Synthetic Feat DANIEL BELL [DBX] AND 3d!T LIVE!!

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DANIEL BELL [DBX]

After years of being in bands and producing hip hop music, Daniel had a surprise success with his first 12' released on +8 records while still in film school near Toronto, Canada in 1990. The record was "Technarchy" co-produced by Richie Hawtin and John Aquaviva, and it spurred a move by him to Detroit, Mi. 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 Daniel released a small string of influential releases. He reduced the Detroit techno sound into funky, streamlined grooves. The formula proved to be successful and helped launch a new minimal aesthetic in techno and house music.

With the overwhelming success of his "Losing Control" single (an international underground hit 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 (originally with Rich Wade). Daniel also co-owned "Rotate", a record store across the river from Detroit in Windsor Canada for two years.

Because of the workload of owning and operating many ventures his music production ceased for a few years. In 2000 he released his first mix c.d. with Tresor Records entitled "The Button Down Mind of Daniel Bell" and in a surprise move relocated to Berlin, Germany. 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, John Tejada, Pantytec, Akufen, and Anthony Shakir. In February 2003 he will release his second mix cd "The Button-Down Mind Strikes Back" on the Paris-based label Logistic. In the near future, Daniel will start another new label to release his latest productions.

As well as producing Daniel has also kept a busy dj schedule for the past 8 years. He has played many major venues throughout the world including Liquid Room/Tokyo (3), Lost/London, Rex Club/Paris, Limelight/New York (4), Redno5/Chicago, Nightown/Rotterdam, Nitsa/Barcelona (3), Tresor/Globus (>10), Weetamix/Geneva (2), Yellow/Tokyo, Rockets/Osaka, Staples/San Francisco to name a few. Daniel's dj gigs have brought him all over the world including every major US, German and Canadian city, Poland, Switzerland, Mexico, Argentina, Spain, Italy, England, Scotland, France, Finland, Japan, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Austria, and the Netherlands. He currently has a residency at Robert Johnson in Frankfurt/Offenbach.

3d!T LIVE

Was a little 80's boy, running around like a mentalist. Fell down the stairs and hit my head on the radiator. Never been the same since.

Used to sing diabolical nursery rhymes to fulfil the agenda of domineering adults. I ended up trying to escape from violin lessons. It was hard and only ever worked once. Under duress, continued to play violin and sing horrendous music.

Went a bit 'luvvie' and started acting in plays. Thought I was great. Learned that actually I wasn't that great. Learned that those who go on about how great they are, are usually quite shit. Hated the 'I'm really actually quite great' attitude of acting. Returned to the solace of music. Realised everyone in music think they're '****ing great' too.
Gig
Scary
Strange comb moment
Bad Face
Bad Face
Tidy Desk/Tidy Mind?
Bad Face
Bad Face
Angry Face
Scarface

Started writing gabber. Made a few people cry. Quite enjoyed it. Wrote more gabber, then some jungalistic drum'n'bass. Knew it sounded a bit rubbish, but found it really fun to do. Kept doing it. Time passed. Moved to London in 1998 with reprobates.

Heard loads of techno in London. Thought 'but why is it all the same?'. Got quite well known for being sick all the time. Made a hardcore record in 1999 with one of the reprobates. Got really, really bored and pissed off with techno taking itself too seriously. Tried to write it a bit different. Tried to involve comedy. Put my own verson of a 'techno' track on a record.

Continued putting out 'different' techno records. Got bored and formed a rock'n'roll band... Lasted about 5 minutes. Started doing breaky, glitchy, sketchy wobble-tracks. Wrote comedy/techno live sets. Started getting booked for live shows all over Europe and eventually the US and Russia.

Carried on and continue to create any kind of music or sound-based mess I can. Throughout this time, taught myself web and graphic design to explore my dodgy eye for detail. That's about it really.


UPSTAIRS: Kid Ill [Noizteez] and Neil Templar [dogma]

Residents Morphos, The Vest and Banks

23:00 - 03:00

£10