Kai Tracid

Personally I don't agree with the big words that people are using to describe the work of Kai Tracid. I would rather describe his success as a result of beeing at the right place at the right time with the appropriate packaging. In the early 2000's, the mainstream trance scene had a massive peak, and DJ's and producers got raised from only playing in night clubs, to big stages with thousands of people. Trance Energy for instance, had it's peak during this period of time. During this period, people lost track of qualitative music and Kai Tracid is a perfect example of such.

As a producer, he suffered from an extensive lack of skills and many of his famous releases from 2001/02, could easily had been produced in 95/96, his sound was so out of date. Listen to Trance&Acid, it sounds like something Antiloop did in 95. I would rather suggest that his status as a 'legend', has to do with the fact that he car pooled with the hype and that people grew found of his music due nostalgic reasons. He came when the genre peaked, released a couple tracks that got unreasonable attention, and people treated them as hits of the century. Seriously, come on!

Unbelievable news, guys...

Kai Tracid is back! :D

http://www.discogs.com/Menace-Tracid-Buchla-200e/release/3195960

Over his producing years, he has already done everything that he wanted to, and it's enough for him. Probably, that's why he started to do yoga, he finally found the peace in his soul and his mind. He ran out of inspiration, that's the fact. And nowdays, between these musical trends, plastic sounds, he couldn't make anything interesting to the people who simply don't know what Tracid means.

Kai Tracid is maybe not the greatest, but for me the most unique and most important trance artist ever. Nearly all of his songs are stunning, but it's the wonderful lyrics that really makes the music special.
Listen and take a look at the lyrics in songs like for example "Suicide", "Conscious", "Express Your Hidden Passion" and "Too Many Times", and you'll see what I mean! Kai Tracid's music and lyrics usually includes themes like drugs, hallucinogens, consciousness, dreams, loneliness, depression, happiness, the meaning of life and people's wish to find themselves. I know his music is not for everyone, but I'm really happy I'm one of those who can really understand the magic in the music. Because there is something special about Tracid's music, something I really can't explain in words...

Thank you Kai Tracid. I hope you know what your music means to a lot of people!
"I should have lived my life much more conscious."

I dunno what to say about this man... He's just incredible. Top notch productions, label owner/founder of Tracid Traxxx, hit maker.
Kai Tracid - Trance & Acid was my first record from him (And also one of my first hardtrance record ever) and I still play it a lot. All his tracks are full of energy, full of drive and always influenced with a TB-303 Bassline. I would love to see him on stage...

This dude deserves all my deep respect. Really.

One of my favorite DJs / Producers. Used to see him live, all the time, at Paramount-Park when I lived in Frankfurt. He is flawless and plays some of the best hard trance and acid tracks! Would love to bring him to Arizona!

Now this is a man to respect. His productions is first class. He´s been around for quite a long time and his musicstyle has always been a nice mix of hard beats and nice soft strings and melodies. The first thing i heard from him was ASYS - Acid Train. That track is pure magic, acid at its very best. And from that moment I´ve always liked his style. And of course I love his record label too, some of my all time favourite tracks is released by his label. He will always be on my top 10 list of great artist/producers.

Kai Tracid is one of my rolemodels when it comes to making music. His productions are a combination between trance & acid as he puts it, and are nearly all beautiful. He does use some major acidlines in his productions, as well as having catchy melodies. He's also the owner of the Tracid Traxxx label, which sports artists such as A*S*Y*S, Reeloop and Hennes & Cold.

What could you say about Kai Tracid?

The man himself, labelfounder and mainact of Tracid Traxxx, is the big man in the background of a long list of Tracid Traxxx-Releases.

First of all, Kai works as the musical head as A & R of his own labels.

Exclusivly on Tracid Traxxx, he releases all records of his mainact "KAI TRACID", most of them with exlusive remixes, limited to a small number for all collectors.