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This is bizarre, style-wise. It's industrial dance funk with r'n'b vocals and rap, similar (at times) to Consolidated, but with a very heavy Parliament/Funkadelic influence.I consider it a relic of a very specific time in the American club scene. People who did not like house and techno were hungry for dance music with "alternative" rock-n-roll sounds, so one faction of the industrial and "West Coast dance rock" scene was leaning toward producing a heavier rock or more funk-influenced sound. Sometimes they could even dabble in rap or pop sounds, and get away from the sample-based cacophonies and noisy, mechanical electro beats that had dominated industrial dance in the months and years prior.Industrial was a sinking ship, creatively, and soon to be commercially dead as well, but in the very early '90s it was still experimenting and transforming, trying to keep things interesting. In this particular example, it more-or-less succeeded.