Biography
Daniel Burns Findlay was born in Alberta Canada to British parents, April 1976. For the first 24 years of Dan's life nothing of any musical consequence took place. Not even a remotely interesting record collection.
From geologist on West African oil rigs to gold exploration in Irian Jaya, a 1999 job offer landed Dan in Hong Kong… then promptly made him redundant. It eventually clicked that trying to pursue a 'normal' career was just as unreliable a path as doing whatever the hell you liked. Factor in a city where MPCs grew on trees plus an energetic underground party scene: Music meet Dan, Dan meet music.
Jariten is founder and head honcho of the Sound of Habib label (soundofhabib.com), DJ, producer and all round gloomy fucker.
Jariten started his path into the world of music by DJ-ing at the very popular student nights in Gothenburg. He quickly became well know on the local circuit for venturing outside the student night norm and intruducing a mainstream crowd to electronic music. As he grew in polularity, playing 3-5 nights a week meant staying awake in class was a near impossible feat, and Jariten left his studies behind, having undertaken an eclectic mix of courses including Chemistry and Chineese.
In 1999 the first Sound of Habib release saw the light of day, distributed by ST Holdings. The track "Enjoy" by Jariten under the "Spark" moniker secured a sureplayer in DJ Magazine, and after having Stisch masterpeice JFK as the 3rd release on the label, it was already legendary. Sound of Habib is the longest running international breakbeat label, and one of the most consistent breaks labels in the world.
Jariten continued using different monikers for himself and his various collaborations and release tunes as Invincible, Random Source, Spark and Johan Soh. In 2006 he felt it was time to focus it all on one alias, and then there was only Jariten.
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