Artists

Anderson, Laurie - American spoken-word/performance artist
The Art of Noise - British experimental rock and electronic group.
Autechre - innovators of the "Intelligent Dance Music" movement
Beck - Genre bending American singer/songwriter/weirdo.
Boredoms - Japan's experimental rockers and noisee merchants.
Burroughs, William S. - American author and experimenter in tape collage and cut-up techniques
Butthole Surfers - Texas based difficult music. "The most evil band in the world"
Cabaret Voltaire - The original body-music industrial band
Chrome - Nasty noise experiments from America.
Consolidated - San Francisco's confrontational political industrialists.
DEVO - Akron, Ohio's favourite sons. Offbeat, satirical synth-rock.
Dolby, Thomas - British sythnisizer virtuoso.
Einstruzende Neubauten - The original German industrialists
Eno, Brian - Producer and electronic musician, his influence is legendary
Foetus - Noise and jazz manipulator, extremely satirical.
Front 242 - Belgian industrial body music.
Godflesh - The heaviest electronic band alive.
Jarre, Jean Michel - French innovator in ambient soundtracks.
The Jesus Lizard - Chicago's masters of noise rock.
Joy Division - Legendary dark electronics from the north of England
Kraftwerk - The original krautrockers, possibly the most important band ever.
Laibach - Slovenia's anti-fascist iconoclasts.
Ministry - Chicago's metal industrialists, one of most important industrial bands ever.
Mouse on Mars - German neo-krautrockers
Mr. Bungle - Mike Patton's Zappaesque psyche-out band.
Negativland - California culture jammers and tape collage experts
New Order - Dancable electronics pioneers from England
Numan, Gary - England's dark and sterile new human.
Panasonic/Pan sonic - Finnish minimalist electronic composerrs
Pigface - Ever changing line-up of classic indusstrial noise, fronted by Martin Atkins
PIL (Public Image Ltd.) - Johnny Rotten grows up and gets noisy..
P-Orridge, Genesis - Inventer of the term "industrial", pioneer with Throbbing Gristle and Psychic TV
Revolting Cocks - Humourous Ministry side project
Severed Heads - Sydney, Australia's greatest electroniic musicians.
Sonic Youth - Influential experimental rock from New York
Stereolab - Electronic lounge music for the next century
Suicide - Screaming and random noise from New Yoork's No-Wave movement
Sun Ra - Spaced-out avant garde jazz artist.
Talking Heads - No-Wave based afro-funk-pop from New York
They Might Be Giants - The best experimental pop band on the planet, bar none.
Test Dept. - Original industrialists from England
Tortoise - American drone rockers.
Yello - Irreverant Swiss synth act
Zappa, Frank - One of the greatest guitarists that ever lived, all over the map.
Zorn, John - Crazy alto sax noise.
Zoviet France - Englands masters of media manipulation.

Labels

4AD - Sad pop and strange musicscapes (The Pixies, Throwing Muses, His Name is Alive, That Petrol Emotion)
ADSR Musicwerks - Small industrial label (Fockewolf, Noxious Emotion)
Alternative Tentacles - Jello Biafra's home to the insane (NoMMeansNo, Lard, Dead Kennedys, The Causey Way)
Atavistic - Avant-garde jazz and noise
Blacklight - Small industial label from Kokomo, IN (Fatal Blast Whip, Torn Skin)
COP International - Small but important industrial label.
Electro-Shock - Russian label, specializing in experimental electronics (Artim Artemeyev)
Emperor Norton - LA Based international electronic pop label (Fantastic Plastic Machine, Takako Minekawa, Senor Coconut)
Factory - UK based label famous for depressing electronics (Joy Division, New Order)
Invisible - Martin Atkins experimental-industrial label (Pigface, Sheep on Drugs, Not Breathing)
Kranky - Minimalist electronics label (Tortoise, Godspeed You Black Emperor!)
KK - European pioneering industrial label, the original home of Front 242 and Frontline Assembly
Metropolis - The best and biggest industrial label in the United States
Mute - Longtime home to many electronic artists (Depeche Mode, Einstruzende Neubaten, Add N to (X))
Nothing - Trent Reznor's label (Nine Inch Nails, Autechre, Squarepusher)
Play It Again Sam - European experimental/electronic label
Staalplaat - European label specializing in obscure noise and industrial.
Sub Rosa - Important avant-garde jazz label.
Thirsty Ear - Rerelease label with some industrial and electronics (Foetus, Mark Almond)
Thrill Jockey - US minimalist electronics label (Mouse on Mars, Microstoria, Brokeback)
Tone Casualties - Gabor Csupo's small electronics label
Touch and Go - Chicago's noise rock haven (Butthole Surfers, Laughing Hyenas, Chrome)
Warp - Strange electronics label (Plone, Pole)
Wax Trax!/TVT - The original hard industrial label (KMFDM, Revolting Cocks, Ministry)