From: BRIAN (bbaltin@earthlink.net)
Date: Mon Dec 16 2002 - 08:12:43 CET
Yes, the term industrial was bastardized to connote only industrial disco
around 86 with Wax Trax's success, but before that it was the experimental
(and, yes, occasionally harsh) electronics of groups like Throbbing Gristle,
SPK, the early Cabaret Voltaire, Ludus, 23 Skidoo, This Heat, and countless
other groups.
That said, plenty of the industrial groups were doing completely
danceable music that wasn't about nondescript syncopated beats at all, but
very organic "white boy funk." Groups like 23 Skidoo, Ludus, the Pop Group,
Rip Rig and Panic, et. al. , were at least as responsible for acid jazz and
its offshoots as Style Council, Working Week, and all the others that people
automatically mention.
Brian Baltin
On 12/15/02 10:19 PM, "David Bassin" <bassyd@pacbell.net> wrote:
>> Oh, if we want to talk industrial...shouldn't we go back to Nitzer Ebb,
>> Bronski Beat? Or does it go back even further?
>
>
> Bronski Beat???? Jimmy Somerville and Co. were the furthest thing
> from industrial music you could name. They were pure disco in the
> '80s sense of the word. As for Nitzer Ebb, they were
> industrial-lite.....
>
> DB
>
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