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Daniel Kandi

This guy has so much talent, everyone of his products/remixes are flawless, whatever he touches he turns it into gold. He's redefining trance as we know it. What are your opinions? I'd love to hear from anyone who dislikes his style but is a trance fan. It's a shame though, such talent as this is never fully appreciated in any DJ Poll as he doesn't have a well advertised live show with a large audience. Perhaps in the future this will change

one of the few current trance producers I respect.

go back to bed, daniel.

even though I have kind of stopped listening to that style of trance, I usually always like Daniel Kandi. Nova is amazing, Make Me Believe is a good one too.

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Originally posted by alextranceraus This guy has so much talent, everyone of his products/remixes are flawless, whatever he touches he turns it into gold. He's redefining trance as we know it. What are your opinions? I'd love to hear from anyone who dislikes his style but is a trance fan. It's a shame though, such talent as this is never fully appreciated in any DJ Poll as he doesn't have a well advertised live show with a large audience. Perhaps in the future this will change

Erm... how? Nothing against him here, but he hasn't done anything especially unique in his productions. I'm not a fan of his tracks at all really; they all sound like they're based on the same sort of rehashed formula.

seems sound technically in his productions but yeah. lots of rehashing fanny trance that isn't very original at all

There's a HUGE difference between carrying on the standard uplifting trance style in a positive way, and REDEFINING it. His productions are HARDLY original. That isn't to say that I don't find most of his productions to be solid for what they are, and for the most part listenable. You don't HAVE to be original to be good either. Just as long as you make the best of whatever it is that you do.

Achieving total originality is almost impossible now anyway, lol.

this guy is a super talent.one of the few djs not afraid to do the trance style and does it with success.cant wait to see him live someday

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Originally posted by Shade Erm... how? Nothing against him here, but he hasn't done anything especially unique in his productions. I'm not a fan of his tracks at all really; they all sound like they're based on the same sort of rehashed formula.

I wouldn't say "rehashed formula". It's just his own style... and usually it's pretty good.

What happened to Tiesto, Paul van Dyk, Markus Schulz, Gabriel & Dresden when they changed their "musical formula" ? They turned to crap imo, a successful artist will always keep their signature sounds in each of their productions. Think of it as if a painter such as Monet totally changed their style and began using completely different painting strokes. Same goes with music. Kandi in my opinion is successful because he doesn't stray too far from his own musical boundaries.

I liked Child, cant say Ive been over enamoured with his other stuff. Its well put together, but it does seem to follow the same formula quite closely.

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Originally posted by alextranceraus What happened to Tiesto, Paul van Dyk, Markus Schulz, Gabriel & Dresden when they changed their "musical formula" ? They turned to crap imo, a successful artist will always keep their signature sounds in each of their productions. Think of it as if a painter such as Monet totally changed their style and began using completely different painting strokes. Same goes with music. Kandi in my opinion is successful because he doesn't stray too far from his own musical boundaries.

Hmmm, not quite. If you listen to older Van Dyk yes you could almost immediately know that it was a Van Dyk track, but there was still some variation on that theme. Columbia and Avenue are very different tracks to say Another Way or Tell Me Why, but no less obvious PvD productions.

I think what people are saying about Mr Kandi here, and Im inclined to agree, is that most of his stuff follows a very similar formula to Child. Now Im not going to bang on about this being a bad thing, he can make what he wants to, but to say he's redifing the trance scene is perhaps a tad too far.

one of the top producers currently..

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Originally posted by bigjimslade002 this guy is a super talent.one of the few djs not afraid to do the trance style and does it with success.cant wait to see him live someday

he deffinately is a rising star, daniel kandi rules!!!!

Think hes decent but definitly agree with what others say about using the same formula, Until he breaks out of this mould he will only be a good producer.
Tom Colontonio is another decent producer at the moment, and I look forward to hear more from him.

Enjoyable basic AnjunaTrance.

i like Daniel Kandi's music, like most of his productions and remixes

i would say that it is very "euro" trance, a bit cheesy, but nonetheless very good

I Found The Way/Make Me Believe was imo, a very good EP and I was quite shocked at the low rating mixmag gave me! he has talent which he frequently shows us all

look forward to seeing more from him

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Originally posted by BeatsAndBeyond I wouldn't say "rehashed formula". It's just his own style... and usually it's pretty good.

I don't really hear the difference between his work, and the work of say... Sunny LAX (I could go through a large amount of the Anjuna artists and say the same thing). It's really all based on the same sounds/organization. I don't hear any real 'unique style' behind any of it.

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Originally posted by Venire Enjoyable basic AnjunaTrance.

inb4anjuna... oh.

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Originally posted by Tom Scott i like Daniel Kandi's music, like most of his productions and remixes i would say that it is very "euro" trance, a bit cheesy, but nonetheless very good I Found The Way/Make Me Believe was imo, a very good EP and I was quite shocked at the low rating mixmag gave me! he has talent which he frequently shows us all look forward to seeing more from him

I actually resent the word "euro" being used as a prefix to designate more commercial-friendly "trance" music, simply because all the good quality trance comes overwhelmingly from Europe anyway.

As for calling his productions cheesy, I'd like to know what you're basing that on? Are you calling it cheesy on the fact that he creates memorable melodies, or are you saying that his melodies are surrounded by over-simplified elements which causes a lack of depth, as in being extremely commercial?

Personally, I consider most of the electro/tech-trance stuff coming out recently cheesier than even something like cascada...I mean, at least they made some tunes with a "melody" you can recognize for crying out loud, despite being hellishly annoying.

I like his stuff, always get a little buzz when I know there's a new Daniel Kandi production coming up in a set I've donwloaded I get the same feeling with Nitrous Oxide as well, 2 great talents.

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Originally posted by chadi I actually resent the word "euro" being used as a prefix to designate more commercial-friendly "trance" music, simply because all the good quality trance comes overwhelmingly from Europe anyway.

apologies but there was a reason i put it in ""

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Originally posted by chadi As for calling his productions cheesy, I'd like to know what you're basing that on? Are you calling it cheesy on the fact that he creates memorable melodies, or are you saying that his melodies are surrounded by over-simplified elements which causes a lack of depth, as in being extremely commercial?

i base cheesy on the general formulaic plucked melodies he tends to use. for example "Make Me Believe" is undeniably imo a very 'commercial' production.

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Originally posted by chadi Personally, I consider most of the electro/tech-trance stuff coming out recently cheesier than even something like cascada...I mean, at least they made some tunes with a "melody" you can recognize for crying out loud, despite being hellishly annoying.

im afraid there is no defending cascada imo, all tht shit is killing dance music. a song doesn't need a particularly strong melody either, depending on your point of view. i would agree that a lot of the electro stuff coming out can get very cheesy with all the whistles and bleeps. as for tech-trance, i dont really understand how it is cheesy?

anjuna boring sound

I really rate him as a producer, producer of the year for me in fact. One of few guys who's records I can pick up without even bothering to listen first. Some might say predictable, but for me I'd say reliable in this case. Very talented guy...

purchased "i found the way" a few weeks ago but I must admit that I'm not entirely pleasant with it, it died out too fast for me

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