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Perdición's Diva Alien Abduction <Wicky Wacky Woo>

[An Interview with djPerdición]

[Brilliant yet of questionable moral repute, djPerdición, nicknamed "The Villain" is a wild card, a DJ on the loose.  Perdición continues to gain momentum–like a tumbling avalanche or frightening tornado.  Despite the DJ's nightly gambits and other plotting, you'll have the time of your life and be "beaten" to within inches of it.

It was hard to maneuver my way through the Rites Ball 2021 NYC pre party mayhem.  I held out a fifty and cornered a cute, curvy blond who had the following to say,

"This DJ has a mean streak as wide as the Grand Canyon.  He takes you on a sonic ride and fucks with your head...and it feels so good.  And it's like pure adrenaline, scary and beautiful.  I like a guy who makes good on his threats."

"What?" I asked.  Then she ran off.

Afterward in the ensuing crowd, I made my way to an empty lounge.  I saw small billows of smoke leading me to the DJ.

"Sorry, I couldn't find you," I said out of breath.

"Never say you're sorry unless you do something wrong.  Get to know me, then you'll really be sorry," he chuckled and then said innocently,

"I'm really very gentle–with gentle people, that is." 

"What's your secret?" I asked Perdición.

"I use a phase-shifting flange mixing technique I learned on quartz modified turntables.  I rarely use sync, it fucks up the sound.  I program music while performing-- I'm spontaneous but never random.  Let me be clear, a DJ must program not be apathetic to a myriad of factors constantly presenting. Think of driving.  You can be taught the skill but not the instinct and knowingness."

With his classically trained pianist's ear, Perdición's musical sensibility has the power to demolish the competition.  "Listen to the words," admonishes the DJ.  "They're there for a reason."

"Tell me about your name and how it came about?"

"I was hanging out with a friend from Columbia, brainstorming.  I (Perdición) am like a vessel with no origin and no destination.  I ever move but am not really there.  My dance floor is a means to the only place one can go.  That is within.  And the name sounded cool at the moment, he smiled.  Max and I had a good laugh about it."

David's ability to people watch and deliver musically is unmatched.  He follows his instincts with skill befitting a reputation for luring his audiences into an altered state and uncertain fate.  His counterintuitive style has emerged as one of the foremost in tech music with intelligent conceptual execution and a keen attention to people.  Says Perdición, "The crowd takes the DJ on a journey not the other way around." 

"A lot of the job is people watching, not jumping up and down, dancing in the booth like some of my dubious contemporaries.  Have good posture at all times while working", admonishes Perdición.

His first residency was at the notoriously named Club 9-11 in Chelsea, MA, followed by a 3 year residency at the late leather man's dance club- The Yukon Trading Company in Providence, RI.  It was there that Marshall found his footing and began to rise.  In Providence, the DJ wowed crowds in this sleepy college town, promos in hand of Nu NRG, Trance, Techno, and Progressive house.  The young Perdición created a new dance floor for forward thinking elders and snatched curious young men from the grip of local clubland mediocrity.

"Tell me about the Yukon", I asked.

"It closed years ago, probably the last of the leather clubs with a dance floor.  I loved it of course but I don't have a shred of evidence I ever worked there because they never billed the DJ."  Everybody said my bosses were assholes but funny, I was the one with the gig.  In retrospect, I think they all really just wanted me to fail and get my job.

Perdición was invited to New York City by then longtime friends Steven Hanson and NYC Eagle's former manager, Richard Smith, partner of the late lighting legend Richard Sabala.  In NYC venues include: The Eagle (old and new), Splash, 10th Ave Lounge, Hangar, LGBTQ Center, Recovery NYC, and Harry Winston.  However, these define a past in need of movement forward.

After years of hard work in the big apple, Marshall caught the attention of world renowned DJ-producer-record label owner Georgios Pallikaris (G.Pal) of Utopia Music Concept, Best Radio, (Greece) and Swift records.  Marshall continues to work on production with the musical legend.


[Seeking PR/Social Media management and bookings at club/lounge/private events in New York City and internationally]
Email: djdavidmarshall@gmail.com
Cell: (929) 401-6685]