Daniel's Music Bio

I have been a musician since a child touching on more instruments than my parents cared for. My focus always changed until I became a teen where the electric bass became my choice. With a very anti-establishment attitude at the time I was attracted to underground music Punk, Deathrock and Industrial of the 80s. I promoted my own shows in Santa Barbara, CA under the title Masque. Bands that participated or were in my direct circle were: Null and Void, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Crash Worship, Anvil Wind, Trance to the Sun and This Ascension along with my project Bio-Hazard Industries. Described as poetic assaults of noise and propaganda my music with collaborators at this period caused some discomfort to the uninitiated causing us to be kicked out of many open mike nights, though honestly it was my goal to push the threshold of noise to drown out what I saw as an overly plastic world. Other guerrilla style shows in impromptu style by taking control of parks and cafes for short sonic assaults.

In 1990 I moved to Ashland, OR and reformed BHI with a new core group which eventually fell apart. Desiring a more structured compositional form of music I began working with David B. forming a new Industrial Noise project called Daath Kulture. This is the beginning of my use of sampling and tape loops with non-conventional instrumentation and the beginning with my obsession with synthesizers. Performances include house shows to club venues and opening for Neurosis at this period.

1993 was the year I moved to Portland, OR catching the tail end of the scene that was the X-Ray Café I quickly established myself in projects which lead to the development of a small artist run label called Asura Records. Musical work to the present day includes performance art pieces with my wife Xtian Detox as Wake World Industries. Band and groups include ZoneWire (Rock/Electro Industrial), Trigger Shock (Electro Industrial), Daath Kulture (Noise/Experimental) and The Adytum (EBM/IDM). I have a studio on my property which has also been used by other local acts with my assistance for production of their projects. I am somewhat a prolific writer of music and have expanded over the years to playing multiple instruments and root myself in synthesizers.

Studio and Musical tools:

DAW – Primary FL Studio (composition and sequencing) and Presonus Studio One (Recording and post-production), Other DAWS for production that can be used in the studio are Cubase and ProTools.
Native Instruments Komplete 5-7
Presonus 16.4.2
Presonus 3 FP10s
TC Electronics FireWorx
TC Electronics Finalizer Pro
Lexicon MX200
Alesis Midiverb II
Midisport 8x8
Access Virus Polar
Korg MS2000B
Yahmaha DX7
Korg PolySix
SIEL DK600
Korg Poly 800
Casio Casiotone 700
Redsound Darkstar
Quasimidi Rave-O-Lution
Korg MicroX
Edirol PCR 30 and 80
M-Audio Pro88
Alesis HR16-B
Alesis D4
Korg Kaossolator
Korg KP3 and MiniKP
Parlor Upright Piano
Circuit Bent Casio SK5
Circuit Bent Speak and Spell/Math/Read
Other Circuit Bent and handmade instruments
Westone solid Oak 4-string Bass
12 and 6 string electric guitars
Pearl Acoustic Drum-set with a mix of 80s-90s drum triggers (Tama, Roland and Simmons) and several sizes of oil drums both unmodified and with skins/heads.
Ethnic instruments (Ud, Rebab, Santur and various hand and metal percussive pieces).
Crown Amps
Peavey Speakers
Sure and Berhinger Microphones

Links to my work include:

www.asurarecords.com 
www.soundcloud.com/asurarecords 
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=665658254&ref=tn_tnmn 
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=665658254&ref=tn_tnmn#!/pages/Asura-Records/173627292722574 
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=665658254&ref=tn_tnmn#!/pages/ZoneWire/220844591324785