Local EDM DJ: Hyperfunk

DJ Hyperfunk is one of USC Event's resident DJs. He always opens for internationally known artists who come to Seattle and have been heavily involved with the EDM scene for decades now. As an artist who has been here from the beginning and seeing the growth of the music scene, he had only positive comments about the Seattle EDM scene.

Noted: This interview was done by DList Magazine. To read the rest of the interview, please click here.

Q: What’s your involvement with USC?
USC Events has been pushing electronic music for so long, and I'm so grateful to be one of their staple local DJs. The company went from the upswing, where everybody was on-board with electronic music, to the downswing where everybody hated electronic music and thought it wasn’t cool. Now, it’s back and they’re in the right place and getting all the right artists. Having them in the city is amazing.

Q: How have you seen Seattle's EDM scene grow and evolve?
I got into it at a time when it was blowing up really big all over America. Then they had the big war on drugs and there was a huge EDM music scene crackdown. It used to be cool and then it became really underground. It wasn’t commercial at all, and tons of people didn’t go anymore...

I remember going to parties that were really well-promoted and would only have 100-200 people at them. Now, if you threw the exact same party, you’d have 600-1,000 people there, no matter what. There are so many people, today, who love electronic music.

Having people like David Guetta, Black Eyed Peas, Deadmau5 and Skrillex has helped the electronic music scene grow into the mainstream music culture. They’re getting on MTV, they’re getting on the VMAs. Daft Punk did a track with Kanye. Hip-hop, which was the "ir" music just a few years ago are actually helping make electronic music huge. 

Everybody is jumping on the electronic bandwagon, which is wonderful for the people who are already established as electronic artists, even local artists in their own cities, like here in Seattle.

Q: Do you think there’s anything that defines the Seattle EDM scene, anything that sets it apart?

I've been told by other artists and crowds everywhere I go that Seattle DJs play a lot harder. By that, I mean that we're a bit more upbeat and in-your-face. I think there's always been such an accepting musical culture in Seattle that audiences here are more open to different tempos and types of music. The crowds go wild when I play hard! After all, I've got to stay true to the title of electron dance music! 

Visit his Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/djhyperfunk

Listen to his music: http://soundcloud.com/hyperfunkseattle

Find DJ Hyperfunk at Trinity Nightclub spinning his tunes on some nights of the week!