Gary Dann is a Drummer/Multimedia Producer that has toured throughout the U.S., Canada, and Europe playing drums for the Grammy-award winning hiphop pioneers Digable Planets and has engineered, co-written, and co-produced music for one of the Planets’ founding member solo projects;  Cee Knowledge and The Cosmic Funk Orchestra. In 2010 - 2011 he also played drums for legendary hiphop duo Camp Lo. He has also played drums, engineered, co-written, and co-produced for the singer, Jaguar Wright, who famously sang with The Roots and Jay-Z for MTV unplugged.

​Gary is currently the drummer for the live global house music collective Worldtown Soundsystem. Gary’s personal studio projects also include being co-founder, co-producer, writer, and performer of an eclectic rock/hiphop jazzy studio production duo called Advanced Mechanisms.

Fraction Theory, Dann’s brainchild, a drummer/DJ duo with producer/DJ Nex Millen mixes samples of traditional folk music with live drumming and turntablism. The duo’s debut, a mainstage performance to an audience of 15,000 at the 2009 Philadelphia Folk Festival was decribed as “showstealing” and “one of the best mainstage moments” of the festival by John Vettese at The Philadelphia City Paper.

Dann has also toured and recorded as the drummer for the electro-psychedelic band Gemini Wolf, and the 60s Floyd inspired The Ennui Project.

In 2011, Gary Dann opened The Boom Room Studio in Philadelphia as a home for his music and for his extended family of diverse artists to freely create and since it has become a center of the creative arts in Philadelphia.

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