Dark Electro

Dark electro is a similar style, developed in the mid-1990s in central Europe. The term describes groups such as yelworC and Placebo Effect, and was first used in December 1992 with the album announcement of Brainstorming, yelworC’s debut. The style was inspired by the electro-industrial of The Klinik and Skinny Puppy. Compositions included horror soundscapes, and grunts or distorted vocals. Read more…|Edit this Artist photo: servo.hatred

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Dec 6 Sunday 6 December 2009
HOCICO LIVE at Club Bravo Hocico	Club Bravo Anaheim, Los Angeles CA, United States 33.8109 -117.905527	5 people attending 1 shout
Dec 12 Saturday 12 December 2009
Hanzel und Gretyl Vicious Alliance	The Sterling Hotel Allentown, PA, United States 40.604685 -75.462792	7 people attending 1 shout
Dec 18 Friday 18 December 2009
I, Parasite – The Sick Are Not Healing record release at Digital Ferret Record Store I, Parasite, Generation Empty	Digital Ferret… Philadelphia, PA, Philadelphia, United States 39.939653 -75.149631	1 person attending Add shout
Dec 21 Monday 21 December 2009
Unter Null live @ the Fez Ballroom at The Fez Ballroom Unter Null, God Module	The Fez Ballroom Portland (OR), United States 32.15444 -87.16861	4 people attending Add shout
May 5 Wednesday 5 May 2010
Assemblage 23 at Varsity Theater Assemblage 23, Angel Theory	Varsity Theater Minneapolis MN, United States 44.980567 -93.236857	3 people attending Add shout

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avitheavithe wrote:
Friday afternoon

Heldraug is so 1337 he made my balls twinge. Go you, Heldraug, informing us on stuff no one ever knew ever!

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mikuwna wrote:
last month

noooo the tag is great. but, what about "bad techno" ; ]]] ; p

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LadyAradia wrote:
October 2009

:D

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AishaDiandra wrote:
October 2009

i like many of the bands here, but i hate this tag. it sounds stupid. is there any better tag that means the same thing?

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Briguszka wrote:
October 2009

^^

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Infernal-Vader wrote:
September 2009

Люблю этот тег

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GodLord0 wrote:
September 2009

dark electro 4ever! :D

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Heldraug wrote:
September 2009

Dudes, you're forgetting something. The very origins of electronic music, within a wide market was both with Kraftwerk and Skinny Puppy, Throbbing Gristle, etc.. who coined the term "Industrial". This was LONG before pop, trance, dance, else appeared. They didn't even make the synths we know now. So, in a way, ebm can't used to name everything else. With trance, its foundation is EBM made soft. But its not the same, so it can't be named in the same way. The Aggrotech thing, is one of those difficult questions. I'd say Xentrifuge, Life Cried, Wynardtage and related ar Aggrotech. Lets say, bands that sound heavier than the average, but that's only the way I clasify them, after copying people who have listened to industrial for a longer time than me.

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humaniac wrote:
September 2009

=)

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turpisNocturne wrote:
August 2009

It's kinda the same lineage for this genre too. The trance synths are just less heavenly and sound more like hard trance synths... and synthpop is a big influence too (for futurepop)

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eoooe wrote:
August 2009

ebm + trance = futurepop.

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humaniac wrote:
August 2009

ebm + techno = tbm, + trance = trance ebm and more others (noise, terror, dark etc). aggrotech - pop brand for kiddy

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turpisNocturne wrote:
August 2009

True, but that's going over and backwards to find a trace of a connection. I think it's obvious that the EBM influence is more substantial here than techno, so how much sense does it make to title a genre after a genre that was influenced by the genre that essentially gave birth to the genre in question. blah

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versionfiv wrote:
August 2009

well, there's crazy ebm influence in techno...

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turpisNocturne wrote:
August 2009

what the funk is aggrotech? What could that even mean - 'aggressive' + 'techno'? That would make no sense because there is literally 0 techno influence in all of these. No noteworthy person or group has coined this term.. all there is, is a Wikipedia article made up by some random.

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peterfile343 wrote:
July 2009

I would call all of those aggrotech.

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turpisNocturne wrote:
July 2009

Dark electro is a name that's not reflective of the music as most artists do not resemble 'electro' music whatsoever. So it makes no sense to call this electro.

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limpicatto wrote:
July 2009

This is getting more confusing to me. I have bands of the like of Combichrist, Hocico, Funker Vogt, Nachtmahr, Feindflug, Leaether Strip, Suicide Commando, etc, etc. They all have clear differences, but I'm not sure which tag I have to use. There are a lot of genres which have ambiguous names, like: "Hard/Harsh/Dark Electro, Techno Industrial, Electro Industrial, and that new Terror EBM (I don't know where it came from)". Now I feel like I got it all wrong. I could tag everything with "Industrial" or "EBM" like everybody does, but I want a precise classification. So, can you give me some examples?

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Punk-1000 wrote:
July 2009

New dark electronic project http://www.lastfm.ru/music/Raptor+System

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hautskin wrote:
July 2009

electrozexx

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