These are short reviews of single tracks (released within the past 2 years) that are missing from both DJ and media-player playlists. Now be warned: I’m not looking for anything profound, just tracks that should make you want to move. Also be warned that most these tracks sound terrible, unless you have a good bass source.

1. Interlace – Nemesis (Exner Analysis) / Nemesis (Artoffact Records)
2. S.K.E.T – Highway of Death / Depleted Uranium Weapons (Hands Productions)
3. Amduscia – War On Me / Madness in Abyss (Out of Line)
4. Iambia – Program K / Provocateur (Progress Productions)
5. The Gothsicles – Karma Jolt / Sega Lugosi Is Dead (WTII Records)
6. V2A – Stahl Tanz / Mechanized Infantry (Biohazzard Records)
7. Synapscape – Purge / Again (Ant Zen)

1. The past few albums of Interlace have sounded like an odd mix of early Covenant and Skinny Puppy. This new track has much stronger percussion, and this particular mix uses some very familiar sounds. The singer also does a lot of cute effects on the vocals, so if you really dig the sound of your cellphone breaking up (or the last Fractured album), you’ll love this.
2. I use to think of S.K.E.T as orchestral trance with much heavier and distorted rhythm. This album seems to have much more interesting set of patches, though the epic orchestral samples still have a heavy presence. This happened to be the most rhythmically driven song on the album.
3. A few months ago, the other big mexican EBM band released this album, chalk filled with dancefloor anthems. Most songs have been overplayed, but this is the only track I liked, as the trance lead comes in fairly late in the song. As per usual, the mixing on the bassline and kick are flawless.
4. One of the many amazing under-exposed acts on Progress Productions. Iambia seems to be tapping into that “old-school” EBM sound that’s been going around, but with better sounding basslines and a bit of melody thrown in for choruses. “Program K” is the catchiest song on the album, also available in a remixed version by Autodafeh.
5. The Gothsicles are a joke that’s starting to get taken way too seriously. Sega Lugosi is dead is one hell of a catchy album. Karma Jolt is apparently one of the last tracks to be written about video games.
6. I haven’t heard this album, or anything else by V2A. I heard this track when I was out at a club in another state, and it got stuck in my head. This is another one of those songs where there’s one really well produced loop that plays throughout the whole song with the occasional sample thrown in.
7. In my opinion, Synapscape make great clubbish power noise, and probably have the most interesting patch selections in the genre. The bassline actually sounds very clubby, but has a lot of growling and strange highpass synth sounds thrown over it.