This is the online repository for Jonny Hall, aka DJ Terminates Here. I’ve been a DJ since 2008 and was writing about music for several years before that, predominantly around the goth/industrial/alternative scene, but I have very few hard limits as to what styles I may cover. This site is a repository for my setlists and writings.
I’m born, bred and based in London, UK. As for where it all started, I was never quite the same since a copy of NIN’s ‘The Downward Spiral’ was left round my house in 1996. My music writing began in the very late 1990s under the name ‘Jonny EOL’, making the switch to DJing in the late 2000s. It was around this time I adopted the ‘Terminates Here’ name.
In order to keep things interesting and avoid political in-fighting, I never held a club residency until the tri-annual old-school EBM night “Work! To Live” which began in March 2022. I have, however, played guest slots at the following events: Wave-Gotik-Treffen, Infest, Lava, Reptile, Slimelight, Yesterday’s Shadow, Electric Dreams, Dark Disco, Renaissance Alternative Music Festival plus a number of one-offs.
I’ve also run a number of events of my own, most notably ‘Tragedy >For Us<‘, an occasional tribute to the sounds of old-school EBM and related industrial sounds (since supplanted by Work!). There was also my quarterly Open Request List event, where the audience decides the music policy. This began as an event taking place immediately after the Alternative Bring’n’Buy Sale, another event I had a significant role in soundtracking.
I’m in semi-retirement as a DJ now, still playing Work! plus the occasional guest slot elsewhere, but I’ve reverted focus towards my writing now. A number of articles and listeners guides can be found on my site, plus information about my first book The Dark Scene 500.
My favourite bands of all? Hard to list a few, but how about Front 242, Nine Inch Nails, Killing Joke, Project Pitchfork, Diary of Dreams, VNV Nation (mainly early stuff), Depeche Mode, Rammstein, Wumpscut, Apoptygma Berzerk, Covenant, OMD, Leæther Strip, Kirlian Camera, Ministry, Fear Factory, In Extremo, Jean Michel Jarre, Mike Oldfield, Underworld, Megaherz, Mono Inc and I probably could go on for hours.
I should also a salute to some bands who have made a name for themselves in the past decade or so – Empathy Test, Zynic, Agent Side Grinder, Youth Code, High-Functioning Flesh, Auger, Benefits, Wulfband, plus bands like Lebanon Hanover and Cold Cave, both of whom seem to have transcended the confined of the scene and become big names in their own right.
In addition, some local favourites include Die Kur, MaxDmyz, Global Citizen, System:FX, Black Light Ascension, Mechanical Cabaret, This Is Radio Silence, Riotmiloo, Inertia, Machine Rox and I’ve probably missed a few.
I don’t like dubstep. Or The Smiths.
I don’t use Apple products.
I’m immune to guilt trips about any of the above. Or indeed anything else. There’s so many better ways to win me over!
From here, you might want to read:
- DJ Setlists – The complete playlist history of DJ Terminates Here
- The Dark Scene 500 – My first full-length book
- Articles – Including my growing collection of ‘Listener’s Guides’.
- EOL-Audio Archive – Writings from 1998-2006
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