Thomas Thyssen

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Thomas Thyssen (born October 6, 1978 ) is a German DJ , music journalist , musician and concert promoter of the black scene .

Life

Thyssen grew up in Kleve and entered the black scene in the early 1990s through his brother Ralf. In the fall of 1992 he successfully applied to the music magazine Sub Line as a journalist by tricking Mike Litt into believing he was of legal age. Until the magazine was discontinued, he wrote for the magazine. An interview with Andrew Eldritch remained unpublished due to the magazine's discontinuation.

Since then he has written articles for Orkus , Sonic Seducer and Zillo and is now the editor-in-chief of Gothic magazine . So he worked for the four best-known scene magazines in Germany today. He has also written for English-language magazines and co-authored several books on the black scene.

Thyssen also appeared as a musician and from 1994 was a member of the gothic rock band Capital Hell . He played drums as well as synthesizers and was the author of some of the band's lyrics. Thyssen was involved in both of the band's CD releases. In 1998 the band broke up because the members did not agree on the musical path to take. Thyssen is now no longer active as a musician.

As a DJ he played in the Bochum discotheque incident , where he and his brother had organized the Pagan Love Songs party series since 1999 , which specialized in original gothic and wave music, while techno- influenced music at most of the competing events how future pop prevailed. The successful party series made Thyssen known nationwide. Bands such as Cinema Strange , Diva Destruction and The Deep Eynde played their first concerts in Europe as part of the Pagan Love Songs . Also, Faith and the Muse , Gitane Demone and Pink Turns Blue occurred there. Thomas and Ralf Thyssen also put together compilations for the party series and organized festivals.

Since 2007 the Pagan Love Songs have only taken place irregularly because both Thyssen and his brother have moved away from the Ruhr area.

In addition to other events, Thomas Thyssen also regularly plays at the Wave-Gotik-Treffen in Leipzig . Today he lives in Berlin.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Thomas Thyssen: Coincidences, Fate and the Trappings in Peter Matzke, Tobias Seeliger (ed.): Gothic 3 , Schwarzkopf and Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-89602-700-X , pp. 101-109
  2. ↑ Interview ( Memento of the original from December 21, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the-spine.de, May 24, 2009 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.the-spine.de
  3. ↑ a b c Interview on blacklive.de
  4. ↑ a b c Peter Matzke, Tobias Seeliger: The Gothic and Dark Wave Lexicon. Schwarzkopf and Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-89602-522-8 , p. 614
  5. ↑ a b c d e Interview ( Memento of the original from January 16, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the-spine.de, May 24, 2009 (part 2) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.the-spine.de
  6. ↑ Stories of Passion and Seriousness at Discogs
  7. ↑ Vow of Tension at Discogs
  8. ↑ Matzke / Seeliger 2003, p. 85
  9. ↑ Thomas Thyssen, Pagan Love Songs . terrorizer.com, March 16, 2011
  10. ↑ Thomas Clausen: Pagan Love Songs  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.sonic-seducer.de   . CD review in Sonic Seducer 11/2004
personal data
SURNAME Thyssen, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German DJ, music journalist, musician and concert promoter
DATE OF BIRTH October 6, 1978