Definitions of "Industrial Music"

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Websters: Industrial music is a loose term for a number of different styles of electronic and experimental music. First used in the mid 1970s to describe the then-unique sound of Industrial Records artists, a wide variety of artists and labels have since come to be represented under the "industrial music" umbrella. Depending on who you ask, this definition may include European Avant-garde performance artists Throbbing Gristle and Einst rzende Neubauten, American rock bands Ministry and Nine Inch Nails, Ca

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Answers.com: Industrial music is a loose term for a number of different styles of electronic and experimental music. First used in the mid 1970s to describe the then-unique sound of Industrial Records artists, a wide variety of artists and labels have since come to be represented under the "industrial music" umbrella. Depending on whom you ask, this definition may include Avant-garde performance artists such as Throbbing Gristle and Einstürzende Neubauten, noise projects like Merzbow and Whitehouse, electronic acts like Skinny Puppy, or writer William S. Burroughs.

The term was meant by its creators to evoke the idea of music created for a new generation of people, previous music being more agricultural. Specifically, it referred to the streamlined process by which the music was being made, although many people later interpreted the word as a poetic reference to an "industrial" aesthetic, recalling factories and inhuman machinery. On this topic, Peter Christopherson of Industrial Records once remarked, "the original idea of Industrial Records was to reject what the growing industry was telling you at the time what music was supposed to be."

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Depending on whom you ask, this definition may include Avant-garde performance artists such as Throbbing Gristle and Einstürzende Neubauten, noise projects like Merzbow and Whitehouse, electronic acts like Skinny Puppy, or writer William S. Burroughs.

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I hadn't thought about William S. Burroughs. I wonder which recording they are referring to...

Has anybody read this:

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I've read it and it was the first (only) thing I thought of after viewing that deffinition. In this book Burroughs describes his formula for inciting riots using a normal tape recorder fitted with a tape of specific sounds in a particular order (among other things). It's on City Lights books.

I remember Burroughs appeared in a Ministry video...hmm.

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