Bio
With a background in improvised piano music and jazz composition, Dan Berg created Fireberg in the early 2010s as a canvas for the expression of cybernetic sound. His 2014, self-released debut, ‘Aphonic EP,’ merged downtempo, and minimalist drums with bold outer space electronics and synth journeys, and each effort since continually arises anew, charting routes through Berg’s many musical influences, notably jazz, ambient, art rock, funk, and psychedelic soul. His 2017 ‘The Drive EP’, shifted smoothly to more dance-friendly ideas, featuring work by noted NYC engineer Abe Seiferth and a diverse cast of vocalists including Berg himself. Standouts include the classic house-meets-r&b of ‘Nowhere Else to Go’ featuring Claire Khodara, the dreamy, psychedelic sounds of Daruma Boy in ‘The Drive’, or Black Tortuga riding the deeply funky groove of ‘Your Light’ with a full, three-piece horn arrangement.
2020 and the pandemic pushed Fireberg into a prolific but also introspective mode, including a burgeoning interest in plant medicine and spiritual healing. His ‘Undoing the Future’ EP on Eyedyllic Music focuses on extended tracks in a house and techno idiom while also returning to the spaced-out synth work that made his debut provocative and sanding sharper edges of previous work for deeper dancefloor impact. Reaching further inwards, ‘Passage from Gaumukh: Music for the Rainbow Cave’, a collaboration with visual artist Basia Goszcznska, was a purely ambient affair, venturing into the avant-garde and exploring issues around ecological and social purity and contamination. In 2022, Fireberg returned with a new EP, ‘Call of the Phoenix’, released on his own Mishbaka imprint, celebrating the healing process, renewal and rebirth. Combining tropical, dreamy house, chillout tracks, dubby vocal samples and sweet, ethereal melodies, it featured remixes by electronic stalwarts Prince of Queens and Scott Diaz.
Now, his newest offering, ‘Myami Rain EP,’ the second release from Mishbaka Records, is a collaboration with jazz and gospel vocalist J Hoard, including one original track and a set of five remixes, with renditions by glitch pioneer, Prefuse 73; Detroit house veteran, Rick Wade; and contemporary deep house apostle, J Gabriel.
