Pete Tong's  Essential New Tune on BBC Radio 1 - 10th January 2020

String Theory - Pete Tong's  Essential New Tune - BBC Radio 1 Rip 10.01.2020

Daniel is a DJ and radio host based in Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK.

His music style varies through the house and bass genres.

From an early age Daniel has always had a love for dance music, having found a retro cd in his parents collection of a local DJ and listening to the uplifting piano house he knew this was an industry he wanted to work in.

It wasn't until attending Godskitchen and seeing the effect one individual can have on a person and be able to completely change a mood and transport them to a specific time and place with only one track he knew he wanted to be a DJ.

Since then he has represented prestigious brands such as Goodgreef and Cream and supported DJ's such as Saytek, Third Party K-Klass and Alister Whitehead playing in a variety of clubs across the UK from renowned clubs to victorian forts and castles..

Other projects

Technologik - Daniel co-ran a night in Durham with Jacky, James Cottle and Michael Walker and featured DJ's such as Davey Asprey, this band was also taken to Newcastle upon Tyne and Leeds.

Nova Radio North East 102.5 FM - Daniel is the founder and host of The Dance Essentials Show on Nova Radio where each week features a guest mix or interview with a DJ/Producer from the scene.

EE & WRG Entertainment - In 2012 Daniel toured the UK (Glasgow – Cardiff – Plymouth) with EE (mobile network provider) and featured on a line-up headlined by The Cuban Brothers and Maverick Sabre.

Daniel also had a weekly residency with Radio, Hedkandi and Lrt there be house records founder DJ Glen Horsborough.

My radio mix show 'Sabores De la Musica' goes out every other Saturday night from 10pm GMT on http://www.barcelonacityfm.com/ where I showcase upfront music across the spectrum of afro, deep, tribal and melodic house music.

Please follow my page & send me links to promos on here

History

Dan Clarke became obsessed with rave mixtapes in the early '90', quickly progressing to getting a set of turntables and starting a huge vinyl collection. 

Throughout university in Manchester he DJ'ed at various venues including Dry Bar, The Attic and Joshua Brooks. 

Fast forward to the last few years and he has been a resident DJ for the Minstrels Project playing at a number of local venues including Ego Dance Emporium and LOOP Bar in Blackburn as well as Sunbird Records in Darwen. A guest mix for the Lucius Lowe show on Chorley FM also brought him to a wider audience. 

Constantly pushing underground music, his sound now reaches across a wide spectrum, from deep afro beats through to melodic breaks and everything in-between. His 20+ years DJing experience makes him an agile selector who is always evolving.

Management: terry@turbomgmt.co.uk
Bookings: laetitia@decked-out.co.uk

With hardcore support from Pete Tong, Annie Mac, Gerd Janson, Tiga and The Blessed Madonna, who correctly noted that he has “the hardest working hair in show business,” ABSOLUTE. has raised himself above the rabble of contemporary dance music with stone-cold hits “Follow ur <3’,”Ride”, “Don’t Ya Want it’, “Papi’s Pumping Piano” and an official remix of Kylie’s anthem-of-the-decade ‘Padam Padam’ that will ensure free Fuji water in his green room for the rest of his life. As the London-based DJ/producer is a virtual lock to earn the kind of clout that will allow him to scrub the internet of all biographical detail, it seems wise to revisit his early days and career-to-date while we still can. 

As a child, ABSOLUTE. was enthralled by dance music, to the extent that he took the money his father had given him to buy clothes and spent it on a single turntable. While initially furious, once his dad heard the music, he calmed down and said, “Son, that is a low-slung floor-filler, and I have no choice but to respect it.” Later, ABSOLUTE. honed his DJing skills by using the lone deck to beat-match to Pete Tong’s BBC Radio show, a fact that will take on eerie significance if you read this bio backwards. 

A teenage ABSOLUTE. found his chosen family among club kids and drag queens in East London queer spaces, eventually going on to promote and curate spaces like these himself. "For whatever reason, the people in the queer scene hadn’t found liberation in pub trivia nights held at Wetherspoons breeding pits," he says. “So they had to create their own world instead. At this point, my politics are actually less progressive than the British Airways twitter account, so things seem to be moving in the right direction."

These experiences led to ABSOLUTE. to notice that queer spaces are largely dependent on the viability of human existence. As such, his nascent activist streak led him to sample climate icon Greta Thunberg on the track “Rave Against the Machine”, despite the fact that the 40-and-over conservatives who regularly challenge Thunberg to debate and/or wrestle on social media make up a huge part of the acid house market. The track led to a collaboration with the Extinction Rebellion collective, for whom ABSOLUTE. curated the “Rave Against the Machine” queer stage at the activists’ event in London. Unfortunately, the stage was promptly shut down by police. While many of the cops had no opinion on the political message, they were reportedly pissed that the event was overshadowing an after-hours the local station had been promoting.

To the extent that there is a habitable future for anyone at all, ABSOLUTE.’s is looking bright. With official remixes for icons Fever Ray and Tony De Vit, and a mass of original music including EPs on Shall Not Fade, DJ Haus’ Hot Haus, New York Queer stalwart Chrissy’s new label Maximum Airtime, a Radio 1 Essential Mix live from Glastonbury and named 6Music ‘Mix of the Year’ by The Blessed Madonna and a recently completed fourth U.S. tour. “Whether my music helps inspire the advance of cold fusion technology or I end up DJing the Emerging Artists Stage of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, I’m going to keep bringing the same BIG NEON ENERGY intensity to everything I do. 

So the next time someone tells you there’s no absolutes, give them a knowing grin and say, 'There’s just one, honey. Just one.’"