On Feb 28, 2005, at 5:31 PM, dj fishead wrote:
quoted 15 lines how come nobody is talking about the influence of industrial on idm?> how come nobody is talking about the influence of industrial on idm?
>
> just curious - especially in light of folks like Richard H. Kirk being
> involved with records on both Industrial Records and Warp... take a
> listen to Distant Dreams (Part 2), AB7A or Hot On The Heels Of Love by
> Throbbing Gristle. It's rather interesting stuff. TG's reputation
> seems mostly based on their more abrasive material (Mission Of Dead
> Souls, for example), but Heathen Earth is a wonderful listen.
>
> ...and that's without even getting started on the whole
> post-industrial ebm -> idm transition (Greater Than One/Tricky Disco,
> Final Cut/U.R. connection)...
>
> although, when it comes down to it... the Industrial stuff really owes
> debts to prog, performance art and ABBA.
It's been spoken about a lot here, actually. I came to IDM by way of
industrial. IDM owes some allegiance to industrial but only
marginally, imo. Except, perhaps, the aforementioned ebm sound or
artists like Coil and maybe even Clock DVA. Most "true" industrial
like TG, SPK, Merzbow, etc. are just too abrasive/dissonant compared to
the sound of quote-unquote IDM. Except for maybe Autechre's more
atonal moments. I suppose industrial was an influence, but IDM isn't a
direct descendent.
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Mr. Tangent [the binary police]
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