Industrial Music

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Industrial Music

This lens is a new Plexo Lens, which means you can help make it better! I am starting this lens with a list of the Bands and songs that are in the genre labeled as industrial (EBM, Electronic, etc.) music. Pandora.com describes my music preference as songs that have sonority (having the character of a loud deep sound; the quality of being resonant). So I hope to learn what specific genre I should be reviewing to find new music. Is my preference, Industrial, EBM or Trance? Stay tuned.

 Check out the following songs I'm enjoying by the artists listed either by checking for samples on the Plexo Band site section, or within iTunes.
Covenant: Bullet, Final Man, Stalker, Call the Ships to Port, Babel, Leviathan, Go Film, Dead Stars. Apoptygma Berzerk: Electronic Warfare, Unicorn. Assemblage 23: Drive. Front 242: Head Hunter, Quite Unusual. VNV Nation: Chrome, Legion, DarkAngel, Testament, The Farthest Star. Imperative Reaction:Ruined, Never Tomorrow. Seabound: Traitor, Scorch the Ground.


My iTunes iMix is called "Semi Industrial" and is the mix I play most often. The new VNV Nation album is out!

Thanks --Todd

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Industial Strength YouTube Voting (Plexo) 

Here are some of the songs I like in a video presentation

Covenant - Bullet

Covenant - Bullet 1 point

Neuroactive - Space Divider

Neuroactive - Space... 1 point

VNV Nation - Further

VNV Nation - Further 1 point

VNV Nation - Saviour (Vox)

VNV Nation - Saviour... 1 point

"Timekiller", by Pro... 0 points

Pride and Fall - Retrospect

Pride and Fall - Ret... 0 points

Dare to Live

Dare to Live 0 points

Edge of Dawn Beauty Lies Within Save Earth

Edge of Dawn Beauty... 0 points

Starsign

Starsign 0 points

Obscenity Trial

Obscenity Trial "Her... 0 points

NamNambulu - Now or Never ' DHR ' ( Traducido - Amv Elfen Lied )

NamNambulu - Now or... 0 points

What is Industrial Music? 

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History of Industrial Music
"It's clear that the label, "industrial music", is of no use in pigeonholing music, but it still serves as a useful pointer to a web of musical and personal relationships, a common pool of interests and ideas which every industrial sub-genre has some connection with."
Brian Duguid

Wikipedia's Definition of Industrial Music 

:This article is about a musical genre. For other uses, see Industrial (disambiguation).

Industrial music is an experimental music style, often including electronic music, that draws on transgressive and provocative themes. The premise behind creation of industrial music was to "pursue music in the context of the late industrial society, a dehumanized world increasingly alienated from nature", focusing on "issues of the modern age, where propaganda and the access and control of information were becoming the primary tools of power." The initial idea for music that reflects sounds from the industrial age came from the composers and musicians Erik Satie and John Cage.The Secret History of Rock: The Most Influential Bands You've Never Heard by Roni Sarig The term "industrial music" was coined in the mid-1970s to describe Industrial Records artists. The Allmusic website defines industrial music as the "most abrasive and aggressive fusion of rock and electronic music"; "initially a blend of avant-garde electronics experiments (tape music, musique concrète, white noise, synthesizers, sequencers, etc.) and punk provocation".

The first industrial artists experimented with noise and controversial topics. Their production was not limited to music, but included mail art, performance art, installation pieces and other art forms. V.Vale. Re/Search #6/7: Industrial Culture Handbook, 1983. Prominent industrial musicians include Throbbing Gristle, SPK, Boyd Rice, Cabaret Voltaire, and Z'EV. While the term was initially self-applied by a small coterie of groups and individuals associated with Industrial Records, it broadened to include artists influenced by the original movement or using an "industrial" aesthetic."... journalists now use 'industrial' as a term like they would 'blues.' - Genesis P-Orridge, RE/Search #6/7, p. 16. While industrial music was born in the mid-1970s, it was not noticed by mainstream listeners until the 1980s and 1990s, when it began to evolve into more mainstream, acceptable forms.The Secret History of Rock: The Most Influential Bands You've Never Heard by Roni Sarig

Wikipedia's Definintion of Electronic Body Music E.B.M. 

Electronic body music, EBM or Industrial dance is a music genre that combines elements of industrial music and electronic dance music.Dan Sicko, Techno Rebels: The Renegades of Electronic Funk, Billboard Books, 1999, p. 142. It first came to prominence in Belgium.

Emerging in the early 1980s, the genre's early influences range from industrial music (Throbbing Gristle, Cabaret Voltaire), European synthpunk (DAF, Liaisons Dangereuses, Portion Control), and pop-oriented electronic music (Kraftwerk).

Wikipedia's definition of Trance music 

Trance is a style of electronic dance music that developed in the 1990s. Trance music is generally characterized by a tempo of between 130 and 155 BPM, short melodic synthesizer phrases, and a musical form that builds up and down throughout a track. It is a combination of many forms of electronic music such as industrial, techno, and house. The origin of the term is uncertain, with some suggesting that the term is derived from the Klaus Schulze album Trancefer (1981) or the early trance act Dance 2 Trance. In any case, the name is undoubtedly linked to the perceived ability of music to induce an altered state of consciousness known as a trance. The effect of some trance music has been likened to the trance-inducing music created by ancient shamanists during long periods of drumming. As this music is frequently played in nightclubs, vacation spots and inner cities, trance can be understood as a type of club music.

Lists of Industrial Bands 

Real Industrial Band List
There is a difference. This includes noise, various kinds of electronic music, experimental sounds, and some ambient stuff.
Industrial Dance / EBM List
I believe most of what I listen too would fall in to this category, but I am going to research some of the "Real Industrial Bands" to learn more about the history of this genre.

Find the Music You Like with Pandora 

Pandora
Pandora is a project from the Music Genome project. Build a station and teach Pandora what you like to listen too. Based on your input, Pandora will pick out songs you may like.
Semi-Industrial
My Pandora station.

Lyrics 

Many Industrial songs are poetic but often sad..

Savior by VNV Nation

As the stars appear I know I'll find you staring at the sky.
Pointlessly reaching for some light
You hope to guide your sorry way.
Your body bleeding.
Your body burned.
Your body scarred.
Around the cinder of your heart

A God of love.
A God of care.
A God of hope.
A God of words.
A God as lost as you and blind to fill your hollow soul again.

You seek a God to stand above you,
wrapping healing arms around you.
You'll find another God of pain,
a God of suffering and tears.
Give yourself unto your God.
Sacrifice yourself again.
Burn your thoughts erase your will to Gods of suffering and tears.
Tie hallowed bonds around your hands.
Kneel before this seat of shame to Gods as lost,
Gods as blind, Gods of suffering and pain.
Lyrics from Song Meanings.net

Best Industrial Album Plexo 

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Dummy

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Untamed Melodies

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Conclusion 

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