Mas Edan is Danny Martin: an electronic musician, gamelan player, and drummer, from Virginia. He began studying Balinese music with Gamelan Raga Kusuma in 2008, while at Virginia Commonwealth University, and went to Institut Seni Indonesia in Surakarta, Central Java, through the Indonesian Darmasiswa scholarship, from 2012-13. He has since lived in Surakarta, Denpasar, San Francisco, and Virginia, which has allowed him to continue studying gamelan, primarily Balinese, while developing his own music.
