Das Ich have influenced industrial music as much as Skinny Puppy, Einsturzende Neubaten, and Laibach, but they’ve never realized the financial rewards.
Boyd Rice has been destroying music since the mid-’70s. Like Throbbing Gristle and Cabaret Voltaire, he used homebuilt or modified instruments to create sounds.
Swirling, moody, and introspective, Halo Star is what we have come to expect from cutting-edge group Black Tape For A Blue Girl, a longtime underground darling.
Bathe in future pop rage. Another dark EBM/future pop album that dots the landscape of Metropolis Records. Tasty remixes by Assemblage 23, Funker Vogt, Iris.
This has cohesion and a slow-burning eroticism as well as Alpha’s trademark ’70s AM gold popcraft, capturing both the Bacharachian mood as well as the songs.
Their sound drips with old school analog and the occasional cat-scratching record. It raises your temperature incrementally, like a locomotive building speed.
This political and social satire-drenched, industrial-rap rock release is punk in scope but not in sound. Think Sister Machine Gun meets Pop Will Eat Itself.
Others struggle to project the dreamy, seductive, atmospheric, and “soul” aesthetics of the genre, Zero 7 sew together better songs with better surroundings.
2am is a masterful work, an incredible array of layers and textures that takes a third, a fifth, and a 20th listen to catch. But the listen is worth it.