Everything is Pop, Pop is Everything: RIP Peter "Sleazy .

Early yesterday morning came sad intelligence that one of the great pioneers in electronic music has died. Peter "Sleazy" Christopherson died in his sleep, at aged 55. As a founding member of Throbbing Gristle, he was partly of one of the most experimental, influential and notorious British groups of all time. Considered to be the foremost industrial band, their music spanned styles from machine-like noise to pure electro-pop.