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November 1994
A short definition I've used:
A kind of pounding, BELADONNA
noisy, synthesizer
created music.
It often sounds
something like some Clearly though, this is just
clanking nineteenth a description of the
century machine. industrial dance sub-genre,
which came in a little
later...
In my taxonomy, there
are are two obvious
sub-genre's:
Industrial Dance:
Regular, pounding beat, slower than techno, faster
than hip-hop, with evil-sounding electronically
distorted vocals, often using samples of movies,
politicians, religious leaders, etc.
Industrial Ambient:
The non-dance version, and in fact what originally
was meant by "industrial". Often more like "noise"
than "music", a collection of murky, sinister sound
effects, samples, computer generated noises. There are some
oldsters who
Historically, the term "industrial music": are annoyed by
came from the band Throbbing Gristle and the the term
label they started in 1976, "Industrial Records". Industrial
Ambient because
it used to be
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what was just
called
Industrial.
The beginnings of Industrial The Dance stuff
were concurrent with the beginnings name latter.
of Punk, but it was much further
underground. I certainly didn't And now I
get into it until much afterwards. see that
the folks
at Sombient
are using
a new term
Genre definitions tend to be fuzzy "ambient
around the edges, and industrial is noir" and
no exception. Connections can be I've seen
made to modern classical (certainly clubs in
"musique concrete") and SF advertise
experimental jazz. "black
ambient"...
And you'd have to do some fast
hand-waving to explain to someone
from Mars the difference between
hiphop and industrial dance music.
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