it's funny because i kind of think of a lot of the proper experimental originators as being 'post-industrial' and usually reserve the term industrial for a lot of the more generic materials that ensue...
a lot of the key outfits like the aforementioned EN, TG, Coil, NWW, Current 93, etc. carry on in some form or other for decades and all have a pretty iconoclastic sound... as was mentioned earlier, it really starts to feel like a term of familial association rather than generic perse. in terms of that constellation... the names i don't think i've seen mentioned yet that are big for me are Zoviet France, HNAS, Organum and Hafler Trio... and particularly with Organum and Hafler you really are getting pretty far afield from what industrial seemed to stand for if you were defining it by what TG, EN and others were up to in the late 70s... but hey, if we can talk about Current 93 and Psychic TV...
and actually i really like the idea of speaking of all of this stuff in the context of post-industrial music because it keeps the definition really daft/dynamic...
other smaller cases that bear mentioning on the interesting side of things (not that i didn't obsess over EBM et. al. when i was 15...):
Mnemonists
p.16.d4 (old incarnation for mostly Ralf Wehowski's work)
Die Todliche Doris
DDAA
... and other stuff.
kind of wanna make a case for thinking of the Shadow Ring in that context, although it works sometimes better than others... super awesome band either way... I'm Some Songs is the album of there's that i'm thinking of the most...
one of my earliest respectable music obsessions... and still somewhat ongoing after all these years...
a lot of the key outfits like the aforementioned EN, TG, Coil, NWW, Current 93, etc. carry on in some form or other for decades and all have a pretty iconoclastic sound... as was mentioned earlier, it really starts to feel like a term of familial association rather than generic perse. in terms of that constellation... the names i don't think i've seen mentioned yet that are big for me are Zoviet France, HNAS, Organum and Hafler Trio... and particularly with Organum and Hafler you really are getting pretty far afield from what industrial seemed to stand for if you were defining it by what TG, EN and others were up to in the late 70s... but hey, if we can talk about Current 93 and Psychic TV...
and actually i really like the idea of speaking of all of this stuff in the context of post-industrial music because it keeps the definition really daft/dynamic...
other smaller cases that bear mentioning on the interesting side of things (not that i didn't obsess over EBM et. al. when i was 15...):
Mnemonists
p.16.d4 (old incarnation for mostly Ralf Wehowski's work)
Die Todliche Doris
DDAA
... and other stuff.
kind of wanna make a case for thinking of the Shadow Ring in that context, although it works sometimes better than others... super awesome band either way... I'm Some Songs is the album of there's that i'm thinking of the most...
one of my earliest respectable music obsessions... and still somewhat ongoing after all these years...