Biografía

Dan Selzer is a DJ and music supervisor based in Queens, NY. He has been doing it since the last century. Growing up a new wave teenager in the New Jersey suburbs, Dan couldn't help but be exposed to his sister's punk records, the club music blasting out of cars or the oldies playing on the radio. After mastering the art of the mix-tape, Dan grew to find that DJing was the best way to share his love of music. In the late 90s, influenced by early 80s NY, when punk and disco, new wave and hip-hop, funk and rock all co-existed on the dancefloor, Dan began DJing loft parties in Brooklyn. He started his first weekly party, Transmission, in 2000 at Plant Bar with members of the band The Rapture. During its 3 year run, it was mentioned twice in the Village Voice's "Best of NY" issues and recommended by Spin Magazine. His next residency, Alldisco, first held at SubTonic, then Capones in Williamsburg, helped spread the disco revival in NY and got positive notice from i-D magazine. Dan's next residency was the music-nerd's favorite record listening party, Dazzle Ships. Under the name Crazy Rhythms, Dan used to DJ with Mike Simonetti of Italians Do It Better/Pale Blue. In 2005, a Crazy Rhythms mix CD came out on the label RVNG and quickly sold out. While not DJing, Dan ran the post-punk reissue label Acute Records, hosted the internet radio show Pyjamarama on Viva-Radio.com and occasionally appears on WFMU and The Lot Radio. His passion for music has also found an outlet as music supervisor for the No Wave cinema documentary Blank City, contributing research for the MoMA exhibit Looking at Music: Side 2, and writing on music for various websites and magazines. Often mentioned as a "DJ's DJ" he'd preferred to be thought of as a "Fun DJ". He is known for his italo-disco fandom and for his sole release of naive hi-nrg krautrock techno as New York Endless. Pitchfork magazine’s Phil Sherbourne said “Selzer has been a key figure in New York’s dance music scene for well over a decade”, and that was in 2014. He’s also known as a graphic designer, including collaborations with Metro Area/Environ Records and Mesh-Key Records.

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