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Meanwhile, I do not have sufficient words of excitement to express when I learned that Mentallo and the Fixer are touring the USA for the first time since 2006.

Tour dates:

MAY 1 - LAS VEGAS
MAY 2 - SANTA ANA
MAY 4 - SAN FRANCISCO (technically I think it's actually Alameda as part of the World Goth Day Festival?)
MAY 6 - PORTLAND
MAY 8 - SEATTLE

Has links to buy tickets:

https://linktr.ee/mentalloandthefixer

@xorcist_band@mastodon.social will be performing during the last two dates (in Portland and Seattle)!

A part of me is tempted to drive to see them at all of their West Coast dates (or at least Portland), but given the state of my vehicle currently, I'll be lucky enough to just attend one show.

For those who aren't familiar with Mentallo and the Fixer, they're comprised of two brothers (Gary and Dwayne Dassing); though they hail from Texas and started in the 1980s, their first releases were on cassette in the early 1990s and by the time they got CD and 12" releases? Those were all on labels (notably: Zoth Ommog) from Europe originally. So they weren't super well known in the USA unless you were really into underground electronic music.

They didn't first tour the USA until 1996 which may have also been the first time they left their state?

I seem to recall there was an interview with them in Synthesizer magazine or something which focused more on their collection of hardware than their compositions, but that was just kind of a sign of the times I guess. The 1980s and even into the grunge laden early 1990s, there was still a lot of "drum machines have no soul" BS that leveraged unmerited hatred upon electronic musicians.

I drove 8-10 hours to see them when they first toured since I wasn't 21 and the show in SF was 21+. I ended up meeting a bunch of folks from the industrial channel on EFNet (IRC) in person for the first time. I still remember looking over at the keyboardist from Hate Dept. (who was also an IRC regular) when Mentallo more or less opened up with "ruthless" (https://alfamatrix.bandcamp.com/track/ruthless) and us both saying something to each other like, "wow this is one of my favorite songs of theirs!") and the night just kept getting better. Bol and Kevorkian Death Cycle were the opening bands at that show. It was well worth the drive!

The drive back north (it turned out two of the friends who came along with me had their high school graduation the next morning) was a bit of an ordeal, we made it back in time!

The second (last?) time they toured, it was after MySpace had come into vogue and Gary recognized me from a post (more or less relaying what I just wrote above about driving to see them) and was super congenial. I felt star struck that he was so personable and probably stammered a bit and was not as gracious in kind as I should have been in retrospect. Still a great show.

They're working on a new album which is supposed to be released later this year? I already caught a hint of that from some musicians I spoke with when I saw Leæther Strip last Fall, but I was not expecting a tour! Probably about the most exciting show announcement of the year for me, and later this month The Egyptian Lover is touring and will be playing in SoCal later this month. Funker Vogt (their first US tour since 2009) and Leæther Strip are touring the states again soon too. Not to mention I bought tickets to see Autechre in October already. May has OMD, Lauren Mayberry (of CHVRCHES notoriety) and a lot of other shows (one of my friends is excited about Sleigh Bells and Lights who are both playing in May too I guess?) are starting to ramp up as festival season is almost upon us, but Mentallo and the Fixer to me at least, are a rare gem of synthesizer wizardry.

#MentalloAndTheFixer #Industrial #EBM #Elektro #Music #Live #Tour #Synthesizer
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Nonilex

#LeeZeldin’s move effectively ends 3 decades of work at the #EPA to try to ease the #pollution that burdens #poor & #minority communities, which are frequently located near #highways, #PowerPlants, #industrial plants & other polluting facilities. Studies have shown that people who live in those #communities have higher rates of #asthma, #HeartDisease & other #health problems, compared w/the national average.

#law#EnvironmentalJustice#PublicHealth
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nerohazet

Nuovo progetto, nuovi rumori! Qui un'insalatina dei primi due pezzi ancora in fase di pre-mix.

INAMONOLITH - Quieto vivere in-quieta morte

Industrial Noise dalle rovine del tecnofeudalesimo

ffo: Tetsuo: The Iron Man

(i volumi dovrebbero essere accettabili, ma nel dubbio...)

00:00/01:17
#MastoArt#Music#Industrial
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benda

maybe just me, but the feed seems awfully quiet on the "bandcamp(c)(tm)(r) friday" front.
which means there should be plenty of oxygen in the room for my own suggestions :P

granted, the world is burning , and simultaneously flooding, and we got measles and an all-you-can-infect flu buffet going on. but in these times, its important to remember that what we *can* still do for others matters.
supporting one another and making the days a little less painful is important. think of the last time someone made you smile or laugh in spite of the trauma that is our every day lives.
also, i think absolute good is often characterized by being two ways. when you do real good, you make someone else happier and yourself happier.
so if you like the music an artist is making, throw them a $1 or $2. their music makes you happy and your support will make their day.

so if any of you are you interested in #ambient #soundscapes with a healthy dose of #noise but often times weaving a solid #rhythmic section in and out of that fabric... i would highly recommend you check out my comrade @rybson . you can grab music and support them at their bandcamp:
xymmusic.bandcamp.com/
been studying a ton of stuff this week, and "lofi microtonal beats to avoid brain damage to" as well as the album "gomi 三" have made for an excellent study soundtrack.

if you would like something less abstract, but more #techno #industrial #ebm #dance oriented while very explicitly attacking the powers that be and being driven by the wildest (i mean, seriously, the fucking wildest) #drum #beats doused in just the right amount of #distortion you need to check out my other comrade, @controlfreak
music.control.org/
anything you can contribute to him would be greatly appreciated by me personally so that we can crowdfund the making of his next masterpiece :D

or you know support someone you care about it. even small amounts. our power lies in our numbers and the quality of our interactions. we don't need the corpos, we don't need a special day or a branded campaign brought to you by roland, or us bank.

take care of another and stay radical.

XymMusicXymMusicI am an anarchist artist from Poland, making music in my living room. Itch: https://xymgames.itch.io peertube: https://spectra.video/a/xymart/video-channels
#music#diy#mutualaid
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Hart of the Wud

TFW - listening to drone-y music and then there's this new part with filtered mechanical drilling tones that comes in. And I'm like, "really?! Sounds kinda corny."

And then I'm like, "oh wait. It's my neighbor actually making a hole in the wall for a shelf or something. NM."

#industrial
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Ether Diver

This week in Other People's Music we have: TWO different takes on industrial darkness! ONE instrumental power pop act! TEN or more genres crushed into one frenetic EDM album! TWO different references to Psychic TV! and FIVE total acts! All here:

etherdiver.com/2025/02/28/opm-

@electronicmusic
@experimentalmusic
@rockmusic

www.etherdiver.comOPM: Dwellers in the Dark – Ether Diver
#MusicDiscovery#PowerPop#Industrial
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