SEATTLE-BASED DARK ELECTRONIC DANCE MUSIC DJ
ABOUT DAEMON CHADEAU
Daemon Chadeau grew up in Long Beach, California. As a teenager, he never really fit inside any one box and had always had difficulty figuring out his identity. Later on, thanks to the new influence of his stepdad he aspired to write and create music and upon graduating high school enrolled in the music department at Long Beach City College in their record production and recording engineering programs.
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As he would gain knowledge of recording industry professionals during his time in college, he would befriend Long Beach goth club promoter Blade Rhino and would work with Gothic Beach Studio passing out flyers at various events around the Southland. Later, a series of events would send him into his years as a freelancer, travelling to different locales and during his short time living in Las Vegas he befriended a small goth night promoter Mad Ange in the Fremont area in where he would work the door. One night when their main DJ quit, Daemon mentioned that he could bring his book of CDs with him and give it a shot, and in May 2003 at Theatre Macabre the rest was history.
In 2015, Daemon would return home to Southern California to DJ at Convergence XXI in Los Angeles. In 2018, Daemon would continue to expand his reach beyond the Northwest DJing in cities such as Salt Lake City (for ohGr's live performance) and in 2019 would make his debut in Phoenix as well as returning to where his DJ career began in Las Vegas; all while continuing to hit regular Northwest guest spots in Boise and Portland. When the COVID-19 pandemic hit and shut down the clubs, like other DJs he took to Twitch and livestreamed his sets through the popular gaming channel as well as returned to Second Life for a brief period of time. Once clubs opened back up in 2022, his appearances would be sporatic ranging from guest spots in Seattle, Tacoma and Olympia while still maintaining his Twitch schedule. As more and more clubs reopened, including the Mercury, he would scale back his weekly Twitch broadcasts but would still contribute to benefit streams by EBM Worldwide, LOUD!, Empire of Beat, and others.
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The travelling would return to normal for Daemon in 2022, as he would return to Portland as well as Las Vegas and Phoenix, spinning for Future Club 6. In 2023, Daemon would hit the road on a five date, week-and-a-half East Coast Tour making appearances at QxT's in New Jersey as well as Washington DC, Providence, Albany, and Wilmington, Delaware. Locally, Daemon continues to support the local community by helping cultivate the next generation of DJs, as well as advocate for the greater community having once served as President of Gothic Pride Seattle from 2021 to 2024.
When Daemon returned to California a few months later, he would reconnect with Blade Rhino and offer him a spot as a DJ at one of his yearly events, Bizarre Vampire Bazaar. He would become a recurring guest DJ at Eternal/Eterno, as well as a resident DJ at GBS's Rebel Alliance night. While working as a staff writer for Rock City News, he would find himself as a resident DJ of Hollywood's Club Hell for about a year. In 2006 he circled back to Long Beach to spin at Fantom Opera where he would be paired with DJ Th@d, who would eventually become a mentor to Daemon. In 2007 he would also discover the online virtual world known as Second Life as a way to scratch the DJ itch while exposing himself to audiences he would not normally see, making connections in different locales. After his residency at Fantom Opera ended, he would bounce around guesting at events such as Infirmary, Defkon, San Francisco's Die Maschinen, and would also find himself guesting in the Noise Room at Das Bunker in 2010 as well before his final residency in Southern California, Klub Terminal.
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In 2011, Daemon would move to the Pacific Northwest and through connections made on Second Life and Radio Black Light, an online radio station based in Seattle where Daemon would spend three years as a contributor, he would eventually begin DJing at Seattle's Mercury at Machinewerks and become a resident co-promoter of Dark Industry Night. He would also guest various nights around the Northwest from industrial nights such as Mechanismus to nights outside of the goth/industrial scene at venues such as Contour, where in 2013 he would enter the Rotation Summer Sessions DJ competition and reach the semifinals using industrial music in his sets. He would bring his love for power noise and heavy industrial to the Mercury in 2014 with the launch of rezonance., and in the same year be recognized as a rising star in the Seattle scene by winning the Mechanismus Industrial Music Award for Best Local DJ that year and the next (2015).
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ACHIEVEMENTS
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Mechanismus Industrial Music Awards - Best Local DJ (2014, 2015)
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2013 Rotation Summer Sessions (semifinalist)