SELECTED WORKS
TBA - ‘In Search Of Sumitra’ FULL OST - Viraj Ghandi - DRUMS, Percussion, Engineering, SOUND DESIGN..
2024 - The Olson Brothers - “The Next Ten Years” - Drums + Percussion
2024 - FMF - Future Moss Fortress - Drums, Percussion, Sound Design, Production, Drum Engineering
2023 - Jesse and Forever - This way! A miracle! - Drums (on “help too much drugs”)
2023 - Joshua Thew - ‘This Time’ - Drums, Drum Engineering
2023 - ill peach - THIS IS NOT AN EXIT - DRUMS, Drum engineering (on SIGH)
2023 - Arius Ziaee - “TOWER” Animated Short Film - Sound Design (End Sequence)
2023 - The Olson Brothers - ‘Yesterday’ - Drums, Percussion
2023 - stevexcooper, Marques Martin - ‘WOWWWW’ - Drums, Co-Producer
2023 - RBGxDD LP - via UNO LOOP - Producer, Arranger, Drums, Percussion, Engineer, Vocals, Sounds..
2023 - Middle Part feat. YUNO - “Chinatown” - Drums
2023 - Joshua Thew - “Turn Me To Water” - Drums, Percussion
2022 - Joshua Thew - "Where do feelings go?” - DRUMS
2022 - Andrew VanWyngarden & Dan Drohan ‘Slow To Remember’ -- MEMEBER, COMPOSER, PRODUCER
2022 - Hark Madley, Dan Drohan - ‘SATURDAY SLUGS’ EP - COMPOSER, PRODUCER, DRUMS
2022 - Andrew VanWyngarden & Dan Drohan - ‘For Sake’ - MEMBER, COMPOSER, PRODUCER
2022 - Day Wave - PastLife - See You When The End’s Near (ft. KennyHoopla) + Before We Knew - Drums.
2022 - Ben Talmi - ‘Berkshires’ - Drums, Percussion
2022 - Maia Friedman - ‘Under The New Light’ - Drums, Percussion
2022 - Maral - ‘Anika: Finger Pies (Maral At the Controls Dub Mix)’ - Drums
2022 - Maia Friedman - ‘First To Love’ - Drums
2022 - Ian Romer - ‘Majordomo’ - Drums
2021 - Maia Friedman - ‘Where The Rocks Are’ + Full Album - Drums, Percussion
2021 - Day Wave - ‘Before We Knew’ - Drums
2021 - Middle Part - ‘2Morrow’ - Drums
2021 - The Olson Brothers - ‘The Olson Brothers’ Full Album - Drums, percussion
2020 - Maggie Rogers - ‘Notes From The Archive: Recordings 2011-2016’ - Producer, Drums, Percussion, Synths
2020 - Andrew Siegel - ‘Reston Town Center Blues LP’ - Drums
2020 - Kyle McEvoy & Sunshine Recorder ‘VOLUME TWO LP’ - Drums, Percussion
2020 - Dan Drohan - You’re A Crusher/drocan ! LP - see below :)
2020 - DROHAWK - No Show - Member, Producer, Drums, Percussion, Sounds.
2020 - Marny Proudfit - The Barn LP - Drums, Percussion
2019 DREAMAWAY - ‘Back To California’ - Drums, Percussion
2019 Kyle McEVoy & Paul Moody - ‘Empty and Honest EP’ - DRUMS, Percussion
2019 CARRTOONS - ‘Day Trippin’ (Doooo)’ - DRUMS, PERCUSSION
2019 Dreamaway - ‘American Illusion’ - Drums
2019 L.Martin - ‘KENOSHA EP’ - DRUMS PERCUSSION
2019 DREAMAWAY - ‘We Get On Somehow’ - Drums, Percussion
2019 Strange Weather - ‘Suspending Disbelief’ - DRUMS PERCUSSION
2019 Tenyak - CONCEPTUALIST DRUMS COMPOSER
2019 Sid Sriram - ‘ENTROPY’ - DRUMS PERCUSSION DRUMPROCESSING
2019 Lampland - ‘No Mood’ - DRUMS PERCUSSION
2018 élan -'GOOD POWER' - MEMBER DRUMS COMPOSER PRODUCER
2018 élan -‘periphery’ - MEMBER DRUMS COMPOSER PRODUCER
2018 OLDEN YOLK - 'Olden Yolk LP' - DRUMS PERCUSSION
2018 HARK MADLEY - 'MESA' - DRUMS PERCUSSION
2018 BEN TALMI - 'Distractionism' - DRUMS PERCUSSION
2018 PICOROMANESQUE - ‘Bike’ off Picoromanesque EP - Drums
2017 TEI SHI - 'CRAWL SPACE' - DRUMS PERCUSSION
2017 BRIAN DUNNE - 'BUG FIXES & PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTS' - DRUMS PERCUSSION
2017 V/F United - ‘Couvarde’ - Member Producer Engineer Drums Percussion Electronics Synths Programming Sounds
2017 FRAME - “One Of a Kind” “You Say” - Drums
2016 UNI IKA AI - 'KEEPING A GOLDEN BULLSEYE IN THE CORNER OF MY MIND' - DRUMS PERCUSSION MEMBER
2016 SHARKS IN THE DEEP END - 'Killin' Machine' - PRODUCER CO-WRITTER DRUMS PERCUSSION SYNTHS
2015 ANDREI RUBLEV - 'TOO MUCH' - MEMBER DRUMS PERCUSSION CO-PRODUCER
2014 BAD ANNA - 'BIG PLANS' - PRODUCER DRUMS
2014 STRANGE WEATHER - ‘Lonely Romance EP’ - DRUMS PERCUSSION
2014 MAGGIE ROGERS - 'BLOOD BALLET' - CO-PRODUCER DRUMS PERCUSSION SYNTHS
2014 ANG LOW - 'LIFE GOES DOWN EP' - PRODUCER DRUMS PERCUSSION SYNTHS
2014 WILSEN - 'SIRENS' - COMPOSER DRUMS PERCUSSION , 'MAGNOLIA' - COMPOSER
2013 Sid Sriram - West Coast Night Fall; Before Dusk - Drums Percussion Producer
PROJECTS
Dan Drohan & Andrew VanWyngarden
released first song “For Sake” September 1st, 2022.
credits: Produced and Written by Dan Drohan & Andrew VanWyngarden
Mastered by Dave Fridmann
Illustrated "FOR SAKE" Font by Christopher Campbell
Cover Art Designed by Dan Drohan & Andrew VanWyngarden
COMFORT
"Born out of love for improvisation and recording, Comfort formed in 2014 with Dan Drohan, Andrew Sarlo, and Luca Buccellati. Within the first years the explorations were vast and the adventures were unforgettable. Left behind every unique encounter as group are recordings that are just as visceral as they are a sonic mind game. Each members contributions blur the definition of any genre and style but form a unique tone to which can only be called Comfort."
RECORDINGS: 'PROJECT Z' 'DOOGALIDOO' 'WATER GLOVE' 'EXCUSE ME FOR BEING SO INQUISITIVE BUT...' 'UNRELEASED 2014-2015' 'LIVE AT ROBS HOUSE 12/19/15' 'NITE OWL' 'GRANOLA SWEETS' - MEMBER COMPOSER PRODUCER DRUMS PERCUSSION VOCALS ENGINEER VISUAL/VIDEO DIRECTOR
DJ MY LIFE
"DJ MY LIFE is simply a computer experience built for the modern participant of the society of over absorption and isolation. Made up of Dan Drohan and Andrew Sarlo."
RECORDINGS: 'HEROS ARE HARD TO REGULATE' - COMPOSER PRODUCER MEMBER ENGINEER
BERMUDA KID
"Bermuda Kid is the experimental solo outfit of Dan Drohan, where drums and visuals conduct a set of stories"
RECORDINGS: here
You’re A Crusher/ Drocan !
Like so many of us surviving in the gig economy, Dan Drohan has to be nimble, flexible and adaptable in his musical life. He moves between worlds with ease, lending his drum and percussion skills to such varied projects as psych rock outfit Olden Yolk, the heartfelt folk of Maggie Rogers’ Blood Ballet (an album on which he also served as co-producer), and the most recent recordings by future pop project Dreamaway. And in his own work, he remains happily unsettled, releasing cracked electronic tunes under the name Bermuda Kid and spacious avant-pop group Comfort as well as several releases of his home-recorded drum improvisations and production experiments.
So it should come as no surprise that Drohan’s new album is as slippery and hard to pin down as anything he has lent his name to over the past decade. You’re A Crusher / drocan! presents the best of his varied talents and serves as a kind of musical marker to represent the changes his life has gone through recently.
The first half of this project—You’re a Crusher—was put together slowly over the course of two years while Drohan was still living in Brooklyn with his family. He moved to New York in 2011 after several years studying at the Berklee School of Music and playing gigs around Boston. One of the projects he took on after his relocation was élan, a quartet with guitarists Bobbie Johnson and Derek Smith, and vocalist Élan Orr. With their help, he developed the YAC material, recording demos with the group that he would then tweak and manipulate on his laptop while in the van or on airplanes during his touring gigs or quietly in his kitchen in the mornings while his son slept.
The tracks that came out of Drohan’s efforts don’t feel worried over nor have they lost any of the raw inspiration that helped spark them to life. “We Like To See (Earth)” feels like a shortwave radio jumping between stations—the pleasant ping of a synth melody getting pushed aside by a fuzzy groove wowing in and out of focus. Opener “Leave It Loading” lets a deep bass pattern flood the speakers while Drohan’s fluid drumming spars with it playfully. And the whole thing flows and zig-zags like a DJ set cooked up by a seriously warped mind.
Nearly everything about drocan! works as the polar opposite of YAC. The collection of tunes was born from the rush of excitement that came from Drohan working with a new collaborator: multi-instrumentalist Mike Cantor. The two were introduced when Cantor DJ’ed Drohan’s sister-in-law’s wedding and immediately hit it off. They met up soon thereafter at Drohan’s studio space in his new home in Massachusetts and instantly started cooking up songs together. Over the course of the month of January 2020, drocan! was brought to life.
For this project, Drohan was challenged to feature vocals more prominently. It makes for an even headier experience, a mix of dreaminess and clarity amid he and Cantor’s glistening productions matched each step of the way by their blend of live drums, MIDI triggered tones, modular synth flutters, and programmed beats. Asian and Latin rhythms collide joyously (“Passwords”); dreampop is given a trap makeover (“105”) or gets completely glitched out (“Tokyo”). Nothing is sacred, everything is allowed.
You’re A Crusher / drocan! is the perfect album for our modern era—a period where the accessibility to nearly every piece of music ever recorded has created a new generation of adventurous listeners. Drohan and his many collaborators are reflecting this era by creating boundless, border-free sounds that welcome any and all curiosity seekers. They refuse to put limits on themselves so why should you?
Robert Ham
credits
released June 26, 2020
Daniel Patrick Drohan (BMI)
Writer, Producer, Drums, Percussion,Computer, Drum Programming, Vocals, Sounds, Mixing (All Songs).
Mike Cantor (BMI)
Co-Writer (10-13,15), Co-Producer (9-15), Mixing (10-15), Vocals (9,10,15), Moog (9,10,11,14,15), Guitar (11, 14, 15), Bass (12,14), Drum Programing (15), String Programming (13),Ringmod and berhinger deepmind 12 (12)
Bobbie Johnston - Guitar (1,3,6,8)
Elan Orr - Vocals (3,6)
Derek Smith - Bass Guitar (1,3,6,8)
Anna Cantor - Vocals (15)
Porchea Tipton - Vocals (15)
Charles Pinel - Executive Producer
Press on YAC/drocan !
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