Lesser known industrial acts that deserve a listen

Deutsche Amerikanische Freundschaft
Matt Heckert
Asmus Tietchens

It had a little spiel by Graeme Revell on the back - 'Imposible to think of nomads without the space they inhabit...'... and it sounded a little like SPK in their '83 incarnation with Sinan singing.

I don't think DAF are exactly lesser known.

Smersh were excellent.

In the context of "anyone reasonably musically literate," DAF isn't a small name. I think this thread was intended to be geared towards industrial acts who happen to be lesser known amongst fans of the genre. Mole, wanna back me up on this here? I dunno what you're looking for.

Konstruktivists are most def amazing.

What about Robert Rental and Thomas Leer?

Konstructivits, Rental and Leer - yeah yeah!! Anyone who likes Aphex Twin or early Severed Heads would probably like Robert Rental and Thomas Leer. And the Konstructivits - they were ubiquitous in about 1982, what happened?? They were also really terrific, from memory. Sigh. So much good music forgotten. All these acts released at least one album.

Have you heard the side projects? Most Signifigant Beat, which is the funniest name ever. Sounds a bit like Future Sound Of London, bizarrely.

i also third esplendor geometrico and add controlled bleeding.

Penal Colony
Babyland
The Klinik
and all the one-off Wax Trax projects from 1989 or so...

PTP... "Tick tick tock Ay-yam tha keetchen clawk.. tick tick tock this is my life"

Dan OTM re: Severed Heads

Greater Than One, fer crying out loud

And then there was, ahem, Die Warzau... memories, anyone? Consolidated? Mmmm, shouty politics, klanging metal, and electronic body myoozik. ENER-JEYSSSSS!

(Not to mention that most stuff on DHR and Warp since the late 90s have pretty much coopted industrial shtick and influences while escaping the "embarrassing" associations thereof..)

And who could forget Pankow! and Boris Mikulic!

and Vomito Negro!

Mole: Saverio Evangelista from EG is in MSB / Most Signifigant Beat with another guy. They have a single, some splits, and a record that I know of. Admittedly, I haven't explored much beyond that.

Manufacture, on the other hand, haha... "Armed Forces! Destruct! Deceit, Lies, Control (YES SIR!)". Repeat x 64. That was the first time I listened to anything industrial and realized "goddamn, this is a fucking formula, isn't it..?" Then Front Line Assembly dominated the scene and I quickly cowered away and listened to rock music for a while.

One thing Manufacture does NOT get props/admonishment for. They are somewhat responsible for giving Sarah McLachlan's career a boost. She guested on some single on their first album "Terrorvision", and then she signed fully on Nettwerk, and somehow eventually Sarah became the soundtrack to a U.S. president sticking a cigar up someone's

They just put out a new album this year on Minus Habens. Its called "Life Is Offensive And Refuses To Apologize." Its in line with their self-titled album, really noisy and minimal.

Would Robert Rental and The Normal's 'Live at West Runton Pavilion' count as industrial?

Robert Rental was on Industrial Records. I doubt you could classify things he did in that time period as not being industrial. It does kick ass.

To the person who reco'd Apoptygma Berzerk - what does prog. trance have to do with industrial?

TAGC and Clock DVA are both amazing. Adi Newton is one of my favorite musicians of that period.

It wasn't over-rated at all.

The Final Cut are amazing. I had the chance to interview Tony a few years ago, he was just so nice and really cool.

wasn't final cut jeff mills and mike banks pre underground resistance band?

top industrial ambient droners should be added to this thread too - organnum and lustmord.

We'll just agree to disagree. At his early-days best, he was still just a bad version of Depeche Mode.

Second Die Warzau, I like the album "engine" a lot, for the way it collages together a whole junkpile of unexpected noises (not cheesily with overused sampling style), it mixes the electronics with real instruments like steel drums, on top of good melodies and some real singing. Their only other album I know "Bigelectricmetalbassface" was very lukewarm with too much bad pseudo-rap, though.

Bile's debut is a hardcore/punky rarity that definitely deserves a listen from industrial-metal fans.

So does Cubanate's least cheesy, most powerful album "Barbarossa". The songs are explosive. A review I saw said they didn't end, they dropped off.

Flux "Uncarved Block" gets called industrial- it has all the tribal percussion, clanging metal and dubby production from Adrian Sherwood. Love it and the unique way it evolved from a Crass-like punk band.

Laibach is not obscure at all but I don't think their earlier pre-poppy pure/austere industrial stuff is heard so much. "Nova Akropola" is my favorite.

Machines of Loving Grace aren't obscure either (hell they were in "the crow") but "concentration" was the best pop-industrial album ever and should not have been ignored and forgotten.

Tom Ellard said some almost slanderous shit about the S R Gilmore artwork on the North American Severed Heads releases, and the straw that broke the camel's back was him seeing the "Bad Mood Guy" LP with the face of a guy in, well, a bad mood. (the australian art for "Bad Mood Guy" is really great actually, and doesn't have guys in a bad mood on it, for the record) From there on out, all Severed Heads cover art was to be the same on all releases, hence the rather benign pumpkin on "Rotund for Success". (Then again, you can argue about or against the digital quality of Severed Heads own videos for their time, but that's all better off in a Severed Heads thread, me thinks)

My favourite industrial sleeve would have to be the corpse cover for SPK's 'Leichenschrei'. I think Tom had a point when he said all this stuff was corny gothic high horror camp, but that's exactly what I liked about it.

Leeb's various side projects (noise unit, intermix, delerium, etc.) are usually worth a listen. Leeb is a good rip-off artist.

The entire "power noise" scene has been ignored by everyone (the ant-zen lable - imminent starvation, noisex, pal, vromb)

Suicide Commando is fun EBM.

And Gridlock.

File under pop!

I play Ninetynine a lot for friends, but it was terminally disrespected for a lack of club beats within the goth scene.

And Gridlock.

Still consistantly good, even after a vast stylistic drift over the years. I'm probably partial, though, having had them release a remix of mine.

Maybe not so much industrial but..

Greater Than One, fer crying out loud

And guess what's being reissued...:

ALL THE MASTERS LICKED ME

This was Greater Than One's first "proper" LP, issued originally in
1987 by Graeme Revell (SPK) and Brian (Lustmord) Williams on their
Side Effects Records label. Here it is paired with Trust, their first
attempt at the album's recording but released in 1990 on We Never
Sleep (LP) and in 1991 by ROIR (CS). While the popular world knows
more about Lee Newman and Michael Wells as Technohead, GTO, or Tricky
Disco, All The Masters Licked Me is their first fully realized concept
of weaving samples into a vivid aural tapestry.

From the original press release: "The music is devised from sampling
sounds which are programmed via a computer system to form strong and
powerful pieces of aural art: mixing noises from the underground
system with ethnic chanting, heavy metal & hip hop beats with military
drumming and classical orchestration. The album contains 9 tracks on
each side, with pieces referring to rioting 'The Sweet Smell of a
Supermarket On Fire' to ' The Rape of Sam the Fox,' a track that
evokes gallery slaves, masturbation and physical brutality. Each track
is carefully constructed to convey the intentions and meaning
contained within the titles."

The album was recorded and digitally mastered by Greater Than One. To
make the CD the original betamax studio master tape was baked for 72
hours at a special audio house in the UK. The DAT for Trust was
generously donated by Lucas Cooper of ROIR. Enhanced CD content
includes MP3s of the entire album, unbroken, photos, cover images, an
art book, and an extensive book with articles and press clippings and
words from Michael Wells and others.

...

disc a

1. Exorcising Julie
2. The Intelligence of Natives
3. The Sweet Smell of a Supermarket On Fire
4. Trendy Afrika
5. Everything Is In a State of Flux
6. The Rape of Sam the Fox (Theme)
7. Kill That Parent
8. Lost Underground
9. We Don't Have Weekends
10. We Are the People with the Human Fist
11. Psychotherapy
12. Sweet Satellite
13. We Hate America and America Hates Us
14. We're O.K.
15. Dick Heads
16. Slog On (Dead Beat)
17. Straight Plague
18. Bad Love

disc b

1. Trust part one
2. Trust part two

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LONDON

London was the introduction of Greater Than One to the blossoming post-industrial culture as spearheaded by Chicago-based WaxTrax! Records. It was released in July of 1989 as a double LP/single CD collection of music recorded from 1987-1988 on Greater Than One's London-based label, K=K Recordings, and includes the entire LP of Dance of the Cowards. The recordings here have been digitally remastered by the legendary Jeff Lipton (Numero Group, Rykodisc, the list goes on forever) of Peerless Mastering and sound stunning. Bonus material includes the music from the Duty + Trust cassette, originally issued in 1991 by ROIR as well as other compilation tracks recorded at the time. Enhanced CD content includes photos, cover images, and an extensive book with articles and press clippings and words from Michael Wells and many others.

A DVD includes the music videos for "I Don't Need God," "Utopia," and "Pure," as well as three lengthy projections from their performances (featuring user-selectable soundtrack) and an "art reel."

...

disc a

1. Now Is the Time (12" mix)
2. Everybody's Crazy (Except Us)
3. Techno Golden Beat
4. Peace
5. Slave
6. Computer Dub
7. Deep Shake
8. Liberation
9. Brick Lane
10. The Dark Streets of London
11. The Rose, the Cross & the Flag
12. Crisis

disc b

1. Now Is the Time
2. Song for England
3. The Truth
4. Kunst Gleich Kapital
5. All the Masters Licked You
6. Dance of the Cowards
7. All Men Are Boys
8. I Know Everything
9. Dear Ol' Blighty
10. Funk It
11. Peace - Beatbox Inc. re-edit

dvd

* I Don't Need God (video)
* Utopia (video)
* Pure (video)
* projections
* artworks

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G-FORCE

G-Force marks a clear transitionary period from the post-industrial
sounds of London to the techno sounds of Tricky Disco and GTO. The
package includes all the music from both singles "I Don't Need God"
and "Utopia" plus the Index EP, various compilation tracks, and music
from the Japanese-only VHS tape Video Drug 1, available on CD for the
first time ever.

...

disc a

1. G-Force
2. Ich Liebe Dich Mein Prinz
3. Learn with Pleasure, Knowledge Is Power
4. Black Magic
5. Alpha 5
6. The Man Who Lived In Books
7. The Ballet of the 3 Feathered Sardines
8. Why Do Men Have Nipples?

disc b

1. I Don't Need God
2. Ignorance is the Agent of Fear
3. Fear is the Agent of Violence
4. Utopia A
5. Utopia AA
6. Utopia Minuet

disc c

1. Joy
2. Metal
3. Voice
4. Dub Killer
5. Harmony
6. Hair/Spirits (also known as "Lu & La")
7. Pathway/Entrance
8. Spin/Fall
9. August/Bondage
10. Memories/Scissors
11. I'm Gonna Whoop Your Ass
12. Storm the Dancefloor
13. Take It Easy
14. Joy - Killjoy Edit

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Aw, this is swell. Hopefully Lee Newman is excited about this somewhere, wherever she may be. (She passed away in 1995 from cancer, coincidentally on the same day Jerry Garcia died.)

Yeah, it's a treat, and credit to Brainwashed for doing this. I gather they're planning similar reissues for other bands, and this is a great start.

lee newman was so lovely. i wrote her a fanboy letter once and from then on she would send me all their records. sadly missed.

Now that's a cool story.

A thread had to be started...

Greater Than One, G.T.O., Technohead, Tricky Disco, etc.

probably nothing new to anyone here but betty botox has a (sort of) industrial mix on beats is space next week -

Zoviet France - Mohnomishe pt. 7
Whitehouse - You Won't Like It, Sugar
Laibach - Krst
Throbbing Gristle - Dreammachine
The Klinik - Plague
Philadelphia Five - Not Leaving Without Jerry
Signal Aout 42 - Carnaval
Signal Aout 42 - Submarine Dance
SPK - Metal Dance
Hunting Lodge - Tribal Warning Shot
T.D.A. - Faces Of Freedom pt. 1
Ken Lewis - Cosmic Cars Dub
Coil - Further Back And Faster
Force Dimension - Tension
Delkom - Sexploitation
Absolute Body Control - Automatic
Snowy Red - Euroshima (Wardance)
The Incvincible Spirit - Push!
Nightmoves - Transdance
Isolators - Concentrate On Us
Mariah - 心臓の扉

Any fans of Click Click? Their later records are fairly generic EBM but some of the earlier music is amazing, kinda Portion Control crossed with Test Dept. Great lyrics and vocals as well. This video is pretty incredible:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnV-akqKqg4

i was quite a fan. saw them a couple of times live - excellent!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mPWEPeyVKQ

damn.
completely forgot re click click.
but your posts reminded me.
i used to have this on cd : http://www.discogs.com/Click-Click-Rorschach-Testing/master/17608
being honest, don't recall too much about it which is probably why its no longer buried in the archive .. still would be nice to have it to hand to give it another go.

amor fati
executive slacks

Click Click must be the only industrial group to have had a harmonica player.

how about... POESIE NOIRE?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aq0s9zPikE