Industrial Records

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Industrial Records
Founded1976
Distributor(s) Mute Records
Genre Industrial music
Country of originUK

Industrial Records is a record label established in 1976 by industrial music and visual arts group Throbbing Gristle. The group created the label primarily for self-releases but also signed several other groups and artists. The label gave a name to the industrial music genre.

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Background

Artists released through the label included Cabaret Voltaire, Clock DVA, SPK, Thomas Leer & Robert Rental, The Leather Nun, plus outrage artist Monte Cazazza, the author William S. Burroughs' auditory works, and a solo album by Throbbing Gristle member Chris Carter.

A notable departure from the industrial form of the label was the blues standard "Stormy Weather" sung by Elisabeth Welch, taken from the soundtrack of Derek Jarman's film The Tempest .

The label's first LP was Throbbing Gristle's debut LP The Second Annual Report, which was limited to 786 copies. It came in bootleg-like packaging: a plain white card sleeve with glued-on xerox information strips.

The Industrial Records logo is a stark black and white depiction a low-definition photo of an Auschwitz crematory. [1] [2]

In 2011, the label had an official "re-activation" as Throbbing Gristle's contract with Mute Records had expired. Since the band has permanently disbanded following the death of Sleazy, the label's plan is to re-release the original Throbbing Gristle albums ( The Second Annual Report , D.o.A: The Third and Final Report , 20 Jazz Funk Greats , Heathen Earth , and Greatest Hits ) on the label. [3] Originally intended to be released all at once on 26 September 2011, the label had to delay due to a Sony DADC warehouse fire in London. The new plan was to release a new album chronologically once every week starting on Halloween 2011 with The Second Annual Report and ending 28 November with Throbbing Gristle's Greatest Hits. [4]

There has been no comment on releasing any other artists' works or new content after the Throbbing Gristle releases.

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References

  1. ↑ Archived 26 September 2006 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ↑ "Photograph". Farm4.staticflickr.com. Retrieved 3 February 2013.
  3. ↑ Wells, Steven (29 May 2007). "A Throbbing Gristle Primer". The Guardian. London.
  4. ↑ "Throbbing-Gristle.Com". Throbbing-Gristle.Com. 25 November 2010. Retrieved 2 March 2013.

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