padraig (u.s.)
a monkey that will go ape
and Plank produced the third record of proto-EBM fellow travelers Killing Joke (which tbh doesn't live up to their first two, but whatever)
you could look at Killing Joke as approaching a white answer to disco from a similar direction as EBM
i.e. Keine Ahnung, the first German EBM project following DAF etc not under the direction of Plank, directly references Chic in their biggest song
and Jaz from Killing Joke has talked about how they were obsessed with Chic when they recorded their own first record in 79
the basslines, the mechanistic element - and Killing Joke is basically Chic with all the swing taken out, the guitar grinding instead of chicken-scratch
you could look at Killing Joke as approaching a white answer to disco from a similar direction as EBM
i.e. Keine Ahnung, the first German EBM project following DAF etc not under the direction of Plank, directly references Chic in their biggest song
and Jaz from Killing Joke has talked about how they were obsessed with Chic when they recorded their own first record in 79
the basslines, the mechanistic element - and Killing Joke is basically Chic with all the swing taken out, the guitar grinding instead of chicken-scratch