More subdued than the remix, the releases still had the elements I was looking for. Of course, I went out and bought the band’s two albums ( I See Good Spirits and I See Bad Spirits and Confessions of a Knife). Backup singers would incant, “Christian, zombie, vampire,” while lead vocalist Groovie Mann howled, “I am the father, the father of nothing.” It was manic, high-energy and incredibly danceable, as infectious as if you were bitten by said vampire (or Christian or zombie), and as rhythmic and consuming as sex. I like to think of it as “ Hot Lunch” from Fame, but for goths. I had recorded over part of my mother’s Bette Midler album with a remix of their song “ The Days of Swine and Roses.” It was a particularly chaotic 10-minute track with frenetic synths, drunk bass and gritty vocals. The band on their label that piqued my curiosity the most, however, was an outfit from Chicago with the bizarre name of My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult (TKK). So many of my adolescent discoveries were by artists on their roster: Ministry, KMFDM, Front 242, Revolting Cocks. It was a safe bet that a Wax Trax! record would be good. Normally, I didn’t pay too much attention to record labels, but there was one that had a constant place on the charts-Chicago’s Wax Trax! Records, with its bold black-and-white logo of intersecting power lines. Sometimes it was a hit other times it was a miss. Laurent Boulevard-the store from which Rajotte would play the Top 10 bestsellers of the week-and take a gamble on an album. It made me feel alive.īack then, I didn’t have much money to buy music, but when I’d saved up enough from my allowance, I’d head down to Dutchy’s Record Cave on St. At times it was chaotic, surprising and angry other times it was pensive, hypnotic and sad-but above all it was revelatory, like discovering a secret about yourself. The music Rajotte played was different from anything else I’d heard on the radio.

Sometimes it would be blank cassettes I’d fill up with songs other times it would be dusty albums I’d poach from the family collection to record over by placing Scotch Tape on the protective corners (sorry, Kenny Rogers). I’d sit on the floor of my suburban bedroom, in front of my double-deck cassette player with my Record and Play fingers at the ready. For many young queers coming of age in Canada in the 1980s and ’90s, it was Patti Schmidt and CBC Radio’s Brave New Waves who introduced them to alternative music, but for me it was Rajotte, a French-Canadian DJ on Montreal’s CHOM-FM who would play two hours of strange and wonderful music every Monday night and tell me what I should be listening to. Never,never mail anyone your stones to set -no matter how nice they are on the phone.I owe Claude Rajotte a debt of gratitude. Lesson learned-AGAIN-read the entire feedback even if it is 1,000s I read through their entire feedback over 2,000 items and for the most part do well.but there are a few who never got their items.one was a pendant buyer They said by the end of the week last week and now are saying it again. I can only hope they would mail me my stone back now that a case is open on on them for non-receipt of item filed the last possible day to do it. I said no.just send me my stone back and we will cancel the deal.that was not as agreed-I wanted what I bought in the said okay we will do that pendant-weeks later-no pendant-no stone They said it was great and I would like it. Well the pendent is a halo with 8 prongs! I didn't want bezel or I would have bought it about 4 weeks later.no pendant or communication.I contacted them and they said that they were setting the diamonds in it and it would be fabulous and bezel set. They asked me to ship my stone to them for correct mm measurement-the diamond was not worth that much so I put insurance on it and sig verfication and mailed it to them. I know of people who have it and it made sense so I said yes. Paul (the seller) told me on the phone that they didn't make the pendant in yellow gold but he would make one identical with their computer tech/casting. Of course paypal will give it back but here is the deal. I paid for the mount on Jan 10th and as of March 3rd I still have no pendant and my money. I was looking for a pendant semi mount back at Christmas time and found one I really like with traxnyc on ebay.

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