Essential library reference guide to the deviant performance artists and musicians of the industrial culture movement. Features Survival Research...
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Apr 02, 2008
Matt
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This book fundamentally shaped the way that I look at art, music, and all things creative. During the 80's when I was all consumed with watching wrestling and listening to Twisted Sister, I was too young to realize that exciting things were afoot in other parts of the world. This book profiles many of those things, such as Throbbing Gristle, SPK, Survival Research Labs, Boyd Rice, and many others. Of course you could google any of these names today and find out alot, but these books were publish
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May 28, 2008
Steve
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Back in the halcyon '80s when things just couldn't get weird enough for my taste, this little book opened a world of experimental music and art to my hungry brain. I so immersed myself in the likes of SPK, Rhythm & Noise, Cabaret Voltaire and Ralph Records that I missed a lot of '80s pop. To this day, this book is special to me with all of its reading lists, deranged bands, disgusting performance art and obsessive eccentricity. It's hard to believe that this was such an unusual time in retrospec
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Jun 12, 2007
Rachel
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A detailed history on the roots of industrial anti-music. This is where it all started. Personal interviews. Throbbing Gristle, SPK, NON, Z'ev... it doesn't get anymore "old skool" than this unless you wanna talk futurist composition. The reading lists of the artists themselves are also spectacular.
Oct 21, 2008
Peter
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I consider this an essential introductory text. Like others, this work is influential and changes the way you examine your surroundings. Call it a phase, or a fad if you like, but Industrial culture is exactly that, a culture with deeper roots than you may think.
Dec 17, 2009
Eric
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Life changing book for me. The contents of this book changed the way I think about art, music and performance and introduced me to a breed of creative lunatics that would inform the next 17+ years of my life.
Aug 16, 2007
In the days before Industrial was an art asthetic, not another 'look' to be purchased at Hot Topic, this was essential fist person reading regarding it's early advocates and creators.
Jun 30, 2007
Joe
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Know your roots, rivetheads.
Has some great interviews and articles with/about the founding musicians, writers, and performance artists of the industrial scene.
Has some great interviews and articles with/about the founding musicians, writers, and performance artists of the industrial scene.
Dec 16, 2009
Charlie
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valuable information, great interviews. I just wish, it wasn't so expensive and the binding wasn't total shit! Those are the only complains from me though.
Dec 16, 2009
Irene
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When I was wee, an older, wiser, grizzled goth friend gave me this book, and I learned many things.
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