Industrial Music Disc Guide

INDUSTRIAL MUSIC FOR INDUSTRIAL PEOPLE!!! A Disc Guide of Noise, 511 Selections
Yasushi Mochida

The world's first disc guide dedicated to noise and industrial music.
511 carefully selected albums, awash in noise and machine beats.

This slogan, "Industrial Music," was written on the debut album jacket of TG: "Industrial music for industrial people." This genre, standing out even within the post-punk and new wave movements for its "anti-music," "de-individuation," and "bad taste," has never had a disc guide published before, due to the difficulty of archiving artists' works because of their excessive minor-key inclinations. This book throws a stone into that pond.
It introduces both readily available and nearly impossible-to-obtain works,
clearly organizing and cataloging this seemingly bottomless world.

The trajectories of industrial originators who sprouted from new wave/post-punk, such as THROBBING GRISTLE, CABARET VOLTAIRE, and EINSTURZENDE NEUBAUTEN.

EXPERIMENTAL
A faction that explores maniacal experimental noise.

Artists who fuse noise with a harshness and anti-social/political nature.

BEAT NOISE
The lineage of techno-noise, which puts machine beats at the forefront.

EXTREME
Outsiders who resonate with noise/industrial music, such as CHARLES MANSON and Burroughs.

JAPANOISE
Noise/industrial music that blossomed in Japan, such as Hijokaidan and Merzbow.

Columns
The dawn of industrial music / Industrial music and pathological imagery
Outsider art and industrial / Contemporary music and industrial noise

Example Artists Introduced
THROBBING GRISTLE
PSYCHIC TV / CHRIS & COSEY / COIL / CABARET VOLTAIRE / NEUBAUTEN / SPK / ESPLENDOR GEOMETRICO / The Gerogerigegege / MERZBOW / Hijokaidan / Masonna / MSBR / Boryoku Onsen Geisha, Hair Stylistics / Hanatarash / GRIM

Slight warping on the bottom of the back cover.