Dan Electro's tracks are available on Mp3's:
Itunes, Junodownload.com, Emusic.com,
Beatport.com, Traxsource.com,Bagpak.net,
Nuloop.com, Beatjoint.com,Stompy.com,
Djdownload.com... Dan Electro's tracks are available on vinyl:
www.topplers.com
Welcome to the world of mysterious organist & producer Dan Electro.
Dan Electro is a charming guy who lives very far away from the sytem of Babylon.
His music is out of time... It carries the reminiscence of a time when people played music simply for the love of it... His touch is magnetic, mystical and inspired.
Dan Electro music's really got soul. But the man has a complex background...
For a long time, he played bass for the Slow Slushy Boys, a band that still performs today one of the best rooted Rythm & Blues around the world. Dan Electro finds a great part of his inspiration within the universe of geniuses like Louis Jordan, Eddie Kirk, The Five Royales and the barefoot gospel divas Sister Rosetta Tharpe or Winona Carr... And he's still involved in music that talks to both your ass and your soul... with a preference for the first !
The lucky discovery of Farley Jackmaster Funk's "Fix Me" revealed Dan Electro the connections between black music at its core roots and contemporary house music. Shortly after, he started producing some amazing tunes that felt like love affairs between old church organs and mad computers... sung by ageless preachers & divas.
He first released his stuff on two classic twelve inches with his own recording label, Rodeo Gay: "Better" & "Insidancer". He's also put out various tracks for several underground labels... to be followed by the blasting "Got Soul" single vinyl and the storming & upcoming album "Bite the hand that feeds you" on Soulab/Rodeo Gay.
His music has been played by DJs such as Gilles Peterson, Joey Negro, SUMO, Recloose, DJ Morpheus, Spiritual South, Nick V, Michael Rutten, Rainer Truby,
Nik Weston, Unabombers, Erik Rug, Philarmonix, Patchworks, Stevie Sole...
Radios as BBC 1, Frequence Jazz, XFM Scotland, Radio FG, Compost Radioshow...
Let's put a stop to the hype now and allow the man to explain his world himself...
Where do you come from, Dan Electro?
I'm from Planet Utopia, which you unfortunately can't see from Earth, because it's located right on the axis of the Alan the Cowboy constellation.
What brought you to this generous and tightly produced music?
I played bass for a rooted rhythm & blues band, that found its inspiration in the the sound worlds of such genius monsters as Louis Jordan, Eddie Kirk, Arthur Alexander or Boots Brown. They were all about getting their audience to groove and grind. I've always held on to that, I like music that talks to your ass rather than your head.
Where does your music belong, in regards to today's musical production?
Today's musical production is in itself a hard thing to define, especially in house music, but I have hope. There's been a recent evolution and it tends to release tracks which seem to offer an escape from the dictatorship of overwhelming filters and cheap effects, a possibility for more dreams, more magic. People understand that, as they become aware that house and techno are not this alien, circumstantial music, made from nothing. No, house music is, for now, the successor to dance and trance music, its ancestors are healthy, like Soul, Rythm & Blues, Gospel, or a little tired, like Disco. At least that's what I'm dealing with when I'm trying to write music.
Why remain anonymous?
I liked the early 90s, when a record came out and nobody had any idea you was behind it. It's also a way of saying that the music counts for more than the image of the guy behind it. Anyway, it ain't my fault if Utopians are all bright blue.
