[**UNDER CONSTRUCTION** This page is a work in progress. Latest update 08/2023.]
In 2013, S. Alexander Reed, a scholar of music, music theory, futurism, avaunt-garde, and more, published the title, “Assimilate – A Critical History of Industrial Music.” I attempted reading this book in 2022, but found it’s density required more dedication than I was prepared to give. In 2023, in advance of Seattle’s annual industrial festival organized by the local industrial DJ troupe, Mechanismus, I decided to set my other priorities aside, and dig in. As I expected, the text demanded a great amount of commitment. My goal here is to provide a kind of supplement, with links to tracks and videos publicly accessible on the internet in order to save readers some time and effort in finding everything referenced in the text.
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