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Raised on the Chicago underground, this artist cut his teeth on DJ Assault and DJ Funk. He started DJing young, learning to read a room long before he opened a DAW. After fifteen years as a visual artist, he moved into music production.

Now based in Charleston, his sound carries the city's late-night feel but keeps the kinetic edge of its Midwest roots—deep one minute, fast the next. As much indie sensibility as booty-house grit.

The work is hardware-first, with software kept to remixes and edits. Onstage he stays out of the way and lets the tracks do the talking. Polished without being precious—built by someone who cares more about the craft than the spotlight.

Daniel started on drums at ten and embarked in electronic music at seventeen — synthesizers first. A metalhead from a young age, he spent ten years as an engineer living near Detroit filling the nights with synthesized tones and rhythms, shaped most of all by the thriving local underground techno scene.

Now back home in the lowcountry, Daniel carries the varied sounds of his past into a new future, inspired by the wandering cypress swamps and soulful sunsets over the Ashley River.

Art & engineering cannot be separated: custom plugins, hardware recording & performance rigs; the tools behind the tracks are just as important as the finished sound. To him, the science and the math matter as much as the beauty — tension and release, built deliberately.