# Turn me on to some good, hard-core techno/industrial music **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 8, 2005, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-me-on-to-some-good-hard-core-techno-industrial-music/302936 "2005-05-08T18:24:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2005, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-me-on-to-some-good-hard-core-techno-industrial-music/302936/21 "2005-05-09T22:01:53Z")
> [@Maeglin](#): > > Away from the techno and deeper into industrial, I would heartily recommend **Foetus**. If you like a relentless sonic assault of rage, pain, and sarcasm, Foetus just might be for you. Oh, yes! Sonic assault, rage, pain and sarcasm are all good descriptors. Some of my favs are Ministry’s Twitch album. For me that was some of their best stuff. I also liked Cure’s Pornography album. I thought it was absolutely inspired, and really too bad they never went back to that style. ---
**Author:** ![UnwrittenNocturne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/6de8d8/32.png) [@UnwrittenNocturne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UnwrittenNocturne)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2005, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-me-on-to-some-good-hard-core-techno-industrial-music/302936/22 "2005-05-09T22:52:08Z")
if you liked that then I can only suggest you consider more “real” gothic stuff as well. Definitely Bauhaus. There was also this band, way back when, who really started the movement, called… **Industrial**!! Also check out some **Sheep on Drugs** ---
**Author:** ![neofishboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/neofishboy/32/444_2.png) [@neofishboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neofishboy)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2005, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-me-on-to-some-good-hard-core-techno-industrial-music/302936/23 "2005-05-09T23:58:44Z")
Although they’re more guitar-oriented than _Twitch_-period\*\* Ministry\*\*, some of Al Jourgensen’s side projects are pretty cool in that loud, angry throb kind of way. In particular, I’m thinking of **Pailhead** with Ian MacKaye and **Lard** with Jello Biafra. Won’t really satisfy the techno itch, but worth checking out if you haven’t already. ---
**Author:** ![Tuco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/46a35a/32.png) [@Tuco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuco)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2005, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-me-on-to-some-good-hard-core-techno-industrial-music/302936/24 "2005-05-10T19:36:14Z")
> [@levdrakon](#): > > Thanks for trying, but no. 🙂 > > That [pamshouse.com](http://pamshouse.com) site was like someone chewed a mouthful of pink bubblegum and spewed it all over the screen. When I was finally able to find a link somewhere on that page to actual music, it was “PHuk” this and “PHunk” that. Yuck. People are saying Prodigy’s Fat of the Land is Techno and you moan about Pams House? Some people are too hard to please! The Hard House mix is behind the blue box on the front page, though listening to it now I can see why you don’t like it, it’s defintely not the music they play on the nights. > [@levdrakon](#): > > di.fm wasn’t much better. I listened to their hardcore stuff and it’s your typical huge gay dance party rave DJ-whatever re-mix crap. Blech. I’ll give you that one, I hadn’t been there for a while and didn’t realise it had gone so far downhill… If you want something a bit harder you could try Rotterdam Terror Corps or the old Helter Skelter / Dreamscape stuff. And a vote for the first two Prodigy albums. ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2005, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-me-on-to-some-good-hard-core-techno-industrial-music/302936/25 "2005-05-11T19:00:20Z")
> [@danceswithcats](#): > > No mention of Kraftwerk? _Fun, fun, fun on the Autobahn_ 😃 I’m definitely familiar with Kraftwerk. Always liked 'em though I don’t consider them techno. Just electronic. > [@Mycroft Holmes](#): > > In that case you might also enjoy Abwärts. If you like Kraftwerk, you might get a kick out of Tangerine Dream also. Haven’t heard of Abwärts, I’ll check it out. Of course I love Tangerine Dream. I was into them way, way back when electronic/synthesizer “music” was considered quite avant-garde. I heard something they did more recently and it sounded pretty good, but very different. Much more contemporary, almost a danceable kind of techno sound to it. What was up with that? I liked it, but was really surprised it was Tangerine Dream. ---
**Author:** ![NoPretentiousCodename](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/82dd89/32.png) [@NoPretentiousCodename](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NoPretentiousCodename)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2005, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-me-on-to-some-good-hard-core-techno-industrial-music/302936/26 "2005-05-11T19:22:19Z")
I liked most the bands you mentioned in the OP, and I am really digging on a group called Vitalic right now. It does have some dance elements to it, but its also a bit darker and less poppish, I think. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-me-on-to-some-good-hard-core-techno-industrial-music/302936.md?page=1)