Daniel Buess (28 January 1976 – 10 March 2016) was a Swiss drummer, percussion player and sound artist from Basel.

He studied percussion at the Musikhochschule Basel with Siegfried Schmid and with Isao Nakamura[1] in Karlsruhe.

His studies included the traditional south Indian percussion-music, specially the Mridangam from 1995 till 1998 and the Arabic percussion music during a three months residency in Cairo, Egypt from November 2007 till January 2008.

Other important acts are: CORTEX[3] (with the composer, saxophone player and electronic-musician Alex Buess),16-17, Buggatronic (with James Hullick[4]), HOW2 (with the percussionist Daniel Stalder), B&B[5] (with the flautist Christoph Bösch), MIR[6] (with Papiro and Michael Zaugg) and NoiseZone[7] (with Artur and Sebastian Smolyn) His collaborations include artists like Zbigniew Karkowski, Alex Buess, Hany Bedair, Kasper T.Toeplitz, John Duncan, Jürg Henneberger, Michael Wertmüller, Phill Niblock, Knut Remond, Z'EV, Julio Estrada, Antoine Chessex, Christoph Bösch, Volker Heyn, Thomas Lauck, Tim Hodgkinson, Marco Papiro, Iancu Dumitrescu, Ana Maria Avram, Jerome Noetinger, Cadlag[8] and many others.

[12] In 2014, he released a solo album called "Pitch", dedicated to Zbigniew Karkowski at Pharmafabrik Recordings.