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Just a killer bass groove, performed on a 5 string electric bass with E A D G C tuning over a drum beat (mostly loops, some tom fills actually played). Add lead synth and Rhodes. DD, March 2019 Performed by DD, 2014-2015 Electric bass guitar, percussion (talking drums and cymbals), electric guitar, ebow gutar, wurlitzer, […]

New digital EP released April 17th 2019 Solo instrumental performance of a simple melody and some variations (time expansion and compression, permutations and octave transpositions). All passed through long delay and echo effects to produce melodic lines that superpose upon each other creating a counterpoint, in part random and in part planned (variations have been […]

I released this EP today, all performed (almost exclusively) on electric basses. https://awal.lnk.to/y9z3e Some multi tracked ambient bass, some unaccompanied bass (fretless track 2, fretted 5 string track 1, real time pedals and treatments track 4) Thanks for listening and any comments/critics are welcome. It is called Hope, Despair & Other Issues: Melodic Experimental Electric […]

Released today, another remixed version of an old junto track (junto 307). Again thanks guys and marc.weidenbaum for the inspiration and for being the spark for this (and several other) creative weekend fire.   https://awal.lnk.to/Auxcompositeursbarbares

I love algorithms, and algorithms love me? Spotify (or, better said, its algorithms) are starting to take me serious (thanks to my fans really) and some days ago it created the “This Is Daniel Diaz” playlist, but more interesting is the new “Daniel Diaz Radio” where they put together a playlist with some of my […]

New release January 31st 2019 World’s End Serenade https://awal.lnk.to/i5pVo      

Disquiet Junto Project 0367: Trio Initiate The Assignment: Record the first third of an eventual trio. Solo accordina recording by myself:   Disquiet Junto Project 0368: Engage Duo The Assignment: Record the second third of a trio, adding to a pre-existing track. DD: electric bass Ian Joyce: all the rest @ikjoyce.     Disquiet Junto […]

New long form acoustic instrumental: THE LONG ONE The Long One by Daniel Diaz Streaming and download also here: https://AWAL.lnk.to/h6X2b The Long One: G major/E minor suite   Instruments (in order of appearance)   Bowed upright bass harmonics Cello Electric Bass Guitar (Drake Diaz Custom5) Electric guitar (semi-hollow body) (Epiphone Sheraton) Bowed upright basses Acoustic […]

For this “Larmkunst Theme” I created glitches out of analog and tape delays, set to infinite feedback and saturation. The long coda produced by these distorted delay tails is used in edited form here and there to produce textures and contrast with the simple and pure acoustic theme. The main theme is already online here: […]

Genetically modified clarinet by Gustavo Bulgach Image by Casey Horner Poem by Taneda Santoka Nylon string electric bass, stratocaster guitar, samples and synths by DD This haiku inspired the music: “the milky-way at midnight a drunkard dances” April 2018, Paris and Los Angeles. . . . Clarinet performance inspired by Yusef Lateef and performed by […]