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http://brainwashed.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=8519&Itemid=95 The death last night at age 55 of Peter "Sleazy" Christopherson in Bangkok, Thailand is a major passing and relevant to this list, although this link above may not well indicate why. He was a founder member of the English group Throbbing Gristle, which arguably introduced the genre of industrial music in 1975 and greatly assisted the current mania for "techno" and other popular styles that incorporate electronics and recorded media. Many on this list might find the music of TG extreme or unacceptable; it can tend to be noisy, abrasive and often deals with distasteful subjects. Nevertheless, their 1978 "Hamburger Lady" is a milestone in contemporary music; they combined performance art, the avant-garde, bits of pre-existing recordings, punk culture and electronics in a wholly new way. And while their music may still stand way outside the mainstream it is now a historical style; all of the original TG output falls well within our 20 year cutoff period for record reviews. The illustration I often use to demonstrate how "recent" time is actually further back than we think is to say that we are further away from Jimi Hendrix than Hendrix himself was from Bix Beiderbecke. In the case of Throbbing Gristle, we are in historical relation to their first concerts at the ICA in London as they were to the rise of the Casa Loma Orchestra and Duke Ellington appearing in "Check and Double Check." TG had lately re-banded and were in the midst of a tour when member Genesis P'Orridge decided to drop out of the group in October. TG was continuing without Gen, but Sleazy Christopherson's death definitively brings an end to this band, or at least it likely will. Christopherson was also a photographer and one of the persons behind Hipgnosis, who designed album covers for major rock artists such as Led Zeppelin in the 1970s, such as "Presence." Christopherson was personally responsible for the cover art for Peter Gabriel's first couple of solo albums. Uncle Dave Lewis Lebanon, OH