SMACKcast #015. Spring Me Some / Dan M

For a while in Copenhagen, clubs and bars was frequently visited behind the decks by kind and joyful man by the name of Dan. He showed impeccable taste in all things house. But at some point he vanished. Some said he moved to the countryside; others said he was playing a parade of clubs in southern Germany. All of that might be true, but one thing was certain when the debut EP Lessons came out in 2009. He had spent a lot of time in the studio with James Braun kicking around drumsamples for the impressive tracks on that record. We asked Dan M to deliver a mix of music for us and answer a couple of questions…

You and James Braun got signed to Claude VonStrokes label, how did that come about?
The sexy collabo between me and Martin Høgild aka James Braun started one cold december night  in 2008 on the Lessons EP. We finished after a couple of sessions and plenty of coffee and then we just send it over to a few different labels. We had three labels showing interest but we ended up signing the ep with Mothership.

So what music is coming out from you in the nearest future?

Next release from me will either be a solo ep or the one i’m working on with James Braun right now. Depends on wich one gets finished first really. No labels mentioned yet.

You made a mix for us, where did you mix it and what’s in it?

The mix was done in my bedroom on a late night in April. I always get very ambitious when i’m planning to do a new mix thinking that its gonna be the craziest I ever did. Then when I get down to the action I just end up saying fuck it and then push play on my cdj 800s. In the mix is some news and some “older” ones and the mix also includes my latest remix made with my buddy from Berlin Marc Schneider out on New Kanada. Basically I just went Deep. Check the tracklist and get digging. Some hot shit in there…

Tracklist:
1. Meltdown (Main Mix) – John Daly
2. Dark Edge (Dairmount and Berardi Dub) – André Lodemann
3. Free To Fly – IKE
4. Something For Myself – Delano Smith
5. All Those Beats – Wbeeza
6. Brothers & Sisters (Original Mix) – Bon & Rau
7. Geile Muziek – Anonym
8. Deep Inside (Main mix) – DJ Rasoul
9. Superior (Marc Schneider & Dan M. remix) – Murr
10. Under The Radar (Rozzo Mix) – Mike Shannon Feat Fadila
11. A116 – Wbeeza
12. Can’t Stop The House – Thompson & Lenoir
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