Before Nine Inch Nails: How Industrial Became Pop

What is Industrial? In its original form it was an aggressively mechanistic and uncompromising sound formed of tape-loops, samples, often self-made synths and electronics. Bands like Throbbing Gristle, Cabaret Voltaire, Nurse With Wound and Einstürzende Neubauten produced avant garde noise that thumbed its nose at pop music as a production line and made sounds from the literal tools of production. But how did it get from its pipe-bashing, static-cloaked anti-music guise to the music soundtracking in the club scenes in The Matrix? What were the essential steps along the way? And how did Nine Inch Nails force Industrial into the charts? This is How Industrial Became Pop. #nineinchnails #industrialmusic #musicdocumentary Fact-checking and Additional Writing by Serenity Autumn and Chad Van Wagner. 00:00 Introduction 00:44 Musique Concrete, Tape Loops & Noise 04:09 1977- Punks, David Lynch & Metall Auf Metall 06:48 Daniel Miller, The Normal & Mute 08:08 Th