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Standing in a Greyhound Bus station, wearing a Sylvester t-shirt and huge duct-tape-covered glasses, Baltimore ’s Dan Deacon doesn't invoke the image of a composer to the other bus riders. The two suitcases he loads under the bus, which accompany him from city to city, hold the sweat-and-grime-soaked electronics that he uses to craft his raging, maxed-out party music and light show. After 12 tours and 300+ shows in little over 2 years, the gear is beaten and battered, but the show and the energy it produces is anything but. Dan Deacon has garnered a reputation in the underground as an intense performer and classic showman. The table top full of pedals, a sine wave generator, vocoder and casio blasting through the PA, joined by a makeshift light board with various bulbs and green skull strobe light, make his all out dance-til-you-drop performance a complete experience. But it isn't all fancy feet and bouncy beats. Deacon is a classically trained composer with a Masters degree in electro-acoustic composition. He has released 7 albums from 2003 to 2006, but those self-produced recordings do not contain the vocal-based experimental pop that he has fine-tuned in live performance. His latest full length, Spiderman of the Rings is the first album bridging the gap between party performer and genuine composer. A mixture of his live show dance anthems, intricate instrumentals and humorous monologues, 'Spiderman of the Rings' establishes Dan Deacon as a new type of entertainer in the contemporary underground. Things Dan Deacon never told you: - Dan Deacon is touring literally non-stop before and after the record release. No town will be left unvisited. - Press by Forcefield PR - Radio Promotion by Terrorbird - Multiple music videos will be available - Posters available upon request - Dan Deacon has built an incredible and loyal fanbase over the years through extensive touring and good old American internet savvy know-how. Recently, Deacon has been composing and performing works for various ensembles at notable museums and galleries including the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington DC, the Walters Museum of Art in Baltimore, Anthology Film Archives and White Box Gallery in New York. Dan has performed with Lightning Bolt, Girl Talk, Matmos, Cat Power, Spank Rock, Numbers, Thurston Moore, Ecstatic Sunshine, Daniel Carter, Kool Keith, Animal Collective, Cex, Adult., Barr, Video Hippos, Tracy and the Plastics, Japanther, Ponytail, Matt & Kim, Parts and Labor, Aa, Wolf Eyes, Grand Buffet, Jeff Lewis, Langhorne Slim, This Bike Is A Pipe Bomb, Oxes, Daniel Johnston, and countless others.