To All Experts, Artists and Fans of Industrial Dance/Rock Music:

Ever since I became introduced to Kraftwerk (the legendary German technopop group), the Art of Noise (a British group that creates avant-garde synth pop music) and that electronic space music that they used to play on NPR ( National Public Radio, http://www.npr.org ) or 88.9 FM WCVE ( http://www.wcve.org ) during the late 1980s, I became fascinated with various forms of obscure music, especially the types of music that sounded very mechanical and have a sci fi-like edge to them, considering that fact that I am HOPELESSLY obsessed with robots, aliens and all other things that are very high tech and beyond the average Human’s understanding. My interest for obscure/underground music intensified even further when, in 1991, a college friend introduced me to more electro, industrial and goth music bands like Nine Inch Nails, Ministry, Front 242, Front Line Assembly, Nitzer Ebb, KMFDM, etc…, but I could never quite acquire too much stuff about any of these underground music acts after I graduated from college. The goth and punk scenes here in Richmond, Virginia USA are not very large. There is only one club that is really geared towards goths (Club Fallout) and it is a very exclusive club. (One has to apply online and even buy goth/punk gear, boots and clothing before even being admitted to the club at its front gate.) Industrial music here in Richmond gets very little airplay except on late Tuesday nights on the radio. (It’s played on a station called 97.3 FM, WRIR, http://www.wrir.org , on a program called “Dog Germs”.) It kind of depresses me that this type of music that I enjoy the most – but still oddly know very little about – is very hard for me to find and hear.

During the year 1992, up in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania USA, I was listening to a college radio station called WKDU ( http://www.wkdu.org ) and I heard several industrial dance/rock songs that I really liked. One of them was really awesome; it was minded in radical politics and it made a short reference to U. S. President John F. Kennedy’s assassination in 1963. In fact, part of the song featured some automatic gunfire, with a guy afterwards saying, “That’s Armageddon!” This gunfire-to-guy-shouting sequence was repeated several times in this song. Do any of you now know what I am talking about? I hope that you do. Anyway, I suspect that this song that I am describing was made by a German group called the Armageddon Dildos; I’m not sure. (The title of one of their albums is THAT’S ARMAGEDDON! Europe is more immersed in the industrial scene than America is.) Does anyone remember which track in particular was it that I am talking about, though? I have got to hear that song again, I just loved it! Even though I may not look like it (if you can see my avatar), I am still a fan of not just industrial music but many other forms of rock music as well, including all of the different degrees and types of metal, punk, rockabilly and even old-time “Southern Rock”. (I even like Oldies and Classics from the 1950s to the 1970s!) Some of today’s industrial music is good (such as Hanzel and Gretel’s “Number One N Deutschland”), but my favorite period for industrial music will always be the 1980s on up through the 1990s. Does anyone else know any more industrial songs about armageddon or an apocalypse of some kind?

As I mentioned earlier, I also enjoyed some of that beatless (non-percussional), ambient-sounding electronic space music that used to played on 88.9 FM WCVE ( http://www.wcve.org ) Sunday nights here in Richmond during the late 1980s. Does anyone else here recall that brief period like I do? Does anyone even know what I am talking about? I am trying to find some more electronic space music, whether it’s those old tunes that were played on the radio at that time as well as any new tunes, but I really do not know where to begin. Can anyone out there help me?

If anyone has the answers to any of my questions, then please let me know something as soon as possible. Thank you very much.

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