Damiathin (69Starz: Highowse: NJ Nature)
Born on April 12th of 1977, and raised in Highlands, New Jersey, Damian Schmidt developed an appreciation for dance music at an early age. As a child, he watched his mother take dance and aerobics classes, while continuously absorbing the dance music being played all around him. These formative experiences cultivated Damian's passions for music and dance. While he was growing up, Damian had many other hobbies, including surfing, writing, yoga, drawing, and fashion. However, he never quite knew what to do with his love of dance music. It was during his eighteenth year that Damian realized his one true passion. That year, Damian attended Brookdale College to pursue a degree in Fashion Merchandising. While attending classes, he worked as a promoter for the Limelight, Tunnel, and Twilo dance clubs in New York. He often went out to clubs to dance, and listened to and recorded the dance music that was played on 89.1 WNYU. While working for Twilo, Damian met Dimitri from Paris. Damian was awestruck by Dimitri's livelihood and he was inspired to unite his love for music and dance by learning how to spin. Appropriating the stage name "Damiathin", Damian would eventually infuse the dance floor with his contagious, earthy, heart-warming beats.
At the age of 19, while taking time off from school to learn how to spin, Damiathin's personal dance style simultaneously evolved. Frequenting many of New York's hottest dance clubs yielded plentiful dance experience, and Damiathin developed his dance moves considerably. Eventually, he was noticed by The New Yorker magazine; in an article on Twilo, the magazine featured a shot of Damiathin putting his passion for artful movement into action.
When he was 22, Damiathin's friend helped him to share his music with the general public for the first time. In Washington, DC, Damiathin spun at a dance party to benefit AIDS awareness among teenagers. Held at the Edge, he spun in front of more than 600 people; when he saw people dancing to his music it made him feel like something was right. Throughout the years, Damiathin has achieved his own unique sound by being selective with the DJs he listens to. Damiathin's sound is inspired by Dimitri, Keoki, Sasha, Tony Humphries, Disciple, Masters at Work, Timmy Regisford, Larry Heard Pete Moss, Soul Slinger and Junior Vasquez, among many others. Damiathin has also been greatly influenced by his family and friends, who have always encouraged him to be true to himself. During the year 2000, Damiathin lived in Giessen, Germany as an Au Pair where he experienced dance clubs in another country. Living overseas further opened his mind to various genres of dance music.
Damiathin's sound is sensual, atmospheric, spiritual, and reviving. Of his "kaleidoscope vocals and house tracks", Damiathin says that his spinning "will nourish your mind, body, and soul." When DJ Damiathin dances and spins, he says that he "goes into a state of trance and loses touch with reality", leaving his own body and, at times, riding the sound waves around him.
I have a couple of Good habits... I love to run, yoga, meditation and read. I love nature its creatures and don't eat them. Love the beach. I produce house music as well as DJ.I am also a designer that will be launching a cloths line soon. I am also good vegetarian cook in the house. Honest friend and love to play jokes....
Venues worked with in the past and present:
• Club Exit :NY • Edge :DC: • Twilo/Spirit :NY: • Limelight/Avalon :NY: • Tunnel :NY: • Open Air :NY: • Vanity :NY: • Club 113 :NY: • Addliana’s :NJ: • Downtown Café :NJ: • Echo :NJ: •169 Bar :NY: •Vitality Lounge :NY: • Various loft parties
Events:
Robosexxual • Sophisticated Fridays • Evolution • Drum and Bash • Perestroika • SPK
Turntables at the Loft • Earth Day Beach Clean Up (organizer)
