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Daniel Bell (Detroit/7th City/Accelerate) Australian Tour Announced:

We here at Data on Dub are excited to help Mad Racket in Sydney and Search Party in Melbourne get the word out, that Daniel Bell is back in town!

A techno producer that has been there from the beginning… starting way back in Detroit in the early 90’s, he created a distinct, reduced sound and approach to dance music. It paved the way for minimal and tracks like “Losing Control” under his alias, DBX, became a benchmark. He collaborated with figures like Moritz von Oswald and Richie Hawtin, and he set up labels with the likes of Theo Parrish, Rick Wade and Dopplereffekt.

Ahead of the pack as always, Daniel moved to Berlin in 2000, and has played in every corner of the world over the last 20 years.
His unique DJ sets are known for their crafted minimalism and effortless, slow-building energy. His first-ever official mix CD, The Button Down Mind Of Daniel Bell (Tresor, 2000) was voted in at number two of the decade’s best mixes by Resident Advisor. The mix CD became a cult among the initiated and instilled the idea that through less there was possibly more to the dancefloor.

Australian Tour Dates:
23.10.10 – Sydney @ Mad Racket’s 12th Birthday, Marrickville Bowling Club
29.10.10 – Melbourne @ Mercat Basement
30.10.10 – Adelaide @ Sugar

Interviews:
Daniel Bell is available for email interviews.  Please email sara@dataondub.com for more info.  Mad Racket will be celebrating their 12th Birthday and Haul Music (the crew behind Search Party) are receiving amazing recognition in Australia and abroad, would be great if we could get some feature article coverage for these shows.

Daniel Bell Biography:
Born – Sacramento California in 1967.

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.

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