Editing Dan Duran

Dan Duran (aka [[tracey exenola]]) moved to Hamilton in 1987. Ten years later he formed his first band, [[Sequester]], with [[R William Murphy|Rob Murphy]].

[[image:DanSaddam.gif|right|thumb|Dan Duran, in his 'Abbey Road' phase]]

After leaving that group in early 1998, he joined ''VHS'', a short-lived brit-pop inspired group, that soon gave way to [[SophieXEnola]]. Featuring the entire editorial staff (at the time) of the zine [[Clinton]], SophieXEnola specialised in taking 3 minute pop songs and extrapolating them out to fifteen minute one chord freakouts.

After the demise of [[SophieXEnola]], the extremely short-lived [[Planet Claire]] project was undertaken in 2000, who practised for two weeks, and broke up on the completion of their one and only gig at the Pavillon Bar, Waikato Uni. The use of a drum machine neatly segued into Dan's next project though - which went under the name [[luna spark]], while he adopted the pseudonym [[tracey exenola]].

In addition to this, in 2002 he re-joined two of his old [[Sequester]] bandmates in [[Big Elephants]] on bass guitar. This group a year later mutated into [[Vetox]], who broke up in 2004, preceding Dan's move to Auckland.

He continued to write and record under the alias [[luna spark]] until 2008, and played bass for disco-punk band [[Kitty Hawk]] with other ex-Htowners [[Wayne_Fontaine|Kent Briggs]], and [[John Irvine]] ex-of [[Malenky Robot]] through 2006-08.

In 2008 he changed his musical moniker to Raid Over Moscow to signal a change in musical direction, changed on a whim to [[Radio Over Moscow]] the same night the new website was set up, inspired by a Facebook message mis-read by a friend. The first Radio Over Moscow album ''[[Battletech]]'' was released in July 2009, follow-up ''[[Hide The Decline]]'' in 2010 and a double album, ''[[Deus Ex Robotica]]'' one track at a time over the course of 2011. Satherley changed the name of the project to [[Anecdata]] in 2016

He released the first track from his next musical venture, [[Dharma Police]], in January 2011.

In 2000, Dan set up the original [[Hamiltron Yahoogroup]] email list, way back when email newsgroups were the shiznit, while editing Hamilton Music zine [[Clinton]] (2000/2001). He briefly supplied magazine ''Rip It Up'' with a Hamilton column, was conscripted to [[Nexus]] and published the short-lived ''Clinton'' follow-up zine [[Buzz]] in 2003. He then re-focused on the internets, helping set up the [http://htown.co.nz htown.co.nz] website with web-genius [[drift]] in 2003, and launching the [[Htown Wiki]] with others in March/April 2006. 

== See also ==

* [[Radio Over Moscow]]
* [[luna spark]]
* [[Kittyhawk]]
* [[Clinton]]
* [[Vetox]]
* [[Big Elephants]]
* [[Buzz]]

== External links ==
* [http://radioovermoscow.com Radio Over Moscow Official website]
* [http://radioovermoscow.bandcamp.com/ Radio Over Moscow on Bandcamp]
* [http://lunaspark.muzic.net.nz/ luna spark]
* [http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/hamiltron/ Hamiltron Yahoogroup]
* [http://laksa.rapidsite.co.nz/index.cfm?id=15 Dan's favourite albums of all time]

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