2016

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10 Years of DJ Terminates Here – 2016

It’s fair to say that Djing wasn’t the first thing on my mind when 2016 began. First handling a hacked home internet connection, then the whole “Windows 10 Upgrade” thing that was going on at the time, and then the usual early-days-of-the-year cold that lingered longer than it should have done. Somewhere in amongst this, I’d agreed to DJ Reptile in February, but whilst I’d got shot of the distractions by the time of the event itself, I remember little of what happened that night. There was also the March ABBS and Aces afterparty, now a regular pairing in my DJ calendar, and both delivered without drama.

Celebrate It, Anticipate It – Yesterday’s Faded

But what I really needed to take things up a gear was a wildcard, something different. It came on a Saturday morning in March. We’d planned an evening at the Yesterday’s Shadow 80s night at The Pack and Carriage (a renamed Elixir Bar). A message came through from event organiser Demondaz. One of the DJs had woken up sick, and could I replace him? Well, I was going anyway, my DJ kit was ready to go, and it’s not like an 80s set would need much preparation. So yes, I could.

Of course, the ease at which one can play an eighties set in the scene is also a drawback. The hits are too obvious and with 5 DJs, one of the others is more likely to get some of them in before me (to this day I’ve never managed to get “I Could Be Happy” by Altered Images in first!). On this occasion, I had enough time to figure out an interesting early set which was not jam-packed with hits, winged it on the second set when the dancefloor was busy, and the whole event went quite well. I was even invited back the next month, but this focus of this event was the return of DJ Paul Sticks to the UK. When people began elbowing me in the rather limited DJ area, simply due to how crowded it was, I realised this wasn’t going to be my big night and decided to wait for the next one.

But 2016 was about to explode. Most of us will remember that year, the fateful EU Exit referendum, the election of Donald Trump and the death of more celebrities, particularly from the music business, than I can name here. But with that as a backdrop, I was about to enter my busiest period so far. The main focus was getting my first set at a major scene festival. I’d played numerous one-day events in London, but could I make the step-up to one of the long-established names? With Whitby Gothic Weekend being “too political” and Resistanz unlikely to offer anything to someone without a club association (and due to end in 2016 anyway), Infest became my target. It was the one I went to most often anyway.

I actually first tried to get on the bill in 2014, but that went nowhere. In 2015, I decided to wait until I’d got an event of my own under my belt. Tragedy >For Us< indeed happened, and one of the Infest organisers even showed up, but it was too late to get myself on the radar for that year. Still, I put everything into getting on in 2016, spoke to all the right people, made the deal and on one glorious Friday-afternoon-before-the-late-May-holiday, my participation was announced and my Facebook profile went mad. Appropriately enough, my plans for that night were a Test Dept gig at the Dome, back where it all started, with an Aces and Eights pint and pizza beforehand.

FUCKIN’ ALIVE!

I was back at both venues in a weeks time, for the now well-established Sunday DJ epic, made moreso when one of the guest DJs failed to show. Luckily, rustling up half-an-hour of extra music each wasn’t beyond Scott and myself. I’d also done a deal for get a third EBM night going, though my love of wordplay meant it would have to be called “Tragedy >For Free<”, with the resultant no-entry-price policy. Neither me, Nathan nor Kreigslok were worried about this. And having something not-to-worry-about was something of a plus in what would become the most emotionally-charged period of Djing ever.

A bombshell dropped on the night of Tragedy >For Free<, now taking place on the Hope and Anchor on Upper Street and a convenient distance from the scene’s London heartland of ‘Gothic Valley’. I won’t discuss the details here, but it resulted in having to run the event under a cloud. And yet….it was the best attended and most lively dancefloor-wise of the three so far. A few days later and we had that EU Exit referendum, with a result that threw a spanner into the works of our country that at time of writing (two and a half years on) has only got more and more confusing.

And despite my own British nationality, it was a major hit to the Terminates Here mission. Most of the bands that make my sets distinctive come from EU nations – I have to go there to see the ones I like and potentially discover new ones. Also, much of the audience at my sets are people from elsewhere in the EU, with Germans, Italians, French and Polish particularly noticeable. And there’s not the only group who’ve made this story what it was. The LGBT+ community have often taken refuge in our scene, many in the role of muscians, DJs, promoters, fashion designers or various other roles. And it all came together a couple of nights after the vote.

If We All Stand Together – It Will Just Be The Start

Friday after the vote…I was watching footage of Underworld’s performance at Glastonbury, when a message arrives. For reasons not entirely clear, I was wanted for the Slimelight goth/80s floor the following night. Unusual, as I’ve only ever filled in gaps at Slimelight when I was Djing the gig before and hence already on-hand to play the club as well. I’d never got my foot in the door in terms of Djing the club on it’s own, and to be honest, never fancied the concept of a weekly set in the same place. I’d get stuck in a loop.

I eventually put the pieces together. The London scene have a float on the Pride March each year, which includes an on-board DJ. It’s a collective that carries on hours after the march itself. They’d arranged to have an afterparty at Slimelight, but with the “daytime DJs” having been on the go for hours by then, they needed an allied DJ who’d be fresh for the late night session. In I stepped.

The opening set was OK, if a little empty. However, by the time of the second set, the room was rammed solid. With my laptop playing up, it was time to pull out the tablet. And somehow sensing the mood of the night, it was time to dig out the protest tunes. Pop Will Eat Itself, New Model Army, Sex Pistols and Sham 69 in a row. Despite being a one-off guest, I wasn’t beyond a few requests. Someone asked me to play something “camp” (like Cyndi Lauper or Elton John, he said). We compromised on “A Little Respect” by Erasure, the floor never stopped moving, and it’s safe to say I left that DJ booth feeling more emotion than at any point previously.

Djing continued for the next few months with some more low-key action. I’d agreed with Scott and the Aces and Eights management to run a ‘standalone’ version of the open request list event. We discovered late in the day that this coincided with the Euro 2016 final. None of us are renowned for sports-related events, but we turned our DJ event into a kind of warm-up, with our trademark ‘tag-team’ at half-time. I stuck around until the end, even playing a Moonspell tune to mark Portugal’s less-than-thrilling victory, but this one seemed a little less special that those that came before.

Two consecutive Yesterday’s Shadow events saw me through the usual “summer slump”. The July event was actually quite lively, though it emptied out every time there was a communal cigarette break (why are people still smoking anyway?). August was a little quieter, but since I seldom played any sets at all in that particular month in recent years, I wasn’t really surprised. Because this was the month where people were away at festivals. As I would be in a few weeks time. And this time I was bringing my DJ kit. It was time for Infest.

Illuminate Me – Make Me Complete

As a kind of celebratory action, I purchased first-class train tickets to Bradford. Perhaps it was indicative of the fact that it was a less-than-popular August Bank Holiday destination, but they weren’t actually that much more expensive. I got my AAA pass and wore it with pride. I had made it. But there was still work to do. Friday night could be enjoyed, with my first chances to see Dead When I Found Her and Pop Will Eat Itself. My moment was due on Saturday in the Escape Bar. I’d admit there was stress in the hours leading up to my set, though I still got my hour with Velvet Acid Christ before I focused on the task at hand. The headliner that night were Atari Teenage Riot, who I never liked anyway, but at least I had plausible excuse to not watch them!

Grabbed my kit from the hotel, and also located my co-DJ for the evening, DJ Ban. He was on first, and the space issues (always an issue) meant I had to play my first two tracks off tablet whilst we swapped laptops. He’d left me on The Damned, so I went into Star Industry, from there to Diary of Dreams and I was already into my A-material. No obscure educational tricks tonight, only the best would do. From darkwave, to EBM, to industrial, to post-punk, to eighties. Only downside was the soundsystem wasn’t as loud as I would have liked, but I’ll take that as a compliment.

My last track should have been Apop’s “Love Never Dies Pt 1”, the original version with the illicit Carmina Burana sample included. But as it faded out, I realise no-one was stopping me and put on one more – VNV Nation’s “Nova”. I had only ever played this song as the last track of the night, a rule I wasn’t about to break. I knew how popular they were amongst the Infest crowd. What I didn’t expect was everyone to launch into a communal sing-a-long and dance (I christened it the “Nova-Cokey”), even dragging in me and also the security guard who had only come to close the room down! Some moments stick with you forever – had this set been the early slot, or even a band-support on the main floor (the kind of set I was originally thinking I might have got), this wouldn’t have happened. But it happened. And that’s what matters.

The Sunday of the festival could then be a rest day, though Claus Larsen had other ideas and threw everything he had into the long-awaited Leæther Strip set and brought the rest of Infest along for the ride in the process. There was a distinct celebratory air about that Sunday, and even the journey back to London. The feeling carried right through to the next weekend, with the ABBS-and-open-request-list double-header. Unusually, there were some technical issues with the Aces PA this time, but luckily their Friday night resident DJ was on hand to assist, so it only hit the earliest part of the event.

Like An Endless Seeming Circle, Around I Go

This pairing took me to the tantalising count of 99 “official” DJ sets – I didn’t count pre-recorded sets, the kit-testing session or the first (Un)Common People by this point. Where would the 100th be? I first had the distraction of doing something I never otherwise do (going on holiday), not the best plan given how poorly I adapt to overseas travel. A couple of Autumn sets were arranged, though, and my 100th DJ appearance came at Bleak’s album launch on Halloween. Die Kur were there too, and I also discovered Francesco Fonte’s project ‘DJ Translight’ (actually a live improv affair). It seemed right to mark this landmark with a number of the people who’d helped me get this far.

Ad:Rem 2016 came a week later. Once again, a host of obscure European bands were brought in to play, whilst two UK projects opened up. One was Grimbergen, Nathan’s darkambient project (it’s grim ‘oop North), the other the antagonising power electronics affair S.T.A.B. I was the sole support DJ this time, with Danny back from Belgium to handle the afterparty, but my first job was to get my unwanted bass guitar amp from East London to Elektrowerkz (my contribution to the backline). It was something I purchased as a folly several year ago, pointless in the era of virtual amps and small flats, and was happy to donate it to the cause. Indeed, I have no idea what happened to it after that.

The actual event was a stressful affair, technically complex with every band having a unique configuration to soundcheck. I just stayed focused on my role as support DJ, happy to develop a bespoke lead-in set for every band on the bill – with everything from noise to EBM to martial industrial, I had my hands full with that. Danny took over when it came to the afterparty, but both he and a third DJ from one of the bands (who never got to play!) had to leave to catch early flights and Eurostar trains, and I had the 5am slot on the industek floor to handle myself.

It was time to hit the rhythmic noise again. A poster around the venue actually advertised I’d be playing the style, and after a couple of lead-in tunes, I got a group dancing to the likes of Xotox, Terrorfakt and Converter. Someone actually came up to me expressing the wish that the club would play the style more often. But whatever happened on that front, I wasn’t involved. This actually turned out to be my last set at Elektrowerkz – Slimelight or otherwise.

I recognise their significance of the venue as far as the London scene goes. I also understand that as the last remaining weekly scene event in the UK, they have to run it as a business rather than a hobby. But deep down, one remembers those who went out of their way to help, and from my perspective, there were never any favours coming from this particular corner of the scene. They occasionally made use of my services when they were needed and I happened to be on hand, and I co-operated simply to ensure I got some action from one of the few internationally-recognised UK venues on my DJ history. But that was the limit of the relationship. If you’re reading this expecting to find all the history and intrigue surrounding this venue, ask someone else. It’s not my story to tell.

You Want It Darker – We Kill The Flame

My own Djing for the year was not yet complete. The Christmas ABBS and Open Request list pairing included a number of tributes to the too-many musicians who’d died during 2016. Bowie and Cohen tributes was notable, as were those to a fallen Eagle and a Hoople drummer, but I felt it was my place to mark lost members of less-known bands like The Weathermen and Vision Talk also.

The Open Request list even carried on this theme, though there was a less-than-friendly encounter during this one. A woman feeling slighted that we didn’t have her request sent in her aggressive boyfriend to have a go at us. It was eventually quelled but it’s the kind of nasty encounter we have to deal with once in a while.

There was only the Yesterday’s Shadow “this isn’t a Christmas party” to play after this. I didn’t even think about bringing my laptop, the tablet would do, and it was a nice way to see out the year, especially when I got in childhood favourite “Our House” (Madness). Twenty sets played, as many as 2012, but higher-profile ones in most cases. If the world was indeed sliding into terminal decline at this point, I was at least ensuring the process of descent had a fuckin’ good soundtrack.

It would continue into 2017….

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20 Years Of Live Music – Part 17 (2016)

For 2016, I’ve decided not to write a detailed account of WGT or Infest. That’s not to reflect badly on either event, just that I can’t spin any lengthy tale about WGT 2016 that isn’t a slightly-modified version of one you’ve already read. As for Infest 2016, that’s coming in a future piece….so here’s a few less-obvious tales of live music instead. Continue reading

Yesterday’s Shadow Before Christmas

I returned to Yesterday’s Shadow for a Christmas party refreshingly clear of the obvious cheesy hits. In an attempt to bring together the best of this event in 2016, we had a total of seven DJs playing. Here’s my contribution to the evening’s music:

Set 1 – 10:40pm

Red Lorry Yellow Lorry – Monkey’s On Juice
Cocteau Twins – Lorelei
Pet Shop Boys – Opportunities (Let’s Make Lots of Money)
Erasure – Stop!
The Communards – Disenchanted
Depeche Mode – People Are People
The Human League – Blind Youth
Fad Gadget – Love Parasite
Joy Division – Isolation
The B-52s – Planet Claire
The Cramps – Drug Train
Bauhaus – Lagartija Nick

Set 2 – 1:20am

OMD – Enola Gay
Nena – 99 Luftballons
David Bowie – Sound and Vision
Killing Joke – Eighties
Sham 69 – If The Kids Are United
Madness – Our House
New Order – True Faith

DJ Terminates Here vs DJ The Scott – December 2016

As is now the tradition, Scott and myself went to Aces and Eights to run our quarterly Open Request List event once the Alternative Bring’n’Buy Sale was done. All but the first few songs and the final phase were requests.

Set 1

Leonard Cohen – You Want It Darker
Johnny Cash – Man In Black
The Eagles – Hotel California
Rolling Stones – Gimme Shelter
The Mission – Like A Hurricane
Flesh For Lulu – Baby Hurricane
Faith and the Muse – Shattered In Aspect
Gary Numan – Films
Talking Heads – Psycho Killer

Set 2

The Damned – New Rose
Virgin Prunes – Pagan Lovesong
Soft Cell – Tainted Love
Eurythmics – Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)
Dead or Alive – You Spin Me Right Round (Like A Record) (7″ Version)
And One – Military Fashion Show
A Split Second – The Colosseum Crash
Project Pitchfork – Rain
David Bowie feat NIN – I’m Afraid of Americans
The Young Gods – Skinflowers
Marilyn Manson – The Dope Show
Soundgarden – Black Hole Sun

Set 3

David Bowie – Ziggy Stardust
Metallica – Nothing Else Matters
Bon Jovi – Wanted Dead Or Alvie
Fleetwood Mac – Go Your Own Way
Boston – Smokin’
ZZ Top – Sharp Dressen Man
Joan Jett – Bad Reputation
Pat Benetar – Hit Me With Your Best Shot

Final Tag-Team

Mott The Hoople – All The Young Dudes
Iggy Pop – The Passenger
The Zombies – Time Of The Season
The Doors – Strange Days
ELP – Lucky Man
Black Sabbath – Iron Man
The Yardbirds – Heart Full Of Soul
Jefferson Airplane – White Rabbit
13th Floor Elevators – Levitation
The Black Angel – Evil Things
Legendary Pink Dots – Belladonna
Nick Cave – Jack The Ripper
Joe Fagin – Breakin’ Away
Outro: Vangelis – Tears In Rain

Alternative Bring’n’Buy Sale – December 2016

The 10th Anniversary of the Alternative Bring’n’Buy Sale occured at the Tufnell Park Dome, and as usual, Scott and myself were on hand to provide music, along with guest DJ Dancefloor Landmine. I’ve actually been doing this slot for 8 years now, and I’m still finding something fresh to play.

10:30am-11:45am

We got started earlier than usual, so I took the chance to play a long instrumental, just like I did in the early days.

Mike Oldfield – Ommadawn Part 1
Spectra*Paris – Silent Night
L’Orchestre Noir – The Last Train
Ain Soph – White Guard
The Strawbs – The Hangman And The Papist
Howard Goodall – Space Walk Theme (from Red Dwarf Series 1)
Angelo Badalamenti – Laura Palmer’s Theme
Hendricus Ruseler (aka Russel B) – Mountain Dust
Richard H.Kirk – Freezone
Konzept – Hypnautic Beats
Syntec – The Blind Love The Blind
Das Präparat – Hysterie
The Weathermen – Punishment Park
Legend – Benjamite Bloodline
Vision Talk – Confession
Me The Tiger – Heartbeats
Kite – Castle Of Sand
Last July – Nothing Else But You

1pm-2pm

Back to what I know best…

Funker Vogt – Tragic Hero (Haat Klapp Mix)
Yeht Mae – Transmission
AmGod – Paranoia
Trial – Für Zwei
Dorsetshire – Herzschlag
Les Berrtas – Der Knochenschäler
Grausame Töchter – Untergang
Eisenfunk – Jinglefunk
Heimatærde – God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
Robotiko Rejekto – Rejekto (Retrospective Mix)
Schramm – Rattenspiel
Akalotz – Blood Pressure
A Split-Second – Mambo Witch (7″ version)
Front 242 – Rhythm Of Time
Die Krupps – Volle Kraft Voraus (Too Much History Version)

At 5pm, I played the Reverend Horton Heats version of “Santa Claus Is Coming To Town”, Scott put in the Cocteau’s “Frosty The Snowman” and let Simon Landmine handle the closedown whilst we went over the road to start the Open Request List.

Ad:Rem 2016

The second Ad:Rem festival took place at Elektrowerkz. This event is dedicated to bringing over bands from the European scene that otherwise would not have a chance to play in the UK, as well as giving a few local acts a chance to play styles not often heard on London stages. As with last year, I was tasked with filling in the gaps between the bands. Here’s what I ended up playing.

NON – Fire In The Organism
Haus Arafna – You Don’t Believe Me
Death In June – Crush My Love
Psychic TV – No Go Go
Einstürzende Neubauten – Sabrina
Coph Nia – The Oath
Deutsch Nepal – Deflagration of Hell
In Slaughter Natives – Angel Meat

<Grimbergen>

Anenzephalia – A Tribute To..
Whitehouse – Why You Never Became A Dancer
Brighter Death Now – Hipp Hipp Hurray I Will Kill You Today
Lou Reed – Metal Machine Music (Excerpt…..like I could get away playing the whole thing)

<S.T.A.B. Electronics>

November Növelet – Free
Printed At Bismarck’s Death – O’ What Can Ail Thee
Cyan – A New God Is Born

<Lizard Smile>

Von Thronstahl – Heimatfreund-Staatsfiend
Blood Axis – Bearer Of 10,000 Eyes – Lord Of Ages
H.E.R.R. – The Fall Of Constantinople
Stalingrad – Neither Honour Nor Glory
Puissance – Grace Of God

<Triarii>

Am Not – Intervention
Sonar – Sonar
PAL – Agentenfister
Synapscape – Drastic Significance
Imminent Starvation – Lost Highway 45

<MDS51>

The Thought Criminals – Dirty Electro
FullContact69 – Below The Belt
Elm – Edge (Extended)
Old School Union – Stressi
Wulfband – Gewalt
SadoSato – Piefkemädchen

<Schramm>

Ad:Key – Pissed Off
Container 90 – Raise Your Finger
Deja Vu 2 – World Alert (2014 Mix)
Borghesia – Theme One (Resistance Mix)
Ionic Vision – Ave Maria (Pristine)

<Akalotz>

After this, DJ Danny Dup from Belgium came on to play an afterparty set, consisting of scene favourites from Front 242 to Rammstein to Sisters of Mercy. At 4:40am, I then returned to the booth to see the event out.

Project Pitchfork – Timekiller
Front Line Assembly – Mindphaser
Feindflug – Glaubenskreig
This’Morn Omina – One eYed Man
Xotox – Eisenkiller
Terrorfakt – Arsenal
Punch Inc. – Arm Against
Converter – Death Time
Asche – Riding On The Atomic ICE
P.A.L. – Gelöbnis
:Wumpscut: – Black Death (French Texture)
Suicide Commando – See You In Hell
Leæther Strip – Japanese Bodies
Skinny Puppy – Smothered Hope
Front 242 – Masterhit Pt 1+2
Outro: Vangelis – Bladerunner (End Titles)

Bleak Halloween Album Launch

I’d played in this venue before as part of Reptile, and I’d played plenty of slots supporting Bleak and Die Kur, but for Halloween 2016, it all came together to form the 100th DJ Terminates Here set at The Lounge (aka Nightclub Kolis) in Archway.

A line-up featuring 5 live bands, performance poet SP Howarth, an album launch for Bleak, a debut airing of the lead single from the rock musical ‘Rasputin Rocks’, and it was my job to glue it all together muscially. Here’s how it went.

Boston – Smokin’
The Zombies – Time Of The Season
Johnny Cash – I Walk The Line

<Soundcheck pause>

Nirvana – Come As You Are
Soundgarden – Black Hole Sun
Radiohead – Airbag

<Peter Von Toy>

Bat For Lashes – Horse And I
Garbage – When I Grow Up

<Hana Piranha>

Ice Ages – Endless Circle
Freudstein – Live This Lie
Velvet Acid Christ – We Have To See, We Have To Know
Leæther Strip – Halloween Theme
Skinny Puppy – Assimilate

<DJ Translight>

Rasputin Rocks – Mad Monk Rock (Debut airing!)
The Doors – People Are Strange
Screamin’ Jay Hawkings – I Put A Spell On You

<Bleak>

Chris Connelly – Stowaway
MaxDmyz – Corpse Ride
Rob Zombie – Living Dead Girl
Rammstein – Sonne

<Die Kur>

Wendy Carlos – Theme From A Clockwork Orange
Jean-Michel Jarre – Oxygene Part IV
Angelo Badalamenti – Twin Peaks Theme
Laibach – Mama Leone

(Note: The management requested that due to the late hour, the evening’s outro was to be low-key in nature – this did give the perfect chance to finish my 100th set with the same song that opened my 1st set, nearly eight years ago!).

DJ Terminates Here vs DJ The Scott – September 2016

After the Alternative Bring’n’Buy, Scott and I went over the Aces and Eights for our now-quarterly Open Request List night. All but the first few and last few were requests.

Set 1

Amorphous Androgynous – The Mello Disco Hippo Show
Seigmen – Slaver Av Solen
Radiohead – Street Spirit (Fade Out)
Gary Numan – Down In The Park
Japan – Ghosts
Christian Death – Romeo’s Distress
Das Ich – Destillat

Set 2

Velvet Condom – Kalter Lippenstift
Linea Aspera – Synapse
Depeche Mode – Ice Machine
Einstürzende Neubauten – Haus der Lüge
The Faint – Agenda Suicide
PWEI – Def.Con.One
Project Pitchfork – Rain
Covenant – Bullet
NIN – The Hand That Feeds
She Past Away – Sanrı

Set 3

Anathema – Empty
Paradise Lost – Mouth
Killing Joke – Love Like Blood
All About Eve – Farewell Mr.Sorrow
Depeche Mode – A Question Of Lust
Diorama – Synthesize Me
VNV Nation – Resolution
Peter Schilling – Major Tom
Malaria – Your Turn To Run

Set 4

The Normal – Warm Leatherette
Teardrop Explodes – Reward
KMFDM – Der Mussolini
Rammstein – Links 2 3 4
Alice Cooper – Poison
Aerosmith – Don’t Stop
Lou Reed – Vicious
Tenpole Tudor – Swords of 1000 Men

Final Tag-Team

I’d skipped the usual tag-team at the Alt Bring’n’Buy, having packed up my DJ kit and not having any funny songs to play off my phone. But I had to celebrate my 99th DJ set here.

Goldfinger – 99 Red Balloons
Madness – Baggy Trousers
Ian Dury – This Is What We Find
The Clash – Rock The Casbah
4-Skins – One Law For Them
The Jam – Eaten Trifle
Stiff Little Fingers – Love Of The Common People
New York Dolls – Personality Crisis

Outro: Mike Oldfield – The Boy’s Burial/Pran Sees The Red Cross (from ‘The Killing Fields’)

Alternative Bring’n’Buy Sale – September 2016

And back to the Alternative Bring’n’Buy joining DJ The Scott in providing the soundtrack to London’s alternative shopping experience. Ran this one as a two-DJ operation this time, hence the variance in what follows…..

10:40am-11:45am

Brian Eno – An Ascent
Raison d’être – Procession
Mediæval Bæbes – Salva Nos
Cornix Maledictum – Ais Vis Lo Lop
Corvus Corax – Palästinalied
Stoa – Autumn
Kreuzweg Ost – Ein Neuer Krieg
Der Blutharsch – Time Is Thee Enemy II
Of The Wand And The Moon – My Devotion Will Never Fade
Allerseelen – Tanzt Die Orange
Non-Bio – No-One
Caustic Window – Cordialatron
Miss Kittin – Professional Distortion
Pure Ground – After The Fall
Blind Vision – Bestialic Beat
Substaat – Berlin
Chrom – Memories
Maison Vague – Pixelated Lover
Little Boots – Mathematics

1pm-2pm

Vigilante – Victims
Noisuf-X – Scary Looking Thing
Caustic – Hiroshima Burn
Komor Kommando – Servus Pulsu
Velvet Acid Christ – Futile
:Wumpscut: – Wreath Of Barbs (NeuroticFish Remix 2)
Bionic – It Doesn’t Matter
Run Level Zero – CNN of Worms
Volt 9000 – Toybox
Seven Trees – Going Down
Noise Control – Dreams
Zero Defects -Duracell
!Bang Elektronika – Aktivierung
Shift – Electrofixx
Front 242 – Tragedy >For You< (Punish Your Machine)

3pm-4pm

Project Pitchfork – I Am (A Thought In Slowmotion)
Deathstars – Cyanide
3TEETH – Nihil
Ventenner – Six Blood
The Damage Manual – Damage Addict
Rico – Big Black Sea
CHANT – Brave New Apocalypse
Skold vs KMFDM – Bloodsport
Theatre of Tragedy – Machine
After Froever – Energise Me
Epica – Sensorium
Delain – We Are The Others
The 69 Eyes – Gothic Girl
The Sisters of Mercy – Detonation Boulevard
Zodiac Mindwarp – Prime Mover
Billy Idol – Rebel Yell

Scott handled the close here this time….I was across at Aces and Eights by then.

Infest 2016

And so it came to pass that DJ Terminates Here played InFest 2016. I’ve been to the festival many times over the years, and this time I got to contribute to the aftershow DJing with a set in the Escape Bar on Saturday night from 1:15am to close.

My first set outside of London and the Southeast, my first at a multi-day festival, and a chance to let the Terminates Here sound be heard by a new audience. The time and place meant that only bona-fide classics from my repertoire made it in. Anyway, here’s what I played.

Star Industry – Nineties
Diary Of Dreams – Chemicals
Fortification 55 – And Tomorrow Atlantis
Project Pitchfork – God Wrote
The Invincible Spirit – Push!
Front 242 – Tragedy >For You<
A Split Second – Flesh
Death In June – The Calling Mk2
Absolute Body Control – Figures
And One – Metalhammer
Die Krupps – Fatherland
KMFDM – Godlike (Chicago Trax)
Ministry – Stigmata
Killing Joke – Requiem
Public Image Ltd – Public Image
Joy Division – Transmission
Fad Gadget – Ricky’s Hand
Depeche Mode – Photographic (Some Bizarre)
The Human League – Empire State Human
Kraftwerk – Radioactivity (The Mix)
Mesh – You Didn’t Want Me (Radio Mix)
Apoptygma Berzerk – Love Never Dies Pt.1
VNV Nation – Nova