Bruce and Alex are talking about records by Light Asylum and The Final Cut on this week's episode of the podcast. Topics include Shannon Funchess' ability to move between countless moods and genres and the pioneering techno-industrial programming of Jeff Mills. All that plus some continuing discussion of Black artists within Our Thing in light of ongoing events, on the latest edition of We Have A Technical!

We're taking a break from our usual episode formats to speak with Danesha Artis of Standard Issue Citizen and Jairus Khan of Ad·ver·sary and Antigen Shift. We wanted to hear their thoughts on race and anti-racist work as it relates to industrial culture and music at this particular point in history, and thank them for joining us on short notice to speak on what can be difficult and painful topics.

For this month's Patreon-backed commentary podcast, the Senior Staff are looking 2015's Night Maze. Glass Apple Bonzai's sophomore record simultaneously demonstrates Daniel Belasco's talents for precise and minimal synthpop arrangements and melodies and his ability to flesh out and enlarge the scope of his music with his vocal talents. Add in a well-executed theme throughout the record and you have a modern Canadian synthpop classic.

There's very little that binds the two albums we're discussing on the latest podcast. The downtempo dark ambient slash rhythmic industrial of Tzolk'in's "Haab" and Cure-indebted post-punk act Veil Veil Vanish's sole LP "Change In The Neon Light" have likely never been mentioned in the same breath, but the Senior Staff are noting some of the subtle shading that comes with deep genre work in both records. All that plus some discussion of recent drama related to a certain German synthpop band on this week's episode of We Have A Technical.