Daniel Chien, australian born and los angeles based, with r&b, disco and uk bass all audible in what he makes. spotify credits him as a major orchestrator in developing the house sound across the united states, which is a big claim but not an unreasonable one.

the True Joy ep landed on mad decent in august 2015. the real turn was 2019, when he started Divided Souls Records and put everything through it after that, including the House of Wax album in february 2022 and its sequel on 8 may 2026.

he put the reason he keeps working with other people plainly.

When you go to the studio with someone, even if it's someone not as skilled as you or more skilled than you, you always pick up something new.

wax motif to dancing astronaut, 13 april 2022

House of Wax II proves the point. fourteen tracks with ty dolla $ign, dj jazzy jeff, camden cox, sarah de warren and ZHU on them, plus Run It Up made with Juos, who is further up this page. the two of them followed it with On Ya Neck on 26 june 2026. he also has history with Matroda, a joint remix of missy elliott's Lose Control in 2019 and La Candela Viva in july 2022.

his biggest record by a distance is still WET. this summer he plays celine in orlando on 14 august, breakaway mass at the palladium on the twenty first, and night we met in nashville on 12 september.