DJ Pope Black Bio

DJ Pope Black Bio

DJ Pope Black’s DJ career started in the summer of 1984 at 90.9 WQFS in Greensboro NC at the age of 15. He had heard that the local college radio station at Guildford College was training ANYONE who asked how to be a DJ and run the equipment. As a young...
Interview with Melvin Ylagan

Interview with Melvin Ylagan

Interview of Melvin Ylagan by DJ Jason for AbsolutionNYC How did you get interested in playing music? For as long as I can remember, and about the same time as I started drawing pictures- around 6 to 7 years old. It just came naturally from singing along to my...
DJ Jeremy (aka DJ Bastard) Bio

DJ Jeremy (aka DJ Bastard) Bio

DJ Jeremy (aka DJ Bastard) has been DJing in NYC for well over 10 years.  DJ Jeremy got his start spinning gothic and industrial music at the weekly tuesday vampire party Resurrection at Mantra (later renamed, True) nightclub on 23rd street.  Resurrection was the...
Gothic Rock Black Book by Mick Mercer

Gothic Rock Black Book by Mick Mercer

GOTHIC ROCK BLACK BOOK By MICK MERCER “The first book ever published about Goth, written in 1988, but out of print for nearly two decades. For the 21st anniversary I have increased it from its original 96 pages to 268, including 311 photos from my archive, the...