About Dan Snazelle
Dan Snazelle's music is the result of sweat, tangled cables, and broken fingers, the months of barely holding on, and then a certain song saves you, at least for a few hours. It’s about writing songs that can still be listened to years from now, with choruses that might remind you of an old girlfriend who meant the world to you long ago, verses about the meaning and the feelings, not the editing and the autographs. His music is first about getting raw feeling onto tape/disk, onto the strings of the guitar or into the microphone, the result of trying to make records with immediacy and spontaneity in the recent world of digital recording, unlimited tracks, and Auto-tune. With his interest in new sounds, vintage electronics, the science of synthesis, and the art of converting emotions into digital data, he makes music that is uniquely now, while still being fully aware of the tradition it is part of.
Over the years as a member of countless bands, Dan Snazelle would come home to his home studio to find that many of his best ideas just didn’t fit into the framework of group songwriting, and as such these songs was born out of the desire to have total creative freedom. Dan's earliest noteworthy projects date back to the 1995 release of the first Bill Ding single, the duo between Dan and now infamous vocalist, Hefty Records / Slicker headman John Hughes III. Subsequently releasing two full length albums, one more single and an EP, Bill Ding attracted critical praise from both Europe and the states for their unique approach to deconstructing “pop” music, jazz, and hip-hop, blurring the lines between genres, incorporating everything from samplers to trumpet. Their second full length found its way into the CMJ Top Twenty. Bill Ding broke up after their final EP (Smilex) was released, but John and Dan worked together again in 2000 to collaborate on the soundtrack to the Italian film Scarlet Diva written and directed by Asia Argento.
In addition to these personal projects, Dan helped form and launch a now critically acclaimed 5 piece instrumental, live house/ space rock band known as La Makita Soma (Some Odd Pilot). The band produced 2 full-length albums and did well on college radio, while gaining airplay on MTV (Real World) and a feature on VH1.com. In 2001, Surveillance Records released a 12 inch of Dan Snazelle’s more decidedly house influenced electronic music.
Whether going under his own name, or under LOSS, Dan creates more music each year than he knows what to do with, and as the years have gone on he has searched for more means of getting it out to the public, whether through collaborations (La Pharmacie Music), TV placments (MTV) or the web.
Presently, Dan is exploring the textures of Dub, folk, jazz, techno, psychedelic rock and countless other genres, writing music for television and film (Shipmates, Real World), adding to the Loss (dans solo rock project) discography, creating sound for independent directors (Catherine Chalmers "SAFARI" ) and mixing and producing other NY artists.
Dan is always interested in creating music for specific projects, films, shows, sites, or events, so please contact him if you want something exclusive or are just interested in getting more material from him.
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