Power electronics (music genre)
| Power electronics | |
|---|---|
English noise band Whitehouse are credited with pioneering power electronics. | |
| Other names | Heavy electronics |
| Stylistic origins | |
| Cultural origins | Late 1970s to early 1980s, United Kingdom |
| Typical instruments | |
| Fusion genres | |
| Death industrial | |
Power electronics (also known as heavy electronics) is a subgenre of noise and industrial music, characterized by static, screeching waves of feedback, analogue synthesizers, sub-bass pulses and high frequency squealing sounds.