DAVE SHICHMAN

(Driven AM | Natural Selection | Luv Distaster | Peer Pressure)

Representing New York City, Dave is a respected contributor to the North American Drum and Bass community. Owner of Driven AM, the premier North American DnB Artist Management, Record Label, and Production company. Events coordinator and resident DJ for various NYC parties including part of the legendary NYC production team Direct Drive and recently part of the team presenting ‘Natural Selection’ in NYC. Dave has released music on Luv Disaster (alongside Dave Owen), Peer Pressure Recordings, Liquid Brilliants, Basswerk (alongside Sol.ID), Influenza Minus, Electronic River Recordings, and his own imprint Driven AM Recordings. His music is being supported by DB, Random Movement, TC1, Dstar, Stunna, Mixmaster Doc, Dave Owen, Kevin Focus, Submorphics, Calculon and many others. A Dj that has performed live more than 200 times in 12 States in the US as well as in Puerto Rico and Spain in the past 12 years alongside some of the biggest names in DnB, everyone from Goldie to High Contrast. In the last year Dave’s music has been heard on a Metalheadz Podcast, featured in a mix and interview with Knowledge Magazine, and coast to coast on Dave’s January US tour. Dave is a driven individual, whose passion for Drum and Bass shows in his music and live performance.

Mixes

http://www.drivenam.com/DrivenArtists/Dave_Shichman_-_2011_Year_In_Review_DnB_Mix.mp3

Driven AM Mix for Knowledge Magazine October 2010

Changes Vol. 1 – The Deep Mix – September 2010

October 2009 Mix for Percussion Lab

In The Cave – January 2009 DnB Mix

Live @ Direct Drive’s 10 Year Anniversary, Sullivan Room, NYC September 18th 2008

Live @ Dream, NYC February 15th 2008

The First Day of Spring – 2007 Mix

Something Beautiful – April 2007 Mix

The Melodic Dancefloor – August 2006 Mix

Summer Goes Melodic – 2005 Mix

Long Bio:

Representing New York City, Dave is a well known and devoted contributor to the North American Drum and Bass community. Owner of Driven AM, the premier North American DnB Artist Management, Record Label, and Production company.  Manager and booking agent for some of the biggest names in the scene including Bachelors of Science, Dave Owen, DB, Dj Seen, Dj Strife, Flaco, Jo-S, Kevin Focus, Kjell, Mixmaster Doc, Random Movement, Raw Q and Sinistarr.  Events coordinator and resident DJ for various NYC parties including ‘100% Original’ and for the past 7 years as part of the legendary NYC production team Direct Drive.

Dave has been producing electronic music since 2002 and acoustic music for over 15 years.  Dave has released music on Luv Disaster (alongside Dave Owen), Peer Pressure Recordings, Liquid Brilliants, Basswerk (alongside Sol.iD), Influenza Minus, Electronic River Recordings, and his own imprint Driven AM Recordings.  His music is being supported by DB, Random Movement, TC1, Dstar, Stunna, Mixmaster Doc, Dave Owen, Submorphics, Calculon and had a tune on a 2010 Metalheadz podcast.  Music has been a part of Dave’s life since a very young age and it shows in his approach to music and melody. Dave’s extensive music background includes performing in local and regional theater, singer/songwriter in a touring NYC band (1996-2001), guitar player/singing in a jazz band on multiple trips to Italy alongside respected Jazz Pianist Pete Malinverni.

Djing since 1998 Dave has achieved world-wide recognition for his series of live, studio, and 100% original DnB mixes, garnering over 100K downloads over the last 10 years, some under his old moniker Sheik-mon (2001 – 2006).  Dave’s mixes and original tunes have been featured many times on Bassdrive and Bassjunkies radio.  His style is funky, melodic, upbeat, jazzy, deep tunes with a dancefloor approach.  His seamless, fast style of mixing, blending melodies and ranging in intensities has led to bookings all over the US from one-off bookings to coast to coast tours (2008 & 2011).  Dave has Dj’d live more than 200 times in 12 States in the past 13 years as well as headlining gigs in Barcelona and Puerto Rico.  Dave is a regular contributor to NYC’s long standing parties Konkrete Jungle & Camouflage and has shared the stage alongside the biggest names in DnB including Goldie, Calibre, Chase & Status, High Contrast, Commix, Grooverider, Patife and many more.  Dave has played for all the major US DnB weekly parties including Elements (Boston), Torque (Orlando), Liquid (San Diego), BBBurn (Cleveland), The Melody Inn (Indianapolis), Dropin Science (Philly), Respect (LA) and more.

In 2010 Dave released 5 tunes on international labels, played gigs coast to coast including in Miami for WMC, and had a featured mix and interview with Knowledge Magazine.  Dave is a driven individual, whose passion for Drum and Bass shows in his music and live performance.  So far in 2011 Dave has toured the US, played gigs coast to coast including 2 Driven AM showcases on the west coast with fellow Driven AM member Mixmaster Doc.  This year has also seen him release the huge tunes “Tight Polite / Life Moves Fast” alongside fellow Driven AM member Dave Owen on the Brazilian label Luv Disaster.  More tours and releases set for latter this year!  Expect a lot more from this driven individual!