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"In the gap caused by the failure of punk rock's apocalyptic rhetoric, (the term) 'industrial' seemed like a good idea." - Jon Savage
The term industrial was coined in 1976 when Throbbing Gristle formed Industrial Records. Industrial music sounds of dance beats blended with harsh noises, and sound bites. Earlier Industrial bands had various industrial sounds; such as machinery, electronic sounds, and cut and paste music. Now the Industrial style incorporates distorted/effected vocals, heavy percussion and electronic music/melodies.
Tommuel
Here, a word from Genesis himself.
"Named as the most unromantic yet appropriate title we could envisage. Big records companies produce records like cars; we are connected to a contemporary social situation, not a blues orientated past style; we work hard for what we want, we are industrious; we parody and challenge large industrial companies and their debasing ethics and depersonalisation; we work in an old factory; industrial labour is slavery, destructive, a redundant institution so we call it the Death Factory. Music From The Death Factory, from the world, from life."
"Named as the most unromantic yet appropriate title we could envisage. Big records companies produce records like cars; we are connected to a contemporary social situation, not a blues orientated past style; we work hard for what we want, we are industrious; we parody and challenge large industrial companies and their debasing ethics and depersonalisation; we work in an old factory; industrial labour is slavery, destructive, a redundant institution so we call it the Death Factory. Music From The Death Factory, from the world, from life."
"Industrial culture? There has been a phenomena; I don't know whether it's strong enough to be a culture. I do think what we did has had a reverberation right around the world and back." - Genesis P. Orridge of Throbbing Gristle
Industrial music was fundamentally a music of ideas, and of all the major industrial groups, Throbbing Gristle was the most directly concerned with what had been apparent since the early 60s; that an increasing area of the world lives in an information society, and that military and economic strength are no longer the only important forms of power.
Other industrial groups, particularly Cabaret Voltaire and S.P.K. had similar views. Genesis P-Orridge went on after the break-up of Throbbing Gristle to dissemination information, through the group Psychic TV and the Temple ov Psychick Youth organization. The general approach was simply to publicise the existence of transgressive literature on the grounds that the social definition of taboo was just another method of control, of persuading people not to examine certain choices. Even for groups who weren't particularly interested in informing people about this sort of information (and ultimately this probably applies to the majority of industrial groups), the awareness of it clearly influenced their music.
herr_doktor.exe
Industrial is a genre associated with punk ethics but not exactly punk, and doesn't get involved in the punk movement. The sounds are usually surreal and all made from electronic things, rarely any acoustic unless you're talking about neo-folk, which is a whole other thing. Tape loops, synths, distortion is so common, of course. Some have homemade instruments like Einsurzende Neubauten. The difference between EBM and Industrial is that EBM is based on beats and rhythm and industrial is more noise oriented. Its regarded as experimental, and I'd say "noise" is a sub-genre of it. In the real world, people confuse cyber goths, ebm, gravers, and future pop with rivetood (my word. xD ) and industrial- because they like to chunk up all electronic music, how weak. mad They're distinct! bastards.
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