Growing up in Greenwich Village, New York City, in the 1960s, Danny Krivit was surrounded by music. His mother was an accomplished jazz singer and his father was the manager of legendary jazz trumpeter Chet Baker before opening up The Ninth Circle, a Village hot spot, where Danny worked as a boy. It was here that Danny met some of the most influential people of the era’s music scene; Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Charlie Mingus, John Lennon and Yoko Ono amongst others. His home was also a hotbed of musical inspiration with The Mothers of Invention living along the hall, and Sid Bernstein (Manager of The Rascals) living upstairs - The Rascals would regularly pop down to the Krivit household to practice their future hits on the piano. At school, a close friend and classmate was the son of Creed Taylor, the production genius behind many artists who recorded on the Verve, C.T.I. & Kudu labels, and another close friend, the legendary Nile Rodgers, helped Danny to pick out his first guitar.

By 1970, Danny was already a vinyl junkie and an amateur DJ and spinning vinyl as a profession became reality in 1971, after another neighbour / friend, the Vice President of Polydor Records, introduced him to the Godfather Of Soul, James Brown, who gave Danny white-label advance promo copies of ‘Get On The Good Foot’ and ‘Think’ by Lynn Collins. Soon afterwards, Danny started DJ-ing & programming music for The Ninth Circle which had since been converted into a disco. In 1975, Danny’s father opened his second club called Ones and Danny was their sole DJ through 1977. Danny’s sets became a success and, with this momentum, he started promoting and DJ-ing at his own after-hours club nearby. At this stage, Danny was becoming a part of the underground scene in New York, club-hopping and meeting some of the greatest DJ names of the time, including Nicky Siano (The Gallery), Walter Gibbons (Galaxy 21), Tee Scott (Better Days), David Rodriguez (The Limelight), Richie Kaczar (Club Hollywood), and Bobby DJ (Le Jardin) amongst others. Although all outstanding names, one DJ and club stood out among the rest: DJ David Mancuso and The Loft.

A musical centre and a mecca for DJs, The Loft was a unique place and home of the original DJ Record Pool. Here, Danny began his long time friendships with DJs Larry Levan and Francois Kevorkian. In 1977, Danny had started DJ-ing at Trude Heller’s and had become an avid roller skater. With his girlfriend at the time, Daphne Rubin Vega, he would regularly skate over to the Paradise Garage, where Larry Levan would let them skate around the club while he checked out some of the new records that week on the sound system. The Garage remained Danny’s main stomping ground until it closed in 1987.

Danny’s list of DJ residencies steadily grew throughout the ‘70s and, in 1979, after DJ-ing at the opening of the Roxy, he became their main resident DJ for the next four years, & also their sister roller rink in Long Island, Laces, where he was the main resident for 10 years. In the early ‘80s, the Roxy became home to some of the best hip hop DJs of the day as the nascent culture grew and ventured south from the Bronx, including Grandmixer D.S.T, Grandmaster Flash and Afrika Bambaataa. Since Danny was one of the few white DJs of the time who could scratch mix, he earned the nickname Danny Rock. Throughout the ‘80s and often playing six or seven nights a week, the list of clubs booking him mushroomed. Seminal spots like Area, Danceteria, The Ice Palace, Laces, The Limelite, Red Zone, Save The Robots, Studio 54 (Virgin Islands), Tracks, The Tunnel, The World and many others called on his skills. He even landed a guest spot at the legendary Paradise Garage.

Since the late ‘70s, trade magazines such as Billboard (which he still reports to weekly), Cash Box, Record World, & Dance Music Report amongst others, have listed Danny’s playlists and Danny’s mix tapes have received airplay on radio stations including WBLS, WKTU, & Kiss FM in the US along with countless international stations.

During the ‘80s, Danny also embarked on a studio career. His early work included classic JB cut-ups ‘Feeling James’ and ‘Rock The House’ and he began exploring re-edits of individual tracks, often credited under the ‘Mr. K’ moniker, re-structuring James Brown’s ‘Soul Power’, ‘Give It Up And Turn It Loose’ and ‘Funky Drummer’, Ecstasy Passion & Pain’s ‘Touch And Go’, Brenda And The Tabulations’ ‘Let’s Go All the Way’, Gloria Gaynor’s ‘Casanova Brown’, and MFSB’s ‘Love Is The Message’, an edit that has since become the quintessential version of the track in club circles.

By the ‘90s, Danny had earned legendary status amongst young and old alike and had continued to forge new paths in dance music through his DJ sets and re-edits. He inherited The Ninth Circle from his father and continued to DJ at New York clubs such as Boy Bar, Choice, Mars, Palladium, Red Zone, Roxy, Save The Robots, Shelter, Sound Factory Bar, Tracks, Tunnel, Twilo, Warehouse and even The Loft. At its inception in 1996, Danny joined Francois K and Joe Claussell to form the Body & Soul team at Club Vinyl in Manhattan and regularly played there every Sunday for its entire run. The party became a mecca for club-goers and expanded into special events overseas, including Brazil, France, Los Angeles, London, Portugal, Italy, Singapore and some sensational annual events in Japan.

With Body & Soul in New York becoming more of a seasonal event since 2002, Danny has continued to enjoy success as resident DJ of the award-winning “Best Party In NYC”, 718 Sessions, which started in Brooklyn (dialling code 718) and kept the name despite a move across the river to Manhattan. Krivit is responsible for many of the creative aspects of the party as well the artwork for the club’s flyers and merchandise, all based on clever re-works of classic album sleeves. Both within and beyond New York, he continues to guest regularly at leading clubs including APT, Cielo, Deep (Los Angeles), Garage 416 (Toronto) Giant Step, Love, Pacha, Roxy, Paradox (Baltimore), Santos Partyhouse, Sapphire Lounge, Score (Miami Beach), Shelter, Spirit, Stereo (Montreal), Tambor (Atlanta), The End Up (San Francisco), Water Taxi Beach, & Webster Hall

Danny’s 39-year DJ career has included many personal highlights, starting with the rare oppertunity get get behind the turntables at both the Loft & Paradise Garage. & more recently in Summer 2003, playing to 5000 of his 718 Sessions fans at Museum Of Modern Art's PS1 in New York. Or New Year’s Eve 2001 in Tokyo, playing for a crowd of 21,000. Playing with Body & Soul has also seen many amazing highlights, like their three legendary Summer Stage events in New York’s Central Park with a crowds of over 15,000 the first time out, or their 10^th anniversary @ PS1 in July 2006, to an over capacity crowd of 7,000, along with Body & Soul’s legendary twice a year events for the past 10 year in Tokyo… & especially at Body & Soul in Tokyo May 2008 performing alongside his future wife, Japanese pop icon AK.

Today, Danny continues to be revered across the globe. As a DJ, he enjoys a full schedule of dates from North and South America to Europe and Japan with club-goers young and old still enthralled by his unique approach. As a producer, editor and remixer, he has justifiably earned the title “King Of The Re-Edit” with over 200 records to his name since the early ‘80s. The burgeoning culture for re-edits in recent years owes much to the work of Mr. K. He has compiled several excellent albums with acclaimed compilations on Strut, NRK, Defected and more. His collection of audio and video is unrivalled, including over 5000 rare soul performances on video from the ‘60s to the ‘90s and a vinyl collection numbering well over 80,000 records. He has contributed to many historical films & literature such as ‘Maestro’, Tim Lawrence’s ‘Love Saves The Day’, Bill Brewster and Frank Broughton’s ‘Last Night A DJ Saved My Life’, Mel Cheren’s ‘My Life & The Paradise Garage’, ‘Downtown Calling’ and ‘All Hopped Up and Ready To Go’.

Vince Aletti’s ‘The Disco Files’ credits Danny as “a key player in the history of New York nightlife”. In the Big Apple and worldwide, he remains a massive influence, boasting one of the longest and most prolific careers of any DJ / producer in the world today.