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Pics: MIKEY MCNUTTY, DOUGVANSAINT Words: KELLY ALANBAY
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They’re now trance stars commanding festival stages and crafting dancefloor bombs for their peers, but Tritonal duo Chad Cisneros and Dave Reed would never have even met if they hadn’t made the decision to face up to their fears...
hange is an inevitable part of life, and while many fear and reject the notion of change, Chad Cisneros and Dave Reed, aka Tritonal, are all about embracing their personal and professional evolution. This transformation throughout the
years is the inspiration behind their latest project, the aptly titled three track EP, ‘Metamorphic I’, out now on Enhanced Recordings. “Change has been a great thing for us,” explains Dave, when DJ Mag USA catch up with the Texas-based pair to assess Tritonal’s current position of strength.
In the past year, they’ve made MTV Clubland’s 10 Artists to Watch in 2013 list and landed at number 65 in DJ Mag’s Top 100 DJs poll for 2012. Meanwhile, their debut artist album ‘Piercing the Quiet’ produced eight top 20 Beatport singles and the album’s success was
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quickly followed-up with ‘Piercing The Quiet Remixed’, which itself landed in the top five of the iTunes dance albums chart. Chad and Dave also ended their successful Air Up There podcast after 100 episodes in favor of a new weekly show, Tritonia, which is broadcast on Sirius/XM satellite radio.
“The great thing about being human is that we can change,” adds Chad. “I’m a big proponent of change. I changed, and Dave and I are changing and we’ll continue to change.”
Reformation
In an electronic era, it seems almost poetic that this electronic dance music pairing came about electronically. “We met online, which is weird itself. We became such
close friends that Dave actually made the move from Washington DC to Austin, Texas,” explains Chad. “We were on a hardware synthesizer forum, geeking out on this piece of hardware we were using at the time,” adds Dave.
Until that fateful meeting on the World Wide Web, Chad and Dave’s life path’s were actually on two very different tracks.
Chad describes himself as: “...one of the kids on the dance floor at the parties, at the massives, at the festivals. I was one of those teenagers who didn’t do everything I was told and didn’t necessarily believe everything I was told to believe. I was the kid that liked to take chances and take risks.”
On the opposite end of the spectrum, Dave was an introvert who struggled with his parents divorce, “I
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