TRITONAL’S PERSONAL FAVORTIES
‘STILL WITH ME’ AIR UP THERE RECORDINGS
“‘Still with Me’ with Christina Soto is easily our all time favorite production, mostly because this track really came from a personal place”
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didn’t go party, I was more of the quiet, in my basement type. Being a totally secluded kid with no outlet isn’t necessarily a healthy thing either.”
Chad eventually pulled himself out of his whirlwind of substance abuse in favor of a clean and sober lifestyle. “I’ve been sober almost seven years now. I’ve really grown as an individual and a person. I believe that life is made up of a whole bunch of moments of now, and the best thing to do at any one moment is to take the right, appropriate action. That’s what my sobriety has been, a whole lot of action, whether that’s helping other people, going to meetings or doing things for myself like meditation, prayer, eating healthy and working out.” Dave was also in the process of reforming his life, as he did something very unlikely for the then quiet 19-year- old with self proclaimed social anxiety; he made the 1,500 mile move to join Chad in Austin, Texas. Dave’s newfound sense of adventure finally united the duo’s paths and they began their journey together as Tritonal.
Realization
Chad and Dave’s glaring difference was actually a harmonizing force in the men’s partnership, but what really brought them together was their love of music. “Chad and I came from the exact same love of trance music,” explains Dave, “We love melody, we love groove, we love just being musicians who geek out on the hardware and learn how to create cool sounds and how to make songs unique.” While their musical tastes were evenly matched, their
‘SLAVE’ AIR UP THERE RECORDINGS
“The riff for this track actually took us a few days to really nail it, but once we had it, we knew we had something really special!”
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‘BULLET THAT SAVED ME’ ENHANCED RECORDINGS
“’Bullet that Saved Me” is our latest release, and it’s one of our favorites because the drop is so big, which we love!”
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inexperience had Tritonal suffering an identity crisis in the early years. “If you look at the first releases of Tritonal, they were all over the place. Some were 138 bangers like ‘Essence of Kea’. At the same time we were also pursuing the Anjunadeep funky sounds, with tracks like ‘Lights over Austin’,” says Chad, “It wasn’t until we started to DJ in the clubs that we found what we like to play. We also found what we like to play actually rocked the floor. When you play a set, it’s the producers dream for their track to be the track of the night. We were like, ‘Fuck!’ We wanted our track to be that track!” While in the studio creating their debut artist album ‘Piercing the Quiet’, Chad and Dave had a masterplan to not only create that track, but also to maintain what they love about trance music. According to Chad, “Through ‘Piercing the Quiet’, when we wrote the album versions of the tracks we were very much writing tracks for the hearts, we didn’t care about what it was going to sound like in a club. We always had plans to flip the tracks on their heads and make the club mixes.”
And flip the tracks they did. With new remixes of their melodic songs being revamped with electro beats and big baselines, Tritonal’s sets are now full of their own productions and have rocked festivals and clubs around the world. “When we are at EDC Las Vegas, or we’re at Creamfields in Australia, and mid-set we drop our track, we now have that moment with our song,” says Chad.
Reinvention
Chad and Dave, who usually claim to be ‘fluffy, melody trance dudes’, wanted to affirm their ever-changing
‘LIFTED’ AIR UP THERE RECORDINGS
“This is obviously important for Tritonal, because ‘Lifted’ is the first track that really broke us as an act.”
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presence with ‘Metamorphic I’, which many will find to be a departure from previous Tritonal productions, “Metamorphic, the name, is not only the metamorphosis of us as producers, but there are personal undertones in there as well. My journey in sobriety and Dave’s journey that he’s gone through in his life. It is about change. We are changing and we are growing,” says Chad.
‘Metamorphic I’ is set to a much darker and more progressive tone then what might be expected from Tritonal, “On the track ‘Deep into Black’, Dave and I went there lyrically with someone who’s struggling, and maybe someone who’s suffocating in their own entanglement of sin and finds a way out of it,” explains Chad, “With ‘Bullet That Saved Me’, the lyrics of the track are dark, the thing that was suppose to kill this person actually knocked them flat on the ground and in essence saved them.”
‘Metamorphic I’ is the first release in what will eventually become a Metamorphic trilogy, which will bring Tritonal back to the trance tracks the duo is known for. “There are going to be three EPs, with three tracks to each EP and it’ll tell a story. With ‘Metamorphic II’ and ‘Metamorphic III’ these tracks will move into the light, and you’re going to see a lot more uplifting tracks in terms of chord progression and lyrics. At the end of that third EP, if we feel like we like the direction, we may wrap that into an album. We may not, we want to see how this thing unfolds,” explains Chad, “Right now, we’re just worried about writing music that we fucking deem to be amazing and that we love.”
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