Daniel Nieto is a Chilean
electronic music
Electronic music broadly is a group of music genres that employ electronic musical instruments, circuitry-based music technology and software, or general-purpose electronics (such as personal computers) in its creation. It includes both music ...
producer, engineer, and visual artist born in
Santiago
Santiago (, ; ), also known as Santiago de Chile (), is the capital and largest city of Chile and one of the largest cities in the Americas. It is located in the country's central valley and is the center of the Santiago Metropolitan Regi ...
, Chile. He is known for his solo work under the name "Danieto" as well as for his role as a member of the group
Skipsapiens, along with
Pier Bucci
Pier Bucci is a Chilean electronic music producer . He is known for his solo work and for his role in the groups Mambotur, Skipsapiens, Monne Automne and Bucci (with his brother Andrés Bucci). He is one of three Bucci brothers – Juan Pablo, ...
.
Daniel Nieto began his career in the late 1990s, influenced by the
intelligent dance music
Intelligent dance music (IDM) is a style of electronic music originating in the early 1990s, defined by idiosyncratic experimentation rather than specific genre constraints.''"…the label 'IDM' (for avant-garde, 'intelligent dance music') see ...
movement in the UK. Daniel is also one of the founders of the
netlabel
A netlabel (also online label, web label, digi label, MP3 label or download label) is a record label that distributes its music through digital audio file format, formats (such as MP3, Vorbis, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, or WAV) over the Internet. While s ...
Impar.
Career
Under the name "ADN" (Spanish for
DNA
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), Daniel released his first album "Granel" in 2000, as well as the EP "Hormiga", produced by the Chilean label Ojo de Apollo. That same year some of his tracks appeared on the compilation "CODA.05", and later, in 2002, he contributed two tracks to the Ojo de Apollo compilation "CODA.09".
In 2001
Skipsapiens released the eponymous album "Skipsapiens" under the Belgian label "U-Cover". More recently, the same label released the CD "Evolución al Origen" on a limited release of only 95 copies, comprising seven of Daniel's best tracks recorded between 1999 and 2003.
Daniel also took part in two re-mixed albums: “Re'Processed – Interkontinentale Remixe” by “Process” (Steve Gary Barnes), a 2002 12” vinyl for the German label “Traum”; and "Re-mixed, Re-worked, Re-constructed and Re-invented Part One" for the Belgian label U-Cover, also in 2002.
In 2004, Daniel and his business partner Claudio Cisterna won funding from the
Chilean government
Chile's government is a representative democratic republic, in which the President of Chile serves as both head of state and head of government, within a formal multi-party system. Executive power is exercised by the president and their cabi ...
al program (
Fondart
FONDART or “Fondo Nacional para el Desarrollo Cultural y las Artes” (English: “National Fund for the Development of Culture and the Arts”), is a Chilean public program of the governmental agency Consejo Nacional de la Cultura y las Artes ...
) to finance his project for a
netlabel
A netlabel (also online label, web label, digi label, MP3 label or download label) is a record label that distributes its music through digital audio file format, formats (such as MP3, Vorbis, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, or WAV) over the Internet. While s ...
. With this funding they created "Impar",
a netlabel that promotes experimental electronic music and new artists, offers free downloads, and hosts many of Danieto's tracks in the Impar music library available to download free.
In 2005, Daniel released his first LP, "Cirugía Casual", under the label U-Cover,
u-cover022 – Danieto – Cirugia Casual (CD 02.2005)
http://www.u-cover.com/ 2005 retrieved on April 29, 2014 and, with Pier Bucci
Pier Bucci is a Chilean electronic music producer . He is known for his solo work and for his role in the groups Mambotur, Skipsapiens, Monne Automne and Bucci (with his brother Andrés Bucci). He is one of three Bucci brothers – Juan Pablo, ...
as Skipsapiens, released "Skipsapiens-eco" under the label Mutek. He also remixed Hans Carstens' track "Compacto (pn003)" for the label Pueblo Nuevo and that same year performed in Mexico City
Mexico City is the capital city, capital and List of cities in Mexico, largest city of Mexico, as well as the List of North American cities by population, most populous city in North America. It is one of the most important cultural and finan ...
, Montreal, and Valparaíso
Valparaíso () is a major city, Communes of Chile, commune, Port, seaport, and naval base facility in the Valparaíso Region of Chile. Valparaíso was originally named after Valparaíso de Arriba, in Castilla–La Mancha, Castile-La Mancha, Spain ...
, Chile
In 2006, he released two new albums for U-Cover, one called "Contemplación de la Vida Inerte" (English: Contemplation of the Inert Life), with Claudio Cisterna as “Danieto + Flipper”, and one called “Multitono”. He also released the album “Agranelado” for the label Pueblo Nuevo.
Since then, most of his albums have been released under Impar, his own label.
Discography
;Albums[Discography on Discog](_blank)
discogs.com retrieved on April 29, 2014
* Evolución Al Origen (CDr, Album, Ltd) U-Cover CDr Limited – 2004
* Cirugía Casual (CD, Album) U-Cover – 2005
* Prebuffer – Abducibot (CD, Album, RE, Ltd) U-Cover Transparente – 2006
* Danieto + Flipper (4) – Multitono (CD, Album, Ltd) U-Cover Transparente – 2006
*Contemplación De La Vida Inerte (CDr, Album, Ltd) CDr Limited – 2006
;Singles & EPs
References
External links
Official Website
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Living people
Chilean musicians
Musicians from Santiago, Chile
Year of birth missing (living people)