Music has been a labour of love since I was a child. Having been brought up in a home where my father always had music playing, it left an indelible mark on me. In the early 80's, my father would bring back from his overseas trips, cassette tapes of new pop groups and this got me hooked. I started saving my pocket money and bought as many records and tapes as I could. As a teenager, I saved up for a nice stereo unit and keyboard whilst working in the holidays. I dabbled around making some of my own material on a 4 track mixer and mike. I released my first album in 1992 and entered an 89FM music competition where I was runner up at which time I received a bit of NZ radio airplay. With travel and work committments there was a hiatus of creating but I never lost the passion.
Technology has had a massive effect in the music industry and in 2008 I took advantage of this and started to work on new material. I created a new instrumental album to see if I still had the knack. With alot of encouragement from family and friends I decided to do a new album and test the old vocals out and released "Supernova" in 2011 via Tunecore, basically just to see if I could do it. With a few vocal tracks on the album and a few sales, I was encouraged to keep with that style and do more but really make it about me and keep things original.
With subconscious influences from my favourite artists, "Deep Down" sees the light and is now released. It has been professionally mastered by Black Magic Disco. The album is very personal to me and has been years in the making. It is a story of love, loss, lessons and life, all of which we experience in many different ways. Hopefully 1 or 2 tracks will hit a chord with you! Eventhough I am not a great singer I am very proud of what I have accomplished with the lyrics and compositions. I hope you enjoy it as much as I have making it. - Daniel.
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"Deep Down" reached No. 1 locally and No.5 nationally in the Australian Reverbnation Electronica charts.