u/Neumaschine

Dedicated to r/industrialmusic <3

Tell me something I don't know
Show me something I can't use
Push the button, connect the goddamned dots

Live-in thief in my bedroom bathroom
Commodity sodomy glass autonomy
Promise everything take it all away
Give it a rest

You're lying through your teeth
You're lying through your teeth

Who, what, which, why, who
When did you say the earth would stop turning?

When did you say we would all start burning?
When should I make a pledge?
Should I listen to the voices in my head?

Connect the goddamned dots
Connect the goddamned dots
Connect the goddamned dots

Who am I trying to impress?
Who could care less?

Tell me something I don't know

(From the Youtube description)

a rare shot of a final mix at Vancouver Studios for Skinny Puppy's Hexonxonx from the Rabies album 1989. Produced by the trio mixing, Dave Rave Ogilvie, cEvin Key and Alien Jourgensen.
Also present was Jello Biafra, who named the track and assistant Marc Ramaer. copyright Skinny Puppy

Made this track originally when my calico cat, Luci, was dying of cancer. Loved her like a daughter (RIP). Then I finished the remix and added it to the album when my mother was diagnosed with cancer last year. Just lost another cat I loved 2 days ago. This song isn't about cats though it's about depression, loss and grieving.

Is it industrial or adjacent? Is it dark ambient or a mix of genres? I don't know? That isn't really too important to me, I just don't participate in any other music subs as much as this one. The self-portrait is from 2014. The music is made by a human... me. I am sharing this Bandcamp album version because it is the latest remix and one I prefer. The album is pay what you want or nothing at all. It doesn't sell and this isn't an attempt to self promote. I just wanted to share something that might touch anyone else going through a hard time. Just wanted to be human without pretense of anything else. Raw and emotional. Take care of yourselves. -VN aka (Neumaschine)

Imagine if you will, The Cure had released their first album, Three Imaginary Boys, and it is the same as had happened in our past. In this alternate reality they follow the same path as Ministry with its first album being synth-pop. Progressively The Cure gets harder and more experimental, abandoning what put them on the original path and carving a new path for industrial goth rock. What would they look and sound like to your minds eye and ear? What other bands can you think of having this same scenario?

Martin Denny was referenced in the Re/Search Industrial Culture Handbook as a precursor to industrial music starting in the 1950's. Soundscaping with a tropical island theme as opposed to the machine-sound-scene of modern industrial. The contrast is clear, but evident.

Denny experimented with tape loops, tape delays among other pioneering methods that would go on to be used by the founders of industrial music. Martin Denny is relevant to this sub for these reasons. Plus it won't hurt to listen to something chill for a change.

Worth a relisten or maybe for some a new listen.

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So let's not forget the true history of who started the genre of industrial music.

In 1976, an avante-garde band of gender-blended alien vampires named Throbbing Goblins, stormed the stage in Berlin, just after the fall of the Soviet Union, and started the musical "industrial revolution". What else do you remember?

Art is a funny medium. With music especially, it is created in the past, and will be made in the future. It can only be enjoyed and performed in the present though. The now. It is a medium of time in its essence. The physical reality is the connection point. Where, when and how?

Music and film mediums, in particular, require a much more strict demand of ones time in order to be fully enjoyed and understood. A painting, poem, or book also requires time, but is not so strict to the receiver's time attendance. So is it accurate to think that there really is nothing relevant about old or new, just yet to be discovered by someone? Yet to be realized once again by listening to a song that was fading in the memory only to be renewed/restored?

Is this merely mental-masturbation-musing?

Thanks for attending my Sunday sermon.