Daniel Mehlhart was born in Basel, Switzerland in 1986 and
raised up in a suburb of 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 now for almost 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 12" on the UK Label 'Evolved Recordings' and a
release and on Netherlands imprint 'Manual Music". After he did two highly
acclaimed records on "Karmarouge Records" in Cologne, Daniel moved along doing
two releases on Neutonmusic, and now his second strike on Berlin based "Kindisch
Records" hit the stores in February 09
Furthermore he did his first Remixes
for DJ T on Kindisch and Fausto Messina on WIR Records and on lately on Get
Digital.
On WIR, Daniel will release another 12" in Summer 2009. In Addition
to that he teamed up with Gabriel Ananda to release a 12" 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. When he
started to go out, he always was into the queues before the club openend. 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…