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[Mago]

Coil sounds vagely familiar, I think I've heard it, but I'm not sure if I'm confusing it with Lacuna Coil, lol.

Could be either or lol. Coil isnt super obscure but not super well known either I don't think. Horse Rotorvator and Ape of Naples are classics though.

 

[prnzoDraGoonZweiOrta]

Ok, this is a nice fucking list

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thnx - here are the previous lists goin back to 2019 (just updated the 2023 one right now - forgot I left that one hangin xD ) - I started toplisting in 2014 but need to go back to old pads that contain the lists from 2014-2018

 

[middler]

I am a long time fan of Industrial music and its pre-cursors:
Laibach
Gary Numan/ Tubeway Army
Kraftwerk

lots of great early stuff out there!

 

[miguk miguk]

Gary Numan/ Tubeway Army

Tubeway/Numan were actually synthpop, as strange as that designation for them seems. Numan wasn't actually an industrial artist until after Trent Reznor covered him and he realized he wanted to do stuff more like his work. They even played shows together as a result.

But honestly, Tubeway Army definitely did have somewhat of an industrial-like feel to them, especially with "Down at the Park". (Warning: NSFW lyrics)

 

[middler]

Tubeway/Numan were actually synthpop, as strange as that designation for them seems. Numan wasn't actually an industrial artist until after Trent Reznor covered him and he realized he wanted to do stuff more like his work. They even played shows together as a result.

But honestly, Tubeway Army definitely did have somewhat of an industrial-like feel to them, especially with "Down at the Park". (Warning: NSFW lyrics)

True, it was, but without synthpop, industrial would have remained noise/avantgarde cacophonous mess that Kraftwerk were trying to pull away from. They used most of the same equipment and mostly the same tone. It was a undeniable pillar of the genre, you can really hear it in songe like "Are Friends Electric" and indeed "Down in the Park"

 

[Mago]

True, it was, but without synthpop, industrial would have remained noise/avantgarde cacophonous mess that Kraftwerk were trying to pull away from. They used most of the same equipment and mostly the same tone. It was a undeniable pillar of the genre, you can really hear it in songe like "Are Friends Electric" and indeed "Down in the Park"

I love cacophonous messes though

Also there was stuff like Iggy Pops The Idiot at the time which is like early industrial rock kinda.

 

[miguk miguk]

True, it was, but without synthpop, industrial would have remained noise/avantgarde cacophonous mess that Kraftwerk were trying to pull away from. They used most of the same equipment and mostly the same tone. It was a undeniable pillar of the genre, you can really hear it in songe like "Are Friends Electric" and indeed "Down in the Park"

Ya, the difference between the two genres is pretty hard to separate at times given that the early artists were contemporaries to each other and sometimes using similar instruments. But industrial got a bit more out-there with the instruments than synthpop, while synthpop (by the release of "Are Friends Electric?") managed to break the mainstream barrier much faster, partially by figuring out how to do a poppier beat earlier, and partially because Numan was better looking than his other contemporaries. (That's actually why the band changed their name to his.)

And speaking of Trash Theory videos, they have one on Numan and synthpop, too:

 

[middler]

Ya, the difference between the two genres is pretty hard separate at times given that the early artists were contemporaries to each other and sometimes using similar instruments. But industrial got a bit more out-there with the instruments than synthpop, while synthpop (by the release of "Are Friends Electric?") managed to break the mainstream barrier much faster, partially by figuring out how to do a poppier beat earlier, and partially because Numan was better looking than his other contemporaries. (That's actually why the band changed their name to his.)

Don't get me wrong, I am not trying to call Numan/Tubeway industrial, just that they were a precursor all be it a very important one. You mentioned that Numan wasn't an industrial artist until he colabed with NIN he was definitely playing with it well before Reznor was around:

 

[miguk miguk]

Don't get me wrong, I am not trying to call Numan/Tubeway industrial, just that they were a precursor all be it a very important one. You mentioned that Numan wasn't an industrial artist until he colabed with NIN he was definitely playing with it well before Reznor was around:

"Metal" is the exact song NIͶ covered. And yes, you could consider it industrial, given that the beat and some aspects of the instrumentation resemble the genre, but Numan's work as a whole became way more like that after the NIͶ collaboration. The rest of what he did around that time was more like "Cars" than "Metal".

 

[middler]

"Metal" is the exact song NIͶ covered. And yes, you could consider it industrial, given that the beat and some aspects of the instrumentation resemble the genre, but Numan's work as a whole became way more like that after the NIͶ collaboration. The rest of what he did around that time was more like "Cars" than "Metal".

Absolutley, Numan did embrace industrial later on. "My Name is Ruin" was fantastic. You know his daughter is making music now?

not sure what i think of it just yet.

 

[Deleted member 257420]

Yep, love industrial.

Hideki Matsutake
Los Iniciados
Coil
Front 242

Lovely genre.

 

[Kyyo]

Absolutely. I have some recommendations.

Grim - Vital 1983-89
7 From Life - Souls Of Dead Sharks
Navicon Torture Technologies - Pure-Skin
The classic, Ramleh - Hole In The Heart
Controlled Bleeding - Knees and Bones

 

[NatalieZaki]

i did really enjoy 1/2 Mensch by Einstürzende Neubauten if you wanna count that

 

[Mago]

i did really enjoy 1/2 Mensch by Einstürzende Neubauten if you wanna count that

ofcourse. Its a classic!

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Absolutely. I have some recommendations.

Grim - Vital 1983-89
7 From Life - Souls Of Dead Sharks
Navicon Torture Technologies - Pure-Skin
The classic, Ramleh - Hole In The Heart
Controlled Bleeding - Knees and Bones

Nice recs!

 

[DeadVoivod]

Yeah, I listened to some of them, like Ministry obviously, KMFDM, Cubanate, Chemlab, Misery Loves Co., Lords of Acid, Pitch Shifter, Fear Factory (mainly Demanufacture) and German bands like Die Krupps and Oomph!

 

[Parasite_Steve]

Ah wow, yeah KMFDM was solid too. Those were the bands I liked as well since they were closer to the Nine Inch Nails/Marylin Manson sound.

Kmfdm is still going strong. They’ve been releasing a new album roughly every two years or so for decades, sometimes annually so the quality is kinda hit or miss but when they do hit it’s some really tight shit.

With 80s industrial I kinda separate the bands into more "dance oriented" like cabaret Voltaire or skinny puppy and the more texture-based bands like Einstürzende Neubauten and SPK.

If you enjoy the metal percussion of Neubauten and test dept I highly recommend the work of the late great Chu Ishikawa and his soundtracks for Shinya Tsukamoto movies, especially the Tetsuo series:

He started doing soundtracks in the early 80s for Gakuryu Ishii (who directed Neubauten’s 1/2 Mensch movie under his old name Sogo Ishii) with his earlier band Zeitlich Vergelter, but I think he truly hit his peak in the late 80s and throughout the 90s.

If anyone here is a fan of either Tsukamoto or NIN you’ll get a kick out of this mtv station id from 1993:

 

[Mago]

Kmfdm is still going strong. They’ve been releasing a new album roughly every two years or so for decades, sometimes annually so the quality is kinda hit or miss but when they do hit it’s some really tight shit.

With 80s industrial I kinda separate the bands into more "dance oriented" like cabaret Voltaire or skinny puppy and the more texture-based bands like Einstürzende Neubauten and SPK.

If you enjoy the metal percussion of Neubauten and test dept I highly recommend the work of the late great Chu Ishikawa and his soundtracks for Shinya Tsukamoto movies, especially the Tetsuo series:

He started doing soundtracks in the early 80s for Gakuryu Ishii (who directed Neubauten’s 1/2 Mensch movie under his old name Sogo Ishii) with his earlier band Zeitlich Vergelter, but I think he truly hit his peak in the late 80s and throughout the 90s.

If anyone here is a fan of either Tsukamoto or NIN you’ll get a kick out of this mtv station id from 1993:

Tetsuo the Iron man was a great film but the soundtrack next level. Just weird the actual soundtrack was only released on the box set.

 

[Parasite_Steve]

Tetsuo the Iron man was a great film but the soundtrack next level. Just weird the actual soundtrack was only released on the box set.

There were a couple of tetsuo soundtrack releases on smaller labels over the years but how official they actually were is a bit questionable. The box set is the best way to own them for sure and last time I checked it was relatively available still.

 

[7eve70rd]

Yes, I enjoy early industrial music. ​

This is not "early" but about the time it become trendy.​

Virtuosity theme - Lords Of Acid - Young Boys (Instrumental)​

The version with lyrics:

By the time Hollywood executives found the music and started paying for it to be featured in movies was probably the same time the genre jumped the shark, sold out, kicked the bucket, and became a parody of itself.

 

[Mago]

There were a couple of tetsuo soundtrack releases on smaller labels over the years but how official they actually were is a bit questionable. The box set is the best way to own them for sure and last time I checked it was relatively available still.

That boxset is like the ultimate industrial release.

 

[stealthRUSH stealthRUSH]

Not many in particular besides Skinny Puppy, side-project OhGr, and if you consider Tubeway Army, Gary Numan, was never into Nine Inch Nails or Trent Rezor music in general. Although I listen to more Industrial-esque (metal, elektro, etc) Tactical Sekt, Front Line Assembly, KMFDM, MDFMK, Under Midnight, Chatterbox, Argyle Park, Circle of Dust, Klank, AP2, Zilch, Misery Loves Co.

 

[DeadVoivod]

Went once to see Punish Yourself, was a great concert, although I was meant to go see another band but I was 1 day too early, but as I was already there I watched the concert, no regrets but itt was kinda crazy though.

 

[spectresfrommercury]

 

[DeadVoivod]

Anybody remember Aphex Twin? With what must be the scariest video on YouTube.

 

[miguk miguk]

Anybody remember Aphex Twin? With what must be the scariest video on YouTube.

Aphex Twin is great, but not industrial. Although "Come To Daddy" does come as close to it as he has gotten.