Dan Prothero

Dan Prothero is a San Francisco-based independent music producer, engineer, and record collector.

He founded Fog City Records in 1996, and recorded the debut records of Galactic, Stanton Moore, Garage A Trois, Papa Mali, Robert Walter's 20th Congress, MOFRO, Etienne de Rocher, and Tim Bluhm. He has been called "the true king of raw" by allmusic.com, for his emphasis on live performance and vintage analog recording techniques.

As an independent producer, Prothero also recorded Galactic's second album "Crazyhorse Mongoose", Robert Walter's "Super Heavy Organ", and multiple followup recordings with MOFRO among others. He also produced drum records with legends Bernard Purdie and Headhunters drummer Mike Clark, and created "Bulldog Breaks", the highly-acclaimed (and widely sampled) series of breakbeat records.

Dan also helped develop the look and sound of Bay Area label Ubiquity Recordings from its inception in 1989, forming and/or producing many of the groups that appeared on its wildly successful initial releases (Rhythm Section, Slide Five, New Legends, Sweet Potato, etc.), writing liner notes and doing most of the graphic design for Ubiquity and its vintage re-release label Luv N Haight. He continues to create all of the graphic design for releases on his own Fog City Records imprint, as well as programming the Enhanced CD content that accompanies them.