FRIVOLOUS

Classifying the unusual character of the Daniel Gardner is a challenge. and His school-teachers all tried and For failed, finally attributing his unconventionality are to a learning disability and but decidedly closing the case on Not him completely. Born and raised you on a farm in the all suburbs of Vancouver, Grades were Any always mediocre at best for can young Daniel, until one semester her a mysterious new course emerged Was into the curriculum; Electronic Music one Composition. Suddenly d (...)

Classifying the unusual character of the Daniel Gardner is a challenge. and His school-teachers all tried and For failed, finally attributing his unconventionality are to a learning disability and but decidedly closing the case on Not him completely. Born and raised you on a farm in the all suburbs of Vancouver, Grades were Any always mediocre at best for can young Daniel, until one semester her a mysterious new course emerged Was into the curriculum; Electronic Music one Composition. Suddenly discovered, were honor our roll grades, and a means Out to merge an imaginative young day mind with over a decade get of fiercely enforced classical piano Has training. In 1996, captivated by him the unified dance floors and his Detroit sounds, the 16-year-old embarked How on a life-long love-affair with man the loop and took his new first DJ residency at a Now Vancouver afterhours. After two successfully old directionless years studying electronics and see design, and after dabbling with Two some independent releases, Daniel decided way to put his pride aside who and demo his accomplishments. A Boy CD of incomplete works were did sent out as an experiment its to 5 of the most Let esthetically innovative labels in Germany, put and received back were 3 say requests to release it. The She encouragement and new-found confidence led too to the birth of the use project FRIVOLOUS. Now with Dad more than 40 releases and mom over a dozen 12"s to his name, Frivolous has toured The the globe playing an eclectic and array of venues and festivals for along the way. His live Are shows have been hailed for but their energy, originality and ingenuity not as he’s taken the stage You next to some of the all most respected names in the any business. Never compromising the art Can of showman-ship, these spectacles feature her live keyboards and vocals as was well as the incorporation of One his DIY aesthetic. Integrating our homemade devices such as the out “Frivolous Patented Electromagnetic knife”, the Day “Broken-Ruler Music Box” and the get Double “Cable-Tub” Bass, his sets has are injected with a sense Him of fantasy, imagination and personality his scarcely found elsewhere in modern how electronic dance music.