Next CIRCUIT BREAKER: 11 MAY 2014

Posted on May 6, 2014 by ltmurnau

Unfortunately the April Circuit Breaker did not happen – we got moved twice, the second time on too short notice, so we just skipped it.

But the next one is happening Real Soon Now, on Sunday May 11!

Bring Mom along!

Murnau

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Next CIRCUIT BREAKER: 20 APRIL 2014

Posted on April 3, 2014 by ltmurnau

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Yes folks, despite what the poster says, we will have the next CIRCUIT BREAKER on Sunday 20 April… so delay that gratification by just seven days.

But it’s Easter Sunday, so you can stay out late, and arise on Monday!

(to the tune of “O God Our Help In Ages Past”, but pick up the tempo a bit)

http://www.concordant.org/hymns/ogod_o.mid

Oh Zombie Jesus Don’t Bite Me

On the third day did Jesus rise
Of this we all are sure
But still one question we must ask,
Is, “Were His motives pure?”

The rock rolled back and He came forth
Into the light of day
Parts of Him had gone light green
And others were quite gray

His steady stare and shambling gait
Did not the crowd dismay
Until he seized an Apostle
And tore his arm away

Dear Jesus broke up Simon’s skull
And ate the goo inside
His followers ran for the hills
And scattered far and wide

But still He did catch one or two
And gave them each a bite
They died and rose to be undead
And carry on the fight

O Zombie Jesus don’t bite me
Please leave me with my brains
And save me from your followers
Their pamphlets and refrains

Aaaa-menn….

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Setlists 9 March 2014

Posted on March 10, 2014 by ltmurnau

DJ Murnau
Chris + Cosey – Raining Tears of Blood
Cabaret Voltaire – Do the Mussolini
Nash the Slash – Pretty Folks
Rational Youth – City of Night
Severed Heads – 20 Deadly Diseases
Terminal Beach – Love on Auto
Human League – Rock N’ Roll/ Nightclubbin’
CCCP – American Soviets
Hard Corps – Dirty
Berlin Express – Die Russen Kommen
Seeming – Goodbye London*
Sudden Sway – Omnispend Sway (jingle)
Volt 9000 – Game of Drones
Sudden Sway – Romeoplan (jingle)
Kraftwerk – Computerlove
Skinny Puppy – Assimiliate
OHM – Car Crash

DJ Corvix

In Strict Confidence – Kiss Your Shadow
Ministry – I Prefer
Spahn Ranch – Breath and Taxes…
Glis – Nightvision (2.0)
Die Form – Slavesex
FGFC820 – Killing Fields
Xentrifuge – Evolution
Nurzery Rhymes – Circle of Pain
Disconnected – Adrenaline (feat. Frank M Spinath)
C-Drone Defect – Morituri Te Salutant
DYM – Autonomy of the Will
GenCAB – Love and Death
Painbastard – Fool in Love
Chainreactor – Gas Panic

DJ Saccharide setlist to come

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Next Circuit Breaker: 9 MARCH 2014

Posted on February 23, 2014 by ltmurnau

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ACHTUNG!

MARSCH, I mean March, is the month for getting your stompiest boots on and having some fun with us!

Winter is almost over, come and kick it in the rear (along with exercising your other patented dance moves)!

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Setlists 9 February 2014

Posted on February 10, 2014 by ltmurnau

(* = request)

DJ Murnau

Chris and Cosey – Raining Tears of Blood
Cabaret Voltaire – Walls of Jericho
Greater Than One – Metal
Front Line Assembly – Transmutation
Diamanda Galas – Double Barrel Prayer
Spahn Ranch – Vortex*
Cyberaktif – The Road Kill
DRP – New Days
Nitzer Ebb – Join in the Chant
Skinny Puppy – Hexonexxon
Severed Heads – Petrol*
Kraftwerk – Dentaku
Meat Beat Manifesto – Dog Star Man*

DJ Corvix, Saccharide setlists to follow

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Often until the detainees soiled themselves.

Posted on February 5, 2014 by ltmurnau

From CBC.ca website

Canadian band Skinny Puppy says its music used for torture at Guantanamo

Tuesday, February 4, 2014 | 

Canadian electro-industrial music genre pioneers, Skinny Puppy, recently found out their music was used to torture detainees at Guantanamo Bay.

 A former Gitmo guard, who is writing a book on his experiences, says that inmates were exposed to bootleg recordings of the band’s music, at incredibly high volumes, for up to 12 hours at a time. Often until the detainees soiled themselves.

Skinny Puppy founding member, cEvin Key, says the band is sending the U.S. Department of Defense an invoice for $666,000 for its use of their music. Members are also considering a lawsuit against the department.

I just had to commemorate that sentence fragment. It reminds me of the WS Burroughs bit …And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks. I’m also morbidly curious about which albums were used. 

But bootleg recordings? For shame! With all the trillions spent on the Global War on Terror so far, you think they’d have sprung for some actual CDs.

(edited to add: It wasn’t whole albums, just certain songs from bootlegs, and (now that I’ve listened to the audio interview at http://www.cbc.ca/asithappens/popupaudio.html?clipIds=2434894009), the tactic of just one particular interrogator. From Chaos Control zine, http://www.chaoscontrol.com/which-skinny-puppy-songs-were-used-at-guantanamo/ they included:

Heaven’s Trash
T.F.W.O.
Hexonexxon
Tin Omen
Vx Gas Attack

Now, this raises the larger issue of sound as a physical and psychological weapon, nothing exactly new but something that hasn’t had a really high profile. Recently I picked up Sonic Warfare: Sound, Affect and the Ecology of Fear, (http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/sonic-warfare) the jargony bits make it heavy sledding but the examples he chooses are good. And of course there is Jon Ronson’s The Men Who Stare At Goats (read the book, ignore the movie, and pay attention when it stops being funny) where he details use of music by Barney The Purple Dinosaur on prisoners at camps in Iraq, at high volume and for extended periods, either to stop them sleeping or to cover the noise of beatings.

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Next CIRCUIT BREAKER: February 9, 2014 – and some photos!

Posted on January 26, 2014 by ltmurnau

And off we go, into 2014, a good start already!
See you there!

Here are some photos of the DJs in the booth, taken last event by the very talented Scott Ireson:

DJ Murnau

DJ Murnau

DJ Corvix

DJ Corvix

DJ Saccharide

DJ Saccharide

DJ Saccharide again

DJ Saccharide again

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Setlists 12 January 2014

Posted on January 13, 2014 by ltmurnau

Our third anniversary, nice to see everyone come out! Setlists:

DJ Murnau
Nash the Slash – Swing Shift
Severed Heads – Oscar’s Grind
Chris and Cosey – Love Cuts
The Normal – TVOD
Skinny Puppy – Worlocked
Birmingham 6 – Israel
Eisenfunk – Medieval Bit
Trans-X – Living on Video
Hilary – Kinetic
Front 242 – Lovely Day
Laibach – Geburt Einer Nation
Eisenfunk – Quattro
Solitary Experiments – Delight
Miss Construction – Eins und Zwei
Combichrist – This is My Rifle (AK-47 remix)
AD:Key – Gruene Augen Luegen
Wendy Carlos – excerpt from Timesteps (request)

DJ Corvix
Encephalon – Drop Dead
Necessary Response – Spilling Blood
XMH – Neon Venus…
.Com/Kill – Monster Divine
The Synthetic Dream Foundation – Blood Divine
God Module – Forseen
Das Ich – Opferzeit
Haujobb – Let’s Drop Bombs
Laibach – Resistance is Futile
X-Fusion – House of Mirrors
Project Pitchfork – Timekiller
Ego Likeness – Treacherous Thing
Pretentious, Moi? – Sense in Segments
The Beauty of Gemina – The Lonesome Death of a Goth DJ
Hocico – Bloodshed
Das Ich – Sodom und Gomorra
Black Heaven – Das Tor Zur Welt

(DJ Saccharide list to come)

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Next CIRCUIT BREAKER: January 12, 2014 (3rd anniversary!)

Posted on January 1, 2014 by ltmurnau

CIRCUIT BREAKER marks the start of its fourth year, with the beginning of 2014!

Hope to see you all there!

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Setlists 8 December 2013

Posted on December 9, 2013 by ltmurnau

A fun time on a cold night!

DJ Murnau setlist:

CTI – Mary
Chris and Cosey – Walking Through Heaven
Cabaret Voltaire – Walls of Jericho
Nash the Slash – Reactor #2
John Foxx – 030
The Human League – Path of Least Resistance
Polyphonic Size – Nagasaki Mon Amour
Front 242 – Lovely Day
P1/e – 49 Second Romance
Trans-X – Living on Video
Klaus Nomi – Cold Song
Moog synthesizers – Santa Claus is Coming To Town
Eisenfunk – Jinglefunk
The GoGos – I’m Gonna Spend My Christmas With A Dalek
Solitary Experiments – God Where Are You
Neurotron 606 – I Cloned Myself for Christmas
OHM – When Robots Fuck
Skinny Puppy – Smothered Hope
Cyberaktif – House of Pain
Lost Children – Warm Leatherette
Iko – Approach on Tokyo
Boris Karloff’s Nuclear War PSA
Advanced Art – From Nothing to Nothing
Bella Morte – Relics
Blutengel – A Place Called Home
Digital Poodle – Head ov Levin
Prayer Tower – Electric State
Front Line Assembly – The Final Impact
Encephalon – Transhuman Condition
Orange Sector – Polizisten
Einsturzende Neubauten – Yu-Gung
BioMekkanik – Evil

DJ Corvix setlist:

Seabound – Travelling (Extended Version)
X Marks the Pedwalk – Side of the Wrong
Helium Vola – Omnes Mundi Creatura (Radio Version)…
Motor feat. Gary Numan – Pleasure in Heaven
Freezepop – Lady Spider
Athamay – Kiss the Whip
Covenant – Last Dance (Version)
Tristesse de la Lune – Queen of the Damned (Single Version)
Azrael Trigger – Out of Pain
Flesh Field – Animal
Neuroticfish – Prostitute
Diva Destruction – Screaming Inside
Linea Aspera – Attica
Frontline Assembly – Provision
System Syn – The Disappearance
Skinny Puppy – Deep Down Trauma Hounds
Prometheus Burning – A Living Oblivion
Bigod 20 – The Bog
Numb – Blood
Die Sektor – In the Arms of Eternity
Pride and Fall – Border
Assemblage 23 – I Am the Rain
Distorted Memory – Raven Eyes
Technoir – Dying Star
Chainreactor – Gas Panic
Grendel – Harsh Generation
Laibach – Tanz Mit Laibach

Just the two of us, DJ Saccharide had to get ready for a heavy day at work…

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