A slightly faster tempo set to ward off the damp chillies.
Radioman – State of the Union Werbepause – Eisenfunk Body Count – Front Line Assembly Krach Bumm – Noisuf-X Kunstprodukt – Miss Construction KNKA (Climax) – Project Pitchfork Praise the Panic – Straftanz Emily – Clan of Xymox Nazis auf Speed – Die Krupps Provoke You – The Invincible Spirit Asimilasyon – She Past Away Tannhäuser Gate – The Electric Hellfire Club Metal Machine Music – Die Krupps Warm Leatherette – HIV+ Stripped – Shiv-R BoomBoomBoom – Nachtmahr The Ritual – Alien Skull Paint Pagan Love Song – The Virgin Prunes
Surfing de l’amour – The Guitaraculas Shadow Dance – Eyes of the Nightmare Jungle The Reptile Room – The Gothic Archies Circles – The Soft Moon I’m Afraid of Americans – David Bowie The Calling (Mk III) – Death in June Kasveti Kutlama – She Past Away Rotary – Phosphor Schwarze Sonne – Flesh Kalt – Kaelan Mikla Lucretia My Reflection – Sisters of Mercy Surfin’ Moon – The Mayhems Meteora – Savage Republic Peter Gunn theme – The Cramps TV Set – The Cramps Video Nasty – The Damned Cemetery Beach – Messer Chups Take on Me – The Shockwave! The Munsters theme – Comateens
Green Karma - Cabaret Nocturne Film - Skinny Puppy Touch the Skies - Pink Turns Blue Suicide Commando - No More Stiff - Numb Demain Berlin - Guerre Froide Basement - Skinny Puppy Just Like Honey - Jesus and Mary Chain Achtung - Laibach Down in the Park - Girls Under Glass On Command - A Split Second Party - Die Erde Ultraviolence - Pleasure Symbols Blue Monday - HEALTH Morphine - Boy Harsher Masterhit - Front 242 Immobilized - Front Line Assembly Underpass - John Foxx The Sabbath - Asylum Party Qual - XMal Deutschland Incubation - Joy Division Temple of Love - Sisters of Mercy Going Under - Devo Alien - Lebanon Hanover Final Solution - Pere Ubu
Still more than a week to Halloween, but at this time of year I play homemade mix CDs of goofy old Halloween rock and surf music while making dinner. So I thought I would make a shorter set of mostly old stuff, but some goofy newer stuff as well. Enjoy!
Shadow Dance – Eyes of the Nightmare Jungle
Dry Bones Twist – The Drivers
Monster Party – Bill Doggett
It’s a Mummy – The Chimps
Strychnine – The Sonics
Watusi Zombie – Jan Davis
No More Hot Dogs – Hasil Adkins
Nosferatu – The 3-D Invisibles
Horror Beach – The Phantom Surfers
We Are The Gothic Archies – The Gothic Archies
Down in the Lab – Deadbolt
Vampira – Bobby Bare
Frankenstomp – Staan’s Pilgrims
Transylvania Twist – Baron Daemon and the Vampires
There’s a Creature in the Surfer’s Lagoon – The Deadly Ones
Dracula’s Daughter – The Woggles
Graveyard – The Blazers
Carter Burwell - Sisters Re-Flex - The Politics of Dancing Gary Numan - Cars Siouxsie and the Banshees - Christine Xmas Deutschland - Mondlicht Asylum Party - The Sabbath Verschwende Deine Jugend - Source of Conflict Devo - Pity You Falco - Vienna Calling Trans-X - Living on Video Zwischenfall - Flucht ’82 Soviet Radio - Dark Days Sirtaki - Uomini di Vetro Guerre Froide - Demain Berlin Loveland - Unfamiliar Skies Lene Lovich - Sister Video Pink Turns Blue - Touch the Skies Echo and the Bunnymen - Lips Like Sugar Bikini Atoll - Tribal Radio
44K VBR file:
(I really hate this new “block” editor WordPress uses. Sigh.)
Mark Booth, stalwart supporter of Circuit Breaker, left Canada some time ago and is now living in Jena, where he recently did a set under his new DJ name “Der Himmelsmechaniker”.
It’s a tribute set, to all the bands he has seen play at Wave Gotik Treffen (which unfortunately is not happening this year, along with so many other festivals).
Download the MP3 file at this GoogleDrive location (it’s 194 MB).
01. Fairytale – Autumn’s Crown
02. Qntal – Ecce Gratum (Extended Version)
03. Faun – Da Que Deus
04. Eivør – Í Tokuni
05. The Crüxshadows – Eye Of The Storm
06. Emilie Autumn – Swallow
07. The Birthday Massacre – Pins And Needles
08. Zombina & The Skeletones – Nobody Likes You (When You’re Dead)
09. Voltaire – Zombie Prostitute
10. Grausame Töchter – Ich liebe meine Vagina
11. Monica Jeffries – In Circles
12. Priest – Virus
13. Empathy Test – Seeing Stars
14. Sono – Naked
15. Xenturion Prime – Propulsion
16. Frozen Plasma – Tanz die Revolution
17. VNV Nation vs Daft Punk – When Will We Get Lucky In The Future (Mashup by Xenturion Prime)
18. Red Mecca – Skin
19. Iamx – Stardust
20. Neuroticfish – Walk Alone
21. Eisfabrik – Zu den Sternen
22. OMNIMAR – Sadizm
23. Too Dead to Die – Another Sin [Explicit]
24. Vogon Poetry – The Upside Down
25. SIVA SIX – Apocalypsis
26. Freakangel – My Darling Bullet
27. Grendel – Dirty
28. Faderhead – Dirtygrrrls/Dirtybois
29. Covenant – Dead Stars
30. Mesh – This Is What You Wanted
31. Zeromancer – Dr. Online
32. Oomph! – In deinen Hüften
33. Eisbrecher – Wie Tief?
34. Die Krupps – Isolation
35. Oberer Totpunkt – Wohin geht die Liebe?
36. Heldmaschine – Radioaktiv
37. Null Positiv – Hundstage
38. Rabia Sorda – Die in Berlin (Remixed by Larva)
39. Stahlmann – Spring nicht
40. Ost+Front – Adrenalin
41. Mono Inc. – Children of the Dark (Original Version)
42. Lord Of The Lost – See You Soon (Swan Songs Version)
A bit of free time on an intermittently cloudy afternoon, so a wander through the files…
Marian – Sisters of Mercy
Current Affairs – Test Dept.
Stranger – FM Attack
You walk Away – Blutengel
Rituel – She Past Away
Lobotomy – NEON
Ultraviolence – Pleasure Symbols
Finland Red, Egypt White – Sisterhood
Your Body is Nothing – Boy Harsher
Attica – Linea Aspera
Mannequins – Kline Coma Xero
Volny – Molchat Doma
After Dark – Deathday
Eighties – Killing Joke
This seems to be dragging on a bit for some folks, so here are some tunes to watch the Freedom! demos by…
The Lunatics Have Taken Over The Asylum – Fun Boy Three
Feurio! – Einsturzende Neubauten
As the End Draws Near – Manufacture
Devo Was Right About Everything – Attery Squash
Sato Sato – Skoyz u. Void Kampf
Down in the Park (25th anniv ed) – Gary Numan
Tears (Apoptygma Berzerk rmx) – Cruxshadows
Insect Calm – Ayria
Deadlines – Skinny Puppy
Love Your Neighbour – Komor Kommando
Emily – Clan of Xymox
Operating Tracks – Front 242
You Don’t Own Me – Klaus Nomi
Freedom of Choice – Devo
Bio-Mechanic – Front Line Assembly
The Cold Song – Laibach
O Superman – Laurie Anderson
For all those under house arrest right now… not a disease-themed set, just some things that sounded OK to me when played in sequence.
Stay well, everyone.
Race of Doom – Devo
Tanz Mit Laibach – Laibach
Final Solution – Père Abu
Taste of Cindy – Jesus and Mary Chain
Augenblick – Xmal Deutschland
Robot – The Plastics
Blue Monday – New Order
Lobotomy – NEON
Dominion – Sisters of Mercy
Uber den Horizont (Dance or Die remix) – Blutengel
Wolf – Nash the Slash
Lucky Number (Wir Leben Immer Noch) – Nina Hagen
Demolition Man – Grace Jones
Christine – Siouxsie and the Banshees
Love Will Tear Us Apart – Joy Division
Tantalize – Chris & Cosey
I Die: You Die – Gary Numan
I’ve been designing games (board games, not computer games) for a lot longer than I was ever DJing. In the new year a revised version of Civil Power, a tactical-level game I designed on urban riots and mayhem, will be published by a company called Conflict Simulations. I first designed this game back in 1991-92, and it came with a set of scenarios taken from history and then-contemporary headlines… this new version has a lot of changes informed by over 25 years of designing in between, and a whole new cast of global angst and violence.
So I thought, why not make a playlist to serve as a sort of soundtrack to playing it? The above is 78 minutes of anti-authority music of many genres (most of them loud and snotty), in an easy-to-handle 44K VBR. Hope you enjoy, even if you don’t order my game!
Track listing:
Glory to Hong Kong – anonymous student rebel orchestra
Tommy Gun – The Clash
Fist – Test Department
Solidaritätslied – Ernst Busch Chorus (film clip)
Landlord – Test Department
Ready to Blow – KMFDM
Babylon’s Burning – The Ruts
Wake Up – Rage Against the Machine
Riot – Dead Kennedys
Ghetto Defendant – The Clash
All That I wanted – Belfegore
Smash It Up – International Noise Conspiracy
Kick Out The Jams – MC5
Fight The Power – Public Enemy
Rise Above – Black Flag
Killing In The Name – Rage Against The Machine
Guns of Brixton – The Clash
Police Truck – Dead Kennedys
Wild in the Streets – Circle Jerks
General Strike – DOA
Clampdown – The Clash
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