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   SinDelleMorte
   

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   Was there a certain band? A certain way the music hits you that wasn't like other kinds of music? Conversely, is there anything about it or the scene that turns you off?

   For me I think it what attracted me initially would probably be that in my opinion, more than almost any other genre industrial embodies intensity. DARK intensity. Much like death metal, as someone said, but death metal has a more frenetic, more brutal quality to it, whereas industrial is more coiled, more compressed. Not compressed as in weakened but compressed as in the way a jack in the box is compressed: tension and energy barely held in check that explodes at just the right moment. I love that. And I like death metal, too; there's nothing wrong with brutality. It's just different music for different moods, really.

   And as with death metal, I usually like the subject matter of most industrial songs, too.

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   rammstein
   -> on itunes says 'industrial'
   -> what is industrial music? sounds cool
   -> google
   ->myspace industrial bands...etc etc

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   A friend gave me a tape copy of an Apoptygma Berzerk album (Soli Deo Gloria, I think - but might have been 7) - loved it, and got hooked on all the right aspects of that music, so I guess it all was determined then...

   Access was the main obstacle back then... got a couple of more albums on tape copies, and found a couple of albums (The Young Gods, S.P.O.C.K, De/Vision and such) in some random record shops I visited - but then I got tipped off about http://www.shadowland.no/ (a really good physical shop) - and, well, the rest is pretty expensive history :)

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   SinDelleMorte
   

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   @xeno: Expensive history, lol. I hear you.

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   Basically, I was (still am) a BIG Hawkwind fan, and their sound included lots of spacey noises, electronic sequences, speech samples, noisy improvisations, so I guess I was prepared for industrial, especially old-school original industrial ; actually Throbbing Gristle began their carreer touring with Hawkwind, so the link is more than evident.

   Then I got into industrial metal, first with french band Treponem Pal, which evolved naturally into Ministry and Young Gods...

   etc. etc. etc.

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   Back when I was a kid growing up in the early 90s, my dad was a huge fan of techno and trance, so I got exposed to a lot of cool music from that side of things early on, like Underworld, Orbital, The Orb, 808 State etc; and I still love a lot of these acts as it stands today.
   Of course as we all know, by turn of the century, electronic music got really commercial and poppy and just generally started to suck.
   By which point I was a total misfit in high school, and hung around with the various other folks who were that way inclined. We started listening to all kinds of stuff; mainly metal, but also extreme electronic stuff like Merzbow, Atari Teenage Riot and a lot of gabber.
   One day, a friend who was going out with the local hot goth girl made me listen to a CD he had, which turned out to be Harmonizer by Apoptygma Berzerk. Now bear with me here because I know a lot of you will probably think that album was a dire construct of commercial chart-trance pish - for someone who spent a lot of time listening to commercial trance and getting more and more disillusioned with it, for me, by comparison, this record had an absolute TON of depth!
   Basically I was hooked and from there on in went out of my way to discover as much of industrial music as possible.

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   3 Skinny Puppy - The Process
   2 Velvet Acid Christ - Calling Ov / Fun With Knives
   1 Front Line Assembly - Explosion-Sampler > That changed everything

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   In 83 or 84 i was introduced by a friend and a nephew of me to stuff like SWANS, Foetus, Einsturzende Neubauten, SPK, Coil, Psychic TV, Throbbing Gristle and so on, and from there it went downhill all the way.

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   If I had discovered the "Video Work [82-84]" of Test Dept earlier, I would have been first employed with true Industrial.

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    I had recently gotten into digital hardcore/gabber/breakcore etc etc and was quickly becoming tired of the music because none of the vocal bands were at the quality that the DHR label bands were. I was bored and decided to go in the goth chatroom on aol and asked for some music suggestions and someone said listen to Suicide Commando's Hellraiser. So I went on Napster and downloaded the track and was instantly hooked. I had never heard music made with synthesizers sound that hard, dark but catchy at the same time. I have been hooked ever since.

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    Shots for all !

    My folks were into bands such as Skinny Puppy, Einsturzende Neubauten, The Cure, Depeche Mode, so I was exposed to it when I was a toddler. Growing up nothing really peaked my interested as much as industrial, ebm, synthpop, so I just kinda stuck with it. However now not so much, black metal and dark ambient seems to be what I like now.

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    I got into it because I heard there was absolutely no drama and tons of hot, well-adjusted women!!!!!!!

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    S80
    

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    Shots for all !

    someone lied to you TBO

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    i had a metal phase around 4th grade, some skate punk as an early teenager, when i got to jr high/high school the ladies i liked were all about Depeche Mode & other synth pop, so i got my first synth & started writing songs. at that point i got into programming & in looking for more interesting sounds i discovered bands with more of an edge, who were able to get that intensity i'd found in metal & punk, out of electronic equipment and trash. 242, SP, Wax Trax, Neubauten, Test Dept, ect.

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    It was this track on a tape compilation played out of one of those chunky 80's boomboxes, Junior High Art Class. Changed my fucking life.

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    I n age of 11-12 (1980-1981) I liked "Big Science" by Laurie Anderson and Klaus Nomi. Later NDW (Neue Deutsche Welle). In 1983 the Cure, Sister of Mercy, Anne Clark, Neubauten, Christian Death. When I came to West Germany (1989) I met a guy from Darmstadt who introduced me to Clock DVA, SPK, Click Click, Cabaret Voltair, Holger Hiller and a lot others.
    But I what really catched me was when I came by accident to Cindytalk, Controlled Bleeding, NOX, NON, Nocturnal Emissions, NWW etc in 1990. It as just the right thing for my taste in this time.

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    child of the early 80s meant growing up loving synthpop +
    teen of the late 80s meant moving on to more angsty stuff =
    industrial!

    edited to be more specific:
    I loved the beeps and blips of, say, New Order, Depeche Mode, and Book of Love at the time, but I've always wanted something harder. For a time, I fantasized about a combination of a darker sound + bouncy electronics, but I never encountered it. Moev's "Wanting" was the closest for me for a long time. Then I heard industrial music, I thought, "This is it!"

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    Ov course being of the Hessian descent when one of our buddies came over to the pad and said hey you gotta check out this new band called "Skinny Puppy" and another older one called "Throbbing Gristle" we politely listened to it briefly and informed him it was absolute crap and then put the Slayer and Exodus back on. A while later I heard the same stuff plus FLA & 242 at a party and a then a few weeks later I went and got everything I could find. Its been all downhill since then.

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    @Eric Christian: LOL. Yes, at first that was how it was with me. I was like "This shit?? Yeah, right! Metal all the way!" ESPECIALLY Slayer and Exodus. That is mostly what I grew up listening to. But the more I heard of what later evolved to be called industrial, the more it grew on me.

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    Hmmmm.....simple question, complicated answer. I grew up in the 80s and liked electronic music like New Order and The Pet Shop Boys.

    I was really into indie and punk stuff around 90-91.

    NIN was the first "industrial" band I heard back in 90 but I didn't make the lasting connection with Industrial music until I heard Past-Forward by Die Krupps in 93. From there it was love.

    I discovered Nitzer Ebb, then Puppy, then KMFDM, then 242, then Kraftwerk, then all the Wax Trax and Cleopatra stuff of the time. It just snowballed from there.

    The radio station KROQ in Hollywood used to play industrial and electronic music on Friday nights back in the early 90s. I learned about Sheep on Drugs, Thrill Kill Kult, and ton of other bands from those days.

    Then it all went incredibly underground.

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