Clara
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Freq presents Daniel Bell, Sub Club, Glasgow
Friday 22 June, 11pm to 3am, £10
After plying you with the goodness that was Silicon Scally and theweedjs in April, those nice chaps at Freq are coming back to the Sub Club in June with very special guest, Daniel Bell.
Born in Sacramento California, Dan had a surprise success with his first 12 inch released on +8 records while still in film school near Toronto in 1990. The record was Technarchy, co-produced by Richie Hawtin and John Aquaviva as Cybersonic. This spurred a move to Detroit, after graduating, where he continued to release tracks on +8
records. After touring and recording extensively throughout 1991 and 1992, including a 38-date American tour opening for Moby and The Prodigy, Daniel left +8 to start his own company, Accelerate Communications in 1992.
With Accelerate he began recording as DBX and released a small string of influential releases that became hot with DJs from Chicago as well as Detroit. Based on nearby Chicago track records, he reduced that sound further into funky, streamlined grooves. The formula proved to be hugely successful and helped pioneer the more minimal side of house and techno.
With the overwhelming international success of his Losing Control single in 1994, Daniel set up Seventh City Distribution. For the next four years he worked to assist smaller Midwest labels to get distribution in overseas markets. He helped finance the start-ups of several labels including Anthony Shakir's Frictional and Dopplereffekt's Dataphysix. He also created three new labels: 7th City, which to this day releases cutting-edge techno music, Elevate (with then unknown house producer Theo Parrish) and Harmonie Park. Daniel also co-owned Rotate record store across the river from Detroit in Windsor Canada for two years.
Because of the workload of owning and operating many ventures he was forced to put his recording career on hold but was back making music by 1996 and continued to release tracks for DS and Klang Electron as well as Accelerate. In 2000 he released his first mix cd with Tresor
Records entitled The Button Down Mind of Daniel Bell and in a surprise move relocated to Berlin. In Berlin he has developed and promoted new talent for his 7th City label and has quietly restarted his recording career with a series of remixes for a diverse range of artists including previous Freq guest John Tejada along with Akufen, Anthony
Shakir, and Pantytec. In 2003 he released his second mix cd The Button-Down Mind Strikes Back on the Paris based label Logistic.
As well as producing, he has also kept a busy dj schedule. This summer Daniel takes a break from the studio to get back to the decks embarking on a summer of gigs that will see him playing around the world at Space (Ibiza), Fabric (London), Tresor (Berlin), Loft (Barcelona) and the intergalactic planetary Rose Center for Earth & Space at the at the American Museum of Natural History in New York.
As always, Freq residents Brian and Murray will be making sure everything is tickety-boo.
http://www.freq-club.com
http://www.daniel-bell.com/news
Friday 22 June, 11pm to 3am, £10
After plying you with the goodness that was Silicon Scally and theweedjs in April, those nice chaps at Freq are coming back to the Sub Club in June with very special guest, Daniel Bell.
Born in Sacramento California, Dan had a surprise success with his first 12 inch released on +8 records while still in film school near Toronto in 1990. The record was Technarchy, co-produced by Richie Hawtin and John Aquaviva as Cybersonic. This spurred a move to Detroit, after graduating, where he continued to release tracks on +8
records. After touring and recording extensively throughout 1991 and 1992, including a 38-date American tour opening for Moby and The Prodigy, Daniel left +8 to start his own company, Accelerate Communications in 1992.
With Accelerate he began recording as DBX and released a small string of influential releases that became hot with DJs from Chicago as well as Detroit. Based on nearby Chicago track records, he reduced that sound further into funky, streamlined grooves. The formula proved to be hugely successful and helped pioneer the more minimal side of house and techno.
With the overwhelming international success of his Losing Control single in 1994, Daniel set up Seventh City Distribution. For the next four years he worked to assist smaller Midwest labels to get distribution in overseas markets. He helped finance the start-ups of several labels including Anthony Shakir's Frictional and Dopplereffekt's Dataphysix. He also created three new labels: 7th City, which to this day releases cutting-edge techno music, Elevate (with then unknown house producer Theo Parrish) and Harmonie Park. Daniel also co-owned Rotate record store across the river from Detroit in Windsor Canada for two years.
Because of the workload of owning and operating many ventures he was forced to put his recording career on hold but was back making music by 1996 and continued to release tracks for DS and Klang Electron as well as Accelerate. In 2000 he released his first mix cd with Tresor
Records entitled The Button Down Mind of Daniel Bell and in a surprise move relocated to Berlin. In Berlin he has developed and promoted new talent for his 7th City label and has quietly restarted his recording career with a series of remixes for a diverse range of artists including previous Freq guest John Tejada along with Akufen, Anthony
Shakir, and Pantytec. In 2003 he released his second mix cd The Button-Down Mind Strikes Back on the Paris based label Logistic.
As well as producing, he has also kept a busy dj schedule. This summer Daniel takes a break from the studio to get back to the decks embarking on a summer of gigs that will see him playing around the world at Space (Ibiza), Fabric (London), Tresor (Berlin), Loft (Barcelona) and the intergalactic planetary Rose Center for Earth & Space at the at the American Museum of Natural History in New York.
As always, Freq residents Brian and Murray will be making sure everything is tickety-boo.
http://www.freq-club.com
http://www.daniel-bell.com/news
