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quoted 5 lines On Now : Ministry "Breathe" [... In Some Nitrous mix by the Orb]

>> On Now : Ministry "Breathe" [... In Some Nitrous mix by the Orb] > > I've seen this, uh Front 242 or someone, 12" remixed by The Orb and > Underworld and was wondering if there's some interpollination going on with > the (I thought insular) Industrial scene and other electronic artists.

I think it's more like the ranks of Former Industrialists With A Clue[tm] are continually swelling ... :-) For example, one of the Front 242 guys did his Cyber-Tec side project that's apparently Techno-influenced. Another example, Download asked Geir Jenssen to do a Biosphere remix of one of their tracks where it now sits alongside a Haujobb remix. Then there's Scorn's "Ellipsis". Things like Techno-Animal. I suspect it's a natural outgrowth - if an artist in one genre begins to like music nominally identified as being in another - the path of least resistance is probably to make music identified with the former while enlisting someone from the latter to remix it. Putting out music in a style identified with the latter crowd can wait, if it even happens at all. If you want to talk "interpollination" - i.e. artists still identified with the former genre intermingling with artists identified with the latter, as opposed to artists identified with the former doing music in a style that's identified with the latter - then I suspect the folks like Silent are worth checking into. I've seen some releases (I suspect, without owning them to check the track listings and participants) like "Swarm of Drones" that are populated by folks who I'd identify as being from both sides of the fence. (Of course, that presupposes that there's a "fence" there to begin with, but that's a whole 'nother argument ... )

quoted 3 lines Has there been some change of heart-factory that will get me out to the

> Has there been some change of heart-factory that will get me out to the > Terminator to hear the electro that the raver and gay clubs are shying away > from?

"Not bloody likely!" To the best of my knowledge, the Industrial clubs in L.A. (both of them? hee) are still stuck in The Land That Time Forgot ... - Greg

At 3:12 PM 4/25/96, Eric Hill wrote:

quoted 1 line I've seen this, uh Front 242 or someone, 12" remixed by the Orb

>I've seen this, uh Front 242 or someone, 12" remixed by the Orb

The Orb have actually done several remixes for F242.

quoted 3 lines wondering if there's some interpollination going on with

>wondering if there's some interpollination going on with >the (i thought insular) industrial scene and other electronic artists. Has >there been some change of heart-factory that will get me out to the

^^^^^^^^^^^^^ it's amazing you would say this since my new 12" (which is out this week btw, so get your shops to order it now) has a somewhat industrial-flavored electro track on it called "heartbreak factory". anyway i've always loved industrial and so far reactions to "heartbreak factory" have been encouraging so maybe there's hope... -- Name: Jon Email: jsd@cyborganic.com Web: http://www.cyborganic.com/bass-kittens/

quoted 5 lines btw, so get your shops to order it now) has a somewhat industrial-flavored

>btw, so get your shops to order it now) has a somewhat industrial-flavored >electro track on it called "heartbreak factory". > >anyway i've always loved industrial and so far reactions to "heartbreak >factory" have been encouraging so maybe there's hope...

There's some recent electro, f'rinstance Octagon Man's "The Demented Spirit" (Vinyl Solution), that are influenced by the sound of industrial, without getting mired in the political aspects of the genre that drags the most promising industrial into the black hole of didactic ressenticore. I think it's possible to sample a harsh and aggressive environment (real or imagined) without belaboring the idea with words or droning it on a static loop that refuses to change into something that I might get something out of. eric