The new wave of British industrial techno … and you can dance to it

Industrial decline? Far from it. Luke Turner hails the craftsmen of a very British, bleak but danceable, hammer-and-tongs technoLike a tin of WD40 and a clapped-out drill, there has long been a satisfyingly functional relationship between industrial music and techno. The beauty-in-bleakness aesthetic that inspired such 70s groups as Cabaret Voltaire and Throbbing Gristle helped shape a new and very British, soot-caked approach to the dancefloor during the 1990s. Come 2012, and a series of excell...

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