u/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.