1000 Homo DJs

1000 Homo DJs
Origin	Chicago, Illinois, USA
Genres	Industrial rock
Years active	1988, 1990
Labels	WaxTrax!
Associated acts	Ministry
Past members	Buck Satan Officer Agro Ike Krull Wee Willie Reefer Viva Nova Count Ringworm

1000 Homo DJs was a side project of industrial music band Ministry. The project was best known for a cover of Black Sabbath's "Supernaut", released by 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. The credits read "Another Luxa/Pan Production", which was the production pseudonym for Ministry members Al Jourgensen and Paul Barker.

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

Trent Reznor's contribution to "Supernaut" (see below) was uncredited.

In a 2004 interview, Jourgensen explained that when he played demos (presumably those which became Apathy) for Wax Trax! co-owner Jim Nash, Nash replied, "No one's gonna buy this. It'll take one thousand homo DJs to play this for one person to buy it."

However, according to the Wax Trax! box set Black Box released in 1994, Jourgensen and Nash were in the label's office listening to an unauthorized remix of the Revolting Cocks' single "We Shall Cleanse the World". Nash comforted Jourgensen, who disapproved of the remix's existence, by assuring him that it would only ever be heard by "a thousand homo DJs."

The nature of 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!.

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