27/12/2020
Big news from Elation podcast for 2021 I have a very unique guest for a special new years day set from Kevin lane aka CLOUD. We like discovering different sounds at Elation and CLOUD provides just that. Growing up in Wales, psytrance artist Kevin Lane’s passion was always music, but for much of his early youth, his tastes hovered mainly in the realms of rock & heavy metal. However, having discovered the psychedelic scene in his teens, then the psytrance scene years later at the age of 26, that is the age he considers his artistic alter ego “CLOUD” to have been born. Of that scene, he says, “The psytrance scene & the way of life that revolves around it absolutely blew my mind, changed everything about me, and at that point, my eyes were well & truly opened. Four years later, after exploring this new psychedelic world & discovering myself; I decided to start producing my own psytrance.” When asked about how he had begun production & through what medium he’d pursued his musical education, he states; “Without knowing anything about producing or music, I felt I'd thrown myself into the deep end. This inadvertently led to me giving up on life for the next year, & I dedicated that time to learn how to produce Psytrance. I then made my first album, but post-production, I still couldn't shake the feeling of underachievement - I felt I still didn't really have my own sound. So, I took a break from producing to learn more, attempting to learn and develop ways to stand out from the crowd. I found some music theory courses & got to work. After finishing those courses as well as a few on sound synthesis, I felt ready to make my own personal sound. I was straight back in the studio like it was an illness - but this time with a set of characteristics & style all my own. Producing psytrance has been an amazing & accomplishing adventure for me.” After struggling to find any sub-genre of Psytrance to self-classify under, he decided to coin his own style; "Chaotic Psytrance". In his words, the reasoning for the title is this: "After each song changing internally so dramatically, and so often, it comes across in a very chaotic way." In just over 3 years of producing & 2 as a performing DJ, he’s been signed to 3 different labels (Boomtic Records, Psyworld Records & Let It Out Records), managed to play at 2 big festivals (Logic and Indigenous), 2 separate radio stations in Holland, & at a considerable amount of other, smaller events in the UK. In regards to current earmarks of musical progress & audience garnered, in just 3 days his latest EP "A Journey Inside The Mind" got to #1 on Beatport’s Psytrance Top 100 Release Charts. On top of that, it also placed 16th & 20th on the Psytrance Singles Chart, and at an impressive #24 placement out of all genres and releases worldwide. In the words of Lane himself, “My sound and style is ever-changing and constantly evolving, keep your ears open and be ready to have your mind blown!"
https://soundcloud.com/cloudmusic55
https://www.beatport.com/artist/cloud/14132
Welsh psytrance artist Kevin Lane’s passion was always music, but for much of his early youth, his tastes hovered in the realms of mainly rock & heavy metal. In his teens he discovered the psychedelic scene, then the psytrance scene years later at the age of 26, the age he considers his...
