Industrial Dance

Industrial Dance is mainly used in North America umbrella term for music groups from the post-industrial environment, which are in Europe associated with the directions of Electronic Body Music, Electro-Industrial and Dark Electro. The name implies it both a reference to the post-industrial environment as well as the emphasis on (mostly) danceable, mainly electronically generated compositions, as in the second half of the 1980s on both sides of the Atlantic at the standard development of samplers sequencers were popular.

With the Industrial Dance associated labels were in the 1980 Wax Trax! in Chicago and Nettwerk in Vancouver, in the 1990s, followed by Cleopatra Records in Los Angeles, Metropolis Records in Philadelphia and COP International in San Francisco. Under the title " A Dilettante 's Guide to Industrial Dance Music" the SPIN Magazine presented in March 1989 a detailed report, which is primarily the Wax Trax! Environment, with bands like Ministry, 1000 Homo DJs, Lead Into Gold, Pailhead and front 242, as well as Nettwerk, with artists such as Skinny Puppy, Manufacture and Keith LeBlanc ( Tackhead ), devoted.