative exploring themes such as digital identity, illusion, authenticity and human imperfection. From the sense of social pursuit in “The Chase”, to reflections on artificial validation in “True Connection” and “Smoke and Mirrors”, the record balances introspection with dancefloor energy. The album also includes “Sintes Guarros” featuring Size M, and two additional digital-only tracks, expanding the project beyond the physical format. Human Control ultimately works as a sonic map connecting machines, emotion and underground culture.
Damage Code – Digital Slave LP [OR160]
Damage Code is the result of the convergence of two long-standing figures from the underground industrial and EBM scene: Carlos Grabstein (89s✝︎) and Ben Bunzen (Hammershøi). Released in partnership with Miseria records, their first collaboration unfolds through proto-industrial sequences, oppressive atmospheres, repetitive structures, and distorted transmissions, all wrapped in body-driven percussion that pulls the listener into a controlled state of sensory overload. Harsh yet precise, ritualistic yet futuristic, the record advances with relentless intensity while maintaining a raw, physical energy throughout. Somewhere between the diseased electronics of Front Line Assembly and the primitive industrial tension of Esplendor Geométrico, Digital Slave channels a sound that is both confrontational and hypnotic. With “Digital Slave”, Damage Code opens a new portal into industrial body music: dense, punishing, and engineered to trap the mind inside its circuitry.
Severed Heads – Cuisine (With Piscatorial) [DE-350]
Severed Heads reattach themselves to Dark Entries for an expanded reissue of their 1991 opus ‘Cuisine (With Piscatorial)’. As originary Aussie industrial legends – although founder Tom Ellard would balk at being branded as such – Severed Heads shaped the continental subcultural sound with their kitchen electronics, chaotic tape loops, and infectious nursery-rhyme-esque melodies. Cuisine (With Piscatorial) was the long-running project’s ninth album, and is a commentary on the state of music. Ellard explains: “The whole food joke is really about what music’s about and how disposable it is; people have records like they have cups of coffee.” The album also presents a turn away from the dancefloor formalism of the era, which Ellard dismissed as already sufficiently explored. Cuisine brings us punchy pop kernels of the prime Heads variety, all clocking in around three minutes. Cuts like “Pilot in Hell” and “Ugly Twenties” rank among the band’s best through their deadly skewering of synth pop tropes. But the album also offers us a Piscatorial section, where Ellard felt free to “go fishing for ideas.” Here we get a taste of the project’s demented cut-up sensibilities, like on the “Quest for Oom Pa Pa” suite, where vintage jazz records are collaged into an angular nightmare. This double-LP reissue is the first time that Cuisine (With Piscatorial) will appear on vinyl, with a previously unreleased early version of “Seven of Oceans.”
VA – BOY Records – Timeless Technology 2 (1989-1993) LP [MEC109]
Following the success of the first volume, “BOY Records – Timeless Technology 2 (1989-1993)” delves even deeper into the catalogue of one of Germany’s most influential independent techno labels. While the first volume focused primarily on the label’s formative years and its pioneering tekkno traxx, this second chapter explores a broader spectrum of the BOY Records sound. Alongside overlooked classics from the 1989–1991 period, it extends the scope up to 1993, years in which the label embraced the rapidly evolving electronic music landscape. As the sound matured, the raw energy of early German techno began to merge with harder techno rhythms, acid-infused productions, and the first waves of European trance. Featuring 24 carefully selected tracks, many of them long-forgotten gems, “Timeless Technology 2” captures both the diversity and forward-thinking spirit that made BOY Records a key player during the golden age of underground dance music, while documenting the label’s continued evolution and lasting contribution to the scene.
Red Deviil – Tesoros Infernales LP [X-IMG95]
Red Deviil returns to X-IMG with their first ever vinyl release titled “Tesoros Infernales” featuring five original cuts of their uniquely sinister Techno Body Music topped off by three exquisite remixes by distinguished veterans of the underground dark electronics scene. The LP consists of forty minutes of brooding, groovy & cutting edge tracks with a bonus digital track included with the attached download code. Remixers include Filmmaker, Arnaud Rebotini & Mind | Matter.
Electronic Corporation / heimelektronik – Untitled 12” EP [MNQ165BONUS]
Among the projects that helped redefine European electro and EBM at the turn of the millennium, Electronic Corporation and heimelektronik remain essential references. Blending machine-driven rhythms, melancholic synth work and an instinctive understanding of the dancefloor, their productions captured a unique moment where classic body music was reimagined for a new era. Collecting four timeless recordings that move effortlessly between electro and EBM, this 12″ is driven by sharp sequencing, uncompromising drum programming and a singular vision of electronic music.
Neon Electronics – Liberation [OR157]
Neon Electronics presents “Liberation”, the final chapter in the journey of Dirk Da Davo—an artist who helped lay the foundations of EBM and post-punk. As co-founder of The Neon Judgement, he forged a sonic language that continues to resonate across generations. With “Liberation”, he brings that journey to a close, marking the end of an era with clarity and intent. Joined by longtime collaborators Glenn Keteleer (Radical G) and Pieter-Jan Theunis, this release captures the essence of his most vital years. It distills the spirit of the ’80s and early ’90s into a sequence of tracks that unfold like a collection of undeniable hits—direct, timeless, and uncompromising. The record reaches its final form with remixes by Ancient Methods, a leading force in industrial techno, and Patrick Codenys of Front 242—one of the few acts whose legacy stands alongside Dirk’s own.
Maman Küsters – Oniromancia Completa [OR154]
Maman Küsters return to Oráculo Records with “Oniromancia Completa”, a third vinyl release carved from tension and precision. The duo—Gaël Loison and Cyril Pansal—refine their language into something sharper, harder to define: a rigid hybrid of EBM and electro where structure becomes intensity. Furious step-sequenced arpeggios cut through dense low-end pressure, while knife-edged drums lock the body into a mechanical trance. On “Dos Mundos”, Pedro Peñas (UPR) enters the system with vocals that fracture the surface, adding a human pulse to an otherwise relentless machine. Built for dark rooms and uncompromising floors, “Oniromancia Completa” is not just played—it is deployed. There is no ornament here—only function, force, and control. A decisive strike for both electro and EBM purists.
VA – Chapter V: Fearborne [SHIVA010]
The fifth anniversary compilation, documenting five years of SHISHI. Including 30 tracks by a selection of artists shaping the label’s sonic direction: Alpha Sect, Damage Code, Egzotikka, Gegen Mann, Nightcrawler, Notausgang, Spammerheads, SMFORMA, The Hanged Man and more.
In Trance 95 – Code of Obsession (Expanded Digital Edition) [MW]
Originally released in July 1990, Code of Obsession is the debut album from In Trance 95 — the Athens-based duo of Alex Machairas and Nik Veliotis, and one of the rare purely electronic acts to emerge from Greece in the 1980s. Recorded and released on the Wipe Out! label, the original album weaves together minimal synth, early EBM, and industrial textures across seven tracks, including Obsession Day, Shamandance, and Love Thing. A product of deep analog experimentation, Code of Obsession stands as a defining document of the Greek underground electronic scene and a key artifact of the broader minimal wave movement that would later captivate collectors and listeners worldwide. Previously only available on vinyl, this official digital release makes the album accessible for the first time to streaming and download audiences everywhere — expanded to 11 tracks with four additional recordings presented here for the first time.
Scrot – Teufel & Mensch [MEC107]
In the early 1990s, at the intersection of New Beat, early techno and EBM, a wave of raw, experimental club music emerged from Germany—dark, mechanical and often strangely playful. Among its most distinctive voices was Scrot, the project of producer Lars Janzik (Base Scan, Decade V, Technoline). Originally released on ZYX Records, Scrot’s three seminal singles—“Teufelsrhythmus”, “Der Rhythmusmensch” and “Der Amokläufer”—captured a unique moment in early European techno. Built on hypnotic drum machine patterns, lo-fi sequencing and spoken-word German samples, these tracks combined industrial textures and unconventional vocal treatments with early techno production techniques and a peculiar sense of humor. “Teufel & Mensch” brings together some of the project’s most iconic tracks and remixes, alongside the previously unreleased Knauer Remix of “Teufelsrhythmus”.
Im Kellar – Amoniac EP [MST055]
Im Kellar ‘Amoniac’ is the fourth release of the band on Moustache records. Four tight EBM newave techno electro tracks made in a concrete bunker in Rotterdam by the infamous Im Kellar. This time with a rave feel, high energy dark and total underground.
Cosey Mueller – Embodiment of Denial LP [BRTLP16]
Like someone who filters out a signal from noise, Cosey Mueller always discovers innovative variations of punk and experimental electronics and develops an unmistakable style from this in her impressive discography – which now reaches a new peak with “Embodiment of Denial”. An increasingly buoyant danceability forms the backdrop for an increased concentration on Mueller’s voice. The album’s eight tracks are full of catchy hooks, while they, far from the empty slogans parodied in “Der Politiker”, reclaim the declarative statement for the forces of good.
VA – You Can Trust A Man With A Moustache Vol. 6 [MST054]
Some 17 years after the first missive landed in record stores, Moustache Records popular multi-artist EP series, ‘You Can Trust a Man With a Moustache’, returns for its sixth instalment. Doctr gets us going with the spiralling Hi-NRG-meets-acid thrills of ‘Our Minds Belong Together’, before Theo Scuera joins the dots between rave-igniting early 90s house and the more muscular, sweat-soaked end of mid 90s progressive house on the colossal ‘Your Virus’. David Vunk and Ben La Desh join forces on B-side opener ‘Unrealized Prophet’, a veritable whirlwind of muscular techno drums, buzzing riffs and broken modem electronics, while Patricio Diaz’s ‘Welcome To My Hell’ is a bouncy and mind-mangling slab of peak-time acid nostalgia tailor-made for dark basements and flagging dancefloors. This release is a tribute to Bob the Landlord, who became known in Rotterdam after appearing in a documentary about the harbor cafe Willems Kantine.
Miguel Hernandez – Neon Cyberwave EP [BOSCO057]
Bosconi Records introduces Neon Cyberwave, the first solo EP on the label by Italian electronic visionary Miguel Herrnandez, marking a milestone in the evolution of an artist who has consistently bridged Detroit-rooted aesthetics with the experimental pulse of the European underground. Based in the Val d’Elsa region between Florence and Siena, Miguel has forged a unique sonic identity shaped by his devotion to vinyl, his deep connection to the techno capital the Motor City, and his passion for deeply rooted yet still futuristic electronic culture.
H.E.I.M. Elektronik & MAS 2008 – Electronic Corporation 1998–2006 [MNQ165]
Mannequin Records present “Electronic Corporation 1998–2006”, a compilation bringing together rare and long unavailable recordings by the German electronic projects heimelektronik and MAS 2008. Active around the turn of the millennium, both projects share the involvement of producer Ive Müller while developing distinct collaborations and approaches to electronic music. H.E.I.M. Elektronik was founded in 1996 by Holger Erlenwein and Ive Müller (after the two artists split in 1999, Müller continued using the name), while MAS 2008 is the project of Ive Müller together with René Kirchner. Though separate entities, the two projects explored a similar sonic territory: stripped-down electro, minimal electronics and machine-driven body music shaped by analog hardware and a raw DIY production ethos. The roots of Müller’s work go back to the final years of the DDR. As a teenager he worked as a licensed DJ — officially known as a “Schallplattenunterhalter” — operating a travelling disco across Saxony. With limited access to official Western releases, music circulated through cassette recordings taped from West German radio stations such as RIAS Berlin, NDR2 and Bayern3. Together with friends he travelled between youth clubs and discos around Leipzig with a “rolling discotheque”: a Russian Wolga pulling a trailer loaded with Electro-Voice sound systems sourced through the black market. At the turn of the 2000s this background in underground electronic culture resurfaced in a series of recordings rooted in electro, EBM and minimal machine music. The tracks collected here capture this moment: cold sequences, driving rhythms and stark synthetic textures produced with a direct and uncompromising approach.
A Split-Second – Balistic Statues LP [MEC103]
Belgian electronic body-music pioneers A Split-Second deliver an expanded reissue of their influential 1987 debut ‘Ballistic Statues’, a landmark of the New Beat and EBM movement. Blending dark electronics, cold-wave tension and precision-driven sequencing, the album helped define a pivotal moment in the late-80s European underground. This new edition brings together all tracks from the original album and enhances them with essential recordings from the same era, including the band’s complete 1986 debut EP (A Split-Second), the cult Smell of Buddha, and additional period material. ‘Ballistic Statues’ remains a defining statement—raw, innovative and far ahead of its time. This reissue brings together the core foundations of A Split-Second in one essential collection making it ideal for both long-time followers and new listeners discovering the band.
Total Network – 2226002 [2226002]
22Recordings present ‘2226002’ from Total Network, a Florence-based electronic duo. Rooted in a passion for sonic evolution, their music blends new beat, EBM, and synthwave into a distinctive sound that bridges underground tradition with forward-looking experimentation.
The Hipodrome Of Music 