The music scene is in mourning following the sudden death of a DJ who provided the soundtrack to hundreds of Saturday nights.
Andrei Mazandarani, 55, died in hospital in Perth on Monday night following an eight-week battle with gallbladder cancer.
Andrei was taken to hospital in July suffering severe abdominal pains.
“That was the initial plan but every day, and as the week’s progressed, it was just bad news after bad news because of the complications.”
Andrei was accustomed to chronic pain, having also lived with Crohn’s disease since his early 20s, and remained stoic throughout the battle that cost the husband and his life.
“He was a real family man, just trying to shield his kids from what he was going through.”
“He was — for somebody whose career was based on entertaining hundreds of people every weekend — private.”
The lifelong musician, DJ and track curator’s career took him across Australia and abroad.
At 18 he bought a one-way ticket to London where he lived for 12 months, “attending legendary warehouse parties, wandering the streets of London during the poll tax riots, dancing all night at illegal raves and hitchhiking across Europe to witness the fall of the Berlin Wall”.
Andrei and Anton famously ran “Death Disco” at Amplifier Bar / Capitol for more than a decade, hosting 620 consecutive parties across Saturday nights between 2007 and 2019, and enjoying the company of “some of our all-time musical heroes”.
After that he held down multiple residencies across the city, and Anton said proudly “there wasn’t a dance floor he couldn’t fill”.
“He could look around the room, he could see the demographic of the room...”