D – Artists
Biography
Daniel Wang was born in Northern California, lived in Taipei for 8 years in his childhood, and went to New York for university. He thought he would study languages and literature, but instead discovered house music at school, and then classic disco music in the late 1990s. He ended
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Daniel Wang was born in Northern California, lived in Taipei for 8 years in his childhood, and went to New York for university. He thought he would study languages and literature, but instead discovered house music at school, and then classic disco music in the late 1990s. He ended up living in downtown Manhattan for about 10 years, worked for 5 years in a music instruments shop in Soho, and studied Theremin and Vintage Synthesizers while on the job.
At first, Daniel was unknown except in small DJ circles. Around 1999-2000, he made 3 cult electronic disco records on Morgan Geist's Environ label (also home of Metro Area), garnered a bit of fame, and started traveling around the world DJ'ing, performing live with theremin, latin percussion, and sometimes even singing on stage!
In 2003, Daniel moved to Berlin, where he leads a happy life with his handsome German boyfriend, traveling to Japan, South America and all over the EU while working on new songs. He is well-known for disliking "mechanical, non-musical contempoary dance music". Recently he even did sound design for the new Reason 4 synthesizer... but his heart is always in soul, jazz, beautiful electronic sounds, and DISCO!
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