1000 Homo DJs Biography

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Biography 1000 Homo DJs

1000 Homo DJs is a side project band of industrial musician Al Jourgensen. It is best known for its cover of Black Sabbath's "Supernaut." The band recorded on famous industrial label Wax Trax! Records.

1000 Homo DJs began as a side project to release outtakes from Ministry's The Land of Rape and Honey.

Members

The members of 1000 Homo DJs are identified by pseudonyms in the CD liner notes. However, the identities of most members are fairly certain.

Buck Satan: Al Jourgensen
Officer Agro: speculated to be Jeff Ward, but possibly Paul Barker or Martin Atkins
- Ike Krull: Mike Scaccia
- Wee Willie Reefer: William Rieflin
- Viva Nova: likely Pamela Manning (stage name Viva Nova),x but often claimed as Patty Jourgensenx
  - Count Ringworm: Jello Biafra
  Trent Reznor's possible contribution to "Supernaut" (see below) is uncredited.
  
  Origin of name
  In a 2004 interview, Jorgensen explained that when he played demos (presumably those which became ''Apathy'') for Wax Trax! co-owner Jim Nash, Nash replied, "No one's gonna play this, it's gonna take a thousand homo DJs to play this for anyone to buy it."
  
  ==Trent Reznor's involvement==The nature of 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. 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'' after 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. 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,
  [1] finally told Al to redo it without me. The version that Wax Trax put out is Al, the version on the NIN (bootleg, i might add) single is me.
  Reznor refers to the two-track ''Suck'' bootleg, which contains 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,
  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.
  referring to the WaxTrax! EP, ''Black Box'', and ''Greatest Fits'' versions, respectively. This corroborates that only the Trent Reznor Vocal Version contains Reznor's performance, and Jourgensen in fact sings on most versions of the song.
  
  Discography
  
  Releases
  - Apathy (1988, 12" single)
  - Supernaut (1990, 12" single, CD EP). CDEP includes the Apathy single.
  Compilation appearances
  - V/A - The First 13 Years (1994).
  - V/A - Tribute to Black Sabbath (1994)."
  - Ministry - Greatest Fits (2001).
  - Ministry - Side Trax (2004).
  References
  
  See also
  Revolting Cocks, Lard, Acid Horse, PTP, Pailhead
  
  Industrial music groupsMusical groups established in 1988Musical groups disestablished in 1990
  
  1000 Homo DJs