INDUSTRIAL ARTIFACTS

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#IndustrialArtifact 1 - Einstürzende Neubauten's "Ende Neu." A declaration 16 years in that this is just beginning.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8_Pf8zP-lo

#IndustrialArtifact 2 - The Pleasure Principle @numanofficial turns 35 today. Arguably the first great synthpop LP.  http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL54086ACE3095A85F

#IndustrialArtifact 3 - Colin Wilson's 1956 leftfield crit The Outsider, showing the power of misfits and wierdos.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Outsider_(Colin_Wilson)

#IndustrialArtifact 4 - Strange Days, Kathryn Bigelow's cyberpunk mess. An anarchic carnival of systemic collapse.  http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/strange-days-1995

#IndustrialArtifact 5 - Cyberden. In 86 a goth BBS (by Xorcist's Bat), in 91 an ISP, & in 94 1 of the 1st websites.  http://web.archive.org/web/19971211225945/http://www.cyberden.com/

#IndustrialArtifact 6 - Les Disques du Crépuscule: Belgian exp./p-p label from 1980. Key UK/Euro-scene connector.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Disques_du_Crépuscule

#IndustrialArtifact 7 - Mr Sebastian: gay SM activist & uncontested father of modern bodymod. Also worked with PTV.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Oversby

#IndustrialArtifact 8 - It's his birthday, so I choose @DavidBowieReal's Diamond Dogs. Pop's first great dystopia.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUflIrTSwK8

#IndustrialArtifact 9 - Red Army Faction: leftist urban militants & organizers. Wreckers of the past (inter alia).  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Army_Faction

#IndustrialArtifact 10 - The Process Church. Dualistic psych theology with surprising overground connections.  http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Process_Church_of_The_Final_Judgment

#IndustrialArtifact 11 - Warning's 1982 "Why Can the Bodies Fly." Cookie Monster vox, terrible English. Good stuff.  http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=85p88SZFtJY

#IndustrialArtifact 12 - Music from the Empty Quarter: perhaps industrial music' last great zine, launched '91.  http://www.theemptyquarter.net/mfteqissues.html

#IndustrialArtifact 13 - Since I'm waiting for a jumpstart, behold Battery, the best female-fronted 90s electro act  http://www.batteryinflux.com/

#IndustrialArtifact 14 - Babs Santini: cavey cutup visual art of Nurse With Wound's Steven Stapleton. Many credits.  http://babssantini.com

#IndustrialArtifact 15 - Not only did @garylevermore found ThirdMind & ToneDeath but he made fine records. Bushido.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCg660nU7_o

#IndustrialArtifact 16 - Blackhouse. 1st Christian industrial act, not that you can hear it. As dark as anything.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0G48GTAlSa4

#IndustrialArtifact 17 - (& a #WaxTraxFriday entry) Tomaž Hostnik, original Laibach frontman. (Suicide, 1982.)  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBivj0rKyK4&sns=fb

#IndustrialArtifact 18 - '89 parody of Laibach by Croat political singer Rambo Amadeus. Lyrics are about pastries.  http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QcepcR4Rgi8

#IndustrialArtifact 19 - Nam June Paik: Fluxus, abjection, & tech. "The only way to win a race is to run alone."  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nam_June_Paik

#IndustrialArtifact 20 - For @DAVID_LYNCH's birthday, his '89 Industrial Symphony # 1 w/ A. Badalamenti. Brillant.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1q3v9zT2SG0

#IndustrialArtifact 21 - Batz Without Flesh, late-80s Baltimore EBM. Example of the genre's move into local scenes.  http://vuzrecordsmegastore.bandcamp.com/track/09-21-375

#IndustrialArtifact 22 - Before the legendary Chicago label, Jim & Dannie had the Denver WaxTrax store. Still open.  http://www.thevinyldistrict.com/denver/2012/07/this-months-local-record-spot-wax-trax-records/

#IndustrialArtifact 23 - The number 23 (not the movie). Mystic # to Burroughs, @GenesisBPO, & in band names Skidoo, Assemblage, & Oxygen.  

#IndustrialArtifact 24 - Weathermen. Late-80s Belgians get a taste for US swag; occasionally great. #WaxTraxFriday  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=te5DnA5Zc-o&t=0m23s

#IndustrialArtifact 25 - Vittore Baroni. Invented the Italian scene and helped marry #industrialmusic to mail art.  http://iuoma-network.ning.com/profile/vittorebaroni

#IndustrialArtifact 26 - S'#Grammy day, so @nineinchnails' winner. Vid by P. Christopherson @ThrobbingGrstle /Coil  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuoFiIFkdAA

#IndustrialArtifact 27 - À Rebours, by Huysmans. 1884 decadent novel aestheticizing misery, claiming art>morality.  http://www.gutenberg.org/files/12341/12341-h/12341-h.htm

#IndustrialArtifact 28 - Pete Seeger, who, as a guerrilla anticapitalist, saw music's link to literal "industrial" concerns. #RIP  

#IndustrialArtifact 29 - The Oberheim Matrix 6, a go-to digital synth for 80s basslines. Listen to Nitzer Ebb, FLA.  http://www.vintagesynth.com/oberheim/mat6.php

#IndustrialArtifact 30 - Drance. Totally forgotten player in crossover of SF leather and industrial. Members RIP.  http://www.discogs.com/Drance-Hermetically-Sealed/release/969886

#IndustrialArtifact 31 - Sound of Pig, label run by tapescene king Al Margolis. The Haters, Muslimgauze, If Bwana.  http://www.discogs.com/label/12082-Sound-Of-Pig

#IndustrialArtifact 32 - Ipecac Loop. One of the first to emerge as net scenesters, early 90s. Instantly global.  http://soundcloud.com/ipecacloop

#IndustrialArtifact 33 - Obv "bowl" talk is about @skinnypuppy_ project HILT's Journey to the Center of the Bowl LP  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZfITiA70ME

#IndustrialArtifact 34 - 5th Colvmn Records. Top US indie of 90-96, where coldwave+experimental were in symbiosis.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_Colvmn_Records

#IndustrialArtifact 35 - LoveHounds list. 1st net-based alt music forum 85-87. Not just K. Bush; industrial too.  http://gaffa.org/archives/

#IndustrialArtifact 36 - William Burroughs. Cut-ups. Magick. Sci-Fi. Audio. Paranoia. The spiritual father of industrial music. 100 today.  

#IndustrialArtifact 37 - Paul Kendall (@300hz) Prod./Eng./Mix for Nitzer, Die Krupps, DM, NIN, FLA, Laibach, Haujobb. Swans GET THE POINT?  

#IndustrialArtifact 38 - HGun Labs. Video team behind NIN, KMFDM, FLA, & others (incl. Public Enemy). #waxtraxFriday  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H-Gun

#IndustrialArtifact 39 - Last Few Days. Famously obscure early tourmates of Laibach. Recorded 100 hours and released 1.  http://www.gla.ac.uk/~dc4w/laibach/lastfewdays.html

#IndustrialArtifact 40 - Krautrock supergroup Harmonia. Their '76 Eno collab = maybe the best proto-industrial record.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=he7E63qKPng&feature=kp

#IndustrialArtifact 41 - Mid-70s hangout of SF's dadaists and proto-industrialists, @CafeFlore. Daytime haunt of Monte Cazazza, Z'ev, Factrix.  

#IndustrialArtifact 42 - DAF's 1980 live "Gib's Mir." Lines blur from punk to noise to calisthenic workout. Ferocious.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drAxHxQZDF4&t=20m53s

#IndustrialArtifact 43 - Recalling #MaggieEstep fondly & unsappily, heres coolsexy Luscious Apparatus (@Recoilofficial)  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReITbnlbNUo

#IndustrialArtifact 44 - Happy Birthday @cEvinKey! Here's the outstanding track "Blowfish" he did in 1988 w/ D Goettel.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0umt6BqdDI

#IndustrialArtifact 45 - Feral House, pushers of "forbidden" texts of "apocalypse culture." Ugly sympathies but unique.  http://feralhouse.com/

#IndustrialArtifact 46 - Max M's prescient 1994 "A Day on the Net." Album came with a jpg graphic novel. #cyberpunk  http://myspace.com/variousartists-45979796/music/song/a-day-on-the-net-39617113-48570318

#IndustrialArtifact 47 - Raoul Hausmann, Berlin Dadaist. Have a self-portrait & a sound poem:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aR7N7e04Yak#t=28s and http://pic.twitter.com/HwKipE4UcW

#IndustrialArtifact 48 - Sound of Noise. 2010 comedy w/ industrial spirit: drummers terrorize Europe. (On Netflix too!)  http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1278449/

#IndustrialArtifact 49 - Devo, in memory of Bob Casale. Here's a '75 track that may as well be TG via Residents.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6KZgmD3BLg#t=43

#IndustrialArtifact 50 - Stephen Thrower, Coil's third (and last living early) member. Author, clarinetist, mind.  http://www.ikonenmagazin.de/interview/Cylobe.htm

#IndustrialArtifact 51 - Walter Ruttmann: "Wochenende." 1930 film with no image. Likely the 1st recorded noise collage.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfGdlajO2EQ

#IndustrialArtifact 52 - Want to hear Jean-Luc & Patrick from before @_Front242? "Trouble" by Under Viewer, circa 1980.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUunqWF3uw4

#IndustrialArtifact 53 - DieselChrist, who only made DepecheMode covers except one charming cyberpunk PDK-based single.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mR_o_dNk9oA

#IndustrialArtifact 54 - Severed Heads, est. '79. Essential. Both aggressive & good natured. Follow @t0m3llArd & buy  http://severedheads.bandcamp.com/

#IndustrialArtifact 55 - Mosolov's 1928 The Iron Foundry. Russian futurism at its most bombastic.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rq1-_UPwYSM

#IndustrialArtifact 56 - Beak by Monitor, '79. LA-based electropunk with help from NON. Unhinged. DAF + Oingo Boingo.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jiLCcpua-E

#IndustrialArtifact 57 - Nihilist Spasm Band, Canadian; arguably the 1st noise band. Here's "Destroy All Nations," 1968  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUJ2rJhddxE

#IndustrialArtifact 58 - Legendary F*ck Art Let's Kill shirt made by Jared of Chemlab & worn by Ogre on Ministry tour. http://pic.twitter.com/Pq5x4oZSBC

#IndustrialArtifact 59 - Don't forget WaxTrax's camp roots & ties btwn early industrial & drag. DIVINE. #waxtraxfriday  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJIyAjfkQws

#IndustrialArtifact 60 - From the Oscar-nominated original Robocop, Al Jourgensen+Ogre (as PTP)'s "Show Me Your Spine."  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2seGZa6wU78

#IndustrialArtifact 61 - It's March, so here's 1991's "Zombies' March" by EBM one-hit-wonder Mao Tse Tung Experience:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jM-cdWfafSM

#IndustrialArtifact 62 - The Feverish, a fine zine that lasted 5 issues mid-80s. German/English. Industrial/Fluxus/etc.  http://www.divisionleap.com/cgi-bin/akd/15596

#IndustrialArtifact 63 - Best psych/goth/industrial hybrid of @CleopatraRecord's early days: Pressurehed: Paralysis '92  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgDRosXdTIM

#IndustrialArtifact 64 - Speaking of soul, Chicago's Die Warzau got blues crazy on '94's "Liberated." (plus NIN sample)  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYE18Ay6y24&t=44

#IndustrialArtifact 65 - I mentioned NIN's "Sin"; here's SinGothic, a 91 font by @MrNullDevice. Ubiquitious in the 90s.  http://www.dafont.com/singothic.font

#IndustrialArtifact 66 - Downward Spiral turns 20 today. Feel old? Like it or not, it changed much. Best song? Ruiner.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJASJRRakew

#IndustrialArtifact 67 - If It Moves... '88 oneoff by Neon Judgement's Dirk Da Davo & Street Ducks' Glenn Frank. Not bad.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EpaBfwkLYM

#IndustrialArtifact 68 - Borghesia's overlooked '88 LP Escorts & Models is noir noir noir: a jazzy Slovenian trashscape  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHh2_C2sXv0

#IndustrialArtifact 69 - Having misnumbered poor 68, here's a prophetic '68 record, Silver Apples:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDdTCRsvTV8&feature=kp

#IndustrialArtifact 70 - I'm in NYC, so Missing Foundation, no-wave crossover with legendary graffiti & KMFDM tie-in.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_Foundation

#IndustrialArtifact 71 - Another NYC themed record, Foetus's York, recorded at the Anchorage in Brooklyn w/ L. Lunch.  http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ezx5lSyMiPw

#IndustrialArtifact 72 - Still in NYC so the theme persists! Micro Chip League (Frankfurt)'s hardbeat classic New York,  http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TdXVWLTTa_s

#IndustrialArtifact 73 - More NYC theme: 79 live version of the great Empire State Human by mid-transition Human League  http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NfHDQVgoT1o

#IndustrialArtifact 74 - I left NYC today, so appropriately here's ClockDVA's '91 "NYC Overload." I love Adi's whisper.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSJ9oy4RKjI&feature=kp

#IndustrialArtifact 75 - (Missed yesterday) From Spain, the legendary early synthpop act Aviador Dro w/ their debut:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhzvC-dYs-Q

#IndustrialArtifact 76 - The great Irish Rod Pearce, Fetish Records head (79-84) Inestimably important. Died tragically  http://keithsneuroblog.blogspot.com/2012/06/rhythm-of-cruelty-rod-pearce-fetish.html

#IndustrialArtifact 77 - Hanatarashi at Toritsu Kasei Super Loft, 8/4/85. Chased audience with a stolen diesel backhoe.  http://pic.twitter.com/pGL8H200Ha

#IndustrialArtifact 78 - Flux Information Sciences, 1st (?) of the ca. 2000 non-scene alt industrial revival. Discog @  http://www.fluxinformationsciences.com

#IndustrialArtifact 79 - Rudi Dutschke, 60s-70s student movement leader. Squatter spokesman, beloved by Berlin scene.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudi_Dutschke

#IndustrialArtifact 80 - 1987's Animal Liberation comp, when industrial & ecopolitics were inseparable. #waxtraxfriday  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dm0UvIfJdMk

#IndustrialArtifact 81 - In Michigan today, so here's Detroit's Shock Therapy ca. '87. Brilliant. RIP Itchy McCormick.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seySxJOFigU

#IndustrialArtifact 82 - Detroit's Code Industry, EBM's 1st all-African American act. 2nd LP = ferocious & underrated.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7-NIR7pkQ4

#IndustrialArtifact 83 - Dreamt I got @MetropolisRec's 188th CD. Looked it up after waking: Icon of Coil #weirdbrain  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-klkjiRB2c

#IndustrialArtifact 84 - Kraftwerk live in 1970, before their synthpop. Unbelievable footage, sound, and performance.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9R6bqcBPfc

#IndustrialArtifact 85 - Bond Bergland's 1985 LP Unearth. After fronting Factrix, he made blissful, dark guitar psych.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYFVGwTubb0

#IndustrialArtifact 86 - Love, Emily: charming 87 collaboration by post-beat author Kathy Acker & French ind. act NOX.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3qG3ygcCXg

#IndustrialArtifact 87 - Bay Area Dada Group, 1970-1984. Fluxan SF revivalists of the surreal, offensive, incl. Monte C  http://stendhalgallery.com/?p=3504

#IndustrialArtifact 88 - Diana Rogerson, aka Chrystal Belle Scrodd, member of Fistf*ck & NWW collab. A recent track:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hx8Po5IUfjc

#IndustrialArtifact 89 - Voodoo Death Beat's 88 Dance Til You Die. Overlooked classic by @marteeeen & Invisible's 1st.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59HCKVmBNGc

#IndustrialArtifact 90 - RIP Frankie Knuckles, house pioneer. Fan of @waxtraxchicago & @_Front242, here's his EBMest.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOLE1YE_oFQ

#IndustrialArtifact 91 - Before Consolidated, there was Until December. Their best cut is the soulful "Sequence Line":  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sL_sHz-4ViY

#IndustrialArtifact 92 - Skinned, the '98 sample library of @skinnypuppy_ All legally cleared (unlike Left Hand Shake).  http://www.zero-g.co.uk/store/skinned-wav-acid-p386.php

#IndustrialArtifact 93 - Joined at the Head's "In Penetration" is one of those 200+-bpm wildman songs. #waxtraxfriday  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcmbFRQiJ_M

#IndustrialArtifact 94 - Sneakyville by Scot synthpoppers Secession. Among the rarest electro LPs, plus Manson samples  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYdk7fLxLOY

#IndustrialArtifact 95 - DM: "Tora Tora Tora," Gore's 1st song, & it stands out as shockingly dark amid S&S. Live '81.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFWqmNPjO1s

#IndustrialArtifact 96 - Altered States, '80 masterwork by Ken Russell. Drugs = new perception = new reality. Like y'do. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyBE_aKg858

#IndustrialArtifact 97 - My old teacher Charles Dodge's '74 über creepy electroacoustic piece "He Destroyed Her Image"  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=369JzPk0ACo

#IndustrialArtifact 98 - Spin magazine's first writeup of industrial music, May 1986, page 39:  http://books.google.com/books?id=ELfnhp4T-T4C&printsec=frontcover&dq=%22may+1986%22+spin+magazine&hl=en&sa=X&ei=yI1GU_LsBaG-sQTgvoGYCg&ved=0CC0QuwUwAA#v=onepage&q=industrial&f=false

#IndustrialArtifact 99 - Ninetynine, by Haujobb. The best album to come from the IDM/industrial flirtation. Gorgeous.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQh-mM1wbr0&feature=kp

#IndustrialArtifact 100 - 100 Per Day Extinct by the underrated Stereotaxic Device. Political, brutal electro. 1992.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAI9OGFUvjQ

#IndustrialArtifact 101 - Crash Worship, San Diego's finest percussion outfit. Ranks w/ Test Dept. Some ca. '87 fare:  http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3c0aucz0U1Q

#IndustrialArtifact 102 - Ken Thomas, superproducer & PTV member. Laibach, Test Dept, Bolshoi, C93, NPN, ClockDVA, etc.  http://www.discogs.com/artist/49269-Ken-Thomas?type=Credits

#IndustrialArtifact 103 - Ting Kong, Minneapolis's first industrial percussion group, later Savage Aural Hotbed. 1985:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpbG9r81Z84

#IndustrialArtifact 104 - The 1984 vocoder funk gem "Under the Lights" by the occasionaly brilliant UK act Shriekback.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PumrwVPtBE

#IndustrialArtifact 105 - Joel Haertling, Denver-based maker of 80s industrial zine Zamizdat Trade Jrnl & pro weirdo.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yqWIGWinGc

#IndustrialArtifact 106 - Neon Judgement's '90 "The Insult" belongs beside RevCo in the industrial cowboy music canon:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tg-6ifgOqWM

#IndustrialArtifact 107 - Pain Station's '96 debut track "Empty." One of the best, darkest sprawling songs of the 90s.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lOD5B6OCos#t=65s

#IndustrialArtifact 108 - That last record came out on Decibel, run by Alien Faktor, who made dank, excellent stuff.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmN45DhhYbA

#IndustrialArtifact 109 - Noting the date: Cyberaktif's Tenebrae Vision LP. Leeb made up w/ Key & crashed on his sofa.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2FJTfsoEE0

#IndustrialArtifact 110 - KMFDM mixed Love & Rockets' '98 "Resurrection Hex" & stole the beat from Die Warzau's '94 mix of their own "Light."  

#IndustrialArtifact 111 - The not so industrial-sounding "Explording Head Movie" '93 Nurse With Wound/Stereolab collab.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5NUq0AGGRo

#IndustrialArtifact 112 - Quick Fix: Ministry + WSB. "Earth has a lot of things other folks might want..." #earthday  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIZ2RbE_qLE&feature=kp

#IndustrialArtifact 113 - For Shakespeare's birthday, here's 1982's 12th Night-quoting dark synth gem XOYO by Passage.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jpk2rFXZYi0

#IndustrialArtifact 114 - Arno's, a short-lived club that was ground zero of the Belgian postpunk/synth scene.  http://decaylive.blogspot.com/2010/05/arnos-leuvens-cbgbs-of-sorts.html

#IndustrialArtifact 115 - In a glut of remix albums, the '96 Wumpscut/Haujobb EP remains astonishingly good. Buy it @  http://www.amazon.com/Remix-Wars-Strike-1-Wumpscut/dp/B000003102/ref=sr_1_fkmr1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1398480027&sr=8-1-fkmr1&keywords=The+Remix+Wars%3A+Strike+1+-+%3AWumpscut%3A+Vs.+Haujobb

#IndustrialArtifact 116 - Another long-lost bang-on-stuff band, Sharkbait. Debuted in '88, this is from '91:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlPKECVVDEk

#IndustrialArtifact 117 - Neon Judgement's '82 "Stay Mad" = maybe the earliest metal guitar I've heard in industrial.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-1WjgkIbX0

#IndustrialArtifact 118 - Martin Rev (of Suicide) cut this stone classic in 1977: "Temptation." #farfisaforever  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLEHP9Imf7I&feature=kp

#IndustrialArtifact 119 - @ChrisVrenna's inspired quirky production on Rasputina's cellorock How We Quit the Forest LP  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGkwKHtz0FU

#IndustrialArtifact 120 - Les Honteuses Alliance, P16.D4-led collab w/ Nocturnal Emissions & Merzbow, from Distruct LP.  http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8yJJmZDFeSM

#IndustrialArtifact 121 - Totally obscure act Manhole Vortex made this lovely, complex, & creepy dystopian ode in '97:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2q9bLPB1qY

#IndustrialArtifact 122 - Source of a great cut by PIG = Britten #waxtraxfriday @raymondwatts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ky8rzUNelpw#t=91 and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2X7JDvTarqQ#t=16

#IndustrialArtifact 123 - Since it's horse race day, Acid Horse's classic "No Name No Slogan"—itself a good horse name  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTSnG7i4EoA

#IndustrialArtifact 124 - Instead of Star Wars day, let's remember the Kent State shootings. Skinny Puppy: "Tin Omen."  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIyL8ti3SME

#IndustrialArtifact 125 - Chris Moriarty of Controlled Bleeding; marvelous musician RIP. Here's a gorgeous solo track:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzQ08wz5vmM

#IndustrialArtifact 126 - Andy Kubiszewski, connection from Cleveland pre-NIN pop act Exotic Birds to Stabbing Westward  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Kubiszewski

#IndustrialArtifact 127 - Foreheads in a Fishtank blur the EBM/greebo line, '91. Great 1st single then nearly nothing.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpgJfa_G_XA

#IndustrialArtifact 128 - Students wrapped up their last exams today, so here's Babyland's fitting 2008 "A Graduation"  http://www.amazon.com/A-Graduation/dp/B004K2GLPM

#IndustrialArtifact 129 - Benestrophe's "Pig Butcher," '94: first song ever released by the legendary RAS DVA Records.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mzLNiFFBZE

#IndustrialArtifact 130 - A #MothersDay #Mixtape: SONGS NOT TO PLAY FOR YOUR MOM. Upsetting, bloody, and irreverent mom-themed music. Share it! http://8tracks.com/s_alexander_reed/a-mother-s-love-songs-not-to-play-for-your-mom

#IndustrialArtifact 131 - Apt, given the time: Sunday Monday Morning by Low Technicians. Clean Texas electro from '01.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqBNOUea5Wk

#IndustrialArtifact 132 - R. Crutchfield's Dark Day "Exterminations": exquisite, 1980. Tapes, synths, dark and lovely.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wg1aFW0eRXY&t=257

#IndustrialArtifact 133 - RIP Nash the Slash, mask-wearing weirdo genius. Synthpop's most underrated villain. From 82:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCidh3UlaLU

#IndustrialArtifact 134 - Founded in 1996, LA's legend @DASBUNKER is still active as the US's home of industrial noise.  http://dasbunkerla.tumblr.com/post/79179035671/there-is-a-club-in-la-that-is-almost-exactly-like-das

#IndustrialArtifact 135 - Metropakt - Neue Strassen, '85. In French, German & Japanese, but band is Spanish. #ofcourse  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xonHlUstng

#IndustrialArtifact 136 - 1st pop then postpunk (prod. by Chameleons' DF) in the 80s, Crocodile Shop made this in '94:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xA37oaSq5D0

#IndustrialArtifact 137 - Today is the 34th anniversary of Ian Curtis's death. A classic live performance:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVc29bYIvCM

#IndustrialArtifact 138 - Companion piece Psychic TV's '90 "I.C. Water." Curtis allegedly was slated to work with PTV.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49FlVvyQGKo&feature=kp

#IndustrialArtifact 139 - AntiTankGuitar: weapon of 2x4s & piano wire used by Lab Report & Pigface, made by M. Schultz.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti_Tank_Guitar

#IndustrialArtifact 140 - Minutes to Go: 87 comp w William S Burroughs, CabVoltaire, TAGC, Derrida (!), & J Cocteau (!)  http://www.discogs.com/Various-Minutes-To-Go/release/778891

#IndustrialArtifact 141 - One of the genre's shark-jumping moments: @alyankovic's "Germs" out-NINed most NIN wannabes.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqdAxikAv0o

#IndustrialArtifact 142 - For World Goth Day, here's the 1st act to blend goth/industrial in equal parts, Factrix, '80:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zF3h8iu22I0

#IndustrialArtifact 143 - Suicide's '70s work is legend, but do you know their 1988 LP A Way of Life? #waxtraxfriday  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCLJW96Ptk4

#IndustrialArtifact 144 - Negativland's "Guns," offered without comment today.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfWzgzby_hM&feature=kp

#IndustrialArtifact 145 - When John Balance of #COIL was 16, this is the zine he made. Stabmental 2 in full:  http://issuu.com/prfa/docs/stabmental__2

#IndustrialArtifact 146 - Today's for remembering, so fittingly @GreatDismal invented cyberpunk w/ Johnny Mnemonic '81.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Mnemonic

#IndustrialArtifact 147 - Wine tasting today, thus Einstürzende Neubauten's 07 Weingeister. Whole LP of them drinking.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WOLkwSACEA

#IndustrialArtifact 148 - Maya Is My Name, by trans artist Yendri. Goodnight. http://www.amazon.com/Maya-Is-My-Name/dp/B005F1VKGM

#IndustrialArtifact 149 - Heard this song at Whisky Tango Sideshow tonight; not industrial, but s'got FM Einheit, so...  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFq6hF5MKG8

#IndustrialArtifact 150 - At 150bpm, a central anthem of the US indie coldwave scene, Chemlab's Codeine, Glue, and You:  http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dOceTv122Ok

#IndustrialArtifact 151 - Not Great Commandment... here's Camouflage's best—the Gregorian industrial of Every Now & Then  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjW6CpT6aI0

#IndustrialArtifact 152 - 1992 news story fearmongering about raves as Techno-Pagan Rituals. Watch out, Milwaukee.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ls6I_oWmt78&app=desktop

#IndustrialArtifact 153 - Karen Han's great "Industrium Post Mortem" is the only glitch-goth erhu LP you'll ever need:  https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/china-deconstructed-sounds/id54671173

#IndustrialArtifact 154 - 25 years since the Tiananmen riots, here's the 1990 classic "Resist" by @F7A  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEJIyNmWc7Y

#IndustrialArtifact 155 - Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo, Christiane F's 70s classic of Berlin squatting, drugs, & misery:  http://goo.gl/TPvoyG

#IndustrialArtifact 156 - Poésie Noire's ferocious 1985 track "Compjutr Syntax Error" launched a darkwave career.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYwQOa8ccqo

#IndustrialArtifact 157 - Someone should write about the rasp-bass no-synth noiserock of the 90s e.g. God: On All Fours  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-27Cl8935bg

#IndustrialArtifact 158 - Clock DVA's inspired cover of Velvet Underground's "Black Angel Deth Song," 1983.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPaablRcdNU

#IndustrialArtifact 159 - Houston-based Pain Teens' '90 disarming back-looped noiserock ballad The Way Love Used to Be:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELlKJDOX0b0

#IndustrialArtifact 160 - Die Krupps 85 LP Entering the Arena: misstep w/ funk guitar& backup singers. Best forgotten.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQ8uikjIjWo

#IndustrialArtifact 161 - Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy's "Television" = arguably the best industrial/rap crossover.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ky4uYnsF3kc#t=40

#IndustrialArtifact 162 - Hybrid Kids '79 cover of D'Ya Think I'm Sexy. Insanity. IMHO the 1st great industrial cover.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKpAfZnNdDg

#IndustrialArtifact 163 - Ever wonder what happened to the Machines of Loving Grace guys? Behold Amish Rake Fight:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkPI5CkN5-k&feature=kp

#IndustrialArtifact 164 - Skinny Puppy's Dwayne G. helped w/ Sister Machine Gun's '92 "Night Returning" #waxtraxfriday https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPwA6TMG0n8

#IndustrialArtifact 165 - For friends getting hitched, Front242's Until Death (Us Do Part): a cut that changed my life  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doxPd-fcZw0&feature=kp

#IndustrialArtifact 166 - Father Forgive by Will. An alltime classic & probably THE original "monumental dance" cut.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yA-DgSq7i0Y

#IndustrialArtifact 167 - Craig Leon made a great industrial LP in 81. For the World Cup, have "Donkeys Bearing Cups":  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yi821hnKiCo&feature=kp

#IndustrialArtifact 168 - On this day in 1971 Nixon declared the War on Drugs. So here's KMFDM's "A Drug Against War":  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4-bUYU3BH8

#IndustrialArtifact 169 - Entrance music for Mike Tyson's 1988 legendary bout was none other than COIL. Terror indeed.  http://www.theawl.com/2014/06/a-man-walks-into-a-boxing-ring?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheAwl+%28The+Awl%29

#IndustrialArtifact 170 - Maybe the 1st great indie cover of an industrial cut, Jon Spencer's 88 take on EN's Yü Gung.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouOAAHmx88c

#IndustrialArtifact 171 - Sun Ra: Space is the Place. The Afrofuturist master erases hegemonies by remaking the world.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djBKQNVj5Cc

#IndustrialArtifact 172 - Flowerpot Men's '84 "Jo's So Mean" is great, big, dark synthpop; they'd become Juno Reactor.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9m7ErVLaK1Y

#IndustrialArtifact 173 - It's still in my head so here's unimpeachably legit ind-tinged postpunk act WIRE's Torch It:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1aDoAJOH58

#IndustrialArtifact 174 - Arthur Barrow, Zappa's bassist, did an industrial rock LP in 1993. Pretty okay, actually.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-UbKBbszYM

#IndustrialArtifact 175 - One of the best comps ever, '90's Arrhythmia gathers "tribal" industrial acts. #theresasequel http://www.discogs.com/Various-Arrhythmia/release/208990

#IndustrialArtifact 176 - The Aesthetics of Failure, a vital work by cutup sound pioneer @KimCascone: #essentialreading http://subsol.c3.hu/subsol_2/contributors3/casconetext.html

#IndustrialArtifact 177 - Brighter Death Now: OG Swedish noiseking & Cold Meat Industries head. Here's 94's DeathCraft  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVK69C0d4zQ

#IndustrialArtifact 178 - Only Lovers Left Alive (not the movie). In Wallis's '64 novel, all adults killed themselves.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Only_Lovers_Left_Alive_(novel)

#IndustrialArtifact 179 - On the WWI centennial, here's Sarajevo's greatest industrial export SCH w/ "Majna" from '88.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoTYmoljgNw

#IndustrialArtifact 180 - At 180BPM, "Verschwende Deine Jugend" is DAF's iconic ode to youth, beauty and ahistoricism.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjqrnUBdLqY

#IndustrialArtifact 181 - Here's one for #SCOTUS, Consolidated's 1994 "Butyric Acid." #tragedyfarce  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZ9LQANaHB8&feature=kp

#IndustrialArtifact 182 - It's Belgium's day, jonges! Here's my Assimilate playlist of 1st-wave Belgian EBM, '81-85:  http://8tracks.com/s_alexander_reed/assimilate-ch-10-belgian-ebm-81-85

#IndustrialArtifact 183 - The Moog Vocoder, 1979: holy grail of robot speech effects (though based on the Bode 7702).  http://www.vintagesynth.com/moog/moogvocoder.php

#IndustrialArtifact 184 - A reminder today of the rest of the world. @Leaether_Strip's Zoth Ommog classic "AntiUs."  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00tWR53IKzM

#IndustrialArtifact 185 - Amazing vid shows two hrs from '84 at Yorkshire's Xclusiv club at the peak of 1st-wave goth.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9sMZ_5NjM8

#IndustrialArtifact 186 - 6de Kolonne, '85 one-off noise act from Eindhoven, released w/ help from Beglians Club Moral  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vw7hRuo930I

#IndustrialArtifact 187 - Unit 187, Vancouver coldwave act. 1997's "Loaded" smears aggression across a groovy whisper. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npsvYC37qV0

#IndustrialArtifact 188 - Paracont's "D-Ranged," a massive 1994 hit in Europe's EBM scene that never crossed to the US:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KskZcO6zzs

#IndustrialArtifact 189 - The Top Sample Source List, pre-2000 crowdsourcing feat to trace samples in industrial songs:  http://semimajor.net/samples/sourcelist_19970713.txt

#IndustrialArtifact 190 - Whitehouse's legendary July 1, 1983 show at Roebuck; violent, lying, and maybe glorious.  http://twitter.com/industrial_book/status/487130854397714433/photo/1

#IndustrialArtifact 191 - Stendeck (@stendeck_music), making some of the best post-EBM, post-technoid music now.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWcaD5b-L1Q

#IndustrialArtifact 192 - Timeghost: modern noisemaker who wires up his body, mics it, triggers analogue gear & noise:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGuqC-CpUKo

#IndustrialArtifact 193 - In Pittsburgh today so let's recall Plastic Btls, the city's first industrial noise act, '83.  http://mlavella.blogspot.com/2008/04/25-years-ago-today-pittsburgh-hardcore.html

#IndustrialArtifact 194 - Christian Death's frontman Rozz Williams's noise act Premature Ejaculation. A rare '86 song:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MdyheYlODs

#IndustrialArtifact 195 - On Bastille Day, overthrow a government! Also read about French ur-label Sordide Sentimental:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sordide_Sentimental

#IndustrialArtifact 196 - Cromagnon's 69 "Caledonia": experimental banger that unwittingly foretold metal & industrial  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36Srmk7JYlI#t=51

#IndustrialArtifact 197 - Hanging out w/ a member of Deathline Int'l, the Cali 90s ind. supergroup. One of their best:  http://copinternational.bandcamp.com/track/we-believe

#IndustrialArtifact 198 - In Detroit, so here's Final Cut's '89 "Open Your Eyes": techno-flavored aggro from @DJJeffMills  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKLY5CrQb_Q

#IndustrialArtifact 199 - 2449 N Lincoln, Chicago: WaxTrax's original home. #waxtraxfriday (Also! My band Seeming plays CHI 2night @ Livewire)  

#IndustrialArtifact 200 - Servitor Sanctum 7, outstanding current tribal industrial (with whom I just played a show):  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-ovqQLsdSQ

#IndustrialArtifact 202 - Thoughtful commentary on bands' lyrics in non-native tongues: Gothsicles' "English License"  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vg3KLOQulec

#IndustrialArtifact 202 - VNV announce tour w/ SkinnyPuppy/Haujobb/Youth Code. Since it's moon landing day, "Genesis":  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kOHF4YS5r8

#IndustrialArtifact 203 - Sister Soleil, ca. 2000 hard electro-rock chanteuse and collaborator of NIN, Acumen, Gabriel:  http://www.jamendo.com/en/track/843634/red

#IndustrialArtifact 204 - Onstage equip list for @ThrobbingGrstle, given by Sleazy to Flowmotion #4. (Bad copy, sadly.)  http://twitter.com/industrial_book/status/492416794737786880/photo/1

#IndustrialArtifact 205 - S'my birthday, so here's Foetus Over Frisco's '82 "Birth Day." Don't call it industrial tho...  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2VY3m_rEws

#IndustrialArtifact 206 - 1985 Chicago Tribune: The WaxTrax Way of Making Records. You're welcome. #WaxTraxFriday  http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1985-07-26/entertainment/8502190282_1_sire-records-wax-trax-records-al-jourgensen

#IndustrialArtifact 207 - Prog act Mythos pissed off fans w darkwave Robot Secret Agents '81. Catchy. #IndustrialFlute  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNP5wX7W1tY

#IndustrialArtifact 208 - Sun Yama's 1982 bizarro synth/darkwave/rap cover of Bob Dylan's Subterranean Homesick Blues.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXI4-XSrDVA

#IndustrialArtifact 209 - Houston-based The Hunger debuted in '89 with the now-forgotten club stomper "Cut the Skin."  https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=91mrGSlwfbA

#IndustrialArtifact 210 - Francesco Currà's 1976 Rapsodia Meccanica. Obscure, beautiful LP. Like Neubauten w/o noise.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daEGZ97oD-g

#IndustrialArtifact 211 - LA goths Kommunity FK strayed industrial in 83's "Incompatible Disposition." Ace percussion.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atOTIF5kLp4#t=22

#IndustrialArtifact 212 - Larry Wright, inventor of bucket drumming, & square one for hip-hop/Neubauten slash theory:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSFa8STqSWk

#IndustrialArtifact 213 - Prey Flesh, the fine capstone to an otherwise metalish 92 debut by Skrew, feat. Jim Marcus.  http://www.amazon.com/Prey-Flesh/dp/B005EO5V1K

#IndustrialArtifact 214 - Another brooding slow burn: Kevorkian Death Cycle's fascinating "Tempest" from 1998. Huge.  https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-Zt7xgJcqSE

#IndustrialArtifact 215 - Since a freaking BAT just broke lose in our apt., have Goteki-precursors Sneaky Bat Machine:  https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=E_JZMLJ78ak

#IndustrialArtifact 216 - ∏: Aranofsky's breakout film of tech, mysticism, conspiracy. Sdtk by PWEI's @iamclintmansell  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jo18VIoR2xU

#IndustrialArtifact 217 - I Googled "martial funk" and got this bit of "Soviet bass": Midget Ninjas' "Pion de Floor"  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9XxztWH8xM

#IndustrialArtifact 218 - 1st International Cassette Makers Conference, July 11-15 '89 in Cologne. Tape scene history:  http://twitter.com/industrial_book/status/497240697968558082/photo/1

#IndustrialArtifact 219 - Great piece of totally forgotten Belgian EBM: 1985's "In the City" by Happy Hunting Ground.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_NiQh1DK0M

#IndustrialArtifact 220 - News: Barker/Fryer/Popa/Popa start a new band @psotm. (Does any genre like supergroups more?)  http://bravewords.com/news/former-ministry-and-this-mortal-coil-members-join-pinksideofthemoon

#IndustrialArtifact 221 - Second Layer, exp project of The Sound's Adrian Borland. Synth, echo, occasional brilliance:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeIJt47WCSA

#IndustrialArtifact 223 - A fine article on Texas industrial music history. Lots here for crate diggers:  http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/dc9/2008/11/echoes_and_reverberations_hitc.php

#IndustrialArtifact 223 - Dubok, Ohio-based electro purveyors of huge synth, dnb flavors, and clean future aesthetics:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klYKXkOQLIk&feature=youtu.be

#IndustrialArtifact 224 - Since I'm moving today, here's the apt "I Am Moving" by XMTP techno-ish project U-Tek, '93:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21n925milk8

#IndustrialArtifact 225 - Sow, excellent project of Anna Wildsmith, active since 89 (w sometime help from PIG—get it?)  https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uC-vt-NZlbI

#IndustrialArtifact 226 - I'm a Cop by Swedish extreme industrial act XXX Atomic Toejam, 1993 on Cold Meat Industry:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VGmYl3y670

#IndustrialArtifact 227 - The noise/hip-hop/gothic fury of @AdamsonBarry's brilliant 2-minute burst "Still I Rise":  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6dMgnvpDSg

#IndustrialArtifact 228 - Followup to the Sow post. Didja know Watts (PIG) had a lite NewBeat act? 2-Kut w Anna W, 88:  https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Scuja7OgH0s

#IndustrialArtifact 229 - I'd rather celebrate music than use it as commentary, but... "Police State" by Birmingham 6.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yB8-bh4Uo_0

#IndustrialArtifact 230 - The Process, Brion Gysin's study of reality-as-hallucination. One of the great cult novels.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Process_(novel)

#IndustrialArtifact 231 - NL Centrum in Amsterdam (venue of Staaplaat's G-J Hobijn) = legendary. A live '87 recording:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lqjw8OYxhHY

#IndustrialArtifact 232 - X Marks the Pedwalk live with their track "Solitude" in Budapest, 1991.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPliz0Oc0Dk

#IndustrialArtifact 233 - Best anti-audience art ever? Komar/Melamid/Soldier's "Most Unwanted Song." Stick with it.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gPuH1yeZ08

#IndustrialArtifact 234 - This week, '93: Type O Negative's Bloody Kisses opens w/ industrialesque & NSFW Machine Screw  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZNGnilS11U

#IndustrialArtifact 235 - 1990's Tyrell by HoodlumPriest (@hoodlum23) = cyberpunk triumph, even w its dubious rapping...  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ox6v7bY8bIc

#IndustrialArtifact 236 - Back to school so: "School Art Room," '82 mess by ultra-obscure UK crypto-teens Alien Brains.  http://www.juno.co.uk/MP3/SF526141-01-07-01.mp3

#IndustrialArtifact 237 - Belgium's darkwave well is bottomless. Company of State (later w/ Antler): 83 debut "Dark."  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Foy6yTA03t0

#IndustrialArtifact 238 - The Peyote Dance, Antonin Artaud's late-life gasp. Outsider anthropology-meets-drug-awakening  http://www.amazon.com/The-Peyote-Dance-Antonin-Artaud/dp/0374511004

#IndustrialArtifact 239 - Still w/ the back-to-school blues, here's Controlled Bleeding's "Another Brick in the Wall"  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ob5GtkO0V4

#IndustrialArtifact 240 - Manray, the club that housed Boston's goth/industrial scene for 20 years. Pix of teardown:  http://www.andrewsinclair.org/manray_goes_dow/

#IndustrialArtifact 241 - Noise Unit started as a collab w/ FLA's Leeb & Klinik's Marc V '89 debut for #waxtraxfriday:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heAu_f4NUs8

#IndustrialArtifact 242 - The brilliant cut (and peculiar vid) "Quite Unusual" is @_Front242's most underrated single.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6bmnOLoHl4

#IndustrialArtifact 243 - Snakefinger, evil-sounding Residents' buddy. '79's industrial/reggae "Kill the Great Raven":  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqXxFfh-lqQ

#IndustrialArtifact 244 - More industrial reggae: A. Sherwood's little-known act Missing Brazilians' '84 "Igloo Inn."  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maLlmydNUao

#IndustrialArtifact 245 - A 1994 rec.music.industrial post by none other than VNV's Ronan Harris, talking Nitzer Ebb.  https://groups.google.com/d/msg/alt.music.ebm/1EsyGXM7nuA/Bq1OrdswgH8J

#IndustrialArtifact 246 - Ministry's lovely "Angel," feat Patti Jourgensen.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEZ41hfDc_M

#IndustrialArtifact 247 - The Doom Generation, '95 giallo/suburbspoitation. Sdtk=Coil, MC900'J, MBM, NIN, F242, Bigod20  http://thequietus.com/articles/08403-greg-araki-s-doom-generation-reviewed

#IndustrialArtifact 248 - Minimal Compact "Not Knowing (remix)": Israeli precursor to The Knife. WAX008 #waxtraxfriday  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CPrVIhnFc0

#IndustrialArtifact 249 - SPK's '81 SoliPsiK didn't feature then-UK G. Revell, but came from the Aus. faction. (NeHil)  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36axHuS3MZI

#IndustrialArtifact 250 - Voigt/465, Aus. postpunk/psychnoise act, SPK's inspiration/headliner. Wandering, harsh, odd.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3agOCjbpOs

#IndustrialArtifact 251 - Jarboe in '84, before joining SWANS. "Walls Are Bleeding." Haunting, terrifying, gorgeous.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYn_ukETG2Y

#IndustrialArtifact 252 - Macronympha's '93 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania is sometimes called the greatest noise LP ever.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BV6GadlvDaQ

#IndustrialArtifact 253 - Decada 2 was among Mexico's first electro-industrial acts, founded '85. Here's an '87 track:  https://decada2.bandcamp.com/track/corpus-in-peccata-1987

#IndustrialArtifact 254 - Index's burbling, lush sprawl "CinderCinderGirl" was among the best industrial songs of '96:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enNjJ6t3Y64&feature=youtu.be

#IndustrialArtifact 255 - '88's "These Remains" paints a different evolution for @THRILLKILLKULT. Impassioned pleading  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ej5EnAybuE

#IndustrialArtifact 256 - A diversion from industrial, here's a good piece on Bulgarian punk history, '70s onward:  http://zuriz.wordpress.com/2008/08/30/punk-rock-in-bulgaria-1979-2008/

#IndustrialArtifact 257 - #MinistryMonday, evidently. Tomorrow = release (at last) of 82's "Same Old Madness" on Cleo.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DU0sNLBDS08

#IndustrialArtifact 258 - Pouppée Fabrikk's '89 debut "Die Jugend." Yes it's about Nazis, but surprise, PF is Swedish!  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCeoa-3tt_Y

#IndustrialArtifact 259 - While you worried bout dancing, DeadVoicesOnAir made 20 noise LPs in as many years. Buy one.  https://deadvoicesonair.bandcamp.com

#IndustrialArtifact 260 - In honor of my follower #, Danish shock act Psychopomps' 1995 big-band "666 Nights in Hell."  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tu8sbw2ONVw

#IndustrialArtifact 261 - Accomplishment, 85/86 cut by Japanese act Dissecting Table. Huge abject rhythmic screams.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoKzkD6s6uc

#IndustrialArtifact 262 - Touch Me by Scrappy=mediocre '88 Chicago house, but was produced—uncredited—by Die Warzau.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0u53C7lV_s

#IndustrialArtifact 263 - Real industrial? Maybe not, but I bet you still care about a new Information Society album.  http://www.craveonline.com/music/articles/763447-album-premiere-information-society-return-_hello-world

#IndustrialArtifact 264 - Brigit Brat died '11, & though few recall her act God's Girlfriend, the LP on Tinman was ace.  http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/mercurynews/obituary.aspx?pid=153151227

#IndustrialArtifact 265 - Parade Ground, original EBM/synthpop wonders, have a new best-of. It's less than €8, newbs.  http://www.infrarot.de/parade-ground/strange-world/9943630

#IndustrialArtifact 266 - Ever wonder what Scott Benzel, singer of Machine of Loving Grace is up to now? Art. Behold:  http://scottbenzel.tumblr.com

#IndustrialArtifact 267 - '96 Terra Industria i-view w/ Numb's Don Gordon, oft-overlooked Vancouver industrial great.  http://twitter.com/industrial_book/status/515343723438563328/photo/1

#IndustrialArtifact 268 - Urban Primitive, 83: "Confront[ing] violence of 20th-c living...end[s] up simply mimicking it."  http://twitter.com/industrial_book/status/515561708434518016/photo/1

#IndustrialArtifact 269 - Jamie Duffy, of Acumen Nation and many others, whose death two years ago inspired ColdWaves.  http://www.chicagomusicmagazine.com/news/the-passing-of-jamie-duffy/

#IndustrialArtifact 270 - Autogenerated books = the endgame of the cutup, so for #ColdWaves here's a very special book:  http://books.google.com/books?id=pho0WCzhGo4C&dq=%22front+242%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=UognVOjEMsyeyASKw4LYDg&ved=0CCkQ6AEwAw

#IndustrialArtifact 271 - Thoughts are in Ferguson and Honk Kong. Here is the Hong Kong industrial act Headhunter.  https://headhunter-hk.bandcamp.com

#IndustrialArtifact 272 - Prayer Tower, Canadian cyber-industrial act with a Greg Reely-produced '93 debut, then gone.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkjeI-B9E9s

#IndustrialArtifact 273 - AZ's Users of the Wicked Gravity split days before a planned '92 tour w Controlled Bleeding.  http://twitter.com/industrial_book/status/517145298754621440/photo/1

#IndustrialArtifact 274 - EarTV, a '92 compilation w/ all songs based on TV noises. Feat. Merzbow, Baroni, Haters, etc.  http://thethingonthedoorstep.be/blog/2010/06/various-eartv/

#IndustrialArtifact 275 - Kazakh/Chinese IZ recalls late-era Neubauten. Story & great '03 track:  https://www.pri.org/stories/2011-08-18/adding-chinese-twist-kazakh-music and http://salexanderreed.com/izband

#IndustrialArtifact 276 - For #WaxTraxFriday, Christian Mumenthaler, iconic industrial CGI design for FLA/XMTP/Blok 57:  http://www.discogs.com/artist/1977617-Christian-Mumenthaler

#IndustrialArtifact 277 - Synthpop filk act too charming to hate, S.P.O.C.K. Sweden's own, w/ 90's breakout "Klingon":  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtetrjjFBNE

#IndustrialArtifact 278 - KMFDM's Opium '84. Safe to say there were NOT 200 copies. Reissue=rerecorded but last track.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_(KMFDM_album)

#IndustrialArtifact 279 - For Twin Peaks' return, the theme-lifting ballad from Apoptygma's not-so-industrial 2000 LP:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZqJsX2Ub1o

#IndustrialArtifact 280 - For the full moon, here's Chrome's 1981 "Blood on the Moon," title track of their fifth LP:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epU0clsD1AI

#IndustrialArtifact 281 - Black Rain's rejected Johnny Mnemonic sdtk. Band = former Ike Yard & DeathCometCrew members.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0xxqmOTmtE

#IndustrialArtifact 282 - [O]ne of the very first M&TF fan sites. Last updated Jan. '03. (Can one overrate M&TF?) http://www.angelfire.com/de/solation/mentallo.html

#IndustrialArtifact 283 - Searing proto-EBM from America's great No Wave crossover act Ike Yard. "Half a God," 1982.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2lZ_u2A3nM

#IndustrialArtifact 284 - Swans fans, didja know Gira's got a great track w/ Pigface? (Plus! Dave Trumfio of Pulsars!)  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEZ4YFVpEZQ

#IndustrialArtifact 285 - Polish EBM group Trumpets & Drums '94 "Knifehattan" has a doozie of an un-reprintable cover:  http://www.discogs.com/viewimages?release=3553363

#IndustrialArtifact 286 - Vintage sequencers, including the Atari ST (FLA's favorite), all discussed, with screenshots.  http://tweakheadz.com/vintage-sequencers/

#IndustrialArtifact 287 - Operation Beatbox, 96 comp of industrial covers of hip-hop classics. Made by @ChasejustChase  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NgAWzhGrd8

#IndustrialArtifact 288 - Somebody mentioned @TheClayPeople. What's this? Oh just their master tapes w/ Warzone stamp.  http://twitter.com/industrial_book/status/522450037297938432/photo/1

#IndustrialArtifact 289 - Einstürzende Neubauten's new WWI-themed LP Lament is coming, and it's dead freaking serious.  http://www.neubauten.org/lament

#IndustrialArtifact 290 - Carcinome, 88 debut by Dutch act Force Dimension. (Why so few Dutch acts w so many Belgian?)  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ev1tD7qWYxQ

#IndustrialArtifact 291 - French act Treponem Pal may be the only reggae-tinged industrial metal band around. From 96:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFYf5rMlym4

#IndustrialArtifact 292 - Heterodox Conclusion, '86 comp of experimental/industrial music by women, on Cause & Effect:  http://www.discogs.com/Various-The-Heterodox-Conclusion/release/814421

#IndustrialArtifact 293 - 25th anniversary: Pretty Hate Machine. Whether you fistpump or eyeroll, it changed the music. (See Assimilate p260.)  

#IndustrialArtifact 294 - Full Frequency was one of many CA 90s coldwave acts. Most didn't have a cut as good as this:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8B8TTCmuB3Q

#IndustrialArtifact 295 - Wanna hear JG Thirlwell doing spoken word on a Christian industrial record? Argyle Park, 94:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqalrV-Peq8

#IndustrialArtifact 296 - Surrealists' Exquisite Corpse: famous projections of the cut-up at the compositional level.  http://www.pinterest.com/artloopproject/cadavres-exquis/

#IndustrialArtifact 297 - Before they decided steampunk was the future, Abney Park made competent 90s electro darkwave.  http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lcFfxCaYT6E

#IndustrialArtifact 298 - Mongolian act Yat Kha covers Kraftwerk's "Man Machine," casting throat singing as vocoder:  http://www.moskva.fm/artist/yat-kha/song_1199809

#IndustrialArtifact 299 - Fracture almost landed a deal with T. Reznor's Nothing Records, but signed with Pendragon.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ON5s1eafJJY

#IndustrialArtifact 300 - Scorn, the dub/ambient/sludge/trip Napalm Death sideproject. Nothing quite like it. From 92:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0PDBmkOpN0

#IndustrialArtifact 301 - An oddball gem that nearly put classical set TelArc records outta business: Industrial Monk.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JH4vo142csw

#IndustrialArtifact 302 - Kansas, by the Wolfgang Press: great if not 100% industrial track from 88 by the 4AD band.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiwXhSPIxbk

#IndustrialArtifact 303 - Kenneth Anger's 1969 film"Invocation of My Demon Brother." Creepiest movie you'll see today.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzO8uZCdODU

#IndustrialArtifact 304 - RIP Wayne Static. Here's Skinny Puppy's excellent "Useless" on which he was a guest.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsLikh8VqCo

#IndustrialArtifact 305 - The excellent People Like Us commissioned this remix from Coil in 1999. "The Gimp/Sometimes"  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icXhcrzmLdg

#IndustrialArtifact 306 - 20 years ago, Robert Rich & @Lustmord were nearly done making the masterpiece LP Stalker.  https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=r3qgC0XKHd8

#IndustrialArtifact 307 - You know Gruesome Twosome's 1st 7", but do you know the LP? Here's the housey I'm the Light:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsGb3dLoHFo

#IndustrialArtifact 308 - Beltane Fire Festival, revival of ancient Gaelic rite, launched '88 by Test Dept's Farquhar:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beltane_Fire_Festival

#IndustrialArtifact 309 - Headed to Wisconsin, so here's great Madison export Stromkern w/ the original "Night Riders"  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFiGKC_c3Kk

#IndustrialArtifact 310 - Another Wisconsin band, Monstrum Sepsis. Great swampy gurgling electro (plus a Matrix cred):  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTNI1LBpNV0

#IndustrialArtifact 311 - Still in Wisconsin, thus the great darkwave Oneiroid Psychosis of Milwaukee, rmx by Decree:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8LRGHfjUyw

#IndustrialArtifact 312 - From a discussion at #AMSMT and for #MinistryMonday, have the rhythm-shifting "Just One Fix":  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbXciBKcfQ8

#IndustrialArtifact 313 - For Veterans' Day, take a good look at Dulce et Decorum Est: foundational anti-war modernism.  http://www.warpoetry.co.uk/owen1.html

#IndustrialArtifact 314 - For the pi number, recall ∏'s soundtrack is by Clint Mansell of industrial/greebo/rap PWEI.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAEQuE-ygjA

#IndustrialArtifact 315 - And one last for today. The 81 version of "Remembrance Day," B-Movie's finest synthpop hour:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wriKWMsOgU

#IndustrialArtifact 316 - Einstürzende Neubauten's "How Did I Die?" Just released. Astonishing by the end.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cyZ970gGpo

#IndustrialArtifact 317 - The African and Asian Alternative Database. Looking for noise/metal/exp. from the nonwest?  http://www.syrphe.com/african&asian_database.htm

#IndustrialArtifact 318 - John Balance of Coil died ten years ago today. The world is a quieter and louder place. 

#IndustrialArtifact 319 - Breathtaking f-pop/darkwave ballad "Serafina" by near unknowns A Covenant of Thorns, 2004.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReUhTeR0LFw

#IndustrialArtifact 320 - Since I was at a cider tasting, have Silver Apples' "Oscillations." '68 synth-driven banger.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1xOZyBc2Ck&spfreload=10

#IndustrialArtifact 321 - Front Line Assembly (@F7A) channels JoyDivision. Dig the "Leaders of Men" bit on "Threshold."  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYnGtap8kTQ

#IndustrialArtifact 322 - Gnome & Spybey (of @zoviet_france) + Tom Shear (of @Assemblage_23) = atmosphere for miles.  https://vimeo.com/112065911

#IndustrialArtifact 323 - Wolf Eyes: "Burn Your House Down." With 2002's Dread, Wolf Eyes reinvigorated noise music.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ug-xqT0ajw

#IndustrialArtifact 324 - An interview with RAS DVA's Ric Laciak, RIP. You will be missed.  http://www.thedosemag.com/archive/interview/Ras_Dva

#IndustrialArtifact 325 - Kozmonaut: Arabische Nacht. Latino act in SF w Russian name & German lang. song about Arabia  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnJS549zYPY

#IndustrialArtifact 326 - You know Laibach: "Life Is Life," but how about the original by Opus?  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OC73Os9NmZE and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pATX-lV0VFk

#IndustrialArtifact 327 - Can't confirm if Propaganda's '84 Discipline is the 1st @ThrobbingGrstle cover, but s'close.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DAIQh6VFr0

#IndustrialArtifact 328 - Neomedievalism in pop: earlier examples exist than Third Ear's '70 "Water," but not weirder...  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFUs5fPDgqo&spfreload=10

#IndustrialArtifact 329 - Cabaret Voltaire, still dour in 1987 with "Thank You America."  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAjCXXCXUIM

#IndustrialArtifact 330 - Thanks for the last and greatest betrayal of the last and greatest of human dreams. - WSB.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLSveRGmpIE

#IndustrialArtifact 331 - Just picked this up on vinyl today. Classic UK EBM: Johnson Engineering Co.'s "Floorslammer"  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYIq8EtjB4I

#IndustrialArtifact 332 - Nitzer Ebb live in '83: "I'd like to make sure that no one... think we're Nazis or fascists."  https://soundcloud.com/nitzer-ebb-official/violent-playground-live-at-the

#IndustrialArtifact 333 - In '71, Mort Garson made the occult noise Black Mass, arguably the 1st all-out darkwave LP.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S80yy3zjvpQ

#IndustrialArtifact 334 - Dig the late-90s sub-subgenre of Curve/Portishead trippy female industrial rock. Chainsuck:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASjhAVTZVfs

#IndustrialArtifact 335 - It was dark by 4:30 today, so here's Project Pitchfork's 1997 "December Sadness."  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRR52YTAZGQ

#IndustrialArtifact 336 - Ultravox in 77, at once forward- and backward-looking: "I Want To Be A Machine." Astonishing  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dww4xFXWEek

#IndustrialArtifact 337 - Arguably the 1st rock lead vocal w vocoder, Raven by A. Parsons. Industrial no—spooooky yes.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVLUeXkzUjM&spfreload=10

#IndustrialArtifact 338 - For the protests tonight, "I Can't Breathe" by @numanofficial. Let's make ourselves known.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiBoTm_8kZU

#IndustrialArtifact 339 - Chemlab's striking ambient poem "Pink," (1996) with Amy Gorman channeling Lydia Lunch.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzoYsNKnWGQ

#IndustrialArtifact 340 - Holy cow, Euro electro acts just loved covering "Faith Healer." Power To Dream's 84 version:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9zczmNQmD8&spfreload=10

#IndustrialArtifact 341 - Moev's over-the-top darkwave melodrama is great on 1982's "Madhatter." Should've been a hit.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhtpUUuXWko

#IndustrialArtifact 342 - UT prof J Gunn's '04 review of the Industrial Culture Handbook, among its scant secondary lit https://journals.openedition.org/volume/2103?lang=en

#IndustrialArtifact 343 - In Assimilate's 2nd ed, ch 3 will mention Front 242's Terry Riley nod, "Never Lost (Riley)":  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roYLNK4_Pf8

#IndustrialArtifact 344 - Unsurprisingly, Maynard James Keenan had an industrial rock band before Tool. An '87 gig:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eNSv96W8-s

#IndustrialArtifact 345 - Kill Switch...Klick live on TV in '97, with two basses. Integral part of Seattle's 90s scene.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xoj9Kv460as&list=PLA3062EA6DB77198D&spfreload=10

#IndustrialArtifact 346 - One of the finest @skinnypuppy_ side project tracks: Hilt's '89 "Get Out of the Grave, Alan"  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_PEvbyRCJc

#IndustrialArtifact 347 - The 1st track ever released by Denmark's Hard Records: Lights of Euphoria's "Subjection" 93:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bl9z6yaqpgg

#IndustrialArtifact 348 - Brigade Werther, one of Zoth Ommog's first hit acts, with 1990's "Killbeat":  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTgKT5PWquU

#IndustrialArtifact 349 - Today is the birthday of Philip K. Dick, missing link between Burroughs's drug-addled paranoia & Gibson's cyberpunk.  

#IndustrialArtifact 350 - Funker Vogt's politics always traded on plausible deniability. Not anymore. #WeCanDoBetter http://www.side-line.com/news_comments.php?id=51742_0_2_0_C

#IndustrialArtifact 351 - The 1st industrial remix comp series=Funky Alternatives, organized by 400 Blows' Andrew Beer.  http://www.discogs.com/Various-Funky-Alternatives-1/release/55090

#IndustrialArtifact 352 - Portion Control's 1983 "Crash Weight Gain" shows just how funky early dance industrial was.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4L2rk5uBSXI&spfreload=10

#IndustrialArtifact 353 - @HaujobbMusic's "Eye Over You" was the moment we knew something was about to change. Thanks.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9AoL2-sUIQ

#IndustrialArtifact 354 - Dr Edward Moolenbeek: fictitious member of Hafler Trio and exhibit 1 in industrial acts' legitimization via academia  

#IndustrialArtifact 355 - Happy Solstice, everyone. From their Winter Solstice EP, here's Coil.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8XsjRfcMf8

#IndustrialArtifact 356 - 10 days left in 2014=my top 10 industrial songs. 10: Whitehouse's "Wriggle Like an Eel"  http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2pNFo-19gzE

#IndustrialArtifact 357 - 9 days left in 2014=my top 10 industrial songs. 9: Kraftwerk's "The Man Machine"  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQe9eK_4U0U

#IndustrialArtifact 358 - 8 days left in 2014=my top 10 industrial songs. 8: Nine Inch Nails' "Mr. Self Destruct."  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWK5Wby1guY

#IndustrialArtifact 359 - 7 days left in 2014=my top 10 industrial songs. 7: Laibach's "Sympathy." That bridge = funk.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7muCRio2nQ

#IndustrialArtifact 360 - 6 days left in 2014=my top 10 industrial songs. 6: Throbbing Gristle's "Discipline."  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8klW9trVTQ

#IndustrialArtifact 361 - 5 days left in 2014=my top 10 industrial songs. 5: FLA's Mindphaser, which opens Assimilate.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJdt25fl9oI

#IndustrialArtifact 362 - 4 days left in 2014=my top 10 industrial songs. 4: Front 242's "Until Death (Us Do Part)"  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doxPd-fcZw0

#IndustrialArtifact 363 - 3 days left in 2014=my top 10 industrial songs. 3: Skinny Puppy's "Worlock." That vocoder.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61BaDHpr_3U

#IndustrialArtifact 364 - 2 days left in 2014=my top 10 industrial songs. 2: "Thieves" - Ministry (Hi @AlFknJourgensen)  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLCZhQX_Fm0

#IndustrialArtifact 365 - My #1 industrial song of all time: Einstürzende Neubauten's "Seele Brennt." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ou6kN-XUh_U