About Me
Dan Pancy is a producer and multi-instrumentalist based out of Portland, Oregon. He studied music education for four years at Eastern Michigan University, focusing on trombone and classical composition before finishing a BS in Sonic Arts and Music Production at Portland State University. The compositional stylings of Dan Pancy are varied, taking inspiration from video games, JPop, hip hop, classical music, and old school funk.
Music comes as naturally as breathing for Dan. He has been performing and writing music since he could walk, starting as the bassist for a classic rock cover band that he played in with his brothers and sisters, and eventually playing sold out arenas across the country. There is no reason why he plays music, in the same way that there is no reason why a fish swims. He has, in the past, tried to find gainful employment in other fields to diversify his resume, but always comes back to making music. In the words of his first college professor Dr. Dan Meyers, “If you can do anything else, you should. And you will, eventually.” So far, Dan is not doing anything else.
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With over a decade of experience working as a trombonist, Dan’s aggressive improvisations and tight, powerful sound earned him a regular spot in the casinos and nightclubs of Detroit, where he honed his musical edge playing with some of Detroit's finest musicians, including members of Parliament-Funkadelic, Sly and The Family Stone, and The Gap Band. As a composer, Pancy has a broad range of talents, writing chamber music and solos that call for improvising with a generative accompaniment, to creating high school band repertoire that challenges a young ensemble to grow.
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Dan has released three self produced albums, releasing the first, OST! in 2020, a concept album that follows conventions typical of the video game music from the 1990's. A series of three themes were created, then expanded on and set into different contexts, representing different levels, and the struggles that the character or player might be going through. Cheese Factory was created and released the following year in 2021, and is a collection of found sound and EDM inspired songs, where the compositional emphasis was placed heavily on finding grooves in nature, and creating a soundscape out of them. Fast Tracks was composed, produced, mixed, mastered, and released in a single 48 hour weekend, as a challenge to Dan.
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As a lyricist, Dan has no trouble writing to match a myriad of styles. From introspective hip-hop dealing with the anxieties of growing up in a large, conservative midwestern family, to JPop that serves as a wayward sea slug’s introduction to the traps of modern life, or eurobeat dance music about a husbands recently deceased wife consoling him from beyond the grave,. No topic is off limits, and no genre is out of reach.
Dan Pancy has been performing across the country as a trombonist, bassist, tubaist, trumpeter, and keyboard player since age nine, and is always looking to find more opportunities to grow as a musician. To contact Dan for any of your musical needs, please reach out to him at DanMPancy@Gmail.com
