Somebody fill in the rest, but the quick story - he's partially responsible
for a big push for industrial/ambient/electronic music in the late 70's. He
was the backbone of Throbbing Gristle (along with Cosey Fanni Tutti and
Chris Carter, not to mention Peter Christopherson [Coil]), which played some
of the earliest ambient/noise concerts in 1981 to a completely unsuspecting
audience; worked with Cabaret Voltaire in the beginning (Chris & Cosey
formed out of this, more or less); started (?) Psychic TV (and the Temple of
Psychic Youth? Anyone?) which hosted some of the earliest "acid house"
parties, from which one could conceivably link rave culture; and continues
to work with modern industrial bands and such, especially Pigface.
An essential figure in the push away from the guitar in the late 70's,
disparaging punk for trying to be rebellious but really just modifying rock
music and using its tools.
Contributions? Massive.
Again, please fill this in, people - I can always stand to learn
more/correct mistakes!
--Phrenetic
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-----Original Message-----
From: Ali Lalani <alalan@po-box.mcgill.ca>
To: Jenny Le <jle@orion.it.luc.edu>
Cc: idm@hyperreal.org <idm@hyperreal.org>
Date: Wednesday, September 09, 1998 7:02 PM
Subject: (idm) Re: (amb) Re: Modulations
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>and
>>plastikman though..but it was still worth the $8 to see genesis p orridge
>>lookin extremely glamorous. (were those implants?)
>
>
>Speaking of which, who the hell is Genesis P. Orrige, and is it a man or a
>woman? I saw modulations, and i couldn't for the life of me figure it
>out...what were his/her contributions? It was somewhat ambigous in the
>movie...