watching Valerie Collective's blog (didn't make my heart stop or something, it's mainly on french, with bad english translations of each text, but frequent playlists) came upon this Parallels/Kontravoid playlist - which boasted proto-industrial influences, and indeed there was this great track from the first years of front242 - their first album "geometry" (1982) is quite interesting - not as mechanical and rhythmic as for instance DAF, but containing more interesting sounds and variety. they were milder there, the way first industrial acts were, not having discovered yet that harsh vocal delivery and violent rhythms - rhythmic but not violent.. anyway. i talk too much. i adore the below clip :) because of the foot stomping and the constant movement of their bodies- in particular the drummer and the general setting reminds me of the opening scene of that russian cult movie called "ASSA"
then i stumbled upon japanese telecom again and found out they are into detroit electro scene, which is kind of remarkable, because so are dopplereffekt, and so are cybotron that i stumbled upon a month ago while searching for vintage electro pieces to play. juan atkins of cybotron is sometimes called the godfather of techno, and there is a nice article on wikipedia about Detroit techno, its connection with Chicago house (actually techno was a word coined from one of the Cybotron songs, because they were searching for a term to characterize this music and market it in Europe as something different to house music, and house was something from "warehouse" :) or something like that) and its artists. anyway. take this here piece from aux 88.
detroit techno (because techno as it is became known in Europe is something very different, more of a marketing phenomenon, that's what i get from the readings...) is something quite darker and more industrial-sounding than house music, although well, these two kinds co-existed, and sprang probably from the same roots (disco & funk) - they also mention that the fact that Detroit was an industrial city (automobile factories), which got to know a sudden urban decline at some point influenced this "dark" direction in music - i can see a parallel with, for example, UK's Sheffield, which was also industrial city, that gave birth to respected acts like Throbbing Gristle, Cabaret Voltaire, Human League.
anyway.
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