I am very happy to start promoting DJs, their club nights and the scene around the world. I will be posting a new club weekly and hope to help the scene out as much as I can by promoting these places and maybe breath some new life into the club scene. The first DJ I am promoting is DJ PSYOP and his venue. If you happen to be in the Seattle area any time, you should go check it out. Click here to check out their facebook page. I am also interviewing the DJs.

Hexfix93: When did you start djing?
DJ PsyOp: I started by guesting for a night called Punishment that had been running for many years. That was about 8 years ago. Jeez, time flies. After having those guest gigs eventually transform into a regular spot about a year later, we decided to rename the night as Fifth Column and start it fresh.

Hexfix93: What is the scene like up there in seattle?
DJ PsyOp: It’s an interesting mix of old-school and new kids drawn in by bands such as VNV Nation & Combichrist. I read that Seattle has the 3rd largest goth population in the US recently, so I guess the scene is pretty big. There are currently 3 clubs having regular (read: more than once a week) goth/industrial nights. The Mercury is the only 7 day a week club anymore though. The old school crowd keeps the scene in business, so you can expect a lot of classics played, mixed with some cutting edge tracks.

Hexfix93: What is the biggest dance song up in seattle?
DJ PsyOp: Ha ha, currently? Bad Romance by Lady Gaga. But apart from that, Military Fashion Show by And One, and Filii Neidhardt by Corvus Corax have been super popular.

Hexfix93: Do you like taking requests?
DJ PsyOp: Generally, yes. It makes it easy to please the audience and helps me know what people are hoping to hear, which isn’t always obvious. That said, I could do with less drunken requests for the same song or band I played ten minutes before….

Hexfix93: If you could change anything about the scene, what would it be?
DJ PsyOp: Less pretension, and more open-mindedness to new music. It boggles my mind that in a scene where literally everybody was open-minded and tried something different from the norm, that they can then trine around and hate on something ‘different’.

Hexfix93: What song do you like playing the most and why?
DJ PsyOp: The one that’s not been heard before and still gets a huge crowd dancing. Currently, I’ve been having fun with Prey on You (Sebastian Komor mix) by I:Scintilla & new Prodigy tracks.

Hexfix93: What do you think about beat mixing?
DJ PsyOp: In industrial music, it’s not as essential to a good mix as other forms of electronic music, but if you don’t learn how to do it, you aren’t really committed to mastering your craft. A good beatmix is awesome on the dance floor.

Hexfix93: Do you use records, cds, or mp3s and computers?
DJ PsyOp: I’m currently a cd guy. Been tempted by Traktor and Serato Scratch Live though.

Hexfix93: Do you use dj software? If so, what and why?
DJ PsyOp: I use Traktor at home to record mixes, and have been seriously considering getting an external interface and switching to that. Need some extra cash first though…

Hexfix93: What is the biggest crowd you have had at your club night?
DJ PsyOp: The last big party we had at the Mercury was a ‘Goth Prom’. It was pretty successful. At one point there was a twenty minute wait to get in. It was fun.

Hexfix93: Do live bands play at this club?
DJ PsyOp: It’s not really set up for live bands, but there is a monthly hardcore noise night called Threat that regularly features top noisecore acts performing live.

Hexfix93: What are you favorite lps?
DJ PsyOp: Aesthetic Perfection – A Violent Emotion, Front Line Assembly – Hardwired, haujobb. – Solutions For A Small Planet, Samael – Eternal, Skinny Puppy – Too Dark Park, Snog – Buy Me, I’ll Change Your Life, Velvet Acid Christ – Fun With Drugs : ), :Wumpscut: – Music For A Slaughtering Tribe. The list could go on & on, but I’m a big EBM/Aggrotech fan.

Hexfix93: Are there any other djs that inspire you?
DJ PsyOp: DJ Shadow, LTJ Bukem, Rexx Arcana.

Hexfix93Anything else you’d like to say?
DJ PsyOp: HOINH!

Thanks again! This has been a honor.

DJ Psyop works Friday night. Below is a playlist:

The Crystal Method – Trip Like I Do
VNV Nation – Chrome (SITD remix)
Covenant – Stalker (Club version)
And One – Military Fashion Show
Suicide Commando – Face Of Death (Blind Rage mix)
Ashbury Heights – Die By Numbers (Agonoize remix)
Agonised By Love – Southern Sun (Single edit)
Tristesse De La Lune – Queen Of The Damned
De/Vision – Drifting Sideways (T.O.Y. Toburger Wald mix)
Skinny Puppy – Testure
The Retrosic – The Storm
Corvus Corax – Filii Neidhardt
David Bowie & Trent Reznor – I’m Afraid Of Americans
Snog – Hooray!!
Apoptygma Berzerk – Starsign
Delerium – Silence (Airscape remix)
Faderhead – Dirtygrrrls Dirtybois
LMFAO – I Am Not A Whore
The Prodigy – Take Me To The Hospital (Losers Middlesex a & e remix)
Syrian – Musika Atomika
Who Da Funk – Shiny Disco Balls
Rob Dougan – Clubbed To Death (Kurayamino Variation)
Rammstein – Stripped (Heavy Mental mix by K.M.F.D.M.)
Gothminister – Happiness In Darkness
The Cure – Just Like Heaven
Wolfsheim – Heroin, She Said
Assemblage 23 – Complacent

The Crystal Method – Dirty Thirty (feat. Peter Hook)
The Prodigy – (Losers Middlesex a & e remix)
De/Vision – Miss You More (Telekommander mix)
VNV Nation – Chrome (SITD remix)
Delerium – Eternal Odyssey
BauMaus – Facefuck Remodulated
Colony 5 – Knives
Cosmicity – Tinnitus (T.O.Y. remix)
Covenant – Bullet
Faithless – Insomnia (Monster mix)
Funker Vogt – Martians On The Moon
Iris – You’re The Answer
LMFAO – I Am Not A Whore
Skinny Puppy – Stairs And Flowers (Too Far Gone)
Velvet Acid Christ – Amnesia
LTJ Bukem – Rhodes To Freedom
My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult – Blue Buddha
K.M.F.D.M. – Save Me
Bush – Mouth (remix)
Hanzel Und Gretyl – Komet Ride
The Chemical Brothers – Star Guitar (Pete Heller mix)
A Perfect Circle – Judith (Danny Lohner remix)
Poe – Wild

All photos taken by Mike Graves.

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