Bisk: “Convergence” (Strange or Funny Ha-ha?, Sub Rosa 1997)Bisk’s 1997 album on Sub Rosa was a real eye and ear-opener for me at the time. I had just started to venture further away from industrial...
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Aphex Twin: “Next Heap With” (…I Care Because You Do, Warp 1995)The closing cut on Aphex Twin’s 1995 album has the same leftfield wooziness of a few other cuts on the album, but it has a stateliness...
Godflesh: “Someone Somewhere Scorned” (Slavestate, 1991 Earache)Godflesh continues to evolve and fascinate, but I’ve always had a soft spot especially for their earliest ones. Slavestate felt...
Labradford: “With John Morand and Assisted by Brian Hoffa.” (E Luxo So, Kranky 1999)Labradford’s penultimate release on Kranky, their last of the 90s, remains one of my favorites of theirs. It’s...
Throbbing Gristle: “Don’t Do As You’re Told” (Heathen Earth, Industrial 1980)One of TG’s classic weird jams from their live sessions released as Heathen Earth in on their own Industrial label in...
Current 93: “Thunder Perfect Mind I” (Thunder Perfect Mind, 1992)While most of Thunder Perfect Mind was the most fully formed neo-folk of C93′s repertoire to date at the time of its release, the...
Dom: “Fackeln Im Sturm (Original Grungerman Mix)” (Harvest 1998)Rediscovered this one-off Wolfgang Voigt single listening to Michael Mayer’s old Neuhouse mix again from the late 90s (one of my...
Move D: “HD800″ (Cymbelin, Warp 1996)Special thanks to my 800 followers for joining me on the ongoing road to discovering vibrant and cool new sounds and music. In theme with the number, here’s a...
This Heat: “Rainforest” (This Heat, 1979)This Heat’s first proper album is such a far cry from the John Peel Sessions recorded before it. I much prefer this more caustic, tape-infused sound more,...
Surgeon: “Wave” (Communications, 1996)Surgeon’s early, taut Communications tracks got a more than welcome remaster and reissue on his SRX imprint a couple years ago. His latest album is a sure...
Digital Primate: “Take Off and Landing” (The Pro-Jex Trax! Vol. 1, Pro-Jex 2006)I first heard this track many years ago in a DJ set (which I’d recorded to a cassette!) and it took me this long to...
Machinedrum: “Countchocula” (Urban Biology, Merck 2002)Machinedrum’s earlier albums are imbued with more of a turntablist spin on hip hop and downtempo, often filled with scratching or skittering...
KMFDM: “Ganja Rock” (UAIOE, Wax Trax! 1989)In my younger industrial music listening days, I was a big Wax Trax! enthusiast, even as I more or less missed the boat on it all; TVT had just bought them...
Richie Hawtin & Thomas Brinkmann: “07:13″ (96:VR, Plus 8 1998)Thomas Brinkmann’s minimal appropriation of Richie Hawtin’s awesomely spacious Concept 1 album still is sublime. His 2-armed...
Redcell: “Bio Dimension” (The Philosophy of Sound and Machine, ART 1992)Classic, clean IDM from the Artificial Intelligence era by the duo responsible for B12.(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
Throbbing Gristle: “Hamburger Lady” (D.O.A.: The Third and Final Report, Industrial 1978)A true classic whose weirdness remains unique and fascinating. TG were nothing if not unpredictable, but it’s...
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