About

Mental Wreckage is the main alias of Lody Koehorst, a DJ & Producer from the east of The Netherlands, notorious for his refined dark taste in music. During Lody’s time as label boss of Symp.tom (the Industrial Hardcore subdivision of Neophyte Records), a good amount of compilations, mixes and releases came from his hand. After the Symp.tom label became defunkt following the bankruptcy of its mother label Mid-Town Records in 2011, he moved on to release his music on labels like Dark Descent and Noisj, and more recently Meta4 and Traumatic. So far, Lody did remixes for Meccano Twins, Neophyte and The Relic as well as collaborations with Moleculez, The Relic, Syndemic, Sarin Assault and Embrionyc (the latter two under the alias of Warchetype). Together with The Relic he also operates under the guise of Dual Mechanism, which is a side-project for their more experimental tracks.

As a DJ, Mental Wreckage is known for his excellent mixing skills, fine selection of tracks and dark taste. Some of his former DJ-gigs include Ground Zero, Thunderdome, Mysteryland, Hardshock Festival, Defqon.1, Nightmare Outdoor (with a Symp.tom Label Area in 2009), Masters of Hardcore, Nature One and many more.

Notable DJ-Highlights:

  • Defqon.1 Festival (Jun 2015)
  • Q-Base (Sep 2013)
  • Hardshock Festival (Apr 2013)
  • Ground Zero Festival (Sep 2012)
  • Hardshock Festival (Apr 2012)
    Three DJ-sets; as Warchetype, Dual Mechanism & Insane DJ Mafia
  • Ground Zero Festival (Jul 2010)
  • Defqon.1 Festival (Jun 2010)
  • Nightmare Outdoor (May 2010)
  • Mystery Land / Thunderdome (Aug 2009)
  • Earthquake (Aug 2009)
  • Nightmare Outdoor – Our own Symp.tom Label Area (May 2009)
    Two DJ-sets; as Mental Wreckage and Dual Mechanism
  • Enzyme Incubation Part 3 (Feb 2009)
  • Decibel Outdoor (Aug 2008)
  • Nature One (Jul 2008)
  • Ruhr in Love (Jun 2008)
  • Nightmare Outdoor (Sep 2006)
  • Neophyte World Tour (Apr-May 2006)
  • Angerfist’s Album Release Party (Mar 2006)
  • Nightmare Outdoor (May 2005)
  • Enzyme Incubation Part 2 (May 2005)
  • Hellraiser (Apr 2003, as Butcher)
  • Masters of Hardcore (Jun 2001, as Butcher)