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= Daniel Brooks =

Daniel Brooks is an American musician, songwriter & producer. He released multiple small projects between 2013 and 2017. After 2018, he began producing full length projects for himself and others in the South Jersey area. He was in the band Ranch between 2014 and 2017, and The Bolongos from 2015 to 2020. Since 2019, he has lead The Dirty Crooks, a funk-rock group based in South Jersey. His musical influences include Parliament-Funkadelic, Sly & The Family Stone, D'Angelo, Haruomi Hosono & Yellow Magic Orchestra, William Onyeabor, Francis Bebey, and many more. As Brooks claims he is unable to sing, he often has collaborators sing on his songs while handling all of the instrumentation, songwriting, melody writing, production, mixing and everything else on his own.

Discography
Brooks released multiple projects on SoundCloud and Bandcamp between 2013 and 2017. Those of which were multiple singles in 2013, Ranch Demos (2014), Collection of Sounds (2016), Mischief (2017), The Needs EP (2017), and Unreal (2017). In May 2018, he released Natural Stories, his first attempt at a full length album, which contained Rock, Funk and Blues influences. The singles from this record were "Green Month", "Lightbulb", "In A Bottle" and "Feel Old Yet".

In August 2019, his sophomore effort, The Jukebox Project, had more of a funk influence, most notably with the single "Semi-Blinded", which features a saxophone solo by Tom Long from The Blue Method. Other singles from this record were "Flake", "Weenipeenobeenie Boy", "Isle Site" and "Red Pen", which is a song originally written in 2013 for his band short lived band Ranch.

His third album Home of the Brave, released in December of 2020, had a lo-fi approach with heavy use of drum machines and synthesizers. He attributes the dark and murky nature of the album to the heavy influences of artists such as Sly Stone, William Onyeabor and Francis Bebey. The album was recorded from late 2018 into 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic was most rampant. During this period, Brooks was dealing with severe hypochondria, depression and paranoia, all of which influenced the music heavily lyrically and the overall tone of the record.

Between late 2019 and early 2021, he was recording material for a full length album, but due to a rushed release, the project was shortened into an EP. In July 2021, he released While You're Waiting, Here's Some Mediocre Songs, which contained 5 songs from those sessions.

As of September 2021, he is working on his next album, The Death of Daniel Brooks, and has released 2 singles, "Sex Is Cool & All But Where's My Sox?" along with a music video, and "Special".