Back in Black.

You know how sometimes you come across great music in like four or five different genres and it turns out there's one guy behind it? No? And the same guy who's work you're really digging calls you out of the blue to direct a music video a couple years ago, but it didn't happen because the label didn't have any money, and who were you kidding because all you have is a little DV camera and a lot of ideas, but damn, how cool was that? No? You know how sometimes the output is so good you write a blog post about it, and then like three months later write about it again just to remind people? Yeah.

Bryan Black, former programmer for Prince and cofounder of innovative machine rock group H3LLB3NT is busy busy, which is good for us robot muisc consumers. Motor, his gnarzigkeitesque project with Olivier Grasset a.k.a. Oli Shaddow, released a brilliant EP this summer on NovaMute, and is set to put out a new remix of the Throbbing Grislte classic Persuasion. A full length album is also in the works. Black's electropunk outfit xLover have just about finished an LP tentatively titled Deep Kink to follow their Trash Me single (also featuring a sexed-up cover his former boss' Controversy.) Label and exact release date not yet confirmed, but expect it sometime around February or March. One date that is confirmed, February 16th will see the release of Throb, the long awaited new Haloblack album. I haven't had a chance to hear it yet, but Jared Louche says, "It�s brutally fractured and static-driven. His best record yet." Jared is one blue haired cyberpunk poet to trust.

Oh, and totally unrelated, I'm working on a little piece about the search for Donald Trump's abstruse hair Tuesday night which will be published on Rob's Blog. Hold tight.