Dan Lacksman

Dan Lacksman (born 19 May 1950) is a Belgian composer and sound engineer, artist and member of Telex, director of numerous acoustic albums, pop or jazz. He released the album Electric Dreams on 17 May 2013. Biography Dan Lacksman was born in Werl. He started learning music and piano when he was 12 years old. A year later, he received a tape recorder and a guitar for Christmas; he formed a band with school friends. They were playing songs of the Shadows, and some early compositions. He then discovered the music of the Beatles with their huge hit “She Loves You”, and started composing more intensely, recording demo songs in his parents’ dining room, which gradually became his first home studio, with the purchase of a second tape recorder and more instruments like a drumkit and a second-hand Fender Jazz Bass. In those days he composed the music of a song which would become later “Laat me nu toch niet alleen”, made successful by Belgian artist Johan Verminnen, and more recently by the group Clouseau. In 1968, after high school, he decided to become a professional recording engineer. After a few months in a specialised school, frustrated by the slowness of the studies and the lack of pr