David McCann.DJ

03/08/2024

Swarm presents CHEAP & NASTY (August Edition)

02/08/2024

https://facebook.com/events/s/swarm-presents-cheap-nasty-aug/723134216580732/

24/01/2023

Here's what I played for my opening set at Swarm - Another Techno Stomper, recently

David McCann @ Swarm - Another Techno Stomper - GOOD SPACE (Sydney) - 14.01.2023 9pm - 10pm (Opening set) https://www.facebook.com/events/830940551535334 https://www.swarm-industries.com Tracklist:

08/07/2022

What I played at my recent Swarm gig...

David McCann @ Swarm (Pres. Honeysmack) - The Bridge Hotel (Rozelle/Sydney) - 18.06.2022 12am-1am - Main room. Reach for the lasers! ra.co/events/1528624 www.facebook.com/events/667645504472727 www.s

17/06/2022

15/06/2022

https://www.facebook.com/events/667645504472727

04/02/2020

04/02/2020

Here's what Mark Dynamix and I played at Electronique 12" 80s All-Aussie New Wave/Synth Pop special on Australia Day 2020. Join the Electronique page for details of upcoming events.

TRACKLIST (ELECTRONIQUE 26 JAN 2020)

8pm-10pm MARK DYNAMIX
Flowers - Love In Motion (Original Single Version)
Mental As Anything - The World Seems Difficult
Crowded House - Weather With You (This Mix)
Rockmelons - New Groove (Six On The Floor Remix)
James Reyne - Hammerhead
Jenny Morris - She Has To Be Loved
Shona Laing - Not A Kennedy (Original '83 Version)
INXS - Original Sin (Extended Mix)
Wa Wa Nee - I Can Make You Love Me (Extended Version)
The Dugites - Cut The Talking (Extended)
Plan 8 - Reach (Desire Mix)
Kylie Minogue - Je Ne Sais Pas Pourquai (Moi Non Plus Mix)
John Farnham - Age Of Reason (Extended Mix)
Pseudo Echo - Love An Adventure (Extended Mix)
Boxcar - Insect (Robert Racic Mix)
Euphoria - Love U Right (Club Mix)
Yothu Yindi - Treaty (Filthy Lucre Mix)
Midnight Oil - Beds Are Burning (Kintoris Mix)
Chantoozies - Witch Queen (12")
Mental As Anything - Let's Go To Paradise (Remix)
INXS - Burn For You (Extended Mix)
Models - I Hear Motion (Extended Version)
Machinations - My Hearts On Fire (Extended Mix)

10pm-11pm DAVID McCANN
The Venetians - So Much For Love (Club Mix)
Models - Big On Love (12" Australian Mix)
Icehouse - Cross The Border (Extended Mix)
INXS - What You Need (Extended Version)
Midnight Oil - When The Generals Talk
Models - God Bless America (Extended Version)
Boom Crash Opera - Great Wall (Extended)
Big Pig - Breakaway (Popper Mix)
Pseudo Echo - Living In A Dream (Metal Mix)
Player One - Space Invaders
Eurogliders - Listen (Extended Version)
Kids In The Kitchen - Something That You Said (Club Mix)

11pm-12:30am MARK DYNAMIX
Wa Wa Nee - Stimulation (Extended)
Real Life - Send Me An Angel '89 (Dance Mix)
Collette - Ring My Bell (Ring-A-Ling Mix)
Pseudo Echo - Funkytown (Dance Mix)
Icehouse - Great Southern Land (12")
Mondo Rock - Come Said The Boy (12")
Divinyls - Pleasure & Pain (Extended Mix)
The Church - Under The Milky Way (12")
GANGgajang - Sounds Of Then (This Is Australia) (Exclusive Mark Dynamix Extended Mix)
INXS - New Sensation (Nick's 12" Mix)
Koo De Tah - Too Young For Promises (Extended Mix)
Kylie Minogue - What Do I Have To Do? (Between The Sheets Remix)
Carol Hitchcock - Get Ready (Extended)
Indecent Obsession - Tell Me Something (Dance Mix)
Pseudo Echo - A Beat For You (Extended Mix)

12:30am-1:30am DAVID McCANN
Severed Heads - Dead Eyes Opened (Original Extended)
Machinations - Do To You (The P*e Wee Cut)
I'm Talking - Holy Word (12" Mix)
Boxcar - Freemason (Extended)
Kylie Minogue - Locomotion (Chugga-Motion Mix)
Wa Wa Nee - Sugar Free (Extended Mix)
Eurogliders - Can't Wait To See You
Mi-Sex - Computer Games
Pseudo Echo - Don't Go (Extended Mix)
Kids In The Kitchen - Bitter Desire (12" Version)
Models - Barbados (Extended Barbados Mix)
Split Enz - I Got You
INXS - To Look At You (Extended Version)
Flowers - Icehouse

1:30am-3:00am MARK DYNAMIX
Machinations - No Say In It (Extended)
1927 - You'll Never Know
Midnight Oil - Power & The Passion (Francios K Extended Mix)
Hunters & Collectors - Do You See What I See? (Extended)
Olivia Newtown John - Twist Of Fate (Extended)
Q.E.D - Everywhere I Go
Mental As Anything - You're So Strong (Extended)
Kylie Minogue - Shocked (Album Version)
INXS - Need You Tonight (Ben Liebrand Remix)
Icehouse - Electric Blue (US 12" Remix)
John Farnham - Pressure Down (Extended)
Dear Enemy - Computer One
Max Q - Sometimes (Future Mix)
Boxcar - Gas Stop (Who Do You Think You Are?) (Extended Club Mix)
Jenny Morris - Saved Me (Shiver Mix)
Wa Wa Nee - Can't Control Myself (Mixus Maximus)
Collette - All I Wanna Do Is Dance (Stomp Mix)
Icehouse - Hey Little Girl (Mark Dynamix & Xan Muller's 2020 Remix)

04/02/2020

15/01/2020

Happy New Year! First DJ gig for 2020, and I'm going back to the 80s!

Late last year, I heard Mark Dynamix Electronique club night is doing a celebration of Australian 80s music on the 26th of January.

I mentioned to Mark I have a collection of 12" vinyl records of Aussie bands from the late 80s that he could borrow if needed. He said, if you own them, I want you to play them!

It took a little convincing, and contemplation: back mixing with vinyl after 10+ years, DJing with music I bought in the 80s!

But, I love a challenge, and have such a strong emotional connection to this music, so yeah let's do it!

26.01.2020 : Mark Dynamix & Dave McCann @ Electronique 12" 80s All-Aussie New Wave/Synth Pop special - Oxford Underground (Sydney)

Electronique 12" 80s All-Aussie New Wave/Synth Pop special

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So prior to getting into techno/rave and clubbing in the early 90s... In 1988, 17 years old, playing keyboards, I started performing out live with dance/rock bands, in Adelaide's clubs and pubs (before I was legally old enough to be in them).

From 1986 to 1990 I went to concerts, pubs and clubs in Adelaide seeing these Aussie bands live: INXS, Pseudo Echo, Boom Crash Opera, Noiseworks, Icehouse, Eurogliders, Big Pig, Models, James Freud, The Venetians, Crowded House. On New Years Day 1987, I was melting in the sun at the Australian Made concert at Thebarton Oval, in Adelaide

You can see I wasn't exposed to, or interested in the more alternative or guitar heavy bands of the time. I loved melody and synths. I also had a strong focus on Australian music.

I remember I would often wait around after gigs to chat to the band members if I could, mostly to the keyboard players. Poor guys were probably trying to pick up chicks, and here I was being a synth nerd, chatting gear and sounds.

I loved buying and listening to the 12" vinyl releases of these Aussie 80s band's singles, with their extended versions. It's these versions, with extended stripped back drum beats and edits that got me interested in dance beats, loops, samples, sampling keyboards, drum machines, programming beats and MIDI sequencing, and then onto producing my own dance music.

I'll save my 90s music journey stories for another time. Note, I moved from Adelaide to Sydney in 1995 with live band Bliss.

I'm extremely thankful to my mum for supporting my passions for music and the journey I'm still on to this day.

Many thanks to mum and my sis, for sending up a bunch of my Aussie 80s 12" vinyl records recently, that I still had in Adelaide.

PS: For the synth nerds, my 80s/90s journey: Yamaha DX-100, Yamaha DX-7, Roland D50, Ensoniq ESQ1, Roland D-550, Ensoniq EPS, no analogue there sorry.