Alien D

"It's D's World, we're just living in it" - Guy reading my iPhone notes on the M Train Founder of New York's corpo-knucklehead late-night crew Sweat Equity, Dan Creahan has been a quiet but vital energy in New York's thriving late-night scene, promoting and running door as energetically as he throws down on the floor. As a producer, he's often sought to explore the range around the center of the floor, working behind a number of pen names that have settled in recent years around around Alien D, a coy reworking of his first name, and the most direct outlet for his productions. Having previously released tapes with Mind Dynamics, a driving, frenetic project that pushed noise sensibilities and an improv-first focus on dance music stylings, Creahan worked through a range of concepts and monikers before releasing his first record as Alien D in 2018.  Building sonic worlds around overlapping concepts and studio workflows, he rarely sits in one place for too long, exploring ever-shifting sonic palettes that have branched out from his initial formula of loose break tracks, tinged with elements of house and dub and into a range of sources, from spaced-out B12 tributes to tracks nodding towards the heyday of West Coast rave and downtempo.   Bringing the same energy he's honed as a label head and promoter to his studio practice, the horizon looks bright for this Alien, as he peers out into the depths of space, where new worlds await <3