There is going to be more in that Industrial Top Ten though (whether you like it or not!). I’ve been battling with tiredness and dehydrated eyes recently and the better half has to work in the evenings sometimes so it’s a bit out of order to be there on the computer mucking about with jpegs …
Paul on metal bashing. There’s a sort of industrial sub-genre of power-tool-weilding non-musicians — Test Dept, SPK, almost no-one else. To this list must be added Z’ev – who I think was the first. He was absolutely amazing live as well – lots of wonderful reverberations and so on which were quite calming, rather than …
Ten industrial albums YOU must own. PART 1: Throbbing Gristle – Heathen Earth (Industrial Records, 1980) \ “You should always aim to be as skillful as the most professional of government agencies. The way you live, conceive and market what you do should be as well thought out as a government coup. It’s a campaign, it …
Matt ties himself in knots. Genres, eh? Way of categorising records in shops, or basis for your identity? Matt is thrown by Paul Meme’s almost pathological enthusiasm for stuff, which means that “music Paul likes” = industrial. However Matt has already invested quite a lot in NOT liking industrial music. Being good chaps, there is …
Matt: “I’d like to be able to be kinder about the music.” Paul: “Why? Most of it’s SHIT!” “It all began with punk music when I was young. Then I was into electronic music, things like early Cabaret Voltaire, A Certain Ratio, and Throbbing Gristle stuff that was just electronic noise. One day I went …
rereading Marcus’ post again sober, it’s clear that William Bennett was actually talking about what HE personally wants to get out of Whitehouse (his own pleasure), so I was wrong to suggest he was concerned about evoking a particular feeling in his audience – though the feelings that people had were discussed.