Forever 80's Soundset For Zebra 2

Never knew Industrial music back then was mainstream i used to have to import most of the bands i liked Grump Front 242 Burp etc.

Well Peter Gabriel the creator of the gated reverb was mainstream but I don't know if we could ever consider Industrial mainstream. I think it's better that way, it's the only way we've been able to save a genre from annihilation by the braindead masses. Still remember those imports man, such a fertile period for music. New Beat, EBM and straight Industrial. People joke that there must have been crushed up circuit boards in all the heroin coming out of Belgium, Canada and Germany.

Also Australia esp Severed Heads, Snog, Foetus etc great times.

I'm not so sure Peter Gabriel was or is mainstream. His music has sveral layers. Certainly was not considered mainstream by the Industry, Atlantic Records refused to release his third album. "Not commercial". It's easy now to say he's mainstream. The man has a career of 40 years. And that fucking gated reverb was necessary in the context of his music. That's the difference between an artist and a simple (and maybe a good) musician.

As far as I'm informed, the audio engineer put a reverb into the insert of the tom tracks or group and accidentally activated the gate of the SSL. Back then the SSL was a totally new beast and he just fucked up, but it sounded totally cool, so they left it. And I always thought, it was a Phil Collins song… (Wasn't it In The Air Tonight)
Am I wrong?

Yes, Phil Collins put this in "In the air tonight". I remember an interview where Collins sais he asked Gabriel to use it, because they were working on a Gabriel's record. My point is, these guys were searching for something. Not using something. If they founded something by accident is one of the consecuences of that search.