Rock guitar and vocal driven funky tech house.

8 MP3 Songs
ELECTRONIC: Dance, ELECTRONIC: House



Details:
Six years of my life have gone into making electronic dance music. 8 songs have made the final cut to go on haZy pRo 1.0 "The Wilderness".

All songs were created in the haZy pRo studio in Atlanta, Georgia using the software program's Reason and Acid.

The CD is called "The Wilderness" because I wrote and recorded most of the songs in my "clubbing days". From age 22 to 27 I was lost, wondering aimlessly just like Moses and his crew did. In the past year, I have given my life to Christ and He has changed my way of thinking. I still LOVE electronic dance music; lights, lasers, and smoke machines... but now, without all the partying.

So put on your favorite pair of headphones, kick back and see where haZy pRo 1.0 can take you!



Biography
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Long A.D.D. version
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Music has always intrigued me! My earliest memories are connected to music in some way. Someone gave me one of those cheap fisher price voice recorders when I was 5. Besides trying to rap and sing, I had copied all the greats⦠like Prince and Footloose and Van Halen from my older brothers. (Itâs good to have older brothers that can buy tapes. Then you sneak in their room to copy. But after you copy over a tape like 3 times, it sounds like crap. Thank God for CDâs!!!) Anyway, back to the story. I was just saying that I was recording at age 5 (who cares).

I played the sax in grade school, but gave it up to play football. Wish I still knew how to play (the sax, not football). I had a keyboard and figured out how to play a couple of the pep rally songs and really impressed Doug Bess (my child hood best friend). Well he said he was impressed but now itâs kinda funny cause I think it was like three notes (you know the one).

Then letâs see, high school was kinda crazy for me musically. I listened to a lot of alternative rock, some rap, and believe it or not I knew all COUNTRY!!? I did live in North Carolina on a farm, but anywayzâ¦. My junior or senior year in high school my buddy Barry and I wrote a few songs. He had an acoustic guitar and tried to show me how to play a few Nirvana songs, but I just gave up and let him play while I sang (or rapped). Since neither Barry nor myself had a job we had some experimental recording equipment. (this is funny) We took the answering machine from his momâs kitchen and rigged it to record tracks. It was kinda like a homemade 4 track. For a drum we would turn the guitar over and use it like a conga.

*This is all really the build up just keep reading, it should get better or Iâm not publishing it*

So then off to college⦠What a waste, but it had to be done. I bought an electric guitar and little amp from a pawn shop in Hickory, N.C. and practiced the two chords that I remembered ( E and G, I think.). After mastering âCome As You Areâ I would go to school & get online (which was something pretty new THE INTERNET). I would download more guitar tabs to play. Then try to impress my friends (which were very seldom impressed because they all listened to country). So slowly I started despising country music and craving some grungy rock guitar that made you bob your head, but still knew nothing about raves, house music, or drum and bass.

I moved to Atlanta in January 1999 and lived with my brother, Kelly. I donât know what to say about Kelly⦠Letâs just say, if it wasnât for Kelly Daniels, I would not be where I am today and I would not have ANYTHING that I have!!! I love him very much âcause he always believed in me!

Now back to haZy pRoâs arrival to Atlanta:

It took me a couple of months to find a drummer. Then a bass player and another guitarist and I had myself a band called â21 Tomorrowâ. We never played a real show. We played some girls college graduation party. EVERYONE WENT OUTSIDE WHEN WE PLAYED. It was the funniest thing I think Iâve ever seen. They said it was really great, just too loud! It was CRAZY loud. The cops came twice. Maybe 3xâs!

Still no house musicâ¦

I then started playing with a new drummer, Damian (Kelly introduced us, somehow?). A little more laid back on the kit, but we grooved well and played some super bad Beastie Boy covers. I guess Damian took me clubbing for the first time and showed me a whole new world of feeling music. He invested in some turn tables and jamming slowly stopped. I got a computer and tried to figure out Sonic Foundryâs âAcidâ and Propellerheads âReasonâ.

When he would DJ pool parties and places I would grab the mic and do my raps that I had made up for the rock songs. It was hard to do at first because the tempo was much faster than the rock speed. So I got different DJ CDâs and wrote new raps along with their beats. I had, what seemed like, thousands of endless lyrics so everyone thought I was free styling at mock speed.. Taking my newly honed skill to anyone that would listen inside the club. Or outside in line, or waiting at the bathroom door, or by the bar or on the dance floor. Letâs just say I practiced a lot!!! But everyone WAS DIGGING IT!

I quit playing guitar and concentrated on making beats. That WAS until I ran into another couple of misfits that wanted me to rap and play guitar in their band. John & Tony! Thatâs a whole other book in itself. But for Biography sake they had to be in there. We jammed a lot and I felt the music with those guys. We were good, but something was missing. That house music made me move and was more up lifting. Instead of yelling and screaming in hate, I was yelling and screaming with joy. When I played house music the crowd was a part of the show; dancing, moving, expressing themselves. Unlike rock shows where everyoneâs standing, starring at the stage for you to âdo something coolâ.

It didnât completely set in until March 2002. Winter Music Conference, Miami FL!!! OMG!!! I did not know you could feel house music soo much. It was a week I will never forget. I really wasnât that good at dancing to house music. But when you practice everyday and are watching the most talented dancers in the world, you pick up fast. I threw out my arm at a Carl Cox show at Nicki Beach one night. I stood right beside the DJ booth and pumped my fist ALL night without stopping (and this was drug free). The music was so intense!

Even though I felt house music. I decided, at first, that DJâing was not for me. It looked kinda boring. I wanted to be the one out there running around and dancing and rapping in peopleâs ears. Not standing in a box, all alone, concentrating on beat matching. Plus I didnât have time to practice. If I had a free minute, I was âmakingâ music. Not âplayingâ music.

But then I started producing tracks that were good enough to be played out. I would get a DJ here and there to play my songs, but I saw right away that if anyone was ever going to hear my music I WOULD HAVE TO PLAY IT! So thatâs exactly what I decided to do. I bought some CD turntables and went to work. Playing gigs from apartment stores (haha) to small clubs to pool parties. Throwing my songs in and watching the crowd.

When you create a song that causes someone to move nonstop and you see pure enjoyment on their face. When you play this song, you knew from the second you made it, that it would (not could) change peopleâs lives. You pictured the moment with a packed dance floor⦠everyone NOT looking at me or looking at each other. But 110 listening and feeling the music like theyâve never felt before.

So if you see me playin in a club and the dance floor is empty. Donât worry⦠It wonât be for long.

Hans Brandon Daniels


DOB- August 3rd 1979
Birthplace- Statesville, NC
Father: Sam Daniels
Mother: Elaine Morris
Brothers: Todd, Chad, & Kelly Daniels

Favorite Food: I will really eat anything (fast) I like sushi & steak but not at the same time.
Favorite TV show: I never watch TV
Top 3 movies: Snatch, The Salton Sea, Braveheart, Sweet and Lowdown. (4?)
Favorite Baseball team: Dodgers
Favorite color: Blue
Favorite person: Angela Dozier
Most Admired person: My Dad - Samuel Augustus Daniels âGusâ
Biggest Letdown: Not making the high school basketball team
Biggest Surprise: Atlanta and all itâs opportunity

To all those who knew Iâd make it. Thank You!!!

Thanks also to those who thought Iâd fail. Thatâs usually the best motivation!