Q&A

djdigit a short retrospective:

• Sean Hanna began as a musi­cian at age 5 play­ing vio­lin. In the fol­low­ing twelve years he learned and played a vari­ety of instru­ments includ­ing piano, pipe organ, trum­pet, as well as ana­log (remem­ber the Moog Syn­the­sizer?) and dig­i­tal syn­the­siz­ers (in their advent). He also stud­ied clas­si­cal voice as well as music theory.
• djdigit began com­pos­ing at age 14 and in three years wrote numer­ous piano pieces, choral pieces, and an orig­i­nal stage musical.
• Sean grad­u­ated from the High School for the Per­form­ing and Visual Arts in Hous­ton, Texas and received a spe­cial diploma in Vocal Performance.
• In col­lege he knew elec­tronic music was his muse and stud­ied Tech­nol­ogy In Music & Related Arts at Ober­lin Con­ser­va­tory of Music in Ohio.
• In the early 90s Sean began pro­gram­ming intel­li­gent dance floor light-shows and spin­ning early techno and trance tracks in some of the hottest clubs in Hous­ton and Austin, Texas. Later becom­ing djdigit, he worked crowds into a frenzy play­ing the hottest pro­gres­sive house and trance around.
• djdigit has also worked live with some of the hottest names in Club Cul­ture includ­ing RuPaul, Kim Syms, Martha Wash, Boy George, Jimmy Somerville and the one and only Crys­tal Waters.
• Feel­ing a deep need to explore world phi­los­o­phy, Sean took an extended sabat­i­cal from the dance music scene.
• Com­bin­ing phi­los­o­phy & world reli­gions with music, his most com­mon phrase to describe music is this: “When you lis­ten to music you are only using your ears. If you expe­ri­ence it, you will use all of your senses. Music is to be expe­ri­enced, like a first snow­fall in win­ter. Open your mind to what the music says and let it take you to your most far away place. When you expe­ri­ence music, you expe­ri­ence the divine.”
• His debut CD, “Slip­stream to the Divine” (2001) is a 70 minute, inspir­ing mix of Pro­gres­sive House, Techno and Trance that will move your body from begin­ning to end. Two sin­gles, “I Believe” and “Des­ti­na­tion: Omega Q” found their way into the clubs and topped sev­eral inter­net dance charts.
• Years later — new and endur­ing fans con­tinue to dis­cover the slip­stream in stores or through online music ser­vices like iTunes, Nap­ster and Rhapsody.
• Today: djdigit will shake dance floors from L.A. to Ibiza and he’s got more music and more inspi­ra­tion to share with the entire globe. Check out the Pod­cast and Expe­ri­ence “The Rev­o­lu­tion”.