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DJ Terminates Here – 10th Anniversary Party

To mark 10 Years of DJing, I held a party in the new Nightclub Kolis.  Usually I prefer to DJ with one or two others, but just this once,  I decided to play the whole thing myself.  The first half was a run through as much of my genre remit as I could fit into 2 hours, the second half more request-oriented.  From 11pm to 3am, here’s the story.

Johnny Cash – Hurt
Bleak – Run For Cover
Wendy Carlos – Title Music From A Clockwork Orange
Der Blutharsch – Time Is Thee Enemy II
Puissance – Grace Of God
In Slaughter Natives – Angel Meat
Wumpscut – Thorns (Distant Vocal)
Kirlian Camera – Eclipse (Anniversary)
The Crüxshadows – Tears
Star Industry – Nineties
The Sisters of Mercy – Vision Thing
Bauhaus – Dark Entries
Joy Division – Transmission
Fad Gadget – Collapsing New People
Depeche Mode – Photographic (Some Bizarre)
Nitzer Ebb – Let Your Body Learn
Skinny Puppy – Assimilate
Covenant – Figurehead (Plain)

<Leæther Strip/Machine Rox Promo>

Leæther Strip – Strap Me Down
Project Pitchfork – Timekiller
Funker Vogt – Gunman
Suicide Commando – Hellraiser
P.A.L. – Gelöbnis
NIN – Wish
Rammstein – Feuer Frei!
Type O Negative – My Girlfriend’s Girlfriend (Cheese Organ Version)
Metallica – Enter Sandman
Nirvana – Smells Like Teen Spirit
Tool – Stinkfist
PWEI – Ich Bin Ein Auslander
Prodigy – Omen
Underworld – Cowgirl

<10th Anniversary Speech>

VNV Nation – Joy
Front 242 – Tragedy >For You<
Apoptygma Berzerk – Love Never Dies Pt.1
Sebastian Komor – Game Of Thrones Theme (after this, most were requests or tracks used to mix between them!)
Aesthetic Perfection – Spit It Out
Cubanate – Oxyacetylene
Die Krupps – Robo Sapien
New Order – True Faith ’94
Gary Numan – Are Friends Electric?
Depeche Mode – World In My Eyes
Killing Joke – Requiem
Sex Pistols – Pretty Vacant
Siouxsie and the Banshees – Hong Kong Garden
Eurythmics – Sweet Dreams (Are made of This)
OMD – Enola Gay
David Bowie – Sound and Vision
The Sisters of Mercy – Alice
The Cult – She Sells Sanctuary
Clan Of Xymox – Jasmine and Rose
Diary of Dreams – AmoK
Diorama – Child of Entertainment
The Eternal Afflict – San Diego (Tragical)
Soft Cell – Sex Dwarf
Laibach – WAT

Goth Jam & Open Mic

A new concept for live performance in London – get a venue, PA and a few instruments, and let anyone have a go at whatever form of performance seems to fit the mood of the moment. A mixture of original music, covers and performance poetry were the hallmarks of this event. My own musical project Deja Vu 2 had it’s ‘zeroth’ even performance (as in it was a 3-song PA with no other live members), though I also did an improvisational jam of a fourth lyric (music as yet unwritten) and did vocals on a cover of some-old-goth-tune. Oh, and I also did some DJing.

Usually when I do between-bands work, I have some idea of what style to aim for. On this occasion, this was only occasionally possible. Also, I needed a very long song to cover either side of my own performance! One thing I did manage to do was get in a trio of vocoder-heavy tunes at the end of the night, have got one of the things to work myself when playing live! Anyway, for the sake of keeping a record, here’s setlist and running order from the night.

Absurd Minds – Essence
Psyche – Unveiling The Secret

<Live Jam – Temple of Love>

Suspiria – Now, We See The Swine
Seven Trees – Going Down
ClockDVA – The Act

<Improvisational Set – Non-Bio>

Jean Michel Jarre – Ethnicolor 1 (first half)

 song PA – Deja Vu 2>

Jean Michel Jarre – Ethnicolor 1 (second half)
Scapa Flow – Crucial Impact

<Acoustic Covers – Rachel Bullimore>

Death In June – Hullo Angel

<Live Jam – Boadecia Unique>

The KVB – Captives
Thomas Dolby – Leipzig
The Cars – Just What I Needed

<A Capella – Boadecia Unique>
<Live Jam – Timewarp>

Poison – Every Rose Has It’s Thorn

<Acoustic Cover – Graham Richards ‘Hurt’>

Current 93 – Oh Coal Black Smith

<Live Jam – Deja Vu 2 ‘Meat Is Dinner’>

Spetsnaz – Apathy

<Coleridge Recital>

Strawbs – The Hangman And The Papist
Styx – Mr.Roboto
Telex – Moskow Disko
Kraftwerk – Computer World
OMD – Maid of Orleans
VNV Nation – Nova

Dark 7 2012

Time to return to the Camden Underworld for the latest Sychrotrax all-dayer, Dark 7, headlined by Deviant UK. Opening band K-Nitrate had to pull out, with Paresis arriving at short notice to open up. Today’s sets featured a number of bands that had played at previous Sychrotrax events, as well as a few requests later in the day.

Mentallo + The Fixer – Sacrilege (Angel Of Death Mix)
Placebo Effect – Slashed Open
yelworC – Soulhunter
Dance Or Die – 432
The Klinik – Moving Hands
Vomito Negro – No Hope No Fear
Klutæ – Circus Of Death

<Paresis>

Leech Woman – Tool
God Lives Underwater – No More Love
Hanzel Und Gretyl – Fukken Uber Death Party
The Galan Pixs – Pearl Necklace

<Ghost In The Static>

Aesthetic Perfection – Inhuman
Shiv-R – Pharmaceutical Grade
SAM – Hallucinogen

<Cease2Xist>

And One – Wasted (B)
Tenek – Blinded By You
Method Cell – Push
Assemblage 23 – Let Me Be Your Armour (B)
Ashbury Heights – Anti-Ordinary

<Analog Angel>

Heimatærde – Deus Lo Vult (R)
V2A – Electro-Whore

<Machine Rox>

Fixmer-McCarthy – Free Fall
Pow[d]er Pussy – Yourmove
Straftanz – Die Neue F-Klasse (Ein Panzerleid)

<Kommand + Kontrol>

Dreams Divide – Faces
Project Pitchfork – Drone State (B)
John Foxx – Underpass (R)
Gary Numan – I Die:You Die (B)
Skinny Puppy – Assimilate (R)
:Wumpscut: – Black Death (French Texture)

<Deviant UK>

Laibach – WAT

Cybersonik 2011

The follow-up to Dark 7 – book seven UK bands and host an afternoon and evening of live music in the Camden Underworld. Despite putting the first band on stage a mere 10 minutes after opening the doors, they managed to pull a great crowd and the venue stayed busy for the duration. Special credit goes to the guys from Machine Rox, who organised the whole event. As for me, I was doing the bit between the bands….here’s what was played.

Haujobb – Dead Market
Seabound – Hooked

<Dreams Divide>

KiEw – DCDisk
Xotox – Roboterkrieg

<Decayed Reflection>

Rabia Sorda – What You Get Is What You See
Solitary Experiments – Still Alive
Culture Kultur – War Is Over
XP8 – Out Of Control

<TerrorNation>

[:SITD:] – Laughingstock
á;GRUMH – Ha People!
A Split Second – Rigor Mortis
Click Click – Sweet Stuff

<Kommand + Kontrol>

Solar Fake – Why Did I Raise The Fire
Psy’Aviah feat Ayria – Into The Game
Unter Null – Sick Fuck

<Machine Rox>

Lights Of Euphoria – White Wall
VNV Nation – Control
Covenant – Ritual Noise

<Method Cell>

System:FX – Overdrive
Feindflug – Glaubenskrieg
Skinjob – Hate
Reaper – Unrensand

<V2A>

Moby – We Are All Made Of Stars

Dark 7 2011

Dark 7 was an event organised by the members of the band Machine Rox. The concept was to book a number of UK scene bands (the only overseas act, Terror Error, withdrew before the event) and hold a one day mini-festival in the Camden Underworld.

System:FX were called into headline, although the first four bands on the bill were completely new to me. A scan through various online profiles and chance to watch soundcheck gave me a chance of devising a vaguely relevant set before each band came on, and despite an occasionally sticking ‘Play’ button, it seemed to go quite well. So here’s what was played.

Digicore – We Will Protect You
Godflesh – Like Rats
Concrete Lung – Destructive
Revolting Cocks – Key To The City (Vegas Mix)
16 Volt – Cables + Wires
Pitchshifter – Please Sir

<Ghost In The Static>

ClockDVA – The Sonology of Sex II
This Morn’Omina – Epoch (ccf)
Mind.in.a.box – Certainty

<Futurefrenetic>

PAL – Gelöbnis (Terrorfakt Remix)
Aphex Twin – Phloam
Future Sound Of London – We Have Explosive

<Digital Deformation>

Skinjob – Beauty Is Your Toy
Modulate – Skullfuck

<Cease2Exist>

Gary Numan – Films
Project Pitchfork – K.N.K.A. (Climax Version)
Deviant UK – You Will Burn

<Global Citizen>

Angelspit – 100%
Ayria – The Gun Song
Nachtmahr – Mädchen In Uniform

<Machine Rox>

Be My Enemy – This Is The New Wave
Prodigy – Take Me To The Hospital
Chemical Brothers – Music:Response
The Inkspots – I Don’t Want To Set The World On Fire

<System:FX>

Covenant – One World One Sky