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About Me

Hello, my dear and esteemed friends, and welcome to my site. I find it a bit embarrassing to talk about myself, but if you must know, here is a little about me... I was born in San Francisco and spent the first part of my life in the Bay Area, but now reside in the beautiful Northwest. Yes, it rains a lot up here, but the trade off is it is nice and green with lots of nature, good skiing, lots of rivers/lakes etc. My favorite place in the world is Manhattan and my best friend lives there so I visit often and lived there for a brief while. I love to travel. In college I did an exchange program in Germany in a town just outside of Stuttgart called Tubingen (greatest time of my life!), attended summer school at Cambridge U in the UK, worked on a fishing boat out of Dutch Harbor, Alaska on the high Bering Sea to earn money for school, and have traveled to many parts of Europe. Also I have traveled around Japan as well and am enamored with Japanese culture. So I have seen a bit of the world, but never enough... I am attracted to all things dark: music, humor, literature, film, theater, weather, clothes, etc. and am a huge fan of people who dare to be different, and tend to like and gravitate toward artistic people that don't quite "fit in" to the main stream culture. You know who you are, and I am one of you. I am sort of a geek, and love computers, gaming, gadgets, electronics, toys, and am naturally a kid at heart and probably quite immature, but I don't care... By day I am an account manager for the world's largest software company, by night my favorite thing to do is to hang out with friends at clubs and dance, drink, and hear amazing sounds. MUSIC IS MY PASSION and I spend massive amounts of time collecting and listening to some pretty amazing and often times obscure stuff from around the world. I have spent a lifetime in search of more and more, and my thirst is never quenched!!! TRANCE (mainly uplifting, vocal, and progressive) is my true inspiration, but I also enjoy Deep and Progressive House, EBM, Industrial, Darkwave, Synthpop, Techno, Drum and Bass, 80's New Wave & industrial, and Goth. My main objective with this site is to meet new people with similar interests, especially music, and to be able to provide ways for interested people to hear my dj sets. I currently have stuff being played on "Trance Euphoria" on Live365, and "Trancelucent Radio" at www.beatmixing.com, and also try to keep my Podcast updated with my latest mixes for you to listen to or download, and I can send out promo CD's as well (not for sale) if you are interested. I keep a running list of my playlists on my blogs. [see my blogs "ICED TRANCE" and "HEATSEEKER" above for a complete listing and of my current projects] Also I would like to find out more about DJ's, music, bands, artists, and the local music scene for shows, etc. Lastly, I am very interested in the DJ scene and am looking for opportunities to DJ TRANCE or EBM sets. Please contact me here or at [email protected] if you would like more information or demo discs. MyGen Profile Generator

My Interests

LISTEN TO OR DOWNLOAD DJMARKO TRANCE/EDM MIXES:
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"TRANCE EUPHORIA" on Live365 and "TRANCELUCENT" on MixMeister Radio are two excellent Trance Internet Radio Stations where you can hear my current mixes as well as those of my talented DJ friends. Click on either banner to be connected!!!

I'd like to meet:

Interesting individuals and artistic people, who are into: alternative electronica/techno/industrial/synthpop/goth, the DJ scene, the club/dance scene, recruiting friends to come check out their bands/shows/art/etc., and/or are looking for friends to hang out with or communicate with in some fashion, local or globally.

Music:

Tiesto, Paul Oakenfold, Paul van Dyk, Ronski Speed, Armin van Buuren, Christopher Lawrence, Ferry Corsten, Mirco de Govia, Mark Otten, Matt Darey, Marcus Schulz, Lange, Redd Square, Smith & Pledger, Gabriel & Desden, Above and Beyond, Drax and Scott Mac, John Digweed, Darren Tate, DJ Sasha, Perry O'Niel, The Thrillseekers, Kyau vs. Albert, Andy Moor, Blank & Jones, Dave Pearce, ATB, BT, Binary Finary, Deepsky, DJ Doboy, DJ Irish, Svenson & Gielen, Reflekt, Fragma, Andy Moor, Kay Cee, G.T., Dogzilla, Nu NRG, Deep Dish, Whirlpool, Art of Trance, Aly & Fila, Hiver & Hammer, Solid Globe, Whiteroom, Way Out West, Lost Witness, Double N, Sunburst, Riva, Menno de Jong, DJ Sammy, Solar Stone, Aurora, Corderoy, Martin Roth, And One, Neuroactive, Seabound, Apoptygma Berzerk, Covenant, XPQ-21, Haujobb, De/Vision, Pressure Penetration, Din Fiv, Informatic, Aiboforcen, 16 Volt, Ohgr, Aghast View, Lycia, KMFDM, MDKFM, Das Ich, [Active] Media Disease, NIN, Razed In Black, Clan of Xymox, Terrorfakt, Andraculoid, Bruderschaft, Crüxshadows, Dust of Basement, Funker Vogt, Velvet Acid Christ, Beborn Beton, VNV Nation, Icon of Coil, B! Machine, Electro Synthetic Rebellion, In Strict Confidence, Negative Format, Colony 5, Oomph!, Mentallo & the Fixer, Rammstein, Suicide Commando, Stromkern, Run Level Zero, Lost Signal, Assemblage 23, Computer Girl, Battery Cage, Claire Voyant, Imperative Reaction, Fiendflug, Fockewolf, Melotron, Project Pitchfork, God Module, The Retrosic, Accessory, Neurotic Fish, CombiChrist, Autechre, Ladytron, Funkervogt, Cesium 137, Snake Skin, Sneaky Bat Machine, Goteki, Cut.Rate.Box, Dismantled, Hocico, Angels and Agony, Wumpscut Bauhaus, Depeche Mode, Peter Murphy, Love and Rockets, Front 242, In the Nursery, Tones on Tail, Death In June, HULA, The The, Christian Death, Front Line Assembly, Skinny Puppy, Severed Heads, X-Mal Deutschland, Clock DVA, Coil, Dead Can Dance, Dif Juz, Ministry, This Mortal Coil, The Cure, Alien Sex Fiend, The Sisterhood, Cocteau Twins, Sigue Sigue Sputnik, Joy Division, New Order, Electronic, The Smiths, The Chameleons, Cabaret Voltaire, David J, U2, Simple Minds, Martin L. Gore, Fad Gadget, Wang Chung, Morrissey, Klinik, Tears for Fears, And Also the Trees, Gary Numan, Tubeway Army, Wolfgang Press, Bronsky Beat, Glove, The Neon Judgement, The Sisters of Mercy, Nitzer Ebb, Information Society, Low Life, Die Krupps, Camouflage, Pet Shop Boys, Propaganda, Boytronic, U-Bahn X, Japan, Duran Duran, Thomas Dolby, Psychadelic Furs, Howard Jones, When in Rome, Peter Gabriel, Killing Joke, Shriekback, Chris and Cosey, Alphaville, A-Ha, Simple Minds, Naked Eyes, David Sylvian, Dali's Car, Mick Karn, Pixies, Frank Black, Siouxsie and the Banshees, David Bowie Jacob's Optical Stairway, Global Communication, Aphex Twin, Biosphere, Photek, Boards of Canada, Plaid, Sun Electric Kruder & Dorfmeister, Suba, Bebel Gilberto, Massive Attack, Alpha, DJ Hed Kandi, Schmoov!, Blue States, Jimpster, "Ambient Lounge" series Blur, The Charlatans UK, Ride, Oasis, Interpol, Foo Fighters, The Dandy Warhols, My Bloody Valentine, Lush, Suede, Stone Roses, Swervedriver, Catherine Wheel, Kent MyGen Profile Generator

Movies:

Office Space, Harold and Maude, Dagon, Uzimaki, Desperate Living, Female Trouble, Pink Flamingos, Shark Skin Man Peach Hip Girl, Amelie, City of Lost Children, Delicatessen, Brazil, Lost in Translation, Napoleon Dynamite, Repo Man, Rushmore, The Royal Tennenbaums, Bottlerocket, The Life Aquatic, The Big Lebowski, Raising Arizona, Happy Texas, Blue Velvet, Apartment Zero, Barton Fink, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch, Eraserhead, The Pink Panther (all), Liquid Sky, The Nightmare Before Christmas, James & the Giant Peach, Corpse Bride, 16 Candles, Breakfast Club, Pretty In Pink, Spririted Away, Princess Mononoke, Howl's Moving Castle, Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, Naked Gun, House of 1000 Corpses, Ju-On, Evil Dead 1, Evil Dead 2, Army of Darkness, Das Boat, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Blade Runner (director's cut), Raiders of the Lost Ark, Schindler's List, Saving Private Ryan, Dead Alive, Bad Taste, Meet the Feebles, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Harry Potter (all) MyGen Profile Generator

Television:

My current favorite show is The Office. Can't get enough... I admit that I am also an HBO SLUT: Sopranos, 6 Feet Under, Curb your Enthusiasm, Carnival, Oz, & Rome. Also, I love X-Files, Seinfeld, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Strangers With Candy, Spike TV, SNL, Southpark, Beavis & Butthead, CNN, Crime TV (FORENSIC FILES and the like!) and the Discovery channel. MyGen Profile Generator

Books:

Favorite Authors: JD Salinger ("The Catcher in the Rye" - As with most people, my favorite book ever...), H.P. Lovecraft (...aside from Edgar Allan Poe, the esteemed and infamous originator of modern-day horror fiction written in the 20's and 30's with more influence on the industry than any other could dream of holding a candle to. All hail, mighty Cthulhu!!!) Cormak McCarthy ("Blood Meridian", "Outer Dark", "Child of God", "The Orchard Keeper", "Suttree" - amazing writing talent and deeply disturbing and haunting stories - Blood Meridian is about the most depraved, F'ed up story of death, destruction, murder, and utter Hell on earth I have ever read and it left me profoundly MIND F..CKED and damaged, yet I couldn't wait to read more... Give it a whirl and see for yourself...) Mark Helprin ("A Winter's Tale", "Soldier of the Great War" - amazing writer with the most eloquent writing style known to man - the only books that I routinely re-read paragraphs just to study their structure because they are so gorgeously constructed - stories that will haunt you and make you laugh and cry, but never forget) Harlan Ellison (amazing and disturbing science fiction short stories - truly before his time and an influence for many great writers of horror and science fiction such as the likes Stephen King, this guy is seriously WHACKED and you can be too), Bret Easton Ellis wrote two of my favorite novels: "Less Than Zero" and "American Psycho", which both really resonated with me and I identified with many things in these books, as well as they captured the time period when they were written (late 80's), not happy stories, and quite grisly and disturbing in fact, but Ellis is a fantastic writer whom I respect a lot, David Drake ("Hammer's Slammers", etc. - the king of military science fiction with amazing, gripping, and gritty stories, and lots of 'em too - yeah! FIRE FIRE FIRE!!!! BTW, "Redliners" is one of my all-time fave SF stories), J.R.R. Tolkien ("The Lord of the Rings" - the Great, Great Grandfather of all fantasy stories as we know them today - was Samwise really gay??? ), Stephen R. Donaldson ("Chronicles of Thomas Covenant" nearly as robust and grand as the Lord of the Rings, which isn't a critique given lightly... Thomas C. is about the biggest A-hole hero you will ever love), CS Lewis ("Chronicles of Narnia" - enchanting stories for children and adults alike... mmmmmmm, Turkish Delight!!! ), Peter F. Hamilton ("The Reality Dysfunction" series - this guy must be a frickin genius - the insight used to describe in VAST detail the future of technology and civilization in this massive science fiction epic is beyond words to describe, if only it were true...), Guy Sajer ("The Forgotten Soldier" - one of the most horrific war stories ever written by a Frenchman-turned-German foot soldier who was sent to the frozen Russian Steppe on the Eastern Front during WWII - a true story told from the other side that will leave you broken - war ain't pretty, especially if you are this guy...) "Ghost Wars" by Steve Coll - holy crap what an eye opener this book was! A history of how, through aiding the Mujahdeen in Afghanistan overthrow the Soviet invaders, the CIA (along with the Pakistani secret service and the Saudi royal family) indirectly funded, trained, and armed the very same people that want to eradicate western civilization from the face of the planet, and have the infrastructure in place to strive at doing just that for generations to come. Now there's some good solid thinking! Thanks guys! ***NOW READING: The "Harry Potter" series (Yes... I finally sold out, and I'm loving every minute of it!!!) =) MyGen Profile Generator

Heroes:

US and allied forces in Iraq and Afghanistan. Please do us all a favor and come home safe. MyGen Profile Generator

My Blog

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Posted by [djmarko] on Sun, 11 Dec 2005 02:30:00 PST

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  Hello Friends,   Shortly after the surreal events that transpired on Tuesday morning, September 11th, 2001, I thought of a short story, or more like a personal diary entry, that I h...
Posted by [djmarko] on Sun, 12 Feb 2006 05:30:00 PST