Tag: industrial music

darkwave, stephens lust
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Tribute to SomaFM’s Darkwave channel ‘doomed’

youtu.be/CE-TbHbFVRA

Somafm.com has streamed an inventive radio channel pioneered by Rusty Hodge featuring, as they called it “Dark industrial/ambient music for tortured souls.” The service was recently discontinued until October Halloween season, which to the Gothic-Ambient-Industrial music crowd signifies the end of an era. Following is a sample of sounds from the dark side.

Chris and Cosey, Psychic TV, Throbbing Gristle
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Throbbing Gristle’s Industrial Emotions Broke Noisy Ground

http://youtu.be/MBzR0iIzMNU

The first band ever to be called “industrial,” Throbbing Gristle’s confrontational live performances and use of disturbing imagery, mixed with pre-recorded tape samples and special effects, created a distorted sound performance, quite ground-breaking in its time. Spinoff bands Psychic TV and Chris and Cosey continued to shock and beautify into the 1980s.