Tubehopping!

I've come up with a fun game, called Tubehopping. Here's how it works. Go to Youtube, and think of a song, any song in the whole world. Search for it and listen to it. When it's finished, check the Recommended Videos on the right, and pick one by a different band than the one you just listened to (there should be at least one or two). Try and choose one by a band you've never heard of. Listen to that song. Repeat. It's fun!

So yesterday I felt like listening to S.P.O.C.K.'s "Last Man on Earth", the last song on their 1993 debut album "Five Year Mission" (for those unfortunate enough not to know S.P.O.C.K., they are a Swedish synthpop band who do songs based around Star Trek characters and stories; yes it is as awesome as it sounds). So listened to that, then jumped to a semi-decent Culture Kultur song (don't know much about them). Then decided I finally needed to listen to Frozen Plasma (dear God, they're as bad as I'd heard). Then I spotted a VNV remix of a Lights of Euphoria song I don't mind (I have grown to completely hate VNV Nation, but Lights of Euphoria haven't made my shitlist yet). Then I spotted... what the hell? A VNV Nation remix of a Within Temptation song? I'm happy to stand up and say that I really like Within Temptation. But what the hell are they doing prostituting themselves by collaborating with VNVengaBoys? Anyway, it was as awful as you would imagine (I submit for the prosecution Exhibit A, below).

Having landed at Within Temptation, I then proceeded to take a merry tour of a whole bunch of odd Scandinavian and German folk-metal / goth-metal bands on Nuclear Blast, most of them moderately terrible, including a very odd group who mainly sing in Gaulish (a thoroughly extinct European language which nobody has spoken for around a millenia and a half), and somehow ended up with the hilarious film clip for "Superheroes" by German cock-rock band Edguy (which I somehow stumbled upon a couple of years ago). Rock on! Anyway, to play us out, take it away Edguy!

PS: Tubehopping is fun, give it a try.

Always be ready for anything!

Well a few days ago it turned I was called upon to perform a very impromptu DJ set at a club called Foundry at the Imperial Hotel in Erskineville. One of the DJs was facing technical issues that made his set an impossibility, so I ran home, grabbed my giant CD bag of doom, ran back, and put together a set on the fly! Goes to show you need to be prepared, anything can happen. Played some big, loud, stomping industrial club hits, and it went down well. I started a bit late so didn't have a whole lot of time. This is what I played.

Reaper: Urnensand

Noisuf-X: Tinnitus (remixed by Implant)

Implant: Violence (Mizuh remix)

Modulate: Electronic Battle Weapon

Soman: Mask

Uberbyte: Industrial Bitch

Combichrist: Lying sack of sh1t

Rosewater: NME

I'd forgotten how good the Implant remix of Tinnitus is... go have a listen:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpLZJQGc86k