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Emerging in the early-to-mid 1980s, the genre's early influences range from the industrial music of the time (Throbbing Gristle, Cabaret Voltaire), European electropunk (DAF, Liaisons Dangereuses, Portion Control) and straight-ahead electronic music (Kraftwerk). Throbbing Gristle (formed on September 3, 1975, in London) are a British Avant-Garde group that evolved from the performance art group COUM Transmissions. ... Cabaret Voltaire was a British music group from Sheffield, England. ... Originally Electro punk is an umbrella term that describes the combination of electronic music with the attitude of punk. ... DAF is an influential electropunk / Neue Deutsche Welle band from Düsseldorf, formed in 1978 featuring drummer/synth player Robert Görl, vocalist Gabi Delgado-Lopez , guitarist Wolfgang Spelmans and bassist/keyboardist/saxophonist Chrislo Haas. ... Liaisons Dangereuses was founded by Beate Bartel (Mania D, Einstürzende Neubauten) and Chris Haas (Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft) together with vocalist Krishna Goineau in 1981. ... Portion Control is a british electronic and industrial band from South London. ... For other uses, see Electronic music (disambiguation). ... Kraftwerk (pronounced [], German for power station) is a German musical group from Düsseldorf that has made immense contributions to the development of improvisational rock and electronic music, most notably within the latter categorys sub-genres which later became known as synthpop, electro, techno, house and IDM. Early musical...

Characteristics

Inside covers of the 1988 Wax Trax! CD rerelease of No Comment by Front 242 including reprint of first reference to electronic body music.

The style was characterized by hard and often sparse danceable electronic beats, clear undistorted vocals, shouts or growls with reverberation and echo effects, and repetitive sequencer lines. At this time important synthesizers were Korg MS-20, Emulator II, Oberheim Matrix or the Yamaha DX7. Typical EBM rhythms are based on 4/4 beats, mainly with some minor syncopation to suggest a rock music rhythm structure. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (939x469, 78 KB) Summary The inside cover of Front 242s No Comment album (rereleased on Wax Trax! in 1988), along with the first reference to electronic body music. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (939x469, 78 KB) Summary The inside cover of Front 242s No Comment album (rereleased on Wax Trax! in 1988), along with the first reference to electronic body music. ... Growling is the low, guttural vocalization produced by predatory animals to express anger. ... Korg MS-20 The Korg MS-20 is a patchable semi-modular monophonic synthesizer which Korg released in 1978. ... Released commercially in 1984, the Emulator II was E-mus second sampler. ... Oberheim Matrix synthesizers are a historic product line of analog synthesizers from Oberheim featuring a method of synthesis which Oberheim called Matrix Modulation as a method of defining preset and user patches. ... The Yamaha DX7 was a synthesizer manufactured by the Yamaha Corporation from 1983 to 1986, based on FM synthesis developed by John Chowning. ... For other uses, see Rock music (disambiguation). ...

Etymology

The term electronic body music was coined by the Belgian band Front 242 in 1984 to describe the music of their EP No Comment, released in the same year.^[1] This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... No Comment is the Front 242 album that was first released in 1984 on the Another Side music label. ...

A few years before, DAF from Germany used the term "Körpermusik" (body music) in an interview to describe their danceable electronic punk sound. DAF is an influential electropunk band from Düsseldorf, formed in 1978 featuring drummer/synth player Robert Görl, vocalist Gabi Delgado, guitarist W. Spelmans and bassist/keyboardist/saxophonist Chrislo Haas. ...

Another term that has been used to refer to EBM is aggrepo, a contraction of "aggressive pop", mainly used in Germany in the late 1980s. In traditional grammar, a contraction is the formation of a new word from two or more individual words. ...

History

1981-1993

In the early 1980s artists like Front 242 and Nitzer Ebb (both influenced by acts such as Deutsch-Amerikanische Freundschaft, Cabaret Voltaire and Throbbing Gristle) started to combine German electropunk with elements of the British industrial music. The result of this mixture was a straight danceable sound that was called EBM back in 1984. Notable EBM albums include Front 242's "Official Version" and Nitzer Ebb's "That Total Age", both released in 1987. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Nitzer Ebb (pronounced night-zer or nit-zer—the band themselves pronounce it either way) is a music group formed in 1982 by Essex schoolfriends Douglas McCarthy (vocals, synthesizer), Vaughan (Bon) Harris on synthesizers and drums, and David Gooday. ... DAF is an influential electropunk / Neue Deutsche Welle band from Düsseldorf, formed in 1978 featuring drummer/synth player Robert Görl, vocalist Gabi Delgado-Lopez , guitarist Wolfgang Spelmans and bassist/keyboardist/saxophonist Chrislo Haas. ... Cabaret Voltaire was a British music group from Sheffield, England. ... Throbbing Gristle (formed on September 3, 1975, in London) are a British Avant-Garde group that evolved from the performance art group COUM Transmissions. ... Originally Electro punk is an umbrella term that describes the combination of electronic music with the attitude of punk. ... It has been suggested that Chicago Industrial be merged into this article or section. ...

Richard Jonckheere aka Richard23, member of Front 242 and figurehead of the european EBM movement.

In the second half of the 1980s, American and Canadian music groups such as Front Line Assembly, Ministry, Batz Without Flesh or Schnitt Acht started to use typical european EBM elements. They combined these elements with the roughness of american post-industrial music (Revolting Cocks). Image File history File linksMetadata No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File linksMetadata No higher resolution available. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Front Line Assembly (also known by the acronym FLA) is a Canadian electro-industrial band formed in 1986 by Bill Leeb and Michael Balch after Leeb left Skinny Puppy. ... Ministry is an influential, Grammy-nominated American industrial metal band founded by frontman Al Jourgensen in 1981. ... Post-industrial is a term used to refer to a grouping of music genres related to the original usage of the term Industrial Music by Industrial Records through either influence or direct involvement, such as power noise, power electronics, technoid, types of experimental music and dark ambient. ... Revolting Cocks (often abbreviated Revco) were a musical side-project for Alain Jourgensen (Ministry) and Luc Van Acker. ...

Shortly after, a handful of bands such as Nine Inch Nails created a more rock-oriented style under the influence of EBM synths and sequences. The most well-known result was released in 1989 under the name Head Like A Hole. Nine Inch Nails (abbreviated as NIN) is an American industrial rock band, founded in 1988 by Trent Reznor in Cleveland, Ohio. ...

Meanwhile EBM became popular in the underground club scene, particularly in Europe. In this period the most important labels were the Belgian PIAS, Antler-Subway and KK Records, the German Animalized, Techno Drome International and Zoth Ommog, the North American Wax Trax! and the Swedish labels Front Music Production and Energy (later merged to Energy Rekords). Laser lights illuminate the dance floor at a Gatecrasher dance music event in Sheffield, England A nightclub (or night club or club) is a drinking, dancing, and entertainment venue which does its primary business after dark. ... Play It Again Sam (also known by its acronym, PIAS) is an international record label. ... Antler-Subway Records is a record label in Brussels, Belgium. ... Zoth-Ommog (the Dweller In The Deep) is a fictional character in the Cthulhu mythos of H. P. Lovecraft. ... Wax Trax! Records was a record label in the United States. ... Energy Rekords is a record label formed in 1990 by the merging of the three labels Front Music Production, Electronic Beat Association and Energy - all small labels run from the swedish town of Älmhult. ...

Other artists besides Front 242 and Nitzer Ebb were Die Krupps, Vomito Negro, Signal Aout 42, Insekt, Force Dimension, Bigod 20 and Electro Assassin. Die Krupps is a German electropunk/EBM band, formed in 1980 by Jürgen Engler and Bernward Malaka in Düsseldorf. ... Vomito Negro is a Belgian EBM/industrial band, founded in 1983 by Gin Devo and Guy Van Mieghem. ... Bigod 20 is a German electro-industrial band which was formed in 1989 by music producers Andreas Tomalla (aka Talla 2XLC and formerly of the band Moskwa TV) and Markus Nikolai (aka Jallokin). ...

A few other groups were A Split-Second (a Belgian electro-rock/new beat act), AAAK, The Weathermen, The Klinik, Borghesia, The Neon Judgement, Attrition or Philadelphia Five. These acts produced some genre-typical songs, although they were not EBM groups. A Split Second is a Belgian electronic and industrial band, originally one of the seminal EBM acts. ... The Weathermen. ... Klinik is an industrial music band from Belgium, originally formed in 1981 or 1982 by EBM, electro-synthpop practitioner Marc Verhaeghen, who is the only constant member. ... Borghesia is a Slovenian electronic music / rock music group, created in Ljubljana in 1982. ... The Neon Judgement was a Belgian new wave band. ... Attrition is an electronic music band, formed in Coventry, England in 1980 by Martin Bowes and Julia Niblock. ...

Between the early and the mid 1990s, many EBM artists split up or changed their musical style and began to borrow more distorted industrial elements or elements of rock music or metal. The album Tyranny For You and following albums from the pioneers Front 242 initiated the end of the EBM epoch of the 1980s. Nitzer Ebb, one of the most important artists, became a simply electronic rock band. Without the strength of its figureheads, the original electronic body music finally faded by the mid-1990s. For other uses, see Rock music (disambiguation). ... Heavy metal redirects here. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Synthpop. ...

Developments

New groups, such as Leæther Strip, :wumpscut:, and early Suicide Commando, combined harsh distorted beats with synthesizer-driven melodies. What to term this evolution of the EBM genre is somewhat controversial, with artists, labels, and the music press using either simply the term EBM, or else alternate terms such as electro-industrial, ^[2] or especially in Germany and South America, elektro. Other notable artists of this era include Allied Vision, Psychopomps, Controlled Fusion, early Decoded Feedback, and NVMPH. Leæther Strip is a Danish musical project founded on January 13, 1988 by Claus Larsen. ... Wumpscut (:Wumpscut: or :W:) is a well known EBM project from Germany. ... Suicide Commando is the name of a Belgian musical act combining aggrotech with elements of electro-industrial. ... For other uses, see Synthesizer (disambiguation). ... Electronic body music (EBM) is a musical genre combining elements of industrial music and electronic dance music. ... Many sets of religious beliefs have a particular spirit, deity, demon or angel whose responsibility is to escort newly-deceased souls to the afterlife, such as Heaven or Hell. ... It is requested that this article, or a section of this article, be expanded. ...

A second developed genre at this time was dark electro. Dark electro combined sinister electronic soundscapes with grunts or growling vocals with a special attention to despair. Important artists were yelworC, Mortal Constraint, Trial, and Tri-state. Dark Electro was a musical movement of the 1990s, developed in central Europe. ... Death grunts, also referred to as death growls, death vocals or harsh vocals[1], is a vocalisation style usually employed by vocalists of the death metal musical genre, but is also occasionally used in a variety of other heavy metal sub-genres. ... 2004 Trinity album cover. ...

The Revival

In the late 1990s and after the millennium, especially Swedish and German groups such as Spetsnaz, Dupont, C.A.P. and Proceed have gone the way by reproducing the old EBM style with some releases in the new millennium. Spetsnaz (russian acronym for Special Forces) is an EBM old school duo, formed in Sweden by Stefan Nilsson and Pontus Stålberg in 2001. ...

Influence

Some EBM artists also had an influence on many New beat and Goa trance artists (e.g. Juno Reactor, Astral Projection, Eon Project). New Beat is a music term that used twice during the 80s. ... Goa trance (often referred as Goa or by the number 604) is a form of electronic music and is a style of trance music which originated in the Indian state of Goa, as opposed to most other forms of trance music which appeared in Europe. ... Juno Reactor is a musical and performing act known for the cinematic-psychedelic fusion of electronic and global music, the Matrix score and other film works. ... This article is about the paranormal concept. ...

By the late 1990s, a number of artists from the European techno scene, such as Terence Fixmer, Thomas P. Heckmann and David Carretta, started including more elements of EBM in their sound. In the United States, Adam X moved in the same direction. This tendency grew in parallel with the emerging electroclash scene and, as that scene started to decline, a number of artists associated with it, particularly The Hacker, moved towards this techno/EBM crossover style. A number of real and fictional people use the name Adam X, including: Adam X the X-Treme, a Marvel Comics character Adam X, DJ and producer, brother of Frankie Bones Adam-x, popular street artist from Poland Category: ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ...

There has been increasing convergence between this scene and the old school EBM scene. Bands and artists have remixed each other and, most notably, Terence Fixmer joined with Nitzer Ebb's Douglas McCarthy to form Fixmer/McCarthy. Old school, variously spelled old skool, oldschool or oldskool, is a slang term referring to an older school of thinking or acting and to old objects in general, within the context of newer, more modern times. ... Douglas John McCarthy is the former vocalist for Chelmsford, Essex-based EBM band Nitzer Ebb. ... Fixmer/McCarthy is a collaboration between the French techno producer Terence Fixmer, and British EBM vocalist Douglas McCarthy (of Nitzer Ebb). ...

Notable EBM Artists

à;GRUMH... is a Belgian EBM/industrial band, founded in 1981 by SΔ3 Evets (aka Steve Natrix, born Phillippe Genion) and JΔ3 Seuqcaj (Jacques), both from Charleroi, Belgium. ... A Split Second is a Belgian electronic and industrial band, originally one of the seminal EBM acts. ... For the shoe company, see And 1. ... Armageddon Dildos is a German EBM-duo consisting of Uwe Kanka (vocals) and Dirk Krause (synthesizer). ... Bigod 20 is a German electro-industrial band which was formed in 1989 by music producers Andreas Tomalla (aka Talla 2XLC and formerly of the band Moskwa TV) and Markus Nikolai (aka Jallokin). ... DAF is an influential electropunk / Neue Deutsche Welle band from Düsseldorf, formed in 1978 featuring drummer/synth player Robert Görl, vocalist Gabi Delgado-Lopez , guitarist Wolfgang Spelmans and bassist/keyboardist/saxophonist Chrislo Haas. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Front Line Assembly (also known by the acronym FLA) is a Canadian electro-industrial band formed in 1986 by Bill Leeb and Michael Balch after Leeb left Skinny Puppy. ... Klinik is an industrial music band from Belgium, originally formed in 1981 or 1982 by EBM, electro-synthpop practitioner Marc Verhaeghen, who is the only constant member. ... Die Krupps is a German electropunk/EBM band, formed in 1980 by Jürgen Engler and Bernward Malaka in Düsseldorf. ... Leæther Strip is a Danish musical project founded on January 13, 1988 by Claus Larsen. ... Nitzer Ebb (pronounced night-zer or nit-zer—the band themselves pronounce it either way) is a music group formed in 1982 by Essex schoolfriends Douglas McCarthy (vocals, synthesizer), Vaughan (Bon) Harris on synthesizers and drums, and David Gooday. ... OOMPH! is a German crossover group. ... Orange Sector is the name of a German old-school EBM band from Hannover, Germany. ... Paranoid was a German EBM group, formed in 1990 by Stephan Tesch and Michael Formberg. ... Pouppée Fabrikk is a Swedish EBM band, started in 1988 by Henrik Björkk and Leif Holm, who both hail from Karlskoga. ... Scapa Flow is a Swedish EBM band, formed in 1988. ... Spetsnaz (russian acronym for Special Forces) is an EBM old school duo, formed in Sweden by Stefan Nilsson and Pontus Stålberg in 2001. ... Sturm Café is an electronic body music band from Gävle, Swedish. ... Tommi Stumpff (born 1 February 1958 in Düsseldorf) is a former German musician. ... Vomito Negro is a Belgian EBM/industrial band, founded in 1983 by Gin Devo and Guy Van Mieghem. ...

Samples

DRP - Enkephalin (1990) Image File history File links DRP_-_Enkephalin_(1990). ... Excerpt from "Enkephalin" by the Japanese act DRP Problems listening to the file? See media help. Force Dimension - Kill The Light (1990) Image File history File links Force_Dimension_-_Kill_The_Light_(1990). ... Excerpt from "Kill The Light", an EBM track with powerful sequences by the Dutch act Force Dimension Problems listening to the file? See media help. Spartak - Pour le Grec (1990) Image File history File links Spartak_-_Pour_Le_Grec_(1990). ... Excerpt from "Pour le Grec", an EBM track with female spoken words by the Swiss act Spartak Problems listening to the file? See media help. Pouppée Fabrikk - Summon The Spirits (1992) Image File history File links Pouppée_Fabrikk_-_Summon_The_Spirits_(1992). ... Excerpt from "Summon the Spirits" by the Swedish act Pouppée Fabrikk Problems listening to the file? See media help.

Armageddon Dildos - Infected (1993) Image File history File links Armageddon_Dildos_-_Infected_(1993). ... Excerpt from "Infected", an EBM track with a strong synth lead line by the German act Armageddon Dildos Problems listening to the file? See media help. As Able As Kane - Concrete (1990) Image File history File links As_Able_As_Kane_-_Concrete_(1990). ... Excerpt from "Concrete" by the British act As Able As Kane Problems listening to the file? See media help. Leæther Strip - Body Machine Body (1990) Image File history File links Leæther_Strip_-_Body_Machine_Body_(1990). ... Excerpt from "Body Machine Body" by the Danish act Leæther Strip Problems listening to the file? See media help. Electro Assassin - Toxic Shock (1993) Image File history File links Electro_Assassin_-_Toxic_Shock_(1993). ... Excerpt from "Toxic Shock" by the British act Electro Assassin Problems listening to the file? See media help.

See also

• List of electronic and industrial music artists
• List of post-industrial music genres and related fusion genres
• List of electronic music genres
• New Beat

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References

External links

• electric-tremor - The History of EBM in Belgium (written by Ionic Vision)