Adam Ethan Goldstone

Adam Ethan Goldstone Born: June 3, 1969 Boston, MA Died: August 29, 2006 Black Rock, NV Age 37, died suddenly and unexpectedly on August 29, 2006 while attending the Burning Man Festival at Black Rock, NV, an event with which he was absolutely enthralled. He died doing something he loved. The cause of death was related to the congenital heart defect that he had repaired as an infant. He was born on June 3, 1969 in Boston, MA, but lived in San Francisco from age 1. He became involved in local TV, theater and movie acting as a child and won a Northern California Emmy Award in 1978 for his TV work. After graduating from Lowell High School in 1987 he left San Francisco for good to attend film school at the Tisch School of New York University. He fell in love with New York and although he traveled the world extensively on business, lived the rest of his life there. He spent his adult life in the music industry, writing about, creating, playing, producing and editing it. He was an associate editor for Dance Music Review and then the Club Editor for Time Out New York from 1991 to 2000. He began to create his own music electronically and was known for his encyclopedic knowledge, especially of dance music as well as other types. He collaborated with many musicians by editing and re-mixing their original creations, and he created two CD albums of his own. The first was Lower East Side Stories, on the Nuphonic label, which won critical acclaim and launched him on an international career as a disc jockey. He performed in many European, countries as well as Russia, Israel, the United States and, of course, in countless venues in his home town. He was described by his close friends and associates as brilliant, creative, an icon, principled, compassionate, caring and one of the most prominent DJs in New York. At the time of his death he was close to completing a new album reflecting his current interpretation of the dance music about which he was so very passionate. Adam is survived by his loving family: parents, Linda and Jerry Goldstone, formerly of San Francisco but now from Shaker Heights, OH; sister, Lara Goldstone of Los Angeles; and brother, Stefan Goldstone of San Francisco. He will be deeply missed by all of them. A celebration of his music and life is being planned for Nov. 14 in Manhattan. For those wanting to remember Adam, his family suggests contributions to two organizations which he deeply believed in: the ACLU (New York City chapter) and the Black Rock Artists Foundation.