Articles by Coreen Wolanski

Freudstein

Mondo Freudo

PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2002

A little drum & bass, a little blippy electronic, with the odd gothic power chord thrown in for good measure, equals not a bad mix from Eng...

DJ Nightmare

DJ Nightmare

PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2002

This solo act from Vancouver goes by the name of DJ Nightmare, but his brand of electronic music hardly speaks of anything that nightmares...

:Wumpscut:

Wreath of Barbs

PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2002

Rudy Ratzinger (aka :wumpscut:) proves once again his expertise in dark electronica. Wreath of Barbs is a celebration of darkness and foreb...

Dargaard

The Dissolution of Eternity

PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2002

Don’t let the fact that Dargaard are from Austria, or their CD cover art, fool you into thinking they are a dark metal act, quite the contr...

D.U.S.T.

From the Sublime to the Obscene

PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2002

This first effort from D.U.S.T. certainly won’t be swept under the carpet anytime too soon. Oh what refreshing sounds to my ears is this. I...

Faith and the Muse

Vera Causa

PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2002

Another release from Metropolis Records by Los Angeles duo Faith and the Muse. Offering us two CDs worth of all previously unreleased demos...

Ghost Orchids

Architecture

PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2002

Oh, the starkness of it all. Sometimes the world feels like a cold, empty, lonely place made up of a million shades of grey. This EP is a f...

Industrial

PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2002

Early on, music labelled "industrial" referred to a non-musical approach to its creation; pioneers such as Karlheinz Stockhausen, Klaus Shu...