Daniel Lesden (DJ and producer)

Daniel Lesden (real name is Daniel Sokolovskiy, born on September 27, 1987) is an electronic dance music producer, DJ, A&R. from Moscow, Russia. He has had releases on such record labels as JOOF Recordings, Perfecto Fluoro, Iono Music, Digital Om Productions, Ovnimoon Records and more. He has performed in Switzerland, Hungary, United Kingdom, Greece, Israel, Russia, and also The Netherlands is being on his upcoming gigs list.
Rave Podcast is his monthly mix broadcast on Digitally Imported.
== Music career ==
Daniel Lesden has started his music career as a Psytrance producer, but in 2019 he moved forward musically towards Progressive and Techno music.
Over the course of his career, Daniel Lesden made many guest appearances in various radio shows, hosted by Lisa Lashes, Christopher Lawrence, Simon Patterson, John 00 Fleming, and many more.
=== Charts and press ===
His second artist album titled '2000 Years Ahead' was the top-selling CD on Psyshop and reached #2 in the Top-100 chart on Beatport.
The style change turned into success for Daniel Lesden. The first single he introduced after the shift from Psytrance to Progressive music, 'Breaking From The Shadows', has become the most popular release of JOOF Recordings on Beatport that year and is getting close to 100.000 streams on Spotify.
=== Open To Close sets ===
In 2019, Daniel Lesden played his first 5-hour 'Open To Close' set to showcase the broad musical palette he's got over the years as a DJ. Later on, in 2020, he played a 6-hour 'Open To Close' set.
== Rave Podcast ==
In February 2011, Daniel Lesden introduced Rave Podcast as his regular mix series. One year later, in November 2012, Rave Podcast became a monthly broadcast on Progressive Psy channel of Digitally Imported radio. It was mainly focused on Psychedelic music at first, and over the past years featured guest mixes from artists like Astral Projection, Vini Vici, Mindwave, Beat Bizarre, Ovnimoon, Flowjob, Sonic Species, and more credible artists.
On September 2018, Daniel Lesden took a break from hosting Rave Podcast, and returned to his duty half a year later with a new format, focusing on Progressive and Techno to reflect his new music direction as an artist. 
From now on, Rave Podcast is broadcast every second Friday of each month on Progressive channel of Digitally Imported radio, and also available as a podcast on iTunes, SoundCloud, YouTube, and Spotify playlist.
== A&R duties ==
In January 2015, Daniel Lesden has been invited as an A&R manager to JOOF Recordings, a British underground record label originally set up by John 00 Fleming in 1998. Daniel helps the label team with listening to incoming demos, scouting new talents, and internal communication. He retains this position to the present day.
== Advice series ==
Daniel Lesden is a strong advocate of education in the music industry. In 2015, Daniel has introduced the advice series in his blog where he's answering the questions he gets sent on DJing, production, marketing, business, and more topics of the music industry. As of today, he has written over a hundred educational articles and behind the scenes.
His articles also has been published on DJ Tech Tools and Tinkoff Journal
== Rave people ==
In 2019, Daniel Lesden and his mates created an event company called Rave People, focusing on small underground raves in Moscow. They've managed to run five successful events so far, with the sixth and other planned parties being canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic.
== Discography ==
Studio Albums
Year	Title 	Record label
2017	2000 Years Ahead 	Digital Om Productions
2014	Chronicles Of The Universe	JOOF V2
Singles and EPs
Year	Title 	Record title
2020	To Be Revealed soon 	JOOF Recordings
2019	Breaking From The Shadows 	JOOF Recordings
2019	Constellations (with Tim Bourne) 	Digital Om Productions
2018	Confront Reality (with Mechanimal) 	Digital Om Productions
2018	The Last Of Our Kind 	Iono Music
2017	Existence 	Digital Om Productions
2017	Arrival 	Digital Om Productions
2016	Another Earth: Remixed 	Digital Om Productions
2016	Surreal 	JOOF Recordings
2015	Enuma Elish 	JOOF V2
2015	Genesis (with Cosmithex) 	JOOF V2
2015	Another Earth 	Digital Om Productions
2015	Life Simulation 	JOOF Recordings
2015	Thru The Stars 	Digital Om Productions
2015	Aurora (with Mekka) 	Borderline Music
2014	Mirai (feat. Spinney Lainey) 	JOOF V2
2014	Imitation Of Life (with Argonnight)	Tandava Records
2013	Space Form 	Tandava Records
2013	Mars One 	Synergetic Records
2012	Illusion Of Reality 	Synergetic Records
2012	Contact 	Ovnimoon Records
Daniel Lesden Remixes
Year	Original artist 	Title 	Label
2015	You Are My Salvation 	As The Horizon Comes Closer	Research & Development
2014	Christopher Lawrence, Jonathan Allyn	The Human Element 	Pharmacy Music
2014	John 00 Fleming 	Healing 	JOOF Recordings
2014	Whirloop 	Feel The Effect 	JOOF V2
2013	Ace Ventura 	Presence 	Not On Label
2013	Mac & Monday 	Yoruba 	Borderline Music
2013	Lyctum 	Galactic Society 	Synergetic Records
2013	Magnus 	Signal Strength 	Not On Label
== Personal life ==
Daniel Lesden has double citizenship in Russia and Israel. In 2013 he moved from Moscow to Israel where he lived for five years, and in 2018 he returned back.
==In the media==
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== References ==
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* Daniel Lesden on soundcloud
* Daniel Lesden on spotify
* Daniel Lesden on youtube music
* Daniel Lesden on google play music
* Daniel Lesden on hungama
* Daniel Lesden on tunein
* Daniel Lesden on jiosaavn
* Daniel Lesden on gaana.com
* Daniel Lesden Blog
* Daniel Lesden Tracks & Releases on Beatport
Category:1987 births
Category:Electronic dance music DJs
Category:Electronic dance music musicians
Category:DJ
Category:A&R people
Category:People from Moscow
Category:Psychedelic trance musicians