Daniel Griffiths is an English musician best known for his work in the progressive musical collective, Archive.
Danny was making dance music from the age of 18 and is reputed to have been the originator of drum and bass through his early project G Double .E Through his work on this, Danny met long term collaborator Darius Keeler, and started a new venture, Genaside 2, with the song Narramine bringing the pair to wider attention and gaining
a significant hardcore underground following.
In order to distribute further tunes, Keeler and Griffiths formed the independent label, Swarm Records before the
pair started the Archive project in 1994. Their first release, Londinium, was a critically acclaimed slice of melodic trip-hop with comparisons being made to Massive Attack and Portishead and gained them some success in their native United Kingdom.
Discovering that the band had made serious inroads into the French market, Griffiths and Keeler then moved from Island Records to Independiente for their second album, Take My Head, before then being poached by Warner Brothers in Paris, with whom they collaborated no five further albums and became one of the most recognized progressive groups in mainland Europe, known for their distinctive style and wide use of vocalists.
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