Now, I was going to burn off a few sets in the interests of keeping it loose and interesting, and also protecting my albums. However, it does not seem that this is an option... I could always give the old G4 a shot... but I've already spent two hours committing songs to the hard drive. Looks like I'll just have to take my originals with me and keep a sharp eye on them. I fucken hate technology...oh well. Time to start packing!

Tonight I'll be playing... well...everything. Dark synthy stuff, body music and industrial, electro/pop/clash/punk. I also have four copies of the last Inflatable Voodoo Dolls album which I'll add to the giveaways... this one is an acid-bass driven riot. See me before or after my set for a copy...

Details below:

Cabaret Nocturne - TONIGHT
HAPPY HOUR will run between 10PM - Midnight with VERY cheap spirits, beer and wine - incentive enough to arrive early and sink a skinful!

Royal Melbourne Hotel
629 Bourke St, City

Doors 10PM - 5AM - 18+, ID required.

Level 1 - EBM/Industrial/Electro - DJ's Hellfudge, Miss Aeryn plus special guests - Gus Exposition (PBS) & Marquis De Synth

Level 2 - Gothic/Indie Rock/New Wave/Retro - DJ's Lobotomy, Tommy Rotten, C-Rexx & Matt Sin plus special guests DJ Sobriquet (CAN) & DJ Basement Rock (PBS)

http://cabaretnocturne.net
http://rmh.com.au

EDIT: Note to self... Getting very drunk before a 2am set may in of itself impair your deejaying. Beautifully beatmixing DJ Hell's Bodyfarm2 into Miss Kittin's Stripper is one thing, but if no-one can hear it, it might be time to commit seppuku. Still, fun was had...I guess.

http://www.shiv-r.com/
http://www.thecrystallineeffect.com/plaguesequence/

Peter Crane is also doing a gig the following night launching his electro-industrial material as Shiv-r at the fetish/dark alternative night Cyberball at the same venue, which I daresay will go off...

Needless to say they don't make PVC deerstalkers or cardigans so if I'm there, it'll be as a respectful spectator. Go Pete!
 

So, I can't say I share this fellow's appreciation of certain U2, Lily Allen and Apop albums, but he's got some good words about all kinds of electronic music and I've seen some bands mentioned that seem like they bear investigating!

One of note was his top 10 electronic albums of all time, which I will attempt to recreate after my own stylings, as a conservative top five, with another few notable mentions...

1) David Bowie - Low. You know me. You know how I roll. You know this desert island disc was the doorway for many an indie kid into the world of icy soundscapes and warm seas of lonely electronica.

2) Kraftwerk - The Man Mashine. For that tight, step-sequenced sound, clicking synthesised percussion and the scientific art of making robots sing and play instruments. I also would've accepted Radioactivity, the trippiest Beach Boys album never made.

3) John Foxx - Metamatic. Blueprints for not a vision of the future, but a different way of looking at and living in a city. You've decay, you've light, and the endless concrete and steel. Who lives there? We do. This is pretty stark, but it's a jewel.

4) Depeche Mode - Violator. Music for the Masses is like a refinement of headway made on Black Celebration, and this more so from there. Ignore the overplayed singles. Listen to what a slick piece of production and personal songwriting this album is, from end to end. I could list countless Depeche Mode albums, like Construction Time Again for it's amazing sampling or Black Celebration for it's heady Blade-Runneresque atmosphere, but this is a balance of it all.

5) Covenant - Northern Light. The most polished Covenant album ever, where they stood on the precipice of conquering the world...before the world changed very quickly, forever. Great songs, a contemporary electronica album of many styles as much a piece of idiosyncratic Scandinavian synthpop.

Also... Human League - Travelogue and Reproduction, Gary Numan - Replicas, Brian Eno - Another Green World, Ladytron - Witching Hour. Much of Cabaret Voltaire and Nitzer Ebb before the late eighties, Klinik through eighties to early nineties, Haujobb - Homes and Gardens/Vertical Theory, almost any Fad Gadget or Frank Tovey, Anthony Rother - Popkiller, much Legowelt and Creme Organisation/Bunker Records material, Skinny Puppy - Too Dark Park and Vivisect VI, Severed Heads - Rotund for Success, Yello - The Eye, The Faint - Danse Macabre, Seabound - Double-Crosser, Tankt - Despair Ltd...

What are your top five and what would we get out of hearing them?

Will probably replace them upon settling somewhere more permanently.

It pleases me greatly that the "Legend of James buying John Foxx a beer" is on record by observers in both Sydney and Melbourne. Haha. Grand.