I loved booking the best house DJ in the world in my hay days.#1 Dan the man. lol neillium

Notes from the Underground - 05/19/15

Out now at Beatport
https://pro.beatport.com/release/ready-to-ride/1506518

DJ Dan & Mike Balance - Ready To Ride

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Karma Fields  |  Build The Cities (feat. Kerli) (AC Slater Remix)

Indie vibes on this one as Tei Shi's sweet vocals drop into a dense, atmospheric beat scene stomp that's all pretty and underwater. Fine work from the Color Station boss, who'll be debuting in Brooklyn at The Palisades on June 20. This one's a free download.

Tei Shi - See Me (Shines Edit)

Bay Area badman Fritz Carlton comes outta nowhere with a 3-track EP of markedly West Coast weirdo house. Elsewhere on the EP is a collab with recent NFTU featuree Ghostea, but we've got the premiere of "The Heat" with Smalltalk, a six-minute, laid-back shuffler punctuated with glitchy wobbles and playful flourishes that flit above a simply, funky, and propulsive bassline.

Here's the whole EP:

https://soundcloud.com/fritzcarlton/sets/fritz-friends-ep-free-download

Fritz Carlton & Smalltalk - The Heat

Underground UK acts Otik and Majora collide on this release on Liar's Tessier-Ashpool. It's fittingly dark and functional broken beat club music with heavy bass and hard-hitting kicks. The original is a frantic post-jungle tune, but Majora slows it down a heck but keeps up the bassweight in all its newfound atmosphere.

Juno purchase link: http://www.junodownload.com/products/otik-emphasis/2764604-02/ 

Otik - Witness (Majora Remix)

Some sterling acid vibes from Cliff Lothar, releasing on the ever-intrepid Omnidisc imprint. "Soul Plonk" builds with such effortless class and revels in analog tones––It shows you how much you can do with a little. 

Cliff Lothar - Soul Plonk

Naf 2 Live April 2025

apt Entertainment is celebrating 20 YEARS OF HOUSE Music, DJs & Events! We've commissioned our beloved DJ DAN for a groovy, bumpin' mix specially blended for our 20 Years of House mix series. Clear your schedule for some booty shakin' time... Enjoy!

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Innovator, tastemaker and a true legend - DJ Dan’s sound combines the spirit of 70s Disco and Funk with driving House and Techno. Throughout his expansive career he has played some of the top clubs and events around the globe. With his label, In Stereo Recordings, marking almost 25 years, Dan continues to push boundaries and influence the future of dance music as well as inspire countless DJs and producers.  He's created numerous celebrated releases from 'Needle Damage' to his first Platinum record, remix of Orgy's 'Blue Monday' to Electroliners 'Loose Caboose' and his album 'DJ Dan & Friends' which hit #1 for Beatport album sales in the first week of release. Dan has also remixed for other world renowned talent including Depeche Mode, New Order, Lady Gaga, Duck Sauce, Black Eyed Peas, Janet Jackson, A Tribe Called Quest, Carl Cox, Trent Cantrelle and Fort Knox Five. 

Dan was recently featured in Between the Beats, a new documentary by Martin O'Brien, capturing the vibrant San Francisco Bay Area rave scene of the ‘90s. Featuring rare interviews and appearances from iconic artists and DJs who helped shape the scene, including DJ Dan, DJ Harvey, Doc Martin, Miguel Migs, DJ Garth, DJ Jeno, and more, the documentary showcases the prolific underground energy, highlighting the music and community that influenced many within the Bay Area and beyond. As the dance music world continues to evolve, Dan continues to be one of its strongest voices and most powerful influencers.

DJ Dan apt 20 Years of House Mix

BACK TO THE PALACE 2  (THE REAL DEAL)

DJ DAN on The People's Banana at Lightning in a Bottle 2025.

DJ DAN Live @ Lightning in a Bottle 2025

Glaude 101 Sinner Edition 1

Another great day at Woodley Park. Here is my second set of the day. Went a bit harder and energetic for the second set. Hope you enjoy.

Live at re:love (09/07/2025)

My live set from the Friday Pre-Party at Nocturnal Wonderland 2025. What a great fucking time. I pretty much played a bunch of heavy hitter festival tracks because that seemed to be the vibe that was going on before I started. I hope you enjoy!

Live at Nocturnal Wonderland 2025

On Halloween, Tony Gamboa and I played on the rooftop of the Canary Hotel in Downtown Santa Barbara. Sold out night filled with people dressed up and enjoying the night in the open air. The vibes were top notch. The crowd was very mixed as far as demographics and age so I played a lot of remixes and big tunes which seemed to be what people wanted. It was full on party mode

Live at Rave To The Grave, Halloween 2025, Santa Barbara

Today we are super excited to release DJ Dan's (inStereo Recordings, Apt Ent, Los Angeles) epic 2+ hour fast and funky house set from the dramatic Tropical 27-Year Anniversary Hot Tub Oasis Retreat September 28, 2025!

We've had Dan play before, both at Tropical Oasis Retreat back in 2016, and at Tropical Boat party in 2018.  So this return is an appearance long overdue.

This is the best mixed set I (Ben Annand) heard in 2025, as well as my favorite DJ Dan set.
This year I got to know Dan quite a bit better as we were  festival roommates in Wisconsin (July), Alaska (Sept) and finally in California at this Tropical Event.  He's a super funny and humble guy, a legend for a reason. 

As the more humble headliners often do, Dan asked about how to play at this particular event.  I delivered what I know to be the best  news you can give to the dj - Our crowd is super open, play however you want, feel free to take risks and be adventurous in a long set.

That's exactly what you get here - Funky AF, a bit faster than normal due to where Dan was handed off, lots of 80s and 90s influences and fun flashbacks, artfully and perfectly mixed.

If there is ever a museum created for DJ mixes, this one should go in it.

Enjoy the funk out of it!

* Photo by Dj Dazy, Mix Cover by Ben Annand

** Tropical Oasis Retreat started in September 2011, and is now a completely private event, off social media.

If you would like to be invited to purchase tickets for Tropical 28-Year Hot Tub Oasis Retreat, please complete the form below:

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♡ Tropical 

DJ Dan Live at Tropical 27 Year Hot Tub Oasis Retreat 9-28-25

Enjoy some leftover tracks from a set that I didn't play recently! Happy Thanksgiving! - 8b

8ball - Leftover Electro, Beats, Loops, and Gravy - 2025

It’s tough to say more about DJ Dan than what is most likely known by just about any dance music fan that has ever taken interest in the genre. Just take a look at what some other legends have said:

“Dan is a pivotal ingredient to live DJing and production, a real teacher to all."-DJ Sneak

"The thing I love about Dan is that he's always had a funky spirit and he always pushes the elements of music."-Carl Cox

To those who still may not know all that much on Dan, we’ll help you out from under that rock. As you can tell from just a bit of the praise from musical icons DJ Dan has received, our West Coast bred friend has been around the block a few times (and turning heads all the while). Music has been forever entrenched in Dan’s life, having garnered a superior record collection at the age of 8 that would give Amoeba Records a run for its money. Starting his professional musical career with some smaller clubs in Seattle and then Los Angeles, DJ Dan had a rise to recognition in the dance music community that could be considered meteoric. Forming the Funky Techno Tribe in 1993, DJ Dan fused together breakbeat, house, dub, and techno to create a sound that later was fittingly crowned, “West Coast House”. And with renowned tracks like “Needle Damage”, and remixes for everyone from Depeche Mode to Duck Sauce, Dan’s production prowess is undeniable. The journey that Dan’s talents have taken him on could go on for pages and pages. He has played alongside the likes of fellow legends from Carl Cox to John Digweed with a mission of making club goers unable to fight the urge to dance the night away.

And it’s not just party goers and fellow DJ’s who bow down to Dan, the press have drooled over his music. DJ Mag named DJ Dan the #1 House DJ in 2006 while Urb Magazine named him “America’s Favorite DJ” and “America’s Hardest Working DJ” while he was also DJ Time’s ‘America’s Best DJ’ 2014 Top Ten Finalist. The media has never been more accurate. But one of the proudest moments could be said when THUMP warned partygoers to ‘never fuck with DJ Dan’ much like one unfateful attdendant did this year in Baltimore to which Dan had the most powerful of responses.

Dan’s widely renowned Los Angeles based label Instereo Recordings,has further etched his name into dance music’s core. With TJR, Phunk Investigation, Wolfgang Gartner, DJ PP, DJ Sneak, Hatiras, and DJ Dan being amongst the many artists featured on the Instereo Recordings, the label is hard to ignore in the industry. Dan also has releases on Toolroom, Pacha Recordings, Ultra, Guesthouse, Work, XL Recordings, Magnetic, Rising, and many others. 

In 2014 Dan shows no signs of slowing down. His EDC set was rated as one of the best sets of the weekend by DJOYBEAT.com as well as Magnetic Mag. Similar buzz had Insomniac President/ CEO Pasquale Rotella chiming in:

"We go back since the early 90′s and he DJ’d some of my first warehouse parties. He’s an LA underground staple and music legend.”

And if that wasn’t enough, in the recent major dance music poll ‘America’s Best DJ’, DJ Dan clocked in at #9 in a extremely competitive field; beating out some of the largest names in electronic music.

As this dance music world continues to evolve, it is safe to say that DJ Dan will continue to be one of its strongest voices and most powerful influencers.

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