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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 in 1978 (From left to right: Genesis P-Orridge, Chris Carter, Cosey Fanni Tutti, Peter Christopherson). ... Cabaret Voltaire first worked on experimental electronic music, and sound in the early 1970s. ... Defining characteristics of synthpunk (also known as synth-punk) bands include being founded at the same time (late 1970s) and place (California) as many US punk bands, performing with those same punk bands, in those same punk clubs, with records released on those same punk labels, preferring electronic instruments such... 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. ... Kraftwerk (pronounced [], German for power station) is a German musical group which has made significant contributions to the development of experimental and electronic music. ...

Characteristics

The style was characterized by hard and often sparse dancable 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. Growling is the low, guttural vocalization produced by predatory animals to express anger. ... 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. ...

Inside covers of the 1988 Wax Trax! CD rerelease of No Comment including reprint of 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. ... 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. ...

Etymology

The term electronic body music was coined by the Belgian band Front 242 in 1984 to describe the music [1]) of their EP No Comment, released in the same year. Front 242 is a pioneering Belgian electronic music group that came into prominence during the 1980s. ... 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 dancable 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, an acronym of "aggressive pop", mainly used in Germany in the late 1980s.

History

In the early 1980s artists like Front 242 or 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 dancable sound that was called EBM back in 1984. 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 Techno Drome International, Animalized and Zoth Ommog, the North American Wax Trax! and the Swedish Front Music Production and Energy (later Energy Rekords). Front 242 is a pioneering Belgian electronic music group that came into prominence during the 1980s. ... Nitzer Ebb (pronounced night-zer or nit-zer—the band themselves pronounce it either way) was an electronic body 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 first worked on experimental electronic music, and sound in the early 1970s. ... Throbbing Gristle in 1978 (From left to right: Genesis P-Orridge, Chris Carter, Cosey Fanni Tutti, Peter Christopherson). ... Defining characteristics of synthpunk (also known as synth-punk) bands include being founded at the same time (late 1970s) and place (California) as many US punk bands, performing with those same punk bands, in those same punk clubs, with records released on those same punk labels, preferring electronic instruments such... Industrial music is a loose term for a number of different styles of electronic and experimental music. ... 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. ...

Other artists besides Front 242 and Nitzer Ebb were Die Krupps, Bigod 20, Vomito Negro, Signal Aout 42, Force Dimension, Electro Assassin, Insekt and early Front Line Assembly. 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 Ministry. These acts produced some genre-typical songs, although they were not EBM groups. Die Krupps is a German industrial - industrial metal band formed in 1981 by Jürgen Engler and Ralf Dörper. ... 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). ... Front Line Assembly (also known by the acronym FLA) is a Canadian Elektro/Electro-Industrial band formed in 1986 by Bill Leeb and Michael Balch after Leeb left Skinny Puppy. ... 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. ... Ljubljana based EBM (Electronic Body Music) band. ... Bold textAttition is an electronic music band, formed in Coventry, England in 1980 by Martin Bowes and Julia Niblock. ... Ministry is an American industrial metal band of the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s. ...

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 music was a contemptorary genre to Techno and House music from Detroit and Chicago respectively, although not intrinsically linked. ... 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. ... Ben Watkins Juno Reactor are a goa trance music group, often known for their tribal influences, consisting of Ben Watkins and Mike Macguire. ...

Developments

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, electronic body music finally faded by the mid-1990s. Rock is a form of popular music from the late 20th century which typically features a vocal melody (often with vocal harmony) that is supported by accompaniment of electric guitars, a bass guitar, and drums, often with a strong back beat. ... Hot metal work from a blacksmith In chemistry, a metal (Greek: Metallon) is an element that readily forms positive ions (cations) and has metallic bonds. ...

New groups, e.g. Leæther Strip, :wumpscut: or Plastic Noise Experience, combining harsh distorted beats with synthesizer-driven melodies. This evolution of the dying EBM genre has been termed by the music press and labels as hardcore electro or electro-industrial [2] or especially in Germany and South America as elektro for short (not to be confused with the hip-hop subgenre electro). Other notable artists of this era include Allied Vision, Psychopomps, Controlled Fusion, early Decoded Feedback or NVMPH. A second developed genre at this time was dark electro. Dark electro combined sinister electronic soundscapes with grunts or croaking vocals with a special attention to despair. Important artists were yelworC, Mortal Constraint, Trial or Tri-state. Claus Larsen Leæther Strip is a Danish musical project whose influence has been most felt in the Electronic body music, Industrial music, and Gothic music genres. ... Wumpscut (:Wumpscut: or :W:) is a well known EBM project from Germany. ... A synthesizer (or synthesiser) is an electronic musical instrument designed to produce electronically generated sound, using techniques such as additive, subtractive, FM, physical modelling synthesis, or phase distortion. ... Electro, short for electro funk (also known as robot hip hop and Electro hop) is an electronic style of hip hop directly influenced by Kraftwerk and funk records (unlike earlier rap records which were closer to disco). ... 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. ... Dark Electro was a term used mainly in central Europe to describe the sinister sounds of electronic music groups like YelworC, Tri-state, Mortal Constraint, Arcana Obscura, Trial or Placebo Effect. ... The death grunt (also referred to as death growl, death vocal, vokills or, derisively, cookie monster vocal) is a singing style usually employed by vocalists of the death metal musical genres, but also can be heard in a variety of other heavy metal subgenres. ... 2004 Trinity album cover. ...

An outgrowth of these genres that developed in the mid-/late-1990s and resurfaced more recently is aggrotech, which combines the basics of electro-industrial and dark electro with harsher song structures, aggressive lyrics and straight techno-influenced beats, usually distorted, of a militant, pessimistic or explicit nature. Some acts are Funker Vogt, Tactical Sekt, Hocico, newer Suicide Commando, Feindflug, Dismantled, and Velvet Acid Christ. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Funker Vogt is a German EBM band, formed by Gerrit Thomas and Jens Kästel in 1995. ... Hocico is a Mexican aggrotech group. ... Johan Van Roy Suicide Commando is the name of a Belgian musical act combining elements of industrial dance and electronic body music. ... Feindflug, pronounced Find-floog, is a controversial German industrial/EBM band founded in 1995. ... Dismantled is an EBM group from the United States; its sole member is Gary Zon. ... Velvet Acid Christ (VAC) is an industrial/Gothic band based in the Denver, Colorado area of the United States. ...

By the late 1990s a few bands (notably VNV Nation, Covenant, and Apoptygma Berzerk) were incorporating more influences from synthpop and trance. VNV Nation's Ronan Harris and Apoptygma Berzerk's Stephan Groth called this new style futurepop, a term now more widely used to describe their later music and that of similar groups. VNV Nation, which stands for Victory Not Vengeance, is an electronic music group originally from London, now based in Hamburg that combines elements of electronic body music (EBM), Industrial music and synthpop into what they call futurepop. ... The members of Covenant. ... Apoptygma Berzerk is a Norwegian synthpop/EBM/futurepop musical group. ... It has been suggested that Modern synthpop be merged into this article or section. ... Trance is a style of electronic dance music that developed in the 1990s. ... Ronan Harris is the a member of futurepop duo VNV Nation, along with Mark Jackson. ... Stephan Groth is the name behind Apoptygma Berzerk, an electronic-based musical act that plays in styles such as darkwave, electro-goth, synth pop, and futurepop. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

Other more recent bands such as Ionic Vision, Spetsnaz or Proceed have gone the other 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. ...

Notable EBM Artists

A Split Second is a Belgian electronic and industrial band, originally one of the seminal EBM acts. ... Steve Naghavi And One is a German Synthpop and EBM band. ... 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. ... Front 242 is a pioneering Belgian electronic music group that came into prominence during the 1980s. ... 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. ... Categories: Possible copyright violations ... Die Krupps is a German industrial - industrial metal band formed in 1981 by Jürgen Engler and Ralf Dörper. ... Claus Larsen Leæther Strip is a Danish musical project whose influence has been most felt in the Electronic body music, Industrial music, and Gothic music genres. ... Nitzer Ebb (pronounced night-zer or nit-zer—the band themselves pronounce it either way) was an electronic body 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 industrial metal group. ... Orange Sector is the name of a German old-school EBM band from Hannover, Germany. ... Pouppée Fabrikk is a swedish EBM band consising of Henrik Björkk, Jouni Ollila, Leif Holm and Jonas Aneheim. ... 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. ...

Samples

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See also

• List of electronic and industrial music artists
• List of industrial music subgenres
• New Beat

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External links

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