Industrial techno

Industrial techno is a subgenre of techno and industrial dance music that originated in the 1990s.^[1] Characteristically, it incorporates influences from the bleak, noisy sound and aesthetics of early industrial music acts, particularly Cabaret Voltaire and Throbbing Gristle.^[2][1] American industrial music label Wax Trax! also had a profound influence over the genre's development.^[3]

Industrial techno
Stylistic origins	Techno industrial electronic industrial dance
Cultural origins	Late 1980s to early 1990s, UK, US, Japan
Other topics
Electro-industrial electronic body music power noise

Jeff Mills

History

The origins of industrial techno date back to the early 1980s with the work of Japanese musician Ryuichi Sakamoto, then a member of Yellow Magic Orchestra. According to Fact and Louder Than War, Sakamoto's solo album B-2 Unit (1980) anticipated the sounds of industrial techno.^[4][5]

Some of the earliest musical projects in the genre include the band Final Cut, formed by Jeff Mills and Anthony Srock in Detroit during the late 1980s.^[6][7] Their 1989 debut industrial-techno album^[8] Deep into the Cut was described by The Wire as "a significant moment in the convergence of the classic industrial aesthetic and the emerging sound of Detroit techno".^[6]

The genre has seen a resurgence in the 2010s,^[1][2] spearheaded by acts such as Adam X, Orphx, and Ancient Methods, and others later like Blawan and Karenn. Other artists associated with industrial techno include Cut Hands,^[1] Helena Hauff,^[9] Forward Strategy Group,^[1] Surgeon,^[2] Michael Forshaw,^[10] Jeff Mills, Regis, Dominick Fernow and Mike Banks.^[11] Perc Trax record label has been credited with the revival of the genre in the UK, with artists such as Perc, Truss, Hppa and Ansome.^[1] Some revival artists have subsequently been criticized for making the new music in the genre that "sounds old, that it's overly indebted to a sound invented and thoroughly exhausted in the '90s",^[2] but despite this, innovation derived from the post-dubstep and garage scene have been highlighted.^[2] As a result, it has gained a significant fanbase from the post-dubstep audience.^[2]

See also

• Post-industrial music