Kai Tracid

Kai Tracid
Kai Tracid at Mayday 2005, Germany
Background information
Also known as	Acut Genius, Aeon FX, Arrow, Attractor, The, Christian Phoenix, Computer Controlled, Formic Acid, K, Kai MacDonald, Kenji Ogura, Mac Acid, Mac Music, TBA, Tek, Tyrone T.B., W.O.W.
Origin	Germany
Genres	Trance, Hard trance, Acid Trance
Years active	1995–present
Labels	Tracid Traxxx
Website	http://www.tracid.de/

Kai Tracid (born as Kai Franz on 17 January 1972 in Hanover, Germany) is a German Trance DJ and producer. The name Tracid originates from the combination of the two music genres trance and acid.

In Germany he became famous with his first single, "Your Own Reality". In 1998 he gained world-wide fame with Liquid Skies. In November 2001 he got his first Top-10 hit in the German single charts. Since 2000 he releases his records under his own record company Tracid Traxxx.

Discography

Albums

• Skywalker 1999 (1999)
• Trance & Acid (2002)
• Contemplate (the reason you exist) (2003)

Singles

• "So Simple" (1996)
• "Makin' Friends" (1997)
• "Your Own Reality" (1997)
• "Dance for Eternity" (1998)
• "Liquid Skies" (1998) #31-Germany
• "Destiny's Path" (1999)
• "Tiefenrausch (The Deep Blue)" (2000)
• "Too many Times" (2001)
• "Life is too Short" (2001)
• "Trance & Acid" (2002)
• "4 just 1 day" (2002)
• "Conscious" (2003)
• "Deeper" (2004)
• "Inflator / Aural Border" (2007)

Early Works

• Radon (1996) As Mac Acid II
• Waveshaper (1999) As K
• Only The Strong (1996) As K

External links

• Kai Tracid discography at Discogs
• Kai Tracid discography at MusicBrainz
• Kai Tracid on Myspace
• Tracid Traxxx
• Got on position 41 in DJ Mag poll 2005
• Kai Tracid
• A Dose of Trance and Acid – 5 minutes with Kai Tracid, Interview in ResidentAdvisor.net, Australia, 2005