DJ Dan Remix Contest

Grand Prize Winner

 

Grand Prize

Merchandise from DJ Dan
Merchandise from ESDJCO and Electric Visuals
ACID Pro software
Vegas® Movie Studio + DVD Platinum software
Five Sony Sound Series™ Standard Collection libraries
Sony Sound Series Chicago Fire Box Set
Photo Go™ software

About the Contest

ACIDplanet.com® is thrilled to present one of the world's top DJs, DJ Dan, for remixing! We're offering up "Rock To The Rhythm" on Audacious Records, from his newest release, Lift 2 on Thrive Music.

As Dan says about remixing: "The ninety-five percent of sweat and effort makes something solid, but it’s the five percent you put on at the end – the color of paint in a room, the sconces on a wall – that everyone really notices."

Sweat that last five percent, and put your rocking touch on "Rock To The Rhythm".

About the Artists

Movie stars and motion pictures – and the fans who adored them – existed well before the first Academy Awards celebration. Likewise, long before periodicals like URB and BPM Culture began sponsoring annual surveys of the world's favorite DJs, the people had already spoken, loud and clear, in favor of DJ Dan. From his origins in the early '90s Los Angeles rave scene, to his non-stop international agenda today (he traveled 135,000 miles in 2005 alone), Dan continues to thrill audiences wherever he goes, from Sydney to Shanghai, Taiwan to Toronto, and, of course, all across the USA.

"One thing a lot of people have said is that I'm consistent," Dan observes. "In my programming, my mixing, and in the way I play to the party." When artists and labels want to be sure their records get heard by discerning listeners, they bring them to Dan – and when clubs and promoters want a headline act who is guaranteed to satisfy their patrons, he's the one they call. No wonder DJ Dan has been dubbed both "The Hardest Working DJ In America" and "The People's DJ" by different publications over the years. This past year DJ Dan was voted as the number 6 house DJ by the readers of BPM Magazine and the number 24 DJ in the world in the prestigious DJ Magazine poll.

In programming Lift 2, Dan reviewed which tracks had rocked the hardest in his travels worldwide over the past 18 months, loaded up his crate with those cuts, and then cherry-picked them when he sidled up to the turntables. "I didn't base my mix around what the newest tracks of the week were, but rather, what would make up a great set that captured the vibe of not only where I'm at musically, but also the diversity that inspires me," he insists. "I love playing house, techno, electro, old school, breaks, and I wanted to represent all of those sounds, while emphasizing the type of flow I create when I play live."

And within his selections, Dan takes pains to manipulate each track carefully, accentuating dips and zeniths, and highlight tiny aural details, like the subtle percussion that undercuts Sebastian Ingrosso's remix of "Rock The Choice" by David Guetta & Joachim Garraud. Lift 2 is a mix fashioned by a man who began his career as a design student, and can happily throw himself into the tiniest touches of home renovation. Concentrating on such minutiae makes Lift 2 even more consistent in quality, and timeless in execution. "It's like building a house," Dan opines. "The ninety-five percent of sweat and effort makes something solid, but it’s the five percent you put on at the end – the color of paint in a room, the sconces on a wall – that everyone really notices."

When not behind the decks, Dan doesn't rest on his laurels, as fans of his club classics “Loose Caboose,” "Needle Damage," "That Phone Track," and his remix of Orgy's "Blue Monday," can well attest. Just over the past year, he's lent his production to a slew of international smashes, including remixes of Depeche Mode and Paris Hilton which topped the Billboard charts and a remix New Order which reached #2 on the Billboard charts. This year also saw the release of two massive club hits he produced, “Love For the Weekend” and “Baked From Scratch,” both featured on this album in addition to two unreleased DJ Dan tracks “Rock To The Rhythm and Chopshop.”

But it shouldn't come as that big a surprise that visionaries like New Order and Depeche Mode reach out to DJ Dan… because he is a kindred spirit, a pioneer in the musical as well as geographical sense. Dan was one of the first DJs to champion the breakbeat sound, and, later, funky house, and one of the earliest bastions of the LA scene to travel outside his home turf. He was a member of San Francisco's legendary Funky Techno Tribe, and one of the first American DJs embraced nation-wide in his own country. And all with good reason, he may lend his unerring taste and refined mixing skills to an ever-evolving palette of sounds – as he does with aplomb on Lift 2– but fans and colleagues know that they can always depend on DJ Dan to deliver a top-notch night out.

DJ Dan’s album release tour in support of Lift 2 kicked off mid-Sept and continues well into 2007. For a complete tour schedule, visit www.djdan.com. DJ Dan’s Lift 2 is in stores now.