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Front 242 “Interception”

sfilzen — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 18:03:39 +0000

Front 242 “Interception” 1987. Wax Trax Records. 12″ single and I think this is a pretty rare one! Two industrial dance/EBM tracks from the Belgian electronic body music pioneers. Side A has “Quite Unusual,” which was the lead 7″ single from October 1986 from the ’87 LP Official Version. The 12″ mix of the single appeared as a bonus track on the CD release of Official Version. Side B is “Agressiva,” a reworking of the track “Agressiva Due” (also is on Official Version). Not surpassingly, both songs on this 12″ are aggressively electronic and brutally hypnotic dance tracks.

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Ministry “Stigmata (Remix)”

sfilzen — Mon, 09 Apr 2018 15:11:49 +0000

Ministry “Stigmata (Remix)” b/w “Tonight We Murder” 1988. 12″ single. Last night we saw Ministry at Turner Hall where they did NOT play “Stigmata,” instead focusing mostly on more recent material which skews toward the speed metal edge of industrial metal. I hate to say it, but I was pretty bored (even employing my unfortunate superpower of being able to fall asleep in very loud, very crowded places). I get – and appreciate – musicians’ desires to introduce fans to evolving sounds and new artistry, but when over half the audience is hovering just below or above the age of card-carrying AARP members, please please play some of the old stuff. (At least they played “Thieves,” so that was cool.) Al Jourgensen, who turns 60 later this year, is still kicking hard and angry, railing against everyone and everything, especially the current political scene as evidenced by the nihilistic video loops and the two enormous inflatable anti-Trump ducks that framed the stage.

Opening for Ministry were The God Bombs from New York, young and traditional industrialists whose sound better matched old Ministry than new Ministry. After their set, Joe made the observation that The God Bombs opening for Ministry was akin to 1980′s Stray Cats opening for 1950′s Carl Perkins (I’m not sure that ever really happened) in that there is a 30 year difference in the emergence and popularity of the genres and it’s also the approximate age variant between the performers. Which made us and our friends feel really fucking old.

Also performing before Ministry was Chelsea Wolfe, who I guess is a big deal (her track “Feral Love“ was featured in the trailers for the fourth season of Game of Thrones). Super-heavy ambient goth, like Cocteau Twins wearing 100 pound cement boots.

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Die Krupps with Nitzer Ebb “The Machineries of Joy”

sfilzen — Mon, 22 Feb 2016 16:38:06 +0000

Die Krupps with Nitzer Ebb “The Machineries of Joy” 1989. 12″ EP/Maxi-Single. Side A has two mixes of “The Machineries of Joy” – the Wahre-Arbeit Mix and the Die Krupps Mix. Side B has a third mix, the True Work Mix, and “Join the Rhythm of Machines,” which is pretty much yet another mix of “The Machineries of Joy.”

Industrial dance, synth and metallic percussion, mashed up by the German industrial metal band Die Krupps and the gothy British electro-industrial EBM group Nitzer Ebb (whose founders initially clicked by their shared interest in “witchcraft, talking to trees and collecting runestones”). The mixes of “The Machineries of Joy” are themselves covers of Die Krupps’ 1981 single “Wahre Arbeit Wahrer Lohn;” my favorite mix is the “True Work Mix.” All highly hypnotic and violently danceable.

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Executive Slacks “Nausea”

sfilzen — Fri, 04 Sep 2015 17:28:18 +0000

Executive Slacks “Nausea” 1985. Fundamental Records. Philly-area industrial/goth band active in the 1980′s (their Facebook page lists their genre as “Loud”). One reviewer describes them as “thrusting, driving madness from the bleeding edge of proto-industrial music.” Definitely hypnotic but not the relaxing-take-a-nice-little-nap hypnotic, more of the bang-my-head-against-the-wall-in-a-dark-room kind of hypnosis/psychosis.

This is a newer acquisition to the Vault and until now I hadn’t really heard of these guys – I didn’t listen to a ton of industrial music in the 80′s but this is more along the lines of the dark-heavy-brutal style of Nitzer Ebb than the more synth-pop orientated industrial style of Depeche Mode. Good example of ES’s style is the title track “Nausea” and “Spiders” (I really like that track a lot)

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