Danism is Dan Liquid and Dan Nu:Tone; originally hailing from the sleepy university town on Cambridge now setting the world alight with their consistently top-drawer productions. As a fully-trained musician and keyboard player, Dan Nu:Tone has seamlessly integrated himself with Dan Liquid’s production vision and their tracks have rarely failed to hit the right notes. This quality and consistency has resulted in major support right across the house spectrum from the likes of Tony Humphries & Loie Vega to Laurent Garnier, Roger Sanchez, Mark Knight and Axwell.
Now the duo are set to release their first solo release on Defected, with a remix from disco darlings Crazy P adding further weight to the package. Here, we catch up with them for a quick chat…
How's the year treating you so far? Anything exciting to report?
So far this year is looking good. We have a first solo release on Defected with 'Love The Way' and we’re working on a project with USA's C Reid who was the featured vocalist on the Smashing Sebastian track that ATFC remixed last year. Our collaboration with Michael Gray and Rae will also be out this year, called ' You Will Remember'. On top of that we are working on another project for Nocturnal Groove and have just finished a track with Yasmeen for Strictly Rhythm called 'Rise'.
What were some of the highlights of last year for you?
Playing the Defected In The House events is great and it had been quite a break since the early parties at MOS back in the day, so it felt good to be back part of the team again. We also love the new Defected basement parties, particularly the Tensnake album launch…Arthur Bakers disco set was really inspiring.
As you say, this is your first solo release - remixes and collaborations aside - on Defected? Tell us a bit about the track?
The track incorporates elements of Dexter Wansel’s 'The Sweetest Pain', which is about as good as it gets for a classic piece of disco. The track’s been sampled before by Tom Middleton also (a house classic on Global Underground) and on top of that its our first solo release on Defected (pressure!), so we had to make sure we took the track in our own direction and hopefully we have achieved that.
Why - out of the many thousands of you could have borrowed from - did you chose to take the sample from this particular record?
Can't lie to you…this one was down to the big boss, so thanks for the idea Simon! Hope we have done it justice.
Do you think there's a danger when sampling a fairly well known record that the new version will always be compared to the original?
Our version is so far away from the original that hopefully that's not too much of an issue, The Crazy P mix is much more on the disco tip, but to be honest their version is so good I can’t imagine there will be a much of a problem from the purists.
Did you have any hand in selecting them as remixers?
No, but we’re massive fans, and it was a massive surprise. Really good Xmas present! Crazy P are so hot…how good is their remix!?!?!?
What else have you got going on at the moment?
D ‘n’ B fans should definitely check www.nutone.org - Dan Nu:Tone's new album 'Words & Pictures' is out on Hospital records in February and you can hear samples of all the tracks there. How Dan fits it all in, I do not know!
Anything else you’d like to tell us about…?
I'm busy preparing for two more little Danisms , which, god-willing, will be here in May (twins). With Dan Nu:Tone's three that will make enough for a 5-aside team! For more music and sport related banter, you can keep in touch with us at www.facebook.com/DanismUK
Love The Way is out now - click to listen & buy
