JMD

As a departure from his previous Hyperterminal sound, John Dalling 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". Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.