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The massive EBM event Festival Kinetik took place this past weekend. Photos, press and reviews from The Horrorist Live performance is starting to roll in. He took the stage the first night with Nitzer Ebb and Ascii Disko.

You can read Oliver Chesler’s personal account of his days in Montreal on his blog Wire to the Ear in these two posts: ”In the hotel in Montreal jet-lagged but ready to play.” click to read and ”Montreal was great. Drove to NYC. Opened boxes.” click to read

The Montreal Mirror interviewed The Horrorist before the event. To read the interview: click here

You can read some fan reviews of the Festival on the Side-Line forum: click here

Our photo set from Kinetik Festival (we will be adding more photos as we get them: click here 

photo credit: locust_furnace

Now available on Beatport: TTC-016/The Horrorist & Miro Pajic “Diagnosis Terminal”.

A minimal melodic futuristic love song with vocals. Something unique, creative and interesting. A stand out electronic song in a sea of simple tracks. Great production from the always genre busting Horrorist and Miro Pajic. Also includes a remix from prolific Swedish producer Johan Afterglow. The b-side track is a sleeper hit. A highly charged shuffling minimal track with computerized vocal gibberish. Perfect for data heads! - Beatport.com

Diagnosis Terminal
Diagnosis Terminal - Johan Afterglow remix
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Available at Beatport.com: click here

In an 1999 article for the Village Voice music journalist Simon Reynolds said “My favorite contemporary American singer-songwriter is Oliver Chesler, a/k/a The Horrorist”.

He has written the definitive book on the entire rave scene and techno culture. In over 575 pages he details, chronicles and explains all the genres, sub-genres, labels, and who’s who of the techno world. The book includes info on Oliver Chesler and Things to Come Records. Be sure to check it out when it is released next month. Be sure to get the 2008 edition.

Energy Flash: A Journey Through Rave Music and Dance Culture is rereleased next month in expanded and updated form.

With six extra chapters and 40 thousand new words, the remixed Energy Flash–a.k.a. Generation Ecstasy–takes in developments in dance music in the decade since its original 1998 publication: the trance resurgence, 2step garage, the nu-Eighties electro sound, microhouse, grime, breakcore, dubstep…

Buy your copy now at Amazon: click here

Without a trace. Without a whisper. 2007 left the room. In comes a new master. Stronger and even more serious than last year’s man. He packs a punch. He means business. Are you ready for 2008? Are you ready for the Things to Come?

photo credit: T.SC

The compilation of this year’s I Love Techno edition is released on October 15th, 2007 via Music Man Records.

Techno pioneer Dave Clarke made his name with the Red trilogy on Bush in the mid-’90s and is up to now one of the most respected DJs and producers the world over. His latest album “Remixes & Rarities” has been released last year on Music Man as well and compiled the very best of the remixes throughout his career for such big names as Depeche Mode, Underworld, The Chemical Brothers, New Order, Fischerspooner and many more.

“I Love Techno 2007 mixed by Dave Clarke” includes exclusive and unreleased tracks featuring the likes of Kevin Saunderson, The Advent, DJ 3000, Rob Gibson and T. Linder as well as Joey Beltram, Substance & Vainquer, Jochem Paap (aka Speedy J) and The Horrorist.

The festival takes place on the 10th of November at the Flanders Expo in Gent and sees Dave Clarke himself hosting one of the rooms. Check out the full line-up over here.

Tracklisting:

01. Christian Smith & John Selway - Coming Storm
02. Raudive - Magnetic
03. Peter Horrevorts - Evolver
04. Kevin Saunderson - Bassline (Joris Voorn Mix 07)
05. Public Energy - Three O Three
06. Quince - Sub-01
07. Substance & Vainqueur - Emerge 1 (British Murder Boys remix )
08. Joey Beltram - Fractals
09. The Advent - Slave Rhythm
10. Matt Rissi & Mustafa Avdic - Oktave Jumper (Woody McBride Remix)
11. Side Four - Wrist Block (Joey Beltram Remix)
12. Phase - The Hyperorganism
13. Radial - Déjà Vu
14. T. Linder - Respect Feat. Blak Tony
15. Detroit´s Own DJ Surgeon - Electro Bass Head
16. DJ 3000 - Illegal Allien
17. Fastgraph - Evasion
18. The Horrorist - Wire To The Ear
19. Rob Gibson - Hutch
20. Velvet Underwear - The Same

www.ilovetechno.be
www.musicmanrecords.net

Sound Base Music and distribution based in Leipzig, Germany has received a shipment of records from Things to Come. They sell to stores and directly to retail customers. If you have been searching for a certain release on Things to Come Records and could not find it give Sound Base a look. Included in the shipment was the very rare “Mr. Roboto” remix from The Horrorist.

We are also please to announced a further relationship with Sound Base as they will be releasing the long awaiting Hypnotizer album on CD and some other forthcoming projects.

You can find Sound Base online at http://sbm-online.de/ or you can contact them by email: office@sbmonline.de

François-Xavier Michel known as “FX” to his friends records under the name Millimetric. He is one of a select few artists crossing into the EBM genre from the techno side. Part of a strong wave of music from France his friends and musicalikes include David Carretta, Terrence Fixmer and Vitalic. Recently he remixed Austrian Things to Come Records act PN-X-TG’s song Cannonfodder. He also collaborated with The Horrorist, Oliver Chesler for a so far unnamed song to be released on a full length Millimetric album.

Read the interview: click here

Oliver Chesler has launched a new weblog for pro-audio called “wire to the ear“. Here is the official description:

The pro-audio weblog with daily articles on creating music with computers, sequencers, plug-ins, synthesizers, microphones and more. On going discussions about song writing, the music business, promotion, live performances, publishing, royalties and great music recommendations.

If your a music producer or just interested in the business side of the Record Industry be sure to head on over and check it out. Some of the articles online already include: What if music should be free?, The wide stereo sound with Izotope Ozone & more!, Why every musician should have a flickr pro account, Be a performing artist. Your career depends on it, Use an arpeggiator on drums and Would you work at Guitar Center?

So if you spend any time in a recording studio head over to www.wiretotheear.com or better yet subscribe and get the daily posts delivered to you.

the_horrorist_live - 1, originally uploaded by thingstocomerecords.

We have posted some photos from last weeks Horrorist live show in Stuttgart, Germany. Club Prag is one of the best venues to perform in and you can see by the photos it was great fun.

To see the photos: click here