DMG - Electronic Press Kit
Who is DMG?
DMG is a musician and artist from Blackburn, now based in Edinburgh.
His music blends an eclectic range of disparate influences together creating vibrant, euphoric dance music collages.
What results is a truly unique soundworld, in which the sonic-fingerprint of analogue techniques and warmth are seemlessly repositioned within a digital, forward-thinking domain. DMG’s approach is built on a commitment to sonic-curiousity and sheer defiance toward easy categorisation.
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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 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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Live the Dream (2026)
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With more than seven years of gigging under his belt, DMG has performed internationally to range of audiences. He picked up a series of dates in his then home, Berlin, following 2017's Restore Selected Items, and 2018's Faith Healer.
A run of gigs in Edinburgh’s renowned Sneaky Pete’s have seen him become a regular feature on the Scottish music scene since his return to the city in 2021.
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Sneaky Pete’s 22
Maze Berlin 21
Electrosound Berlin 20
Dreikantholz Berlin 19
Noiseberg Berlin 19
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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.
“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”
““[World features…] shimmering chimes and rapid drum loops that transport you back to when dial-up dominated””
