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Alien D

49 listings in 23 named rooms, over the last three years · one ahead

"It's D's World, we're just living in it" - Guy reading my iPhone notes on the M Train

Longtime dancefloor staple Dan Creahan has been a quiet but vital energy in New York's thriving late-night scene, promoting and running door as energetically as he throws down on the floor. As a producer, he's often sought to explore the range around the center of the floor, working behind a number of pen names that have settled in recent years around around Alien D, a coy reworking of his first name, and the most direct outlet for his productions.

Having previously released tapes with Mind Dynamics, a driving, frenetic project that pushed noise sensibilities and an improv-first focus on dance music stylings, Creahan worked through a range of concepts and monikers before releasing his first record as Alien D in 2018. Building sonic worlds around shared concepts and studio workflows, he rarely sits in one place for too long, exploring ever-shifting sonic palettes that have branched out from his initial formula of loose break tracks, tinged with elements of house and dub and into a range of sources, from spaced-out B12 tributes to tracks nodding towards the heyday of West Coast rave and downtempo.

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Bringing the same energy he's honed as a label head and promoter to his studio practice, the horizon looks bright for this Alien, gleaming out into the depths of space, where new worlds await <3

Their Resident Advisor profile, in full and unedited.

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Records out on Sweat Equity NYC and Twin System. — their own list on Resident Advisor

The nights

2026

2025 — 14 nights
2024 — 14 nights
2023 — 8 nights

Their rooms

One tick a night, on the one axis this page has — Aug 2023, where the listings start, to Jan 2027, the last night anybody has announced. The shaded end has not happened yet.

Aug 2023Jan 2027

Once each: Dada, Lullaby, Elsewhere, Camp Kennybrook, Bar Laika, Earthly Delights, Million Goods, Mood Ring, Rash, Rakit Club, Market Hotel, Sisters, The End, Nowadays and Xpizza. Five of the 50 listings never named a room, and are not counted as one.

Who they play with

Counted from the bills themselves, over bills of twelve names or fewer. A pair's count includes a night that is announced and not yet played; where there is one, the row says when.

  • No SirGood Room ×5, and 4 more rooms · Nov 2023 – Jan 202610 nights
  • YibingGood Room ×4, and 5 more rooms · Sep 2023 – Sep 202510 nights
  • Andrew DevlinGood Room ×3, and 4 more rooms · Aug 2023 – Jan 20269 nights
  • NIGELTHREETIMESGood Room ×4, and 3 more rooms · Aug 2023 – Jan 20268 nights
  • Kat Offlinean unnamed room ×1, Mansions ×1, and 1 more room · Nov 2024 – Aug 20263 nights
  • Kfeelzan unnamed room ×1, Good Room ×1, and 1 more room · Mar 2024 – Jan 20263 nights
  • DJ STEPDADan unnamed room ×1, Rash ×1, and 1 more room · Mar 2024 – Apr 20253 nights
  • Amelia Holtan unnamed room ×1, Rakit Club ×1, and 1 more room · Aug 2023 – May 20243 nights
3 more, 2 nights each
  • RazrbarkGood Room ×1, Market Hotel ×1 · Mar 2024 – Apr 20252 nights
  • T.WanGood Room ×1, Mood Ring ×1 · Nov 2024 – Dec 20242 nights
  • Ben Bondyan unnamed room ×1, Xpizza ×1 · Aug 2023 – Dec 20232 nights

On record

10 more, back to 2005

Every one of these resolves on Discogs; the ones that do not are not printed. What Discogs files them under is not printed either — its label column carries mix series as if they were imprints.

The nights, the rooms and the bills are the listings themselves. The biography, the labels and the photograph are Resident Advisor's. The records are Discogs'. Nothing on this page was written for it.