Daniel Miller's Mute Records, Rough Trade and Stevo's Some Bizzare were instrumental in signing and distributing a good deal of the industrial wave groups ...
At some points Mute seemed to have all the good stuff .
Daniel Miller's Normal had that moment with Warm Leatherette and TV OD.
Wm Burroughs, Sci Fi, Dystopian subjects
Some strains of industrial seemed to be following on from things Bowie used to record about ( 'Five Years' from Ziggy, Diamond Dogs 'Future Legend', etc. ) a few years earlier, some of the same things influenced punk, post punk, early electro ...
Blixa and ENB brought a whole 'nother thing with their 'Industrial';
Blixa's bleak hard primative , elemental physical vibe and lyric and the group's stated desire to 'destroy new buildings' were original German folk body musik , loud, deep and sometimes spiritual.
And then when that Berlin Stadium did collapse ...
Around ENB in W Berlin , neighbors down the street , were Christlo and Beate from Liasions Dangeruses ( Christlo from an original DAF lineup , later of Crime And The City Solution ) doing their Oberheim based electro beat musik, later linked with EMB,
another thread and variant of industrial as Tea noted earlier.
By 1988 an SRL- related 'industrial outback of New Jersey' scenario figures as part of William Gibson's Mona Lisa Overdrive and industrial influences continued to spread into other generations , cultures didn't it ...