(August, Los Angeles)
Music has always been part of Dado’s life. Raised in a family
of musicians, Dado (aka. Deedrah) began his musical
studies at the age of five, learning transverse flute and
piano. During his teenage years, he found inspiration in the
electronic music of the day, including Jean Michel Jarre,
Depeche Mode, Frankie Goes To Hollywood and Simple Minds. Dado
bought his first synthesizer funded by working at night in
bars as a pianist. After the split of his first rock band
Vision Quest, in 1990, he started to work on his own with the
help of computers. Soon after, he met Christophe Drouillet at
a French rave and they formed the psychedelic trance act,
Transwave.
Three months later, the first Transwave release was
launched on the small French label, Transpact. Over the
following two years, Transwave released three albums and
toured around the world, experiencing great success in the
psychedelic trance underground and scoring an international
trance hit with their track, "Land of Freedom." Drawing a
wealth of knowledge from these experiences, Dado ventured out
and started his own record label and production studio,
Questionmark RDS. In 1997, the label released his first solo
album Self Oscillation under the name Deedrah which
marked Dado’s first break from the original psychedelic goa
trance sound he was producing before. Since then, Dado has
worked under a variety of project names, including Cypher,
DanDan d Dado, and Synthetic.
In the near future, Dado will be working with artists like
Trance legends Tsuyoshi Suzuki (Tokyo Drome); Astral
Projection (Trust in Trance), Sid Shanti (Manumission),
Avi Algranati (Space Cats), Total Eclipse,
Jaia and will soon be remixing other Trance luminaries
including Sonic Fusion, The Delta,
Hallucinogen and alternative rockers Killing Joke.
Dado has toured relentlessly, performing live or as a DJ,
touching down in destinations around the globe such as New
York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Tokyo, Copenhagen, London,
Tel Aviv, Montreal, Melbourne, Sydney, Athens, Sao Paulo,
Moscow and Bali.
At the end of 2000, Dado moved to Ibiza where he set up his
new studio in the quiet Spanish countryside, and began to
produce house and lounge music under the project name of
Fédérico Baltimore. He’s also lending his studio skills as
a mastering engineer for labels like Cosmophilia,
TIP WORLD and 3D Vision.
The long awaited second album under the name Deedrah, an
opus entitled Reload, is yet another breakaway
step from the psychedelic trance sound Dado is known for. Set
to be released this summer, Reload explores a deeper,
more hypnotic sound, careening into musical territory
somewhere in between John Digweed’s more techy,
progressive side and Paul van Dyk’s uplifting melodic
trance sensibilities.
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For more information, please contact Charles Carroll at
Green Galactic, 323-466-5141 or charles@greengalactic.com
