Monte Cazazza

Monte Cazazza (November 13, 1954 - June 30, 2023) was an American artist and composer best known for his seminal role in helping shape industrial music through recordings with the London-based Industrial Records in the mid-1970s.
Cazazza, based primarily in San Francisco during his early career, is credited with coining the phrase "Industrial Music for Industrial People". This was later used to encapsulate the record label and the artists representing it. Later, the noise collages and experimental sound manipulation coming out of Industrial Records came to be known as industrial music. Cazazza had built up an underground reputation as a particularly volatile performer with a potentially dangerous and antisocial aesthetic.  Re/SearchMagazine's Industrial Culture Handbook described his work as "insanity-outbreaks thinly disguised as art events". The Futurist Sintesi show near the end of 1975 was heralded on a promo flier as "Sex - religious show; giant statue of Jesus got chainsawed and gang raped into oblivion".
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==Links to Peel==
Peel played a track from the musician on his show in 1979, released on the Industrial label of Throbbing Gristle, but it is not known whether he played any further material, according to available tracklistings on this site.
==Shows Played==
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*25 June 1979: To Mom On Mother's Day (7") Industrial
==External Links==
*Wikipedia
*Discogs
*Brainwashed
Category:Artists