My set at the Calling

[karohemd]

For once, the decks were working, just the mixer seems to get worse.
Not a lot of people dancing, sadly. Just proves that most people will only dance to stuff they know but at least greebotrill, necro_angel and hampsterboy came out regularly.
It was good fun but I so need more practice. Still, I didn't fuck up and both the Trauma Pet demo and the Killing Miranda Promo played.
The Calling, 28th of September 2004, 9 - 10:40

stillstand vs. conscientia peccati - essence
Werkraum - Hohezeit
Obsidian Voice - Requiem
Klangstabil - Gloomy Day (Daruma Version)
Einstürzende Neubauten - Ich gehe jetzt*
Novalis - Bloody
Therion - Lemuria
Cultus Ferox - Sarah
Schandmaul - Leb!
Tanzwut - Der Wächter*
Helium Vola - Veni Veni
Trauma Pet - Controlled Hysteria (Demo) [More info]
Cyborg Attack - Blutrausch
Dekoy - Silent Space
Das Ich - Vulkan
Kevorkian Death Cycle - Relax
Killing Miranda - Conspiracy Theory (Promo Version) [Preview of new single, new album Consummate out on 25/10]
Rammstein - Amerika [new single]
Eisbrecher - Willkommen im Nichts
subHUMAN - Crack Baby
Xotox - Mechanische Unruhe (mh20 remix by Heimataerde)
Rotersand - Electronic World Transmission ([:sitd:] reconstruction)
[:sitd:] - Laughingstock (The Retrosic remix)
The Retrosic - Storm (Sirene)
Tactical Sekt - Soulless

* band request

After that, Loki played the same old shit as always...

Comments

[rich-redcap.livejournal.com]

what you need is my bands remix :) the world needs more cock!!

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

If you send me a copy to karohemd at yahoo dot com, I'll play it at the next Octaine (http://www.octaine.co.uk). ;o)

[toxicpixie.livejournal.com]

Wow, so hard core I don't know half of that lot!

It's a bugger tho; no one dances to new music but then complain if you play anything different :/ Perennial DJ complaint.

Nathan, The Toxic Pixie

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

*grins* That was sort of the point. ;o)

*nods*
Actually, there were no complaints, only compliments, just not that many people dancing. Mind you, the dancefloor usually doesn't get going before 10:30 or 11, anyway and it was quite dead today.

[toxicpixie.livejournal.com]

Heh, I know you wanted a cognoscenti set; it appears to have worked!

I was impressed on Saturday at people dancing to non-cliches, also impressed when they enjoyed the cliches and no one whinged at me for them either :D

Early sets are usually a bugger anyway, as you say, as no one's liquored up enough to dance :/

Nathan, The Toxic Pixie

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

I'd love to do a later set but either I don't have any middle-of-the road stuff or if I do I'd refuse to play it. ;o)

I just hope the Kambar gets itself sorted and I get to run my own industrial/electro club soon, and get enough punters to maintain it.

[toxicpixie.livejournal.com]

Ahh, a man who truely plays for his art!

It's been a shame the Kambar has been so buggered this last couple of months; Octaine seemed to be doing well :/

Nathan, The Toxic Pixie

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

*bows*

It's always quiet over summer so it wouldn't have been viable to run Octaine.
I'm currently cheesed off with them because they can't make their mind up about giving me dates for other things (Octaine dates are booked til the end of the year).

Lottery win and bunker looks more and more likely... ;o)

[a1exxandra.livejournal.com]

thanks for linking that up properly hon! :)

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

No problem!

[the-laydee.livejournal.com]

I must come to one of your nights at some point. I like your taste in music.

You'd do well down here also. Come and treat us to good music... Or we'll go find your good music. Maybe. If we can EVER get there.

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

Thanks! This was only a guest spot, though.
If you can make it to Octaine on the 14th of October, I'll play some harsh tunes in the last set and there will be some ambient stuff in the first set in November.

I'll try and get down to your neck of the woods. I should be at Black Machine in November. A friend of mine (sea_cucumber) lives just outside Bournemouth so I'd have somewhere to stay as well.

[the-laydee.livejournal.com]

Hurrah!! A friend of mine is doing a guest spot there, so if I can get transport/crash space, I'll be there.

She's doing it as a warm up gig as she's doing Oslo Synthfest later in the month (she'll love me telling you that). There's going to be a Goth dj (eugh), an Industrial/noize dj (hurrah Katy!) and a bleepy, ebmy one too! So there's somethig for everyone.

Unless she's doing the October one, which is possible. My memory's going in my old age...

[raggedyman.livejournal.com]

i dont think the people dancing factor was helped by the time slot, I've played known floor fillers before 10 and had noone get up for them.

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

I know.
Thing is, half of my set isn't really suitable for a later slot.

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

Well, if you will stop playing ethereal things as soon as I finish changing into floaty clothes in the bathroom...
(I think that sounded better than the firts try to say whast I meant!)

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

Sorry!
I'll mix things more next time. That reminds me, I need to talk to deliberateblank about getting another set in the nearish future.