What are you listening to?

[profondo nero]

[the-orb]

The ultimate amalgamation of techno and industrial

[j100000]

May not be for everyone but thats what im listening to atm

https://soundcloud.com/d33j

[DudleyGray]

Only just started listening to Battles.

Such a good band.

[gin soaked boy]

The ultimate amalgamation of techno and industrial

Maybe if you consider Skinny Puppy as industrial

But I am looking forward to their set with Kerridge (see above) at Berlin Atonal. The venue and sound are so fucking amazing.

Btw: Time for another Berlin Atonal act:

[profondo nero]

@gin soaked boy: fuck yeah man, I can't wait myself

[the-orb]

What's not industrial about it? It has the atmosphere of an industry all over it, just like Raime, even if technically they both don't sound like a "typical" industrial band. Not too far from Einstuerzende, though.

Totally missed your Kerridge post - but yes, that entire album is really something. I normally don't enjoy such extended sets of darkness and lack of melody, but Kerridge did something special there. It's not easy to make an album that sounds that dark work well. I think he's got the potential to do something really groundbreaking if he tones down the aggressiveness just a little and introduces some elements of space.

I wish I could be there at Atonal, that's for sure...

Maybe if you consider Skinny Puppy as industrial

But I am looking forward to their set with Kerridge (see above) at Berlin Atonal. The venue and sound are so fucking amazing.

[gin soaked boy]

What's not industrial about it? It has the atmosphere of an industry all over it

That's not my definition of industrial, but it's a definition we can work with. To me the "industrial music for industrial people" slogan is much more about the industrialisation of modern life in general (i. e. restriction on personal liberty and loss of values, relativism etc. at the same time). Many Throbbing Gristle records are not about industry in general, but about the human body and cultural strategies.

Don't get me wrong, I like some of Oakes stuff, but a lot of the contemporary so called "industrial techno" is simply too superficial to me. It's so fuckin designed. Dark drones, female voices, interception horns (braaaaa), tribal drums - to me it's just the shit for the post-goth kids. This is also true for Kerridge sometimes and this view doesn't matter on the dancefloor at all, because all that cliché stuff works great as functional music.

I simply miss the indeterminableness, ambivalence and reflection of the early English industrial scene. So, at home I like techno (or whatever) which seems more reflected and ambiguous to me. And I know, this classification is very subjective.

It's not easy to make an album that sounds that dark work well. I think he's got the potential to do something really groundbreaking if he tones down the aggressiveness just a little and introduces some elements of space.

True. Maybe it will be the kind of music I was talking about.

Aaand after all the blah-blah I should finish with a track:

[pilgrim]

alt-J Hunger Of The Pine

https://soundcloud.com/alt-j/hunger-of-the-pine

[rider]

Jack White's new album "Lazaretto". Overall it's a bit disappointing (to me), but the single hits hard. Also, that suit. Is it new McQueen? The man is pretty tight-lipped regarding which designers he wears. Any White fans on SZ?

my husband is apparently. the ultra lp was on his bday wishlist.

[profondo nero]

hahaha smfh

[Shucks]

live from tokyo right now:

[Shucks]

bumping this, since it's live.

[sebastian]

[profondo nero]

Aandd..

Bumping this, since it was a pretty rad show and Boris rules.