02 Intro (Industrial music)
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This article is from the Industrial music FAQ, by Darrell Fuhriman darrell@efn.org with numerous contributions by others.
02 Intro (Industrial music)
"In the gap caused by the failure of punk rock's apocalyptic rhetoric,
[the term] 'industrial' seemed like a good idea."--Jon Savage, London
1983
Experimental. Aggro. Techno. Cutups. Alternative. Noise. Ambient.
Musique Concrete. Sound Collages. Avant Garde. Performance Art.
Difficult. Improv. Industrial?
So many names and so many labels. It gets confusing when from all
around us, publications continue to spew out more complex and
different names in an attempt to pinpoint a source, while at the same
time converging on one obvious thought: industrial. To demonstrate
this idea, we could even trace these origins of industrial back to
dadaism if we wanted to. This FAQ file is less an attempt to force
people into their place and more to widen the flow of information.
Sharing the precious information allows us to experience more in our
learning than by strange militaristic actions.
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