Dave Sitek

Dave Sitek is the sonic wizard best known as the producer/guitarist for art-rock innovators TV on the Radio, but his fingerprints appear all over modern indie music. As founder of the maximalist production team DAS (and through his solo alias Maximum Balloon), he's crafted psychedelic soundscapes for everyone from Yeah Yeah Yeahs to Karen O while maintaining a signature style of layered textures and genre-blurring experimentation. Recent releases like the "El Que" DAS remix and "Bad Apples" showcase his continued evolution in electronic manipulation - fuzzy synths colliding with off-kilter rhythms, proving he's still pushing boundaries two decades into his career. When not in the studio, Sitek remains a sought-after collaborator who somehow makes spacey weirdness feel effortlessly cool.