The Melody Web what each genre heard, and what it passed on

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Heard

Disco genre · 1973–

EBM takes disco’s four-on-the-floor club law and runs industrial’s machine pulse through it as sequenced body music.

Influence
Industrial genre · 1976–

EBM takes industrial’s machine pulse, synth noise, and shouted vocal and recodes them as a four-on-the-floor club body.

Influence

EBM

genre · 1981–

Also called electronic body music, electronic body music (EBM)

Early-1980s dance-floor industrial: sequenced synth, shouted vocal, and a four-on-the-floor body pulse (DAF, Front 242). It hears Industrial for the machine-noise band recoded as club music and Disco for the four-on-the-floor club law. It gives New beat the slower Belgian club recoding. Aggrotech leftover as a later harsh recoding, not filed this sitting. Industrial-metal leftover as a guitar child of industrial, not of this node. Punk leftover as DAF’s prior school; that hop already sits on punk industrial.

Listen

  1. Der Mussolini DAF (1981) YouTube · Spotify
  2. Headhunter Front 242 (1988) YouTube · Spotify · Amazon
  3. Body to Body Front 242 (1981) YouTube · Spotify · Amazon
  4. Alle gegen alle DAF (1981) YouTube · Spotify
  5. Join in the Chant Nitzer Ebb (1987) YouTube · Spotify · Amazon

Passed on

New beat style · 1987–1991

New beat takes EBM’s sequenced body pulse — synth, shout, club PA — and slows it into a Belgian 1987–91 floor.

Influence

Disco → EBM

meter and groovefunction and contextstrength: mediumscholarly consensus1981–1988recordingdance

Mechanism

EBM takes disco’s four-on-the-floor club law and runs industrial’s machine pulse through it as sequenced body music. Strength medium. Industrial supplies the noise-and-slogan band; this hop is the dance-floor meter. Hi-NRG leftover as a faster disco child, not a parent of EBM.

Evidence

DAF and Front 242 club singles on a four-on-the-floor body (Grove, Starr).

Debate

Whether EBM is already disco with a shout. The club law is disco’s; the named body-music industrial single is EBM’s.

Mediators

artist: DAF; artist: Front 242

Industrial → EBM

meter and groovetimbre and productionfunction and contextstrength: highscholarly consensus1981–1988recordingdance

Mechanism

EBM takes industrial’s machine pulse, synth noise, and shouted vocal and recodes them as a four-on-the-floor club body. Strength high. industrial industrial metal is the guitar-factory child; this hop is the dance-floor fork. Disco is a neighboring floor hop (disco ebm), not this industrial mechanism.

Evidence

DAF and Front 242 sequencing industrial’s slogan-and-machine job for clubs (Grove, Starr).

Debate

Whether EBM is already industrial. The art-space tape/noise band is industrial’s; the named body-music club single is EBM’s.

Mediators

artist: DAF; artist: Front 242

EBM → New beat

meter and groovetimbre and productionfunction and contextstrength: highscholarly consensus1987–1991recordingdance

Mechanism

New beat takes EBM’s sequenced body pulse — synth, shout, club PA — and slows it into a Belgian 1987–91 floor. Strength high. Acid house leftover as a neighboring 1988 floor, not this parent.

Evidence

A Split-Second and Belgian DJ recuts of EBM/new-wave 12-inches (Grove, Starr).

Debate

Whether new beat simply is pitched-down EBM. The body-music grammar is EBM’s; the named slow Belgian club style is the recoding.

Mediators

artist: A Split-Second; community: Belgian club DJs