And then over the road for our Open Request List event….all except the first few and final run are requests.
Set 1
The Velvet Underground – Venus In Furs The Beatles – While My Guitar Gently Weeps Bonzo Dog Band – I’m The Urban Spaceman The Rolling Stones – Paint It Black Patti Smith – Dancing Barefoot Lene Lovich – Lucky Number Kate Bush – Running Up That Hill Depeche Mode – Black Celebration Japan – Quiet Life Siouxsie & The Banshees – Cities In Dust
Set 2
Tool – Schism Lindemann – Knebel Die Krupps – Vision 2020 Vision Liaisons Dangereuses – Los niños del parque Black Light Ascension – Club Death The Sisters of Mercy – Marian Killing Joke – Love Like Blood The Cult – Resurrection Joe Thin Lizzy – Jailbreak T.Rex – Children Of The Revolution The Leather Nun – Ride Into Your Town Metallica – For Whom The Bell Tolls Soundgarden – Black Hole Sun Alice In Chains – Rooster
Set 3
Iris – Closer To Real Wolfsheim – Once In A Lifetime Project Pitchfork – I Live Your Dream Alexander Veljanov – The Wind The Sisters Of Mercy – The Damage Done The Pretenders – Stop Your Sobbing Florence and the Machine – Shake It Out The KVB – Captives
Final Tag-Team
Scott’s tracks are in italics.
Soviet Soviet – Rainbow Agent Side Grinder – Life In Advance NIN – The Lovers :Wumpscut: – Hold (Kirlian Camera Remix) Radiohead – Idioteque Underworld – Stagger Leftfield – Swords Faithless – Drifting Away Portishead – The Rip Bat For Lashes – In God’s House Goldfrapp – Annabel
Outro: Ramin Djawadi feat Serj Tankian – The Rains Of Castamere
Back for the first daytime set of 2020 (actually the first anywhere). As the event fell on International Women’s Day, Scott and I both played a larger-than-usual number of tracks featuring female artists.
Set 1 – 10:20am-11:45am
Underworld feat. Evelyn Glennie – And I Will Kiss Kruder & Dorfmeister – Original Bedroom Rockers Massive Attack – Inertia Creeps Sneaker Pimps – 6 Underground :Wumpscut: – Wreath Of Barbs (Violet Remix) Kirlian Camera – Ascension Jean-Michel Jarre – September Niels Gordon – Chloro V-Zylanz – Jet Set Willy A8 Off – Electric Salsa Confettis – The Sound Of C Nux Nemo – Hiroshima Tragic Error – Klatsche In Die Hande Amnesia – Ibiza Cassandra Complex – Moscow Idaho
1pm-2pm
Light Asylum – Heart of Dust Rein – There Is No Authority But Yourself Invasion of Female Logic – Trendsetter //TENSE// – Chain Randolph & Mortimer – Enjoy More Malaise – Something Else Mao Tse Tung Experience – Irregular Times Noxious Emotion – Mass Strvngers – Nostalgia Statemachine – Thermal Noise Echo Image – Standing Alone Les Anges De La Nuit – The Apocalypse Machine Rox – Bring Back Reality Ayria – The Gun Song Angelspit – 100%
3pm-4pm
Death In Vegas – Dirt Two Lone Swordsmen – Sex Beat (Andrew Weatherall Tribute) Moby & The Pacific Void Choir – Don’t Leave Me Earth Loop Recall – Optimism Creeping In Action Directe – UK Unit:187 – Capital Punishment Luxt – American Beast L’Âme Immortelle – 5 Jahre Within Temptation – Stand My Ground Pythia – Army Of The Damned Leaves Eyes – To France The Birthday Massacre – Video Kid Helalyn Flowers – Kamikaze Angel Propaganda – Dr.Mabuse Parralox – Headhunter
When writing guides such these, it’s often hard to choose the next band to cover. Sure, I can use social media to gauge interest in specific projects, but there’s also got to be a personal motive to invest time and effort in researching and writing a piece this long. It’s a particularly big decision when you deal with exceptionally prolific artists – the timing has to be right, lest one get bogged down in a body of work too large to take in. And it just so happens I’ve been spending recent months investigating the dark and obscure corners of one of the largest back-catalogues my genres of choice have to offer. It’s time to take a look at Wumpscut. (Yes, officially the name is supposed to be bookended with colons, but if I do that here, my grammar checker will throw a wobbly).
Wumpscut was formed by the Bavarian DJ Rudy Ratzinger in 1991, inspired by the likes of Skinny Puppy, Leæther Strip and Dirk Ivens among others. The name means nothing – it was an entirely synthetic creation. His style has been referred to as both ‘dark electro’ or ‘electro-industrial’ – the terms are interchangeable as far as online discussion goes, and since few musicologists acknowledge so much as the existence of the style post-mid 1980s, it’s unlikely we’ll ever get a clear answer. Just accept that if you’re not into dark synthetic textures, hard electronic rhythms and angry vocals, dealing with some of the most unpleasant subject matters both fiction and reality have to offer, you might as well quit reading now.
Whilst this was very much a solo project, Rudy occasionally brought in guest musicians, mainly for female vocals, as well as sampling extensively from movies and bands from a variety of genres – the Alien movies are an obvious influence, inspiring as they did the project’s official logo. He also remixed other artists frequently and featured on many compilations. The one thing Wumpscut never did was play live. Rudy never had any desire to take the project to stage – neither did he feel like he could have done the music justice if he had done so.
I hope this guide will serve to be comprehensive, though what it won’t be is 100% exhaustive. This is, after all, a Listeners Guide, not a Collectors Guide or Fanatics Guide. Most Wumpscut albums have been released several times, in several formats, and there’s no way I can cover every version of all of them. Physical format collectors will have to check resources like Discogs.com for a full shopping list. Be prepared to shell out for the box set versions. My cupboard isn’t big enough for that kind of excess.
If you’re happy to stay virtual, I recommend Wumpscut’s Bandcamp page, which has just-about-everything for 5 Euros per album. The Concentrated Camp editions are the best way to get the most complete versions of each album, and there’s also sizeable compilations covering all the loose ends, of which there are many. Devoted fans can also get vinyl masters and ‘Inheritance’ editions (draft/demo versions from the DAT tape archives), but I’m not going to cover these – perhaps someone else will one day. Casual fans can stream most of the studio albums on the regular services, but the remixes and rarities are covered inconsistently, so you might not find every track I mention.
This may be too long for many of you, so you can just Skip To The End and just find out what songs are worth listening to. But if you’re up for the full and complete text – it’s time to get started.
