Terminates Here

15/08/2024

For various reasons, it took me a few weeks to post this. But as I'm trying to keep my full DJ history here, here's my setlist from Work! in July 2024. Guest DJ this time was Mike Klein from Germany, and there was also a live performance from Majestoluxe from Sweden. Here’s what I played.

9pm
Insekt – Damage Done
Ionic Vision – Mass Madness
Pandoria – Crush
Psychic Force – Acceleration
Blind Vision – Bestialic Beat
Brigade Werther – Killbeat
Multiple Man – Luxury
Aircrash Bureau – Machine
Oomph! – Der Neue Gott
Void Kampf – EBM Poseurs

23:45pm
Boy Harsher – Pain (yes, I finally played it)
ULTRA SUNN – Keep Your Eyes Open
Buzz Kull – Into The Void
Kirlian Camera – Eclipse (Anniversary)
Cabaret Voltaire – I Want You
Skinny Puppy – Far Too Frail
Fad Gadget – Ricky’s Hand
Absoulte Body Control – Figures
Front 242 – Rhythm Of Time

16/05/2024

A few bits of news on the writing front. I’m now looking into editing and publishing (probably self-publishing) for the “Dark Scene 500” book, subjects that are entirely new to me. I have a few leads, but if anyone knows anyone who can help with either, please get in touch, as the internet is full of conflicting advice! All I’ve learned so far is ‘steer clear of vanity publishers’.

Whilst I’ve been waiting for responses, I’ve updated the existing Listerners Guides on this site, with plans to write a new one soon. This includes releases up to 2024, included the long-awaiting end to Project Pitchfork’s most recent trilogy. If you haven’t checked them recently, take a look at the Articles Page.

Articles Listener’s Guides Listener’s Guides are long-form articles that work through an entire band’s backcatalogue, pick out the highlights, lowlights and general trends in their overall style, and makes suggestions as to where to begin in terms of checking out their music. Apoptygma Berzerk...

12/05/2024

Back to Lava with DJ's Translight and Mark13, featuring live bands Down from Above and Inertia (finally Reza and I on the same bill!). This time held in the legendary Cart and Horses pub in East London. Being the home of Iron Maiden, this set was more guitar heavy than what I'd normally do - but given it was an afterparty set, a lot of old favourites made it in. But not before a minutes noise in tribute to Steve Albini.

Big Black - The Power Of Independent Trucking
Earth Loop Recall - Optimism Creeping In
NIN - Sin
Project Pitchfork - Timekiller
Cubanate - Oxyacetylene
Prodigy - Omen
Pop Will Eat Itself - Ich Bin Ein Auslander
Killing Joke - Millenium
Sisters of Mercy - Vision Thing
Killing Miranda - Teenage Vampire
Ministry - Ricky's Hand
KMFDM - Godlike (Chicago Trax)

19/03/2024

First Terminates Here set of 2024 was at Work! (To Live) on Saturday night, joining Nathan Nothing and guest DJ Andrew Piper for some more EBM and related styles.

9pm
Wumpscut – Is It You?
Das Ich – Das Dunkle Land
ClockDVA – The Act
X Marks The Pedwalk – Paranoid Illusion
Cabaret Voltaire – The Dream Ticket
Dive – Sidewalk Sinner
MRDTC – Traffic
NTRSN – You See Me
Orange Sector – Der Maschinist
Force Dimension – 200FA
Portion Control – Icon
Wulfband – Kaos MF

23:45pm
Project Pitchfork – K.N.K.A. (Climax Version)
Front Line Assembly – Mindphaser
Eco – Hass und Liebe
Shift – Electrofixx
Ministry – Over The Shoulder
Front 242 – Quite Unusual
The Invincible Spirit – Push!
Kraftwerk – Radioactivity (The Mix Version)
The Human League – Empire State Human
ZyniC – Dream In Black And White
Kite – Jonny Boy

28/02/2024

The benefit of working online is you get to update old articles and bring them up to present-day relevance. Here's one originally published in 2018 that's been extended to tell the complete story right up to me writing this now....

Article Infest – A Personal Retrospective by Terminates Here|Published August 28, 2018 This is an article I wrote on Facebook shortly after Infest 2018. It’s been slight tweaked for website purposes, but is essentially a retrospective to mark the 20th anniversary of the event (even if I didn’t...

27/02/2024

In case you thought I'd vanished without trace - here's what I've been doing.

News Update – February 2024 by Terminates Here|Published February 27, 2024 I’ve been quiet in recent months, but I can now say the draft of the ‘Dark Scene 500’ (final title to be determined) is complete. I’m now looking into options for external editing and publishing. Expect to hear a LO...

26/11/2023

Probably the last Terminates Here set of 2023, joining Nathan Nothing and guest Matt Hart for a night of body beats, with a live show from German chip-punk act GrGr. In amongst all this, here’s what I played.

9pm
Vince Clarke – White Rabbit
Riotmiloo – Define Normal
Benefits – Warhorse
Tackhead – Mind At The End Of The Tether
Lead Into Gold – The Final Blows
Signal Aout 42 – Shut Up
Dupont – Planless Exhibition
Project Pitchfork – Song of the Winds
Das Ich – Kain und Abel (short cut)
Placebo Effect – Slashed Open
The Eternal Afflict – We Libanon You



Midnight
:Wumpscut: – On the Run
Front 242 – Punish Your Machine
Nitzer Ebb – Murderous
Portion Control – Amnesia
Red Meat – Providence
Ministry – Just Like You
Die Krupps – Metal Machine Music
Cabaret Voltaire – I Want You
DAF – Verschwende Deine Jugend
Jäger 90 – Dessau
Spark! – Ett Lejon I Dig

06/10/2023

Update on the book I'm writing - 90% complete now. I'd like to thank everyone who came in with suggestions. There's some dark and forgotten corners of the scene that are no longer forgotten (but they're still pretty dark).

Only genre where I still need some suggestions - club-oriented industrial from the 2010s and early 2020s. The post-punky stuff is well covered, just need a bit more oontz.....

However, there's one area where I really do need help. I'm looking for someone who really knows the scene genres across-the-board. Someone who doesn't sneer at futurepop, rhythmic noise, deathrock or metal being part of the scene, and won't split hairs over the precise definition of EBM, darkwave and suchlike. Someone who likes reading (and maybe writing) but also obsessively stage-hops at major scene fests or spent too much money on Bandcamp Fridays during lockdown would be an ideal candidate. Oh, a sense of humour is also important. This is NOT an academic text. Music is supposed to be fun.

I'm not looking for a line-by-line editor (such services are available elsewhere), I'm looking for someone to go through what I've come up with and reality-check the whole thing. I need to know it makes sense to someone other than myself.

Is this you? Message me if you think you are, or know someone who is.

31/07/2023

Back to Work! This event featured guest DJ Traumahound – by joining Nathan and myself, we recreated a DJ line-up last seen and heard in Aces way back in 2015. Also featured tonight was the first London show of Vagerr. Anyway, this is what I played.

9pm
Flesh Eating Foundation – Report Highlighting Gross Incompetence….
No Sleep By The Machine – Lye
Dead When I Found Her – Downpour
Dorsetshire – Brothers and Sisters
Seven Trees – Going Down
A Split-Second – Bend My Body Armour
Signal Aout 42 – Pro Patria
Underviewer – Nobody But You
Borghesia – Ni Upanja, Ni Strahu
High-Functioning Flesh – Hunger Cries
SARIN – Crash
Kanka + Bodewell – Marathon

12:10am
Rein – Bodyhammer
Youth Code – The Dust of Fallen Rome
Project Pitchfork – KNKA (Climax version)
Leæther Strip – Strap Me Down
Test Dept. – Landlord
Front 242 – Tragedy >For You<
Die Krupps – Metal Machine Music
RevCo – Attack Ships On Fire
Klinik – Moving Hands
Fad Gadget – Ricky’s Hand

25/04/2023

Some of you might remember I'm writing a book about scene music - focused primarily on notable songs. The draft is current around 75% complete. So one way or another, it's going to be finished - and soon! There's still a few gaps in my knowledge, but knowing the people I know, I was hoping some of you might be able to help me finish this thing off.

So, if you think you know about any of the following (or know someone who does) and are willing to contribute a few ideas, please get in touch.

- Psychobilly

- Horror punk

- Deathrock revival (i.e deathrock bands formed from the mid-90s onwards)

- Steampunk (even if this is more of a fashion genre, there's bands associated with it)

- Industrial hip-hop hybrids

- Industrial bass music (all past disagreements will be forgiven and forgotten)

- Club-friendly industrial from the past 10 years

- EDM that works in scene clubs (again, mainly from past decade, but the 00s area could use some help too)

- Digital Hardcore (anyone remember that?)

- Witch House (ditto)

Note that all assistance will be credited and I'm not asking anyone to do any writing - I'm really just asking for some playlist suggestions and a bit of fact and reality-checking.

Alternatively, if you just want to throw in a random suggestion, name one song from a band formed in the past 10 years that has taken a style of music you like and done something new with it. I might have missed something!

27/03/2023

Work! (To Live) March 2023 - The first anniversary of the event– with Mara Mortem back to join Nathan Nothing and myself for an evening of classic EBM and related styles. Here’s what I played.

9pm-9:45pm

Kite – Castle of Sand
Kirlian Camera – Odyssey Europa
The Weathermen – Punishment Park
The Neon Judgement – Chinese Black
Attrition – The Switch
Object – The Ethane Asylum
Scapa Flow – Crucial Impact
NTRSN – You See Me
Oldschool Union – Stressi
Frontal – Lass Mich
Elite! - Maschinen
Sturm Cafe – Koka Kola Freiheit


11:15pm-Midnight

Portion Control – Amnesia
Nitzer Ebb – Warsaw Ghetto
Front 242 – No Shuffle
Eco – Hass Und Liebe
Project Pitchfork – Go Further
Front Line Assembly – Plasticity
Covenant – Speed (Club Version)
Die Robo Sapien – Robo Sapien
Cabaret Voltaire – I Want You
Militant Cheerleaders On The Move – Freaks (single edit)

21/01/2023

My setlist from the first LAVA event, joining Mark13 and event founder Translight for a night based around the rockier end of the industrial spectrum.

Nine Inch Nails - March of the Pigs
Killing Joke - Asteroid
Big Black - Bad Penny
Lard - Forkboy
Fear Factory - Demanufacture
Rammstein - Feuer Frei! (BANG! BANG!)
Die Krupps - Fatherland
Front 242 - Welcome To Paradise
Skinny Puppy - Tin Omen
Ministry - Deity
Godflesh - Crush My Soul
White Zombie - More Human Than Human
Tool - Stinkfist
Filter - The Best Things
Mortiis - Parasite God
Eisbrecher - This Is Deutsch
Oomph! - Gott Ist Ein Popstar
Zeromancer - Doctor Online
Gothminister - Angel
Gary Numan - Pure

15/12/2022

There isn’t much Terminates Here DJ activity at the moment (none, actually), but progress on my ‘Dark Scene 500’ book continues. I’m well over halfway through the first draft, and I’ll soon be at the stage where I’ll be asking for help. Specifically, I will be looking for some expertise in certain sub-genres which haven’t featured heavily in my own scene experiences, but I know are too important to leave out.

As for getting the thing published, self-publication seems to be the way to go these days. I’m hoping crowdfunding will be a cost-effective way of paying for this, given I’m not seeking any personal financial gain from this endeavour. As a sign of good faith, I won’t start this process until I know the text is close to the “finishing line”, given the real costs of self-publishing don’t really come into play until after the text is drafted.

The one area where I’m really stuck, and looking for suggestions – finding an editor. Google searching mainly seems to yield US-oriented editors practised in either academic texts or works of fiction, and this book is none of these things. So if anyone has any ideas for how to find someone who could help get a mammoth tome about obscure musical styles written in colloquial (sometimes cynical) British English into some kind of publishable shape, please get in touch.

27/11/2022

Back to the Aces basement in Tufnell Park for body beats and assorting electronic oddities at Work! (To Live) with Nathan Nothing and guest DJ Nick Octopus down from Edinburgh. Almost certainly my last set of 2022, and my 150th in total. Full setlists to follow on the event page shortly, but as a preview, here’s what I played.

9pm-9:45pm

Absolute Body Control – I’m Leaving
Silke Bischoff – On The Other Side I’ll See You Again
Psychic Force – Underpass ’94
X Marks The Pedwalk – Paranoid Illusion
Numb – Dead Inside
Pankow – Gimme More (Much More)
Cobalt 60 – Bye Bye
Orange Sector – Für Immer
Spark! – Ett Lejon I Dig
Jäger 90 – Dessau
Elm – Wapenrustning
Signal Aout 42 – To Talk Nonsense



11:15pm-Midnight

Go_A – Shum
Kirlian Camera – Eclipse (Anniversary)
Project Pitchfork – Requiem
Kraftwerk – Radioactivity (The Mix version)
Nitzer Ebb – Getting Closer
Front 242 – In Rhythmus Blieben
DAF – Verschwende Deine Jugend
Die Krupps – Tod Und Teufel
A Split-Second – Flesh
Ministry – Revenge
Camouflage – The Great Commandment
Eleven Pond – Watching Trees

24/07/2022

A return to the Aces and Eights basement, where I joined Nathan Nothing and Cavey Nik to play a night of EBM and related styles. I don’t play that often these days, so every set like this is special.

9pm

Vangelis – Alpha
32Crash – Slow Crash
Haujobb – Dead Market
AutoDaFeh – Identity Unknown
klack – Discipline
á;GRUMH – C.B.B. (14%)
Borghesia – Discipline (same title but different song to the klack one…..)
The Young Gods – Jimmy
My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult – Do You Fear For Your Child
Revolting C***s – Attack Ships On Fire
Kraftwerk – Numbers
Welle:Erdball – Starfighter F-104G
Kirlian Camera – Nightglory

11:15pm

Project Pitchfork – K.N.K.A. (Climax Version)
Front Line Assembly – Iceloate
Leæther Strip – Adrenalin Rush
The Invincible Spirit – Push!
Das Ich – Destillat (Original version)
Front 242 – No Shuffle
Nitzer Ebb – Control I’m Here
DAF – Kebabträume
Cabaret Voltaire – I Want You
Klinik – Moving Hands
Skinny Puppy – Far Too Frail

12/04/2022

After my DJing comeback in March, I’ve now turned my attentions back to writing. The concept remains “500 songs that define a scene”, although the final title won’t be decided for some time yet. At time of writing, just over 150 songs have received a draft write-up. Challenges include working out fresh ways of describing periods where many songs sounded pretty much the same (thank you aggrotech), and how to sensitively handle the whole ‘musically notable-ideologically problematic’ issue. “Leaving those bits out” isn’t an option – re-writing history to eliminate things you don’t agree with causes more problems than it solves.

I’m hoping to launch some crowdfunding to actually get this book published – forget about the established press. However, as a sign of good faith, I won’t launch this until the first draft is nearly complete (probably around the 400 song mark). It will also be the point where I hope to engage other subject matter experts on corners of the scene I haven’t personally been involved in – so if you think you know your stuff RE: digital hardcore, deathrock revival, 2010s EDM-that-had-a-scene-following or whatever it is steampunks listen to, hold that thought – we might have something to discuss!

Until then, I haven’t counted out DJing again from time to time, particularly if I get to play under-represented styles (as was the case with ‘Work!’) or have the opportunity to work up a decent genre-spanning setlist.

If you have any interest in any of the above, get in touch!

27/03/2022

The first Terminates Here set since the pandemic began took place at Work! (To Live), a real-world version of Nathan Nothing's lockdown-era online event Work! (From Home). Back to one of my favourite venues, and one of my favourite styles to play, alongside Nathan and DJ Mara Mortem. And thanks to Bandcamp Fridays, some new bands alongside the old favourites.

9pm-9:45pm

Due to my 2-year DJing layoff, I decided to start the event with the last track I played at the final Terminates Here set (also at Aces and Eights) in March 2020, followed by a reprise of the first track ever played at a TH set back in 2008 (also in Tufnell Park). Then the hard rhythms could begin.....

Ramin Djawadi fear Serj Tankian - The Rains of Castamere
Laibach - Mama Leone
:Wumpscut: - Capital Punishment
Deja Vu 2 - World Alert (2014 mix)
Borghesia - Ni Upanja, Ni Strahu
Ministry - Just Like You
My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult - Kooler Than Jesus
Cabaret Voltaire - Just Fascination
Pouppée Fabrikk - Death
Chrome Co**se - Remembering Your Words
Rein - There Is No Authority but Yourself

11:15pm-12:00am

Possibly one of my favourite DJ stints, ever.....

Absolute Body Control - Figures
Front 242 - Tragedy For You (Punish Your Machine)
Leæther Strip - Strap Me Down
Red Meat - Wrapped In Leather
Test Dept - Landlord
Armageddon Di**os - East West
Choke Chain - Blood
Cat Rapes Dog - American Dream
Youth Code - The Dust of Fallen Rome
Portion Control - Amnesia
Die Krupps - Robo Sapien