JMD

Real Names: John Dalling
Music Style: Hard, melodic trance
First JMD Track: New Beginning (2003)
Other Artist Names: Beat Doctor, Dreamworld, Hyperterminal, Psychadelik Pedestrian, Silverknight

Profile

As a departure from his previous Hyperterminal sound, John launched his JMD project with "New Beginning", a track produced in Autumn 2003 but not released online until 2004. Combining melodic and progressive trance sounds with a harder but still fairly commercial edge, the trademarks of the JMD sound are heavily phased synth pads and stabs and, more recently, rippling arpeggios and gated synths.

John worked on several JMD tracks in 2004, but during the year, the remixes gained a higher profile - with "Time On Your Hands" (Redmann), "Why Not" (Excelsior), and "House Trancefusion" (DJ Rise) all getting the JMD treatment. Original JMD tracks "Jumpin", "New Beginning"' and "Formation", also produced during the year, stuck to the hard but melodic, commercial sound.

By 2005, the JMD sound started getting less commercial, becoming more minimal, pure synth driven trance. This was evident in JMD's remake of his Hyperterminal tune "Thirty One" and new track "Black Magic". This style continued into 2006, by which time JMD had added a more electro feel to the sound, seen on tracks such as "Futuristic Sound" and "On Target", and later on the Heatwave E.P. At the end of the year, a slightly slower, more tech-trance sound was evident on JMD's remixes of "So Sublime" and "Another Boring Lunchtime", and in 2007 this sound was taken forward for JMD's own productions "Hold My Breath" and "Frontline".

Releases by JMD

Interference - JMD & Kube

tou249 21 May 2008

JMD and Kube join forces to present a bangin' hard dance track Interference, featuring four to the floor club beats, throbbing bass, sweeping synths and bleeping sounds and effects. Psychadelik Pedestrian's remix adds breakbeats and melodic, uplifting pads. Both mixes are available in full DJ friendly mp3 format.

Interference - original mix
Interference - Psychadelik Pedestrian remix

Polar - JMD

tou245 20 February 2008

Uplifting, melodic trance from JMD. "Polar" starts with driving tech-trance club beats and stuttering bass, then breaks down into a warm, mellow pad section before kicking in with an anthemic trance synth riff building up throughout the remainder of the track. Psychadelik Pedestrian presents a chillout remix adding spaced out beats. The bonus track, "Subfusion", is a melodic, thumping club trance track with old school synth and electro influences. All tracks are DJ friendly and feature extended introduction and ending.

Polar - original mix
Polar - Psychadelik Pedestrian remix
Subfusion - original mix