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Alternative Bring’n’Buy Sale – June 2017

Back to the Tufnell Park Dome on what was probably the hottest day of the year so far. Thank you air-con! Scott McMahon and I handled the soundtrack to London’s long-running alternative shopping experience. After all these years, I still find plenty of ways to avoid repeating myself.

12 noon-1pm – Darkwave to Synthpop

Collection d’Arnell-Andréa – Les Cendre-Lisières
Arcana Obscura – Forgotten Lakes
Bel Canto – Spiderdust
Hante. – Infinite Particles of Us
Schneewittchen – Rosengarten
Anne Clark – Wallies
Diffuzion – City Of Dust
Scheuber – Human
Neuroactive – Mécanique
Blind Passenger – Digital Criminal
Glass Apple Bonzai – Too Late To Let Go
Northern Lite – Trouble Makes Good Songs
Daily Planet – Radioactive Love
John Foxx and The Maths – Evergreen
The Human League – Being Boiled
Kite – Jonny Boy

2pm-3pm – Various Electro-Industrial Tunes

Covenant – Slowmotion
Liquid Divine – Click
Binary Park – The Deviated
Voyou – Houseman
Massiv In Mensch – Dark Rave
Negative Format – Spectral Analysis
ES23 – About A God
Tactical Sekt – Xfixiation
Interlace – Under The Sky (Club Version)
Controlled Collapse – Selfless
New Mind – Forge
Limbo – Libido Mater Nostra
Pain Station – Closer To The Edge
Klangstabil – Regelkreisauslöser

4pm-5pm – Gothic Rock, Post-Punk and Punk

Killing Joke – Change
Bauhaus – Lagartija Nick
Phillip Boa and The Voodoo Club – So What
Nosferatu – Torturous
Henke – Vom A Zum F
Sisters Of Mercy – Walk Away
1919 – Cry Wolf
Warsaw – Walked In Line
Section 25 – Dirty Disco
A Certain Ratio – The Fox
Psychic TV – Ov Power
The Pop Group – We Are All Prostitutes
Raincoats – Fairytale In The Supermarket
Penetration – Don’t Dictate
Rezillos – Top Of The Pops
Adverts – Gary Gilmore’s Eyes
The Oppressed – Ultraviolence
Sham 69 – Hurry Up Harry (we’re going down the pub)

5pm – Tag-Team Finale

Quite short as we had more to do over the road….

Theme From ‘Batman’
Intermittent Explosive Disorder – Who Said You Could Die, You Bastard?
Monty Python – Knights Of The Round Table

Alternative Bring’n’Buy Sale – March 2017

The quarterly alternative retail experience continues into it’s 11th year! The Tufnell Park Dome has been reconfigured a bit, but DJ The Scott and myself continue to provide the sountrack, this time accompanied by Jonny Haart and Demondaz from Yesterday’s Shadow (plus various other events, but YS is the only other place you’ll find all of us regularly!). Here’s my contributions to the days soundtrack.

11:45am-1pm – 90s Electronica to Old-school Industrial

Amorphous Androgynous – The Mello Hippo Disco Show
Jean-Michel Jarre & Yello – Why This, Why That and Why
Massive Attack – Teardrop
Leftfield – Melt
Seize – Victim
DJ Quicksilver – African Rain
808 State – Plan 9 (LP Mix)
Sash! – Little River
The Orb – Asylum (7″)
BT – Love, Peace and Grease
Josh Wink – How’s The Music
Sandoz – Armed Response
Millimetric – Suffoque
Underviewer – Nobody But You
SARIN – Interface
Holm/Mirland – In Control
Hula – Poison
ClockDVA – Sound Mirror 1 Programme 5

3pm-4pm – Guitar industrial to Mittelalter Rock

Orgy – Stitches
NIN – The Perfect Drug
Essence Of Mind – For Real
Cyanotic – Sensory Deprivation
Marc Heal – Failure
Penal Colony – Product
Erdling – Es Ist Zeit
Megaherz – Rock Me Amadeus
Murder Inc. – Gambit
Seigmen – Slaver Av Solen
Dream Theatre – Another Day
Paradise Lost – One Second
Visions of Atlantis – Lemuria
Ingrimm – Die Pest
Schandmaul – Walpurgisnacht
Feuerschwanz – Metvernichter
In Extremo – Vollmond

And then over the road to Aces and Eights….

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.

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.

Slimelight – Goth and 80s Floor

I’ve DJed at the Elektrowerkz venue many times in the past, mainly as support DJ for the various bands playing there, and I have on a few occasions stuck around to fill a vacant slot at the Slimelight club following on after. This was my first stand-alone set at Slimelight, joining DJs Jester and Jo The Waiter on the ‘Goth/80s’ floor (though the music policy in practice is somewhat broader that that).

This evening also doubled up as one of the afterparties for the Pride In London event, with members of The Queer Alternative very much in presence. It was also a few days after the referendum on the UK’s membership of the European Union. Whilst I avoid discussion of topical issues here, it’s fair and factually true to say that both the EU and the LGBT+ community have both played a vital part of making my DJ career what it is. Someone even wrote on the request list “They’ll Never Take Our Scene Away”. That summed up the mood of the night.

11pm-12am

Wendy Carlos – Title Music From A Clockwork Orange
The Human League – The Black Hit Of Space
Absolute Body Control – Do You Feel It Inside
A Split-Second – Mambo Witch
Front 242 – U-Men
DAF – Kebabträume
Fad Gadget – Collapsing New People
Gary Numan – Me! I Disconnect From You
Gang Of Four – Damaged Goods
Wire – I Am The Fly
Magazine – The Light Pours Out Of Me
Killing Joke – Wardance
Joy Division – Isolation
David Bowie – Speed Of Life
Bauhaus – Lagartija Nick
Mono Inc. – After The War
The 69 Eyes – Gothic Girl
Star Industry – The Look

2am-3am

Nine Inch Nails – Head Like A Hole
Die Krupps – To The Hilt
Pop Will Eat Itself – Ich Bin Ein Auslander
New Model Army – Vengeance
The Sex Pistols – Anarchy In The UK
Sham 69 – If The Kids Are United
The Jam – Going Underground
Undertones – Teenage Kicks
Killing Joke – Eighties
Siouxsie and the Banshees – Spellbound
She Wants Revenge – Tear You Apart
Devo – Whip It
Visage – Fade To Grey (12″ Version)
Depeche Mode – Everything Counts (Live 101)
Erasure – A Little Respect
OMD – Enola Gay
Kraftwerk – The Model

Alternative Bring’n’Buy Sale – June 2016

The Tufnell Park Dome was where DJ Terminates Here began, and it’s where I returned. Scott was hand to play the bulk of the remainder, whilst Jonny Haart (Grimorg) from Vampir came in to play the final hour. Here’s my bit.

Set 1 – 10:35am to 11:50am

David Bowie – Warszawa
Gary Numan – I Nearly Married A Human
MG – Stealth
Esplendor Geometrico – Moscú Está Helado
NON – Solitude
Coil – Love’s Secret Domain
Cabaret Voltaire – Nag Nag Nag
Soft Moon – Parallels
Black Light Ascension – Club Death
Axodry – Surrender
QEK Junior – Atomkonsens
Kinetik – Pipeline
Absolute Body Control – Give Me Your Hands
Das Präparat – Das war noch nie ein Liebeslied
Mirrors – Hide & Seek
Ghost + Writer – Man On A Wire
FAQ – The World Is Cold Enough
Parallel Project – Explicit

Set 2 – 1:30pm to 3pm

Unexpectedly extended for various complicated reason (with an additional need to play at least something vaguely goth), but I relish such challenges…..

High-Functioning Flesh – Hunger Cries
Front 242 – Quite Unusual
Frontal – Sorglos
DBS – Old #7
Elite! – Maschinen
Blush Response – Reduce You
Aircrash Bureau – Exhibition
Pankow – Sickness Takin’ Over
Skinny Puppy – Smothered Hope
Placebo Effect – Mystress
The Firm Inc. – Abgebrannt
Dance Or Die – 432
Decoded Feedback – Shockwave
Cut.Rate.Box – Zionsank
Imatem – Holy TV
Angst Pop – Ødipus Rex (Video Version)
Inside – Vampire
Psychophile – Vice Girl
Dronning Maud Land – Hollow Eyes
The Mission – Deliverance
Pink Turns Blue – If Two World Kiss

Thanks to DJ Grimorg for handling the final phase that’d we’d normally tag-team – we were across the road by then.

Alternative Bring’n’Buy Sale – March 2016

Once again back to the Dome for the Alternative Bring’n’Buy Sale. Joining myself and Scott this time was Jonny Haart/Grimorg, who handled all the goth classics. With Scott on various brands of alt rock, this left me with…..

Set 1 – 10:20am-11:45am

With an early start and no technical hitches, I decided to soundtrack setup time with some classical and folk tunes before returning to melodic synth territory.

Handel – Sarabande
Purcell – Music For The Funeral Of Queen Mary
Elgar – Nimrod
The Protagonist – Zoroaster
Triarii – Neuropa
Ambre – Khan
Fire and Ice – Rûna
Sol Invictus – Angels Fall
The Moon Lay Hidden Beneath A Cloud – Amara Tanta Tyri IV
The Soil Bleeds Black – In Days Of Victory
Duivelspack – Unser Lieber Fraue
Dunkelschön – Bacchus
Wolfenmond – Tourdion
Mediæval Bæbes – Ecci Mundi Gaudium
Ataraxia – Elevazione
Conjure One – Centre Of The Sun
Emilie Autumn – I Want My Innocence Back
Empathy Test – Here Is The Place
RBN – Faithless (Full Length Original)
Zynic – Dream In Black And White
Vanguard – Rage
Sinestar – Rise and Fall
Chvrches – We Sink

Set 2 – 2pm-3pm

Even after so many attempts, I still find something different to play here.

Calva y Nada – Rascheln
yelworC – Sacred City
Arzt + Pfusch – Better Than You
Will – Crowning Glory
Scapa Flow – Egoism
DAF – Der Mussolini
EkoBrottsMyndigheten – Eine Tasse Jäger
Nitzer Ebb – Let Beauty Loose
Click Click – Sweet Stuff
U-Tek – Der Automatist
Speed Tribe – ….While Driving Between Raindrops
Implant – C.C.C.P.C.C.T.V.
iVardensphere – Jigsaw
Ultraviolence – Adultery
Apollo 440 – Stop The Rock
The Grid – Texas Cowboys
Faithless – Take The Log Way Home (Epic Mix)

3-Way-Tag-Team Finale

Had to rush off to the next set, but still time for a bit of fun.

The Buggles – Video Killed The Radio Star
Warpaint – Ashes To Ashes
Midnight Configuration – Into The Groove
Opening Theme from ‘Red Dwarf’
Stealer’s Wheel – Stuck In The Middle With You
Action Pack – Gothic Party Time

Alternative Bring’n’Buy Sale – December 2015

7 years after the Terminates Here debut set, and back to the Dome, joining DJ The Scott for more daytime DJ adventures. Only issues with the PA meant we didn’t play any music until nearly halfway through the event. What I actually played in the end is listed below.

1:30pm-2:15pm

Eisenfunk – Jinglefunk
Heimatærde – God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
[De:Ad:Cibel] – Rain of Gold
Siechtum – Meinungsindustrie
Hypnoskull – Down Again
Proyecto Mirage – Baila Entre Las Ruinas De Madrid
Imminent – Vinvyt
Haujobb – The Noise Institute
Data-Bank-A – I’ve Got A Plan
Fortification 55 – Wargames
Invincible Spirit – Everybody Should Know
C-Tec – She Left

After this, the charity single from The 404 Stormers – Having A Merry Funky Time was played before I handed over to Scott.

3pm-4pm

Marilyn Manson and the Spooky Kids – My Monkey
Fear Factory – Demanufacture
Gravity Kills – Guilty
Nine Inch Nails – Sin
BhamBhamHara – Kreislauf
Theme from ‘The IT Crowd’
VNV Nation – Beloved
Elegant Machinery – Save Me
Celluloide – This Aching Kiss
Xeno + Oaklander – Sentinelle
SPOCK – White Christmas
Telex – Moskow Diskow
Kim Wilde – Cambodia
Erasure – Gaudete
The Psychedelic Furs – Love My May
The Cars – Just What I Needed
Devo – Whip It

5pm Tag Team

With another set to start almost straight away, this was about as rapid as it gets.

The Ramones – Merry Christmas (I Don’t Want To Fight Tonight)
The Pogues – Fairytale of New York
Reverend Horton Heat – Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
Lovecraft Historical Society – I Saw Mommy Kissing You So Thoth
Twisted Sister – O Come All Ye Faithful

Alternative Bring’n’Buy Sale – September 2015

The biggest ever day of Terminates Here DJing began early in the day at the Alternative Bring’n’Buy, and just continued……this time Scott and myself handled the event as a two piece, hence the lengthy nature of what follows!

10:30am-11:45am – (Neo-)Classical into (Neo-)Folk

Bach – Bouree in E Minor
Handel – Sarabande
Stalingrad – The Road On Which You’ll Die
Vernian Process – Cold
Arditi – Ploughshares Into Swords
Nurse With Wound – A Piece Of The Sky Is Missing
Knifeladder – Faultline
Deutsch Nepal – Deflagration of Hell
In Slaughter Natives – Media
Sixth Comm – Foretold
Dernière Volonté – Le Poison
Hekate – Barbarossa
Death in June + Boyd Rice – Black Sun Rising
Sorrow – Forgive Me
Professor Elemental – Fighting Trousers
Voltaire – Death Death (Devil Devil Evil Evil Song)
Katzenjammer – Rock Paper Scissors
Die Irrlichter – Totus Floreo
Faun – Punagra

1pm-2pm – Darkwave and Electronic Industrial

The Beauty of Gemina – This Time
Razorfade – Chemical Distraction
Project Pitchfork – Carnival
Psychic Force – Killing Is An Art
Megadump – Shockwave
Void Construct – Rebirth
Tumor – Zombienation
Monolith – The Curse
Headscan – Dead Silver Sky
Haujobb – Dead Market
Android Lust – Cruelty
Covenant – Theremin
Cesium 137 – Always
Mind.in.a.box – 8 Bits

3pm-4pm – 90s Revival into Guitar Industrial

Happy Mondays – 24 Hour Party People
Monaco – Sweet Lips
No Doubt – It’s My Life
Republica – Ready To Go
Carter USM – Rubbish
Ned’s Atomic Dustbin – Kill Your Television
Electric Hellfire Club – Unholy Roller
Chemlab – Electric Molecular
Cocksure – Hi Talez
Nine Inch Nails – The Day The World Went Away
Birmingham 6 – Birmingham 6
3TEETH – Final Product
Chant – Manifesto
Lard – Forkboy
Marilyn Manson – Down In The Park
Filter – Welcome To The Fold

5pm – Jonny vs Scott Tag Team

Messing around again…..

The Men Who Will Not Be Blamed For Nothing – Brunel
Sultans of Ping FC – Where’s Me Jumper
Sham 69 – Hurry Up Harry
Vic Reevee & The Wonder Stuff – Dizzy
Monty Python – Knights Of The Round Table
Luis Baclov – Django

And then straight over the road…..within a few minutes we we playing again

Alternative Bring’n’Buy Sale – June 2015

Sets from the Alt Bring’n’Buy on June 7……

1pm-2pm – Darkwave, Electro-Industrial and EBM

Technoir – Requiem
Diary Of Dreams – Traumtänzer
Seelenkrank – Fallen Angel
Apoptygma Berzerk – Burnin’ Heretic (Gothic Version)
Project Pitchfork – Drone State
Cephalgy – Engel Sterben Nie
Dunkelwerk – 321 Tot
Diskonnekted – Neon Dream
Uberbyte – Under The Cross
Controlled Fusion – War
Project-X – The System Is Dead
Front Line Assembly – Mindphaser
Xykogen – Mutate + Survive
Void Kampf – Rock The Club
EkoBrottsMyndigheten – Eine Tasse Jäger
NZ – Terror For Money
Front 242 – Body To Body

3pm-4pm – Metal and Punk

Megaherz – Wir Könnten Götter Sein
Rammstein – Seeman
Silber – Flieg
Umbra Et Imago – Sagt Nein
Samsas Traum – Endstation.Eden
Die Kur – The Order Of Things To Be
Nightwish – The Kinslayer
Sonata Arctica – Kingdom For A Heart
Helloween – Mr Torture
Sabaton – Primo Victoria
Megadeth – Symphony Of Destruction
Testament – Into The Pit
Anthrax – Got The Time
Black Flag – TV Party
The Exploited – Exploited Barmy Army
The Business – Harry May
Angelic Upstarts – Last Night Another Soldier
Killing Joke – Requiem

5:00pm-5:20pm – Jonny vs Andy Tag-Team

The tradition continues…..

Adam Ant – Stand and Deliver
Pennywise – I Would Walk 500 Miles
Saltatio Mortis – Drunken Sailor
Diablo Swing Orchestra – A Tapdancers Dilemma
Betty Johnson – You Can’t Get To Heaven On Roller Skates

And then over to Aces and Eights…..