Artists > Daniel Bell
Upcoming Gigs
Nov 16 - Run, London
Nov 17 - Session Club, Bucharest
Nov 23 - Watergate, Berlin
Nov 24 - STRP Festival, Eindoven
Dec 01 - Rex Club, Paris
Dec 07 - Napoli
Dec 08 - Zurich
Dec 14 - Sao Paulo
Dec 21 - Toi Bar, Toronto
Dec 23 - Montreal
Dec 26 - Oslo, Detroit
Jan 11 - Akron, OH
Jan 12 - Cleveland, OH
Jan 25 - Minneapolis, MN
Mar 07 - Hamburg
Mar 14 - Zurich
Mar 22 - London
Mar 28 - Lausanne
Mar 29 - München
Apr 4 - Washington, DC
Apr 5 - Philadelphia, PA
Apr 11 - The Bunker, Brooklyn
Daniel Bell is considered to be one of the pioneers of the minimal
techno genre. Born in Sacramento, California, Bell grew up outside
of Toronto, and later moved to Detroit where he collaborated with
Richie Hawtin as Cybersonik for three years on Plus 8 records. In
1991, he started his own label, Accelerate, where he released a string
of extremely influential releases as DBX.
Bell was influenced primarily by Chicago
House as well as the works of Steve Reich and Philip Glass. His
productions are characterized by minimalist house grooves accented
by blips and bleeps. Some tracks also feature bizarre voice effects
and eerie atmospherics such as "Losing
Control," which caused a sensation when released in 1994.
In the mid to late 90's Bell moved behind the scenes to create 7th
City Distribution which exclusively pressed and distributed Robert
Hood's M-plant, Dopplereffekt's Dataphysix and Anthony Shakir's Frictional
record labels, to name a few. He also launched Elevate, Harmonie
Park and relaunched 7th City Records. Debut releases on these labels
helped kick start the music careers of Todd Sines, Rick Wade, Theo
Parrish and Shawn Rudiman among others.
In 2000, he relocated to Berlin, Germany,
and released his first dj mix CD, "The Button-Down Mind of Daniel Bell," on Tresor
Records to wide critical acclaim. 2003 brought a follow-up release
on Logistic records, "The Button-Down Mind Strikes Back," and
soon after a retrospective cd of older work was released: "Blip,
Blurp, Bleep: The Music of Daniel Bell".
For the past few years Daniel has kept a heavy dj schedule that
has brought him all over the world. In 2007, he will temporarily
step back from djing to focus on production and developing a live
show that he hopes will start to tour later in the year.
