Industrial Soundtrack For The Urban Decay
Website: www.industrialsoundtrack.com
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Directed by Amélie Ravalec and Travis Collins, produced by Les Films Du Garage, Industrial Soundtrack For The Urban Decay is the first ever documentary to trace the origins of industrial music, taking you on a journey through the crumbling industrial cities of Europe to America’s thriving avant-garde scene.
Industrial music emerged in the mid 70’s, providing a vibrant, provocative and artistic soundtrack to the picket lines, economic decline and cultural oppression of the era. Whether factory workers, students or unemployed, industrial music pioneers were all educated, artistically minded and politically aware artists who started with little to no musical background and went on to change musical history. Industrial musicians found inspiration in Krautrock bands Kraftwerk, Faust and Can, 20th century art movements Dada, Futurism and Surrealism and post-modern writers William Burroughs, Brion Gysin and J.G. Ballard. Combining the do-it-yourself attitude of punk with mail art and underground fanzines, these pioneers were also among the first bands to incorporate tape loops, home-made synthesisers, factory field recordings and cut-up techniques in their music. Discover the personal story of industrial music founders Throbbing Gristle, Sheffield’s prolific Dada inspired band Cabaret Voltaire, award-winning soundtrack composer Graeme Revell of SPK, noise music inventor Boyd Rice of NON and fifteen other of the genre’s most influential figures, exposing their incredible stories for the first time on film. |
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Industrial Soundtrack For The Urban Decay has its theatrical release in May 2015. For details of screenings of the documentary go to the website, or to arrange a screening near you, contact [email protected] for further information.
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Featuring: Throbbing Gristle, Cabaret Voltaire, NON, SPK, Test Dept, Clock DVA, Re/Search, Z’EV, Click Click, Sordide Sentimental, Hula, In The Nursery, The Klinik, Ant Zen, Orphx and Prima Linea.
Throbbing Gristle: Three chords? You Can Start A Band With No Chords! - Provocative pioneers of industrial noise music, formed from Hull based art collective COUM Transmissions.
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Nothing Here But The Recordings - Cult spoken word album by William S. Burroughs, produced by the guys from COUM Transmissions / Throbbing Gristle from his tape experiments in 1981.
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Danger Music! Music Designed To Cause Pain - From conceptual art to viseral physical acts of destruction, Danger Music is a Dadaist genre of music that pushes boundaries.
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:Stalaggh:/:Gulaggh: Music From Damaged Minds - A band that have pushed their nihilistic anti-art aesthetic to the darkest corners of the collectively deranged mind of humanity.
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