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News for those in Tucson who love Electronic Music
To those in Tucson who love Electronic Music and all its many sub-genres probably knew of the nightclubs Ice, and Club Asylum. They were not the only clubs in Tucson that catered to fans of good Underground Electronic dance music, but they certainly were the best and most diverse by far! Well, most of us know Club Asylum closed down last march, and Ice closed its doors last october!
A big letdown for those dedicated 100-300 estimated hardcore fans of this music in town, who usually showed up faithfully each Friday and Saturday night. Fans of Gothic, Electro/Industrial, Synth-pop, E.B.M. Techno, Drum n' bass, Power-noise, Dark-wave, and "Good" 80's music had a place to go at Asylum for over 5 years! They even had a few rare live shows by Touring bands from Europe Like Armageddon Dildos, Inertia, Snog, Dismantled, Assemblage 23, Terrorfakt, and De/vision who are one of Germany's top selling Synth-pop superstars! Ice was the new home for the Asylum djs from april til oct. on friday nights and even had a show with Accessory another famous band from Germany!
It seemed us people dressed in Black had no place to go anymore.... well, there is some hope! The small club Sports on Congress st. downtown is the place go on friday night! Jeff, a.k.a. DJ Black Flagg, and a few other Dj's from the Asylum and Ice crew are now spinning great obscure music, and the scene needs to be supported. Or once again, clubs will be spinning only the commercial Clear-Channel crap that they stupidly assume we want to hear!! I myself quit listening to almost all local Radio Stations back about 1993, when i realized it was better to buy all my music from Import stores and mail order companies than to keep being subjected to the same old dj's lost in the embarrassing decade known as the 70's! You know what i mean, every station you turn to all you hear is about the same ol' 30-40 groups over and over again! Over-played crap like the Eagles, Boston, Journey, Styx, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Rush, Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty, AC-DC, Led Zeppelin, Chicago, Huey Lewis, Joe Walsh......... it might have been passable when it came out, but that was well over 30 years ago, and now, you need to put it on the shelf and grow up, mr. DJ....!
Bands that you might hear at Club Sanctuary at Sports include..... De/vision, And One, Wumpscut, Project Pitchfork, Feindflug, Grendel, Numb, Cubanate, Wolfsheim, Neuroticfish, Orange Sector, E-nomine, Helium Vola, Covenant, Apoptygma Berzerk, Front Line Assembly, Skinny Puppy, Ministry, Accessory, Haujobb, Melotron, Sero Overdose, Nitzer Ebb, Front 242, Zombie Girl, and many others!
The groups that are too good for radio are what you will hear, the most commercial it may get is music by Depeche Mode, New Order, Peter Murphy, or The Human League! Many songs have German vocals or something else, close your eyes while dancing and you could be in the Clubs of Berlin, Ibiza, London, Rotterdam, Stockholm, or Brussels! Tucson desperately needs a club like this to stay alive! I hope folks will spread the word! Plush and Club Congress occasionally have shows of the Electronic nature, but very rarely! Monday 80's at Congress is only barely passable.....
no offense, but i really don't want to hear Prince, Madonna, Michael Jackson, The Bangles, AC-DC, The Go-Go's, Men at Work, (yicky top-40 80's) When there is so much better music from the 80's like Bauhaus, Ministry, Front 242, Nitzer Ebb, Gary Numan, Kraftwerk, John Foxx, Skinny Puppy, Neon Judgement, a:Grumh, Borghesia, Laibach, Clock DVD, Cabaret Voltaire, Visage, Ultravox, Simple Minds, Siouxsie & the Banshees, Echo & the Bunnymen, Fad Gadget, the Human League, and New Order which almost never gets played!
If you are tired of hearing the same old crap, check it out.... Friday night at Sports on Congress!
A big letdown for those dedicated 100-300 estimated hardcore fans of this music in town, who usually showed up faithfully each Friday and Saturday night. Fans of Gothic, Electro/Industrial, Synth-pop, E.B.M. Techno, Drum n' bass, Power-noise, Dark-wave, and "Good" 80's music had a place to go at Asylum for over 5 years! They even had a few rare live shows by Touring bands from Europe Like Armageddon Dildos, Inertia, Snog, Dismantled, Assemblage 23, Terrorfakt, and De/vision who are one of Germany's top selling Synth-pop superstars! Ice was the new home for the Asylum djs from april til oct. on friday nights and even had a show with Accessory another famous band from Germany!
It seemed us people dressed in Black had no place to go anymore.... well, there is some hope! The small club Sports on Congress st. downtown is the place go on friday night! Jeff, a.k.a. DJ Black Flagg, and a few other Dj's from the Asylum and Ice crew are now spinning great obscure music, and the scene needs to be supported. Or once again, clubs will be spinning only the commercial Clear-Channel crap that they stupidly assume we want to hear!! I myself quit listening to almost all local Radio Stations back about 1993, when i realized it was better to buy all my music from Import stores and mail order companies than to keep being subjected to the same old dj's lost in the embarrassing decade known as the 70's! You know what i mean, every station you turn to all you hear is about the same ol' 30-40 groups over and over again! Over-played crap like the Eagles, Boston, Journey, Styx, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Rush, Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty, AC-DC, Led Zeppelin, Chicago, Huey Lewis, Joe Walsh......... it might have been passable when it came out, but that was well over 30 years ago, and now, you need to put it on the shelf and grow up, mr. DJ....!
Bands that you might hear at Club Sanctuary at Sports include..... De/vision, And One, Wumpscut, Project Pitchfork, Feindflug, Grendel, Numb, Cubanate, Wolfsheim, Neuroticfish, Orange Sector, E-nomine, Helium Vola, Covenant, Apoptygma Berzerk, Front Line Assembly, Skinny Puppy, Ministry, Accessory, Haujobb, Melotron, Sero Overdose, Nitzer Ebb, Front 242, Zombie Girl, and many others!
The groups that are too good for radio are what you will hear, the most commercial it may get is music by Depeche Mode, New Order, Peter Murphy, or The Human League! Many songs have German vocals or something else, close your eyes while dancing and you could be in the Clubs of Berlin, Ibiza, London, Rotterdam, Stockholm, or Brussels! Tucson desperately needs a club like this to stay alive! I hope folks will spread the word! Plush and Club Congress occasionally have shows of the Electronic nature, but very rarely! Monday 80's at Congress is only barely passable.....
no offense, but i really don't want to hear Prince, Madonna, Michael Jackson, The Bangles, AC-DC, The Go-Go's, Men at Work, (yicky top-40 80's) When there is so much better music from the 80's like Bauhaus, Ministry, Front 242, Nitzer Ebb, Gary Numan, Kraftwerk, John Foxx, Skinny Puppy, Neon Judgement, a:Grumh, Borghesia, Laibach, Clock DVD, Cabaret Voltaire, Visage, Ultravox, Simple Minds, Siouxsie & the Banshees, Echo & the Bunnymen, Fad Gadget, the Human League, and New Order which almost never gets played!
If you are tired of hearing the same old crap, check it out.... Friday night at Sports on Congress!
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