Daniel Bell
If you had to pick a city that Daniel Bell's name was most associated with, you would choose Detroit, and the creative flowering of techno which blossomed there in the ‘90s. But then again, consider his Button-Down Mind mixes from the early ‘00s, which are widely seen as responsible for shifting techno’s focus onto the then unexplored territories of Germanic minimal. Or indeed, his current deejaying schedule: Daniel Bell is just as comfortable supporting the scene in Virginia or Philadelphia as preparing a new Thursday night residency in Berlin.
At present, Bell divides his time between Berlin and the US, but he’s also lived in Toronto, where he spent time drumming in bands and taking classes as a film student, New York, where he first came into contact with the embryonic sounds of house music, and of course Detroit, where he finally managed to make his musical mark.
But it was in 1994 that Bell’s amalgamation of Chicago grooves, Detroit abstraction and European robotics really found its stride, in the form of DBX’s stone-cold classic, Losing Control. Claustrophobic and super-sparse, the track sealed his reputation worldwide, and even in Detroit, where he was still a stranger.
Info o Daniel Bell
If you had to pick a city that Daniel Bell's name was most associated with, you would choose Detroit, and the creative flowering of techno which blossomed there in the ‘90s. But then again, consider his Button-Down Mind mixes from the early ‘00s, which are widely seen as responsible for shifting techno’s focus onto the then unexplored territories of Germanic minimal. Or indeed, his current deejaying schedule: Daniel Bell is just as comfortable supporting the scene in Virginia or Philadelphia as preparing a new Thursday night residency in Berlin.
At present, Bell divides his time between Berlin and the US, but he’s also lived in Toronto, where he spent time drumming in bands and taking classes as a film student, New York, where he first came into contact with the embryonic sounds of house music, and of course Detroit, where he finally managed to make his musical mark.
But it was in 1994 that Bell’s amalgamation of Chicago grooves, Detroit abstraction and European robotics really found its stride, in the form of DBX’s stone-cold classic, Losing Control. Claustrophobic and super-sparse, the track sealed his reputation worldwide, and even in Detroit, where he was still a stranger.
Elektronika, House, Techno, Chicago House, Detroit Techno

