Ep. 22 - Danny Daze

Danny Daze has lived the lives of a dozen different DJs—from a
14-year=old playing electro at giant Miami raves to time spent
doing actual time, rising among the ranks of mash-up masters under
the tutelage of DJ AM, breaking into the deep house (or as he calls
it, "social techno") scene with Jamie Jones, and finally
discovering his own direction in the obtuse techno of his OMNIDISC
imprint. "My first gig ever in Europe was London, at Fabric," he
tells of his almost unbelievable career path. The one thing that
remains constant in the Cuban-American producer's ever-evolving is
a focus on songs, regardless of the genre. That, and an ear for
dark and sleazy sounds rooted in the heaving 808 bump of his native
Miami. It's a southern bounces he always manages to bring to
releases on imprints such as Ultramajik, Ellium and Kompakt. A bass
so deeply embedded that you can practically hear it in his voice as
he speaks for an hour on this week's Rave Curious Podcast.