Monte Cazazza, who coined the time period “industrial” to explain the aggressive, electronic-influenced subgenre of rock music, has died on the age of 68.
The information was confirmed by his fellow musician and collaborator Meri St. Mary on Friday (June 30). “It’s With immense disappointment and Love I needed to let Monte go,” she wrote on Twitter. “He was very unwell & in ache so I take consolation in the truth that that half is over however I miss him already! The place ever it’s we go off to I’m sure He can be inflicting bother in his personal method RIP the One & Solely Monte Cazazza.”
Cazazza started his profession in California, creating artworks meant for shock worth. He was expelled from the California School for Arts and Crafts after his first sculpture task, wherein he created a cement waterfall that incapacitated the primary stairway of the category constructing. Most of his early artworks are arduous to seek out and regarded obscene.
He was finest recognized for working in sound collage, releasing eight studio albums. He was one of many first signees to Throbbing Gristle‘s Industrial Information and outlined the identify of the style with the phrase “industrial music for industrial folks” — to explain the noisy, experimental sound manipulation the label specialised in.
It’s With immense disappointment and Love I needed to let Monte go. He was very unwell & in ache so I take consolation in the truth that that half is over however I miss him already! The place ever it’s we go off to I’m sure He can be inflicting bother in his personal method RIP the One & Solely Monte Cazazza pic.twitter.com/SWoOjqQHz8
— Meri St. Mary (@MeriStMary) June 30, 2023
Cazzaza additionally collaborated with the likes of Factrix, Chaos of the Night time, The Atom Smashers, The Love Pressure, and Esperik Glare. He contributed to 9 albums by Psychic TV, the collective based by Throbbing Gristle’s Genesis P-Orridge. His final album, ‘The Cynic’, got here out in 2010.
