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music is a loose term for a number of different styles of
electronic and experimental music. First used in the mid-1970s
to describe the then-unique sound of Industrial Records artists,
a wide variety of labels and artists have since come to be
called "Industrial".
The term was meant by
its creators to evoke the idea of music created for a new
generation of people, previous music being more "agricultural".
Specifically, it might have referred to the streamlined process
by which the music was being made, although many people now
interpret the word as a poetic reference to an "industrial"
aesthetic, recalling factories and inhuman machinery.
On this topic, Peter Christopherson of Industrial Records
once remarked, "the original idea of Industrial Records
was to reject what the growing industry was telling you at
the time what music was supposed to be."
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