Yearly archives: 2013

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Reptile New Year’s Eve 2013

For the second consecutive year, I finished my DJ year at Reptile. Whilst I was originally scheduled to do three sets, power supply issue caused the night to end an hour early and hence only two sets were completed (the final set was going to be a run of 80s synthpop classics, if you were wondering). The two sets I ended up playing went like this – as it was New Years Eve, nothing less that undisputed classics made it in.

11pm-11:30pm

Diary Of Dreams – The Plague
The Cruxshadows – Deception
Clan Of Xymox – There’s No Tomorrow
Wolfsheim – The Sparrows And The Nightingales
New Order – True Faith 94
Gary Numan – Are ‘Friends’ Electric? (Live Version)

3:30am-4am

Leftfield feat. Lydon – Open Up
Underworld – Cowgirl
Front 242 – Welcome To Paradise
Die Krupps vs Nitzer Ebb – The Machineries of Joy
Front Line Assembly – Mindphaser
DAF – Der Mussolini

Alternative Bring’n’Buy Sale – December 2013

The fourth Alternative Bring’n’Buy of 2013, my third one as DJ. This time, myself and Scott McMahon decided to tackle it as a 2-piece. He handled guitar music, I mainly handle stuff played on synths. Here’s my side of what was played.

12 noon – 1pm – Atmospheric and Darkwave

Strictly speaking, I started at 12:10pm, but details, details…..

Estampie – Aurora
Dead Can Dance – Enigma Of The Absolute
Sopor Aeturnus – The House Is Empty Now
Aurora Sutra – The Garden Of Temptation
Miranda Sex Garden – Gush Forth My Tears
Helium Vola – Nummus
Siderarctica – Circle Of The Angels
Mechanical Moth – Prophecy Of The Moth
Relatives Menschsein – Die Zeit
Das Ich – Das Dunkle Lnad
Trümmerwelten – Engelsleich
Eternal Aflict – Kinski Is Dead

2pm – 3pm – EBM and Elektro, Old and New

I might be happier in old-school territory now, but I still play industrial of all varieties.

Haujobb – Dead Market
Individual Totem – Lost Souls
X Marks The Pedwalk – Paranoid Illusions
Noise Unit – Agitate
The Invincible Spirit – Push!
Front 242 – Until Death Us Do Part
Pouppée Fabrikk – Keine Zukunft
Darkmen – Legs Like Gold
Klutæ – Desert Storm
God Module – Resurrection
Tactical Sekt – Xfixiation (Original version….for once!)
Infekktion – Electrocution
Funker Vogt – Black Market Dealers
Miss Construction – Eins Und Zwei
Rabia Sorda – What You Get Is What You See

4pm – 5pm – Futurepop and Synthpop

Including the first ever appearance of a certain ‘bleedin obvious’ Covenant song in a TH set.

Deja Vu II – World Alert
A Spell Inside – I Will
Blind Passengers – Headlights
Mesh – Trust You (Single)
Covenant – Dead Songs (that’s what I call it)
NeuroticFish – Velocity
Pride + Fall – December
The Azoic – Conflict
Spray – He Came With The Sleigh
Erasure – Gaudete
SPOCK – White Christmas
Marc Almond – Tears Run Rings
Eurythmics – Sweet Dreams
Depeche Mode – Everything Counts
The Human League – Don’t You Want Me
Pet Shop Boys – Always On My Mind

5pm – Scott vs Jonny Tag Team

A tradition started in 2009 still continues…..

Cowboy Timmy – Mr Hankey The Christmas Poo
Schmoof – Sweet Child O’Mine
Satan – Christmas In Hell
Reverend Horton Heat – Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
chef – Chocolate Salty Balls
Monty Python – Lumberjack Song
HP Lovecraft Society – It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Fish

Unofficial Sets

Compiled here are a number of setlists from events that I provided music for but for whatever reason don’t qualify as ‘official’ Terminates Here sets, for one of the following reason:
  • The set was prerecorded
  • The event was a ‘practice’ or kit-testing session
  • The event was so poorly attended that it was a glorified practice session.
  • The set took place in a private building (private parties in regular pubs/clubs DO count)

London Gothic Meetup 200 – 24 October 2009

There was no DJ booth here, so I took requests online in advance of the event. The set was premixed into blocks of 3 or 4 songs, with gaps to allow for requests on the night. Robert once again handled the goth rock, post-punk, new wave area, thus letting me handle all the fringe styles. No-one yelled ‘Play Some Goth’ all night, so I think we got away with it.

7pm-8pm

Current 93 – All The Pretty Little Horses
Emilie Autumn – Largo
Vernian Process – Sarabande
Ordo Rosarius Equilibrio – She’s In Love With A Whip (My Venus In Furs)
Dead Can Dance – The Host Of Seraphim
Qntal – Am Morgen Fruo
The Creatures – Pluto Drive
Faith And The Muse – Whispered In Your Ear
Collide – Wings Of Steel
Diary Of Dreams – Kindrom
Clan Of Xymox – This World Project Pitchfork – I Live Your Dream

9pm-10:15pm

Within Temptatation – See Who I Am
Nightwish – Wish I Had An Angel
Epica – Sensorium
Rammstein – Pussy
NIN – The Day The World Went Away
KMFDM – A Drug Against War
Deviant UK – Access Denied
Front 242 – Headhunter (Live Code Version)
Front Line Assembly – Iceolate
Combichrist – Get Your Body Beat
Modulate – Skullfuck
Grendel – Zombienation (v2k5)
VNV Nation – The Great Divide
Covenant – Like Tears In Rain
The Cruxshadows – Tears
The Birthday Massacre – I Think We’re Alone Now

Mittelalter Nacht – 17 April 2010

This was the first known attempt at running a mittelalter night in London – and where better to hold it than Zeitgeist, a German Gastropub south of the river. Thanks must go to Ian for organising the whole event, and also the organisers for putting on a charity buffet, which was as tasty and filling as everything else I’ve ever eaten there!
There was no DJ booth, so sets were pre-recorded. Ian and Alan provided the bulk of the music, though I did provide one hour myself, which was played between 9pm and 10pm. To keep things varied, I managed to get some neo-folk, folk rock and ethereal tunes into my own set. Here it is:
Strawbs – The Hangman And The Papist (Acoustic Version)
Fire And Ice – The Wind That Shakes The Barley
Estampie – A Voi Gente Lamia – O Virgo Spelendens
Delerium feat Medieval Baebes – Extollere
Helium Vola – In Lichter Farbe Steht der Wald Die
Irrlichter – Totus Floreo
Unto Ashes – One World One Sky
Corvus Corax – Skudrinka
Cultus Ferox – Götterdämmerung
Omnia – Wytches Brew
In Extremo – Merseburger Zaubersprüche II
Saltatio Mortis – God Gave Rock’n’Roll
Nightwish – Moondance

Mittelalter Nacht II – 22 October 2010

For the second time in 2010, a Mittelalter Night was held at the Zeitgeist gastropub. A larger pool of DJs were called upon this time, covering everything from folk metal to mittelalter punk. My own set included a selection of more ‘electro-mittelalter’ tracks as well as some more conventional material. For technical reasons it was pre-recorded, but was played between 9pm and 10pm on the night itself.
The Moon Lay Hidden Beneath A Cloud – Amara Tanta Tyri IV
Stoa – Autumn
Ataraxia – Elevazione
Qntal – Glacies
Helium Vola – Nummus
Lesiem – Fundamentum
Vangelis – Conquest Of Paradise
Potentia Animi – Viva La More
Heimataerde – Herr Mannelig
Eisenfunk – Skudrinka
Corvus Corax – Gaudalier (PC Project Remix)
Tanzwut – Exkremento
In Extremo – Villeman Og Magnhild
Faun – Rhiannon
Airim – Follow Me Up To Carlow

Gothic Sunday Chillout and Kit-Testing Session – March 6 2011

A Sunday afternoon with London Gothic is always well spent, especially when no less than 5 DJs gather to test out a selection of virtual DJ kit. The nature of this event means that the sets were all necessarily short. Here’s what I played:

Set 1

Code 64 – Leaving Earth
Beborn Beton – Another World
De/Vision – The End

Set 2

Melotron – Machmal (Edit)
Presets – Girl and the Sea
The Knife – Pass This On
Golden Boy and Miss Kittin – Rippin Kittin

Set 3

Umbra Et Imago feat Tanzwut – Feuer Und Licht
Schandmaul – Vor Der Schlacht
After Forever – Energize Me
Tiamat – The Ar
Theatre Of Tragedy – Machine
The Galan Pixs – Crackerjack – Return Of The Faith Healer

Downstairs Set – 15 February 2013

Whilst I was DJing Upstairs at said party, a pre-recorded set I made earlier in the day was playing downstairs. Due to it’s length, I never recorded the exact tracklist, nor it’s order, but here’s the highlights at least.
Atrium Carceri – Knowledge Of The Few
Coph Nia – Sympathy For The Devil
Steve Roach – Infinte Shore
Current 93 – Imperium I
Ordo Rosarius Equilibrio – She’s In Love With A Whip (Venus In Furs)
NON – Total War (Osaka version)
Laibach – Grosste Kraft & Mama Leone (plus their version of Rammstein’s Ohne Dich)
Blood Axis – Reign I Forever
The Prodigy – 3 Kilos
Jean Michel Jarre – Ethnicolour and Oxygene III
How To Destroy Angels – A Drowning
Swans – The Sound
Underworld – Stagger
Helium Vola – Omnis Mudia Creatura
Stalingrad – The Road On Which You’ll Die
Wendy Carlos – Title Music From A Clockwork Orange
Diary Of Dreams – Stimulation & Traumtanzer
A Split Second – Flesh (33rpm version)
DAF – Der Rauber and Der Prinz
Nine Inch Nails – The Downward Spiral (The Bottom) & Something I Can Never Have
Marilyn Manson – Cryptochid
Fear Factory – Timelessness
Ministry – The Fall
Gary Numan – Deadliner
Vic Anselmo – Das Dunkle Land
Kirlian Camera – Ascension
Delerium – Incantation and Heavens Earth
Der Dritte Raum – Swing Bop (thus filling the request for electro swing!)
Velvet Acid Christ – We Have To See We Have To Know
:Wumspcut: – Thorns (Distant Vocals)
Covenant – Slowmotion
VNV Nation – Carbon
Mortis – Everyone Leaves
Girls Under Glass – Frozen
Project Pitchfork – Souls
Apoptygma Berzerk – 25 Cromwell Street

Terminates Here Irregular Event #02 – (Un)Common People – 2 November 2013

An event run at VERY short notice in November 2013 – for financial reasons, it was a case of then or not at all. With only one attendee who wasn’t a DJ or arrived with a DJ, the whole event became more of a beatmatchers ‘live in the studio’ test session.
Massive Attack – Teardrop
Air – Sexy Boy
Orb – Little Fluffy Clouds
Prodigy – Poison
Leftfield – Release The Pressure
Faithless – Salva Mea (Floating Mix/Tuff Mix combo)
4 Strings – Daytime William Orbit – Adagio For Strings (Ferry Corsten Remix)…mixed into
Tiesto – Adagio For Strings (excerpt)
Bomb The Bass – Megablast
Chemical Brothers – Block Rockin’ Beats
Underworld – Born Slippy.NUXX
Robert Miles – Children (Dream Version)
Blur – Girls and Boys
Lightning Seeds + Baddiel/Skinner – Three Lions
Pulp – Common People
Presidents of the United States of America – Peaches

Office Closure Party – 18 January 2018

I’ve even DJed as part of my day job.  This was a party to mark the closure of our old office.  I only did the opening phase, a more “contemporary” DJ did the late shift.  But here’s my bit for the record:

Wendy Carlos – Title Music From A Clockwork Orange
Angelo Badalamenti – Laura Palmer’s Theme
Vangelis – Love Theme From Bladerunner
Ennio Morricone – Gabriel’s Oboe
Brian Eno – An Ending (Ascent)
Jean-Michel Jarre – Oxygene I
Massive Attack – Teardrop
Moby – Porcelain
The Orb – Little Fluffy Clouds
Delerium – Incantation
Guru Josch – Infinity
KLF – 3am Eternal
Shamen – Phorever People
Frankie Goes To Hollywood – Two Tribes
Bananarama – Venus
Human League – Don’t You Want Me
Depeche Mode – Never Let Me Down
Stranglers – Peaches
The Cranberries – Zombie
Blur – Girls + Boys
Pulp – Common People

 

History Of Guns + The Infinite Three + Amon Zero

Set 3 in my triple-header – The first History of Guns gig for 5 years, the first activity from Amon Zero in a while, but my first ever in East London. Tonight’s set included a interesting collection of genres (reflective of the band line up), with more than a few salutes to the Wasp Factory and Line Out rosters, plus a couple of East London legends in the post-gig assortment.

Freudstein – Live This Lie
Kat5can – Bonesaw
AmGod – On The Hunt (Short Mix)
Run Level Zero – Black Cinder
Goteki – Ninjagrrl
Aphex Twin – Girl/Boy Song
Axiome – Traque

<Amon Zero>

Chrome – Firebomb
Pere Ubu – Street Waves
Killing Joke – Follow The Leaders
Public Image Ltd – Public Image
1919 – Cry Wolf
Magazine – Shot By Both Sides
Joy Division – Transmission

<The Infinite Three>

Broken Links – Within Isolation
Earth Loop Recall – Optimism Creeping In
The Chaos Engine – Employee Of The Year
Deathboy – Cheap Shot
Pitchshifter – Genius
NIN – You Know What You Are?

<History Of Guns>

The Clash – I Fought The Law
Ian Dury – Spasticus Autisticus (Live)
Dead Kennedys – California Uber Alles
Big Black – The Model
Anthrax – Got The Time
Slayer – Angel Of Death
Iron Maiden – Run To The Hills
AC/DC – Highway To Hell
Argent – God Gave Rock and Roll To You

Alternative Bring’n’Buy Sale – October 2013

Part 2 of my triple-header, and back to where it all began at the Tufnell Park Dome. Joining me today was Alt B&B regular Scott, and also Captain Howard, who handled most of the styles I normally play, that gave me an opportunity to play, well, something else.

Set 1 – Folk-Prog-Psych-Glam Rock

With industrial and electronic covered and goth due later, this set reflects various other tunes that I thought I made a change from what I normally do.

Strawbs – The Hangman And The Papist
Steeleye Span – Blackleg Miner
Blackmores Night – Wind In The Willows
Fairport Convention – Breakfast In Mayfair
Can – She Brings The Rain
Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band – Sugar and Spikes
Hawkwind – Silver Machine
Pink Floyd – Another Brick In The Wall (Part 2)
Jethro Tull – Aqualung
Deep Purple – Knocking At Your Back Door
Camel – Cloak and Dagger Man
Foreigner – Double Vision
Roxy Music – Re-Make Re-Model
Sweet – Ballroom Blitz

Set 2 – Old Goth With A Bit Of New Stuff

A kind of once-a-year thing for me. But I’m happy to play it more often if anyone’s interested…..

Fortification 55 – And Tomorrow Atlantis
Hungry Lucy – Could It Be
Collide – Wings Of Steel
Razor Skyline – Queen Of Heaven
The Glove – Like An Animal
Atomic Neon – Cold Room
Manuskript – Flies In The Marzipan
Love Like Blood – Shed Your Skin
Killing Joke – Empire Song
Rubicon – Watch Without Pain
Bauhaus – Lagartija Nick
Sisters Of Mercy – Detonation Boulevard
Mono Inc – Burn Me
The Birthday Massacre – Happy Birthday
Helalyn Flowers – Guided By Voices

Jonny Vs Scott Tag Team Silliness

Something of a tradition – throw away all integrity and make clear up a lot less tedious. (Though to be fair, I’d play some of these in regular sets).

Madonna – Material Girl
Primal Scream – Rocks
Bon Jovi – You Give Love A Bad Name
Dee-Lite – Groove Is In The Heart
Men Without Hats – The Safety Dance
Shamen – L.S.I.
KLF – 3am Eternal
Monty Python – Bruce’s Philosophers Song + Knights Of The Round Table

Global Noise Attack + Machine Rox + Paresis + MixE1

Part one of my triple-header saw me go back to the upper reaches of Elektrowerkz to fill the musical gaps between the four bands on the billing tonight.

Kloq – Push It
Battery – Aftermath
Psy’Aviah – Into The Game

<MixE1>

Je$us Loves Amerika – FYA
Psychopomps – Superpsycho
Weena Morloch – Kaputt!
Dawn Of Ashes – A Breathing Holocaust
KMFDM – A Drug Against War

<Paresis>

Glis – No Pulse
Inertia – Angel (In The Psychiatrists Chair)
Deja Vu II – World Alert

<Machine Rox>

History Of Guns – Empty Eyes
Pigface – Divebomber
Killing Joke – Pandemonium (Cybersank Edit)
Nine Inch Nails – Heresy
Ministry – Stigmata
Skinny Puppy – Tin Omen

<Global Noise Attack>

Byte Back – Terminates Here Irregular Event #01

BYTE BACK, the first Terminates Here-branded event, took place last night. Joining me tonight were DJs traumahound and Captain Howard (click on the links to see their sets). My own sets were at either end of the event, and were as follows:

Set 1 – 8pm-9pm

Suicide – Rocket USA
Attrition – Underpass (Click, Click Drone) (John Foxx cover)
Kraftwerk – Tour De France (1983 version)
Opera Multi Steel – Ils S’eloigent
Kinetik – Go Elements Go
QEK Junior – Atomkonsens
Xeno & Oaklander – Blue Flower
Klinik – Moving Hands
Pankow – Gimme More Much More
Liaisons Dangereuses – Los Ninos Del Parque
Ionic Vision – Ave Maria (Original)
Click Click – Sweet Stuff
Proceed – Identität
Das Präparat – Emily
The Cassandra Complex – What Can I Do For You
Revenge – Pineapple Face

Set 2 – Midnight-1am

Cubanate – Oxyacetylene
Funker Vogt – Gunman (Classic)
Covenant – Stalker (Club Version)
VNV Nation – Darkangel
Icon Of Coil – Access and Amplify
Fischerspooner – Emerge
Front 242 – Headhunter (Live Code Version)
Prodigy – Everybody In The Place (Fairground)
Orbital – Doctor?
Juno Reactor – Masters of the Universe
Seize – Unbreakable
Underworld – Born Slippy.NUXX
Depeche Mode – A Question Of Time
OMD – Maid Of Orleans

Alternative Bring’n’Buy Sale – July 2013

My first set in a couple of months, and my first full-length set since the end of Neo-Noir. Today I was joined by DJs Scott and Sinbad, thus re-uniting half the line-up from Reptile NYE 2012. With the two of them handling “everything with guitars in”, I played synthy stuff pretty much all day.

10:30am-12 noon – Synthetic Startup

Kept it mellow for the opening hour, given the likely heat.

Sabres Of Paradise – Clock Factory
Boards Of Canada – Turquiose Hexagon Sun
Autechre – Bike
Underworld – Dirty Epic
Yage – 831am
Finitribe – Forevergreen
Male Or Female – Louder Than Silence
Lassigue Bendthaus – Fiber
Cleen – Sunburst
Elektric Music – Esperanto
Rorschach Garden – Robot Song
Depeche Mode – Nodisco
OMD – Dresden
Hard Corps – Clean Tables
Northern Kind – On+On
Marsheaux – Breakthrough

2am-3am – More Bleep

So yes, in this set somewhere is a track of my own creation….

Halo In Reverse – King O
NIN – Survivalism
Meat Beat Manifesto – Prime Audio Soup
Deja Vu II – World Alert
Front 242 – Quite Unusual
Brigade Werther – Killbeat
Skinny Puppy – Smothered Hope
Tyske Ludder – Monotonie
Aiboforcen – E.W.I.F.
VNV Nation – Chrome
Icon Of Coil – Dead Enough For Life
Project Pitchfork – Timekiller
Suicidal Romance – Like An Angel
Blutengel – Stay (Shakespeares Sister Cover)

5am-5:30pm – Jonny vs Scott Tag Team

The traditional venue clearer.

Thin Lizzy – The Boys Are Back In Town
The Pogues – Fiesta
WASP – I Wanna Be Somebody
John Travolta and Oliva-Newton John – Summer Nights
Monty Python – Every Sperm Is Sacred
Johnny Cash – Ring Of Fire
Elvis Presley – Jailhouse Rock

Renaissance IV

Renaissance IV – A total of 23 different bands, projects and solo artists played the event, as well as 6 DJs. Credit must go not only to all artists involved, but especially Ays from Die Kur for bringing such an ambitious project to fruition.

Anyway, my own DJ stint “filled the gaps” between the final three bands. A pretty diverse selection, but here’s how it all pieced together

Leaves Eyes – Norwegian Lovesong
Ostara – Bavaria
Blood Axis – The Hangman and the Papist
Death In June – The Calling Mk2

<Jordan Reyne>

Sunshine Blind – Regodless
Gitane DeMone – Stars Of Trash (Guitar Version)
Psychophile – Vice Girl

<Cold In Berlin>

AC/DC – Highway To Hell
Judas Priest – Breaking The Law
Metallica – Enter Sandman
Pantera – Mouth For War

<Die Kur>

ABBA – Thank You For The Music

Neo-Noir – The Final Countdown

The final Neo-Noir event occured at the London Stone. With two of the regular DJs absent, it was down to myself, Wozza and Paladin to provide the music. Despite early technical issues, we ended up seeing the club out in some kind of haphazard style.

Here’s what I played – as it was the last night, I took the chance to play a few ‘unexpected’ songs that wouldn’t normally feature at the event. It was a real ‘what the hell, let’s have some fun’ kind of event – after a run of genre-specific events, it was a great chance to let rip and see what worked.

Set 1 – 11pm-Midnight

Ultraviolence – Hardcore Motherfucker (the next two songs were mixed into this songs intermissions…..)
Dive – No, Nothing
Klutae – Desert Storm
System:FX – Stay In Your Home
XPQ-21 – Rockin’ Silver Knight
Ohgr – Pore
Blitzmaschine – Useless Pain
Nitzer Ebb – Let Your Body Learn
SPOCK – Klingon 2000
Mesh – Firefly (Too Fast and Too Short Live Version)
De/Vision – Try To Forget
Beborn Beton – Another World
Pet Shop Boys – It’s A Sin
Erasure – Sometimes
Frankie Goes To Hollywood – Two Tribes

Set 2 – 1am to 2:15am

Laibach – The Final Countdown
Underworld – Born Slippy.NUXX
Robert Miles – Children
IAMX – Think Of England
The Big Pink – Dominos
Interpol – Obstacle 1
White Lies – To Lose My Life
Asylum Party – Sur La Route
U2 – I Will Follow
Undertones – Teenage Kicks
Buzzcocks – What Do I Get?
Crisis – PC1984
Wat Tyler – English Pride
Sham 69 – If The Kids Are United
Killing Joke – Requiem
Ministry – Thieves
Nine Inch Nails – March Of The Pigs
Type O Negative – My Girlfriends Girlfriend (Cheese Organ Mix)
Metallica – Enter Sandman
Nirvana – Smells Like Teen Spirit
Twisted Sister – We’re Not Going To Take It
Bon Jovi – Livin’ On A Prayer