 | L' Oeuvre Musicale
Buy used from: £124.50 Pierre Schaeffer and pierre Henry created musique concrete. For the first time, noise was perceived as a work of art.
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 | Varèse: Complete Works, Vol.2
Buy used from: £13.86 Deserts was the first piece to combine classical instruments with pre-recorded noise from various sources (factories, machines). Truly revolutionary.
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 | Stockhausen: Kontakte
Buy new: £10.98 / Used from: £8.99 The classic work from the German master. Still unsurpassed, still a source of knowledge and pleasure. Classic electronic music.
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 | La Légende d'Eer by Iannis Xenakis
Buy used from: £12.00 Xenakis is one of the main composers in the electronic scene. His work still sounds incredibly modern nowadays.
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 | AMMMusic by AMM
Buy new: £10.98 / Used from: £7.08 Pioneers in the field of free improvised noise electronic performances.
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 | Klopfzeichen by Cluster
Buy used from: £21.47 Extremely dark, disturbing and oppressive electro-acoustic landscapes pre-dating industrial music.
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 | Kraftwerk 2 by Kraftwerk
Buy used from: £16.35 Nothing to do with the commercial band they became later on, their two first albums are the real deal: noise, repetitive-mechanic rhythms, electrifying atmospheres...
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 | The Faust Tapes by Faust
Buy new: £12.98 / Used from: £8.25 Explosive mixture of tape collage, musique concrete, random sounds, krautrock and general madness.
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 | Assume Power Focus by Throbbing Gristle
Buy used from: £72.27 These 1975 live recordings show T.G. at the peak of their powers. The first industrial band.
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 | Half Machine Lip Moves/Alien Soundtracks by Chrome
Buy used from: £15.67 Unstoppable mechanic-repetitive rhythms, lysergic-cosmic atmospheres. sci-fi lyrics...
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 | Red Mecca by Cabaret Voltaire
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £4.49 Schizophrenic industrial repetitive funk with tape loops and noise.
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 | Kollaps by Einstürzende Neubauten
Buy new: £11.98 / Used from: £9.99 The classic industrial band. Mixing krautrock, musique concrete, noise, metal percussion and lots of nihilism EN are the quintessential industrial band.
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 | Information Overload Unit by SPK
Buy used from: £18.00 Do you think life is something wonderful? Well, listen to this and you will realize how wrong, how stupid, how foolish you are...
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 | To the Quiet Man by Nurse With Wound
Buy used from: £69.70 Fascinating mixture of contemporary music, free jazz, krautrock, musique concrete, noise and surrealism.
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| Garista by Zoviet France
Buy used from: £136.59 Early recordings from these pioneers. Primitive but avant-garde at the same time.
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 | A Thirsty Fish by The Hafler Trio
Buy used from: £38.43 Mysterious and enigmatic group that mixes tape loops, samples, drones and musique concrete.
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 | Blood & Flame by Non
Buy used from: £20.00 Disturbing drones, intimidating sonic landscapes, unlistenable experiments with sound.
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| Halogen by Whitehouse
Buy used from: £12.00 Pioneers in the power electronics scene. A mixture of brutal assaults of noise, sexual perversion, violence and all the hate in the world.
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 | Real Love by Swans
Buy used from: £14.49 The best band in the 80s. Extremely slow and crushing blocks of sound, ultra-tense atmosphere, obscenely brutal vocals...
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| Mecano Turbo by Esplendor Geometrico
Mechanic, grinding, repetitive, saturated and noisy structures from these pioneers in the industrial-noise scene. Their albums from the early 80s show their most brutal side.
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| Paradise Disowned by Lustmord
Subterranean atmospheres, enormous waves of sound, mysterious drones... Scary as hell, but beautiful, though.
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| Laibach by Laibach
Buy used from: £31.82 Debut album by these so called sound terrorists. Repetitive, distant, cold, noisy pieces.
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 | Tri Repetae by Autechre
Buy new: £7.98 / Used from: £5.73 Cold atmospheres, crepitating sounds from unknown origin, repetitive structures developed with mathematical precision.
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 | Pure by Godflesh
Buy used from: £5.45 Pure is Godflesh at the peak of their powers. Slow, corrosive, deformed and degenerated sound structures immersed in a sea of noise and feedback.
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 | Firmament Vol.4 by Main
Buy used from: £25.27 Stunningly beautiful ambient sounds, deep droney textures, echoes, trance-inducing cosmic passages.
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