DMG - Electronic Press Kit
Who is DMG?
DMG is the alias of Edinburgh based producer and digital artist Daniel McGurty, a producer whose music is built on a commitment to sonic-curiousity and sheer defiance to easy categorisation. With over 8 years of gigging experience, DMG has performed internationally to range of audiences.
Hot off the release of his 2026 album, Live the Dream, DMG has built on a series of appearances at Edinburgh’s Sneaky Pete’s with two performances at the People’s Leisure Club alongside Edinburgh scene stalwarts samwooddoowmas, Sly Dig, Maniatrix and Accident Machine, seeing him become a regular feature on the Scottish music scene since his return to the city in 2021.
Not Waiting (People’s Leisure Club) - October 2026
Live the Dream (People’s Leisure Club) - July 2026
World w. Maniatrix, Mistral (Sneaky Pete’s 24)
Bubble People (Sneaky Pete’s 23)
Megaliths ft. TefDara, Yoko Pwno (Sneaky Pete’s 22)
Maze Berlin 21
Electrosound Berlin 20
Dreikantholz Berlin 19
Noiseberg Berlin 19
““[World features…] shimmering chimes and rapid drum loops that transport you back to when dial-up dominated””
“Digitally altering and smearing excrement over the boundaries keeping glitch, electronica, and ambient work separate, Daniel McGurty plays with these sounds like a curious scientist”
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DMG is the alias of Edinburgh based producer and digital artist Daniel McGurty, a producer whose music is built on a commitment to sonic-curiousity and sheer defiance to easy categorisation.
Hot off the release of his 2026 album, Live the Dream, DMG builds on recent appearances at Edinburgh’s Sneaky Pete’s with two performances at the People’s Leisure Club alongside Edinburgh stalwarts samwooddoowmas, Sly Dig, Maniatrix and Accident Machine.
DMG released his debut work, Trigger//, a data sonification project transforming research data from Mass Extinction events into music, in 2015. Under the ‘DMG’ moniker, Daniel directs his focus toward dancefloor friendly, sonically-curious sound which characterised his trio of releases, Restore Selected Items (2017), Faith Healer (2018) and Megaliths (2022).
In 2026 he released his most recent album ‘Live the Dream’
In parallel with his free composition work, DMG has scored for screen and stage, delivering the sound design and score for Juri Krutii’s Eudaimonia and Teuchter company’s Tiger and ADA which toured the international Fringe Festival circuit. In September 2025 DMG released his most recent work ‘Wounded’, a collaborative piece with spoken word artist Criss Roden.
DMG continues to foster a vibrant network of collaborative relationships with musicians around the world. He is the cofounder of the web-based digital imprint Melor Records alongside Berlin-based Tef Dara and Seattle-based Cameron McNair.
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NEW release - Live the Dream
‘Live The Dream’ is the new album by Blackburn born Scotland based artist, DMG. ‘Live the Dream’ takes inspiration from the sonic imprint and atmosphere of the late-80s Blackburn Rave scene, weaving found-footage and contemporaneous electronic instrumentation into evocative aural tapestries. The album shines a light on the position that the Acid House explosion and hedonism occupies within collective memory; drawing parallels to the religious experience through themes of supernatural healing and spiritual transcendence.
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As the 90s loomed, a reactionary cultural movement emerged in Blackburn. Young people from around the North West, whether music fans, counterculture idealists or football hooligans congregated in Blackburn, in an expression of defiance, to party all night long.
The post-industrial landscape of Blackburn provided fertile terrain for illegal party spaces, with long-empty mills, warehouses and factory spaces littering the town and surrounding areas. Boosted by its proximity to Manchester, Leeds and Liverpool, Blackburn was perfectly situated to become the alternative illegal party hotspot.
Propelled by a heady cocktail of class A drugs and the emerging Acid House music style, a working class revolution that changed the landscape of Dance Music and Party culture in the UK was underway.
With thanks to Expletive Undeleted, Flashback, Phatmedia, and the EwoodPark blog.
