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Daniel Mehlhart - Biography

Daniel Mehlhart was born in Basel, Switzerland in 1986 and raised up in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. His parents are musicians, so it was given that he would play some kind of instrument. He started playing the drums at the age of 12 for about 6 years. In this time he got in touch with electronic music by listening the 'Clubnight' on HR3 radio. Fascinated by this kind of music, he bought his first set up at the age of 16 and has been spinning records now for 7 years.

Nowadays Daniel Mehlhart is busy in producing electronic music. His series of releases started on the netlabel FOEM-Crema in spring 2006 followed by a 4 track 12inch on the UK Label 'Evolved Recordings' and a release on Netherlands imprint 'Manual Music". After he released two highly acclaimed records on 'Karmarouge Records', Daniel moved along releasing two records on Neutonmusic, his second strike on Berlin based "Kindisch Records" hit the stores in February 09. Furthermore he produced his first remixes for DJ T on Kindisch and Fausto Messina on WIR Records and lately on Get Digital. On the Cologne-based label WIR, Daniel will release another 12inch in Summer 2009. In Addition to that he teamed up with Gabriel Ananda to release a 12inch on Gabriels new Imprint 'Basmati'.

Daniel Mehlhart loves to seduce the the partycrowd to dream, dance and love with his productions and DJ sets. Warm deep rolling basslines are the most important stylistic device. They transmit this kind of funk and sexyness in sound which let you dance smoothly over the floor. To catch the full range of tension in a set is and was elementary for having a great night.

In his sets one always finds this tension, which mainly results out of long build ups. In some cases you can even find some freckles of humor and irony. On the one had it may sounds serious and lost in deepness, and on the other hand its sometimes just an exaggeration of a cliché. Fine arranged melodies from multiple soundsources do the rest to get an impression of what he considers to be good, electrifying electronic music.

With his DJing adventures so far, Daniel is mainly spinning minimal and Techouse tracks but also some deep, funky housetunes in his sets. It's always the groove that makes him move...