Music and Audio Production

Studio circa 2000Dirty Slut show at Newcastle - 'This Is Not Art' FestivalView of the Dancefloor (over the top of the rack) at 'Splore' Festival, New Zealand, 2001Studio circa 1999

With 12 years' experience working full time as a music composer/producer/performer, Dan is both a pioneer and a stalwart of the Australian electronic music industry.

From playing guitar in punk bands, to using Atari based tracker programs, hocking his guitar to buy an TR-808 (back in 1986) then developing Ju Ju Space Jazz through the seminal mid '90s warehouse party scene resulting in signing to UK and German record labels and touring Europe, Japan, New Zealand playing major festivals as well as all over Australia, Dan has a breadth of experience that few other producers can lay claim to.

Dan has produced music for picture, music for theatre, modern dance, sound-design for fashion shows and awards ceremonies, as well as a range of electronic and dance music ranging from experimental soundscapes, brutalist 'banging' techno, to mid-paced grooves featuring a constellation of Sydney's finest Jazz musicians.

After a six-year break from music production, Dan is currently working on a new project, The Cartel, and is producing Dancehall, Crunk and Club Hip Hop with a number of guest vocalists and musicians.

Sunday Night At The Movies (S.N.A.T.M)
Dan has produced a number of pieces for the weekly FBi Radio show: 'Sunday Night At The Movies'. These are hour long 'sound-collage' type pieces. These pieces have proved highly popular and are regularly replayed on the 'Best of S.N.A.T.M' shows.

  • TAZ
    An ode to Hakim Bey's book, 'The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy and Poetic Terrorism'. Readings from the book are set to music, embellished, submerged, re-examined and augmented.

  • MOUTH OFF
    An exploration of words. Melded, mangled, set in opposition, dissected, tortured, revitalised, and then moulded into cacophony. Words. From tone poems and cutups to textures made of dislocated babble. An exploration of the sound beneath the meanings of our words. Words cut free. Words enclosed. Words unleashed. Words abused and stripped of their context, meaning and shape.
    The vocal utterances of human beings in all their beauty, power and variation.

  • TRAVEL
    An exploration of travel. The places in between, the process of getting there - that weird headspace of airport lounges, train stations in foreign cities, anonymous hotels, and all the dislocation, ennui and pathos that these places create.
Selected excerpts are from these productions are available for download from the Resources and Downloads page of this site.

Ju Ju Space Jazz
Founding member and principal producer.
Ju Ju Space Jazz, an electronic music 'band', released three albums on UK and German record labels, numerous 12 inches and compilation tracks, and toured Australia, Europe, Japan, Hong Kong and NZ. Live performances were highly focused on the 'live' aspect and incorporated traditional jazz instruments as well as developing highly responsive and flexible sampler/sequencer and keyboard systems designed to be used in a highly improvisational, performance based act. These systems were constantly being tweaked and refined as electronic performance technology developed.

Dirty Slut
A solo 'Hard Techno' project. Much emphasis was placed on the live performance component of this act, which generally included six indentically dressed 'dirty girls' in hot pants and PVC who escorted Dan (in full costume) out of the limousine and onto stage and who also wore radio transmitting Spy Cameras. The feeds from these cameras were live vision mixed along with pre-recorded footage onto giant screens behind the stage and showed action footage of the 'dirty girls' running amok through the crowd, getting people to undress and generally abusing all and sundry whilst Dan pounded out slamming techno and booty beats from on stage. The Dirty Slut motorcade also consisted of two 'Dirty Girls' on matching black Honda motorcycles preceding the Limousine and, where the venue allowed, drove their motorbikes into the venue and onto the dancefloor preceding Dan's entry clutching champagne bottle and riding crop. A fun project.

Syncopath
Collaborative project with Adam Middlin, resulting in a number of unreleased gems that were widely distributed on the 'DAT-DJ' circuit of the late 1990s and proved underground club hits on the American West Coast in particular. Only two tracks were actually released, on the now (sadly) defunct Australian label 'Edgecore Records'.

1996 - 2000 Coy Productions and Spin Studios
Founded own company and worked freelance as producer, editor and composer. Highlights included working with, and producing music for, such artists as: Stiff Gins, Renee Geyer, Organarchy Sound Systems, Rob Hurst, One Extra Theatre Company, 2SER, MetaBass and Breath. Other highlights were: sound design for Tom Stoppard's 'Arcadia' at the Sydney Opera House, and sound design and composition for the Edinborough Festival production of Macbeth, Preshrunk, Penny Flanagan, Renee Geyer, Telstra, Reclaim the Streets, Australian Chamber Orchestra, Max Lambert, Pat Powell and Slim Dusty.

Discography

JU JU SPACE JAZZ
Albums:


Head Over Heels In Dub, Ju Ju Space Jazz, Album (CD), 1996, Fluid, AUS
Shloop, Ju Ju Space Jazz, Album (CD), 1998, Matsuri Productions, UK
Shloop, Ju Ju Space Jazz, Album (3xLP), 1998, Matsuri Productions, UK
Intersound, Ju Ju Space Jazz, Album (CD), 2000, Plusquam Records

Also appeared on:

Gourmet Genre, Ju Ju Space Jazz, 1 track on CD Compilation, 2000, Equinox, JAPAN
Just is, Ju Ju Space jazz, 2000, Kookyburra Recordings, AUS
Psychedelic Chillout Vol I, Ju Ju Space Jazz, 1 track on CD Compilation, 2000, Spiritzone, GERMANY
Edges R Fun, Ju Ju Space Jazz, 1 track on CD Compilation, 1999, Edgecore Releases, AUS
Excerpts from the Chillspace, Ju Ju Space Jazz, 1 track on CD Compilation, 1999, Matsuri Productions, UK
Sympathy in Chaos III, Ju Ju Space Jazz, 1 track on CD Compilation, 1999, Matsuri Productions, UK
Progressive Trance, Ju Ju Space Jazz, 1 track on CD Compilation, 1998, Millenium Records, UK
Mermadium Palladium, 1998, Matsuri Productions, UK
Nuffin Much, Ju Ju Space Jazz, 1 track on CD Compilation, 1998, Kookyburra Recordings, AUS
Sympathy in Chaos, Ju Ju Space Jazz, 1 track on CD Compilation, 1997, Matsuri Productions, UK
Club Filter, Ju Ju Space Jazz, 1 track on CD Compilation, 1997, Club Filter, AUS
Edition 5, Ju Ju Space Jazz, 2 tracks on CD Compilation, 1997 Fluid Records, AUS
Beat Works, Ju Ju Space Jazz, 1 track on CD Compilation, 1996, Organarchy Soundsystems, AUS
Mermadium Palladium EP, Ju Ju Space Jazz, (10", EP), 1997, Matsuri Productions, UK
Sympathy In Chaos, Ju Ju Space Jazz, 1 track on CD Compilation, 1997, Matsuri Productions, UK (Pizza)
Sympathy In Chaos, Ju Ju Space Jazz, 1 track on CD Compilation, 1997, EastWest Japan, JAPAN (Pizza)
Sympathy In Chaos EP, Ju Ju Space Jazz, 1 track on 12" EP, 1997, Matsuri Productions, UK (Pizza)
New Psychedelic, Ju Ju Space Jazz, 1 track on CD Compilation (CD + CD, Enh), 1998, Techno Party, Japan (whales)
Progressive Trance, Ju Ju Space Jazz, 1 track on CD Compilation (2xCD), 1998, Millennium Records, UK (Mermadium Palladium)
Edges R Fun, Ju Ju Space Jazz, 1 track on CD Compilation (CD), 1999, Edgecore Releases, AUS (Experiment 44)
Excerpts From The Chillspace, Ju Ju Space Jazz, 1 track on CD Compilation (CD), 1999, Matsuri Productions, UK (Bleepfloor)
Sympathy In Chaos Vol. 3, Ju Ju Space Jazz, 1 track on CD Compilation (CD), 1999, Matsuri Productions, UK (Pop-kook)
Global Psychedelic Chill Out Compilation Vol. 1, Ju Ju Space Jazz, 1 track on CD compilation (2xCD, Dig), 2000, Spirit Zone Recordings, GERMANY (Undercover Mystic)
Gourmet Genre, Ju Ju Space Jazz, 1 track on CD Compilation (CD), 2000, Equinox, JAPAN (The Next Level)
Ambient Surrounding, Ju Ju Space Jazz, 1 track on Compilation (Cass), 2001, Zoha Atneia, GREECE (Undercover Mystic)
Goa Berlin 2001, Ju Ju Space Jazz, 1 track on Compilation (CD + CD), 2001, Telemetric, GERMANY, (Undercover Mystic)
Groove Garden, Ju Ju Space Jazz, 1 track on Compilation (CD), 2001, CTM/Sha Ka Ree, GERMANY (Atomic Toothbrush)
Macao Cafe, Ju Ju Space Jazz, 1 track on Compilation (CD, Dig), 2001, EtnicaNet, SPAIN (Undercover Mystic)
Macao Cafe, Ju Ju Space Jazz, 1 track on Compilation (CD), 2001, Solstice Music International, JAPAN (Undercover Mystic)
Mashed Mellow Grooves Three: Ibiza, Ju Ju Space Jazz, 1 track on Compilation (2xCD), 2001, Transient Records, UK (Secrets)
Re-Fashioned, Ju Ju Space Jazz, track on compilation (CD), 2001, Groovescooter, AUS (Get That Jive)
Rhythm Of Life, Ju Ju Space Jazz, 1 track on compilation (CD), 2001, Solstice Music International, JAPAN (Viberooni)
Salow Moshan, Ju Ju Space Jazz, 1 track on compilation (CD), 2002, Oh Yoko Records, JAPAN (Undercover Mystic)
Pop-Kook, Ju Ju Space Jazz, White label 12", 1998, Matsuri Productions, UK

OTHER RELEASES

Bug Detected, Dan Coy, 1 track on compilation (CD), 2001, Bug Records, AUS (Anything is Possible)
Bringing Down the System, Dirty Slut, 3 track EP 12", 2000, Bug Records, AUS
Free As, Syncopath, 1 track on compilation (CD), 1998, Edgecore Releases, AUS (Schwing)
Hot Robots Remixes, Syncopath, 1 track on remix EP (CD), 2000, Phantom Records, AUS (Hot Robots (Pre-Shrunk) Syncopath Remix)
Edges R Fun, Syncopath, 1 track on Compilation (CD), 1999, Edgecore Releases, AUS (The Full Davros)
Morning Star, Dan Coy, 1 remix track on single (CD), 2000, Self-Released, AUS, (Morning Star - Planetary mix)
Free As, Gump, 1 track on compilation (CD), 1998, Edgecore Releases, AUS (Groovy)