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INDUSTRIAL
UK, USA
1976 - Today
 
 
Industrial and EBM...things to scare away your mother...she should have avoided that bottom shelf folder anyway.
 
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The Black Album
Boyd Rice
Eget Selskap
1977
First noisy experiments courtesy of Boyd Rice. Originally limmlited to an 85 copies pressing and made to be played at any available speed.
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Something For Nobody
Monte Cazazza
Industrial
1980
Gunshots, holllering babies, plane-crashes and nursery rhymes : everyuthing is already cooking in the big indus cauldron
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D.O.A.
Throbbing Gristle
Mute
1978
A varied transition LP that explores all the sonic array of TG
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Red Mecca
Cabaret Voltaire
Mute
1981
Cabaret Voltaire's legacy L.P before their electro U-Turn. Intense and homogenous. The reference amongst early CV releases.
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Blood And Flame
Non
Mute
1987
Astute noisy loops that combine in an oddly symphonic effect.