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Daniel Sharp (b. 1994, Grand Rapids, MI) is a Detroit-based artist, musician, writer, and interdisciplinary organizer. The majority of their work deals with deterioration, social patterns, public policy, and land.

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Moods @ Movement party, 2022. Images courtesy Jordan Stanton.


Moods (2017-ongoing) is a network of nightlife workers, techno fans, and artists that platforms music outside of techno. We explore our community’s roots and origins to understand how music migrates from one geography and generation to another. We do this through monthly mixes, merchandise, and low-capacity events. Read our mission, value, and goal statement here, or view our archive on Substack.
Each Moods Mixer gets paid $50 for their mix—or we donate it to a cause or chairty of their choice.

  • Sustained support: after launching in 2017, we’ve platformed 60+ artists’ sonic origin since, totaling over 70 hours of music, 750+ songs, and 600+ musicians.
  • Global reach: 30,000+ listeners across six continents. That’s around 25,000 hours of music played through Moods—or 3 years of nonstop music across the globe.
  • Economic sustainability: we’ve distributed $18,514.70 to 70+ artists, event organizers, venue hosts, contributors, and curators since our founding in 2017. And through merchandise sales, monthly subscriptions through Drip (2018-2020) and Paypal subscriptions (2020-present), we’ve brought in over $20,901.59 in revenue to pay for mixes, curators, events, merchandise, and online hosting fees.

We rely on monthly donations and merchandise sales from our community to pay for artist fees, curator fees, our Soundcloud subscription, and archive maintenance.

This project can sustain its operating costs if Moods receives $113 a month in donations. We’re $50/month away from making this a reality. Will you help us?

Become a Moods Emotional Listener ($1/month)
Become a Moods Emotional Caretaker ($4/month)
Subscribe to our Substack ($5/month)
Become Moods’ Emotional Support ($20/month)



Finjams x Moods 01 event, 2021.


Season Six (2023)
Curated by: Miguel Cisne, Crystal Gause, Daniel Sharp

Season Five (2022)
Curated by: Miguel Cisne, Crystal Gause, Daniel Sharp

Season Four (2021)
Curated by: Miguel Cisne, Crystal Gause, Jamie Johnson, Daniel Sharp

Season Three (2020)
  Curated by: Daniel Sharp and Crystal Gause

Season Two (2019)
  Curated by: Daniel Sharp