Learning To Fly Again

A product of the early 90's Florida underground house music scene, Danny got his first taste of house music from attending some of the legendary nights at clubs such as Aahz @ The Beacham Theatre, The Club @ Firestones, and Simons in Gainesville. After picking up decks in early 94, Danny built a very passionate hobby of collecting and djing music for the pure enjoyment of the music and entertaining friends. Taking his passion a step further, he decided to pursue a career in the music industry. Danny attended Full Sail in Winter Park, Florida for audio engineering. Shortly after graduation, he moved to Los Angeles to start his career and hone his skills in the recording business. After establishing himself in the industry, he soon found himself working with artists such as Mary J. Blige, Eminem, Jay Z, Ludacris, LeToya Luckett, P. Diddy, Tank and more as their recording/mix engineer and/or music programmer for their live shows. 2006 garnered him a Grammy nomination for "Record of the Year" on Mary J. Blige's hit record "Be Without You", and he received multiple Grammy recognition plaques for records and albums he worked on. Currently 2011 saw him recording most of Mary J. Blige's upcoming album, and is touring the world with Eminem as his music programmer. Although supporting others in their vision has been rewarding, Danny has never forgotten his dance music roots. This year finds him once again inspired to share his love of the ever evolving electronic sound.


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I am trying to make people more aware of the power of music, especially the kind that makes you move. Maybe some can take that experience on the dancefloor to see that we can work together as a race, if we just drop our differing ideas for a moment to see what is really there. Music is one of the best ways to do this to the human mind.

Selekta Chang’s roots lie in his Cuban family being exposed at an early age to his parents collection of disco, soul, rock, salsa, and funk records. His first musical instrument was the drums where he performed percussion in a symphonic classical band while in Jr. High. This eventually led to his interest in djing while one day watching “The Buffalo Gals” music video on MTV. It was the scratching sound he heard that lead to his curiosity on what it meant to mix records. Around that time in Miami his cousin was a disco dj, and it was his music that motivated Chang even more to pursue the art of the mixtape.

What Chang is best known for though is his residency at Simons! There he played with djs like Laurent Garnier, Felix Da Housecat, Deep Dish, Green Velvet, Richie Hawtin, John Aquaviva, Rabbit In The Moon, Hardkiss, Carl Cox, Josh Wink, King Britt, SF Wicked, Kimball Collins, D-Xtreme, dj Three, Monk, Jask, Mark Farina, John Digweed, Danny Tenaglia, DJ Pierre, Dubtribe, Doc Martin and much, much, more.  

Never constituting to one sound expect elements of disco, soul, afro-funk, electro, breaks, house, techno, trance, hip hop, to indie rock in his sets. Expressing such diverse sounds that it excites & entices his fans with the unknown & unexpected.

His dj travels have surpassed the borders of the USA to Formula One in Bahrain, FM4 Radio in Vienna, Beach Party in Beirut, SQ Club & Piekarnia in Poland, Treasure Beach Jamaica, Download Festival in Slovakia, to the legendary Cocoon Club in Frankfurt, Germany. 

Charity is where his heart is like his involvement with Project Ahimsa, a charity that spreads musical instruments to underprivileged youth around the globe. He was 2011-2013's Mr. X for The Red Bull Music Academy in West Florida, and a co-founder of the Street Music Workshop at The Moses House in Sulphur Springs, Fl. from 2008 till 2010.  

Far depths into the unknown Universe, its all illusion and reality?

Learning To Fly Again

Jackson