Daniel House (born August 8, 1961) is an American business owner and he was president and owner of

C/Z Records C/Z Records was a Seattle-based punk rock record label that was established in early 1985 by Chris Hanzsek and Tina Casale. It started with the release of '' Deep Six'' which collected the earliest recordings of what later came to be known as ...

, a

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-based independent record label that released music by many bands including

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, Built to Spill,

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, Engine Kid,

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, The Presidents of the United States of America, Silkworm, and

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. In 2003 he moved from

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where he oversaw the development and creation of the now-defunct www.DownloadPunk.com as well as the

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-centric (now offline) online dating

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, RocknRollDating.com.

Musical career

House’s first band was the little-known Seattle band Death of Marat, named after a

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by Jacques-Louis David depicting the assassination of radical journalist Jean-Paul Marat during the

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. The band lasted for a little over a year, starting in 1982 and breaking up in late 1983. In 1984 House formed an instrumental

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three-piece band called feeDBack with

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on drums and a guitarist named "Nerm" (real name Tom Herring). feeDBack lasted only 10 months but managed to record 9 songs on a 4-track recorder that Cameron owned. The songs have subsequently been remixed and mastered by

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, and released in 2012 in

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format. Shortly after forming feeDBack, House was recruited to play bass in

10 Minute Warning 10 Minute Warning (also known as Ten Minute Warning) was a hardcore punk band from Seattle, Washington (U.S. state), Washington. They became famous locally as one of the first bands to adapt the popular punk rock, punk sound to something slower and ...

(TMW), replacing the recently departed David Garrigues. TMW was unique at the time in that they originated as a punk band, but had evolved into something slower, heavier and with psychedelic overtones. TMW are popularly regarded as one of the first progenitors of the grunge movement. 10 Minute Warning broke up at the end of 1984 after guitarist Paul Solger quit, and drummer

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left Seattle to join former 10 Minute Warning guitarist

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in Los Angeles.

Skin Yard

On June 7, 1985 Skin Yard played their first show opening for the

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. Skin Yard’s music was first released on the '' Deep Six'' compilation album which also featured tracks by

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and

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Later career

In 1988 House co-wrote and recorded ''The Last Laugh'',

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’s first for

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Records with Jason Finn on drums. In 1989, House was the drummer for Seattle band, Yeast, who released one 7" single ("Crisco Wristwatch") and a track on ''Teriyaki Asthma Vol. I'' which also included tracks from

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, Helios Creed and

. The other members of Yeast were Milton Garrison from Vexed and Al Thompkins from Daddy Hate Box. Yeast highlights included sharing the bill once with

and once with Tad. In 1993 House played one show with the band

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(opening for Red House Painters) while bass player Joe Skyward was in Europe playing with

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. Pretty Mary Sunshine asked House to become their permanent bass-player, but he declined. That was the last time House performed on stage.

As record label owner

Daniel House purchased the rights and ownership of fledgling Seattle-based label

from Chris Hanzsek in 1986. Initially House intended the label as a vehicle to release music by

, his band at the time. Skin Yard’s only previously released material was on C/Z’s '' Deep Six'' compilation, and House wanted to maintain the ongoing sales efforts for the remaining LPs still in stock. House continued to release records by other bands in the Seattle area, while working at a series of jobs, eventually working as Director of Sales and Distribution for Sub Pop Records in 1988. House left Sub Pop in 1991 in an effort to make C/Z a viable business. Over the next several years C/Z grew into an independent label. At its peak, C/Z employed 13 people and was a full-service label with distribution in North America, Europe and Australia. In 1993, C/Z entered into a production and distribution deal with Sony-owned RED Distribution. By 1994, that deal had drained C/Z of all its financial resources and effectively shut C/Z down, leaving House deep in debt. In 1996 the BMG-owned Zoo Entertainment partnered with C/Z for a third-party venture deal which helped to resolve the debt incurred during the RED Distribution deal. Zoo provided a modest operating and recording budget and assisted in the development of new artists. That same year, House appeared in the 1996 grunge documentary ''

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'', the footage of which had been shot in 1992-1993. In 1997 Zoo was purchased and all third party ventures were dropped. C/Z would then be turned back to a part-time venture with House looking towards new opportunities that would still keep him involved in music. The shift would move him towards

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-based music and entertainment ventures. In 1998, House began working in the music department at streaming media pioneer RealNetworks as an editor for their online content portal, the RealGuide.

Personal life

In 2003, House moved to

References

External links

Daniel House Official Site

C/Z Records Official Site

RocknRollDating.com
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