Cold, cold industrial music

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNM2xGZRVJ0

Gesloten Cirkel is better known for making amazing techno but this has got a nice cold wave vibe about it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56GkjyG2fzg

Minimal wave at its punkiest

I found out that Twitch from Optimo is putting out a compilation of cold/minimal wave soon. Interview and mix here - http://thequietus.com/articles/19653-listen-jd-twitch-cold-wave-mix

This is proper good and the artwork features a picture of what I believe is Cumbernauld's grim shopping centre. Brutalist as fuck

The compilation is called So Low by the way

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eKNwrRmNiQ

This is a cover of a John Bender song from that So Low compilation. I believe that Kubler-Ross is also Sparky, Glasgow techno don

yup, same artist. hopefully there will be a kubler-ross release of original music this year. he's also started doing it live as a three piece - synths, drums, vocals.

Simon Reynolds reviews a forthcoming compilation of UK experimental electronic music from the seventies and eighties. Looks good

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/21653-close-to-the-noise-floor-formative-uk-electronica-1975-1984/

DISC ONE:
1. FIVE TIMES OF DUST – Computer Bank
2. THE KLINGONS – R.A.M.
3. CHRIS AND COSEY – Re-Education Through Labour
4. MALCOLM BROWN – Sedation Strokes
5. STORM BUGS – Little Bob Minor
6. THOMAS LEER – Tight As A Drum
7. BLANCMANGE – Holiday Camp
8. INNER CITY STATIC – Fractured Smile
9. WE BE ECHO – Sexuality
10. BOURBONESE QUALK – God With Us
11. NAGAMATZU Faith
12. O YUKI CONJUGATE – Disco Song
13. BRITISH ELECTRIC FOUNDATION – Optimum Chant
14. KEVIN HARRISON – All Night Long
15. VOICE OF AUTHORITY – Stopping And Starting

DISC TWO:
1. COLIN POTTER – I Am Your Shadow
2. BRITISH STANDARD UNIT – D’Ya Think I’m Sexy?
3. FIVE TIMES OF DUST – The Single Off The Album
4. SPÖÖN FAZER – Back To The Beginning
5. GERRY AND THE HOLOGRAMS – Gerry And The Holograms
6. THE PASSAGE – Drugface
7. JOHN FOXX – A New Kind Of Man
8. 100% MANMADE FIBRE – Green For Go
9. THOSE LITTLE ALIENS – Sentimental
10. FINAL PROGRAM – Protect And Survive
11. THE HUMAN LEAGUE – Being Boiled
12. INSTANT AUTOMATONS – New Muzak
13. CULTURAL AMNESIA – Materialistic Man
14. WORLDBACKWARDS – (Leaving Me) Now
15. ALAN BURNHAM – Music To Save The World By
16. ORCHESTRAL MANOEUVRES IN THE DARK – Almost
17. EYELESS IN GAZA – Kodak Ghosts Run Amok
18. SCHLEIMER K – Broken Vein
19. NATIVE EUROPE – The Distance From Köln

DISC THREE:
1. ZORCH – Adrenalin (Return of the Elohim Pt 1)
2. SEA OF WIRES – Robot Dance
3. RON BERRY – Sea Of Tranquility
4. MFH – Mistral
5. ADRIAN SMITH – Joe Goes To New York
6. MARK SHREEVE – Embryo (Extract)
7. EG OBLIQUE GRAPH – Triptych
8. CARL MATTHEWS – Encounter
9. PAUL NAGLE – Ynys Scaith
10. O YUKI CONJUGATE – Sedation
11. KONSTRUKTIVIST – Western Vein
12. ATTRITION – Dead Of Night (Excerpt)

DISC FOUR:
1. THROBBING GRISTLE – What A Day
2. A TENT – No Way Of Knowing
3. PORTION CONTROL – Go For The Throat
4. DC3 – Eco Beat
5. RENALDO AND THE LOAF – Dying Inside
6. BLAH BLAH BLAH – In The Army
7. LEGENDARY PINK DOTS – God Speed
8. MUSLIMGAUZE – Muslin Gauze Muslim Prayer
9. SUISSE – Live At Longborne
10. ALIEN BRAINS – Menial Disorders, Extract B2
11. STORM BUGS – Himeal (And She Blew)
12. THIRD DOOR FROM THE LEFT – In The Room
13. AL ROBERTSON – Dignity Of Labour
14. bcGilbert, gLewis, russell Mills – Mzui (Extract)

saw this a few days ago, trying to not impulse buy it

Gerry and the Holograms!!!

I thought they were Japanese and not from the UK.

They're from Manchester. I think all the Absurd records were Manchester bands.

so was it a UK person doing a Japanese accent then?

I don't remember it sounding japanese, just like a dalek or something. Been a while though!

there was the r/l thing going on in the vocals that I associate with Japanese English speech -- like it sounds like "Jelly and the ..." not "Jerry" ...

it was two members of Alberto y Lost Trios Paranoias

yay Hybrid Kids! Hopefully that's the single mix of "D’Ya Think I’m Sexy?"

cold, industrial:

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

that comp sounds good

possibly not the coldest industrial-est track there but I only know Kevin Harrison's "Fly" single and am very keen to hear more (a quick Google says his 1981 LP was reissued too so I guess I should get on that)

that comp looks awesome and except for like being boiled or whatever totally not your standard batch of tracks. i would buy it if i saw it. and it wasn't a zillion dollars.

Kevin Harrison has tons of stuff going back to the quite fun band Urge and lots of cool stuff on Glass records now getting re-released via bandcamp Glass. History and samples here:

http://www.marzimprint.co.uk/

he's also on facebook of course.

Hmm comp is on Cherry Red which probably means dubious sound quality and incorrect tracks but will also probably be cheap.

Thanks Dan! Will check out all the samples/bandcamps.

(Glass Records Redux sites for anyone else interested, seeing as it took me marginally more than the obvious 3 seconds of Googling: digital at https://glassredux.bandcamp.com/ and CDs at http://glassrecordsredux.bigcartel.com/)

there was the r/l thing going on in the vocals that I associate with Japanese English speech -- like it sounds like "Jelly and the ..." not "Jerry" ...

this is def a thing with some British accents (see: Edward Ka-Spel); the vocal treatments probably help emphasize that effect too

Yeah I relistened to that song (because it seemed really bizarre that someone could think they were doing Japanese accents) and yeah I think it's just a NW English accent, I think there's a more gritted teeth mouth position (NB not a linguist) to the R sound that's all.

Ol' Gerry's getting a whole lot of reissue treatment:

https://www.discogs.com/Various-So-Low-Remixes-/release/8318172 being a remix of the eponymous track..

https://www.discogs.com/Various-So-Low-/master/973389 A Different comp (the 7" version)

https://www.discogs.com/Gerry-And-The-Holograms-The-Emperors-New-Music/release/8407728 The other single..

Yeah I relistened to that song (because it seemed really bizarre that someone could think they were doing Japanese accents) and yeah I think it's just a NW English accent, I think there's a more gritted teeth mouth position (NB not a linguist) to the R sound that's all.

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Back whenever, I thought it sounded a bit like Genesis (Gabriel days), but then what do I know..?

Really like this 2016 single, recommended for fans of Portishead's "Machine Gun":

These Hidden Hands feat. Lucrecia Dalt - These Moments Dismantled
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDOUHXVelok

Fantastic mix from Helena Hauff. HER VOICE IS EXACTLY LIKE I IMAGINED IT WOULD BE

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08gwqy7

1. Le Chocolat Noir - Voyage d'Esprit (CHARLOIS)
2. Ceci N'est Pas - The Last Time (ELECTRONIC EMEGENCIES)
3. Minny Pops - Time (FACTORY BENELUX)
4. Skanfrom - British Cottages (SUCTION RECORDS)
5. Hyperkut - Elevator Without Exit (AEROBIC AUDIO)
6. Pankow - Gimme More (Much More) (CONTEMPO RECORDS)
7. Zarkoff & Cyborgs on Crack - Penalty For Violation (RETURN TO DISORDER)
8. Amato - The Labyrinth (CITITRAX)
9. Silent Servant - Speed & Violence (CITITRAX)
10. Drinking Electricity - Breakout (SURVIVAL RECORDS)
11. GNR - Bar Da Morgue (VALENTIM DE CARVALHO)
12. Children Of Lier - Sirene (SIMULATIONS)
13. Chris Carter - Beat (MUTE)
14. Glamour Cult - Afterglow (TABLE THIRTY)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpR-wY56I1g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZlBKXi82Fs

Not sure where to put this, but there's been some good EBM/industrial revival lately.

that last post with Helena Hauff’s mix tracklist reminds me: I ended up listening to a couple Cititrax compilation eps a while back and they were definitely my shit

Loving this band rn, female vocals over unholy clanking beats

http://hide3.bandcamp.com/album/castration-anxiety

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