- Dan Diaz
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Dan Diaz (born March 20, 1985) is an American video game/TV/film composer, multi-instrumentalist, producer, and recording engineer from Southern California. He has composed music for the Electronic Arts video games Skate 3 and Skate 2 for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, and Skate It for the Wii. He has written music for shows such as MTV's Nitro Circus and Rob Dyrdek's Fantasy Factory, Fox's Raising Hope, VH1's My Antonio, E! Network's Keeping Up with the Kardashians and Giuliana and Bill, as well as various other shows. Dan also wrote and produced "Punk and Indie Rock: Slammin' Sounds of So Cal", a music library distributed by Big Fish Audio, one track of which was featured in a national Toyota commercial in late 2008.[1]
On January 12th, 2010, Dan released a collection of music titled "Anti-Hero Volume 1", the first album from his new music company, Anti-Hero. Anti-Hero composes cues designed specifically for motion picture, video game, and television trailers. He has since released two more albums (Volumes 2 and 3), as well as "Sound Design Elements 1", a collection sound design tools for trailer editors. The music has been featured in the advertising campaigns for movies such as The Killer Inside Me (IFC Films) and Apollo 18 (Weinstein Co).
As a producer, engineer, and mixer, Dan has worked with Kyle Phelan, Jon Mattox, Jason Mraz, Jakob Martin, Nick D'Virgilio, and many other San Diego and LA based artists.
Dan lives in Los Angeles with his wife Britta.
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Categories:- American composers
- Video game composers
- 1985 births
- Living people
- American composer, 20th century birth stubs
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