1000 Homo DJs

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1000 Homo DJs is a side-project band of industrial musican 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 [1].

1 Members
2 Origin of name
3 Trent Reznor's involvement
4 Discography
- 4.1 Releases
- 4.2 Compliation appearances
5 See also

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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 [2], but possibly Paul Barker or Martin Atkins [3]
Ike Krull: Mike Scaccia
Wee Willie Reefer: William Rieflin
Viva Nova: likely Pamela Manning (stage name Viva Nova) [4], but often claimed as Patty Jourgensen [5]
Count Ringworm: Jello Biafra

Trent Reznor's possible contribution to "Supernaut" (see below) is uncredited. However, many speculate that the Temple of Drool Choir credited on Supernaut's b-side, "Hey Asshole", refers to Reznor because of the parenthetical qualifier, "You Know Who You Are" (cf. track 5 on Head Like a Hole).

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Origin of name

In a 2004 interview (text on pollstar.com), 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."

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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 [6]. Reznor's version would ultimately be officially released by TVT Records on the Black Box retrospective of Wax Trax! Records, released in 1994 after TVT's purchase of Wax Trax!.

Jourgensen's immediate response to TVT's ultimatum is uncertain. An oft-quoted story is that instead of recording new vocals, Jourgensen merely ran Reznor's performance through a distortion effect to mask its identity (Ministry FAQ, yahoo.com NIN bio). According to this version, every recording of the song contains Reznor's vocals. However, a dissenting group claims this is an urban legend.

Although the vocal on the released version is very similar to Reznor's vocal style, the dissenters claim that the inflection and accent of the voice is that of Al Jourgensen. Jourgensen seems to confirm this view 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 (12") remixed version had my vocals on it." This corroborates that Reznor's vocals only appear on the Black Box set (i.e. "[t]he later version released on TVT") and Jourgensen in fact sings on most versions of the song. The TVT released track with Reznor's vocal has a similar vocal quality but a slightly different approach to the melody than Jourgensens version. It is possible he intentionally mimicked aspects of Reznors performance.

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