Signifier is ready to take it’s seat at the table with the other labels putting out music for devotees of industrial, experimental electronics and the legion of sub-genres that flow from the whole.

The 2XCD compilation: These Sounds Will Have to Meet Somewhere in Between will be released on August 30. I’ll be repping the Kinetic crew on September 1 to host a release/listening party at Rodan in order to celebrate and spread the word about an exciting new Chicago label. I’ll be joined by Signifier head honcho Shannon Malik, aka rosierivits of Hidden Forms Radio fame along with her cohort ephemere. It will be a night of cool beats from across the industrial/idm/technoid spectrum, not much on the oontz oontz tip. Come one, come all.

TSWHTMSB

Nexus 6 Friday!

Posted: August 18, 2011 in Uncategorized

Licious and I will be holding it down tomorrow. Looking forward to a hell of time!

Signifier on the Move

Posted: August 1, 2011 in plug
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These Sounds Will Have to Meet Somewhere In Between is new label Signifier’s coming out party. There will be great things coming from this label in the very near future. Here’s a little taste.

a pretty good encapsulation of the contrasts in approaches towards addressing industrial and post-industrial society by rock music and electronic music respectively. industrial music remains ever the fading mutant child.

 

Technos Labor Force, Rocks Betrayal, and the Birth of the Fascist Groove Thing.

Friday night was a good time. The crowd was great and much Haujobb love was shared. That being said, I felt a bit off all night mostly due to the fact that I’d somehow managed to forget to bring a lot of music. I kept doing the, “now I’ll throw this bad boy on,” look around and go “doh” and have to scramble with option B. I should probably clean my room, or consider going digital. But it really wasn’t all that bad. The whole night seemed to go on incredibly quickly and it was over before I knew it. Night was topped off with a Chicago-style Polish acquired in the alley. Ah the joys of street food.

ADMX-71 – In Decay They Lurk
Converter – Gateway Rite
Mend – Sibling
The Incredible Three – One More Ride
Haujobb – Transfer
Halo_Gen – Sutra
Architect – Belgian Connection
Empusae + Shinkiro – First Ornament
Download – Beehatch
Haujobb – Solid State Logic
Phantom West – Winter Market (Espionage Mix)
Haujobb – Dream Aid

Haujobb – Dead Market (Extended)
Covenant – Judge of My Domain
Solitary Experiments – Never Surrender
Cryo – Substance
[de:ad:cibel] – Too Tired to Consume
[r] Memmaker — Sneaking Through The Totalitarian Filter
Chainreactor – Locked In
Proyecto Mirage – Nicht
[r] Numb – Blind
Haujobb – Homes & Gardens (Optimixed V1.2)
Ivardensphere – Bloodwater
Destroid – Moral
Rotersand – Speak to Me

[syndika:zero] – Celluloid Dream (Fatal Memory)
[r]Prometheus Burning – Some Things Were Meant to Stay Broken
Dulce Liquido – Serial Killer
Siva Six – Angels of the Nine (Hydra Division V mix)
Haujobb – Boom Operator
Chrysalide – Traders Must Die
This Morn Omina – One Eyed Man
Monolith – Global World (Reworked)
Mlada Fronta – XB 33
Synapscape – Bigger Space
Oil 10 – Grand Illusion
Haujobb – Renegades of Noize
C-Tec – Stateless
Accessory – War of Emotion (feindflug rmx)
DavaNtage – Decadence (Wynardtage Remix)

Ancient History

Posted: June 15, 2011 in Uncategorized

I dug through my old Livejournal archives and dug up my first two DJ sets evah. Wow, it only took like eight years for Oil 10′s Lost in Metropolis to become a local club hit.

Sedition @Joy Blue March 2, 2003

typhoid — 1.37 beta
l’ombre — disappear
oil 10 — second moon
end — theatres of memory
savak/zymosiz — harrum scarrum
orphx — halflife 1
dryft — 39thieves (codec rmx)
klangstabil — vertraut
takshaka — motoko 2501
detritus — diminish
squaremeter — the dark enemy of the world
prospero — storm front
antigen shift — between two worlds
halo_gen — tesseract
cdatakill — nina milla meta
detritus — element
ars moriendi — armageddon
5f_55 — l.i.s.a.
ativ — 1012
somatic responses — rwy eisiau dy gariad
panacea — faggot house
arzt+pfusch — love
decoded feedback — heaven
god module — transcend
aslan faction — forced bleeding
hocico — untold blasphemies
s.i.n.a. — headstrong
dioxyde — primary structures (reality rmx)
this morn omina — one-eyed man

Sedition @Joy Blue April 27, 2003

troum/yen pox — track 2 from the album mnemonic induction
wilt — depression modern
antizycle — cutting perfomance
we are gentlemen — cherry pie
mimetic — 2002
displacer — atrophied
end — dead media
flint glass — amemhat
mlada fronta — oxyides rmx by data raper
cdatakill — perpetual casualty
detritus — diminish
squaremeter — discord (war of sound)
ah cama sotz — fluido mortal
this morn omina — the burning hand
[massengrab] — breches
oil 10 — lost in metropolis
haujobb — penetration (floor mix)
pzychobitch — face in your hands
cut rate box — leave this world
melotron — folger mir ins licht
davaNtage — crisis

Dead Market

Posted: June 15, 2011 in plug, Uncategorized
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it’s almost time for Haujobb to make their long anticipated return to a starving [post]industrial landscape. they got themselves a nice ride to make the trip, too.

Posted: June 14, 2011 in mutterings
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3AM alleyway

Saturday morning, I left Exit where Pandemic’s Candy Coated Chaos was still in full swing.  There were many wonderful people there [congrats to JenaMax on her Exit debut & impending birthday apocalyse] and the beats were stellar, but when the flight instinct kicks in with me, I rarely linger … at heart I’m all about the solitary headphone wandering, all self-contained sound and motion and the journey.

Nexus 6 Setlist 3/18/11

Posted: March 21, 2011 in Uncategorized

Friday night was very good. The crowd was enthusiastic and crazed with Super Moon-inspired passion. There were a lot of new faces and tons of familiar faces pulled themselves out of winter hibernation. The crowd was really in the mood for harsh ebm and the dreaded hellektro, but they were open to other stuff too, so I didn’t really feel any pressure or anything. I’ll be on the bench for the next few months, but there may some other events on the horizon. We shall see. In the meantime, the damage:

Empusae+Shinkiro — Fourth Ornament
Polygon — Memorandum
Anhedonia — Beautiful Evil
Millipede (W/ Access To Arasaka & Candle Nine) — Darkest Night
Disharmony — Plasmodium
Ahnst Anders — Night & Day
Numb — Deviation
Lexincrypt — Scar Tissue
Skinny Puppy — Morpheus Laughing
Sleepwalk — Lost in Hopelessness

Covenant — Judge of My Domain
[de:ad:cibel] — To Tired to Consume
[syndika:zero] — Zodiac
[r] Amduscia — Melodies for the Devil
[r] Tactical Sekt — Bring Me Violence
Suicide Commando — Death Cures All Pain
davaNtage — Unholy (In Necropolis A.D” Remix)
Rotersand — Rushing
Accessory — If This Isn’t a Dream
Prometheus Burning — Mindbenders
ESA — Not A Man of God
Feindflug — Gulag

Headscan — Zenith
Oil 10 — Lost in Metropolis
Mlada Fronta — XB-33
Destroid — Moral
Solitary Experiments — Miracle
Hocico — Call for Destruction
Mimetic — Gloomy
Detune-X — Sleepless
Orphx — Pox Americana
Haujobb — A Terrifying Truth (v0.1)
Das Ich — Gottes Tod (Dance or Die remix)
Decoded Feedback — Phoenix
Synapscape — Thirsteater
Hocico — Untold Blasphemies

and so, last week was lost to a hail of activity and I am uncertain at anything above slightly more than a purely abstract level, what day it is, but that nonsense is over now. I have moved house and more or less (mostly less, but we live in harrowing times and it is foolish to grope around for the Ideal Situation) I’m ready to resume with the regularly scheduled program.

determining what constitutes the regular program, is the thing that must be determined of course. aside from set lists from dj gigs and promotion of those and other events, things have been pretty sparse. there has been a lot of movement on the scene/scene-related front as of late however and there also seems to be a dire need for sorting out the great stacks of mess and mediocrity and trumpeting the arrival of excellent music and cool events and keeping the whole industrial/gothic/electronic/odd& sublime thing from getting stale, predictable and irrelevant. so in the spirit of doing my part, I’ll start with the local.

though I am oftentimes overly concerned with the creeping specter of nostalgia — mainly with being wary of it becoming a crutch that hampers evolution and progress — I do appreciate that industrial fans from all over are so keen on celebrating the history of Wax Trax! Records.

the Retrospectacle celebrates 33 1/3 years of Wax Trax! and the proceeds will benefit the Center on Halstead and will actually be a three-day event due to the demand. From waxtraxchicago.com

In honor of the 33 1/3 year anniversary of Wax Trax! Records and the legacy of its creators Jim Nash & Dannie Flesher, “The Nash Group 2449″ is producing a 2 night multimedia concert event that will celebrate the legendary Chicago record label and store on April 15th & 16th. The event will feature friends & artists of the Wax Trax! label and store including Front 242, My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult, Luc Van Acker, Paul Barker, Chris Connelly, En Esch, Guenter Schultz, Raymond Watts, Rights of The Accused and more. In addition to the live performances, there will be special guests as well as an all star cast of Chicago DJ and VJ’s to commemorate the label and store. All proceeds will benefit the non-profit, Center On Halsted.

This landmark show is being championed by the Nash family and friends and will honor the influence of Wax Trax! as well as Jim and Dannie. Even before Metro opened in 1982, the venue’s owner Joe Shanahan enjoyed a close relationship with the label and store, one which would result in many joyful nights in Metro in the years to come – Metro is honored to host this once in a lifetime event.

Wax Trax! was not only a ground-breaking music label with an international roster and reach, but also a cultural hub for thousands of Chicagoans and visitors throughout its existence. Jim and Dannie originally started Wax Trax! Records in Denver in 1975, with an emphasis on selling underground and imported music. After relocating to Chicago and opening the Lincoln Avenue store in 1978, it quickly became the heart of Chicago’s emerging punk and art scene. In 1980, after releases from Chicago Punk all-stars Strike Under and international trash-diva Divine, Wax Trax! Records began to solidify their place as electronic pioneers with the addition of Al Jourgensen and Ministry to their roster. Throughout the 1980’s Wax Trax! continued to release ground breaking artists and has been credited around the world as a principal innovator in what has come to be known as “Industrial Music.” The influence of the label and store touched countless bands, venues, promoters and music fans. Both Jim Nash and Dannie Flesher have since passed away due to complications brought on by AIDS, Jim in 1995 and Dannie in 2010.

Proceeds from the event will benefit Center On Halsted, the most comprehensive Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgendered community center in the Midwest. Their mission is simple – in a safe, nurturing environment, The Center On Halsted serves as a catalyst for the LGBT community that links and provides local resources and enriches life experiences. As Wax Trax! provided throughout its history, the Center On Halsted serves as a meeting place for like-minded people who, too often, find themselves disenfranchised or disconnected from the “mainstream”.

a celebration of Wax Trax! wouldn’t be complete without drama of some sorts, so other than Front 242 and My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult, the bands performing Revolting Cocks and KMFDM selections won’t be the “official” incarnations of said bands. Conspicuous by his absence of course is one Al Jourgensen whose Ministry project and innumerable side-projects, including Revolting Cocks, made him the face of the label — but time, it moves on. I’m going for the scene. I want to see all the people who were influenced by the music and things going on in Chicago back in the day, I want to see freaks young and old on parade, and I want to hang out with friends and perhaps run into people that I never see anymore. I will probably also be leaving early that first night in order to run down to the Empty Bottle and see Zola Jesus perform and then scoot off to Neo for Nexus 6, but all told, the Retrospectacle will turn back the clock and make everything seem fresh and new again. Funny what time and memory can do to the present.