User:Reggid

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Reggid
Birth name	David Aaron Rice
Also known as	Reggid, Eternal Spirit, Big D (not in music production)
Born	February 3, 1987
Origin	Old Bridge, New Jersey
Genre(s)	Trance, electronic dance music, House, Breaks, Ambient, Soundtrack
Occupation(s)	Composer
Instrument(s)	FL studio, ACID Music 3.0, MTV Music Generator
Years active	2004 – present
Label(s)	none/unsigned artist
Website	http://www.reggid.com

Reggid (born David Aaron Rice on February 3, 1987 in New Brunswick, New Jersey) is an unsigned trance music producer. He composes both secular and Christian music and he also writes unique story telling lyrics. The Reggid name comes from the word "digger", it is basically the word "digger" spelled backwards and is pronouced "Reggid" with the G sound and not "Rejjid" with the J sound. He has been known for a popular trance song he made entitled "Runaway" (which featured vocalist, Platinum Dragon17) that climbed at no. 5 on the charts at ACIDPlanet. It was also featured on ACIDPlanet's 33rd podcast episode.

1 The debut album
2 Discography
3 Remixes
4 Song References
5 Eternal Spirit
6 Racer Community
7 External links

[edit] The debut album

Reggid has released his debut album, Triumph. The album consists of 16 songs. 8 dark songs and 8 happy/Christian songs. He has collected the tracklist, It goes by the following:

1. Mysterious Calling
2. The Gates of Darkness (with Sonic Element and Raynor Foxhound)
3. No Escape
4. Darkest Night (featuring Michael Ortiz)
5. Alone In The Dark (featuring Azure)
6. Cityscape (featuring A. B. Osborne)
7. Retaliation (with Cosmicall and Lara Courtney)
8. See The Light (featuring Platinum Dragon17)
9. Sojourn
10. Wave of Tears (with DJ Noodl3z)
11. Expressions Of Innocence (with Sonic Element and Caroline Wood)
12. Clear Vision
13. Sweet Fragrance (with Sonic Element and Caroline Wood)
14. Morning Light (featuring Justin Dorr)
15. Triumph
16. Sanctuary

See The Light has also made an apearance on Platinum Dragon17's new album, Fusion of The Elements

[edit] Discography

Singles (uploaded at ACIDPlanet, mainly the popular songs)

2004 Roll The Dice
2004 Calling Your Name
2004 Perfection (No Other Love Like Yours)
2004 The View of Life
2005 Dragon Breath
2005 Words of Christianity
2005 Electrostatic
2005 Tachimukau
2005 No Match (featuring Platinum Dragon17)
2005 Runaway (featuring Platinum Dragon17)
2006 Wave of Tears (with DJ Noodl3z)
2006 Grendel
2006 Retaliation (with Cosmicall and Lara Courtney)
2006 Cityscape (featuring A. B. Osborne)
2006 See The Light (featuring Platinum Dragon17)
2006 Darkest Night (featuring Michael Ortiz)
2006 Alone In The Dark (featuring Azure)
2006 Triumph (CD Album)
2006 Sunrise Drive
2006 Jiao Zhang (featuring Masako-kun)
2006 Moonlight (featuring Amanda Neves)
2006 Winter Moments (feat. Vilocon)
2007 Daylight (feat. Aramek)
2007 Hope & Innocence (feat. Althea)
2007 Vampire (feat. Stehpen "Shard Spider" Lynch)

[edit] Remixes

Alex Cooper feat. Newwine - Hear My Prayer

Aimee B - Relentless

Amada - Fly

Cory Lee - The Naughty Song

D:Fuse - Everything With You

DJ Noodl3z - Final Flash

DJ Phat T - Waiting For Summer Again

Doomtree - Severed

Filo & Peri feat. Fisher - Closer Now

Jonathan vanAtom feat. Jenn Scott - Follow The Flame

Kayle - Gimme Sumthin Real

Lola Dutronic - Airport

Lunascape - Mindstalking

Mudville - Hero of The World

Platinum Dragon17 - Crying Tears of Sorrow

Radames - Without You

TerraNation - I Can't Feel No Better

[edit] Song References

Many of Reggid's songs have had references especially to where he gets his ideas from. Reggid has had alot of inspiriaton throughout his life and his music career from his favorite songs from the big artists to his favorite TV/Movie characters.

Non album songs

The songs Tachimukau and Jiao Zhang refrenece the character Mushu from Disney's Mulan. Reggid gave his dragon character a dark edge in the techno part of both of the songs fusing with world music.

Electrostatic is a reference to a thunder dragon like the one Ryu transforms into from the game Breath of Fire.

Take Me On references Godzilla. The beginning layout is similar to the song "North Pole" by Solid Globe

Words of Christianity's song layout is almost similar to the song "Freefall" by Christopher Lawrence

Triumph

The whole CD was inspired by Above & Beyond's debut CD, Tri-State.

No Escape - has almost the same feel as Above & Beyond's World on Fire, The roar and vocal sample in it is almost a reference to Riptor from the SNES video game Killer Instinct

Darkest Night - The lyrics reference Sabrewulf from the SNES video game Killer Instinct The begining in middle breakdown are almost similar to Rabbit in the Moon's remix of the song Euphoria by Delerium.

Alone In The Dark has lyrics that reference the character Dragon from Dreamworks' movie Shrek. The middle breakdown was inspired by the song Arcadia by Gabriel & Dresden. parts of it were also inspired by Above & Beyond's Can't Sleep.

Cityscape also has lyrics that reference Godzilla. The beginning part of the song is very similar to the song "Zocalo" by Armin Van Buuren and Gabriel & Dresden.

See The Light - The song appears to be secular, but it has alot of Christian meanings. Reggid intended the song to be secular, ending his darker part of Triumph, but when he showed the song to some of his friends, they have considered it to be a Christian track. See The Light also got released on Platinum Dragon17)'s thrid solo album, "Fusion of The Elements". Above & Beyond have collaborated with Zoe Johnston after having sucess on their No One On Earth single. Reggid got inspired of that collaboration and collaborates with Platinum Dragon17) again for the third time after having success with No Match and Runaway.

Sojourn- Reggid got the Sojourn name from a youth group he attended at a church in Sayreville.

[edit] Eternal Spirit

In September 2006, Reggid decided to form a Christian project with the name Eternal Spirit. Reggid is doing all Christian music with all sorts of styles like rock, pop, rap, electonica and others with some of his electronic elements he uses in the Reggid alias. Reggid felt that he couldn't market Christian albums in Christian stores under his regular name so he made a seperate name for his music to market in Christian bookstores. He released a demo CD up for a free download at the Eternal Spirit website (www.freewebs.com/eternalspirit1).

He has 3 original tracks and remade 3 of his songs off his debut CD Triumph. he remade the Christian songs Expressions of Innocence and Morning light. He even remade the secular track See The Light. Reggid decided to turn See The Light into a Christian track since it would suit the project, but however he had to replace Platinum Dragon17 with another singer and even changed some of the lyrics to make it a Christian song. The new version features a Christian acoustic artist named Jen Miller and sung the track differently from the way the original version sounded. Reggid is planning a debut album for his project sometime in the future.

[edit] Racer Community

Besides producing music, Reggid went into the Racer community. he was known for adding reverse lights for many of the authors' cars. He criticised the authors to add reverse lights to their cars before he found a way of doing them himself.