73-410: Sphinctour is a live CD/DVD/VHS release by the industrial metal band Ministry released in 2002. It contains various tracks recorded on their 1996 world tour in support of the album Filth Pig . The album title is a play on the word sphincter . The original objective of Sphinctour was as a home video release, though a CD version was also made. There are no discernible differences audio-wise from
146-754: A "flop" nonetheless. Around this time, veteran industrial metal artists (Ministry, Godflesh, and White Zombie ) began to repudiate the industrial label. Sales remained high throughout 2000–2005; at least 10 million records were sold during that time frame. Many groups began to take influence from hip hop and electronic music , in addition to industrial metal. As a result, acts like Powerman 5000 are often described as industrial metal as well as nu metal . Several industrial metal groups have produced eye-catching videos. These include Godflesh's collaboration with Andres Serrano , Aidan Hughes 's graphics for KMFDM, Nine Inch Nails' work with Mark Romanek , Rob Zombie 's visual work for White Zombie (for which he received
219-459: A "lethal threat" to its members. In the summer of 1979, Vogel demonstrated the Fairlight CMI at the home of English singer-songwriter Peter Gabriel , where Gabriel was working on his third solo studio album . Gabriel, as well as many other people in the studio, was instantly engrossed, and he used strange sounds such as breaking glass bottles and bricks on the album. One of those present for
292-528: A German digital hardcore musician, declared that "[Rammstein is] successful for all the wrong reasons. I think they're not a fascist band at all, but I think in Germany there's a lot of misunderstanding and that's why they sell records and I think that's dangerous." In response to the controversy, Rammstein stated that "We are not Nazis, Neo-Nazis, or any other kind of Nazi. We are against racism, bigotry or any other type of discrimination." The band went on to create
365-556: A commercial force in 1992 when Nine Inch Nails' Broken and Ministry's Psalm 69 went platinum in America, though the latter took three years to reach that status. Both groups were nominated for the Best Metal Performance in the 1992 Grammy Awards , with Nine Inch Nails winning. Two years later, Nine Inch Nails released The Downward Spiral , which debuted at No. 2, and would eventually go quadruple-platinum. This record
438-418: A controversial artist, one who dares to have an opinion and bothers to create music and videos that challenge people's ideas in a world that is watered-down and hollow. In my work I examine the America we live in, and I've always tried to show people that the devil we blame our atrocities on is really just each one of us. [...] Sascha Konietzko reported that KMFDM was "sick and appalled" by the shootings, issuing
511-514: A critical backlash at the turn of the millennium. In an April 2000 review for the Chicago Sun Times , Jim DeRogatis dismissed Nine Inch Nails' new music as a "generic brand of industrial thrash" and accused Ministry of repeating an act that "was old by 1992". Although The Fragile reached the top spot of the Billboard 200 and went on to earn double platinum status, DeRogatis considered it
584-556: A factor of 56, even when all channels are in use. Its design, graphics, and editing tools were also improved, such as the addition of a tablet next to the QWERTY keys, using a stylus instead of the on-screen lightpen; this change was made due to complaints from users regarding arm aches from having to hold the pen on the screen. An enhanced version of the Page R sequencer called Composer, Arranger, Performer, Sequencer, or CAPS, as well as Eventsync,
657-586: A few industrial metal groups vulnerable to attack from American social conservatives . For example, Sen. Bob Dole , then head of the Republican Party, sharply criticized Time Warner after a meeting between Michael J. Fuchs (head of the Warner Music Group), William Bennett , and C. Delores Tucker , at which Tucker and Bennett demanded that Fuchs read lyrics from NIN's " Big Man with a Gun ". A year later, Bennett, Tucker, and Joseph Lieberman launched
730-681: A less costly sampling keyboard, the Emulator , in 1981. In the United States, a new sampler company, Ensoniq , introduced the Ensoniq Mirage in 1984 for the price of $ 1,695, less than a quarter of the price of other samplers. In America, Joan Gand of Gand Music and Sound in Northfield, Illinois was the top salesperson for Fairlight. The Gand organisation sold CMIs to Prince , James "J.Y." Young of Styx , John Lawry of Petra , Derek St. Holmes of
803-552: A post-production utility based on SMPTE timecode linking, were also added to the Series ;III computer. However, while many people were still using CMIs, sales were starting to diminish significantly due to much lower-cost, MIDI-based sequencers and samplers including the Atari ;ST and Akai 's S612, S900 and 1000 samplers appearing on the market. Paine stopped selling the CMI in
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#1732898561478876-448: A protégé of Reznor's, came to prominence. The group's live performance and its transgressive appeal was often more commented on than their music. Industrial metal reached its commercial zenith in the latter half of the 1990s – according to the RIAA databases, its top-selling artists sold around 17.5 million units combined. Records by major industrial metal artists routinely debuted on
949-536: A similar campaign against MCA Records for their distribution of Marilyn Manson 's music. Many of his concerts were cancelled by authorities after this uproar. In addition, Dennis Cooper cited Ministry's video for " Just One Fix ", which featured footage of William S. Burroughs , as an early example of heroin chic . Some initial reports claimed that Columbine High School shooters Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold were Marilyn Manson fans. In fact, they preferred KMFDM and Rammstein. Asa Coon , another school shooter,
1022-586: A statement the following day saying: First and foremost, KMFDM would like to express their deep and heartfelt sympathy for the parents, families and friends of the murdered and injured children in Littleton. We are sick and appalled, as is the rest of the nation, by what took place in Colorado yesterday. KMFDM are an art form – not a political party. From the beginning, our music has been a statement against war, oppression, fascism and violence against others. While some of
1095-489: A strong anti-rock stance. British post-punk band Killing Joke pioneered the crossing over between styles and was an influence on major acts associated with industrial metal such as Ministry , Godflesh , and Nine Inch Nails . Another pioneer industrial rock group, Big Black , also impacted some later groups. By the late 1980s industrial and heavy metal began to fuse into a common genre, with Godflesh's self-titled EP and Ministry's The Land of Rape and Honey at
1168-420: A sudden it was like there was a whole new parameter within guitar playing itself – especially in combination with sounds that you get out of a keyboard . Jourgensen seemed particularly fond of thrash metal . After the release of Land , he recruited guitarist Mike Scaccia from Texas thrashers Rigor Mortis . On one occasion, Jourgensen told the press that Sepultura was his favorite band. He also expressed
1241-418: A synthesized piano sound. He recalled in 2005: It sounded remarkably like a piano, a real piano. This had never been done before ... By today's standards it was a pretty awful piano sound, but at the time it was a million times more like a piano than anything any synthesizer had churned out. So I rapidly realised that we didn't have to bother with all the synthesis stuff. Just take the sounds, whack them in
1314-497: A top seller, Godflesh nonetheless became an influential act, their name mentioned by Korn , Metallica , Danzig , Faith No More , and Fear Factory . Ministry emerged from the scene surrounding Wax Trax! Records , a Chicago indie label dedicated to industrial music. Ministry's initial foray into guitar rock happened during a recording session of The Land of Rape and Honey on Southern Studios , in London. The band's frontman,
1387-533: Is a small, niche scene within industrial music. Very few bands today describe themselves or are described as coldwave. Bands like Cyanotic and Medicant Downline are perhaps the exception. Despite sharing the same name as the French genre , it is otherwise unrelated. Industrial metal blossomed in the early 1990s, particularly in North America, where it would eventually sell close to 35 million units. It first became
1460-468: Is a sub-genre of industrial metal originating in the 1990s. It has its roots in acts like Nine Inch Nails and Ministry . The style focuses on heavier, punk-based guitars, sampled hard rock-like guitars, synthesizer accompaniment, and acid house elements. Lyrical content is typically cyberpunk-oriented with pop music sensibilities, although it can vary. Chemlab 's 1993 album Burn Out at the Hydrogen Bar
1533-429: Is considered by AllMusic as "one of the bleakest multi-platinum albums ever". Overall, popular heavy rock music has changed to become more "industrialized". This robbed the industrial hardcore movement of any hopes of establishing a new identity of its own. The style is dead (or at least dying); the elements of the style continue on in new musical settings. Following Nine Inch Nails' success, Marilyn Manson , led by
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#17328985614781606-498: Is often considered the album that defined the coldwave style. Artists like the aforementioned Chemlab, 16 Volt and Acumen Nation exemplified this genre. The coldwave style began to wane rapidly when industrial music in general started to lose popularity in the latter half of the 1990s-early 2000's. Many artists within the genre moved on to different styles that included; Hard rock, heavy metal, nu metal, synth-metal, synth-rock, and synth-pop among other genres. Coldwave today
1679-760: The Grammy -winning Broken and the best-selling The Downward Spiral , accompanied by their groundbreaking performance at Woodstock '94 . The rivethead subculture also developed at this time, along with the so-called "coldwave" subgenre, which encompassed Chemlab , 16 Volt , and Acumen Nation . Some electro-industrial groups adopted industrial metal techniques in this period, including Skinny Puppy (on their Rabies , co-produced by Jourgensen), and Front Line Assembly . British band Pitchshifter , formed in 1989 by brothers Jon and Mark Clayden, also started as an industrial metal band. The band later included elements of drum and bass . Frontman JS mentions: [...]In
1752-484: The MTV Video Music Award for Best Hard Rock Video), and Marilyn Manson's output with Richard Kern and Floria Sigismondi . NIN later collaborated with Bill Viola for live accompaniment. Trent Reznor also produced the soundtracks for the films Natural Born Killers and Lost Highway , and served as "musical consultant" for Man on Fire . Rob Zombie has directed three films. In 2009, Marilyn Manson
1825-790: The Ted Nugent band, Al Jourgensen of Ministry , and many private studio owners and rock personalities. Spokesperson Jan Hammer appeared at several Gand-sponsored Musictech pro audio events, to perform the " Miami Vice Theme ". The ubiquity of the Fairlight was such that Phil Collins stated on the sleeve notes of his 1985 studio album No Jacket Required that "there is no Fairlight on this record" to clarify that he had not used one to synthesize horn and string sounds. Swedish warez and Commodore demo scene group Fairlight took its name from this device, which Jean-Michel Jarre used on some of his records. Experimental music group Coil considered
1898-483: The death metal scene, such as Fear Factory , Nailbomb , Autokrator and Meathook Seed , also began to experiment with industrial. Fear Factory, from Los Angeles, were initially influenced by the Earache roster (namely Godflesh , Napalm Death and Bolt Thrower ). The German band Oomph! after their second album Sperm started to play industrial metal combined with elements of death metal and groove metal until
1971-457: The punk rock era: "Page R also gave rise to a flow of quasi-socialist sounding ideology, that hailed the impending democratisation of music creation, making it available to the musically chops-challenged." Graphically depicting editable notes horizontally from left to right, the music programming profession and the concepts of quantization and cycling patterns of bars where instrument channels could be added or removed were also born out of
2044-520: The CMI Series ;IIx, which now allowed for MIDI , until the release of Series III in 1985. The sampler of the Series III featured many improvements on its predecessors. It was capable of 16-bit sampling, with a maximum sample rate of 44.1 kHz, across 16 channels. This was enabled by the increase in sample memory from 16 kB per channel to 14 MB across all channels, an increase by
2117-511: The CMI. In 1981, Austrian musicians Hubert Bognermayr and Harald Zuschrader composed a symphony, Erdenklang – Computerakustische Klangsinfonie . This work premiered live on stage, using five music computers, during the Ars Electronica festival in Linz. In 1984, he released an album by the singer and songwriter Claudia Robot. (Phonogram) Her studio album Alarmsignal consisted of songs written by
2190-541: The Cuban-born Al Jourgensen , explained this transition: Rediscovering the guitar on this record was almost like the first day I got my Fairlight . The possibilities just seemed endless on something that had seemed so limiting before. That's really funny. I started out as a guitarist, but I hadn't really touched a guitar in five years. Then I heard that first feedback come out of the Marshall stack and all of
2263-805: The DVD, although, like their In Case You Didn't Feel Like Showing Up release, two tracks were omitted from the CD release. In addition, the DVD features the song " Happy Dust " as the intro and outro. The live video is edited as jump cut , which is a combination of all the concerts that took place in America and Europe. Industrial metal Industrial metal is the fusion of heavy metal and industrial music , typically employing repeating metal guitar riffs , sampling , synthesizer or sequencer lines, and distorted vocals. Prominent industrial metal acts include Ministry , Nine Inch Nails , Fear Factory , Rammstein , KMFDM , and Godflesh . Industrial metal developed in
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2336-441: The Fairlight CMI, Series II, was released at a price of £30,000 in 1982. The sampler's maximum sample rate was increased to 32 kHz, allowing a reduction of aliasing, but only for short samples, as its sample memory was not increased. The bit depth of the sampler also remained 8 bits. The CMI's popularity peaked in 1982 following its appearance on a special of the arts magazine series The South Bank Show that documented
2409-524: The Fairlight on the Buggles ' 1981 studio album Adventures in Modern Recording , and both in the studio and live with Asia . Mike Oldfield used the Fairlight CMI extensively on side one of his 1983 studio album Crises. The first classical album using the CMI was produced by Folkways Records in 1980 with composers Barton McLean and Priscilla McLean . Peter Gabriel's 1982 studio album also featured
2482-526: The Hungarian experimental metal act Thy Catafalque , Blut aus Nord and Norwegian band Shining with their critically acclaimed Blackjazz album, which blended progressive rock, black metal, free jazz and industrial. Canadian artist Devin Townsend , the founder of industrial thrash metal band Strapping Young Lad , later fused industrial with progressive metal during his prolific solo career. Coldwave
2555-595: The Norwegian black metal scene, but later chose to experiment with industrial music. Several artists with their roots in progressive music, though not often associated with industrial metal scene, also incorporated industrial textures into their music. Later-era King Crimson , whose 2000s albums were referred as "industrial art metal", and OSI can be named as examples of progressive industrial metal. Several acts associated with extreme metal subgenres also mix progressive and avant-garde metal with industrial, those include
2628-466: The Page ;R sequencer. CMI user Roger Bolton recalled: "By definition, its sampling limitations and the Page R sequencer forced the composer to make high-quality decisions out of necessity. The CMI II was a high-level composition tool that not only shaped the sound of the 80s, but the way that music was actually written." Fairlight kept making updates to the system, such as a 1983 upgrade called
2701-547: The United Kingdom because of this. The Fairlight company was becoming more focused on post-production products, a market Paine had a hard time getting used to, and when HHB Communications Ltd took over distribution for the United Kingdom, they failed to sell any. Peter Gabriel was the first owner of a Fairlight Series I in the UK. Boz Burrell of Bad Company purchased the second, which Hans Zimmer hired for many recordings during
2774-603: The album Plastik . Sepultura singer Max Cavalera 's Nailbomb , a collaboration with Alex Newport, also practiced a combination of extreme metal and industrial production techniques. A lesser-known example of industrial death metal is Meathook Seed, made up of members of Napalm Death and the Florida death metal group Obituary . An industrial music fan, Obituary guitarist Trevor Peres suggested drum machines for The End Complete , Obituary's most successful album. The other band members' refusal led him to form Meathook Seed . In
2847-407: The demonstration, Stephen Paine, recalled in 1996: "The idea of recording a sound into solid-state memory and having real-time pitch control over it appeared incredibly exciting. Until that time everything that captured sound had been tape-based. The Fairlight CMI was like a much more reliable and versatile digital Mellotron . Gabriel was completely thrilled, and instantly put the machine to use during
2920-438: The design while creating office computers for Remington Office Machines, which Ryrie described as "a horrendous exercise, but we sold 120 of them". In addition to the keyboard, processing, computer graphics and interactive pen borrowed from Furse's synthesizer, the pair added a QWERTY keyboard, and a large 1×1.5×3-foot box stored the sampling, processing and ADC / DAC hardware and the 8-inch floppy disk . The biggest problem
2993-558: The desire to produce a Metallica album. Jourgensen's interest in dance-oriented electronic music did not entirely fade, however; he also formed the side-project Revolting Cocks , a more electronic body music -inflected collaboration with Richard23 of Front 242 . German band KMFDM was another seminal industrial metal group. Although not a metal fan , KMFDM leader Sascha Konietzko 's "infatuation with ripping off metal licks " stemmed from his experiments with E-mu 's Emax sampler in late 1986. He told Guitar World that, It
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3066-439: The early days we were inspired by bands like Head of David and Swans and the like... coming out of punk into the weird, angry, total noise, kind of pre-industrial music. It gets called industrial but I don't know if it really is. Industrial metal's popularity led a number of successful thrash metal groups, including Megadeth , Sepultura , and Anthrax , to request remixes by "industrial" artists. Some musicians emerging from
3139-570: The early part of his career. In the US, Bruce Jackson demonstrated the Series I sampler for a year before selling units to Herbie Hancock and Stevie Wonder in 1980 for US$ 27,500 each. Meat-packing heir Geordie Hormel bought two for use at The Village Recorder in Los Angeles. Other early adopters included Todd Rundgren , Nick Rhodes of Duran Duran , producer Rhett Lawrence and Ned Liben of Ebn Ozn ,
3212-538: The early years of the 21st century, groups from the black metal scene began to incorporate elements of industrial music. Mysticum , formed in 1991, was the first of these groups. DHG (Dødheimsgard), Thorns from Norway and Blut Aus Nord , N.K.V.D. and Blacklodge from France, have been acclaimed for their incorporation of industrial elements. Other industrial black metal musicians include Samael , The Axis of Perdition , Aborym , and ...And Oceans . In addition, The Kovenant , Mortiis and Ulver emerged from
3285-467: The female vocalist, with tracks produced by the Fairlight CMI. The first commercially released single in the US made with a computer, a Fairlight CMI, was Ebn Ozn 's "AEIOU Sometimes Y" ( Elektra 1983) - actually recorded in 1981-82 along with their studio album "Feeling Cavalier" ( Elektra Records 1984). Devo 's 1984 studio album Shout heavily featured the Fairlight CMI at the expense of analog instruments. Gerald Casale later stated that Shout
3358-504: The forefront. Godflesh was founded by former Napalm Death guitarist Justin Broadrick . Drawing from a wide array of influences— power electronics forefathers Whitehouse , noise rock band Swans , ambient music creator Brian Eno and fellow Birmingham hard rockers Black Sabbath —the Godflesh sound was once described as " Pornography -era The Cure on Quaaludes ". Though not
3431-415: The former band members are German as reported in the media, none of us condone any Nazi beliefs whatsoever. Rammstein stated that they "have no lyrical content or political beliefs that could have possibly influenced such behavior". Rammstein have also been controversial for their use of Nazi imagery, including footage shot by Leni Riefenstahl for Olympia in their video for " Stripped ". Alec Empire ,
3504-478: The genre when they began to mix extreme metal with industrial music in the late 1980s. Pigface , formed by Martin Atkins and including Ministry drummer Bill Rieflin , emerged as an industrial metal collective of sorts, participating with many figures from the noise rock and industrial worlds. Nine Inch Nails, the "one-man-band" formed by Trent Reznor , brought the genre to mainstream audiences with albums such as
3577-440: The late 1980s, as industrial and metal began to fuse into a common genre. Industrial metal did well in the early 1990s, particularly in North America, with the success of groups such as Nine Inch Nails , but its popularity began to fade in the latter half of the 1990s. Though electric guitars had been used by industrial artists since the early days of the genre, archetypal industrial groups such as Throbbing Gristle displayed
3650-413: The making of Peter Gabriel's fourth self-titled studio album , where he used 64 kilobytes worth of samples of world music instruments and sequenced percussion. The Fairlight CMI Series II became widely used in popular music recordings of the early to mid-1980s, and its most commonly used presets included an orchestra hit ("ORCH 5") and a breathy vox ("ARR 1"). The popularity of Series II
3723-431: The memory and away you go. Vogel and Ryrie coined the term sampling to describe this process. With the Fairlight CMI, they could now produce endless sounds, but control was limited to attack, sustain, decay and vibrato . According to Ryrie, "We regarded using recorded real-life sounds as a compromise – as cheating – and we didn't feel particularly proud of it." They continued to work on
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#17328985614783796-541: The owner of Sundragon Recording Studios who served as the demonstration representative for Fairlight for the U.S. east of the Mississippi. The first commercially released studio album to incorporate the Fairlight was the third Peter Gabriel album (1980) which includes a credit for Peter Vogel as technician for the "Computer Musical Instrument" (CMI), and was released in May 1980, and also featured Kate Bush . The second album
3869-400: The show's theme song – it is the 'Swannee' sample with a low-pass filter applied. Australian singer John Farnham used a Fairlight CMI on his twelfth album, Whispering Jack , in 1985 and 1986. After the success of the Fairlight CMI, other firms introduced sampling. New England Digital modified their Synclavier digital synthesizer to perform sampling, while E-mu Systems introduced
3942-629: The song " Links 2-3-4 ", released in 2001, which responded to the Nazi allegations by insinuating that they reside left on the political spectrum . Fairlight CMI The Fairlight CMI (short for Computer Musical Instrument ) is a digital synthesizer , music sampler , and digital audio workstation introduced in 1979 by Fairlight . It was based on a commercial licence of the Qasar M8 developed by Tony Furse of Creative Strategies in Sydney , Australia. It
4015-407: The style on their second album, L'Eau Rouge (1989). Prior to its release, singer Franz Treichler declared: We just wanted to hear guitars. We missed the attack of ' Envoyé '. That's what we want to hear right now, pure power. A metal sound that isn't revivalist, isn't biker style, speed metal style, any style, just WHAP! Canadian thrash metal band Malhavoc became one of the earlier acts of
4088-635: The top spots of the Billboard 200 chart: Rob Zombie 's Hellbilly Deluxe (No. 5), Marilyn Manson's Antichrist Superstar (No. 3), and Nine Inch Nails' The Fragile (No. 1). A number of industrial metal albums performed well on Billboard's Heatseekers chart: Filter 's Short Bus (No. 3), Stabbing Westward 's Wither Blister Burn + Peel (No. 1), Rammstein 's Sehnsucht (No. 2), Orgy 's Candyass (No. 1), and Static-X 's Wisconsin Death Trip (No. 1). During this era, Trent Reznor
4161-419: The week that Peter Vogel stayed at his house." Gabriel was also interested in selling the CMI in the United Kingdom, and he and Paine formed Syco Systems to distribute it for £12,000. The first UK customer was Led Zeppelin bassist John Paul Jones , followed by musicians including Boz Burrell , Kate Bush , Geoff Downes , Trevor Horn , Alan Parsons , Richard Wright and Thomas Dolby . The Fairlight CMI
4234-521: Was Kate Bush 's Never for Ever (September 1980), programmed by Richard James Burgess and John L. Walters . Wonder took his Fairlight out on tour in 1980 in support of the soundtrack album Stevie Wonder's Journey Through "The Secret Life of Plants" to replace the Computer Music Melodian sampler he had used on the recording. Geoff Downes used the Fairlight on Yes ' 1980 studio album Drama and its subsequent tour. Downes later used
4307-618: Was a Manson fan. Manson, a former journalist, published a detailed response to the controversy following the Columbine shootings in an article published in Rolling Stone . It concluded: I think that the National Rifle Association is far too powerful to take on, so most people choose Doom , The Basketball Diaries or yours truly. This kind of controversy does not help me sell records or tickets, and I wouldn't want it to. I'm
4380-620: Was about 12 – and it was obvious to me that combining digital technology with music synthesis was the way to go." In December 1975, Ryrie and Vogel formed a home business to manufacture digital synthesizers . They named the business Fairlight after the hydrofoil ferry passing before Ryrie's grandmother's home in Sydney Harbour . The two planned to design a digital synthesizer that could create sounds reminiscent of acoustic instruments ( physical modelling synthesis ). They initially planned to make an analogue synthesizer that
4453-404: Was also a commercial success in the United States, used by acts such as Stevie Wonder , Herbie Hancock , Jan Hammer , Todd Rundgren and Joni Mitchell . Musicians came to realize that the CMI could not match the expressiveness and control that could be achieved using acoustic instruments, and that sampling was better applied as imaginative sound than pure reproduction. The second version of
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#17328985614784526-428: Was chosen by Time as one of the most influential Americans of 1997. The genre's popularity was such that established glam metal groups, including Guns N' Roses and Mötley Crüe , began to dabble in the style. Figures from the hip hop scene also began to seek out collaborations with and remixes from industrial metal musicians. When industrial metal climbed the charts of the late 1990s, its sudden popularity
4599-407: Was criticised as being too difficult for empirical users. Other primitive aspects included its limited amount of RAM (208 kilobytes) and its green-and-black graphics. Nonetheless, the CMI garnered significant attention from Australian distributors and consumers for being able to emulate sounds of acoustic instruments, as well as for its light pen and three-dimensional sound visualisation. Still, Vogel
4672-440: Was digitally controlled, as the competing Moog synthesizer was difficult to control. By 1978, Vogel and Ryrie were making "interesting" but unrealistic sounds. Hoping to learn how to synthesize an instrument by studying the harmonics of real instruments, Vogel recorded about a second of a piano piece from a radio broadcast. He discovered that by playing the recording back at different pitches, it sounded much more realistic than
4745-438: Was frustrated by the limited number of sounds that the synthesizer could make. After his classmate, Peter Vogel , graduated from high school and had a brief stint at university in 1975, Ryrie asked Vogel whether he would be interested in making "the world's greatest synthesizer" based on the recently announced microprocessor . He recalled: "We had long been interested in computers – I built my first computer when I
4818-471: Was in large part due to a new feature, Page R, their first true music sequencer . As a replacement for the complicated Music Composition Language (MCL) used by Series I, Page R helped the Fairlight CMI Series ;II become a commercial juggernaut. Page R expanded the CMI's audience beyond that of accomplished keyboard players. Audio Media magazine described it as an echo of
4891-438: Was in the process of directing Phantasmagoria: The Visions of Lewis Carroll . The movie has since languished in development hell . Other films that have included prominent contributions from industrial metal artists include The Crow , Johnny Mnemonic , Hideaway , ( Mortal Kombat / 1997 sequel ) , The Matrix , Blair Witch and A.I. Artificial Intelligence . Its emphasis on transgressive themes has made
4964-447: Was just interesting to use it as a kind of white noise reinforcement for our music. All of a sudden heavy metal was free from all those tempo changes and boring attitudes it always had. What I always hated most about heavy metal was that the best riffs came only once and were never repeated. So the fascination, actually, was to sample a great riff, loop it, and play it over and over again. A Swiss trio, The Young Gods , brushed with
5037-402: Was largely considered to be the small 16 kB sample memory. To accommodate sample lengths from approximately a quarter of a second to an entire second, a low variable sample rate between 24 kHz and 8 kHz was used. The low sample rate introduced aliasing ; however, Vogel felt that the low quality of the sounds gave them their own character. The Music Composition Language feature
5110-598: Was met with negative reactions from the early innovators of industrial music . Peter Christopherson told The Wire that he no longer felt any kinship with the industrial scene: "this is not me, this is not what I'm about". Lustmord , a prominent early industrial musician, declared that "Ministry just doesn't interest [him]" and "[he has] no time for all this rock and roll shit they're doing now." Skinny Puppy frontman Nivek Ogre dismissed Nine Inch Nails as " cock rock " but have since patched things up and have even performed on stage together. Industrial metal suffered
5183-543: Was one of the earliest electronic music workstations with an embedded sampler and is credited for coining the term sampling in music. It rose to prominence in the early 1980s and competed with the Synclavier from New England Digital . In the 1970s, Kim Ryrie , then a teenager, had an idea to develop a build-it-yourself analogue synthesizer , the ETI 4600, for the magazine he founded, Electronics Today International (ETI). Ryrie
5256-414: Was the biggest regret of his career, "because the Fairlight [synthesizer] just kind of took over everything on that record. I mean, I loved the songwriting and the ideas, but the Fairlight kind of really determined the sound." Frontman Mark Mothersbaugh later used the CMI in the soundtrack of the 1991 children's television show Rugrats . The instrument is most prominently heard as the lead instrument in
5329-507: Was unsure whether there would be enough interest in the product. The CMI's ability to emulate real instruments made some refer to it as an "orchestra-in-a-box", and each unit came with 8-inch, 500-kilobyte floppy disks that each stored 22 samples of orchestral instruments. The Fairlight CMI also garnered publicity in the science industry, being featured on the BBC science and technology series Tomorrow's World . The Musicians' Union described it as
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