Archive of posts filed under the industrial category.
blissblog
G.C. COLEMAN: ALL HAIL THE ORRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRIGINAL JUNGLIST!!!!!!!!!!!!!. Very much liking the bizarre alleys which Reynolds is running down at the moment (and not just cos he gives credit where credit is due… good to see Jim in the mix as well) – something very infectious about the sheer zeal and smiliness of his writing right …
hic hac hoc
Merrick’s Strawberry Switchblade site (see below) includes an exclusive interview with none other than Bill Drummond, who was their manager for a time. Also quite a lot of stuff on Rose’s subsequent work with Psychic TV, Current 93, Boyd Rice, etc and her somewhat obsessive interest in paganism and the occult. I think the ONLY …
the c the o the i the l
Matt on Coil. I agree with Matt in a way about the dancier side of Coil (and of most industrial music). But I would still suggest that Love’s Secret Domain (the album from which it is taken) is worth checking, because of the non-dance tracks – they capture a certain something about the rave era …
clang bang thank you ma’am
emissions
Some discussion of my piece on “Spiritflesh” on the Nocturnal Emissions list. (You can check the messages without subbing). Also, on first listen, the new NE CD Collateral Salvage is excellent. Nice work with some beats, acoustic samples, etc. Also doesn’t follow the usual boshing or downbeat formulae of dance music. More on that soon.
NOTHING HERE NOW BUT THE RECORDINGS
Ten industrial albums YOU must own. PART 3: Nocturnal Emissions – Spiritflesh (Earthly Delights, 1988) \ “‘Ambient’ means background music. My music shifts from background to foreground, so I wouldn’t consider it ambient. I consider what I do to be a subversive music, because it messes with people’s heads in unexpected ways.” I think this selection …
it continues to fade
Paul, also on Mark Stewart’s “Veneer”. I can’t help feeling that one of the reasons people like this record so much is down to their nostalgia for the time it came out? Which I don’t have as a johnny come lately… So it’s 2 – all, then? The Keyboard player is not Skip McDonald, though …
human, all too human
Matt’s posted an audio clip of the Human League in curiously theoretical form. I must say I’ve never heard it and can’t be arsed, but the audacity is quite compelling. You’d never get autechre or any of other of today’s more “intellectual” electronic music producers releasing a track of themselves talking about producing music. Or …
NOTHING HERE NOW BUT THE RECORDINGS
Ten industrial albums YOU must own. PART 2: Mark Stewart and The Maffia – As The Veneer of Democracy Starts To Fade (Mute, 1985) This is a bit cheeky because I’ve already held forth on this album and Mark Stewart’s career at length in my piece The First Taste of Hope is Fear. To that, I …