Sleep Paralysis – AUX ANIMAUX Evil Me – DUCTAPE Austral – SCHONWALD In Decay – KILL SHELTER Broken Monsters – ULTRA SUNN Blood On The Blade – PRAYERS Autogenic – BLACK NAIL CABARET Death Shot – KONTRAVOID Flesh – STRIDULUM Chance(rmx) – CLICK CLICK Reach For The Knife – PUBLIC CIRCUIT The More You Live,The More You Love(full moon mix) – A FLOCK OF SEAGULLS Superior – LILLIES AND REMAINS Der Komissar – MISSING PERSONS Too Soon To Tell – DRAB MAJESTY Luftmangel – VLIMMER Vive La Muerte – NINO SABLE Sex Dwarf(ext) – SOFT CELL Innocent Blood (twin tribes mix) – WINGTIPS Abyss(blind Delon mix) – MELTING PALMS Antenna – LES LONGS ADIEUX Big Violent(single edit) – THE ULTIMATE DREAMERS The Crown Lies Heavy On The King – THE CASSANDRA COMPLEX I’m A Monster – CONTRE SOIREE Sophia – PROFIT PRISON The Head – GEOMETRIC VISION Want – ASH CODE Ash and Dust feat Actors – BLACK ASTEROID Dance – JE T’AIME Zeros – THE SOFT MOON
Intro (Harmonica man) – FIELDS OF THE NEPHILIM The Vanishing – RITES OF SIN Forbidden Flames – BOOTBLACKS Down In The Shadows – INVSN Timewave – TANKS AND TEARS Give Me A Reason – SELOFAN Industry – NOI KOBAT Send Your Heart To The Riot (creux lies rmx) – THE FOREIGN RESORT Taschenrechner – KRAFTWERK Your Body – NNHMN The Plague (vers n4.4 edit) – DIARY OF DREAMS Forever – CHVRCHES Pet Semetary – STRVNGERS We Were Lovers – BUZZ KULL Kiss Me Kill Me (kontravoid rmx) – SKEMER Closer – DUCTAPE Bedsitter (ext vers) – SOFT CELL Bury Me – ACTORS A Distant Light – BLAKQ AUDIO Voyage Voyage – DESIRELESS AND OPERATIONS OF THE SUN Dark Allies – LIGHT ASYLUM Love My Way – SHE WANTS REVENGE Adorations(ext) – KILLING JOKE Ellipsis – DRAB MAJESTY She Sells Sanctuary(howling mix) – THE CULT Rituel – SHE PAST AWAY Lovesong vs Monolith – THE CURE & TWIN TRIBES Kalter Lippenstift (in death it ends rmx) – VELVET CONDOM White Wedding (clubland ext) – BILLY IDOL Ricky’s Hand – MINISTRY
Magnum Opus – LA PORTA ERMETICA Harry’s Game – CLANNAD Go Dig My Grave – LANKUM Deathbed – ANNA VON HAUSWOLFF Stigmata Martyr – COPH NIA The Sick Rose – THE PROTAGONIST Severance – DEAD CAN DANCE Fall Apart – DEATH IN JUNE Kyiv – KAELTE I Called Your Name – OF THE WAND AND OF THE MOON Immersion – PERSEPHONE Imla – CASA UKRANIA I Tokuni – EIVOR Відьма(Witch) – MNISHEK Inside And Beyond – RASP Хей, подивись(Hey, look around) – POROROKA Човен(Boat) – ZWYNTAR Come , Raven King – SIEBEN Macha – JO QUAIL and MARIA FRANZ Eagles of The Trident – ROME Yggdrasill – CORVUS CORAX Serca Raskolata (Heart is Broken) – IRDORATH Das Leben Ist Schwer – GOETHES ERBEN The Never Deserting Shadow – JARBOE Warriors Oath – ELDVRAK Riders On The Storm – SKALD Tine Bealtine – OMNIA Paint It Black – THE HARP TWINS AND THE VOLFGANG TWINS Greenland Whale Fisheries – THE POGUES Some Say The Divil Is Dead – THE WOLFE TONES Fitak Albian(feat aduri) – TARTALO MUSIC AND IAN FONTOVA Mami Wata – LILI REFRAIN Full Mōna – SOWULO O Fortuna – ESTAMPIE Blodfest – HELDOM and DANHEIM Seeker Divine – HAGALAZ RUNEDANCE Valrulven – GARMARNA
The Thing – JOHN CARPENTER Burn It All – WHO SAW HER DIE? Goth Music – UMBRA ET IMAGO Dust To Dust – ALLIE FROST Spider On The Wall – CLAN OF XYMOX Some Days – THE MOBILE HOMES Falling In Love – VOITH Run – SHAD SHADOWS Body Electric – ULTRA SUNN If We’re Young Again(single mix) – EMILY KINSKI’S DEAD Halloween(die krupps mix) – BABYCHAOS Dream Yourself Away – GIRLS UNDER GLASS The Floor – HOLLOWS Wake The Dead – THE DAMNED Goo Goo Muck – THE CRAMPS Pale Fire – PLAY DEAD The Defrost – SNAKE This Shadow – MAGGOT HEART No Cure For Madness – DEATH INDEX Coming Home – ECHO LADIES Music For Spies – SNOOPER Z Zachodu – BRAMY Valley Of Dreams – VELVET MIST Post Mortem Dialogue – TRAGIC BLACK Killer – BLACK ANGEL Genome – LATHE OF HEAVEN Sentimental Animal – RENDEZ-VOUS I Am Destroyed – HALLOWS I Was So Alive – FEARING Temptation – ANYTHING BOX Sex Doll(xavier swafford mix) – PATRIARCHY Claustrophobic – POLARLICHT Flesh – A SPLIT SECOND Be Mine (agent side grinder mix) – KISS THE WHIP Colour – ARMAGEDDON DILDOS In The Rain – VIOFLESH Horror TV – KANT KINO Nomi Song (Vince Clarke rmx) – KLAUS NOMI We Don’t Care(diorama we care rmx) – TORUL Lockdown Lovers – THE PSYCHIC FORCE Running To You(main mix) – PEAK FLOW Purgatory – STATE OF THE UNION Only Control(spetsnaz mix) – POUPPEE FABRIKK Caressing The Pale – MISERIA ULTIMA Female Grace – DARKNESS ON DEMAND Robotimierung(orange sector rmx) – DIE ROBO SAPIENS God Killer – C-LEKKTOR Not In Love – SEX CODE
These Coming Days – THE CHURCH Remember – THE YETS Hate – INVSN Kisses – SLOWDIVE The Skin & The Glove – DRAB MAJESTY In Memoriam No One – THE MOBILE HOMES Sparks – RITES OF SIN Tear You Down – ASH CODE Radiation(J G & the robots mix) – LESSON SEVEN Downwards – DECENT RUINS Fascination Street – GODHEAD Fading Away – ECHOBERYL Switch(stargods mix) – MAGIC WANDS All This Poison(dj mix) – WHO SAW HER DIE? Cities In Dust – NIGHT CLUB Mad World – PSYCHE & NEUROPA Radio – JULIAN K Burning Black – AEON SABLE Black Rain – SEXBLOOD Wicked King – BLOOD DANCE Living In Heaven – A FLOCK OF SEAGULLS Shame & Blame – SNAKE No more Tears – AMYL & THE SNIFFERS Beware Of The Clown – THE DAMNED Car Crash – PUBLIC IMAGE LIMITED Way Of The World – V.SPY V.SPY Song From The Edge Of The World (columbus mix) – SIOUXSIE AND THE BANSHEES Stephaney – GIRLFRIENDS ABD BOYFRIENDS House Of Love – HOUSE OF LIGHT On The Night Of Halloween – VOITH Ecstasy Of Ruin – AUTOBAHN Slowly Love – VIRGINS The Spider – LATHE OF HEAVEN Amphetamine Luck – CHAIN OF FLOWERS Self Control – ECHO LADIES Paralysed – RENDEZ-VOUS Stamp You Out – IST IST Night Kiss – GIRLS UNDER GLASS Damn Me – ASHES FALLEN Gabrielle(35th anniversary mix) – HANDFUL OF SNOWDROPS Love Will Tear Us Apart – SEX CODE Not In Love – CRYSTAL CASTLES feat Robert Smith
Here are some video visuals I created for my last DJ mix which hopefully captures a gothic 80s dystopian creepy vibe 😉
0.02 Day Darkness – RITES OF SIN 4.00 Tomb Room – RITUAL HOWLS 07.16 Let’s Go To Bed – ARMAGEDDON DILDOS 10.47 Dance Of Liberty – DER KLINKE 13.46 O Blasphemy (twin tribes remix) – CURSE MACKEY 17.05 Never Existed – AGONISED TOO 20.30 Desire – PARADOX OBSCUR 23.39 Lips Like Sugar (way out west rmx) – ECHO AND THE BUNNYMEN 27.47 Abandoned Ghost (315 mix) – ALLIE FROST 32.06 Send Your Heart to The Riot (crux lies remix) – THE FOREIGN RESORT 36.12 Slaves – ACTORS 39.35 Lobos Ciegos – DUNKELWALD 42.19 Restless Souls – ATTIC FROST 47.49 Marian – DUCTAPE 51.55 For The Fallen – AFTER THE SUN 56.20 Your Master is Calling (Version II) – PINK TURNS BLUE 01.02.39 Chinese Black – THE NEON JUDGEMENT 01.05.59.Cold Kinski – EMILY KINSKI IS DEAD 01.10 .40 T.R.T – ECHO WEST 01.13.44 Leave Behind (Hollow Moon) – GHOSTLAND 01.17.12 My Darkling – HER OWN WORLD 01.20.21 Until Then – BATAVIA 01.25.14 Down We Go – THE BREATH OF LIFE 01.29.24 Svitaye Palaye – MORWAN 01.32.38 Blood Red Room – THE FLATFIELD 01.36.27 Behind The Rain – SOFT KILL 01.40.21 Fascist State – SINCLAIR NOIRE 01.44.40 Languish – SHROUDS 01.48.59 Junkie House – ELEKTROKOHLE 01.51.00 Dystopian Mirror – THE BELLWETHER SYNDICATE 01.54.19 Little Punk Thing – THE MARCH VIOLETS 01.58.08 Bleed For Me – WALLS HAVE EARS 02.01.15 Anhedonia – I AM THE FLY 02.02.53 Death Always Wins – LOYAL NOTHING 02.07.33 There Is No Heaven Only Hell – CALABRESE 02.09.58 Evil Eye – GHOULTOWN 02.12.08 Silent Hill – SEXBLOOD 02.14.42 Believe – THE ESCAPE 02.20.18 Firefly – STILL PATIENT? 02.25.36 One Hundred Years – STAR INDUSTRY 02.32.21 Gardyloo – GUTTERBLOOD AND BONNIE PRINCE BOB 02.34.50 War Dance (the ultimate version) – KILLING JOKE 02.38.15 Bleeding In my Arms – FRANK THE BAPTIST
Day Darkness – RITES OF SIN Tomb Room – RITUAL HOWLS Let’s Go To Bed – ARMAGEDDON DILDOS Dance Of Liberty – DER KLINKE O Blasphemy (twin tribes remix) – CURSE MACKEY Never Existed – AGONISED TOO Desire – PARADOX OBSCUR Strangelove (pain mix) – DEPECHE MODE Lips Like Sugar (way out west rmx) – ECHO AND THE BUNNYMEN Abandoned Ghost (315 mix) – ALLIE FROST Send Your Heart to The Riot (crux lies remix) – THE FOREIGN RESORT Slaves – ACTORS Lobos Ciegos – DUNKELWALD Restless Souls – ATTIC FROST Marian – DUCTAPE For The Fallen – AFTER THE SUN Your Master is Calling (Version II) – PINK TURNS BLUE Chinese Black – THE NEON JUDGEMENT Cold Kinski – EMILY KINSKI IS DEAD T.R.T – ECHO WEST Leave Behind (Hollow Moon) – GHOSTLAND My Darkling – HER OWN WORLD Until Then – BATAVIA Down We Go – THE BREATH OF LIFE Syayesh – MORWAN Blood Red Room – THE FLATFIELD Behind The Rain – SOFT KILL Fascist State – SINCLAIR NOIRE Languish – SHROUDS Junkie House – ELEKTRKOHLE Dystopian Mirror – THE BELLWETHER SYNDICATE Little Punk Thing – THE MARCH VIOLETS Bleed For Me – WALLS HAVE EARS Anhedonia – I AM THE FLY Death Always Wins – LOYAL NOTHING There Is No Heaven Only Hell – CALABRESE Evil Eye – GHOULTOWN Silent Hill – SEXBLOOD Believe – THE ESCAPE Firefly – STILL PATIENT? One Hundred Years – STAR INDUSTRY Gardyloo – GUTTERBLOOD AND BONNIE PRINCE BOB War Dance (the ultimate version) – KILLING JOKE Bleeding In my Arms – FRANK THE BAPTIST
On my 24th anniversary I would like to dedicate this mix to all the Gothic, Punk, Rock and alternative music fans in Ukraine onwards to Victory and bollox to ruZZia!
Help Ukraine kick the scum from russia out, smash the Kremlin, smash the duma, smash communnazis.
Dark Paranoia – DEAD SOULS RISING Snow Burial – SIEBEN Mission – PAINTED ROMANS My Heart Is Immortal – COLD CAVE Dark Allies(Pablo bozzi edit)– LIGHT ASYLUM Elegy-X – ZEROSET Before The Rain – VNV NATION Girdap – SHE PAST AWAY Hic Isok Yok – JAKUZI Intra Apogeum – BELGRADO 1984(dingbat & shok’s orwell manifesto) – NEON KROSS Temptation – CONFRONTATIONAL The Vanishing – RITES OF SIN Need You Tonight – NIGHT CLUB Tainted(feat Mortiis)– GIRLS UNDER GLASS Hiding From Tomorrow – HOST Bright Gold Cross – SUBURBAN SPELL Herz Der Niemand – DIAVOL STRAIN Atmosphere – GLASSZONE Again– NUMB.ER Disappear – YAMA UBA Strangers – GREY GALLOWS Listen To The Trees – MIRROR OF HAZE Perceptions – ANTIPOLE & PARIS ALEXANDER Waiting For The Rain – CLAUSTROPHOBIA Wetworks – THE BELLWE THER SYNDICATE Angel – VAZUM Bloody Mary – DEAD ON A SUNDAY Go Away – THE SECRET FRENCH POSTCARDS Valentine(Teardrop mix) – DELPHINE COMA Bottle Of Poison – THE MARCH VIOLETS Figured – THE FUNERAL MARCH La Sombra – MALEFIXIO Chaining Eris – SECRET SHAME Silencio – BARRERA Gimme Hell – GREEN BLUE The Hordes – THE BELLACOSE MINDS Attaccali A Niente – MORGANA Internal Silence – GUILTY STRANGERS Seagulls – HOME FRONT Magnetique – LAST NIGHT Disappear / Appear– INTERNAL AUTONOMY World On Fire – CRIME OF PASSING Catacombs – FEARING Foundation – ES We’re Not Alone – CHAIN CULT The Cross – PAWNS Tension – JAPANESE JESUS Let’s Dance – RAMONES Surfin On Heroin – BOBNOXIOUS
Sing Child – PAINTED ROMANS Things Left In The Past – GLARING Hagalaz Grad – POROROKA Bones In The Forest – ITERUM NATA Daydreaming – CASA UKRANIA Addiction(acoustic) – COLUMBIA MILLS Atmosphere – THE FLOWERS OF HELL Verdades (chosen version) – THE EDEN HOUSE Feel The Fever – SIEBEN Jesus He Knows Me – GHOST Full Spectrum Dominance – KILLING JOKE Damn She Looks Good – RAZORBATS Die Tonight – CLIFF AND IVY This Means War – DEAD EXPRESS We Shall Find Out – FLECHETTES Overthrown – THE WRAITH I’m In Love With A Girl Who Looks Like A Girl I Hate – GDANSK81 Annihilation – GRAVE PLEASURES We Feel Alright (who the f… is killing joke) – GIRLS UNDER GLASS Tomorrows Sky – HOST New York – DIE KRUPPS The Switch (digital murder remix) – ATTRITION Sex Tape(copy) – KILL SHELTER & DEATH LOVES VERONICA Vampires – NIGHT CLUB Never Let Me Go – DEPECHE MODE Lovesong – KAT VON D Voice Carry – TIL TUESDAY This Time Tomorrow – BLEEDING GROUND In Ictu Oculi – RITES OF SIN Light To Dark – CORBEAU HANGS Gedeih & Verderb – DIARY OF DREAMS Bury Me – SHE PLEASURES HERSELF Not Alive – URBANDONED. Midnight Shadow – ANTIPOLE Silent Lovesong – DAYS OF SORROW Waiting for Days – CLOSED MOUTHS Bittersweet – GOD IN A BLACK SUIT We All Rise – THE BELLWETHER SYNDICATE Run Run Run – TRUE MOON No Response – WORN OUT Rise – THE BACKLASH Pray For Sleep – NOX NOVACULA The Whore Of Babylon – LUCIDA FILA Something Strange (boost) – ROSETTA STONE The Fall – AUTUMN Love + Pain – THE BLOOD PACT Buried – POLYVERSO Delusional Paragon – PULSATIONS Scum Of The Earth – MISERYLAB Glass Prison – HEIMBERG Serotonin Dopamin – ZPUTNIK Patient – CORPUS DELECTI
Here is the seventh of my series of interviews with people involved in the Gothic and Alternative music scene and to get an understanding in their own words how russia’s war of war crimes against humanity is impacting people just like you and me in Ukraine. For my seventh interview I am happy to have an interview with Ginger Snap5 an electronic music project from Ukraine. GS5 combines a hybrid of dense electronic music, breakbeat, upbeat EBM with glitchy Future Pop. Ginger Snap5 is also known as a remix producer.
Could you tell me a bit about yourself and your involvement in the Goth/alternative music scene, so for how long, what you do?, Your 5 top favourite bands?, films, books? etc? Hi there, Well, such questions… So maybe I should begin from the early 90s and the fact that i’ve discovered music as a passion when I was 8 years old. When I was in middle school, I started trying to learn electro guitar, so I think it was the beginning. When I was in middle school, I started trying to learn electro guitar, so I think it was the beginning. I have an old my dad’s electro-guitar and I’ve made my first fuzz and distortion pedals by schemes from magazines. Later we made a band with my friends, then another band, and another and another. I’ve played, hard-core, nu-metal, black metal, alternative rock, industrial, and grind-core. So in 99, I started to be interested in goth culture. Then I started discovering other music. Somewhere between 2002-2003, I left the last band I played in and decided to make music that was something new to me. This way I’ve created Ginger Snaps. Yeah, you didn’t ask, but I’ll tell about this moment with “5″ in the Snaps. The original name of my musical act is Ginger Snaps. But when in 2003 I wanted to make a custom MySpace profile URL, it was already taken, so I changed the last “S” to “5”. Over time, this name stuck and I decided to use it for the official spelling. But, it pronounces like Ginger Snaps. I hope many of the guys are breathing a sigh of relief now. I still often receive this question 😃 Okay, where we stopped? Oh yeah. Well, since 2003 I’ve experimented with different styles and as you know a huge part of it was future pop. After the “Against the days” album I decided that with this kind of music, I’ve done everything that I wanted. I signed the label I dreamed of since 2006, I’ve made a lot of remixes and declared myself to the world. So it was time to move on. I was tired and bored of future-pop and that kind of music, all that romantic and melancholic stuff. I wanted to make something powerful and much more aggressive like in my teenage years. I went back to my musical roots, so to speak. Ginger Snap5 has transformed again and now sounds the way you know it. As for music, I don’t limit my range of musical preferences. It really depends on my mood, season, weather, etc. A lot of factors. It can be Mylène Farmer, Chvrches, or Swarm, Die Antwoord, Dope D.O.D, Sleaford Mods, Ho99o9, Biohazard, Turnstile, Bad Omens, or Same Old Sean, who I’ve been listening to the last few days. If you’re really into music, you just can’t have one or five fav bands. About movies, since my childhood I’ve been a real movie buff and a huge fan of the 80s and 90s movies. Perhaps this is due to the fact that our basic tastes and preferences are formed at a young age, up to about 18 years old. Yeah, the most part of them are naive, but they have some magic and warmth from color correction to OST. It was the best age of cinematography What about books, I am a huge fan of the legendary Mr. Stephen King. I just adore his works so much (i have a tattoo of some of his gems), pure and endless love. I will really miss his presence in this world when the time comes and he passes away. What do you miss most of all since russia started a full scale war? Hmmm… I miss the safety and lightness of days. Miss the sea… Our beaches and coast are mined and close. Miss nightly parties and walking, we have a curfew that started at 11 pm and till 5 am. I miss inspiration, the war eats it up and leaves you totally empty… I miss life before the war. And miss the days when russian shit stayed fucking out of your life, and boiled in its own personal shit in its own “swamps”. Could you tell me in your own words how the full scale war being carried out by russia in Ukraine has affected your life? Oh, I’ve answered the question so many times so I don’t know what more to add. Well, the first few months of the war were in a constant state of anxiety but without panic, when you don’t leave your laptop, watching the news and monitoring many sources at once, tracking different things that change every 10 minutes. Awaiting attempts to seize Odesa. Since I signed up for the territorial defense on the first day of the war, I was constantly waiting for an sms or phone call with instructions on where to go to receive weapons and take up positions. I lost my main job so I started to devote more time to music to vent my hate and anger through creativity. With time and the victories of our army, calming began to come. You just believe in the Armed Forces of Ukraine and donate to their needs. It really helps to calm down in moments of panic. It’s like meditation. The main thing is not to panic, as panic does not help, but only worsens the condition. How do you feel towards Russians after they have invaded Ukraine? Well, in the middle of the 2000s, I lived in moscow for some time. So I know them from the inside and I hate them these days. Under the guise of comfortable and innovative life, medieval barbarians are hiding who are enemies to each other, who are ready to rob each other, to kill each other over a trifle. They are total scum and headfuckers. After 2013 I hate them with a multi-proportional hatred. After Feb 24, 2022, my hatred is seasoned with rage and anger and I wish them generations of suffering. They have to pay with interest for everything they’ve done. What worries you have most about russia’s war in Ukraine? I am concerned that the world is so infantile about it. Everybody is afraid of Putin and is hesitant to help… Haven’t we done enough to show that it is not necessary to be afraid and try to calm the rabid beast, but to fight and keep the promises of security that were made to us? Did World War II teach us nothing? “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” At first, when we needed help, the world just watched, dressed in yellow and blue (“yeah, it really helps, thanks!” – no, it doesn’t fucking help, like in that meme “We need support! – you’re doing great”). Except for Britain, Poland, and the Baltics. Without that help, it would have been much more difficult for us… I am worried that generations of Ukrainians have been disfigured because of this. Some lost their homes, some lost their loved ones, some lost their parents, some lost their entire families, and a terrible number of people were killed under torture. I’m concerned that the russians and putin might get away with it. The World is too weak and scared to help us to deal with it. That’s what I am most worried about. What are your hopes for the future? I hope for the soonest undisputed victory of Ukraine, after which russia will be demilitarized with a ban on weapons production under the close supervision of international monitors. Will disintegrate into individual states that were occupied. And the miserable remnant that will remain of russia will be isolated and boycotted by the world as much as possible and it will return to the dark ages. What more help would you like to see countries give to Ukraine? Offensive weapons, a fucking lot of offensive weapons. Fighter jets, tanks, artillery, supplies. Is there any more acton that you would like countries to take in regards to russia? I want countries to stop being pussies and start behaving like “world sheriffs” who keep order. They know what they must do. The rest I have already described earlier. What do you think about russia bands playing gigs in Europe whilst their country is carrying war crimes in Ukarine? They should be banned. Concerts and visas should be canceled (I’m surprised they haven’t been canceled yet). Ban any russian from entering any country outside of fucking russia. The world does not yet understand that every russian in their country is a pretext for invasion under the guise of protecting russians.