This mix is my attempt to capture the original Industrial sound. It is the music that was first associated with the term Industrial and it features a lot of the original Industrial artists. The mix may be a bit on the artsy side for some, but I thought that I should set the mood before I started punishing people with EBM mixes. Thirty years on I would describe it as a Dark, Atmospheric, Soundscape featuring Industrial, Noise, Ambient, Musique Concrete and Neo-Classical elements. It is rated PG for those that care about such things, and it steers clear of the subject of sex. Sex and BDSM would actually become major themes within the Industrial genre. At that time it still had the ability to shock and the look was a natural progression from the Punk fashion that had preceded it. Today it's almost like a uniform, but it still provides tittilation and a way to "scare the squares." Obviously, it also worked as a metaphor for the times.

To put a historical perspective on it, the Viet-Nam war was finally over, the President had been impeached, the economy was in recession, there was an oil crisis and it was not uncommon to be stuck in a line around the block waiting to buy gas. Then mysteriously a lot of people started getting very sick. We know now that they had contracted the HIV Virus and that it had developed into Acquired Immuno Deficiency Syndrome or A.I.D.S. At that time the Medical community was still trying to identify what this virus was and there was little that they could do for people that had become infected with it. For many A.I.D.S. was a terminal diagnosis. Our generation lost a lot of friends in a very brief period of time. This had a chilling effect on the culture and on the artists that were around at the time. These were dark times and that darkness was often reflected in this music. Fear, blood, sex, mortality and religion (the "taboo" subjects), all became grist for the mill for the artists operating at the extremes. These fearless people were the Industrial artists.

+ of human bondage mix +

Scraping Foetus Off The Wheel - The Overture from Pigdom Come
Psychic TV - Finale
Peter Christopherson, Throbbing Gristle - Valley Of The Shadow Of Death
Chris & Cosey and Coil - Over Abyss
Chris & Cosey - Temple Bar
Test Dept - Cold Witness
Throbbing Gristle - I.B.M.
Non - Blood Stream
SPK - Napalm (Terminal Patient)
Swans - Loop 1
Nurse With Wound - Dirty Fingernails (Reworked CD version)
Coil - Aqua Regis
Einstürzende Neubauten - Mikroben
DAF - Die Kleinen Und Die Bösen
Cabaret Voltaire - Partially Submerged
Muslimgauze - Qom (Short Version)
Lustmørd - Permafrost
Nocturnal Emissions - Tripod Of Immortality
P/K - Invocation (Canto To The Departed)

for Jim and Danny

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