DJ Dan Cortez

DJ Dan Cortez (Confidential Records/Underground Revolution)

REAL UNDERGROUND TECHNO REBEL

Infected with music in his early childhood by the hundreds of records of his parents, he began to collect records at a very young age at the pop shop, a record dealer with 3 Stores in Rosenheim, and his main interests becomes in music & records totally and his Life turns into the world of a serious music lover and infamous record nerd.

DJ Dan Cortez went to be a professional DJ since the year 1988, discovered Techno, House & beyond with the club hymn "French Kiss by Lil Louis" & the massive Acid House Samplers and Compilations on release date and plays a mixture of various types of sounds and styles with no rules and the right feeling for the crowd at various local disco`s, club's and many Partys for the next few years on a regular basis and even made him a very good name with incredible talent as a well known DJ and most respected special guest on the turntables and in all clubs for sure like Ultraschall since 1994 and is a well liked resident customer at the Independent record shops & local music stores in the munich area (and also at hardwax berlin since 1996 with monthly orders).

THE BEGIN OF A LEGEND & THE NEVERENDING STORY

He finally gets the ultimate Ultraschall Club Residency in 1996, for many good years till the end, and from then he rocked massive many techno clubs and events in & around munich and the complete southside as Headliner & very special guest dj, before he challenged the legendary Tresor Club Residency in 2001 with good connection & fine relationship to the Tresor Records Office and related Resident DJ Luke with the UnGleich Crew for some good years and even made a lot of incredible DJ Shows in Berlin and even in Munich too, while working as Assistant Manager at DJ Hell's very popular Gigolo Records Label Office, before he left his origin bavaria and finally moved to Capital Berlin in 2004 and made a real good own home in the legendary district Kreuzberg SO 36 with perfect relationships and great emotions in his neighbourhood discovering the future in a alternative & modern Art of Living and keeps the true spirit alive and kickin with his booked radical dj sets in the clubs.

FOR THOSE WHO KNOW.

The german central online magazine & network TECHNO.de made an leading Interview, with the most influence of the whole international world wide system of our music in the upcoming years through the content and the voice of Mr. Dan Cortez, in April 2005 as he took a break in club djing for a short time and got more involved into his label activities and basically personal orientation in the future.

After a few years TechnoWikipedia sets up the groundbreaking Statements of the INFILTRATOR as official Artist Information and true Biography online and DJ Dan Cortez as a personality was massive known as the revolutionary Mastermind with deep Roots and unique Style. All of his words & visions become true till 2010.


The Extremist.

Due the years the proper work was successfull with UR DJ ASSAULT Berlin with DJ Clandestine aka Buzz Goree (313 Mixworks)in 2006, as SCAN 7 Black OPS Agent & Support DJ since 2003, in straight central work with Mad Mike Banks aka 038 of Underground Resistance (Designs for the Sonic Revolution) since 2004 , many years in and of some proper killer promotion with the Detroit Techno Militia, Subject Detroit, Aux 88, 313 Mixworks, UR & even a lot more.

Play Loud. Spin Hard!

At the revolutionary 1st May 2006 DJ Dan Cortez headlined the kottbusser tor stage at MYFEST and settled up a very pretty well name as infamous DJ & Artist in his district with a burning Detroit Techno Set with riot attitude & anger style at its best and roked the crowd on that memorial day in berlins histroy in full effect - KILLER.

Later he teamed up with Jonzon, Tanith & Wolle XDP in 2006 for the first Confidential Records Open Air at the NoUFO's Club (Polar.tv) with local support by next generation djs like Toby Sallex and Ken Meisen from berlin, had some great dj gigs at the OFF Pop Music Days (insteed of Loveparade) on several stages and even held some small underground Confidential Records Clubnights with local djs.

In the year 2007 he was part of the UR Interstellar Fugitives at Time Warp in Mannheim (as well as Maria Berlin too) for good and even had a great Live Radioshow called Ravesatelite hosted by Marusha on Fritz Radio Berlin, which was such an honor and made him again to a high respected talent and outstandig personality.

Changes of Life

Since some years he got his main focus on his own Independent Recordlabel called Confidential Records with Artists such as Counterpart, Jeroen, Ben Gibson, Elektrabel (AXIS Mission 6277), Jeff Mills (AXIS), DJ Bone (Subject Detroit), DJ T 1000 (Pure Sonik), Wyndell Long (Pro Jex), Mark Verbos (Simple Answer), D-Knox (Sonic mind), Dj 3000 (motech), Scan 7 (Underground Resistance/Tresor/cratesavers) and even more.

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