Saturday, December 26, 2009

Left Spine Down interviewed by Foreskin Radio

Thought this was pretty cool, and both kAINE D3L4Y and the boys from Foreskin Radio are friends of the show, so check it out:



Just a little reminder that the Vampire's Ball is on break for the holidays - we'll be back on air January 8, 2010.

Also, January 15th, Phil Western [Download and PlatEAU, KONE, Beehatch, etc., etc.,] will be our special in-studio guest.

Catch ya in a couple of weeks.

Shameless Plug

Maqlu on Last.FM
Maqlu on MySpace

My very own project. Go listen repeatedly, add me, tell your friends to do the same.

Technically I'm not allowed to play my own stuff on the Vampire's Ball [CiTR fairness rules and all], but you will gradually hear more about it as the debut is getting finished up.

In other news, I'm doing a guest spot on DJMIX.net and Proton Radio in mid-January, where I will have some of my own music mixed in. Will give more details closer to the time.

Saturday, December 19, 2009

Playlist for December 19, 2009

Last show of 2009 [building is closed the next two Fridays due to holidays].

What a year... last year at this time I don't know if I'd have believed you if you showed me a list of all the things I'd do, people I'd befriend, music I'd make this year.

I did know I was coming back on-air, that was my secret little thing that I held on to, that as soon as I was out of BCIT I would revive the Vampire's Ball.

Anyway, it became a good year, 2010 will be even better.

This is what I played tonight:


My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult
From I See Good Spirits and I See Bad Spirits [1988, Wax Trax!]:
Heresy
X-Communication
Do You Fear [For Your Child]?
Easy Girl
Universal Blackness


Devo
From Total Devo [1988, Enigma Records]:
Baby Doll
Disco Dancer
Some Things Never Change
Plain Truth
Happy Guy
Don't Be Cruel


Meat Beat Manifesto
From God O.D. [1988, Sweatbox Records]:
God O.D.
Mars Needs Women


Die Krupps
From Odyssey of the Mind [1996, Cleopatra Records]:
Isolation
Odyssey of the Mind
Jeckyll Or Hyde


Cyberaktif
From Nothing Stays [1990, Wax Trax!]:
Nothing Stays
Black & White
From Temper [1990, Wax Trax!]:
Meltdown
Dream Needle


Delerium
From Spiritual Archives [1991, Dossier Records]:
Drama
Rise Above
Aftermath


Podcast part 1 of the Vampire's Ball for December 19, 2009.


Phil Western
From The Escapist [1998, Map Music]:
Pleasures Gained
Stay Clean


Plateau
From Dutch Flowers [1997, Hypnotic/Cleopatra]:
Dutch Flowers [Ext/Remix]
White Widow [Ext/Remix]


Nitzer Ebb
From Ebbhead [1991, Geffen]:
Reasons
I Give To You
Sugar Sweet


Chemlab
From Burn Out At the Hydrogen Bar [1993, Fifth Colvmn/Metal Blade Records]:
Codeine, Glue and You
Chemical Halo
Neurozone


Die Warzau
From Big Electric Metal Bass Face [1991, Fiction]:
Crack Radio
My Pretty Little Girlfriend
Dying In Paradise


Laibach
From The Occupied Europe Tour 1985 [1986, Side Effects Records]:
Perspektive
Vier Personen
Nova Akropola
Vojna Poema


Borghesia
From Resistance [1989, Play It Again Sam Records]:
Discipline
The Little Man


Podcast part 2 of the Vampire's Ball for December 19, 2009.


Post-show mix CD is Mix CD 2.


Upcoming Coolness:

iVardensphere: January 30th at Club 23 West (part of Sanctuary).


And now for my weekly end notes:

You can now subscribe to the Vampire's Ball on iTunes. Just search for "CiTR" and you'll find The Vampire's Ball listed along with 20 or so other cool shows here on CiTR Radio.

Or grab the podcast off of this page:

Podcast page for the Vampire's Ball.

You can email requests and comments to thevampiresball@gmail.com. You can also send me MP3 links if your stuff fits the show, or for old fashioned CD submissions, those can either be mailed to my post office box (see sidebar) or dropped off at CiTR Radio (or mailed c/o CiTR Radio. The address is in the sidebar of this blog.)

There's now a Facebook group for the Vampire's Ball. Join us!

Likewise, there is also now a MySpace page for the Vampire's Ball on CiTR.

As always, thanks for listening. Enjoy the show.

Saturday, December 12, 2009

Playlist for December 12, 2009

So, few things piss me off more than when two bands have the same name and even the same album title and I think I'm buying one and not the other.

Not that that's necessarily the fault of the artists, though I would think in, say, 2008, you ought to maybe understand there's this thing called Google to check if there are any bands with your name in roughly a similar genre 20 years before that might already be well-known.

This happened with Numb and the album Numb. I bought [I thought] off of iTunes the one that was the Vancouver-based industrial band's debut and ended up with something completely different. Last.fm mentions three Numbs, however discogs.com lists five possible ones and none of them are released on Phoniclux Records out of Germany as the iTunes Numb was [it should be noted you can purchase the actual Vancovuer Numb by Numb on iTunes - looks for the one with the song "God Is Dead" to open the album and you'll have the right one].

I discovered this tonight while digging in the CiTR archives and finding the actual 1987 self-titled debut by Vancouver's Numb and realizing it has a different cover, different songs and a completely different sound.

Check the song listings on discogs.com or whatever to confirm. One came out on Phoniclux, a German electro/ambient label, the Vancouver-based band's album originally came out on Edge Records. Digging deep on the web has shown me that this album here came out in 2008, yet iTunes has given it the "album review" describing it as the 1987 debut of Vancouver's Numb.

Here's the review I posted onto iTunes:

I thought something was fishy when I heard this supposedly mid-80s industrial and it sounded very smooth and 90s/00s electronica-ish. Then as I heard more by the Vancouver-based Numb I was really confused as to how their sound was so much different from this album.

It's because it's not the same band - turns out there's at least 6 Numbs.

Now, don't get me wrong, whoever this is, it's cool, but if you want the band that did Christmeister, try the other album called "Numb" by Numb also for sale here on iTunes [or search for the song "Blue Light Black Candle"].

This album here is good, but it is not what the official album review makes it out to be and not what I thought I was buying.


Grr... well, I played stuff from the actual industrial band Numb's actual self-titled debut tonight. Along with the rest of this stuff:


23 Skidoo
From Just Like Everybody [1986]:
Kundalini
Vegas El Bandito
I Y
Just Like Everybody
Assassin
Coup


Numb
From Numb [1987, Edge Records]:
God Is Dead
Eat Me
Lies
Guilt


Severed Heads
From Hot With Fleas [1987, Nettwerk/Capitol]:
Hot With Fleas
Canine


Cabaret Voltaire
From I Want You [1985, Virgin Records]:
Drink Your Poison
C.O.M.A.
I Want You


Meat Beat Manifesto
From Armed Audio Warfare [1990, Wax Trax!]:
I Got the Fear
Kneel & Buzz
Kick that Man
Fear Version
Give Your Body Its Freedom


Podcast of part 1 of the Vampire's Ball for December 12, 2009.


KMFDM
From Split/Piggybank [1991, Wax Trax!]:
Split
Piggyback (Shock Version)


Pig
From A Poke With a Sharp Stick [1988, Wax Trax!]:
It Tolls For Thee (Pigsbreath)
Scumsberg
One For the Neck
Hildelinde
My Favorite Car


SPK
From Off the Deep End [1987, Nettwerk/Capitol]:
Kambuja
Off the Deep End


Keith LeBlanc
From Major Malfunction [1986, World Records]:
I'll Come Up With Something
Move
Technology Works Dub
You Drummers Listen Good


Hilt
From Call the Ambulance [Before I Hurt Myself] [1990, Nettwerk/Capitol]:
I'm Standing On the Rim
Back to Insanity


Project Pitchfork
From Eon:Eon [1998, Metropolis]:
Our Destiny
Dreamer
I Live Your Dream


Excessive Force
From Blitzkrieg [1993, Wax Trax!]:
Violent Peace
Blitzkrieg


Podcast of part 2 of the Vampire's Ball for December 12, 2009.


Post-show mix CD is Mix CD 1.


Upcoming Coolness:

iVardensphere: January 30th at Club 23 West (part of Sanctuary).


And now for my weekly end notes:

You can now subscribe to the Vampire's Ball on iTunes. Just search for "CiTR" and you'll find The Vampire's Ball listed along with 20 or so other cool shows here on CiTR Radio.

Or grab the podcast off of this page:

Podcast page for the Vampire's Ball.

You can email requests and comments to thevampiresball@gmail.com. You can also send me MP3 links if your stuff fits the show, or for old fashioned CD submissions, those can either be mailed to my post office box (see sidebar) or dropped off at CiTR Radio (or mailed c/o CiTR Radio. The address is in the sidebar of this blog.)

There's now a Facebook group for the Vampire's Ball. Join us!

Likewise, there is also now a MySpace page for the Vampire's Ball on CiTR.

As always, thanks for listening. Enjoy the show.

Monday, December 7, 2009

Interviews up on thevampiresballoncitr.com

Just got an interview section up on thevampiresballoncitr.com - haven't added the Stiff Valentine one yet as I need to pull it off another hard drive, but that will be added soon too.

I isolated the interviews to post them so if anyone wants to hear just a specific interview and not dig through the relevant podcast, it's there.

So far these are the interviews up on the site:

  • kAINE D3L4Y of Left Spine Down
  • Dave Ogilvie of Jakalope
  • Craig Huxtable of Landscape Body Machine
  • Nivek Ogre of Skinny Puppy and ohGr
  • Phil Western of Download and PlatEAU
  • Jim Cummins of I, Braineater
  • Kevvy Mental of Fake Shark Real Zombie
  • The Pull Out Method and Irvin Scabtree of Raggedy Angry

Saturday, December 5, 2009

Playlist for December 5, 2009

When it rains, it pours - December starts with a trio of interviews.

First I had a conversation with Kevvy Mental of Fake Shark Real Zombie on topics ranging from the state of the industry, "music" television, Jakalope and other projects Kevvy's had a hand in lately, and cool horror flicks.

Then Vernard Goud set me up with a couple chats with Phil Western (Download, PlatEAU, etc.) and Jim Cummins (I, Braineater) on Thursday night at Luv-a-Fair at Celebrities. Phil and I chatted about various aspects of the Vancouver scene, vintage-y stuff like real record shops, synths and tape machines, live sound, playing live instead of on Memorex, and of course Download. Jim and I chatted a bit about art and Skinny Puppy as well as a benefit for Greg Johnson at the WISE Hall tonight. (December 5th 2009.)

In addition to the interviews, here's what I played on the show tonight...


Fake Shark Real Zombie
From Angel Lust [2009]:
Angel Lust
Designer Drugs
Horses in Heaven
Running For the Razors
Sestril Levante


Download
From Furnace [1995, Cleopatra]:
Mallade
From Sidewinder [1996, Nettwerk]:
Base Metal (Remix)
Glassblower (Remix)
From Effector [2000, Nettwerk]:
Ego Dissolve


Ka-Baalim & Bunk Data
1000 Miles (Phil Western Remix)


I, Braineater
From I, Braineater [1985]:
1980More
I Am


Podcast Part 1 for the Vampire's Ball for December 5, 2009


Slow
Black is Black


Copyright
From Clearly Nothing New [1993, Transglobal]:
Looking Forward
Why Am I Still Dancing?


Suicide
From Suicide [1977, Red Star Records]:
Frankie Teardrop


Nurse With Wound
From Automating Vol. 2 [1988]:
Lonely Poisonous Mushroom


Skinny Puppy
From The Process [1996, American Recordings]:
Hardset Head
Curcible
Amnesia


Seventh Image
From Binary [2005, Synchromesh]:
Hungry
Youthenize (Vox Infectus)


Rammstein
From Rosenrot [2002, Universal]:
Benzin
Mann Gegen Mann
Hilf Mir


Raggedy Angry
From Pestilence [2008]:
Make Me Feel
Hate Is Fashionable (featuring Jakalope)
Second Best
Moonlight


Plateau
From Spacecake [1999, Metropolis Records]:
Phuket
Creature
Creeper


iVardensphere
From Scatterface [2009, Synthetic Sounds]:
Bonedance


Podcast Part 1 for the Vampire's Ball for December 5, 2009


Post-show mix CD is Mix CD 8.


Upcoming Coolness:

iVardensphere: January 30th at Club 23 West (part of Sanctuary).


And now for my weekly end notes:

You can now subscribe to the Vampire's Ball on iTunes. Just search for "CiTR" and you'll find The Vampire's Ball listed along with 20 or so other cool shows here on CiTR Radio.

Or grab the podcast off of this page:

Podcast page for the Vampire's Ball.

You can email requests and comments to thevampiresball@gmail.com. You can also send me MP3 links if your stuff fits the show, or for old fashioned CD submissions, those can either be mailed to my post office box (see sidebar) or dropped off at CiTR Radio (or mailed c/o CiTR Radio. The address is in the sidebar of this blog.)

There's now a Facebook group for the Vampire's Ball. Join us!

Likewise, there is also now a MySpace page for the Vampire's Ball on CiTR.

As always, thanks for listening. Enjoy the show.

Friday, December 4, 2009

Track Listing for Mix CD 8

These bridge the hours between the end of my show and the beginning of the Saturday Edge on Folk on CiTR at 8AM. One mix per week on repeat until Steve comes in. This doesn't go on the podcast other than a few seconds or so, so it's bonus for anyone who happens to be listening live, either on the airwaves (101.9FM in Vancouver) or on our website (http://citr.ca/listen.php).


"The Nature of Love [Cruelty Mix]" - Ministry from The Nature of Love
"Something I Can Never Have" - Nine Inch Nails from Pretty Hate Machine
"The Game" - Love and Rockets from Seventh Dream of Teenage Heaven
"Trouble Thing" - Maqlu from Blood
"Unfit [Death Before Taxes]" - KMFDM from KMFDM
"Chest Pains" - Raggedy Angry from Pestilence
"My Love, My Blood" - The Rabid Whole from Autraumaton
"Barrel of a Gun [One Inch Punch Mix]" - Depeche Mode from Barrel of a Gun
"Love Cuts" - Chris & Cosey from Take Five
"Screecher" - Jakalope from It Dreams
"The Strong and Whining Toad" - The Tear Garden from Sheila Liked the Rodeo
"Ohne Dich" - Rammstein from Reise, Reise
"Blue Monday" - New Order from Blue Monday
"Man Should Surrender" - Pailhead from Trait
"I'm Not Gay [I'm So Gay Club Mix]" - Revolting Cocks from Sex-O MiXXX-O
"A Common Enemy" - Skold vs. KMFDM from SKOLD vs. KMFDM

Saturday, November 28, 2009

Playlist for November 28th, 2009

Well, November has certainly been a busy month for interviews on the Vampire's Ball - first Nivek Ogre, then Craig Huxtable form Landscape Body Machine, and this week it was Raggedy Angry's turn. (Technically speaking, next week's interview with Kevvy from Fake Shark Real Zombie will be taped on Monday so it's still in November...)

As I said on air, I was quite impressed with Raggedy Angry's stage show, energy, and I love their music too. Plus they're a hilarious bunch of goofballs to chat with. Expect to hear more about them in the future.

Wonder how much Rave bribed them to make that Clydesdale remark!

But anyway... Here's what I played on the show tonight...


Raggedy Angry
From Pestilence [2008]:
Dance Party
Chest Pains
Sick and Twisted
(in)Sanity
Stop the Show


Die Mannequin
From Fino Plus Bleed [2009, How to Kill Music/WEA]:
Miss Americunt
Dead Honey
Caroline Mescaline


Laughing Hyenas
From Life of Crime [1990, Touch and Go]:
Here We Go Again
Wild Heart


Smersh
From The Beat From 20,000 Fathoms [1986, RRRecords]:
Hunter Killer
Hoedown
Make Me a Sergeant (An' Gimme the Booze)


Pailhead
From Trait [1988, Wax Trax!]:
Don't Stand In Line
Ballad


Noise Unit
From Grinding Into Emptiness [1989, Wax Trax!]:
Ritualistic
Dismembered Quietly
No Colour
Silent Scream


Laibach
From Sympathy for the Devil [1988, Restless Records/Mute]:
Sympathy for the Devil (Who Killed the Kennedys)
From Macbeth [1989, Mute]:
Agnus Dei (Exil und Tod)


Podcast Part 1 of the Vampire's Ball for November 28th, 2009.


Rammstein
From Reise, Reise [2004, Universal]:
Reise, Reise
Morgenstern
Stein um Stein


KMFDM
From KMFDM [1998, Wax Trax!]:
Unfit (Death Before Taxes)
Anarchy (God and the State)
Megalomaniac (tvva)


Ajax
From Mind the Gap [1990, Wax Trax!]:
One World
Born to Tragedy
Your House Is Mine


iVardensphere
From Scatterface [2009, Scatterface]:
Virus
Nuke the Site From Orbit
Jigsaw


Landscape Body Machine
From Structure [1996, Liquid Records]:
Subterranean I (The Hieroglyphs)
Point of Entry
Subterranean II (Terraforming)


Revolting Cocks
From Stainless Steel Providers [1988, Wax Trax!]:
At the Top
Stainless Steel Providers


Tones on Tail
From Lions/Go [1984, Beggars Banquet]:
Lions
Go!


Kooper Kain
From Something Collides Inside [2005, S/N Ration Records]:
You Had It Coming
Another Time
Outerstellar


The Legendary Pink Dots
From Any Day Now [1987, Play It Again Sam]:
Casting the Runes
A Strychnine Kiss


Post-show mix CD is Mix CD 2.


Upcoming Coolness:

Luv-a-Fair 29th Anniversary featuring Phil Western and I, Braineater: December 3 at Celebrities.
iVardensphere: January 30th at Club 23 West (part of Sanctuary).


And now for my weekly end notes:

You can now subscribe to the Vampire's Ball on iTunes. Just search for "CiTR" and you'll find The Vampire's Ball listed along with 20 or so other cool shows here on CiTR Radio.

Or grab the podcast off of this page:

Podcast page for the Vampire's Ball.

You can email requests and comments to thevampiresball@gmail.com. You can also send me MP3 links if your stuff fits the show, or for old fashioned CD submissions, those can either be mailed to my post office box (see sidebar) or dropped off at CiTR Radio (or mailed c/o CiTR Radio. The address is in the sidebar of this blog.)

There's now a Facebook group for the Vampire's Ball. Join us!

Likewise, there is also now a MySpace page for the Vampire's Ball on CiTR.

As always, thanks for listening. Enjoy the show.

Thursday, November 26, 2009

Raggedy Angry Interview on this week's show

So, last night I went out to Venue to check out Raggedy Angry opening for Die Mannequin, as suggested to me on Monday by Dave Ogilvie: "You should come check 'em out, they're pretty cool."

Quite the understatement.

The boys kicked some serious ass on stage and played like they were headliners, and after their set I did a quick interview with Irvin Scabtree and the Pull Out Method which will be airing at the start of this week's Vampire's Ball along with some tracks from their last album, Pestilence, which I also picked up at the show.

They're working on a new one, so we chat a little bit about that and their tour with Die Mannequin, etc.

So, tune in live from 12-4AM PST this Friday night either on 101.9 FM CiTR Radio in Vancouver or citr.ca worldwide or grab the podcast from iTunes starting on Saturday [just search for "CiTR -- The Vampire's Ball" to find us] to hear more from Raggedy Angry.

And of course I'll play a bunch of other good stuff too.

Saturday, November 21, 2009

Playlist for November 21, 2009

Second show of the annual CiTR FunDrive. More information on citr.ca... The volunteer who was to man the phones during my show didn't show up, so on Gak's advice I switched to an all-digital approach of letting people know you can donate online at citr.ca/donate - just be sure to specify that you're donating to CiTR and you can apparently specify which show you're donating with too (it doesn't really matter since the money helps all of CiTR, we just have a friendly competition amoungst the DJs so we like to keep tally).

Here's what I played on the show tonight...


Maqlu
From the upcoming EPs Tales From the Black Heart [2010]:
Trouble Thing


Landscape Body Machine
From Manifest Destiny [2009, Interdimensional Industries]:
Panic
Seven


Doubting Thomas
From The Infidel [2007, Subconscious Communications]:
That Problem Child
Turn a New Leaf


KetVector
From The Infinite Regress [2008, Rustblade]:
Genetic Archive
Metacognition


cEvin Key
From The Dragon Experience [2003, Metropolis Records]:
Running (Back & Forth)
Dr. Seymour


The Rabid Whole
From Autraumaton [2009, Synthetic Sounds]:
Selfish Nature
My Love, My Blood


Left Spine Down
From Smartbomb 2.3: The Underground Mixes [2009, Synthetic Sounds]:
Hang Up (Tethered Mix by Klaxxon)
Reset (Stiff Valentine Mix)


iVardensphere
From Scatterface [2009, Synthetic Sounds]:
Sentient Waveform
Wormtongue


Post Death Soundtrack
From Post Death Soundtrack [2008]:
We're Going Hunting
Simulation and Simulacra


Promonium Jesters
From Psychic Warfare [2008]:
Project XJYPT
Noosphere Sentinals
\\\\\\\\\\ [For Your Protection]


Podcast Part 1 of the Vampire's Ball for November 21, 2009.



From the compilation disc Gears Gone Wild [2008, Bit Riot Records]:
By Rabbit Junk vs. Cyanotic:
I Vote Bolshevik Lite (Glitch Mode Mix)
By Drukore:
My Control = My Power (Glitch Mode Edit)


From the compilation disc Industrial Revolution: Third Edition [1996, Cleopatra Records]:
By X-Marks the Pedwalk:
The Trap (Second Enclosure)
By Die Form:
Masochist 4 (Remix)
By Skinny Puppy:
Haunted


Skinny Puppy
From Back and Forth 6 [2003, Subconscious Communications]:
Ambient Fruit
Subskull


Nine Inch Nails
From Broken [1992, TVT/Interscope]:
Last
Gave Up
Suck


Pigface
From 6 [2009, Full Effect Records]:
Sanctify
Work to Come
Dulcimer


Jakalope
From Born4 [2006, The Orange Record Label]:
Anthem 2
Digging Deep
Star 24 (No Apologies)


Revolting Cocks
From Sex-O MiXXX-O [2009, 13th Planet Records]:
Keys to the City (Invincible Mix)
Abundant Redundancy (Clockworks and Cold Steel Mix)
I'm Not Gay (I'm So Gay Club Mix)


Gallows
From Grey Britain [2009, Reprise Records]:
The Vulture (Acts I & II)


Podcast Part 2 of the Vampire's Ball for November 21, 2009.



Post-show mix CD is Mix CD 1.


And now for my weekly end notes:

You can now subscribe to the Vampire's Ball on iTunes. Just search for "CiTR" and you'll find The Vampire's Ball listed along with 20 or so other cool shows here on CiTR Radio.

Or grab the podcast off of this page:

Podcast page for the Vampire's Ball.

You can email requests and comments to thevampiresball@gmail.com. You can also send me MP3 links if your stuff fits the show, or for old fashioned CD submissions, those can either be mailed to my post office box (see sidebar) or dropped off at CiTR Radio (or mailed c/o CiTR Radio. The address is in the sidebar of this blog.)

There's now a Facebook group for the Vampire's Ball. Join us!

Likewise, there is also now a MySpace page for the Vampire's Ball on CiTR.

As always, thanks for listening. Enjoy the show.

Saturday, November 14, 2009

Playlist for November 13, 2009

Tonight was my first show doing the annual CiTR FunDrive. More information on citr.ca...

Apparently during the fundrive pitching a couple guys called the donation line wanting to talk to me directly. I think our volunteer gave them the actual DJ booth number, but they didn't actually call the DJ booth.

Oh well. For the record, if you're looking to make a request during the show, you can call 604 822 CITR. That would be between midnight and four AM PST. In which case you're at the mercy of the CITR archive, which is admittedly vast and especially well-stocked in old industrial from the 80s and into the early 90s, but if it's newer industrial you're wanting to hear, you're better to fire me an email in advance of the show since I'm more likely to have to bring that sort of thing into the show from my home archive [EG. we have very little Nine Inch Nails, and no Rammstein]. Email me at thevampiresball [at] gmail.com. I do check it right before I leave for the station on Friday nights.

Here's what I played on the show tonight...


Landscape Body Machine
From Manifest Destiny [2009, Interdimensional Industries]:
The New Deal
Dreamtime [Gustafsen Lake]
Purpose Part 1 [Thught Police]
Purpose Part 2 [Golden Shield]

Interspersed with interview clips with Craig Huxtable.


Stiff Valentine
From Industrial Metal Disco [2009, Trafik Records]:
Industrial Metal Disco
Breaking Point


Decree
From Wake of Devastation [1996, Offbeat]:
Who Dares?
Fire of Offering


Delerium
From Faces Forms and Illusions [1988, Dossier Records]:
Hidden Mask
Strange Ways


Front Line Assembly
From Hard Wired [1995, Metropolis Records]:
Re-Birth
Transparent Species


Noise Unit
From Response Frequency [1990, Antler Subway]:
Forgotten Realm
Homage


Part 1 of the podcast for the Vampire's Ball for November 13th, 2009.


Left Spine Down
From Smartbomb 2.3: The Underground Mixes [2009, Synthetic Sounds]:
Welcome to the Future [Cunt Mix by Amduscia]
Last Daze [Los Muertos Mix by Joey Chaos]


Skinny Puppy
From Tormentor [1990, Nettwerk]:
Tormentor [Extended Re-Edit]
Bark
Nature's Revenge


Images In Vogue
From Images In Vogue [1983, WEA]:
For Germans
Breaking Up


Jakalope
From It Dreams [2004, The Orange Record Label]:
Screecher
Nothing Nowhere
Badream


16 MM
From 16 MM [2008, Libertine Productions/Universal]:
Dropped
The Libertine


Numb
From Wasted Sky [1994, Metropolis Records]:
Blood
Driven
Seven Types of Ambiguity


Part 2 of the podcast for the Vampire's Ball for November 13th.


Post-show mix CD is Mix CD 7.


And now for my weekly end notes:

You can now subscribe to the Vampire's Ball on iTunes. Just search for "CiTR" and you'll find The Vampire's Ball listed along with 20 or so other cool shows here on CiTR Radio.

Or grab the podcast off of this page:

Podcast page for the Vampire's Ball.

You can email requests and comments to thevampiresball@gmail.com. You can also send me MP3 links if your stuff fits the show, or for old fashioned CD submissions, those can either be mailed to my post office box (see sidebar) or dropped off at CiTR Radio (or mailed c/o CiTR Radio. The address is in the sidebar of this blog.)

There's now a Facebook group for the Vampire's Ball. Join us!

Likewise, there is also now a MySpace page for the Vampire's Ball on CiTR.

As always, thanks for listening. Enjoy the show.

Saturday, November 7, 2009

Playlist for November 7, 2009

So, Tuesday was the Skinny Puppy show. I've wanted to see them live for I don't know how long, and I recall being super thrilled when Vernard relayed the news to me back in June that cEvin Key had said they would finally play Vancouver for sure this fall [this being around the time cEvin came up to do a DJ set for Luv-a-Fair at the end of May]. And last's year's ohGr show was one of the highlights of my 2008.

I was not disappointed. Even better was getting to chat with Ogre backstage for this week's show.

As I said on-air, I quite enjoyed the new site associated with the next ohGr release, wdihtf.com, which is where you can go and get a taste of the next release and do a live remix of the new song "Collidoskope" by playing with the typewriter graphics. I suspect I'll probably be spending entirely too much time on that in the next little while...

There are also links to get a free download of "Collidoskope" as well as little widgets like I stuck in the sidebar of this blog and I'm sure there will be more aspects unveiled as things progress. Do check it out.

As I also mentioned on air, the boys from ForeskinRadio.com also interviewed Ogre, so here are their videos. And their interview mostly covered different territory from mine. Enjoy!





[Yep, that's yours truly off to the left of your screen...]

Here's what I played on the show tonight...


Skinny Puppy
From Mythmaker [2007, SPV]:
Pasturn
Ambiantz
Ugli


Followed by my interview with Ogre, followed by "Collidoskope" by ohGr, available from wdihtf.com


ohGr
From SunnyPsyOp [2002, Spitfire Records]:
HiLo
JaKO
iOvNoW


cEvin Key
From Music For Cats [1997, Metropolis Records]:
Bird
Full Circle
Grah Statikcat [Electrodes]


Doubting Thomas
From The Infidel Special Edition 20th Anniversary [2007, Subsconscious Communications]:
The Moodswing
Hiding
Saved


Hilt
From Orange Pony [1991, Nettwerk]:
Orange Pony
Green Love
Yellow Sunshine [Explosions in My Head]
White Stuff


Part 1 of the Vampire's Ball for November 1, 2009.


Jakalope
From Born4 [2006, The Orange Record Label]:
Instigator
Intervention
Something New


Numb
From Language of Silence [1998, Metropolis Records]:
No Remorse
Defiler
Distorted Relations


Lard
From Last Temptation of Reid:
Forkboy
Pineapple Face
Mate, Spawn and Die
Drug Raid at 4AM


Test Dept.
From Proven in Action [1990, Jungle/Ministry of Power]:
Territory
The Emigrant
Vastness


Einstuerzende Neubauten
From Ende Neu [1996, Nothing Records]:
Was Ist Ist
Ende Neu
The Garden


Malhavoc
From Punishments [1991, Epidemic Records]:
Punishments
Distaste
Re-Release


Skold vs. KMFDM
From SKOLD vs. KMFDM [2009]:
Bloodsport
Love is Like
It's Not What


Part 2 of the Vampire's Ball for November 7, 2009.


Post-show mix CD is Mix CD 6.


Upcoming Coolness:

Puscifer: November 13 at the Centre in Vancouver for the Perfoming Arts.
Nitzer Ebb: November 22 at Venue.


And now for my weekly end notes:

You can now subscribe to the Vampire's Ball on iTunes. Just search for "CiTR" and you'll find The Vampire's Ball listed along with 20 or so other cool shows here on CiTR Radio.

Or grab the podcast off of this page:

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You can email requests and comments to thevampiresball@gmail.com. You can also send me MP3 links if your stuff fits the show, or for old fashioned CD submissions, those can either be mailed to my post office box (see sidebar) or dropped off at CiTR Radio (or mailed c/o CiTR Radio. The address is in the sidebar of this blog.)

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As always, thanks for listening. Enjoy the show.

Saturday, October 31, 2009

Playlist for October 31, 2009

Happy Samhain to all!

Here's what I played on the show tonight...


Boyd Rice with Death in June
From Alarm Agents [2004, New European Recordings]:
Get Used to Saying No
Black Sun Rising
Tears of the Hunted


NON
From Blood and Flame [1986, Mute]:
Storm
Cruenta Voluptas
Secret Garden, Secret Flame
Only One
Rise Below
And If Thou Will, Remember
Operation Carnival


Boyd Rice and Friends
From Wolf Pact [2002, NEROZ]:
The Forgotten Father
Tomb of the Forgotten Father
The Reign Song


Laughing Hyenas
From Life of Crime [1990, Touch and Go Records]:
Everything I Want
Hitman
Let It Burn
Kick


This Mortal Coil
From It'll End In Tears [1984, 4AD]:
Dreams Made Flesh
Not Me
A Single Wish


Current 93
From Swastikas For Noddy [1988, L.A.Y.L.A.H. Antirecords]:
Benediction
Blessing
North
Black Sun Bloody Moon
Oh Coal Black Smith
Panzer Rune
Black Flowers Please
The Final Church


Legion of Cain
From Slaves Shall Serve:
Blood. Dirt. and Anger
Carnivoroom
Kasus LOKI

Part 1 of the Vampire's Ball podcast for October 24, 2009.


Lustmord
From DV04 [1991, Dark Vinyl and Lustmord]:
Arise
Credo/Nemo
Of Bones of Men


Anton Szandor LaVey
From Strange Music [1994, Amarillo]:
Thanks For The Memories
Strange Music
Temptation


Darren Deicide
From The Jersey Devil Is Here [2008, Ever Reviled]:
Napalm, Death and Fire
The Jersey Devil Is Here
Hudson River Hangover


My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult
From Kooler Than Jesus [1989, Wax Trax!]:
Devil Bunnies
From Some Have to Dance, Some Have to Kill [1989, Wax Trax!]:
Nervous XTians
From My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult [1989, Wax Trax!]:
First Cut


Electric Hellfire Club
From Electronomicon [2002, Cleopatra Records]:
Sons of the Serpent
I Dream of Demons
Hymn to the Fallen


Bauhaus
From Rest In Peace: The Final Concert [1992, Nemo]:
Bela Lugosi's Dead


Japan
From The Singles [1996, BMG]:
Halloween


Severed Heads
From All Saints Day [1989, Nettwerk/Capitol]:
Saints Dub Day


Ministry
From Halloween Remix [1984, Wax Trax!]:
Halloween Remix


Part 1 of the Vampire's Ball podcast for October 24, 2009.


Post-show mix CD is Mix CD 5.


Upcoming Coolness:

Marcy Playground: October 31 at the Red Room.
16mm, Char2D2, Supercassette: November 2 at the Biltmore.
Skinny Puppy: November 3 at the Rickshaw.
Puscifer: November 13 at the Centre in Vancouver for the Perfoming Arts.
Nitzer Ebb: November 22 at Venue.


And now for my weekly end notes:

You can now subscribe to the Vampire's Ball on iTunes. Just search for "CiTR" and you'll find The Vampire's Ball listed along with 20 or so other cool shows here on CiTR Radio.

Or grab the podcast off of this page:

Podcast page for the Vampire's Ball.

You can email requests and comments to thevampiresball@gmail.com. You can also send me MP3 links if your stuff fits the show, or for old fashioned CD submissions, those can either be mailed to my post office box (see sidebar) or dropped off at CiTR Radio (or mailed c/o CiTR Radio. The address is in the sidebar of this blog.)

There's now a Facebook group for the Vampire's Ball. Join us!

Likewise, there is also now a MySpace page for the Vampire's Ball on CiTR.

As always, thanks for listening. Enjoy the show.

Saturday, October 24, 2009

Playlist for October 24, 2009

Here's what I played on the show tonight...


PTP
From Rubber Glove Seduction [1987, Wax Trax]:
Rubber Glove Seduction


Ministry
From The Land of Rape and Honey [1988, Sire]:
Stigmata
The Missing
Deity
Golden Dawn
Destruction


Skinny Puppy
From Rabies [1989, Nettwerk/Capitol]:
Worlock
Rain
Tin Omen
Rivers
Choralone


Smersh
From The Greatest Story Ever Distorted [1988, Kk Records]:
Licorice Rope
Bootie Heaven
Jack Your Metal No. 2


Portion Control
From Psycho-Bod Saves the World [1986, Dead Man's Curve]:
Brain Scraper Death Dive
Siren City
Breaker Breaker
Danger Zone
Screen of Death
Coming For You Baby


Borghesia
From Escorts and Models [1988, Play It Again Sam]:
Am I?
In Black
Naked Lunch
Toxido
Rugged City

Part 1 of the Vampire's Ball podcast for October 24, 2009.

Chemlab
From 10 Ton Pressure EP [1990]:
Filament
I Still Bleed


Die Warzau
From Disco Rigido [1989, Fiction Records]:
Welcome to America
Man Is Meat
Jack Hammer
Body Bag
Sexus


Severed Heads
From Dead Eyes Opened [1985, Nettwerk]:
Dead Eyes Opened [Remix Three]
Petrol [Remix Five]


Bauhaus
From The Sky's Gone Out [1983, Beggar's Banquet]:
The Three Shadows Parts I, II, III
All We Ever Wanted Was Everything
Exquisite Corpse


Kraftwerk
From The Man-Machine [1978, Capitol/EMI]:
The Model
Neon Lights
The Man Machine


Einstuerzende Neubauten
From Funf auf der nach oben offenen Richterskala [1987, Some Bizarre Records]:
12 Stadte
Keine Schonheit [Ohne Gefahr]
Kein Bestandteil Sein


The Legendary Pink Dots
From Blacklist [1989, Play It Again Sam]:
Blacklist

Part 2 of the Vampire's Ball podcast for October 24, 2009.

Post-show mix CD is Mix CD 4.


Upcoming Coolness:

The Jesus Lizard: October 24 at the Commodore Ballroom.
Promonium Jesters and Adaptive Reason: October 25 at the Red Room (part of Descent).
The Sounds: October 26 at the Commodore Ballroom.
Moonspell: October 27 at Venue.
Marcy Playground: October 31 at the Red Room.
16mm, Char2D2, Supercassette: November 2 at the Biltmore.
Skinny Puppy: November 3 at the Rickshaw.
Puscifer: November 13 at the Centre in Vancouver for the Perfoming Arts.
Nitzer Ebb: November 22 at Venue.


And now for my weekly end notes:

You can now subscribe to the Vampire's Ball on iTunes. Just search for "CiTR" and you'll find The Vampire's Ball listed along with 20 or so other cool shows here on CiTR Radio.

Or grab the podcast off of this page:

Podcast page for the Vampire's Ball.

You can email requests and comments to thevampiresball@gmail.com. You can also send me MP3 links if your stuff fits the show, or for old fashioned CD submissions, those can either be mailed to my post office box (see sidebar) or dropped off at CiTR Radio (or mailed c/o CiTR Radio. The address is in the sidebar of this blog.)

There's now a Facebook group for the Vampire's Ball. Join us!

Likewise, there is also now a MySpace page for the Vampire's Ball on CiTR.

As always, thanks for listening. Enjoy the show.

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

UPDATE: OCTOBER 24, 2009

Contrary to what I said on air this past show, the Vampire's Ball will be live this Friday night - the session I was to be at is postponed for now, so I won't miss the show. No fill-in, no pre-recorded CD.

Not 100% sure what I'll play for you yet, tune in at midnight PST on CiTR Radio, 101.9 FM in Vancouver, citr.ca worldwide or catch the podcast to find out!

Saturday, October 17, 2009

Playlist for October 17, 2009

It wasn't a mini vinyl buying spree, it was a bunch. And I played much of it tonight.

Here's what I played on the show tonight...


Ministry
From I Wanted to Tell Her [1983, Arista]:
I Wanted to Tell Her (Tongue Tied Mix)
From The Nature of Love [1985, Wax Trax]:
The Nature of Love (Cruelty Mix)
From Over the Shoulder [1985, Sire]:
Over the Shoulder


Pailhead
From Trait [1988, Wax Trax]:
Man Should Surrender
Anthem


Skinny Puppy
From Testure [1989, Nettwerk/Capitol]:
Testure (S.F. Mix)
From Chainsaw [1986, Nettwerk/Capitol]:
Chainsaw
Assimilate (R-23 remix)
Cage


Nitzer Ebb
From Murderous [1986, Mute]:
Fitness to Purpose
Murderous (Repetition)


Portion Control
From ...Step Forward [1984, Illuminated Records]:
Refugee
Under the Skin
Mutie
Tex-Mex
Tongue Beat
Micro Box


Keith LeBlanc
From Einstein [1989, Nettwerk/Capitol]:
Einstein (Extended Remix)
From Stranger Than Fiction [1989, Nettwerk/Capitol]:
Whatever
Men In Capsules
Dream World
These Sounds
Mechanical Movements
Comedy of Errors


Part 1 Podcast for October 17, 2009.


Chris & Cosey
From Obsession [1987, Nettwerk/Capitol]:
Obsession (Extended Remix)
From Rise [1989, Nettwerk/Capitol]:
Hypnotika


New Order
From The Perfect Kiss [1985, Factory Records]:
The Perfect Kiss (Extended Mix)
From Blue Monday [1988, Qwest]:
Blue Monday (1988 Dub Version)


Bauhaus
From The Sky's Gone Out [1982, Beggar's Banquet/Polygram]:
Lagartija Nick
Kick in the Eye


Promonium Jesters
From Psychic Warfare [2008]:
Futurekill
Soft Targets
Send Us Your Thoughts


Left Spine Down
From Smartbomb 2.3: The Underground Mixes [2009, Synthetic Sounds]:
Prozac Nation (Retro Radio Radutron Mix by the Rabid Whole)
Reset (Stiff Valentine remix)
Welcome to the Future (Synthetic Dream Foundation remix)


Seventh Image
From Binary [2002, Synchromesh Audio]:
27th Gospel
Heaven Is Burning
Youthenize


Nocturnal Emissions
From Drowning in a Sea of Bliss [1983, Sterile Records]:
Norepinephrine
How Groovy You Were
Hardcore
Gloppetta
Tongues Speak
Want to Die
Smoking Rat Machine
Wrongly Wired
Violence Is Love
Shan't Do That


Part 2 Podcast for October 17, 2009.


Post-show mix CD is Mix CD 3.


Upcoming Coolness:

Fake Shark Real Zombie, Adjective, Junior Major and the Good News: CD release for Quadruple Dare October 17 at the Rickshaw Theatre.
The Thick of It and Pedwell: October 20 at the Roxy.
The Jesus Lizard: October 24 at the Commodore Ballroom.
Promonium Jesters and Adaptive Reason: October 25 at the Red Room (part of Descent).
The Sounds: October 26 at the Commodore Ballroom.
Moonspell: October 27 at Venue.
Marcy Playground: October 31 at the Red Room.
16mm, Char2D2, Supercassette: November 2 at the Biltmore.
Skinny Puppy: November 3 at the Rickshaw.
Puscifer: November 13 at the Centre in Vancouver for the Perfoming Arts.
Nitzer Ebb: November 22 at Venue.


And now for my weekly end notes:

You can now subscribe to the Vampire's Ball on iTunes. Just search for "CiTR" and you'll find The Vampire's Ball listed along with 20 or so other cool shows here on CiTR Radio.

Or grab the podcast off of this page:

Podcast page for the Vampire's Ball.

You can email requests and comments to thevampiresball@gmail.com. You can also send me MP3 links if your stuff fits the show, or for old fashioned CD submissions, those can either be mailed to my post office box (see sidebar) or dropped off at CiTR Radio (or mailed c/o CiTR Radio. The address is in the sidebar of this blog.)

There's now a Facebook group for the Vampire's Ball. Join us!

Likewise, there is also now a MySpace page for the Vampire's Ball on CiTR.

As always, thanks for listening. Enjoy the show.