Every practitioner and precursor figure in this archive, alphabetical. Each entry leads into a full artist page.
One recording per form · plus three wildcards · the chart first, everything else outward from there · each entry carries streaming search links
Pierre Schaeffer
Musique concrète · 1948 · the founding piece
Karlheinz Stockhausen
Elektronische Musik · 1954 · the founding piece
Luigi Russolo (reconstruction performance)
Italian Futurism · Bruitism · 1913 score, reconstructed performances
Kurt Schwitters
Dada · Sound poetry · composed 1922–1932, various recordings
William S. Burroughs
Cut-up · 1976 lecture · the technique's stated theory
Tony Conrad with Faust
Minimalism · DroneOutside the Dream Syndicate 1972
Whitehouse
Power electronics · 1983 LP · deliberately limited; never reissued on CD
Merzbow
Japanoise · 1996 Release Entertainment · Masami Akita's most-cited LP
Atrax Morgue (Marco Corbelli)
Death industrial · 1998 Slaughter Productions · see also Atrax Morgue
Esplendor Geométrico
Rhythmic noise · 1982 12" EGK 0001 · Madrid early period · the form's earliest single defining document
Throbbing Gristle
Industrial proper · IR programmeD.o.A.: The Third and Final Report 1978 · see also Throbbing Gristle
Henry Flynt
Fluxus · recorded 1986, released 2002 on Locust Music · the post-Fluxus avant-folk continuation
Derek Bailey
Free improvisationAida 1980 Incus · solo electric guitar
Nitzer Ebb
Electronic Body Music · EBM · Chelmsford, early-1980s · Mute · the EBM body-rhythm form at its starkest
John Oswald
Plunderphonics · 1989 self-released · legally withdrawn; available via fan archives
Godflesh
Industrial rock · metal · 1989 Earache · the British exemplary LP
Lustmord
Dark ambientHeresy 1990 Side Effects · the form's founding LP
Regis
Industrial techno · Birmingham · 1998 Downwards · the Birmingham sound's canonical peak track
Oval
Glitch · microsound · from Systemisch 1994 · the CD-skip-as-aesthetic founding LP
Vomir (Romain Perrot)
HNW · Harsh Noise Wall · ongoing 2005-present · Decimation Sociale founded 2012
Aelk Minsur
no form · wildcard · noise / experimental electronics · the entry that fits no form
Longmont Potion Castle
no form · wildcard · prank-call sound-collage · outside the taxonomy · the entry that fits no form
Numbers stations (compiled)
no form · wildcard · shortwave numbers-station recordings · found-sound at the archive's edge · the entry that fits no form
VAGO · c. the Anthropocene
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