Electronic Body Music

The Electronic Body Music (EBM) is a kind of Electronic music, sub-genus of the industrial Musique related with the movement and the scene New Wave . The influences first of the kind go from the industrial music noisy of the time (Throbbing Gristle, Psychic TV, Esplendor Geométrico) to the scene Radical Dance (Portion Control, 400 Blows) while passing by the Synthpop (DAF, Kraftwerk, Depeche Mode, The Human League, New Order, Pet Shop Boys, OMD) and the cold wave (Joy Division, The Cure).

History

The Electronic Body Music , shortened in E.B.M. , is a term invented by the group Front 242 to qualify their electronic music, cold and dancing. This Belgian group begins its career as of 1982 with the idea to make a music of European dance, removed from the dominant afro influences at the time, that it is via the Rock or the Disco. Powerful, cold electronic rates/rhythms and minimalists will constitute the reinforcement of this new kind, influenced as well by the new wave of Depeche Mode and New Order, as by the synthpop of the Germans of Kraftwerk and DAF, the cold wave of Joy Division, The Cure, Killing Joke and fusion electro-rock'n'roll of Suicide.

The movement initiated by Front 242 quickly makes some followers with in particular the British of Nitzer Ebb,… which one typically finds on labels like PIAS, Antler-Subway, Wax Trax!, Off Happy, Zoth Ommog, Pendragon, Metropolis… This kind also will influence notably the creators of the electro-undue money such as Frontline Assembly or Skinny Puppy. This kind saw its greater popularity near the scene underground during the years 1980 and with the beginning of the year 1990, particularly in Europe. At the sides of Face 242, one found Die Krupps, Nitzer Ebb, Borghesia, The Neon Judgment, The Parochial Pianists, Klinik, with; GRUMH…, Severed Heads, among others.

Towards half of the years 1990, the EBM started to borrow in a way increasingly more important from the current Synthpop, with the first productions of groups such as Covenant and VNV Nation, combining hard industrial rates/rhythms with melodies generated by Synthétiseur S. a second movement takes place with the appearance of the Electro dark, hybridization of the EBM and the electro-undue money with the Gothic music, whose groups emblematic are Das Ich, Wumpscut or Suicide Commando. Towards the end of the year 1990, many groups EBM resulting from the intermediate period (in particular VNV Nation and Covenant) moved more and more towards the synthpop, which brought confusion and debate on the direction of the word " EBM".

Tandis the term is the subject still of debates between “purists”, who prefer to allot it to a music closer to the time Front 242 of the years 1980 (one frequently uses the term Old-school EBM for this reason), and the fans of a style less attached to the industrial heritage, the concept is at present typically used in reference to a sound similar to that of the groups of the intermediate time. In all the cases, the kind is distinguished from modern interpretations of the Synthpop and the recent style known under the name of Futurepop by the presence from a certain degree of hardness and industrial elements.

Groups

  • New-school EBM :

    • CAPE
    • Ionic Vision
    • Sequenz E

See too

External bonds

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