Tragedy For Us

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Tragedy >For Us<

Tragedy >For Us< returned to the Urban Bar, this time as a purely DJed event. The lineup was the same as Tragedy >For Two< in 2015, as I was joined by Nathan Nothing and guest DJ traumahound.

Set 1

Note that the early part of this set wasn’t strictly in tune with the events music policy, but it’s clear that was the direction the requests were going in, so I played to the crowd.

Agonoize – Femme Fatale
Funker Vogt – Maschine Zeit
VNV Nation – Control
Die Krupps – Metal Machine Music
Nitzer Ebb – Murderous
Armageddon Dildos – The Constant Beat
Bodystyler – Your Boots
NordarR – Alarm!
Cephalgy – Gott Maschine Vaterland
Camouflage – The Great Commandment

Set 2

Front 242 – Welcome To Paradise
Kloq – Push It
Nitzer Ebb – Warsaw Ghetto
Kraftwerk – The Robots
Laibach – Alle Gegen Alle
Severed Heads – Heart of the Party
A Split-Second – Flesh
Absolute Body Control – Figures
Eleven Pond – Watching Trees
Chris & Cosey – Just Like You

Set 3

Front 242 – Tragedy >For Me<
NIN – That’s What I Get
Depeche Mode – Never Let Me Down (Aggro Mix)
The Normal – Warm Leatherette
Suicide – Rocket USA
Jean-Michel Jarre – La Cage
Vangelis – Pulstar

Tragedy >Four<

This was the fourth edition of my Tragedy >For Us< event, and also the first Terminates Here promoted event to feature live bands, with Black Light Ascension, Personal Propaganda Machine and DJ Translight all playing live sets (I recommend you check all of them out!). DJs Nathan Nothing and Kriegslok also returned, DJing between the bands and Nathan also joining me to play the afterparty. Everyone involved did a brilliant job – it really couldn’t have gone better,

The timing of my sets and the audience meant my own sets were a little more ‘populist’ than normal, though still keeping largely to the music policy. As the event was also a celebration of International EBM Day (24/2), there were a higher-than-normal number of Front 242 tracks in the set.

Set 1

Front 242 – No Shuffle
THX – To Travel
Frame Of Mind – Heart Beat
Skinny Puppy – Smothered Hope
AutoDaFeh – Divided We Fall
Escalator – God Eat God
Leæther Strip – Strap Me Down
VNV Nation – Cold
Front 242 – Welcome To Paradise

Set 2

Ministry – Revenge
Cory Hart – Sunglasses At Night
Kraftwerk – Numbers
Nitzer Ebb – Let Your Body Learn
DAF – Der Mussolini
Invincible Spirit – Push!
Project Pitchfork – Conjure
:Wumpscut: – Wreath Of Barbs
Die Krupps – Robo Sapien

Set 3

Front 242 – Tragedy >For You<
Die Form – Chronovision
Kirlian Camera – Eclipse (Anniversary)
VNV Nation – Joy
Front 242 – Headhunter V1
Laibach – WAT

Outro: Darkmen – Photographic

Tragedy >For Free<

The third incarnation of my old-school EBM DJ night took place in the basement of the Hope and Anchor, a legendary North London pub for all things alternative. For this event, we returned to the original DJ line up of myself, Nathan Nothing and Kriegslok. Here’s my contribution to the events music.

Set 1 – 8:45pm

Front 242 – Kampfberiet
DAF – Der Räuber und der Prinz
Suicide – Rocket USA
Dive – Isolation
ClockDVA – The Sonology of Sex II
Benestrophe – Future Tense
Dorsetshire – Herzschlag
Skinny Puppy – Dig It (Short)
Numb – God Is Dead
Lescure 13 – Secrets
Proceed – Identität

Set 2 – 10:50pm

Kraftwerk – Radioactivity (The Mix Version)
A Split-Second – Rigor Mortis
NTRSN – You See Me
MRDTC – Traffic
Cabaret Voltaire – I Want You
Nitzer Ebb – Warsaw Ghetto
Portion Control – Amnesia
Die Krupps – Robo Sapien
Signal Aout 42 – Dead Is Calling

Set 3 – 12:30pm

Welle:Erdball – Monoton + Minimal (C=64er)
The Invincible Spirit – Push!
Project Pitchfork – Requiem
Covenant – Figurehead (Plain)
Front Line Assembly – Mindphaser
Armageddon Dildos – East West (Full Length)
Front 242 – Tragedy >For You< (Punish Your Machine Mix)

Outro: Jean-Michel Jarre – Oxygene IV

Tragedy >For Two<

The first Tragedy >For Us< was one of my Terminates Here ‘Irregular Events’. It’s now become the second of my TH-IrrEv’s to become ‘regular’ after my ‘Vs‘ open request list concept, and on a personal level, the one I really wanted to do all along. The event was moved to the Aces and Eights Basement Bar, allowing for an extra hour of music. Nathan Nothing returned to co-DJ and we also welcomed DJ:Traumahound (from A Model of Control) as our special guest DJ. The full setlist can be found on the event page, but here were my contributions to the night’s music.

Set 1 – 8pm-9:15pm

Skinny Puppy – Killing Game
Mentallo & The Fixer – Sacrilege (Angel of Death Mix)
32Crash – Slow Crash
Cabaret Voltaire – The Crackdown
Ministry – All Day (Remix)
Agent Side Grinder – The Screams
Neon Judgement – Chinese Black
Parade Ground – Gold Rush
Scapa Flow – Crucial Impact
Pankow – Gimme More (Much More)
Pain Station – Closer To The Edge
yelworC – Soulhunter
Placebo Effect – Slashed Open
Calva y Nada – Rascheln
New Mind – Blindfield 1
Controlled Bleeding – Now Is The Time
Aircrash Bureau – Machine

Set 2 – 10:15pm-11pm

:Wumpscut: – Fear In Motion (B)
DAF – Alle Gegen Alle (R)
Jäger 90 – Dessau
Sturm Café – Koka Kola Freiheit (Original EBM Version) (B)
Elite! – Maschinen
SadoSato – Piefkemädchen
DBS – Old #7
Frontal – Soldaten
Lescure 13 – Secrets (R)
Spetsnaz – Apathy (R)
Nitzer Ebb – Control I’m Here (R)
Armageddon Dildos – East West (R)
Die Krupps – Robo Sapien

Set 3 – 12am-12:30am

Front 242 – Tragedy >For You<
KMFDM – More and Faster (B)
LeaetherStrip – Japanese Bodies (B)
Skinny Puppy – Smothered Hope
Absolute Body Control – Figures (R)
Kraftwerk – Radioactivity (The Mix Version)
Die Form – Silent Order (B)
Lou Reed/Die Krupps – Metal Machine Music (one mixed into the other….) (R)

Set 4 – 1:30am-2am

PAL – Gelöbnis
Front Line Assembly – Plasticity
Project Pitchfork – KNKA (Climax Version)
Apoptygma Berzerk – Spiritual Reality
Fortification 55 – And Tomorrow Atlantis
Invincible Spirit – Push!
Front 242 – Headhunter V1.0
Outro: Wendy Carlos – Theme from A Clockwork Orange (Beethoviana)

Tragedy >For Us< - TH-IrrEv #05

After a long wait, the 5th Terminates Here Irregular Event came to London. This time, myself, Nathan Nothing and Kriegslok explored the worlds of old-school EBM, dark electro and minimal wave. Of all the IrrEv’s so far, this was the one I most wanted to become a ‘regular’, and it may well become so. But for now, this is what I played:

Set 1

MRDTC – Traffic
NTRSN – You See Me
Object – End Of Sin
Dorsetshire – Brothers & Sisters
Limbo – Blutfeuchttraume
Numb – God Is Dead
Benestrophe – Future Tense
Blush Response – On Fire

Set 2

Spark! – Genom Stormen
BiGod 20 – It Doesn’t Matter
Cabaret Voltaire – I Want You
Cat Rapes Dog – American Dream
Cobalt 60 – Bye Bye
Armageddon Dildos – East West
Nitzer Ebb – Murderous

Set 3

Front 242 – Tragedy >For You<
Die Krupps – Robo Sapien
The Invincible Spirit – Push!
A Split-Second – Flesh
Test Dept. – New World Order
Snog – Corporate Slave
Orange Sector – Dynamit

Set 4

It’s here that we briefly broke from EBM ‘purity’ for a synthpoppy tribute to Leonard Nimoy, who passed away on the day of the event.

DAF – Der Mussolini
Welle:Erdball – Monton + Minimal
SPOCK – Never Trust A Klingon
Portion Control – Icon
Force Dimension – Dust (X-tended)
Borghesia – Discipline
AutoDaFeh – Retro Electric
Klutæ – Tequila Slammer