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full of happy Italo. Disco. House.

🏳️‍🌈Lyricist crafting the spectrum of my queer life. From raw, late-night fetish club anthems to vulnerable, cinematic ballads. My work captures the beautiful, messy, unspoken, and thrilling realities of my queer experience. This is my reality, my dreams, and everything in between. Give it a spin and lose yourself in the story. 🎧

With 30 years behind the decks and a background in classical music, DAIN began his lifelong journey as a DJ at 16, landing his first residency after just a year. Lucky to be N.Y.C. based, exposure to the sounds of Sasha&Digweed, Paul Van Dyk, Deep Dish, Paul Oakenfold, Dave Seaman, Nick Warren, Carl Cox, Danny Tenaglia, Frankie Bones, and other icons on a weekly basis at historic venues like Twilo, Tunnel, Vinyl, and storm raves gave him a deep appreciation and knowledge of global underground dance music. DAIN’s constantly evolving style has been best described as Sasha (prog/tech) x Danny Howells (house/deep) x Lee Burridge (organic) x DT (house/tribal).

He further honed the art and craft playing at the most infamous nightlife institutions in New York City history - including main floor weekend residencies at the Limelight (1999-2003), Spirit [ex-TWILO] (2004-2005), EXIT2 [Terminal5] (2000-2002), Avalon (2004-2005), MK [Highline Ballroom] (2002-2004), Pacha NYC (2005-2006), Verboten (2010-2013), as well as weekday residencies at Opium Den, Filter 14, Liquids, & The Leopard Lounge/Sin Sin (1998-2005).

In addition to his many residencies and with steady demand for his melodic, progressive, deep house sets - at one point regularly playing up to 25 gigs/month - DAIN could also be heard at every other major venue in Gotham such as: Twilo, Tunnel, ARC (former Vinyl), Sound Factory, Roxy, Centrofly, Discotheque, Le Souk, Groovejet, Sullivan Room, Frying Pan, Gold Bar, and more. This would lead to playing across N. America, Asia and Europe: Tokyo, Osaka, Shanghai, London, Amsterdam, Dublin, Playa/Tulum, Ibiza, Dubai, LA, Miami, Chicago, SF, and more - including sets @ WMC, Burning Man, BPM Festival, World Pride NYC, & radio mixes for Proton, Frisky, and EDMRadio. Performing for hundreds to thousands of dedicated clubbers on a weekly basis helped him to learn how to read the crowd and adapt in any situation to keep the party moving. While he enjoys peak-time or closing sets, perfecting the art of the opening DJ (utilizing record knowledge spanning decades across myriad genres) remains a favorite specialty.

In the past, DAIN (as also one half of promotional/mgmt group Audio Elements), has worked with key nightlife figures & sponsors such as Landsdowne-Limelight Mgmt, international club brand Spirit, Ministry of Sound, Gatecrasher World Tour, Renaissance, Balance, Collective Agency; as well as official record release events with labels and artsts on Bedrock, Vandit, Bonzai, Global Underground, Yoshitoshi, Hooj Choons, Silver Planet, Platipus, Tsunami, & Ultra. Due to the ability to cover a wide range of genres they have had the honor of individually, or as a group, performing alongside some of the most respected names in dance music including: Bedrock (John Digweed & Nick Muir), Hernan Cattaneo, Diplo, Guy Gerber, Seth Troxler, Jozif, Lee Foss, Subb-an, Lee Curtiss, Bedouin, Guti, Tiesto, Armin, Ferry Corsten, DeadMau5, Jimmy van M, Chris Fortier, Sean Cusick, Way Out West (Jody Wisternoff & Nick Warren), Breeder, James Holden, Anthony Pappa, Steve Lawler, Danny Howells, Medway, Omid 16B, King of Spin, John "Quivver" Graham, Lee Coombs, Hector "Choo Choo" Romero, Satoshi Tomiie, Junkie XL Live, Jeff Mills & Richie Hawtin Live, Hybrid Live, Infusion Live, and more. 

Most recently DAIN held the role of co-owner, talent liason and assisted the programming for world renowned Verboten (voted best new club in the world 2014), working behind the scenes to breakout some of the biggest names in underground EDM to the US market, including: Seth Troxler, Hot Natured/Jamie Jones & Lee Foss, Maya Jane Coles, Adriatique, Hot Since 82, Tale of Us, Soul Clap, Art Department, Blond:ish, Damian Lazarus, Maceo Plex, Claptone, Cassie, Edu Imbernon, and more. He has worked in all facets of nightlife from weekly punter, PR, DJ, promoter, booker, A&R, to chef for talent at various festivals, production manager, and eventually investor/club owner.

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Initially established in 2003 at The Eagle in London’s Vauxhall, Horse Meat Disco has evolved into a powerful force in queer and club culture as a whole, while staying local to its original home, each and every Sunday. Co-founded by James Hillard and Jim Stanton, and encompassing residents Severino and Luke Howard, the crew continue to maintain not only the weekly Sunday party, but a number of residencies in cities across the world, alongside a kaleidoscope of club appearances, festival dates and specially curated mixes.

Taking inspiration from a diverse, counter-cultural history of clubs and DJs, as well as from the sprawling, ever-expanding musical collections of it's resident crew, the sound of HMD is impossible to place. Nonetheless their style is undeniable, as is a popper-scented air of sheer authenticity. Rooted in hedonism, rhythm, freedom and emotion, a Horse Meat Disco set reinforces everything invigorating about disco, as comfortable as shattering old-school mirror ball cliches as basking in their light.

A typical HMD set blends classics, italo disco, house, oddities and punk funk, to conjure their initial spirit of “a queer party for everyone”, including, but not limited to, “Homos and Heteros, club kids, bears, fashionistas, naturists, guerilla drag queens and ladies who munch.” They have made appearances on every notable club scene in the modern world, as well as those beyond, and have long been a key fixture at festivals including Glastonbury, Bestival and Festival No.6.

Outside of the club, the Horse Meat Disco train rolls across the airwaves on Rinse FM, where the crew hold down a weekly residency every Sunday afternoon, serving as a pre and post-club Sunday lunch accompaniment, often delving into the more soulful shades of their sublime taste, often encompassing rave groove, gospel and whatever they can’t get away with on the dancefloor (which, as the years have proven, isn’t much). A series of expertly curated and acclaimed compilations for reissue label Strut helped further cement HMD’s formidable but communal reputation as disco masterminds, spreading their sound and many enviable obscurities into front rooms and record bags across the world. Their latest, ‘Meat Me Down the Disco’, was released on Z Records in 2017.

After decades of crate digging, globetrotting and partying, the HMD story continues apace. 2017 also saw the crew record their long-awaited contribution to BBC Radio 1’s ‘Essential Mix’, as well as their first joint foray into production, ‘Waiting For You To Call’, featuring Roy Inc., and released on their own, self-titled imprint. They are currently working on new music to be released with Glitterbox, with the new single ‘Let’s Go Dancing’ released in December 2018.

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