www.DJRobotCitizen.com
The sections below link to some other ways in which DJ Robot Citizen has been busy promoting the work of many (particularly independent Australian & New Zealand) artists in these music scenes, through:
1) Organising and DJ'ing at 100s of Club & Live Band Nights
2) Interviews and Articles in Music Media
3) Producing & Promoting Compilation Albums of Various Artists
4) Hosting 100s of Radio Shows
But first! ... An introductory ramble: "While compiling this broader A.G.I.M. site I was reminded that I had not documented my own accidental and long 'career' as a DJ and promoter. To begin with, other people talked me in to being a DJ - social groups wanted events and I had a rare big collection of music; back in the expensive days of vinyl & CD albums. And so they persuaded me to provide the music. And that happened again and again over the years. As a musician I thought of DJing as "a little short-term hobby"; as nothing serious that I'd stop doing any day soon; that any gig might be the last one.
However, despite retiring several times, I've DJ'd at ~400 club events and hosted ~500 radio shows. During several peak periods I was DJing at clubs 3-6 nights per month and presenting 4-6 hours of radio per week; for many years in a row. See below for links to pages with lists and imagery (flyers & posters). So with that amount of life given to it - more than ten thousand hours (eeek!) - I suppose I ought to own it. It was "a little short-term hobby" that often took over my life!
Making this archive was a good exercise to accept "well that's what I did with all that time!" And ponder the great big blur of so many nights of good music, zingy lights and hours of dancing among friends - creatures of the night trying to escape the nonsense of the day world. ;]
This archive is also a belated effort to make up for being terrible at "branding" during so many active years of busy-ness. I didn't even have a DJ name for the first several years. That seemed to be a bit too serious for a hobby. And I liked being an anonymous entity who made the music happen from the dark cavelike DJ booths. I cringed-to-the-max at the hype associated with DJing. Eventually I accepted that as the club names often changed, and I was working at several venues, that a DJ title meant people could know who was DJing at different clubs. For several years it was "J. Citizen" because I found that suitably anonymous and amusing. That became DJ Citizen. Under that title I particularly enjoyed the artistic side of making epic cataclysmic multi-track noisey mashup mixes. Later, after some other DJ titles that were used only a few times, I recommenced long-term as "DJ Robot". At that stage I was often playing people's requests or what they otherwise wanted to hear; "dancefloor-fillers" and "crowd-pleasers". So that title seemed apt. Eventually the names merged to "DJ Robot Citizen"...
Oh & BTW, please excuse the switches between first and third person vernacular in this archive. Let's say it's a robot vs citizen conflict thing ... or that I can't be bothered editing it all just now to be consistent ... something to do when I'm ~80 :]"
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CLUB NIGHTS & LIVE BAND EVENTS
- list & history of around 400 of them
These collage images link to the list page which features links to dozens of related images
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MUSIC MEDIA
- Interviews & Articles in Magazines & Newspapers:
i) Interview with DJ Robot (J) Citizen in DRUM Media (Sydney's premier music newspaper/magazine) about promoting the Australian underground dark-alternative-gothic-electronic-industrial music band scene.
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ii) An article titled "Scene Spot: Australia" published in a 2002 issue of Industrial Nation, the premier USA magazine for this subculture.
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iii) A 2016 interview regards: tips for DJing learnt from DJing 100s of club nights over many years; top 5 albums & top 5 songs; some notes about how music-social scenes shift over time and in the example of a small city; about the 'VAMP' club night; amongst related topics... [ Link opens a page from another website ]
iv) These links open images of interviews and articles about DJ Robot Citizen (aka "J.Citizen") as a music producer: ~ the "Sydney Morning Herald" newspaper ... ~ "Chain DLK" a European magazine for the industrial music scene subculture (the editor & interviewer later became a 3-time Grammy Award-winning audio engineer) ... ~ "Cyclic Defrost" Australian electronic music magazine ... ~ "The Canberra Times" newspaper ... ~ "3D World" (Sydney's premier magazine for electronic/dance music and nightclub culture) ... ~ "BMA" - Bands Music Action magazine ... ~ the national "Green Left Weekly" politics newspaper ... among dozens of reviews in many publications.
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COMPILATION ALBUMS
- of underground independent artists
These include:
S.I.N.G.E.D. Volume 2 ANZ
Compilation of Synthwave Industrial Noise Gothic Electro Darkwave
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A.S.I.N.G.E.D.
Compilation of Australian Synthpop Industrial Noise Gothic Electronica Darkwave
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SONGS of PROTEST
Compilation of independent underground Australian Political Protest Music.
Genres: Rock, Punk, Electronica, Industrial, Hip-Hop, Power-Pop, Acoustic.
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ELECTRICITY
Collections of Canberra Electronic Music - numerous artists covering many genres including electronica, industrial, acid, house, psytrance, IDM & EDM (intelligent / electronic dance music), hip-hop, drum and bass, experimental & ambient.
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BLATANT PROPAGANDA
An early custom-burnt CDR collection of independent underground artists in the styles of cyberpunk, gothic, (electro) industrial (metal), darkwave, synth rock, electronica; bands are mostly Australian with two from the USA.
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4. RADIO SHOWS
In all DJ Robot Citizen has presented around 500 radio programs; mostly on Community Radio Station 2XX 98.3 FM. Firstly, of most relevance to this site, here is a link to some of the playlists for the "S.I.N.G.E.D." Dark Alternative Music Radio Show for 2010-2015 ... The show's title refers to the music genres & styles of: Synth-wave/pop/punk/rock - Industrial - Noise - Goth/Gothic - Elektro/E.B.M./Electronica - Darkwave ... The show commenced in 2001. DJ Robot co-founded the program and co-hosted it during 2001-2006 and 2010-2015, either once-a-month or fortnightly = around 130-150 shows.
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DJ Robot's other stints on radio include presenting:
"Sunset" - the 4-6pm drive-time shows, initially Thursdays & then Fridays, for nearly 4 years = around 150-175 radio shows.
"Beatside" - a mix of electronic dance music genres, for 6 years, once-a-month or fortnightly, 7-9pm Saturdays = around 100 radio programs.
The Australian Music Shows titled "Know Your Product" and "Local Anaesthetic", for 8 years, once-a-month or fortnightly, 5-7pm Saturdays = around 100-150 radio programmes.
DJ Robot also served at the radio station in the roles of "promotions & marketing" and as "station manager" during several years.
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5. SOCIAL MEDIA
FWIW I avoided social media until you *had* to be on them to reach people with news about social events. It was belatedly, way after their bell curves, that I adapted some accounts to be "dj robot citizen". That was done to be part of a case study to see which sites are good for ranking certain content in search engine results. That's information I use for other projects. So in the interest of connecting it all up for search engines, and for making it easier for myself to find these different pages in future, here are links to:
- YouTube: DJ Citizen channel - this was an early account made for making playlists for the dozens of artist profile pages on this website. Much later on I named it as "dj citizen" for the sake of branding even though there aren't any dj citizen mixes or music tracks on there. lol. Maybe I'll do that eventually.
- YouTube: DJ Robot Citizen channel - account made in 2016 to add some playlists of recent nightclub sets and occasionally of some more bands/groups I admire. And perhaps just to confuse myself there are also some original aggrotech music tracks that were first made as "DJ Citizen". Eventually there may be some actual mixes of 'dj robot citizen' nightclub sets ... If time ever permits!
- Facebook: www.facebook.com/VAMPcanberra/ - account made in 2013 to promote the 'VAMP' club night started in 2007 and which again went on holiday in 2017. Since then the account has been the general "dj robot citizen" account. Although FB is a relative ghost-town these days.
- Twitter: twitter.com/djRobotCitizen - only joined in 2018 lol; long after it had died; done for the sake of some case study tests and for doing this project some due diligence.
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