Japanese trio who took the sampled-dance rhythms of Ministry's Twitch album to a new extreme. Still sounds great today. Lyrics in English. Best tracks: "Mambo Fucker" and the "Over The Shoulder"-like "Feed Back".

4 exclusive tracks of pumping Front 242-ish EBM rhythms, banging Twitch-style drums and stereo-panning Adrian Sherwood-like production. Includes "Break Your Chains".

12 track, 71 minute 2nd cd includes mixes of: "Mambo Fucker (Burning Out Mix)", "Break Your Chains (Shake The Brain Mix)" and "Twist The Body Mix" (CD only). Vinyl version features 8 tracks. These guys chew up Nitzer Ebb and spit them out!

3rd album from 1993 adds techno to their Ministry/Front 242 industrial-dance sound. Highlights include the two mixes of "Interaction" (one on lp), the Kraftwerk-y "The Spirituality" (CD only) and "Abyss Of Time" which features a steppers dub bassline and the beats from Renegade Soundwave's "Cocaine Sex". 2 extra tracks on CD.

1990 release for 'As Able As Kane' - two English guys from Manchester. Keyboards, drum machines and vocals display a number of influences - from funky synth pop, to 242-style beats, to Joy Division/Death In June-ish cold wave. Best track is the Dune-sampling dance track "Pain Amplifier". 3 extra tracks on CD. Vinyl version features lyric sheet.

Collaboration of 10 Belgian electronic artists including Klinik's Dirk Ivens and Insekt's Eric Van Wonterghem. Unique three-quarters size paper cover design, in plastic sleeve. Limited, numbered edition of 1051.

Chicago producer John Norten who's 1991 industrial-dance sound continues to have a following today. 10 tracks.

7 track, 37 minute remix EP of hit tune from the album above. Ministry/242/Skinny Puppy-styled industrial dance tracks with voice samples on the happy topic of suicide. The "Troposphere" mix samples The Orb.

1989 debut from Swedish Electronic Body Music (EBM) band influenced by early Skinny Puppy and Front 242. Gruff vocals, fast Suicide-style rhythms, synth melodies. Best tracks: "Schizo" and "Water". 8 tracks on vinyl, in paper sleeve.

2nd album. 10 tracks on both formats. Vinyl includes lyric sheet.

available on the Schizophrenia cd listed below

6 exclusive tracks, now with new female vocalist.

3 tracks including cover of New Order's "Everything's Gone Green" produced by Die Krupps's Jurgen Engler and "909 Whores".

1993 single with guitar-sampling title track from "Moosehair Underwear" album, the heavier Ministry-styled remix "Moosewear" and "Primetime Apocalypse".

1994 double CD release featuring the previous four singles (Fundamental (with their cover of Black Sabbath's "Ironman"), Superluminal, Trojan Whores and Moosehair Underwear), and a disc-long live recording from a show in Berlin in 1990.

Great disc by one of the leading industrial-ambient groups (just check out the eleven minute "In Drowning Hands"). Remixed in 1989. Includes quasi-operatic/Gregorian vocals, doomy atmospheres contrasted with grand melodies, and Swans-like bass/drums crunch ("In Blind Embrace").

1989 release from French art rock trio, Deficit Des Annees Anterieures, experimenting with musique Brut. 5 eccentric tracks inspired by a French poet. LP version features two side-long tracks. 7" features the two shorter tracks from the cd.

Rare 1989 album from American EBM producer, Andrew Szava-Kovats aka Data Bank A. 8 tracks.

1990 album of 242-styled EBM tunes and synth interludes ("Lost 1-4"). 10 tracks.

1989 debut for Dutch electro-dance group produced by Luc Van Acker. Moroder-ish beats on the best track "Tension" - opera meets hip hop rhythms on "Opera Erotika". CD features exclusive tracks "Tension (Instrumental)" and "Get Into Danger". Vinyl version features exclusive track "Dying Nightlights".

3 exclusive tracks including the early 242-ish "Dust (X-tended version)".

Includes "X-Tension" dance remix of their best track, plus two exclusive cuts.

4 club mixes.

2nd album with a harder 242-ish sound. CD version features extra track. "Process And Reality" samples Joseph Campbell.

3 versions of funky track with jazzy hip hop breaks, including two club mixes. Plus dance remix of the mellower "Mockba" from Deus Ex Machina.

A collection of all the tracks on the previous four singles.

A deluxe silver box set of famous Swiss artist HR Giger's interpretation of the Tarot deck, including 22 cards reproduced in full colour from airbrush acrylic paintings, a poster and a German language booklet of instructions and commentary by philosopher-magician Akron. These are accompanied by a CD of music by the group Epilepsy. Their music is a mix of Coil-ish industrial ambience and electronic music, with one track of Killing Joke-style tribal rhythms, "Kryie".

Dutch industrial-rock band's 1994 release. 5 of the 8 tracks were produced by KMFDM, which is a good comparison - a mix of rock, synths and Tackhead-style funk. Even a reggae feel on the epic, ganja-smoking piss take "Be Cool, Yo Dreadfool".

EBM debut from former Klinik and Vomito Negro members Mario Vaerewijck and Eric Van Wonterghem (now Monolith), who were named as U2's favorite industrial band! Vinyl includes title track plus 7 others.

3 tracks of Klinik-meets-Adrian Sherwood-styled EBM including the Darth Vader-sampling title track, "Speed King" and "Bacteria (New '90 Dance Dub Version)".

2nd album released in 1990. 8 tracks on vinyl.

3 exclusive tracks including "Death on Arrival" and the Keith Leblanc-styled beats of the "New '91 Dance Version" and "Dub" mixes of "Stressed".

3rd album from 1992. Hardest drum machine punch yet. Best tracks: "Torture (Rhythm Pain)" and "Knock Me Down". 11 tracks.

Kick-ass live album recorded during their 1992 European tour, featuring tunes from Dreamscape, "Murder" from Stress and exclusive track "Mortal Premonition". 9 tracks. Booklet contains bio.

5th full-length release, from 1993. Includes the guitar-sampling title track and KMFDM-styled "Dreams In Pockets". DJs should check out the "Over The Shoulder"-ish instrumental "Leave Me Alone" and the s/m tune "Fist Fuck Session".

Original and three mixes of KMFDM-styled title track, plus two exclusive cuts, including the industrial-rock "Metal Maniac".

The early 90's return of Invaders Of The Heart was this great live recording displaying Wobble's (then) new band featuring Justin Adams, David Harrow and Michel Schoots (from Urban Dance Squad). Don't miss the ten minute Can-style opening track "Bungalow Park". This is his best album (in my humble opinion - even before I worked here). 16 tracks.

4 tracks from a Johnny Thunders-style Belgian rock trio. They were produced by a Theo Van Eenbergen, could he be the guy in the Rollins Band?

Debut album is harder sounding. This Theo guy must be the one who produces Rollins.

1991 album release from the Belgian Rollins Band - they also play with their shirts off. Vinyl features lyric sheet.

1991 debut industrial-dance release from San Francisco's Hans Schiller and Peter Ziegelmeier. Lots of fun music, movie and radio samples in tunes like the devil-ishly arranged hit "Possessed" and it's "VooDoo Mix". CD version features bonus track "Tension-Relaxation". 9 tracks on vinyl.

3 track single with: "Scratch Attack (The Final Cut Mix)" (an 808 and drum breaks mix done by the Detroit guys who became Underground Resistance), "Scratch Attack (Madness Mix)", and the profane, Exorcist-sampling "Possessed (Demonic Mix)".

Album version and "Straight Jacket edit" of "Insane", and the "Extended Diamond Version" and "Mr President Dub" of the Marilyn Monroe-sampling "Hollywood".

1992 album release with a new influence from techno and even more samples (Philip Glass, Joan Crawford, Patsy Cline, Meat Beat Manifesto, Bowie, Jaws, Stravinsky - to name a few). 11 tracks on both formats.

10 tracks featuring remixes of their industrial-dance, techno and Goa singles. Includes mixes of their early hits "Possessed (Voodoo Mix)", "Disobey (Vagator mix)" and "Scratch Attack (Final Cut)" (an 808 and drum breaks mix done by the Detroit guys who became Underground Resistance). Also one of the Vapourspace mixes of "Dissolve" and Doof's mix of the Goa hit "Near To The Divine".

The excellent industrial-dance project of Germany's Uwe Schmidt aka Atom Heart. As Lassigue Bendthaus he sings over Clock DVA-style beats and Frontline Assembly-ish programming on tunes like the essential "Automotive". This remastered version now features 3 bonus tracks from the Automotif and Hertz EPs.

Cloned features a heavier cyber-electro-hip hop sound than Matter. The theme of the album is musical 'cloning' - the remix, re-manipulation and re-production of sound. This release was originally twinned with a limited edition CD containing all the samples used. This remastered version features two bonus tracks from the kicking Biohazard and Biofeedback singles, and the previously unreleased "Information (edit)".

See also the LB techno releases and his remix of Sielwolf (below).

1991 release from England's steadfastly independent Sir Freddie Viadukt featuring Tackhead-style beats and lounging keyboard/guitar parts. Ahead of his time? 2 extra tracks on the CD.

9 tracks from 1993 featuring hard industrial hip hop beats, choir and preacher samples, Freddie's eq'ed singing, dub and less of the lounge elements.

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