Kenidel Lopez

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Born in Washington Heights, NYC, at a young age Kenidel Lopez developed a taste for electronic dance music via House music mixtapes brought home weekly by his father. He was also heavily influenced by other genres of music such as Rap/Hip Hop, Freestyle, Ambient, and International Spanish music. Lopez soon began to brainstorm and imagine melodies, baselines and beats of his own. He became really big on instrumentals and dug music that inspired the mind through beats accompanied with lush sounds from strings, pads, and pianos. The radio played a huge role in further influencing his taste in dance music. In 1996 he found out about a radio show called Solid State with Dj Liquid Todd where various styles of electronic dance music were mixed. He began to tape the show religiously every time it aired. Lopez became intrigued with music from various artists such as Oribital, Leftfield, FSOL, Paul Van Dyk, BT, Qattara, Oliver Leib (LSG), Way Out West, and so much more. Tracks such as "For an Angel" by PVD, "Halcyon + On + On" by Orbital, and "Flaming June" by BT left him awestruck by the beauty, depth and style of the music. He then knew that music is something he loves and wanted to produce in order to spread his own interpretations, ideas, and emotions through beats and melodies to reach out and return back the same euphoric feeling to all other fans of the genre, djs and producers alike. At around 1998, having no studio equipment except for a keyboard given to him by his father,

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