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Artist description
Contemplative club tracks break down the barriers between new age and Techno. Ambient-washed soundscapes weave tribal chants, Latin flavors and acid gurgles among careful beats and deep basslines. -Listen.Com
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Music Style
New Age turns to Trance |
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Musical Influences
Crystal Method, PVD, Enigma, Pink Floyd, Genesis, JimmyJam and Terry Lewis |
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Similar Artists
Kylie Minogue, Enigma, Crystal Method |
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Artist History
This award-winning artist was born in London, England. At the young age of 7, KayDean was already an accomplished pianist, performing at New York City's Lincoln Center. At 16, he had landed himself a production deal with AMA Productions in London, where he released 5 chart-topping singles. Since then, he has made a name for himself on the underground scene as one of the most creative and innovative musicians on, and off, the Internet. After having 3 independent releases, he was awarded mPulse.com's "Top 10 Artist" award. He held the #1 Dance Artist position for over 6 months and his CD, "A New Dawn", was nominated for NAV Music Awards "Album of the Year". Before releasing his 3rd CD, "Renacimiento", he made the first song available for free on the KayDean.com website and received over 20,000 downloads the first day from fans in the US, Brazil, Australia, Japan, Germany, England and the Netherlands. On October 16th, 2001, Kaydean released is first commercially available CD entitled WISDOM. This year, Kaydean will release his first full lengthed continuous dance CD entitled "Tranceformed"
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Instruments
Kaydean exclusively uses Earseph Studios, located in Tribeca NY. For info call 212-791-4856 |
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Albums
A New Dawn(1999), HypnoTek(2000), Renacimiento(2000), Wisdom(2001) and TranceFormed (2003) |
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Press Reviews
*** Featured Artist of the Day on Garageband ***
*** Revolver ranked #1 Dance Track on Soundclick.com ***
*** Revolver ranked #1 Electronica Song on Soundclick ***
***Featured Artist on ElectronMusic.com***
*** mPulse.com's Top-10 Dance Artist ***
***"brings a blend of techno and new age" --Music For A New Age***"Contemplative club tracks break down the barriers between new age and Techno. Ambient-washed soundscapes weave tribal chants, Latin flavors and acid gurgles among careful beats and deep basslines." --Listen.Com***KayDean's Intro is "Well done..." --despotic at Riffage.com***"Incredible!!! Club Beats meets New Age...Wow, I listened to most of your tracks last night, very, very impressive. Not only do you have a unique style (something I strive for) but your production is very, very solid and tight..definitely interested in working on something together." --Wintermute (http://www.mp3.com/wintermute) ***"Five Stars for Chosen Excellent technotrance, drifting, floating meditative. Wonderful." --rmdak at Riffage.com
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Additional Info
#1 Independant Artist (mpulse.com),#1 Song (Soundclick), #1 Song(mpulse.com), #3 Independant Website (mpulse.com), Debuted Soundclick.com at #15 |
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Location
New York, NY - USA |
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