Monthly archives: March 2020

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DJ Terminates Here vs DJ The Scot – March 2020

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

Alternative Bring’n’Buy Sale – March 2020

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

And then over the road for more….

Wumpscut – A Listener’s Guide

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.

Wumpscut - Logo

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.    

With the retirement of the project in 2017, I am at least able to tell the Wumpscut story from start to end.  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 them. 

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.

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