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seedarklyxeroWelcome to SeeDarkly Sunday DisCOVERies:
a weekly exploration of goth, industrial, & dark alternative cover songs!
First time here? Click here for details from first entry.
Normally I reserve this time of each month for a down tempo track as a feature I call "Second Sunday Slowly." However this month I'd like to use the featured cover as a way to ask you to support an important cause and the relevant track is anything but down-tempo.
Cancer is a devastating disease that has affected many of us. If someone close to us hasn't had it, chances are someone close to them has. While there are many survivors, there are still a troubling amount people afflicted and suffering.
This past Friday marks the release of the fourth in a series of compilations featuring hundreds of industrial artists donating music to support organizations that deal with cancer. It includes a cover of an obscure industrial track that serves as both tribute and inspiration:
Cancerface - Disease (Insight 23)
Electronic Saviors: Industrial Music to Cure Cancer is a project conceived by Jim Semonik, a DJ, musician, and promoter who was diagnosed with the disease in 2008. So diagnosed and in the beginning stages of treatment, he sought out artists and industry friends willing to contribute to the effort and gathered over 80 tracks for the first compilation in 2010. The second, released in 2012, featured over a hundred tracks. Despite the fact that his doctors have pronounced him cancer-free as of September 2013, Semonik has continued to champion the cause and, with the three previous compilations, has raised over $50,000 for Our Clubhouse and other cancer-based charitable organizations.
Electronic Saviors IV: Retaliation was launched on Friday, featuring yet another hundred-plus original tracks and remixes. Among them is a track covered by Semonik with his band, Cancerface, a collaboration with Wade Alin of Christ Analogue and ChemLab.
The track, Disease, was the only single released by the industrial band Insight 23, from their only album, Obsess, both released in 1994. The track was later included on Industrial War: The Agony And The Ecstasy Of Industrial Music, a compilation released in 1997. By then, lead singer Blayne Alexander had gone on to join Idiot Stare, (who did a remix of UCNX's "The Innocent" that was included on the second of the Electronic Savior comps.) Alexander did seven records with Idiot Stare, with whom he was a member until May of 2015, when he passed away due to cancer.
Cancerface's cover of Disease is unironically a passionate tribute to Alexander, perfect as a way to honor his memory; drawing on and revitalizing an obscure track from his past to benefit those struggling with the very thing that took him from friends, family, and fans.
This appears to be the only cover on Retaliation and the only other cover in the entire collection appears to be God Module's cover of The Great Commandment by Camouflage on the second compilation. However, please consider taking the time to listen to the rest of the latest collection and seek out the others if so inspired. 100% of proceeds for purchase of any of them go to charity:
The Cover:
The Original:
Next week:
Third Sunday Throwback... with a cover from the 20th century!
It's a case of "who done it!" (Of course, the "Butler" did!) ^_^
Comments, suggestions, discussions, etc... welcome!
I spin next in two weeks in Cambridge, Mass.
Check my schedule for details and join if you can!
Explore the darkness,
-Xero
Previous DisCOVERies
June 05 - Microwaved - Obsession (Michael Des Barres & Holly Knight)
May 29 - Depeche Mode - Dirt (The Stooges)
May 22 - Dust Heaven - Dark (Gary Numan)
May 15 - Soft Cell - Tainted Love (Gloria Jones)
May 08 - Sonik Foundry - Mama (Genesis)
Directory of All DisCOVERies
a weekly exploration of goth, industrial, & dark alternative cover songs!
First time here? Click here for details from first entry.
Normally I reserve this time of each month for a down tempo track as a feature I call "Second Sunday Slowly." However this month I'd like to use the featured cover as a way to ask you to support an important cause and the relevant track is anything but down-tempo.
Cancer is a devastating disease that has affected many of us. If someone close to us hasn't had it, chances are someone close to them has. While there are many survivors, there are still a troubling amount people afflicted and suffering.
This past Friday marks the release of the fourth in a series of compilations featuring hundreds of industrial artists donating music to support organizations that deal with cancer. It includes a cover of an obscure industrial track that serves as both tribute and inspiration:
Cancerface - Disease (Insight 23)
Electronic Saviors: Industrial Music to Cure Cancer is a project conceived by Jim Semonik, a DJ, musician, and promoter who was diagnosed with the disease in 2008. So diagnosed and in the beginning stages of treatment, he sought out artists and industry friends willing to contribute to the effort and gathered over 80 tracks for the first compilation in 2010. The second, released in 2012, featured over a hundred tracks. Despite the fact that his doctors have pronounced him cancer-free as of September 2013, Semonik has continued to champion the cause and, with the three previous compilations, has raised over $50,000 for Our Clubhouse and other cancer-based charitable organizations.
Electronic Saviors IV: Retaliation was launched on Friday, featuring yet another hundred-plus original tracks and remixes. Among them is a track covered by Semonik with his band, Cancerface, a collaboration with Wade Alin of Christ Analogue and ChemLab.
The track, Disease, was the only single released by the industrial band Insight 23, from their only album, Obsess, both released in 1994. The track was later included on Industrial War: The Agony And The Ecstasy Of Industrial Music, a compilation released in 1997. By then, lead singer Blayne Alexander had gone on to join Idiot Stare, (who did a remix of UCNX's "The Innocent" that was included on the second of the Electronic Savior comps.) Alexander did seven records with Idiot Stare, with whom he was a member until May of 2015, when he passed away due to cancer.
Cancerface's cover of Disease is unironically a passionate tribute to Alexander, perfect as a way to honor his memory; drawing on and revitalizing an obscure track from his past to benefit those struggling with the very thing that took him from friends, family, and fans.
This appears to be the only cover on Retaliation and the only other cover in the entire collection appears to be God Module's cover of The Great Commandment by Camouflage on the second compilation. However, please consider taking the time to listen to the rest of the latest collection and seek out the others if so inspired. 100% of proceeds for purchase of any of them go to charity:
The Cover:
The Original:
Next week:
Third Sunday Throwback... with a cover from the 20th century!
It's a case of "who done it!" (Of course, the "Butler" did!) ^_^
Comments, suggestions, discussions, etc... welcome!
I spin next in two weeks in Cambridge, Mass.
Check my schedule for details and join if you can!
Explore the darkness,
-Xero
Previous DisCOVERies
June 05 - Microwaved - Obsession (Michael Des Barres & Holly Knight)
May 29 - Depeche Mode - Dirt (The Stooges)
May 22 - Dust Heaven - Dark (Gary Numan)
May 15 - Soft Cell - Tainted Love (Gloria Jones)
May 08 - Sonik Foundry - Mama (Genesis)
Directory of All DisCOVERies