If we had to come up with one person spontaneously that had and still has a lasting and paradigm shifting influence on music since the late 70s/early 80s, it would be Genesis Breyer-P. Orridge, for sure. Throbbing Gristle and Psychic TV, his best known projects, were—and still are—groundbreaking contributions to Industrial music, a genre that never really left the underground but is having a late victory in more recent musical developments.
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