Cold, cold industrial music

A SOUND THAT BOTH PUNISHES AND EMPOWERS

bless

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KU2v-Z1m4A

I can recommend the debut album from De Ambassade if you're in the mood for some minimal wave type music that sounds a lot like it was made in the Low Countries about 25 years ago. Just in time for winter too.

yes, it is fab. 10/10

yep

I am always in that mood tbf

15. VOICE OF AUTHORITY – Stopping And Starting

give the VOA album back to adrian ya bastards so he can remaster it and make it sound the way it should !

(its one of my fave on-u albums, but cherry red have this and a few others when adrian needed ££ to keep things going)

xxxp I only heard about that because it was an Optimo album of the month at Monorail, so ta

yr welcome.

I was a bit dismissive of that Close To The Noise Floor compilation on Cherry Red (based only on other Cherry Red reissues being a bit shoddy) upthread but it is actually great and I now own a copy, they also put out another 2, one with European bands and the other from North America - I haven't listened to the American one yet but the European one is good too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trBkjswlCcs

The European one is worth the price for this early instrumental of Ruth's 'Polaroid/Roman/Photo' alone.

Anyone heard the American one?

De Ambassade

Ok this is great.

Cherry Red's Electrical Language: Independent British Synth Pop 78-84 is worth a listen too. I'd say 50% of it makes me want to skip to the next track but the other 50% is gold.

it also made me fall in love with this all over again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSAm2StYymQ

I listened to De Ambassade as a result of this thread. Really hitting the spot, in a way it reminds me of Studio. Not so much in the way it sounds, but in the way it could be a lost classic that should be more widely known.

Are the Europe/American ones also called "Close to the Noise Floor"? My search so far is just picking up the UK one.

The European one is worth the price for this early instrumental of Ruth's 'Polaroid/Roman/Photo' alone.

ooh, didn't know this existed, love Polaroïd/Roman/Photo but the voice is... an acquired taste

Meant to pick up the UK one, didn't get round to it, so thanks for the reminder to stick it on my xmas list if it's still available - haven't made it past the tracklisting for disc 1 yet and there's a lot of names I don't know (which is good!) but I think I'm up for anything with Kevin Harrison on, plus Blancmange and Bourbonese Qualk on the same CD...

Euro comp is Noise Reduction Sysyem, US one is Third Noise Principle iirc

does anyone want a separate thread for new ebm/industrial-ish techno? do any other ilxors follow pinkman records? kris baha's album rules and i didn't post it anywhere last year because i'm lazy and there isn't really a good thread for it but more people should hear it. phase fatale's album just came out on ostgut ton and its hitting the spot hard

I would love to get more recommendations and have little to contribute

Yeah I would follow that thread for sure

would follow. I’ve posted about similar things in that vein across a half dozen threads because I wasn’t sure a new thread would take off

I love that stuff but have no way to know what's new and worthwhile. Every once in a while I remember to do an "ebm" search on Bandcamp and buy a few things, but a thread would be great.

for your EBM and industrial techno needs

Soul Jazz have a new comp out next month that's looking good

'Soul Jazz Records new ‘Cold Wave’ is a new collection of current electronic artists who have all been shaped by the early European cold wave artists of the late 70s and early 80s.

This is the first release of Soul Jazz Records’ new Cold Wave overview and a second volume will be released just four weeks later.

This first edition of Cold Wave comes in two vinyl editions – a one-off pressing orange coloured vinyl edition and a black vinyl edition. Both come as heavyweight double vinyl housed in bespoke individual inner sleeves and the limited edition first pressing of this album comes with its own free pull-out fanzine on the groups featured. The CD edition comes with artist booklet/fanzine and slipcase. All editions are printed in special dayglo colour finish.

These first artists created new electronic musical landscapes as well as pursuing a stubborn D-I-Y aesthetic, often releasing material on cassette and pioneering use of lo-fi technology, primitive drum machines and home-recording techniques. As part of this continued evolution today many of the artists featured here also self-release their own material, run labels, publish fanzines, or are part of wider musical collectives.

Aside from the first electronic, no wave, and post-punk artists cited as influences –Suicide, Patrick Cowley, The Normal, Martin Hannett, Laurie Anderson, Public Image – this new generation of artists also show an exquisitely open source of electronic and disparate influences, everything from Underground Resistance to Purcell, from Scientist to New Beat and more besides.

Most of the featured artists are based in Europe and include Krikor, Dissemblance and VQOA from France, De Ambassade from the Netherlands, Moisture from Sweden, Kriedler from Germany, Céline Gillain and Carcass Identity from Belgium. One exception is FIT Siegel out of Detroit, connecting the electronic pathways of Europe to the Motor City.

All of the bands featured here make distinctive contemporary music out of the 80s roots of the first cold wave movement.'

https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/sjr/product/cold-wave