Tritonal—the American DJ duo of Chad Cisneros and Dave Reed that have become a rising star in the EDM world—hits Borgata’s MIXX Nightclub June 27 and the timing couldn’t be more perfect.
With their recently dropped track “Untouchable,” done in collaboration with another Multiple DJ force Cash Cash, the duo is back on the cutting edge—as if they’d ever been off. Collaborations between vocalists and DJs are always noted, but lately more and more DJs themselves have been working together producing a string of EDM hits.
“Untouchable” is a melodic, big room anthem that features James Abrahart, also known as J Hart, on vocals.
Tritonal previously remixed Cash Cash’s “Surrender,” but this time the two DJ teams hit the studio together.
“The song came from such an inspirational place,” Reed and Cisneros told Billboard.com, calling the week-long collaboration a year highlight. “Upon finishing, we all felt we’d written a special one.”
It’s all pretty normal for the Texas-raised DJs who have been putting out hits since they formed their duo in 2008 after meeting in an online music chatroom. Of course, back then they were known as producers of trance, but they’ve spent the last six years moving steadily into the EDM scene with a progressive house sound.
“We came up as trance artists and we still love trance,” Cisneros told edmsauce.com in a recent interview. “It just got to a place where it felt like we were starting to do the same thing. At the end of (the album) “Piercing the Quiet” we were doing that electro-trance thing and we were just kind of done with it.”
“Metamorphic was a word that defined what we had set out to do, which was to change direction. And that’s what we did,” Reed added.
And that change has made all the difference and led to dozens of releases of songs, remixes and compilations including “Tritonal Chapter 002” released this year.
“The biggest advancement in Tritonal’s production has been Dave and I’s maturation as real song writers,” Cisneros said in another interview. “We are in the sessions with vocalists, guitar players and other musicians and are very conscious about the chorus, harmonies, lyrical imagery and hooks. We feel like we’re writing real songs now.
“When I say ‘real song,’ I mean a song that has much more musical structure from a melodica standpoint than what we used to make.” He said. “We’ve always been pretty solid engineers and sound design geeks. I feel like we’re matching that with song writing skills. We feel great about it.”
So will you at MIXX June 27.
Advance tickets for Tritonal with opening and closing sets by Borgata House DJ Carlos Melange at MIXX June 27 are $25 and available here.