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1. What is Deedrah?

Deedrah is one of Frédéric Holyszewski aka Dado project names. Dado is releasing his trance productions under this name since 1995, and there are two albums of DEEDRAH so far : Self oscilation (Distance /Questionmark rds) and Reload (Alien News).

2. What does Deedrah mean?

It's an old celtic woman name. This name has been chosen by Dado and DJ Sid Shanti as a side name for Dado's productions while he was still making music under the name of TRANSWAVE. After the split of the band in 1997 it became a logical name for his solo productions. If your name is Deedrah, read the following lines:

Your first name of Deedrah has given you a very friendly, likeable nature, and you could excel in artistic, dramatic, and musical expression. With this name, you desire the finer things in life, but you do not always have the resolve and vitality to put forth the effort necessary to fulfil your desires. Your emotional feelings are easily aroused and you will always be involved in other people's problems as a result of your overly sympathetic nature. You have many disappointments as a result of extending a helping hand to others in need, and then not receiving any acknowledgement or reciprocation for your generosity. After each experience, you have to guard against feelings of despondency and self-pity. You have lofty goals and high ideals, but must incorporate more practicality, system, and concentration in order to materialize them. In health, this name affects the nervous system and also the fluid functions, giving rise to kidney or bladder weaknesses.

3. What other pseudonyms has Dado used in the past?

TRANSWAVE; KALEDOID; SYNTHETIC; CYPHER; THE DIGITAL AVENGERS; DANDANdDADO; THE GOOD,THE BAD AND THE UGLY; FEDERICO BALTIMORE...

4. Who is Dado?

Dado is Frédéric HOLYSZEWSKI. He was born on the 9th of march 1970 in Melun (FRANCE). His father is from Ukraine and his mother is from north of Italy, but he's been raised in France.

He's been learning classical music since his childhood, playing piano and transverse flute but wanted to be a biology teacher. He's got a master in biology/geology (PARIS 6) but stopped his studies when he was 25 years old to produce the early Transwave tracks.

5. Where does Dado live?

He lives now in IBIZA (Spain). The house is his home and studio too. He's producing all his music there and does also studio works for record companies and records also other artists from the island.

6. What kind of equipment does Deedrah use?

He used to produce his music on old analogue gears like SH101, TB303 and consorts but he's now making an extensive use of 3 PowerMacs G4 (one is connected to the net, where he finds all sorts of sounds, one deals with the hard disk recording system and the third one, laptop, is used for his live performances). Most of his sounds are produced directly from the Mac with softwares like Metasynth, Absynth, Reactor and Tokyo. He's working with a sequencer called Digital Performer and using a 48 inputs digital mixer.

7. If I like Deedrah, what other music might I like?

You should be into full on trance and psychedelic trance. You should like GMS, some 3dvision productions and X dream, amongst many other psy bands.

8. What does Deedrah listen to at home?

He's right now into the house stuffs, and a lot of brazilian music like Gilberto Bebel, any productions from Amon Tobin and a lot of 80's music and local house music... He's most of the time listening to non-electronic music as his head is already full of digital sounds all day. You can check on this web site the monthly play list.

9. Is Dado producing only trance music?

No. He's making also chill out music under the project name of Cypher. Cypher is a polymorphic project born in 1997. He was at the time making the music with french mates and producing the whole story but now he uses this name for his more ambient productions.

Check out the album iMusic on Twisted rds. A new album is due to end of the year of 2001.

SYNTHETIC is the other big project of Dado, showing a more techno oriented music. He's doing live sets under both names as synthetic activity is also quite hot theses days.

Arriving in Ibiza, Dado's been touched by the whole different atmosphere outside of his studio (very different from the parisian basement he used to make music in). He's a lot into groovy house and lounge music. All theses tracks to be released under the name of Fédérico Baltimore...

Dado is also doing mastering works for different artists and labels, and also does productions for french TV.

10. Where was Reload recorded?

Most of the album has been produced at the "casa Irene" studio in the country side of the Ibiza island. The Reload track itself has been recorded in Dado' s previous studio in Paris, where the 3dvision studios stands now. This track is a collaboration between GRM (Dado's graphix designers for 3 years now) and was supposed to be a "kind-of-Transwave" track. The track found a quick succes all over the world, and is still played at most trance parties around the world. Reload has been voted "track of the year" by "Newzeek Mag" in Israel.

The album contains also as the final track of the album, final swirl which was supposed to appear on The electric boy, unreleased album from Deedrah.

11. How can I contact dado?

You can send a mail to djdado@deedrah.com. That's the easiest way.

12. How do I know if Deedrah is playing around my area?

You can check the daily updated news section on the deedrah web site.

13. Where can I buy Deedrah's music online?

Deedrah Reload cd and maxi single Far and Away can be found at www.cosmophilia.de.

14. Why www.deedrah.com?

Dado wish to have a more direct contact with his crowds. This site is for information and not for promotion.

Discography:

1) Albums
2) Maxi singles
3) Compilations


1) Albums
TRANSWAVE Hypnorythm Step 2 House
Helium Matsuri
Phototropic Distance 1995
04-1996
10-1996

DEEDRAH Self Oscillation Question Mark/Distance
Reload Hadshot Haheizar
09-1997
06-2001
CYPHER I music Question Mark/Twisted Rds 06-1999
SYNTHETIC 100% pure/Solstice Limited Rds 06-2002
FEDERICO BALTIMORE album in process 2002
THE GOOD,THE BAD
AND THE UGLY album in process 2002

2) Maxi singles
TRANSWAVE U77 EP Transpact
Outerspace EP Matsuri
Rezwalker EP Matsuri
Anjuna EP Black Totem
Cycles of Life EP Symbiosis
Land of freedom EP Distance
Lambada rmx EP Distance 1994
1995
1995
1996
1996
1997
1997
DEEDRAH Sleeping Beauty EP Celtic
Japonicus Delphinus EP Question Mark/Distance
Killing Joke EP Love like blood rmx Dragonfly
Tribal Warrior rmx Hadshot Haheizar
Infected Deedrah Balloonia Ltd (Overload & My mommy said)
Manley Hasard / Reload Hadshot Haheizar
Hallucinogen LSD Deedrah club mix Twisted Rds
Loop in control Sandman rmx Hadshot Haheizar
Far and away EP
1996
1997
1998
1999
1999
2000
2000
2000
2001
CYPHER Psychedelia EP Question Mark/Distance
Riding on a white rabbit EP Hadshot Haheizar 1997
1999
DANDANdDADO The politics of dancing EP Hadshot Haheizar
El cateto/Diamond Dust EP Balloonia Ltd 1999
1999
SYNTHETIC Metalgear/100% pure EP Twisted Rds
Cyclone/Cosmos 99 EP Twisted Rds
Dwarves Rmx/Slavedriver EP Twisted Rds
Liquid audio EP DELTA POP Synthetic rmx
2000
2000
12-2001
10-2001

THE GOOD,THE BAD
AND THE UGLY La Caixa/El Mariacchi EP Twisted Rds
Pura Vida/Mescalito EP Twisted Rds 2001
11-2001

3) Compilations
QUESTIONMARK Various Groovebox Question Mark/Distance
Various Analogique Question Mark/Distance
Digitale Question Mark/Cosmophilia 09-1997
07-1998
08-1999
OTHER COMPILATIONS Sound of Gaïa TRANSWAVE Fairway
Tantrance Vol 1 Euromedia
Deck WizaRds Psychic Deli
Distance to Goa Vol 2 Distance
Shangri-la Step 2 House
Goa Vibes Vol 2 Trust in Trance
Heavy Mental Music Politox
Spiritual Trance Fairway
Accidental Occidentalism Symbiosis
1995
Tantrance Vol 2 TRANSWAVE Euromedia
Immortality Vol 2 Mercury Rds
Astral projection album Trust in trance
Trancemaster Visionary
Distance to Goa Vol 3 Distance
A Taste of Goa Trance Distance
Travelling Visionary
Trancesylvania Vol 6 DMD
Technomania Arcade
Pulse:the firstchapter Nova teck
Pulse:the second psychedelic chapter Nova teck
Distance to Goa Vol 4 Distance
Deck Wizard Vol 2 Psychic Deli
Return to the Source Vol 2 Pyramid Rds
Trance Express Vol 2 FM
Goa Trance Vol 2 Rumour Rds
Trancentral Vol 4 Kicking Rds
Psychedelic Goacore Arcade
Technoland Vol 1 Distance
The history of trance (part 3) Unknown
Global psychedelic trance MDM
Trance Trip Sony Music 1996
Travelling Vol 2 TRANSWAVE Rough Trade
Hypnotic Trance Vol 3 Fairway
Destination Goa Vol 1 Why Not Rds
Distance to Goa Vol 5 Distance
Distance to Goa Vol 5 DEEDRAH Distance
Distance to Goa Vol 6 CYPHER Distance
Truth of communication TRANSWAVE Matsuri
Chill out area TRANSWAVE Unknown
1997
The Dreammachine DEEDRAH Intergroove
Trance bitch babylon DEEDRAH unknown
The future sound of America DEEDRAH Distance
Excerpts from the database 1 TRANSWAVE Matsuri
Wardance killing joke rmx albumDEEDRAH Dragonfly
Tantrance 7 DEEDRAH rmx Euromedia
Technoland Vol 2 DEEDRAH Distance
Analogique DEEDRAH Question Mark/Distance
1998
Infinity HZ TRANSWAVE Matsuri
Excepts from the database 2 TRANSWAVE Matsuri
Alien Airport DANDANdDADO Nova Teck
Goa head vol 9 CYPHER Nova teck
Le nouveau son de distance DEEDRAH Distance
Planet goa SHAKTA RMX Nova Teck
Alien Airport CYPHER Nova Teck 7 theories / Politics of dancing
Distance to Goa Vol 7 DEEDRAH Distance
Psyfactor DEEDRAH Circle System
Digitale DEEDRAH Question Mark/Cosmophilia
SPACECATS album SPACE CATS Dragonfly
Return de eivissa DEEDRAH rmx TIP world
3D Vision Vol 3 DEEDRAH 3D/Cosmophilia Sibling
Sound of transwave Triple cd pack Distance
1999
Space mantra DEEDRAH BNE
Shift DANDANDADO Hadshot Haheizar
Resurrection DANDANDADO Optimus/Cosmophilia
3D Vision Download DEEDRAH 3D/Cosmophilia Reload
Daiki Japan SYNTHETIC Cosmos 99 Solstice
Typhoon DEEDRAH Hi Big Man TIP
Undercover DEEDRAH Hadshot Haheizar Manley Hasard
6th element DANDANDADO Diamond Dust Raniv Music
Reborn compilation DEEDRAH Claro Bionics Rds 2000
Genetic Process SYNTHETIC The Mummy Spun Rds
Twelve compilation SYNTHETIC Listen TIP
Dimitri 's dat bag GBU La Caixa TIP
Macao FEDERICO BALTIMORE Tobin or not tobin Phuture Sound of Ibiza
Electronic High 2 SYNTHETIC Fujicolors Solstice/Limited
Assasi-nations SYNTHETIC The Mummy & GBU Pura vida TIP
Natraj summer dance DEEDRAH Ananda Natraj temple
Eye Trance 03 DEEDRAH Ananda PIAS
Time and space pt.1 GBU Mescalito Sound Sorcery Rds
Dj Yahel DEEDRAH Purple Unicorn Phonokol Rds
GLOBE Global Trance DADO, DAN & SERGE Overdose rmx/Outernet rmx
2001
Time and space pt.2 DEEDRAH vs BAMBOO FOREST Ohmboys Sound Sorcery Rds
Dj Tristan compilation SYNTHETIC Slavedriver Twisted Rds
Unusual suspects GBU Mescalito Synthetic rmx Twisted Rds
2002