DJ Dan

DJ Dan
DJ Dan, 2007
Background information
Birth name	Daniel Wherrett
Origin	Olympia, Washington, United States
Genres	House, funky house, electro house, breakbeat, techno, tech house, electronica
Occupation(s)	Producer, DJ
Labels	InStereo Recordings
Website	www.djdan.com

DJ Dan (born Daniel Wherrett) is an American electronic house music DJ and producer.^[1]

Career

Wherret grew up in Lacey near Olympia, Washington. He started collecting records as a child. He moved to Seattle from 1988-1990 to study fashion. During that time, he began hearing electronic dance music at the clubs there and in Tacoma like The Underground where he heard Randy Schlager and Donald Glaude. It was during this time he started experimenting playing on his own.

In 1991, he moved to Los Angeles, CA. After playing a few events with LA-based DJ Ron D Core - the two of them released a series of mixtapes together, including live mixes. He eventually made his way up to San Francisco, CA in 1993 where he joined forces with Funky Tekno Tribe. Together they massively influenced the West Coast Funky Breaks movement that then swept across the country. In 1996, the groundbreaking track "Loose Caboose" was released under the moniker Electroliners (Dan's partnership with Jim Hopkins). This track was picked up by some of the biggest DJs in the world at the time like Carl Cox, Sasha, John Digweed and Lee Burridge.^[2]

In 2000, Cox took Dan under his wing and brought him on tour. Also that year, Dan's track "Needle Damage" was released on 4 different labels worldwide. It went on to sell over 100,000 copies on vinyl. In 2001, he created his own label, InStereo Recordings.^[3]

DJ Dan has since played every major club and festival in the world. DJ Mag named DJ Dan the #1 House DJ in 2006. And Urb Magazine named him “America's Favorite DJ" and "America's Hardest Working DJ". He is currently rated the #9 DJ in America according to the DJ Times America's Best DJ Poll^[4]^[5]

Discography

Singles

DJ Dan & Hatiras - Baked From Scratch (Blow Media)
DJ Dan - Bam (InStereo)
DJ Dan and Grandadbob - Disco Hertz EP (Faith and Hope Recordings)
DJ Dan - Transformers Cartoon Theme (Hasbro)
DJ Dan & DJ Sneak - Speaker Hoes (Unreleased)
DJ Dan & Steve Mac - Da Muzik (Unreleased)
DJ Dan - Get Up (Kinetic)
DJ Dan & Bryan Cox - It’s Getting Closer (Ammo)
DJ Dan & Hatiras - Love for the Weekend (Blow Media)
DJ Dan Presents Needle Damage – That Zipper Track (Moonshine) - UK #53^[6]
DJ Dan - Needle Damage Remixes (Audacious)
DJ Dan - Put That Record Back On (Kinetic)
DJ Dan - Put That Record Back On (Part 1) (Honchos)
DJ Dan - Put That Record Back On (Part 2) (Honchos)
DJ Dan - Rock to the Rhythm (Audacious)
DJ Dan - That Phone Track (Subliminal)
DJ Dan & Dano - That Arrival (Red Melon Records)
DJ Dan - Monkey Business (InStereo Recordings)
DJ Dan - Annihilated (InStereo Recordings)
DJ Dan feat Suzie Del Vecchio - Baila Baila (InStereo Recordings)
DJ Dan – Seduction (InStereo Recordings)
DJ Dan & Donald Glaude - Stick Em (InStereo Recordings)
DJ Dan & Hipp-E - Bangin On Ya System (InStereo Recordings)
DJ Dan – Illectrolingus (InStereo Recordings)
DJ Dan - N20 (InStereo Recordings)
DJ Dan - Chop Shop (InStereo Recordings)
DJ Dan - Further Damage EP (Audacious)
DJ Dan - Secret Stash EP (InStereo Recordings)
DJ Dan - Bam 2009 (InStereo)
DJ Dan Presents Future Retro - Evolution 1 (Nettwerk)
DJ Dan Presents Future Retro - Evolution 2 (Nettwerk)
DJ Dan Presents Future Retro - Evolution 3 (Nettwerk)
DJ Dan Presents Future Retro - Fascinated (Nettwerk)
DJ Dan - In Your Area (Nettwerk)
DJ Dan & DJ Sneak - Dancefloor Sisters EP (Magnetic/InStereo)
DJ Dan - Work That Sucka/Whores Play (Rising)
DJ Dan - Stereo Damage (Hotfingers)
DJ Dan - Nasty Night Out EP (Guesthouse)
DJ Dan & Bartouze - Jukebox (InStereo Recordings)
DJ Dan - House All Night (PornoStar Records)
DJ Dan - Baby Boomer (Guesthouse)
DJ Dan & DJ Mes - Don't Hold Back (Guesthouse)
DJ Dan - Just A Fool (Dub Mix) (Guesthouse)
DJ Dan - Reckless Gurl (Guesthouse)
DJ Dan - In Your Area 2012 Edit (Nettwerk)
DJ Dan & Brian Matrix - More Damage (Heartfelt Sounds)
DJ Dan & DJ Mes - M.T.Y.S. (InStereo Recordings)
DJ Dan - Fist Pump Broken (Guesthouse)
DJ Dan - Disco Dancing (Guesthouse)
DJ Dan & DJ Mes - Where You Come From (Guesthouse)
DJ Dan & Brian Matrix - Africa (Hotfingers)
DJ Dan - Out Of Nowhere (Guesthouse))
DJ Dan - American Girls American Girls (Guesthouse)
DJ Dan - Ghost (Guesthouse)
DJ Dan - The Edge (Guesthouse)
DJ Dan - The Real Deal (Guesthouse)
DJ Dan - Love Is Stronger (Guesthouse)
DJ Dan - Party People (Guesthouse)
DJ Dan - Chunka Funk (Guesthouse)
DJ Dan - Tribute to Voodoo Ray (DJ Dan's Spellbound Mix) (InStereo Recordings)
DJ Dan & TJR - Jacked Up Funk (InStereo Recordings)
DJ Dan & Jerome Robins - Rock the Place (InStereo Recordings)
DJ Dan & Jerome Robins - Good For Me (InStereo Recordings)
DJ Dan & Ido - Guitar Funka (InStereo Recordings)
DJ Dan & Lookback - Nothing But A Party (InStereo Recordings)
DJ Dan & DJ Mes - Mighty High (Guesthouse)
DJ Dan & Charles Feelgood - Funky Mood (InStereo Recordings)
DJ Dan & Mike Balance - The Machine (InStereo Recordings)
DJ Dan & Gary Caos - Minibus (InStereo Recordings)
DJ Dan & DJ Mes - I Got It (Guesthouse)
DJ Dan & Charles Feelgood - We Got It (InStereo Recordings)
DJ Dan - French Dish (Guesthouse)
DJ Dan & DJ Mes - The Bump (InStereo Recordings)
DJ Dan & DJ Mes - Don't Hold Back (Guesthouse)
DJ Dan - Make Ya Freak (InStereo Recordings)
Dj Dan & Jerome Robins - Technique (InStereo Recordings)
DJ Dan & Umek - Mighty Wind (Toolroom)
DJ Dan & Phunk Investigation - Can You Hear It (Phunk Traxx)
DJ Dan - Baila Baila (InStereo Recordings)
DJ Dan - We Used to Jack (InStereo Recordings)
DJ Dan & Hazzaro - Body & Soul (InStereo Recordings)
DJ Dan & Oscar L - Feel The Panic (Toolroom)
DJ Dan & DJ PP Don't Stop (InStereo Recordings)
DJ Dan & DJ Mes - Mighty High (Guesthouse)
DJ Dan & DJ Mes - Where You Come From (Guesthouse)
DJ Dan & Terry Mullan - Phreaky Deaky 2014 (InStereo Recordings)
DJ Dan & WhiteNoize - Engine No. 9 (InStereo Recordings)
DJ Dan & Groovebox - Half Steppin' (Work Records)
DJ Dan & Simon Doty - Disco Slice (Toolroom)
DJ Dan & Simon Doty - Smash The Disco (Toolroom)
DJ Dan & Phunk Investigation - Everybody Over There (InStereo Recordings)
DJ Dan - Funky Fish Parade (InStereo Recordings)
DJ Dan - Get With You (InStereo Recordings)
DJ Dan - Don't Disturb This Groove (InStereo Recordings)
DJ Dan - Take It Higher (InStereo Recordings)
DJ Dan & Mike Balance - Shake That (InStereo Recordings)
DJ Dan - Conjunction Funktion (InStereo Recordings)
DJ Dan - Cut The Midrange (InStereo Recordings)
DJ Dan - Back The Funk Up (InStereo Recordings)
DJ Dan & DJ Mes - Crisco (InStereo Recordings)
DJ Dan - Out Of Line (InStereo Recordings)
DJ Dan & Ido - TekNoFunk (InStereo Recordings)

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Remixes

7 Days in a Bathroom (Neo Recordings)
A Tribe Called Quest - Pubic Enemy (DJ Dan Mix) (Jive Electro)
Atomic Babies - Cetch Da Monkey (DJ Dan Remix) (BML)
Basco - Everythings Gone to the Beat (Electroliners Remix) (Smile Recordings)
Blake Lewis - How Many Words (DJ Dan Remix) (BMG)
Brother Grimm - Radiate (Electroliners Remix) (Smile Recordings)
Carl Cox - The Future (DJ Dan Mix) (Moonshine)
Cirrus - Back on a Mission (DJ Dan Remix) (Moonshine)
Cirrus - Stop and Panic (DJ Dan Mix) (Moonshine)
Citizen King - Better Days (DJ Dan Remixes) (Warner)
Delirium (DJ Dan Remix) (Nettwerk)
Depeche Mode - Precious (DJ Dan Remix) (Sire/Warner)
Dino Lenny - I Feel Stereo (DJ Dan Mix) (Yoshitoshi)
Dub Pistols - Unique Freak (DJ Dan Mix) (Unreleased)
Enrique Iglesias - Do You Know (DJ Dan Mix)
Ferry Corsten - Body Rock (DJ Dan Remix) (Moonshine)
Filter - The Best Things (DJ Dan & Terry Mullan Remix) (Reprise)
Freshmaka - I Am The Freshmaka (DJ Dan Mix) (Moonshine)
Groove Armada - Chicago (DJ Dan & Terry Mullan Remix) (Jive Electro)
Happy Rhodes - Roy (DJ Dan Mix) (Iwillgetthis4u)
Jamie Kennedy & Stu Stone - Circle Circle Dot Dot (DJ Dan Remix) (Warner)
Jon H & Rakal - Drop Da Beat (DJ Dan Mix) (Red Menace)
Keoki - Crash (DJ Dan Mix) (Moonshine)
M5 Feat. Brad Raker - Sanctuary (Electroliners Remix) (Sorted)
Mephisto Odyssey - Flow (DJ Dan Mix) (Warner)
New Order - Krafty (DJ Dan Remix) (Warner)
New Order - Guilt Is A Useless Emotion (DJ Dan Remix) (Warner)
Olive - I Am Not in Love (DJ Dan Mix) (Warner)
Orgy - Blue Monday (DJ Dan Mix) (Warner)
Orgy - Stiches (DJ Dan Mix) (Warner)
Paradiso Girls - Patron Tequila (DJ Dan's Mix)
Pussycat Dolls - Don't Cha (DJ Dan's Dub) (Interscope)
Rob Tissera - Kick Up The Volume (Electroliners Remix) (XL)
White Knight - New World Order (DJ Dan & Dano Mix) (Smile Recordings)
Yoko Ono - Give Peace A Chance (DJ Dan Remix) (Twisted)
Rooster & Peralta - Shake it (DJ Dan Remix) (Funkatronik)
DJ Kue - The Way (DJ Dan Remix) (InStereo Recordings)
Mike Balance - Loud Enough (DJ Dan Remix) (InStereo Recordings)
Macca – Gangster (DJ Dan Remix) (Invasive Recordings)
I Don't Care - I Don't Care (DJ Dan Edit) (InStereo Recordings)
Loops of Fury - Flick A Switch (DJ Dan and Mike Balance Remix) (U&A Recordings)
Lady Gaga - Paparazzi (DJ Dan Remix) (Interscope)
Janet Jackson - Make Me (DJ Dan Vocal and Peaktime Remixes) (Interscope)
Space Cowboy feat Cinema Bizarre - We Came 2 Party (DJ Dan Remix) (Interscope)
P Diddy - Love Come Down (DJ Dan Remix) (Interscope)
Lady Gaga - Bad Romance (DJ Dan Remix) (Interscope)
Lady Gaga feat. Beyoncé - Telephone (DJ Dan Extended Mix) (Interscope)
Fort Knox Five - Shift feat Afrika Bambaataa & Mustafa Akbar (DJ Dan & Mike Balance Remix) (Fort Knox Recordings)
Fort Knox Five - Shift feat Afrika Bambaataa & Mustafa Akbar (DJ Dan & Mike Balance Instrumental Remix) (Fort Knox Recordings)
Dom G - Work (DJ Dan & Mike Balance Remix) (InStereo Recordings)
Uberzone - Operator feat. Blake Lewis (DJ Dan & Mike Balance Disco Funk Remix) (Nettwerk)
Delerium - Lost And Found feat. Jael (DJ Dan Club Mix) (Nettwerk)
Trent Cantrelle & Princess Superstar - Robot (DJ Dan & Mike Balance Remix) (Sounds Like)
DJ Dan - N20 (DJ Dan's Bongoloid Mix) (Nettwerk)
DJ Dan - Tribute To Voodoo Ray (DJ Dan's Spellbound Mix) (Nettwerk)
Jay Vegas - Way Back (DJ Dan Mix) (Guesthouse)
DJ Dan, Brian Matrix - Stereo Damage (Dj Dan & Brian Matrix Remix) (Hotfingers)
Bryan Jones - Part Of The Game (DJ Dan Remix) (InStereo Recordings)
Bryan Jones - Part Of The Game (DJ Dan Dub) (InStereo Recordings)
Christopher Lawrence, SuZie Del Vecchio - A Little Rush (DJ Dan And Mike Balance Dub) (Curvve)
Ferry Corsten - Rock Your Body, Rock (DJ Dan Remix) (Flashover Recordings)
Dave Aude, Tall Paul & Sisely Treasure - Common Ground (DJ Dan Remix) (Audacious Records)
Jay Vegas - Way Back (DJ Dan Mix) (Guesthouse)
DJ Dan - In Your Area (Extended Version) (Nettwerk)
DJ Dan - In Your Area (DJ Dan Club Mix) (Nettwerk)
DJ Dan - In Your Area (DJ Dan Club Dub) (Nettwerk)
Christopher Lawrence, Suzie Del Vecch - A Little Rush (DJ Dan & Mike Balance Dub) (Curvve)
DJ Dan & TJR - Jacked Up Funk (DJ Dan Tech Funk Mix) (InStereo Recordings)
Tom Forester - Feel Good (DJ Dan Remix) (InStereo Recordings)
Bryan Jones - Part Of The Game (DJ Dan Mix) (InStereo Recordings)
DJ Dan - Tribute to Voodoo Ray (DJ Dan and Mike Balance Remix) (Nettwerk)
First Choice - Love Thang (DJ Dan Remix) (Ultra)
Raw Silk - Do It To The Music (Dj Dan Remix) (Ultra)
Instant Funk - I've Got My Mind Made Up (DJ Dan Remix) (Ultra)
DJ Dan - Put That Record Back On (DJ Dan 2013 Mix) (InStereo Recordings)
Avon Stringer - You (DJ Dan Remix) (Onelove)
Richard Grey & Sir Charles - I Believe (DJ Dan Remix) (Pacha Recordings)
DJ Dan - Work That Sucka (DJ Dan Tech Mix) (InStereo Recordings)
DJ Dan - House All Night (DJ Dan Tech Mix) (InStereo Recordings)
Gary Caos & Dimo - Drop That Bass (DJ Dan Remix) (InStereo Recordings)
DJ Dan & TJR - Jacked Up Funk (DJ Dan Tech Funk Mix) (InStereo Recordings)
Jay Vegas - Way Back (DJ Dan Mix) (Guesthouse Music)
Sammy Peralta - Shake It 2010 (DJ Dan Mix) (Funkatronik Music)
DJ Dan - Put The Record Back On (2013 Mix) (InStereo Recordings)
DJ Mes, Sonny Fodera & DJ Dan - Wanna Do (We Did It Again Mix) (Guesthouse)
Suicide Kings - Spell On You (DJ Dan Mix) (InStereo Recordings)
Richard Grey - I Believe feat. Sir Charles (DJ Dan Remix) (Music Is The Answer)
A Tribe Called Quest - Pubic Enemy (DJ Dan Mix) (Jive/Legacy)
Prince Dred & Bunny Sigler - Freak Like Me (DJ Dan Mix) (Guesthouse Music)
Tom Forester - Feel Good (DJ Dan Re-Rub) (InStereo Recordings)
Studio Nova - The Reason We Took It Underground (DJ Dan 2014 Re-Rub) (InStereo Recordings)
Studio Nova - The Reason We Took It Underground (DJ Dan & Simon Doty Remix) (InStereo Recordings)
Anhanguera - Yes We Like (DJ Dan & Mike Balance Mix) (InStereo Recordings)

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Compilations

Accelerate (Kinkysweet)
Another Late Night (Moonshine)
Beats 4 Freaks (Moonshine)
DJ Dan: In Stereo (Kinetic)
Funk The System (Moonshine)
Lift Vol 1 (Thrive)
Lift Vol 2 (Thrive)
Loose Caboose (VRG)
Mixed Live: Ruby Skye San Franicsco (Moonshine)
Roundtrip (Kinetic)
URB Mix Vol 2 (Smile Communications)

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Studio albums

Future Retro (Nettwerk, 2010)
Disco Funk Odyssey (Guesthouse Music, 2013)
Nothing But A Party (InStereo Recordings, 2014)

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References

↑ Phares, Heather; Potts, Diana. "Biography: DJ Dan". Allmusic. Retrieved 4 May 2010.
↑ http://www.discogs.com/Electroliners-Loose-Caboose/release/18550
↑ http://www.discogs.com/DJ-Dan-Presents-Needle-Damage-That-Zipper-Track/master/138908
↑ "Bio". DJ Dan. Retrieved 2012-05-09.
↑ http://djtimes.com/markus-schulz-voted-americas-best-dj-2014/
↑ Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p. 159. ISBN 1-904994-10-5.
↑ 7.0 7.1 http://www.beatport.com/artist/dj-dan/5416/tracks
↑ 8.0 8.1 http://www.discogs.com/artist/217-DJ-Dan
↑ http://www.beatport.com/artist/dj-dan/5416/releases