In amongst all this, it can be easy to forget just how important he/r legacy has been on today's electronic music makers. From Cosey Club staples like DJ Richard D Clouston to the eerie cut-ups of Hype Williams, from the gender-play of Mykki Blanco to Perc's searing marriage of EBM and heavy techno, Genesis' various projects—Psychic TV, Throbbing Gristle, COUM Transmissions and pandrogyny—have found their way into some of the most exciting pockets of 21st Century music.

Non-binary icon, industrial music pioneer, scourge of the red tops, art world darling, writer and propagator of one of the most powerful, poignant and important love stories the world has ever known. Genesis P-Orridge is all of these things, and so much more; weaving an ongoing history about gender and art and pretty much everything else in a way no few others would dare.

We are going to trace Gen's ongoing influence through compartmentalising h/her life and work into five distinct categories, examining how a wrecker of civilization became a uniquely cherished figure. Cherished, but never unchallening, anyway.

1. Dangerous Dalliances with Occultism and the Dark Arts

The story of music is, in a way, also the story of witchcraft and the devil, but few have taken such a broad, sincere and measured approach in their investigations into alternative belief systems as Genesis. This is shown in the poignant and wildly colourful film Bight of the Twin by Hazel Hill McCarthy III, which documents a trip to west Africa during which Genesis undergoes a voodoo "twin fetish" ritual designed to unite a dead twin (in this case, Gen's late partner, Lady Jaye) with its living counterpart.

Throughout Gen's career s/he has variously drawn on figures including Aleister Crowley, artist Austin Osman Spar, and Santeria deity Eshu Elegguá, as well as practicing various ritualistic practices like sex magic—"where the orgasm is the moment when all forms of consciousness in your mind are joined, temporarily, and therefore you can pass a message through." Church of Satan founder Anton LaVey can also be heard reciting the Lord's Prayer backwards on Psychic TV's Joy, while Genesis' superb 2010 tome Thee Psychick Bible outlines many of he/r ideas and sigilization methods.