Hey ho!

This update includes scene reports on my trips to Denver and Maine late summer
and some recent setlists (scroll down for these) ++ info on how to buy my new CD
for ONLY $6 .. yes, you read that correctly, and it does include shipping in the
USA and Canada. All others please write me for an invoice by paypal,
international will be $10 total.

BUT FIRST here are upcoming gigs for DJ Copper Top.. adding more all the time!

November 21: INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana: Electro Faktory @ Therapy Nightclub 605 E.
Market Street
DJ Caroline, DJ Zlaya, DJ Copper Top.. No Cover this week!
www.myspace.com/Electro_Faktory

November 22: INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana: Electrofied @ The Melody Inn 3826 N.
Illinois Street
New Music Night presents a night of electro pop, hip-hop, house, and synth.
Live guests: Lolly Pop (electro house from Minneapolis) ++ Mad Happy (electro
hip-hop from Pensacola) ++ DJ Joe Tyra (house) and DJ Copper Top (electro and
synthpop) ONLY $6 for this really joyouse pre turkey day bash!!

November 25: CHARLOTTESVILLE, Virginia: The Dawning @ Outback Lodge 917
Preston Ave
DJ Copper Top with DJ Rift in my first appearance here.. ya hoo!!
www.thedawning.net

December 25, MINNEAPOLIS, MN: Hard Monday @ The Saloon 9th St. and Hennepin
Awesome Christmas again in Minneapolis.. hopefully three times is a charm and
I won't have a cold again. DJ's Aether Twins (DJ Oxygen & DJ Nitrogen) ++ Copper
Top www.myspace.com/hardmondays

Anti-Valentines Dirt Cheap Copper Top tour 2007:

February 5, BOSTON, MA: Ceremony @ An Tua Nua 835 Beacon St.
I LOVE THIS GIG! DJ Mothra is a hero of mine.. so full of drive.. keeping
Boston lit up with dark msuic and culture. Who knows who I will be DJing with..
doesn't matter.. it's all good in Boston. www.myspace.com/ceremonyboston

February 6, NORTHAMPTON, MA: Haven @ Diva's Nightclub 492 Pleasant St.
ANOTHER GIG I LOVE! back home with loving DJ's Penelope, Addam (xxoo amazing
DJ), and DevNull.. so excited to see them all again.
www.myspace.com/thehavenclub

February 8, WASHINGTON DC Chronos @ High Five 1214 B 18th Street
Chronos picks up where Alchemy left off in high fashion. amazing NEW venue and
EASY to get to (begins weekly in January). w/residents DJ 2501 and Dirty B
www.myspace.com/Chronosdc

OK, yes there will be more.. booking full tour the first part of February to
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here is the setlist for this NEW live mixed (factory pressed/4 color
insert/fully licensed) CD:

RUPESH CARTEL: Death With Soft Names (extended) www.adifferentdrum. com
WIDEBAND NETWORK: Just Like That (R3volves Just Like Mike mix)
www.adifferentdrum. com
URCEUS EXIT: Together (Erogenous mix) www.artoffact. com
SYSTEM 22: Cherry (Ram's Cherry Martini mix) www.adifferentdrum. com
MONICA SCHROEDER: Everyday (DJ Ram mix) www.adifferentdrum. com
BEBORN BETON: Vorbei (Fap 7 mix) www.strangeways. de
THE ALPHA CONSPIRACY: Defend Yourself (Andrew's Swing mix) www.diffusionrecord
s.com
DISTORTED REALITY: Something Wicked www.nilaihah. com
VIRTUAL SERVER Feat. Franziska Kalb from No Comment: Hyperspace
www.adifferentdrum. com
CONETIK: Superfluous www.nilaihah. com
BLUE OCTOBER: Free (Liberation mix) www.adifferentdrum. com
D:KONSTRUCT: Calling Out Your Name www.dkonstruct. com
NEVARAKKA: Desire (club mix) www.adifferentdrum. com
INTERFACE: Clear Night (Sean Tyas Melodic Intervention) www.nilaihah. com
RHYOLITE: The Uranium Age luna_born@yahoo. com
HEADSCAN: Antenna Manifold www.artoffact. com
DELOBBO: Bronze www.delobbo. com


February 2006 and late August 2006, Denver, Colorado: Transmission Fridays @
2101 (also referred to as The Wave)

The keyword for this scene report is DRIVE

Dave Vendetta is a pretty interesting fellow. Anybody who has been out to
Denver while on a weekend drive, or on purpose, and does any lurking about in
the dark alternative scene, is bound to have met him. I got in touch with him
via some friends of mine out there, mainly my friend's Chuck (November Process)
and his wife Melanie, and my buddy Samir, who I met at Synthpop Fest (ADD Label
fest) and who threw Synthpop Fest in Costa Rica in 2005 (gotta give my buds a
plug).. but lets get back to Dave.

So, anyway, they all led me to Dave for a DJ spot booking. I have wanted to
play in Denver for years, but typically, in this scene, unless you hang out at
their clubs, or know their friends, it's tough to get an e-mail answered. I
wrote Dave and he didn't answer me either. ya. So then Samir gave me the record
store number that Dave owns and fronts, and I got him that way. He said he was
going to write (uh-huh) but anyway I got a spot out there thanks to Dave, and
not just one time, but now two different trips in 2006! All together I DJ'd in
three different clubs in Denver (thanks to Dave), offering me a pretty clear
perspective on how things go out there, and I also visited some other folks
nights too.

Like many cities that are attempting to run dark alternative electronic dance
music nights, Denver has it's own little friendly wars. I am not going to speak
about the details, honestly, I hear these stories from cities all over the
country, and it's no different here in my town, honestly.. I get very confused.
Some of it's old skool vs. new skool, some of it's band vs. DJ, some of it's
goth vs. industrial, and some of it is "the rising stars" vs. "the on the way
down has-beens" promoters.

On a side note, I would like to confess I consider myself one of those "on the
way down has-beens" promoters, and although I plan to stay active DJing for a
time, I am trying to get out of promoting, I get sacked in here and there, but
am quite excited by fresh blood stepping up to the plate, keeping the movement
going, and any old promoter geezers out there not fostering and grooming that
natural transition to new leadership, is one of these little wars I just do not
understand.

OK, so anyway, in these Denver little (AND friendly) wars, Dave is a commander
in chief on the frontline. But, unlike many of the warriors I see in some
cities, his goal is not to squash all the competition, but to bring it together,
and force feed some fresh music and atmosphere to a fairly stagnant scene, and
this is obviously not just true in Denver. I have seen Dave consistently attempt
to work with different people with some success, and some with not, but the one
thing that Dave does not do is give up. Every time I talk to him on the phone he
has started some new project, he is bringing in another act, another DJ, another
band.. he is networking with someone new.. in just the last year he has started
new nights, expanded his online distribution, booked acts from all over the USA
and abroad, and opened a record label. Dave also owns the only alternative
electronic music store in the city called Vendetta Music.
http://www.vendetta-music.com

This is not to say the other promoters and nights in Denver are bad or lame, I
just can't speak too much for them, since I did not really get to meet them much
or hang with them.. I did attend other nights. For sure Dave is hitting this
city like a hurricane because he is fed up with redundant playlists and outdated
ideologies. He wants new music in the clubs, and to expand this scene beyond
it's peaks in the early 90's and again in the late 90's and early 00's.
Furthermore, Dave's goals expand way beyond Denver to world domination, and if
anybody could be a world dominator I'd put my bets on Dave. His distribution
company is fully in the black and his record store holds it's own.. this is all
Dave does. In this day when CD's make better coasters or frisbies for the
majority, that is saying alot.

So what did I do in Denver besides DJ?.. ugh.. not alot. I shopped, but not
even too much of that.. somehow it seems that I spent most of my awake hours on
both trips at Vendetta Music Record Store!! Really, everybody should just hang
out in a local record store for like eight hours for a few days to see what kind
of people enter and what kind of stories they tell. Now, kid you not.. there are
a fair amount of people, you know who you are, that hang out at Vendetta Music
several days a week, or even every day.. often you can drive by and see Dave out
with some squatters, smoking some squares, and shotting the shit. Still, I am
not sure Vendetta Music is all that common.. I mean Dave really brings this
stuff on. Furthermore, I think the whole thing was rigged because I ended up
spending a billion doallars on music, and that is something I definitely do not
regret.

On any random day somebody may come by to tell Dave how he and his girlfriend
broke up, or how they started a new band that Dave should book, or how they are
an artist and should do Dave's flyers, or how they know Beborn Beton personally,
or how they just started producing music and their shit is THE SHIT.. everyday!!
Then there are the people who either wonder in, odd, since the store is on a
sidestreet in a neighborhood that has more bookstores in a five block radius
than I have ever seen (I guess people read alot in Denver) and also stores that
sell vintage goods and antiques.. STILL they wonder in.. and some are
destination bound, but still in many many cases MANY do not know what they want,
or what the hell they are doing there.

This is where Dave will just leap in like a tiger and tell them what they
want, but in a subtle way.. they will pick up this CD.. hold it awhile.. put it
back, pick up another completely unrelated title, and sometimes even confess
that they have no idea what they want, but it will hopefully sound similar to
one act they know, and the record store carries that, and that is why they drove
ten miles from the burbs, only to confess they have no idea what they want, but
are hoping Dave can help them find it.

Dave wears alot of hats.

Now this hanging out at the record store thing was so much fun I cannot wait
to get back in 2007!

The gigs were cool. Dave has good equipment he brings to the gigs. Overall,
people responded to alot of new tracks whether it was synthpop, ebm, harsh
industrial, or darker techno and hard trance. I was told the scene does not like
tracks they don't know.. by a few, who I think secretly hope the crowd doesn't
like that stuff because it might force them to switch it up, or god forbid do
some research, or even BUY some new releases. My experience was positive in all
ways. If anything was a bit tough, it was my second trip that was in this late
summer 2006, shortly after the smoking ban was passed. You know people hate
smokers, but they will stand outside with them for hours, even when it's chilly,
and especially if it's a patio where they can drink too. Eventually the crowd
will make it's way in, by winter I imagine, and over time, just like every city,
it will become easier to get them to stay in after the smoke.

So, ya, Dave is a driven guy. I just talked to him again the other day.. sure
he gets emotonal when things are tough, but really he is always thinking of the
new angle.. always working out a plan to further the music and scene. His love
of it all drives him most and is the purest ambition.

On one more note I want to mention Dave's wife, the sometime secret, and yet
deadly stealth bomber Paulette. Really, this woman is a block of steel. I stayed
with them one of the nights I was out there, and it was so interesting to see
how two rather different individuals can be so committed.. Paulette is a
foundation for Dave's dreamer style lifestyle, and is a mover and shaker in her
own right.. I really enjoyed spending time with her out in Denver and am looking
forward to hanging again. Finally, special thanks to Drew, the leather maker,
and the fellow who carted me about on my second trip. Fine creations of leather
Drew crafts and a definite rising star in his own right.

Denver is definitely worth a jump by plane or car, for the breathtaking
mountains and often sunny skies, but you can also satisy your yearning for some
nocturnal play. There are nights on the weekends and weedays at The Church
(gorgeous venue.. especailly in the main room which hosts huge DJ names, 2501
(both Friday and Saturday), and The Shelter's Milk Bar on Wednesdays (another
stunning venue).

September 8, 2006 Portland Maine: Plague @ The Asylum: Keeping it Spooky in
Vacationland

The keyword for this scene report is SUPPORT

This was a phenomenal gig! When I saw that there was night in Maine that was
opening the doors for the music and the scene in Maine, I got in touch with Amy
to hopefully come up and do a set. She was very accomodating and quite a
fireball. One of the great things about traveling around the world to do DJ
spots or just to visit, I get to witness the variety of drives and personalities
that make up the underground promoter, DJ, and musician in the dark alternative
scene.

Amy has been promoting for about a year. She works in Boston, but her home is
Portland, and she commutes weekly and still keeps up her frontline duties of
running the scene in Portland. The night I played Asylum I could see that aside
from a love of the various forms of music in our genre(s), people came out, in
fact, to support Amy. Usually I don't think love of a leader can really push
enough people to create a scene, and sometimes I see huge scenes where the
promoter is loathed, but in this case Amy's vibrant personality, upmost
professionalism, and her unabated drive have created quite a diverse and growing
fanbase. She takes this role seriously and personally greets patrons as they
come in, uses all her skills to remember as many names as she can, and considers
herself as much a hostess as a promoter. For some people this role, promoter,
seems to come so naturally, and in Amy's case, it certainly was a calling.

Portland is a gorgeuos city. Of all the cities I have visited in the USA to DJ
or just go clubbing, I think Portland will stick with me most. It truly has a
European feel. People are friendly and there are streets and streets of quirky
shops and wonderful restaurants. Of course this area of the country is tourist
hell, so the time to visit I guess would be after Labor Day, and that is when I
went out. I told Amy I really wanted to go out on the ocean, since I love it,
and so rare it is for me to even see it. Well, it turns out that her family have
been avid fishers and boaters for all of her life. We went out the second day to
meet her dad, a crazy cool fellow in his mid fifties, so full of life and a
million projects that I could only hope to be that alive in that time of my
life. We took her dads boat and went all over the bay island hopping. It was a
blast! We also went to her Uncles island to climb around collecting shells and
to breath the misty fresh and salty air.
It was sunny, beautiful, and very exciting on the boat too!

Plague is a relatively new night. It was on a weekday when it started, but
moved venues and and nights a few months back (or so) and now is on Friday's at
The Asylum. A smallish club, The Asylum has that nice ability to look live
without needing hundreds of sweaty bodies. Numbers range from 40 to over 100,
and often it is quirky, just like any scene. For me, it is never so much the
amount of people in a club when I DJ, but the energy and attitude of the people
who do come. The Asylum has good sound, great DJ equipment (Amy personally
bought to make sure there is always good equipment for the many DJ's), and a
dancefloor too. Even with only fifty people on a night people dance and are
generally lively and stay out until close. The only drawback is the bars close
at 1AM, but there seems to always be an afterparty every week, as was the week I
was there. It really is nice because you truly get to know people that way.

What I found remarkable was the diversity of music tastes on this night and
Amy encouraged me not to play standards, her goal is to deversify the night and
open it to a variety of musical interests and various alternative and dark
scenes. In fact, I often find on these midsize nights patrons tend to not want
to hear the same overplayed tracks that I hear year after year in some of the
large venues in the bigger cities. Without diversity, a city the size of
Portland would not be able to maintain any underground night. I got to play
pretty much anything I wanted, on great equipment, to very open minded and
complimentary people who danced, very friendly bar staff, and a promoter who is
as lovely outside as she is in. I sold more merchandise at this gig then any
other gig on average per patron I have ever done. That is support!

I know Amy has lots of plans for her night and promotions over the next year.
She is booking bands and welcomes guest DJ's too, in fact, she insists on it. A
new all ages night began in mid November. The website is polished and up to
date. Portland also has some 80's, new wave, and techno style nights. Well worth
a visit to vacationland for the your darker fun too, visit
http://www.gothicmaine.com

Big thanks to Amy and her awesome husband Jamie, who is very supportive and a
big asset for the team. The were wonderful hosts and I encourage anybody out
east to take a roadtrip to New England to check it all out!

Setlist

September 8, 2006 Portland Maine: Plague @ The Asylum

CONETIK: Cold Star (Dead Eyes) Swg mix
URCEUS EXIT: Together (Eroogenous Mix)
WIDEBAND NETWORK: Just Like That (R3volve's Just Like Mike mix)
MONICA SCHROEDER: Everyday (DJ Ram mix)
NEW ORDER: Jetstream (Pete Heller mix)

DAS ICH: Uterus
S.I.T.D.: Relief
HAUJOBB: The Noise Institute (1994 mix by Iszoloscore)
MARK NORMAN: Above
VNV NATION: Beloved (Grey Dawn version)
NEUROTICFISH: Skin (Binary 2002 mix)
COMBICHRIST: I'd Like To Thank My Buddies
GRENDEL: Zombie Nation (2k5 version)
NEGATIVE FORMAT: Echo Chamber
HEADSCAN: Antenna Manifold
INFECTED MUSHROOM: Supervisor
SOMAN: Ruler (extended mix)
TODD TOBIAS: Under One
CHRIS LIEBING: A1 Bang The Brain

September 20, 2006 Indianapolis, Indiana: New Music Night @ The Melody Inn
*CD Release event for Dirt Cheap: Live 75 minute mix of new music by DJ Copper
Top

GABRIEL & DRESDEN: Closer
THE CURE: THe Walk (Infusion mix)
SEABOUND: Traitor (extended version)
GIRLS UNDER GLASS: Dhne Dich (extended)
DIORAMA: The Rich Are All Perverted (Psychno version)
MONICA SCHROEDER: Everyday (DJ Ram mix)
JUNKIE XL: Today
RENAME: Technicolor Girl (Rupesh Cartel's Sodermanland mix)
MESH: This is What You Wanted
TECHNOIR: Silence (DJ Ram mix)
SILICA GEL: Egoista ('XQ' remix)

FERRY CORSTEN: Fire
MINERVE: High Pitched Emotions
SPECTRALIZED: Fame
ROTERSAND: Give It All Away
CAPSIZE: Not Alone (Silica Gel mix)
UNDERWORLD: Moaner

MARK NORMAN: False Vegas
COMBICHRIST: This is TBM
INFECTED MUSHROOM: The Supervisor


October 31, 2006 Indianapolis, Indiana: Electro Faktory @ Therapy
*CD Giveaways thanks to Artoffact Records!!

UNDERWORLD: Moaner
COMBICHRIST: Electrohead
INFECTED MUSHROOM: The Supervisor
MARK SHERRY: Fractured (Sunburst mix)
THE HORRORIST: Body To Body (Slamba mix)
DRACUL: Wahle Die Freiheit (extended version)
FADERHEAD: Basshead
SOMAN: Delta-Pi
HEADSCAN: Antenna Manifold
VNV NATION: Strata
THE AZOIC: Illuminate
CONETIK: Superflous
D:KONSTRUCT: Calling Out Your Name

GABRIEL & DRESDEN: Dangerous Power
TECHNOIR: Manifesto (Delobbo mix)
JUNKIE XL: Today
FERRY CORSTEN: Watch Out (extended mix)
ATB: Humanity (energy club cut)
ROTERSAND: Give It All Away
TRISTRAUM: First Embrace (Amari club mix)
CAPSIZE: Not Alone (Silica Gel mix)
INTERFACE: Clear Night (Sean Tyas melodic intervention)
ERNESTO VS. BASTIAN: Dark Side of The Moon (Dogzilla Pure Filth remix)
ABOVE & BEYOND: Alone Tonight

November 14, 2006 Indianapolis, Indiana: Indy Goth Appreciation Party/Electro
Faktory @ Therapy
featuring Razed In Black, I: Scintella, Form 30, Mister E DJ, DJ Rony, DJ
Zlaya, and DJ Copper Top

( I went kinda synthpop crazy.. love that happy stuff.)

WIDEBAND NETWORK: 30,000 Miles
JUNK CIRCUIT: Heart of Stone
JUNKIE XL: Today
SILICA GEL: Dime Por Que (Briz mix)
EIGHT TO INFINITY: Say You'll Come
FERRY CORSTEN: Watch Out (extended)
RENAME: Around around (Silica Gel mix)
MINERVE: Merge
SPECTRALIZED: Fame
TECHNOIR: Manifesto (Delobbo mix)
ROTERSAND: Give It All Away
PRISTINA: So Alive (Syrian mix)
RHYTHMIC SYMPHONY: Beauty in Dissonance
NEVARAKKA: Magical Moment

OK, thats it! Try to keep these reports to about every other month or so..
that's why they are long! :)

xxoo

Gretchen/DJ Copper Top












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