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TRUE LUST – NIGHT VOYEUR.

Posted on May 23, 2017 2 Comments

Do you miss the mystique in music? The element of surprise? The essence of innovation? Then strap in for a ride over the edge and into a slummy underworld! This week Portland’s slickest disco beast True Lust returns with ‘Night Voyeur’, an alluring disco-noir soundtrack with a gritty screenplay bent on whispering a spine-tingling story of crime and paranoia. […]

BROTHER QUEST.

Posted on April 6, 2017 7 Comments

Important announcement to make. After spending nearly a quarter of a century wandering vast oceans, barren lands and dystopian cityscapes, sources finally confirm that our mascot THE MANIMAL’s long lost, biological brother is in fact pop singer Paul Engemann. For proof, all you really need is this music video from his days as lead vocalist in the band […]

AWAKENING.

Posted on March 6, 2017 Leave a Comment

We live in a time where the “synthwave” genre is without question over-saturated. It seems as though anyone with a laptop and photoshopped palm tree/neon glow logo is posting their version of something somebody already did better. It’s rare when a song comes along and really surprises us or makes you genuinely feel something, like so frequently during those […]

WARNING.

Posted on January 20, 2017 Leave a Comment

German Death Disco from 1982. That’s the topic of today’s discussion, courtesy of the brave souls over at Dangerous Minds. Long before your favorite darkwave artists like Perturbator, Umberto and SURVIVE even knew what a synthesizer was, there were a couple weirdos in Germany creating a devastating blend of robotic horror music a thousand times more scarier. May […]

DRAGO’S POWER HOUR MIXTAPE.

Posted on January 4, 2017 2 Comments

There were flashing lights, pulsating music and an iridescent red glow all over the room – if you guessed Saturday night at Tech Noir, good guess…but wrong. I was inside the training facility for the Siberian Bullet himself, IVAN DRAGO. For a brief period in the eighties, your Uncle TNUC was working deep cover for […]

STEVE MOORE – THE MIND’S EYE.

Posted on November 22, 2016 Leave a Comment

More people need to be talking about 2015’s The Mind’s Eye. When I first learned that Zombi’s Steve Moore was brewing up a hot bubbly score to an upcoming science fiction horror film that revolved around a telekinetic revenge story, my body reacted with feverish excitement. Being a long time fan of Moore’s work in Zombi, his […]