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| Industrial
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| Stylistic origins:
| Musique concrete, Fluxus movement, Performance art, Electronic art music, Noise music
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| Cultural origins:
| Early 1970s, London, Sheffield, United Kingdom
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| Typical instruments:
| Synthesizer - Drum machine - Tape loops - Drums - Guitarnylon strings. steel strings and more guide dots on the fretboard. A guitar is a stringed musical instrument played with the fingers or a plectrum ( guitar pick). The sound is produced by vibrating strings. Guitars have a body (which is hollow for acousti (in latter incarnations were added SequencerIn the field of electronic music, a sequencer was originally any device that recorded and played back a sequence of control information for an electronic musical instrument. Early analog music sequencers used control voltage/trigger interface, but have ge - KeyboardThe musical keyboard also known as the piano keyboard is the set of adjacent depressible levers on a musical instrument which produce notes. Many musical instruments which have a key for each note lay them out in the standard way shown in the graphic: the - SamplerA sampler is an electronic musical instrument that uses stored audio signal samples, generally recordings of existing sounds, and plays them back at a range of pitches. An early form of sampler was an instrument called the Mellotron' (later Novatron due t)
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| Mainstream popularity:
| Small
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| Derivative forms:
| Techno musicTechno is a form of electronic music that emerged in the mid- 1980s and primarily refers to a particular style developed in and around Detroit and subsequently adopted by European producers. History Techno was primarily developed in basement studios by "T - IDMIDM short for intelligent dance music or intellectual dance music is an electronic music genre which began as a style of techno in the early 1990s and moved on to include the textures and sound manipulation methods of Musique concrete and early,"true" ind - TranceTrance music is a subgenre of electronic dance music that developed in the 1990s. Perhaps the most ambiguous genre in the realm of electronic dance music (EDM), trance could be described as a melodic, more-or-less freeform style of music derived from a co - Synth popSynth pop is a style of popular music in which the synthesizer is the dominant musical instrument. While it might be argued that most current popular and commercial music in the industrialized world is realized via electronic instruments, synth pop has it - Futurepop - Glitch
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| Subgenres
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| EBM - Hardcore - Noise
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| Other topics
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| Notable artists - List of noise musicians
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Industrial music is a loose term for a number of different styles of electronic and experimental music. First used in the mid 1970s to describe the then-unique sound of Industrial Records artists, a wide variety of artists and labels have since come to be represented under the "industrial music" umbrella. Depending on who you ask, this definition may include European avant-garde performance artists Throbbing Gristle and Einstürzende Neubauten, American rock bands Ministry and Nine Inch Nails, Canadian electronic acts Skinny Puppy and Front Line Assembly, or writer William S. Burroughs.
The term was meant by its creators to evoke the idea of music created for a new generation of people, previous music being more agricultural. Specifically, it referred to the streamlined process by which the music was being made, although many people later interpreted the word as a poetic reference to an "industrial" aesthetic, recalling factories and inhuman machinery. On this topic, Peter Christopherson of Industrial Records once remarked, "the original idea of Industrial Records was to reject what the growing industry was telling you at the time what music was supposed to be."
