1000 Homo DJs

Side project of industrial music band Ministry April 2021 1000 Homo DJs Chicago, Illinois, U.S. Industrial rock 1988, 1990 Wax Trax! Buck Satan (Al Jourgensen) Officer Agro Ike Krull (Mike Scaccia) Wee Willie Reefer (Bill Rieflin) Viva Nova Count Ringworm (Jello Biafra) Trent Reznor (uncredited) 1000 Homo DJs was a side project of American industrial rock band Ministry. The project released two singles, one of which featured a cover of Black Sabbath's "Supernaut".https://www.vice.com/en/article/rank-your-records-wax-trax-records-julia-nash/ Wax Trax! Records' Julia Nash Ranks Her Ten Favorite Releases 2011-04-19 2021-08-16 Noisy Terry Josh live https://web.archive.org/web/20201108000834/https://www.vice.com/en/article/a3xwpk/rank-your-records-wax-trax-records-julia-nash November 8, 2020 1000 Homo DJs began as a side project to release outtakes from Ministry's The Land of Rape and Honey. The credits read "Another Luxa/Pan Production", which was the production pseudonym for Ministry members Al Jourgensen and Paul Barker.Greene Jo-Ann April 2, 1993 Ministry Goldmine 19 7 (331) 32, 38 1055-2685 Prongs.org archive32 Origin of name Two different stories explaining the band's name have circulated, both involving Jourgensen and Wax Trax! Records executive Jim Nash. In the notes for the 1994 box set Black Box, a story is related that Jourgensen disapproved of an unauthorized dance remix of the song "We Shall Cleanse the World" from Revolting Cocks' debut album Big Sexy Land. Nash jokingly comforted Jourgensen, saying the remix would only be heard by "a thousand homo DJs".Blackbox - WaxTrax! Records: The First 13 Years Wax Trax! Records 1994 37 CD booklet TVT Records Chicago, Il. In a 2004 interview, Concert Review: Ministry Orlando CityBeat Pollstar April 2, 1993 http://www.pollstar.com/resultsVenue.aspx?CommentPageIndex=1549#bottom February 16, 2017 https://web.archive.org/web/20050315214245/http://www.pollstar.com/reviews/reviews.cgi?Page=Detail&Artist=MINIST&Post=464&Sort=PerformanceDate#bottom March 15, 2005 dead Jourgensen explained that he played some demo recordings for Nash, who disliked the music and stated: "No one's gonna buy this. It'll take one thousand homo DJs to play this for one person to buy it." Members The members of 1000 Homo DJs were identified by pseudonyms in the CD liner notes. However, most of their identities are fairly certain. Buck Satan: Al JourgensenMasuo Sandy January–February 1996 Ministry: It's Not Easy Being Mean Option: Music Culture 66 66–73 0882-178X73 Officer Agro: speculated to be Jeff Ward, 1000 Homo DJs http://prongs.org/ministry/homo August 13, 2007 https://web.archive.org/web/20070808090808/http://www.prongs.org/ministry/homo August 8, 2007 but possibly Paul Barker or Martin Atkins 1000 Homo DJs: The Players http://www.nodevotion.com/ohdjs/players.html August 13, 2007 https://web.archive.org/web/20070928093204/http://www.nodevotion.com/ohdjs/players.html September 28, 2007 Ike Krull: Mike Scaccia The Temple of Drool Choir: Mike O'Connell, Wes Kidd, Brian St. Clair, Herb Rosen, Joe Kelly, David "Slash" Weidman, Jerry Rodgers Wee Willie Reefer: William Rieflin Viva Nova: also known as Mel'Amour and P.A.M., and later known as Vivanovachicago, but often misidentified as Patty Jourgensen Count Ringworm: Jello Biafra Trent Reznor's involvement The nature of Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor's contribution to 1000 Homo DJs' records has been debated. What is certain is that Reznor recorded the original vocals for "Supernaut". This performance was not officially used because Reznor's label, TVT Records, refused to allow his appearance on the release.Bains Jon Nine Inch Nails Convulsion http://www.obsolete.com/convulsion/interviews/convulse/1.5.html August 13, 2007 https://web.archive.org/web/20070927045622/http://www.obsolete.com/convulsion/interviews/convulse/1.5.html September 27, 2007 Reznor's version would ultimately be released as "Supernaut (Trent Reznor Vocal Version)" by TVT four years later on the retrospective Black Box - Wax Trax! Records: The First 13 Years, following TVT's purchase of Wax Trax!. Jourgensen's immediate response to TVT's ultimatum is uncertain. An oft-repeated story tells that instead of recording new vocals, Jourgensen merely ran Reznor's performance through a distortion effect to mask its identity. Nine Inch Nails Biography music.yahoo.com http://music.yahoo.com/ar-259781-bio--Nine-Inch-Nails October 22, 2007 TVT ordered Reznor's vocals removed from ["Supernaut"], but Jourgensen actually just altered them slightly and said he'd re-recorded it. https://web.archive.org/web/20071009083603/http://music.yahoo.com/ar-259781-bio--Nine-Inch-Nails October 9, 2007 Ministry FAQ: 1000 Homo DJs http://www.prongs.org/minfiles/faq/faq.html#1000 October 22, 2007 No matter what you hear, Trent sings on all the versions of Supernaut out there. ... Al went back into the studios and just distorted Trent's vocals to confuse the lawyers, label and so on... According to this story, every WaxTrax! recording of "Supernaut" contains Reznor's vocals. However, a dissenting group claims this is an urban legend, and that Jourgensen did record new vocals for the EP—albeit in a similar style to Reznor's initial performance. Statements made by both Reznor and Jourgensen seem to confirm the latter view. In a 1992 Prodigy post regarding "Supernaut", Reznor said, [I] finally told Al to redo it without me. The version that Wax Trax put out is Al, the version on the NIN bootleg single is me. Trent Reznor's Posts on Prodigy November 8, 1991 The Nine Inch Nails Article Archive http://www.theninhotline.net/archives/articles/manager/display_article.php?id=327 2007-11-07 https://web.archive.org/web/20071113143803/http://www.theninhotline.net/archives/articles/manager/display_article.php?id=327 13 November 2007 Reznor referred to the two-track Suck bootleg, which contained the recording of "Supernaut" that later appeared on Black Box. Jourgensen made a similar statement in a 2003 interview. When asked whose vocals appear on "Supernaut", Jourgensen replied, referring to the WaxTrax! EP, Black Box, and Greatest Fits versions, respectively (and corroborating that only the "Trent Reznor Vocal Version" contained Reznor's performance, and that Jourgensen in fact sang on most versions of the song): That would be me on the original, on WaxTrax! The later version released on TVT was Trent Reznor... then the remixed version had my vocals on it. Warren James Ministry Interview: 20 Questions with Al Jourgensen ministrymusic.org (official Ministry website) via Internet Archive 2003-05-21 http://www.ministrymusic.org/interviews/james.php4 2007-08-13 https://web.archive.org/web/20070313071503/http://www.ministrymusic.org/interviews/james.php4 2007-03-13 Discography Singles "Apathy" 12" single (1988, Wax Trax! Records) "Supernaut" 12" single/CD single (1990, Wax Trax! Records) Compilation appearances "Supernaut" on Pure Devotion (1992, Devotion) "Supernaut (Trent Reznor Vocal Version)" on Black Box - Wax Trax! Records: The First 13 Years (1994, Wax Trax! Records) "Supernaut" on Nativity in Black: Tribute to Black Sabbath (1994, Columbia Records) "Supernaut" on Moshpit Madness (1994, SPG Music Productions Ltd.) "Supernaut" on The Black Bible (1998, Cleopatra Records) "Supernaut" (remixed) on Ministry's Greatest Fits (2001, Warner Bros. Records) "Supernaut" on Hardest Hits - Modern Rock of the 80s (2003, SPG Music Productions Ltd.) "Apathy", "Supernaut", "Better Ways" and "Hey Asshole" on Ministry's Side Trax (2004, Rykodisc) "Supernaut" (remixed) on Ministry & Co-Conspirators' Cover Up (2008, 13th Planet Records) "Apathy", "Supernaut", "Better Ways", "Hey Asshole", "Supernaut (Trent Vocal)" and "Supernaut (Dub Mix)" on Ministry's Trax! Box (2014, Cleopatra Records) "Supernaut (Die Krupps Remix)" on Occult Box (2015, Cleopatra Records) References 1 External links Discography and artist page at CyberNoise Category:Musical groups established in 1988 Category:Musical groups disestablished in 1990 Category:1988 establishments in Illinois Category:1990 disestablishments in Illinois Category:American industrial rock musical groups Category:Trent Reznor Category:Wax Trax! Records artists