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     after watching a few genesis p. orridge videos on you tube i found myself back listening to throbbing gristle, for those of you who don't know that is one of, if not THE first industrial group. genesis, has since changed and gone through a metamorphasis of sorts, he has since become a she and , as many of the other members of TG have done, started a side project called psychic tv. but enough of that most of what i want to explain about the original industrial music may be inferred from the following videos.

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finally i leave you with this, before TG and the group got together they were doing preformance art in a group called COUM Transmissions hopefully this will help you get a feel on how their ideals evolved

http://brainwashed.com/axis/coum/intro.htm