The World... an Addendum

Oh ja, on the same August 19th broad cast of The World (look here), there is a great little feature on industrial music in China. It's really worth a listen, but they don't have a specific excerpt of that section, so click on this and skip ahead to 45'30"



 The band is called White and their producer just happens to be the legendary Blixa Bargeld (Just to put legendary into perspective: Bargeld is German for Cash, although Blixa is hardly as common as Johnny). He is one of the fathers of industrial music through the band Einstürzende Neubauten (roughly: collapsed new-built). You may be familiar with his name because he is also one of the legendary Bad Seeds backing Nick Cave. He also has solo material but I'm not familiar with it. Also he does some pretty crazy stuff. Here he is in some commercials for a German hardware shop, he's basically reading the random bits in their flyer:

Welcome to advertising in Germany.