(Incorporating
Heavenly Vocals)
In our
Industrial Music department you will find a variety of recordings
selected from our main database of over 3,700 titles available worldwide.
'Industrial Music' originated in the mid-80's, where groups
such as 400 Blows, Tackhead and Portion Control headed
the genre's rise to fame at one end of the musical spectrum, while
Whitehouse and Nurse With Wound came in from the opposite
end, taking 'normal' music and stretching the boundaries from 'Industrial-Rock'
to amorphous 'Avant-Garde'. Some created what most people would
regard today as noise, by completely destroying the structure of the
music altogether! Heavy metal joined dance; dance was blasted into
infinity; improvisation gave birth to uninhibited experimentation
and the music exploded in your face… and still does, across a
wide variety of styles. Somewhere along the way, an 'Ambient' equivalent
of 'Industrial Space Music' was created by groups such as
Lull, Main, Koner and similar on one hand, with
the whole 'Heavenly Vocals' angle coming in on the other. The
latter consists of vast layers of electronics, or simple acoustic/electronic
backings, set to occasionally rhythmic backdrops, but always features
exquisite female solo / multi-tracked vocals somewhere in the overall
mix. A sub-genre becoming increasingly popular is gothic electronic,
where vast layers of synths, drums and electronics create the unique
instrumental music of groups like Raison D'etre, Mortis,
Desideri Marginis and many more.
