Hello I'm Dan! 

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A NY based, quirky, electronica music producer who creates customizable, original music for artists as “DTronic Sound Inc.”, and background music for Production Music Libraries, Reality TV, Content Creators, and Retro Themed Video Games as "Dansmusic".

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Producing (music), I'm inspired by the late 90s & 2000s, making happy, electronic soundscapes nostalgically reminiscent of my favorite retro video game soundtracks, movies, and TV! 

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Running (miles), I move at a fast tempo emitting positive energy that motivates & uplifts your content! 

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I'm (fortunate) to have my songs played on broadcast television - The Kelly Clarkson Show, E! Channel, NBC, and X Games on ESPN, ABC,  and sports stadiums - US Open, Yankee Stadium. 

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I'm (grateful) to create music with my clients and mentors, and look forward to making your project the best, high quality, and....QUIRKY!   

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The Story: 

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I discovered my passion for music in the early 2000s. 

 

I spent TOO many hours watching music videos on MTV, playing CDs on my Sony walkman, and loading my iPod Video (with MP3s of Y2K artists like "Linkin Park")! Listening wasn't enough for me - I wanted to create music. Watching behind the scenes clips,  I found myself fascinated by recording studios. I loved seeing producers make beats on drum machine samplers like the Akai MPC (the gear looked like a sci-fi movie, and the producers made it look easy!)

 

High School Band class became my musical outlet (a start!) - I played Alto Saxophone learning from my father while experimenting in my basement with boomboxes, cassette tapes, and lyrics. I later received my first music production software (Finally!) - a Cubase LE Disc bundled with an Alesis USB Mixer, microphone, and headphones. I recorded myself (making hit pancake themed raps as "mcflapjack"  lol)  & recording local artists. 

 

After deciding my career would be more than flapjack themed rap songs (yes I still have the cassettes of those), I got serious about my music production education, and applied to SUNY Purchase’s Studio Production program. My audition was an alto saxophone recording of my favorite Star Wars song  - the "Cantina Band". I was lucky to be selected out of hundreds of applicants (all that band practice paid off!). 

 

By college, I was fully immersed in Electronic Music (before it was called EDM!) - listening to progressive house artists like Deadmau5, and Avicii, I set my sights on making catchy,  euphoric dance anthems (they just needed a little more bass).  My senior year, studying paid off - my original track, “Never Let You Go” was selected for a SUNY Purchase Advertisement which aired during a New York City Football Club Game at Yankee Stadium. My college roommate Rory Mazur and I, produced the song in our dorm room (not realizing it would be played for thousands of sports fans)!

 

I graduated college in 2015, earning a bachelor's degree in studio production, and created my studio “DTronic Sound Inc.” producing hundreds of tracks, and performing with my clients at live venues in NYC like Bowery Electric. I freelanced for local recording studios such as "The Loft" in Bronxville, NY, before ultimately focusing my concentration on my home studio. 

 

Well my "EDM" college dream continued to followed me, and I reunited with Rory (from the Yankee Stadium Sync) for another magical co-write with a vocalist named Heather Sommer. As a trio, we penned vocals for “Antidote” by DJ Duo "Sinner’s Heist", released on “Hinky Records” (and generated over 3 million Spotify streams, go team!).

 

Fast forward (your VHS) >>>  to 2017, I was listening to tons of sync music, and the retro gamer in me realized some of my favorite music in science fiction movies & video games, could be revisited with a modern feel, inspiring me to fuse the electro, pop styles of the 90s & Y2K into easy license background music - the birth of “Dansmusic”! 

 

By 2020, I was producing fully remote while the world was on lockdown, and was eager to learn more music skills (again). I studied production music in an online course called "Sync Pros", meeting my first mentor, producer "Bruce Beats", creating a promising demo of uptempo EDM (plus electro pop & progressive house were no longer popular so it felt cool make it!). 

 

I later pitched the demo to UK music library "Score Production Music", who developed it into a custom, sync album called "YIPPEE EDM". During the creation of the album, I was encouraged to embrace the quirkiness of my personality unlocking my production sync super style "Quirky, Electronica" (EURIKA MOMENT!) . 

 

In 2022, turns out quirky was cool, the album was released and landed several TV placements (The Kelly Clarkson Show, E! Grammys and Oscars Live Specials, X Games on ESPN, ABC). The same summer, my  long time client Maxim Records commissioned me to create custom 80s walk-on music for their artist's performance at US Open, Arthur Ashe Kids Day.  I later released the song "Stadium Warm Up" for licensing and download as "Dansmusic" (a good year!). 

 

(Rewind <<<<) 2021-2022, I was living in NYC, exposed to analog recording & mixing techniques with my good buddy - mix & mastering engineer Joshua Pleeter at Dimension 70. I began incorporating these influences using analog synths , drum machines, and 8bit GTR pedals resulting in my 2024 studio album "Arcade Awesome", a love letter to vintage games for UK sync company, MediaTracks! 

 

In 2022, I left NYC, relocated to my roots (the burbs!). I would build a my home spaceship (or what you call studio) , and continued my composing education with my mentor Avery Berman.

 

If you made it here, I'm continuing to provide high quality, remote services from my hybrid studio, creating release, ready music for clients. To work with me on your next project, use the link below or email me at dtronicsoundinc@gmail.com - keep it QUIRKY!​

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