1990: "The Parallax View", A Split Second

EBM - Electronic Body Music - was largely pioneered in the early-to-mid 80s by Belgian duo Front 242 as a new wave-inspired, dance-friendly take on the increasingly mechanistic beats of industrial music. Considered by most a subgenre of industrial, it also afforded a good deal of crossover potential with the burgeoning techno movement at the end of the 80s.

A Split Second were a little long in the tooth to be learning new tricks from acid house - unlike younger upstarts Meat Beat Manifesto, for instance - so "The Parallax View" sounds like it could have just as easily come out in 1984 as 1990, when it first appeared on the Kiss of Fury album... and yet ASS' 1986 debut single, Flesh, is often cited as the first New Beat record, a short lived micro-genre that directly inspired acid house and whose most famous artist, Praga Khan, would go on to be a key figure in early rave with his industrial-tinged Lords of Acid sect.

There were some solid remixes of "The Parallax View", but since the 12" single didn't come out until 1991 I'll stick with the 1990 album version for chronology's sake.