{"id":805261,"date":"2020-03-14T15:08:03","date_gmt":"2020-03-14T21:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=951781"},"modified":"2020-03-14T15:08:03","modified_gmt":"2020-03-14T21:08:03","slug":"genesis-p-orridge-throbbing-gristle-founder-and-industrial-music-pioneer-dead-at-70","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/genesis-p-orridge-throbbing-gristle-founder-and-industrial-music-pioneer-dead-at-70\/","title":{"rendered":"Genesis P-Orridge, Throbbing Gristle Founder and Industrial Music Pioneer, Dead at 70"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Genesis-P-Orridge-pre-obit.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Genesis P-Orridge, founding member of the pioneering industrial music group <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/throbbing-gristle\/\" id=\"auto-tag_throbbing-gristle\" data-tag=\"throbbing-gristle\">Throbbing Gristle<\/a> and experimental unit Psychic TV, has died at the age of 70, P-Orridge\u2019s manager Ryan Martin confirmed to <em>Rolling Stone<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">P-Orridge, who identified as \u201cs\/he\u201d and \u201che\/r,\u201d died early Saturday after battling leukemia for over two years, he\/r daughters said in a statement; i<\/span><span class=\"s1\">n October 2017, P-Orridge revealed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/throbbing-gristles-genesis-p-orridge-cancels-shows-after-leukemia-diagnosis-203843\/\">a chronic myelomonocytic leukemia diagnosis<\/a> that forced the cancellation a planned European tour.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cIt is with very heavy hearts that we announce thee passing of our beloved father, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge,\u201d Caresse and Genesse P-Orridge wrote in a statement. <\/span><span class=\"s1\">\u201cS\/he will be laid to rest h\/er other half, Jaqueline \u201cLady Jaye\u201d Breyer who left us in 2017, where they will be re-united.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Dais Records, which released and reissued P-Orridge\u2019s music in recent years, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/daisrecords\/status\/1238933016916807680\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">confirmed<\/a> he\/r death on Twitter, \u201c<\/span><span class=\"s1\">Rest in peace Genesis. For Dais, you really were the start of it all.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>Friend, inspiration, and legend.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>Love you forever.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Born Neil Megson in Manchester, England on February 22nd, 1950, the pseudonym Genesis P-Orridge was developed after Megson dropped out of college to focus on avant-garde and performance art. In 1969, P-Orridge formed the controversial art collective COUM Transmissions alongside future band mate Cossy Fanni Tutti. That collective would morph into Throbbing Gristle six years later following the arrival of fellow COUM members Peter \u201cSleazy\u201d Christopherson and Chris Carter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!-- .l-article-content__pull--left --> <\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cThe punk rockers said, \u2018Learn three chords and form a band,&#8217;\u201d P-Orridge <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2012\/12\/17\/music-machine\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">told the <em>New Yorker<\/em><\/a> in 2012. \u201cAnd we thought, Why learn any chords? We wanted to make music like Ford made cars on the industrial belt. Industrial music for industrial people.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Y8klW9trVTQ?version=3&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;origin=https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com&amp;rel=1&amp;fs=1&amp;autohide=2&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">After establishing their own label Industrial Records \u2014 \u201cIndustrial Music for Industrial People\u201d stated the label\u2019s slogan \u2014 Throbbing Gristle released their debut 1977 LP <em>The Second Annual Report<\/em>, hailed as one of the first industrial music records. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Citing influences ranging from minimalist John Cage and author William S. Burroughs to Dadaists and cut-up technique pioneer Brion Gysin, the lo-fi and dreary <em>The Second Annual Report<\/em> \u2014 recorded onto a cassette tape recorder recommended by Burroughs \u2014 was the first taste of the \u201cEntertainment Through Pain\u201d mantra that would later accompany the band\u2019s spoof <em>Greatest Hits<\/em> in 1981: P-Orridge, as bassist and singer, presenting songs about uncomfortable topics like infanticide and cannibalism, the occult, castration and more.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Following the 1978 single \u201cUnited\u201d\/\u201dZyklon B Zombie\u201d (the latter named after the gas used in the Auschwitz concentration camp), Throbbing Gristle would next release 1978\u2019s <em>D.o.A.: The Third and Final Report of Throbbing Gristle<\/em> and 1979\u2019s tongue-in-cheek <em>20 Jazz Funk Greats<\/em>, which found the band, under their own untraditional terms, applying a more traditional form of songwriting.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cThe strategy should always be: what did you do last time? Do the opposite. When in doubt, do the opposite,\u201d Porridge <a href=\"https:\/\/www.popmatters.com\/interview-genesis-breyer-p-orridge-2507336418.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">told Pop Matters<\/a> in 2017. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cWe did what we did in the beginning,&nbsp;<i>Second Annual Report&nbsp;<\/i>and&nbsp;<i>D.O.A.<\/i>, and everybody started to get that. And then we did&nbsp;<i>20 Jazz Funk Greats<\/i>&nbsp;and fucked with their heads and got lots of abuse for it. Now, everybody says it\u2019s a classic album. But when we did it, it was like saying: don\u2019t relax, keep awake, don\u2019t just do things because that\u2019s what you did last time and it worked last time. Look for new solutions, new answers, new ways to say something. Don\u2019t stay in one formula. Don\u2019t get a fucking brand!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/j4pt2U5h120?version=3&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;origin=https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com&amp;rel=1&amp;fs=1&amp;autohide=2&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Throbbing Gristle first disbanded in 1981, with P-Orridge next forming the prolific experimental outfit Psychic TV in 1982. Over the next 38 years, P-Orridge and a revolving door lineup \u2014 which has included founding guitarist Alex Fergusson, Throbbing Gristle\u2019s Christopherson <\/span><span class=\"s1\">and Larry Thrasher and collaborators like Monte Cazazza, Marc Almond and Coil \u2014 released over 100 albums, from experimental LPs (1982\u2019s <em>Force the Hand of Chance<\/em>) to acid house explorations (1988\u2019s <em>Jack The Tab \u2013 Acid Tablets Volume One<\/em>) to psychedelic rock (1996\u2019s <em>Trip Reset<\/em>). Psychic TV also spawned dozens of spinoff projects, like Psychick Television and PT3, and its own chaos magic collective, dubbed Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Nine Inch Nails\u2019 Trent Reznor, who helped usher industrial music into the mainstream, has long been vocal about Throbbing Gristle\u2019s influence; his side project How to Destroy Angels is named after an EP by the industrial band Coil, led by then-former Throbbing Gristle member Christopherson.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cIt just blew my mind. I was very into the idea of sound design. And sound design as music. Noise can be music. Found sounds can be music,\u201d Reznor <a href=\"https:\/\/thequietus.com\/articles\/14600-trent-reznor-interview-coil-nine-inch-nails\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">told the Quietus<\/a> of Throbbing Gristle\u2019s influence in 2014.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/B9ulnEFJDzH\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"12\" readability=\"-1.0616113744076\"><\/blockquote>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/genesis-p-orridge-throbbing-gristle-founder-and-industrial-music-pioneer-dead-obituary-951781\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Genesis P-Orridge, founding member of the pioneering industrial music group Throbbing Gristle and experimental unit Psychic TV, has died at the age of 70, P-Orridge\u2019s manager Ryan Martin confirmed to Rolling Stone. P-Orridge, who identified as \u201cs\/he\u201d and \u201che\/r,\u201d died early Saturday after battling leukemia for over two years, he\/r daughters said in a statement; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-805261","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-19 05:54:53","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=805261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}