Dan Mela

Dj Producer
Head of Adults Only (+25), member of RUDAN together w/ Okee Ru, DO YOU LOVE Radio show,

If there was such a term as ‘sound intelligence’ it would be attributed to Dan Mela. Through his extensive twenty years of experience, Dan has crafted an individual, experimental style - making him one of the most respected Indie-Dance Dj/producers. His expansive imagination and skill allows him to fuse different genres and the freedom to seamlessly blend even jazz into his electronic sets - perf

orming live shows with revered Italian and international Jazz artists Christopher Thomas, Dario Deidda, Amedeo Ar**no, Joyce Yuille, Marco Micheli, Stefano calzolari in theatres through Italy including at the Blue Note. On his releases with New Yorker Label, ‘Streetvibe Recordings’ & ‘What Ever Not’ he collaborated and involved with artists such as Vakula, D'Marc Cantu, LTJ X-Perience, Lady Blacktronika Marcello, Napoletano and Toby Tobias. Among the most groundbreaking were his tracks - "I Don't Know Why" (What Ever Not - 2012) "Re-Troit" ( Streetvibes - 2003 and Compost - 2009 ) and “Caos Calmo'' / "Get What I Want" (Ethereal Sound ) by Anton Zap. Dan has been part of the dj duo "RUDAN" since 2015 together with Okee Ru. They won the "Dimensions Festival Vinyl Mix” of 2016 award and performed on the Beach Stage in 2016, 2017 and 2018. They are the mastermind behind ‘Adults Only +25" - a party based in southern Italy which has attracted artists from all over the world. The party has so far hosted Sadar Bahar, Joe Claussell, Daniele Baldelli, Red Greg, Lakuti, Tama Sumo, LTJ X-Perience, The Grasso Brothers and many more to come. Dan & Denis have performed in clubs and festivals such as Linecheck, Dimension Festival and Polifonic. At VIVA festival they performed for Boiler Room together with Goldie, Nabihah Iqbal and Awesome Tapes From Africa. From March this year, Dan has been hosting the radio show ‘Do You Love’ on the exciting london based radio station - ‘doyou.world’, creating a soundtrack to inspire your love and lust stories.

06/08/2024

Hey London, me and Giles Smith at the amazing venue in 17 Little Portland street, “The Studio”Thursday 8th August, don’t sleep on it, limited capacity (150 pax)

www.little-Portland.com

19/07/2024

Produced by Orrin Keepnews, arrangements by Stanley Clarke, engineers Eddie Harris and Jim Stern.

Recorded December 1973 at Fantasy Studios, California. Milestone Records

30/04/2024

This Friday mMay 3rd back to , Home of Music, my fav London place, stunning sound system and warm crew! It will be a long journey from 8pm to 1:00am playing my best records since I’ve been a dj. High Tech Soul, Jazzy Funk, Contemporary Soul & class housy gems. Come Home to Music, Cone Home to Drinks!

02/04/2024

F**k!

13/02/2024

Love this song, especially with a wonderful call about Joy & Pain by Maze. & 4

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Dan Mela, alias Daniele Schito, is a well known italian-canadian dj and producer, very much appreciated in the independent dance scene thanks to his productions.

Dan, from 2015 is part of RUDAN dj duo with Okee Ru; They won Dimensions Festival's Vinyl Mix 2016 Project Competition and performed on the Beach Stage of the festival in 2016 and 2017.They are the head & Djs of "Adults Only +25" Party South Italy based, that it is now attracting DJs from all over the world. Among others, the party has so far hosted Sadar Bahar, Daniele Baldelli, Red Greg, Lakuti, Tama Sumo, LTJ X-Perience, The Grasso Brothers, DCDJ Soulmind. Passionate experimenter of JFS (his personal acronym for the fusion of jazz, funk & soul), Dan Mela joined the world music very soon, beginning to perform for the major House Music underground clubs already in 1990. He's one of the founder djs of legendary Metropolis (Lecce/Italy), renowned club which already in 1992 has hosted important artists such as Carl Craig, Marshall Jefferson and all the best italian dance acts. Moved to Modena in 1995, immediately began a fruitful collaboration with DiscoInn, one of the major italian specialized vinyl store, and soon became a music consultant for the best known italian djs. His first productions, composed between '98 and '99, immediately took wing and received a strong reaction also in the United States, at that time unchallenged country for its 12 inches productions. Back from this results, in 2001 he founded its first record label, called Streetvibes (distributed by Downtown, NYC), which launched the club hits “Ritmo da Rua” (produced in collaboration with dj Uovo & Luca Trevisi, over 7000 copies sold, also thanks to the lucky remix of Brian Tapper), “In Memory Of” and the outstanding “Re-Troit”, which become a classic that Compost Records (Monaco, DE) decided to re-press on vinyl after 5 years from the official release (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlyIeqKSzts).

In the same years, began a thriving musical partnership with the jazz pianist Stefano Calzolari, with whom he contaminated 1900s music in many theatre performances, and with whom he composed also soundtracks for important italian fashion brand advertisements such as Diesel, Mandarina Duck, Nike, Lee (http://vimeo.com/16508304). Furthermore, in 2011 they have performed at the Blue Note in Milan. Dan has experienced influences and contaminations with many important jazz musicians: Christopher Thomas, Marco Micheli , Joyce E.Yuile, Amedeo Ar**no, Dario Deidda, Lele Barbieri, Felice del Gaudio, Daniele Moretto, Alessio Nava, Paolo Mozzoni. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeU-tsTtwtk He has also produced for the Compost Records, leading record label which has launched important performers such as Jazzanova, Koop, Trueby Trio, Roland Appeal, Christian Prommer, as well as Drumpoet Community, Sony UK, Ethereal Sound and Irma. Among most valuable co-productions and collaborations with Andrea Gemolotto. Polyhedral craftsman of music, restless and prolific artist, Dan is attracted by the simple and complicated things at the same time and this approach led him to choose with care and feeling his records when he dj. He has always wandered in music in general, from Deep House to Disco, from Old School Music of Detroit and Chicago to Electronic and Techno. As a producer, almost never wanting to repeat and always trying to make music that could be consumed over time and not for temporary mode. In this mood, he founded in 2012 his new record label, What Ever Not (WordandSound distribution |Berlin,DE), with his mate Dodi Palese, which immediately gave life to important collaborations with Vakula, S***f Crew and Marcello Napoletano Toby Tobias, Alex Israel, Morning Factory, Lady Blacktronika, Anton Zap, Chevel, D’Marc Cantu.