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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Dirty Rotten is a duo made up of one half Dj Apollo and Dj4Life both started out with the sound of House and Progressive eventually finding their true passion for the Breakbeat. 

Apollo joined the EDM scene in 1999 when he attended his first party BIZOUNCE2. He first became a sound technician with Chain Reaction Productions. While doing sound for Chain Reaction his love of Dance music and the art of Djing grew with every event he worked until his love of Electronic reached a point where he could no longer just dance to the music he needed to Make people dance. So he embarked on a quest to become one of the Incredible artists that he watched make people dance every weekend. He was very fortunate to learn from Donovan Cline the owner of Chain Reaction and an incredible technical and overall Dj. Working for Chain Reaction allowed Apollo to learn on Technic
 MK3s and a DJM600 mixer on a 30,000 watt club/event sound system opening and closing Shows. Learning in front of a crowd made for a very steep learning curve and soon Apollo was being booked on his own for club nights and events all over Colorado. After working long and hard at becoming a solid Dj with a good name in the scene he was forced away from the music scene for an extended amount of time. When he finally returned to the scene he was musicless but still hungry to become the artist he was inside. After collecting some tracks and wreckin’ shop again like he had never taken any time away he was back where he belonged behind the decks, Rededicated to the music.
Dj4life Grew up with a strong passion for music and always had an ear for good tunes no matter the genre. "I remember the first time I saw a Dj live I was very inspired, It was amazing seeing so many souls getting down to the beat that the Dj was providing" DJ4Life started buying vinyl records and creating a small collection then acquiring one Technic 1200 and one Belt drive Gemini and after endless hours into days into months of playing he was booked for his first party. "For the first 20 minutes of my set I was too nervous to even look away from the decks when I finally my eyes met a small crowd getting down and dancing like crazy." That is the moment that DJ4Life knew that he wanted to do this forever. Shortly after he began getting booked for many shows and clubs throughout Denver and quickly made a name for himself.
Dirty Rotten was started in December of 2010. With the collaboration they successfully ran a Sunday night at club Sutra for over a year and Sunday nights are not easy to pull off, Then shortly after they successfully ran a bi-monthly for over a year. The Dirty Rotten Philosophy is whether one person or a thousand people are touched as long as asses are shaking and faces are smiling they know they fulfilled their duties as DJ!!

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             1990  - Begins DJ career after moving to Colorado from Texas with first night club gig at the 'Boulder Express Club'. 
             1991  - Helps lay the foundation for the Colorado underground music scene as one of Denver's originating Rave DJ's as Poorboy Production's resident  deejay
             1992  - Has residencies with Poorboy Productions Friday night after hours 'Kitchen Club' and 'Sunshine' at the Marquee Club in Boulder, Co. and Rock Island in Denver.
             1993  - Becomes resident deejay of newly formed Together Productions which would become respected nationwide as a innovative leader in the underground scene for over a decade.
             1994  - Opens Colorado's first full scale DJ specialty shop SoulFlower Records and begins playing cities throughout North America including Canada.
             1995  - Under the artist name SHOP, debut studio production is released on U.S. label Rampant Records. 'Backhand' is released in the spring on the 'Roundtrip E.P.'
             1996  - Follow-up is released on Rampants 'Lionheart/Shop E.P.' with tracks 'Lucifers ' and the 'Kickin The Dog Mix' and has releases on labels  Moonshine and U.K.'s Subversive. Travels the U.S. and Canada as part of Rampant Records first label tour 'Planet Rampant' with DJ's Doran, Tony, Brownie and Nebula Nine (live p.a.)
             1997  - Embarks on second Planet Rampant Tour  with the inclusion of DJ's Micro and John Debo plus Deepsky (live p.a.
1998 to 2003  - Continued DJ performances throughout the U.S. and Canada with local one offs including 'Rave on the Rocks' at Red Rocks Amphitheater and Moby's 'Area 1' at Mile High Stadium
2003 to 2006  - Temporary hiatus 
2007 to present  - returned to record various studio projects and now deejay's various local spots and out of town gigs.

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