There aren’t many DJs who succeeded without producing tracks. The unwritten demand to make music in order to promote your name is keeping a lot of great performers deep under ground. But there is someone who opposes to the trend and manages to conquer clubs worldwide with his unique style and perfection. And that’s also what he did in Warsaw’s On-Off.

Sound Revolt: I’ve heard crazy things about DC 10. Has anything mad happened to you in that club?
Damian Lazarus: Many things. Most of them I don’t remember. Some of them I choose not to remember.

Sound Revolt: One please.
Damian Lazarus: This year I broke a personal record. I stayed in the club for 16 hours. I’ve been there for like 10 hours before but never longer. And this year it was so good that I stayed for 16 hours. I played at Space the night before and my friends and I went to the club at 6:30 and left at like 11:30 at night.

Sound Revolt: Nice. You said in one interview that you were looking for a right party to show your kid how you work? It wouldn’t be one of them, I suppose?
Damian Lazarus: It would be.

Sound Revolt: Really?
Damian Lazarus: Yes, but it would come with a health warning (laughs). And my kid would have to understand that not every party is like this but this is pretty much as good as it gets.

Sound Revolt: (laughs) Do you think you’re going to be a good role model for your child? As the party animal?
Damian Lazarus: I hope so. But you know, I’m sensible as well. It’s important to know your limits.

Sound Revolt: 16 hours is a limit for a child to know. (laughs)
Damian Lazarus: (laughs) Yeah, it’s important to know your limit and to drink plenty of water (laughs).

Sound Revolt: (laughs) I have to remind you that you’re supposed to say “drink milk” not “drink water”.
Damian Lazarus: (laughs) But not with drugs.

Sound Revolt: Right. You’re doing a night with Michael Mayer. How did this collaboration come to happen?
Damian Lazarus: At the Benicassim Festival in Valencia last summer. We played at an amazing party called Freezer and afterwards we went to my hotel which was just close to where the club was. We were with some friends and everyone was really high and we went into the garden of the hotel and there was a big swimming pool. Michael and I took our iPods with us and we were just playing on very small speakers just to our friends, drinking and partying. But there were many, many, many people in the garden and in the swimming pool of the hotel and we were sitting just above them. And one moment I noticed there were some speakers facing out to the people, so we went to speakers, found the cable and a big mixing desk hidden away behind where we were. So we played with Michael back to back with our iPods to the whole of the hotel. We played crazy techno music to little kids in the swimming pool and the families and then we started to play nice chillout, afterhours music. We realised we have a lot of music in common and started talking about this. We went through our iPods and amazingly we had very, very similar old music. We were really stinking this ripping awful day and we had this idea: “we should have a party together and we should call it Stink”.

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