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AUDIEN
Nathaniel «Nate» Rathbun (born January 11, 1992), better known under his stage name Audien, is a Grammy-nominated American DJ, record producer and musician. He produces progressive house, trance, electro house, and trap music.
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The discovery
Audien hails from Mystic, Connecticut, to a musical household. His mother is a jazz aficionado. In 2008, he was introduced to electronic dance music through trance songs in video game soundtracks. Fascinated by the sound of trance, he learned to recreate songs from Armin Van Buuren’s A State of Trance podcasts.
At age 17,[8] Audien was first signed to Dutch producer and DJ Ferry Corsten’s label Flashover Recordings. The label released Audien’s first single, «Rise & Shine».
Musical career
Audien has released many singles and remixes for electronic record labels including Enhanced, Perceptive, Armada, Black Hole, and Nervous.[10] His tracks have appeared on Corsten’s Countdown, Tiësto’s Club Life, Above & Beyond’s Trance Around The World, and Armin van Buuren’s A State of Trance compilations.
In 2012, Audien began to include elements of progressive house into his music with the release of «These Are The Days». Audien’s August 2012 release «Eventide», is noted for being played by Above & Beyond during their DJ set at the 2012 Electric Daisy Carnival in Las Vegas. Audien’s track «Sup» was featured by Dutch icon Hardwell on episode 87 of Hardwell on Air. In 2013, Above & Beyond premiered Audien’s track «Wayfarer» as the first song ever played on Above & Beyond Group Therapy.
In 2014, Audien played at Tomorrowland.
Audien returned to Anjunabeats on 13 July 2018 with his release of «Higher» through the label, followed by «Never Letting Go» with Arty on 9 November 2018.
Did you know?
Nate Rathbun is a progressive house/trance producer and DJ who records under the moniker Audien. This song finds him collaborating with the country trio Lady Antebellum. «With ‘Something Better,’ I wanted to push boundaries,» Audien told Entertainment Weekly. «The song lends itself perfectly to call-and-response vocals and anthemic harmonies. Lady Antebellum aren’t just some of the best voices in country music, but in overall music. It was a shot in the dark, but fortunately they felt as passionately about the song’s uplifting theme as I did. The result is simply my favorite thing I’ve ever done.»
The song was the first #1 for Lady Antebellum on Billboard’s Dance Club Songs. They’d previously reached #15 on the chart in 2010 thanks to remixes of their crossover hit «Need You Now.»
Lady A’s Dave Haywood told Billboard magazine that the trio loved the song as soon as they heard it while they were in Florida on tour. «Our manager played it for us, and we were just like, ‘Wow, phenomenal song,'» he said. «We were in the studio about a week later and spent a full day in there just going back and forth, sent our stuff back to Audien and let him do his magic from there.»
