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Wednesday 21 July 10:03 a.m.
Pop polymath Dan Black previously fronted The Servant before heading solo. Mixing hip hop, indie and dance Dan Black is tipped for international success with his collaborative masterpiece with Kid Cudi the re – recorded version of lead single “Symphonies” having been viewed over 1.5 million times online.
Like a pop artist who paints with sample banks and synthesizers, it's as if Dan Black is here to revisit and revise everything that's right about the rock, rap and R&B of the past 30 years. "What I do is obviously a hybrid-y thing," by that, he means the year of writing that went into ((un)), and the winter season spent sorting through nearly 70 songs, "it was like mixing a bunch of pigments in a pot until you get a new color."
Yep, Black is an art-school dropout; one that majored in painting "expressionist bollocks" like boxes of cereal floating in space. Which isn't a surprise when you consider not only his songwriting process, but his hands-on approach to every aspect of the Dan Black persona. That includes all of his music videos and related visuals, which have been created in a close partnership with the Parisian design company Chic & Artistic.|
"It's about more than music," explains Black. "It's about making a universe people can inhabit; this crazy little world I get a kick out of creating”.
Watch: Dan Black feat Kid Cudi 'Symphonies'
Dan Black has teamed up with our very own kiwi boys Kidz In Space on their track 'Ghosts', due out August 2nd.