Contents

Acknowledgments

Foreword by Stephen Mallinder

Introduction: The Front Lines

PART I
TECHNOLOGY AND THE PRECONDITIONS OF INDUSTRIAL MUSIC

Chapter 1 Italian Futurism

Chapter 2 William S. Burroughs

Chapter 3 Industrial Music and Art Music

PART II
INDUSTRIAL GEOGRAPHY

Chapter 4 Northern England

Chapter 5 Berlin

Chapter 6 San Francisco

Chapter 7 Mail Art, Tape Technology, and the Network

PART III
INDUSTRIAL MUSICAL STYLE

Chapter 8 The Tyranny of the Beat: Dance Music and Identity Crisis

Chapter 9 “After Cease to Exist”: England 1981–1985

Chapter 10 Body to Body: Belgian EBM 1981–1985

Chapter 11 Industrial Music as a Theater of Cruelty

Chapter 12 “She’s a Sleeping Beast”: Skinny Puppy and the Feminine Gothic

PART IV
INDUSTRIAL POLITICS

Chapter 13 Back and Forth: Industrial Music and Fascism

Chapter 14 White Souls in Black Suits: Industrial Music and Race

PART V
PEOPLE AND INDUSTRIAL MUSIC

Chapter 15 Wild Planet: WaxTrax! Records and Global Dance Scenes

Chapter 16 Q: Why Do We Act Like Machines? A: We Do Not.

Chapter 17 Death

Chapter 18 Wonder

Suture: From the Author’s Diary

Postscript: Is There Any Escape for Noise?

Sources Cited

Notes

Index