Danny Tenaglia (circa '97 - '99)

ScottBailey

This is something that may have been covered many times before on many previous boards, so forgive my ignorance if it has already…
normally with most DJ’s you can find some kind of evidence of sets they played at a given time, even if it appears as someone’s memory-inspired tracklist only. There is however (from what I’ve found) very little information about DT during this era.
When you take into account he made tracks like Elements, and remixes for D*Note and Celeda that are stonewall classics, surely some of the sets (Twilo etc) he must have been playing at the time should have been rediculously good, no?
I know a lot of the high profile DJ’s during that time were really strict about stuff not getting bootlegged, but I can count the number of tracklists I’ve found during this era on both hands.
Am I missing something???

PS: the obvious GU #10 aside…

Mad_Cyril

Have a vague recollection of him being super protective of that kind of stuff.

It is very vague though!

jonattonyeah

Mad_Cyril

He didn’t want anyone to get any ideas from his 2 hour edit of Rui Da Silva’s “Touch Me”.

zackster

Cyril is correct.

-si-

I remember reading in mixmag about his set in miami at the winter music conference and he literally did play touch me for nearly an hour. Talk about teasing in a breakdown lol.

FabiParas

He played Home over a weekend back in 00 for his GU and he was super protective. There were screens around the booth so you couldn’t see him or in to the booth. My ex was working for Home at the time and despite his super security consciousness I managed to get out back behind the booth and hang out there during the sets. All I remember was his neon light messages saying how great London was and sending shout outs.

Met Dave Beer there and when I introduced myself he thought I was Danny Howells and that he’d try for ages to book me!

Another clang while I’m at it, I managed to get one of the few early promos of Touch Me direct from Rui at the same time as DT got his copy.

Also remember his Gatecrasher SSS set in the Bedrock tent where he played the hour of Touch Me which was already overplayed by that time.

Mad_Cyril

FabiParas
You managed to make a thread about the great DT ALL ABOUT YOU 🤣

Hate to be in your shoes when his people see this 🙈

Echo

FabiParas Also remember his Gatecrasher SSS set in the Bedrock tent where he played the hour of Touch Me which was already overplayed by that time.

He played in another tent that night due to him doing a ridiculously long set. Remember it well because we left the Bedrock tent to go and catch him as Nick Warren had come on.

Dry-Tinder

FabiParas

The part where is played touch me, he was playing a classics part to his set. He also played Turn Me On (Bedrock Mix). I Feel Love (Danny Howells Mix), and The Baguio Track. He stopped the music and said “hello London” then gave a big long speech then played Touch Me for half hour. I don’t recall him in the Bedrock tent. That was the last time that I saw him and he was good. I saw him play ARC in New York in 2003 and wished I had gone to Danny Howells the night before. I caught him at Heaven in 2004 and it was all over. 98 to 02 was probably his best era.

FabiParas

Mad_Cyril I don’t have a great recollection about any of the music played during his sets so I thought I’d just chuck a couple of anecdotes instead. 😉

bosstrabs

He was definitely playing out a lot around that time.

Two gigs I definitely remember being mentioned (although I wasn’t there):
A marathon (10-hour?) set at Homelands. Think he had a tent/stage all to himself, was called the D10 or DTourism tent or something.
Mixmag raving about a set he played at the Miami Winter Music Conference, this was the first time I became really aware of him apparently being that good and known as ’the DJ’s DJ’, apparently Oakenfold and Cox seen having it, dancing on tables etc to his set.

-si-

bosstrabs Mixmag raving about a set he played at the Miami Winter Music Conference, this was the first time I became really aware of him apparently being that good and known as ’the DJ’s DJ’, apparently Oakenfold and Cox seen having it, dancing on tables etc to his set.

That’s the one i mentioned dave, i read the same article you mentioned.

alistair

Will always contend that Bottom Heavy is his greatest record.

Smallman1

He hosted a tent at one of the Gatecrasher Summer Sound Systems I went to and absolutely smashed it.

Danny T that is.

FabiParas

Welcome to six posts ago Ed.

Homegrove

Celeda - Be Yourself is an overappreciated record.

alistair

Homegrove can’t stand it, only black mark on JD’s NYE bunker.

ScottBailey

Homegrove only negative about Be Yourself from me is that it’s too long. Gets a bit repetitive after the main breakdown, which most people mix out of after anyway.
Apart from that, it’s one of my favourites!

Dan

His finest hour

ScottBailey

Dan #shamelessplug played that on one of my recent mixes (Stay @ Home Mix 007) on Mixcloud, as bit of a tribute to Paradise Garage/Twilo 😉

ScottBailey

Appreciate the feedback lads.
What I can make out so far is that DT was playing lots of gigs during this time (including some epic, marathon sets), yet because there’s so little info about any of them he was either the best on the scene as making sure nothing got out or talked about, or, they were actually really crap and no-one can be bothered to remember them in that much detail 😂

Mad_Cyril

ScottBailey
Excellent precis Scott 🤣

Homegrove

Didn’t make me want to fast forward, but no, not a fan.