My favorite Coil album!!! (And that's saying something because I love Coil.) "Teenage Lightning," "Disco Hospital," "Windowpane," and the title track are four of my all-time favorites tracks by this band. ("Anal Staircase," "The Wheel," and "Heartworms" are my other faves...)

I also agree with your statement that techno was far less defined in its earliest incarnations. Greater Than One, Psychic TV, Cabaret Voltaire, and even Alien Sex Fiend contributed to the early techno experiments, along with Chicago house producers and creative folks in Berlin, Belgium, and blah blah blah (I'm sure you know all of this...) Those early years---say 1988 to 1992, before "trance" and "breakbeat" and "gabber" and "drum and bass" splintered off and became established sub-genres (with disappointingly similar drum patterns) I found myself excited and sometimes awe struck at how inventive the "Industrial Dance" nights could be! (I was in Portland, Oregon, USA, at the time and hopped from club to club, looking for DJs who weren't afraid to mix genres and shake things up a bit! I had a great time!)

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