Fav 100 of 2009: A Challenge of Sorts

Serious music-head, DJ and proprietor of several local bars and clubs, Jonny Trash, shared his favourite/top/best 100 tunes of 2009 this morning on Facebook and put a fun challenge out to a select group of other local music-heads, DJ’s and idiot savants, including myself… bang out our own 100 of 2009…

Well I did…  Thanx for the challenge Jonny…

The list I present below, has been compiled from Last FM scrobbles, Blackberry media play lists, 2009 Toxik set lists, mind blow performances at Kinetik Festival 2.0  May 2009, epic 2009 concert experiences and a couple dozen album/release reviews I started started writing but never finished…

It was an interesting journey and odd way for me to review the music from the past year…

Pretty sure this may get revised before the end of 2009, but what the hell…

Here it is…

  1. VNV Nation – Sentinel
  2. Frozen Plasma – Tanz Die Revolution (Italian version f/Syrian)
  3. Kirlian Camera – Comfortably Numb
  4. Project Pitchfork – Feel (SITD Remix)
  5. Combichrist – Can’t Change The Beat (Aesthetic Perfection Remix)…
  6. Assemblage 23 – Helicopter Girl
  7. Rotersand – War On Error
  8. And One – Patty Is My DJ
  9. Marsheaux – Destroy Me
  10. Din [a ]Tod – Warsaw
  11. A Place to Bury Strangers – In Your Heart
  12. SITD – Rot (Remix By Aesthetic Perfection)
  13. Marching Dynamics – Confederate (Elemental’ Soul Fire) [Remix Edit]
  14. Bats for Lashes – Daniel
  15. Depeche Mode – Wrong (Peter Rauhofer Vocal Mix)
  16. XP8 – Want It (featuring Daniel Graves of Aesthetic Perfection)
  17. Interlace – Nemesis (Infect My Black Dub by Vo1d)
  18. ESA – Tasting Nails (Manipulated By Marching Dynamics)
  19. Displacer – X Was Never Like This… (Renegade Of Noise Shunt Mix By Daniel Myer)
  20. Patenbrigade: Wolff – Arbeit An Der Oberleitung
  21. Leæther Strip – Ængelmaker
  22. Hecq – I Will Survive (Featuring Nongenetic)
  23. Nitzer Ebb – Payroll
  24. The Big Pink – Love Song
  25. VNV Nation – Joy (Live) [Reformation Version]
  26. Rome – Reversion (Edit)
  27. Blutengel – City Lights (City Nights Remix By Ashbury Heights)
  28. Autoclav1.1 – Taking Blood
  29. The Big Pink – Dominos
  30. Uberbyte – Industrial Bitch
  31. Nachtmahr – War On The Dancefloor
  32. Tilarids – Witch Encroacher
  33. C-Drone-Defect – Morituri Te Salutant
  34. Millipede – Deepest Peace (Disturbed as Hecq Remix)
  35. Pandora’s Black Book – The Wait
  36. Depeche Mode – Fragile Tension (Kris Menace Love on Laserdisc Remix)
  37. Ad·ver·sary – Just (Spookier Remix by Iszoloscope)
  38. Coreline – Coreline Builds Better Robots (Featuring The Easingwold School Junior Choir)
  39. Burikusu!!! – Year 2080 (Renegade Of Noise Rmx By Daniel Myer)
  40. Grendel – Chemicals + Circuitry (Modulate Remix)
  41. Implant – The Dive (Renegade Of Noise Remix by Daniel Myer)
  42. Assemblage 23 – Spark (Album Mix)
  43. VNV Nation – Tomorrow Never Comes
  44. Rotersand – Dirty
  45. Patenbrigade: Wolff – Feind Hört Mit! (E. Mielke’s Club Abhör Mix)
  46. Nitzer Ebb – Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
  47. Lights Out Asia – Outstretched To The Middle Of The Sky
  48. Marsheaux – Breakthrough
  49. Client – Petrol (Your Love Is Like)
  50. Din [a ]Tod -The Clockwork
  51. Zombie Girl – Creepy Crawler (Dirty Whore Mix By Virtual Terrorist)
  52. ESA – The Sea & The Silence PT 2 (Manipulated by Ah Cama-Sotz)
  53. Noisuf-X – Krach Bumm
  54. Collide – Baby Did A Bad Bad Thing
  55. Modulate – Hard & Dirty (SAM Mix)
  56. Kirlian Camera – Heldenplatz (Mission Walhalla Ix)
  57. Architect – Keks (Tympanik Edit)
  58. Red Blooded Women – Enjoy the Silence
  59. Leæther Strip – Black Celebration
  60. Marching Dynamics – Even Blood Is Not Enough
  61. Tonikom – The Source (Album Edit)
  62. Totakeke – The Things That Disappear When I Close My Eyes (Shattered Mix By Lucidstatic)
  63. Shaun F – Drty Fckn Dsko (Hard Version)
  64. Santa Hates You – Rocket Heart
  65. Scary Bitches – Bats
  66. Fuck Buttons – Surf Solar
  67. Claire Voyant – Painted Gold
  68. C-Drone-Defect – Morituri Te Salutant (Ave! Remix By Autoclav 1.1)
  69. Nachtmahr – We Are Noise
  70. The Kick – Freak
  71. Blutengel – Soultaker (Black Soul Remix)
  72. In Strict Confidence – My Dispair (Club Mix)
  73. Scary Bitches – Lung Cancer
  74. Totakeke – Anterograde (Mix By Pneumatic Detatch)
  75. Jen Titus – O’ Death (CW Edit for Supernatural)
  76. XP8 – Want It (Frozen Plasma Mix)
  77. Angelspit – Kill Kitty (KMFDM Remix)
  78. Katie Perry – I Kissed A Girl (Aesthetic Perfection Remix)
  79. Uberbyte – Last Human
  80. Rabia Sorda – Radio Paranoia (Initial Transmission)
  81. Apoptygma Berzerk – Apollo (Live On Your TV) (Rotersand Rework)
  82. The Kick – Dancer
  83. Pandora’s Black Book – Threshold
  84. Imminent – Teskede
  85. Patenbrigade: Wolff – Popmusik Für Rohrleger
  86. Empusae -Ceremony (Empusae vs Converter)
  87. Faderhead – TZDV
  88. Angelspit – Skinny Little Bitch (Implant Remix)
  89. Cervello Elettronico -Demonize
  90. Absolute Body Control – Never Seen
  91. Depeche Mode – Fragile Tension (Peter Bjorn and John Remix)
  92. Autoclav1.1 vs ESA – All Blind
  93. Memmaker – Death Comes (Rotersand Mix)
  94. Mesh – Who Says?
  95. Leæther Strip – Blasphemous Rumours
  96. Komor Kommando – Love Your Neighbour
  97. DYM – Government Stomp (Overplayed Remix)
  98. Wynardtage – Crash of a Star (Aesthetic Perfection Remix)
  99. Lady Gaga – Love game (Aesthetic Perfection Remix)
  100. Sturmreaktor Fallout

Maybe you have a list or two form 2009 that you want to share…

Suggestions of other bands/artists to check out based what you saw above…

Please feel free to comment,  judge and scold me as much as you need to…

Cheers,
Paulabulus

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Set List: Toxik – Friday August 21st, 2009

DJ Set List from Toxik – DJ Wraith/DJ Blayne Mega Birthday Bash 2009

Toxik – DJ Wraith/DJ Blayne Mega Birthday Bash 2009
Friday August 21st, 2009
Blue Room at the Trash

Paulabulus
Skinny Puppy – Dig It
Skinny Puppy – Choke [Re-Grip]
Combichrist – Get Your Body Beat
Fatboy Slim – Right Here Right Now
VNV – Chrome
FGTH – Relax
Switchblade Symphony – Sweet (Apop Mix)
Apoptygma Berzerk – Fade To Black
Icon Of Coil – Floorkiller
Combichrist – This Is My Rifle
Ayria – The Gun Song
NIN – Only (Richard-X)
Blaqk Audio – Stiff Kittens (d)
Prodigy,The – Girls
Katy Perry – I Kissed a Girl (Aesthetic Perfection Remix)

DJ Blayne
Hocico – Fed Up
New Order – Blue Monday
Clan of Xymox – Stranger (Razormaid Remix)
Visage – Fade to Grey
Slowdive – Souvlaki Space Station
Portishead – Machinegun
Wynardtage – The Grey Line (Remixed By Yendri)
The Birthday Massacre – Holiday
Ashbury Heights – Smile

DJ Wraith
Android Lust – Heathen ( Witches Hammer)
NIN – Reptile
Fractured – Killing Time Inc.

Paulabulus

Grendel – Harsh Generation (Paulabulus’ Intro Included Edit)
Empusa – Careless
Menticide Search & Destroy
Edge of Dawn – Flight Lux
Forgotten Sunrise – Manyone
I:Scintilla – Scin (Clan of Xymox Mix)
Aesthetic Perfection – The Great Depression
Straftanz – Straftanz w/ Agonoize
Combichrist – Shut up & Swallow (r)
Sebastian Komor – Das Oontz
Grendel – Dirty (d)
Aesthetic Perfection – Pale (r)

DJ Wraith

Psyclon Nine – Heartworm

[end of night]

(r) request
(d) dedication

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Set List: Toxik December 15th, 2005

Toxik @ Trash BlueRoom Dec 15th, 2005

[Wraith]

01 – Quake 2 – Track 7
02 – Girls Under Glass – Track 3<-Sarah Wants
03 – Blank – Event Horizon
04 – Dismantled – Extinction
05 – Endanger – In silence
06 – Biotec – Disect (VNV Nation Mix)
07 – Frontline assembly – Don’t trust anyone
08 – In Strict Confidence – Seven Lives (Club)<- Sarah Wants
09 – Project Pitchfork – Steel Rose (Apoptygma Berzerk mix)
10 – Velvet Acid Christ – Dial 8
11 – MSI – Track 1
12 – KDC- How To Nuke Heaven
13 – Hanzel Und Gretyl – burning bush
14 – London After Midnight – Kiss
15 – Infected Mushroom – IM the supervisor (R)

|paulabulus|

01 – funker vogt – fallen hero
02 – destroid – bonewhitelight (german suicide edit)
03 – reaper – jaged
04 – les anges de la nuit – translucent minds (the overdose mix)
05 – blind faith and envy- secretaffair
06 – Aryia – My revenge on the world (out out mix)
07 – pride & fall – paragon (SITD mix)

[Wraith]

16 – decoded feedback – Hiberia<- Sarah Wants
17 – birthday massacar – violet
18 – kmfdm – hau ruck
19 – Grendel – Zombienation
20 – God Module – The evil inside <-Sarah Wants
21 – VNV Nation – Frika
22 – Assemblage 23 – Drive(R)
23 – Rob Zombie – Living Dead Girl (R)
24 – Suicide Commando – Hellraiser (VNV Nation mix)
25 – Solitary Experiments – Watching over you (R)
26 – Flesh Field – My saviour (Violated beauty mix)
=tech error – player froze – bad disc=
27 – Flesh Field – Heritic

|paulabulus|

08 – xp8 – she says (a23 mix)
09 – vnv nation – chrome (SITD mix) (r)
10 – combichrist – sex, drogen….
11 – the azoic – conflict (combichrist mix)
12 – icon of coil – regret (combichrist mix)
13 – Dulce Liquido – antichristanos (r)
14 – blutengel – oxidising angel (single edit)
15 – jay harker – bela lugosi is dead (the voice mix)
16 – depeche mode – precious (sm’s holier than thou mix)

[wraith]

28 – Cyber Axis – Can’t get you out of my Head
29 – Razed In Black – Oh my Goth
30 – Project Pitchfork – Sin
31 – haujobb – track #1
32 – novakill – obsession

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Montreal: Hotel, Heat, Humidity & VNV

The Spectrum is awesome, its like the phoenix and the opera house spliced together and then fed steroids… a nice big hall with seating on the sides as well as a huge dance floor in the center…. Scionofdiscord grabbed 2 or 3 shirts at the merch table, and we head in, once the show started we were pretty tightly packed in on the dance floor, but hell we ended up just right of center stage about 4-6” from the stage… have I mentioned it was insanely hot and humid in Montreal…. well the venue was barely any better then out side by the time Imperative Reaction hit the stage… oh yeah, [info]scionofdiscord also forgot to bring his digital camera, I think he was really kicking himself for that one…. But fear not, others didn’t forget their cameras, one of them was [info]biomech, you can view his pictures from the show here, but on with the show……

Soman was awesome….

I was the only one in the group of us that was familiar with Imperative Reaction’s material, and I wasn’t really to sure what to expect…. They were really fucking good… that said, I must go on to say that Imperative Reaction are consummate professionals, during the first song they lost their brain for their electronic drum set, but kept on going, I believe it was just before the last couple of songs that the drummer and sound tech came back on stage, and the brain back in and then there were drums again…. Imperative Reaction played an great set and I believe earned the entire crowds respect for carrying on though they were marred by the lost of their drummer for 90% of their set…

Then it was time for VNV. [info]scionofdiscord and I have seen VNV twice before, the first time was at Dark Rave v9 in Toronto, and we also them caught the DJ / DVD Release tour at the Funhouse date in Toronto…

VNV Nation live. Not since Depeche Mode have I experienced the level of pure please a band get and reciprocates with an audience… I remember the first time I saw VNV and I though, it was the most energetic show I’d been to since I’d seen Depeche Mode on Devotional Tour… well this was that ten fold……. Its not difficult to except why Ronan was a Depeche Mode fan in is youth….

VNV Setlist – Montreal Canada June 10th, 2005

1- Intro
2- Chrome
3- Joy
4- Darkangel
5- Arena
6- Epicentre
7- Entropy
8- Endless Skies
9- Legion
10- Standing
11- Perpetual

12- Further
13- Honour 2003

14- Homeward
15- Beloved

16- Beloved Crowd Sing – Along – No Music

After the show we quickly went back to the hotel to cool down and freshen up, if we could given the heat, then out to a local club in town, Saphir(was an awesme club), We had heard that Ronan and Mark were going to be there. Scionofdiscord met both of them. [info]scionofdiscord had this to say about the lads, “True to what I have heard, they were very humble and genuine.”

Okay… that’s all I have in me right now…

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