Twin Cities Electropunk releases are available for FREE at all involved artists' shows (while supplies last). You can also download the entire compilations by right clicking the links and hitting "Save Link As...". Enjoy!
About this "Electropunk" thing...
Nobody invented this electropunk thing. No city can claim it (though New York certainly tries). It's simply what happens when you take a generation of bored teens and twentysomethings - raised on hardcore punk, British techno, Nintendo, and Doritos - and place cheap digital recording technology within their grasp. Next thing you know, you've got a million zillion half-rock, half-electronic, cyborg bands thrashing out one MP3s after another of ragged, jagged synthesizer pop and giving it away for nothing on their websites. Nobody asked for some big record label's permission – heck, most of them didn't even pay for the software they're using - they're just doing it for the hell of it. Because there's no excuse for boredom when you’ve got computers and guitars.
If that ain't punk, I don't know what is.
And while I said no city owns the electropunk movement, the kids in the Twin Cities are definitely ahead of the curve. Maybe it's because they had Prince to show them the way of the synthesizer, and Hüsker Dü to teach them how to make a big noise in the underground. Or maybe it's just because, with the weather being as cold as it is, they spend more days locked inside with their instruments and their PCs, while those of us in sunny L.A. and temperate Chicago are down at the beach. Don't ask me why... all I know is that, everywhere you turn in Minneapolis-Saint Paul, there's another band mixing punk attitude and electronic noises in bitchin' new ways.
So here you have it, the Twin Cities Electropunk Series. Ninety-two tracks of raging, Technicolor techno-punk from the Great White North. Lap it up, love it, copy it, give it to all your friends, or throw it away. Then go get a computer, a CASIO, and microphone and start your own scene. Hey, if it can happen in Minnesota, it can happen wherever you live, too.
-forward written by Emil Hyde (Death By Karaoke)
Like what you hear?
Over the course of 7 years we have had the pleasure of being associated with 52 Minnesota-based "electropunk" acts. Check out their sites below and pick up an album, buy a shirt or just PayPal them a large sum of money (hey - you never know unless you ask!). Thanks for listening and I hope you enjoy the music!
Albuterol
Amdeide
Apocalypse Theatre
Apraxia
as|of
Astral Grey
Audio Victim
Avenpitch
The BlackLight
Circa A.M.
Dissociate
Eddie Entropy
The Eighth
The Eighth Day
Endless Blue
Envy is Blind
Evarial
Fadladder
Future Wives
Gabber Nullification Project
Gigi Ranchero
Heliosphere
Hondo
IKKI
Iron Balls Magente
Kether
Little Tin Box
Lolly Pop
Mach FoX
Milkbar
MSRP
Neo Void
The Night
OBCT
One Two Three Dead
OneNeoEon
Pop Incorporated
Rabidine
Reflectivore
Screaming Mechanical Brain
St. Anthony Falls
Stellar Vector
TELEPHONE!
Thosquanta
Thought Thieves
Tim Rally Gold
The Trapezoids
Trashed Actor
Uber Cool Kung Fu
Unicorn Basement
Zibra Zibra
Zwaremachine
Don't just take our word for it...
Below are some articles, interviews and reviews about us kids, our noises, and this "Electropunk" thing. Viva la Revolution!
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Interviews
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Communiqué
Please direct any questions, concerns, comments, praises, insults or death threats about the Twin Cities Electropunk Compilation Series (or us as individuals) to Todd Millenacker at avenpitch "at" avenpitch.com.
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