DJ Name:
Schmerz

Real Name:
Damon Pettig

Date of Birth:
Feb 14th 1986

Hometown:
Geelong/Victoria/Australia

What i do:
DJ, Producer, Reactive Recordz Co-Manager, Reactive Productions Manager

Career Highlights:
- Running Reactive from Jan of 2005 & establishing a following for the club in Geelong as well as Melbourne.
- Bringing some of Melbourne’s Best DJ’s to Reactive and having the chance to play alongside them. ie. Hellraiser, Sanders, Jewelz, Soul-T, Stevie B, Andy Golden, Otek and others.
- Booking & Playing alongside DJ Zany(Netherlands) @ Reactive in May of 2005
- Booking Technoboy(Italy) & Luca Antolini(Italy) @ Reactive & having the opportunity to play alongside them and in a vs Set with them.
- Booking Zatox(Italy), A-Lusion(Netherlands) & The Scientist(Netherlands) @ Reactive on August 10th 2007
- Organizing my first event (Hektik 2004) and having it be a big success.
- Organizing the Pharmacy CD Launch in Geelong (Hektik)
- Organizing the Bass Station CD Launch in Geelong
- Playing In Melb Clubs like: Elevation, 3D, Dream

Current Residencies:
- Reactive @ Statik (Hardstyle)
- Hektik (Hardstyle/Acid)

Nights i’ve Played at:
- PHD (Melb)
- Elevation (Melb)
- 3D (Melb)
- XSDream (Melb)
- Bass Station Geelong CD Launch (Geelong)
- Kryptonite (Geelong)
- S:O:S (Geelong)
- The Republic 1 & 2 (Geelong)
- Connect (Geelong)
- Kandy Cd Launch @ Homehouse (Geelong)

Who/what inspires you?
Dark Hard & Dirty Tracks, DJ’s who are Showmen, Well Structured & mixed sets. Chuck Norris & His Spin kicks, Knobbies, A Rockin Crowd, My Friends & knowing that M-Strawb is always lurking somewhere behind me