Music, productions
Trapped has released today!
20/10/08 20:42
Trapped has released today on Black Hole's In Trance We Trust label.
The massive 6 track release contains an original vocal mix / dub, remixes from the mighty Jonas Steur, Aurosonic, Ian Flux & Thomas Blofeld and Michael Badal.
Tracklist of our TATW Guest mix
15/10/08 17:38
We got quite a lot of messages about our guest mix, thank you for each and every one of them.
The tracklist has been requested many times, so here it is:
01. Above & Beyond - Can't Sleep (Myon & Shane 54 remix) (CD-R)
02. Motorcycle vs Glenn Morrison - Deep Breath Contact (Myon & Shane 54 Mashup) (CD-R)
03. Mr Sam feat Claud9 - Cygnes (Myon & Shane 54 remix) (CD-R)
04. Myon & Shane 54 feat Carrie Skipper - Vampire (Club mix) (Armada)
05. Myon & Shane 54 - Trapped (Vocal Club mix) (Black Hole)
06. Myon & Shane 54 - Not A Lot Left (Above & Beyond edit) (Anjunabeats)
07. Smith & Pledger feat Carrie Skipper - Forever (Acapella) (Anjunabeats)
08. Jaytech - Vela (Myon & Shane 54 remix) (Anjunadeep)
09. Jakatta feat Seal - My Vision (Myon & Shane 54 remix) (CD-R)
10. Andy Moor feat Carrie Skipper - So Much More (Myon & Shane 54 dub) (AVA)
11. Motorcycle - As The Rush Comes (Acapella) (Positiva)
12. Above & Beyond - Far From In Love (Myon & Shane 54 TATW edit) (Anjunabeats)
NALL is Number One on Audiojelly!
15/10/08 16:58
A little more than a week after its release, Not A Lot Left is currently
number one on Audiojelly's Top 10!!!
Not A Lot Left / The Beach is released!
06/10/08 21:26
Not A Lot Left / The Beach is released on Anjunabeats!!!
By clicking on the flyer above you get to the Anjuna shop to purchase it.
"Not A Lot Left" release date
11/09/08 20:12
Our first proper single, Not A Lot Left / The
Beach will be released on
6/10/2008 on Anjunabeats. Just two days
after it’s premiere on the new Above &
Beyond compilation album, cds and vinyls will be
available besides digital downloads. The promos
have been sent out today, alongside the press
release, so here it is!
Feeling those autumn blues starting to sneak up on you? Well get ready to have them knocked back into line by Márió ‘Myon’ Égető & and fully-paid-up member of the Anjuna old guard, Shane 54. Joining forces, our Hungarian heroes have whipped up this pair of mesmerizing, blissed-out trancers!
Mr 54’s always had an eye for the eclectic vocal sample… On ‘Not A Lot Left’ he loads up one of his catchiest around a slick, driving production and then layers in some lamenting synths and bacon-crisp (sorry!) percussion. If you’ve heard an A&B set recently and caught the words “strip away the dance beat” cruising out of the speakers, then this track should answer all the questions that followed!
Over on the flip, and not for the first time, Anjuna is chilling on ‘The Beach’. Not a cover of the 8 Wonders track (before you ask!), this pumping floor-tenderizer - again with a hooky-as-you-like vocal - has the super-sized groove that’ll make ‘em move AND the melody to make ‘em melt!
Feeling those autumn blues starting to sneak up on you? Well get ready to have them knocked back into line by Márió ‘Myon’ Égető & and fully-paid-up member of the Anjuna old guard, Shane 54. Joining forces, our Hungarian heroes have whipped up this pair of mesmerizing, blissed-out trancers!
Mr 54’s always had an eye for the eclectic vocal sample… On ‘Not A Lot Left’ he loads up one of his catchiest around a slick, driving production and then layers in some lamenting synths and bacon-crisp (sorry!) percussion. If you’ve heard an A&B set recently and caught the words “strip away the dance beat” cruising out of the speakers, then this track should answer all the questions that followed!
Over on the flip, and not for the first time, Anjuna is chilling on ‘The Beach’. Not a cover of the 8 Wonders track (before you ask!), this pumping floor-tenderizer - again with a hooky-as-you-like vocal - has the super-sized groove that’ll make ‘em move AND the melody to make ‘em melt!
Beachball again
06/09/08 10:19
Beachball seems to be unstoppable:
Armin & Ferry Corsten both played it on their radio shows this week, and Paul Oakenfold sent an email, if he can have a copy too.
Las Vegas will be dancing on it tonight...
Anjunabeats vol. 6. - Not A Lot Left
04/09/08 19:46
Above & Beyond also announced the tracklist for their new compilation with Not A Lot Left on it!
The track was a massive favourite on their gigs throughout the summer, it will be released on cd and vinyl after the album is out.
As a bonus, here’s a fan video from Global Gathering 2008, to see what happened when A&B dropped it:
Vampire on ASOT 2008!
03/09/08 14:58
I’ve been keeping this for myself for a while,
but now it’s been official: the brandnew
version we did of “Vampire” ended up on
Armada, specifically it is featured on the new ASOT
2008 cd to be released on 29th of Sept.
Vampire is an old song I did at the end of 2002 - right after I came back from my first ever dj gig outside Hungary. Carrie did her vocals sometime in 2003 at Danny Kirsch’s studio and additional vocal recordings were made at the Anjunabeats Studio both in London.
For a time it seemed the track will find its place, but despite the 2005 Nu NRG remix, it still didn’t get a proper release. Apart from a few compilations it never seen the daylight.
As I’ve always had faith in this song, a few weeks ago Mario and I took the original multitrack files, threw out the unnecessary parts, and started building a new version.
When Armin asked us if we have something to be considered for the new ASOT compilation, we knew what to send over. We finished and sent it, the got a contract overnight, with an entusiastic text message from Armin saying the track is “amazing”...
I was asked to not blog about it until the official release, but now I’m able to let everyone know...
Vampire is an old song I did at the end of 2002 - right after I came back from my first ever dj gig outside Hungary. Carrie did her vocals sometime in 2003 at Danny Kirsch’s studio and additional vocal recordings were made at the Anjunabeats Studio both in London.
For a time it seemed the track will find its place, but despite the 2005 Nu NRG remix, it still didn’t get a proper release. Apart from a few compilations it never seen the daylight.
As I’ve always had faith in this song, a few weeks ago Mario and I took the original multitrack files, threw out the unnecessary parts, and started building a new version.
When Armin asked us if we have something to be considered for the new ASOT compilation, we knew what to send over. We finished and sent it, the got a contract overnight, with an entusiastic text message from Armin saying the track is “amazing”...
I was asked to not blog about it until the official release, but now I’m able to let everyone know...
New Andy Moor remix finished
30/08/08 10:10
Andy Moor has made a new track "So Much More" (with
the ever-lovely Carrie Skipper), and we're on remix
duties again. It is a monster-sounding big room tune,
Andy will test it tonight to a good 10K crowd
somewhere in Asia.
Hope he’ll make a video for us...
Hope he’ll make a video for us...
Beachball Record Of The Week on TATW
22/08/08 16:11
Our Beachball remix became Record Of The Week at TATW
230!!!
Ferry played Beachball@Sziget Festival
17/08/08 16:39
Ferry Corsten played our Beachball remix in his set
at Sziget Festival. The crowd was extremely
responsive, we had a great time all the way
through. Of course I have a video...
Radio Support
15/08/08 14:23
Last night Markus Schultz was spinning our Andy Moor remix on Global Dj Broadcast, and Armn played the Mr. Pit vs Above & Beyond "Shana Can't Sleep" Black Army Mashup we did.
Lange remix released, single number 1 on Beatport
15/08/08 11:26
Finally our Lange remix has been released, the
single jumped straight to number one on Beatport's
Trance charts.
Nalin & Kane - Beachball
15/08/08 09:14
We've just finished a new remix today: Nalin &
Kane's “Beachball” got our treatment.
After 4 hours it's been sent out to a few big djs, we got a video from Above & Beyond, straight from the dj booth at Amnesia, Ibiza, recorded with a Blackberry. Sorry for the quality, but this is what it is...
After 4 hours it's been sent out to a few big djs, we got a video from Above & Beyond, straight from the dj booth at Amnesia, Ibiza, recorded with a Blackberry. Sorry for the quality, but this is what it is...
Jaytech - Vela remix
03/08/08 11:59
There's a new addition to our discography: we just finished remixing Jaytech's "Vela" for Anjunadeep.
Fake Awake release
03/08/08 09:46
As we know it Andy Moor's Fake Awake with our remix on it will be released tomorrow. Head over to Anjunabeats for more details.
Busy Sunday: 3 new tracks finished
27/07/08 13:43
We've managed to put the finishing touches on to 3
of our new tracks yesterday. The long session was
ended at 3:15 in the morning, but well worth the
effort:
"The Beach" (B-side of "Not A Lot Left"),
"All Night Rock And Roll" a brandnew tune,
a totally new version of "Vampire", with Carrie Skipper are all wrapped up and ready to roll!
"The Beach" (B-side of "Not A Lot Left"),
"All Night Rock And Roll" a brandnew tune,
a totally new version of "Vampire", with Carrie Skipper are all wrapped up and ready to roll!
"Trapped" signed to Black Hole
26/07/08 18:34
Trapped has been signed to mighty Black Hole, we yet have no idea of the release date though...
Fake Awake remix on TATW
11/07/08 10:38
We've had a few TATW appearances with our remix of Andy Moor's "Fake Awake" which has been featured on episodes 222, 223 and 224 respectively.
Although it was stated (and announced) as Myon remix, it is actually that Myon & Shane 54 mix we posted about earlier. The reason for this is simple: we made an error when the track has been sent out, but it's sorted now.
Release on Anjunabeats / AVA recordings soon.
"Not A Lot Left" signed to Anjunabeats
10/07/08 08:49
Anjunabeats has signed Not A Lot Left (alongside another track, The Beach as a b-side). Above & Beyond has been spinning the track for a while now, and the feedback on it was more than positive...
update: Due to a track that has the same title on Anjunabeats, "Sex On The Beach" has been renamed to "The Beach"...
Andy Moor remix
22/06/08 07:31
We've finished our remix for Andy Moor's "Fake Awake" that will come out on Anjunabeats sometime soon. It became an ass-shaking electro-synth tune, Andy is really keen on.
Mr. Sam in Hungary!
30/05/08 23:42
I already had the pleasure to work with Mr Sam when I wrote and sang vocals for “Lost & Found” on his Lyteo album (we later remixed it with Mario, I think that was the real start of Black Army, although we didn’t know that then yet)
Sam came over this week to work with us on some new material, spent 6 days with us.
I can report, we had a wonderful time, we clicked instantly, and the material we came up with sounds pretty good even in raw demo form. They’re far from ready, but very promising. They’ll be featured on his new (yet untitled) album, to be expected later this year. He showed us some of the songs, and I must admit, the high profile artists who contributed to it (not sure how much I’m allowed to reveal, so I won’t say anything yet) did a great job. It will be a fantastic album for sure.
Using some of the pics we took while he was here I made a small comic book...
"Trapped" in ASOT
30/05/08 15:54
Armin Van Buuren played “Trapped” (the dub version) on ASOT last night.
Some forums stated it as “Not A Lot Left”, but it was “Trapped” I swear...
Not A Lot Left in TATW again
25/05/08 15:46
Above & Beyond fully supports us, the played Not A Lot Left again on this week's show (217), and stated it as a "favourite from last week"...
WHA!? Mixtape Series vol. 1.
23/05/08 15:49
WHA!? (The bastard Pop Netlabel) is Simon Iddol's extraordinary place for bootlegs. He is also a well-known figure in Mashup Land. One of the label's latest releases "Da-Tah", a Scissor Sisters Mash up album gave a big peak in terms of exposure and credibility all around the world.
Simon chose my Depeche Mode (mashup filled) dj mix as the first release on his new, "WHA!? Mixtape Series", available now on their site
Godskitchen compilation
19/05/08 23:10
Just got the news, the Black Army remix of Lange's Out Of The Sky ended up on CD2 of the new Godskitchen: Underground compilation (Mixed by Paul Thomas & Mark Eteson)
There's more to come for sure...
Not A Lot Left
16/05/08 23:42
Got some heavyweight airplay for our new tune "There's Not A Lot Left" tonight.
Tiesto (Club Life 59) and Above & Beyond (TATW 216) both have played the tune in their radio shows.
From the rest of the feedback we also had on it, it will work this summer big time I guess...
Depeche Mode Dj Mix
16/05/08 18:17
A few weeks ago, I did a 30 minute dj mix made entirely out of Depeche Mode tracks. As I love them for a long, long time, I was rather curious if I can make one that satisfies the hardcore fan in me (it did). The other reason to make it was an MTV Asia party in Singapore, where I was supposed to play 3 hours of DM. In the end the gig didn't happen, but I was pretty happy with the result, which ended up in Scott Johnson's hands, who is the host of the ramdom thoughts podcast. He loved it so much, it became part of episode 103, which is going to be online tomorrow morning (17th of May, UK time).
There's some stuff I made especially for this mix, so anyone who loves Depeche Mode will find pretty interesting stuff in there.
Here's the tracklist, feel free to check it out at the RT website:
01. Depeche Mode vs. West & Thoenick -
Walking In My Hinbye (Shane 54 Mashup)
02. Behind The Wheel (Matt Hite Mashup)
03. Enjoy The Silence (Matt Samuels remix)
04. If You Want (Shane 54 refill)
05. It Doesn't Matter Two (Shane 54 refill)
06. Personal Jesus (Shane 54 Remix)
07. A Question Of Time (Extended remix)
08. Here Is The House (Gabriel & Dresden Bootleg mix)
Esmaye Dub on TATW
19/04/08 15:45
Above & Beyond has played our "Secret Garden" Dub in episode 212 of Trance Around The World last night.
Beatport Chart
16/04/08 20:46
Esmaye remix released!
16/04/08 20:39
Black Hole Diva, Esmaye got the Black Army treatment, finally our remix has been released today. According to the BH Myspace blog "This beautiful pop-track is remixed by trance-dj's Myon and Shane 54, who have produced a Black Army Remix and Black Army Dub Mix. These trance producers commited themselves to remixing this new release, and this resulted in two classic trance remixes of the already released Secret Garden."
Remixing BWO's "Barcelona"
15/04/08 09:52
Last weekend we were ultra-busy with Myon, remixing BWO's new single, Barcelona, to be released worldwide sometime late May,
Tiesto and our Lange remix
10/04/08 23:15
The Black Army remix we made for Lange's "Out Of The Sky" has been the opening track of the second hour in Tiesto's Club Life 53 last week.
We can pretty much consider this the track's world premiere...
Black Army Myspace page has launched!
07/04/08 13:19
"Trapped" in Gaz Emery's Podcast!
03/04/08 17:43
"Trapped" has been featured in episode 52 of Gaz Emery's podcast.
We sent him the tune last week, but instead of replying he simply played it on the show.
How nice...
Black Army tracks in the making
01/04/08 18:04
In the past couple of weeks Myon and me worked
night and day on the new tracks, we have about 13
of them fully or semi-ready. This also means the
need to release them on an album sometime later
this year. If all goes well, the final tracklist
will be chosen out of some 19 tracks, so we can
ditch the ones won't really fit onto the album.
Up to this point we have some very good singers featuring on the songs (apart from the ones I get to sing):
- Julie Thompson (Begin Again)
- Kirsty Hawkshaw (Alive)
- Tiff Lacey (Someone Like You)
We just finished "Trapped" last week. so it's been sent out to a few people who might be interested in it.
Ferry Corsten replied pretty fast: "Thanks for sending me this track, I really love it. The song is cool, the production is fantastic."
He even gave us a tip concerning the vocals, we'll try it for sure, he might be right...
Up to this point we have some very good singers featuring on the songs (apart from the ones I get to sing):
- Julie Thompson (Begin Again)
- Kirsty Hawkshaw (Alive)
- Tiff Lacey (Someone Like You)
We just finished "Trapped" last week. so it's been sent out to a few people who might be interested in it.
Ferry Corsten replied pretty fast: "Thanks for sending me this track, I really love it. The song is cool, the production is fantastic."
He even gave us a tip concerning the vocals, we'll try it for sure, he might be right...
Tiesto DVD
19/03/08 20:29
I've wanted to post this for a long time, just missed it somehow:
In the new Tiesto DVD's extra section there's a documentary about the tour's several gigs. It starts with Budapest, and I pop up here and there during it.They've used some of the footage we provided from the Laptop Dj episode filmed during his stay. Some hot bikini babes even saying a Laptop Dj ID with him on their side!
Nice...
Old pop videos from my past...
12/01/08 00:44
I've been telling about my "boybandish" past to
friends for ages, but I could never show anything
like these videos from the 90s.
A friend at a record company found these videos in their archives, so I got a dvd a few days ago, so finally I'm able to present some pre-Shane 54 stuff.
I really don't have any comments on these, just watch and enjoy! (I'm the guy who sings)
FLM - Megtalállak Még (1995)
Császár Előd - Mondd, Miért Fáj Ugyanúgy? (1995)
Császár Előd - Késő (1997)
A friend at a record company found these videos in their archives, so I got a dvd a few days ago, so finally I'm able to present some pre-Shane 54 stuff.
I really don't have any comments on these, just watch and enjoy! (I'm the guy who sings)
FLM - Megtalállak Még (1995)
Császár Előd - Mondd, Miért Fáj Ugyanúgy? (1995)
Császár Előd - Késő (1997)
The Black Army
06/01/08 01:19
Shane 54 & Myon proudly presents their brand new project: The Black Army.
Named after Hungary's greatest, undefeatable army in the 15th century ("owned" by the great King Matthias Rex from 1459-1490), we concentrating on delivering a special, 2 laptop dj set full of our own mashups (we have no idea how many of those we did so far), remixing classic tracks (we already working on some) and make as much original music as we possibly can. We already have 6-7 tunes in the pipeline, watch out, we're coming!
"69" is at number 2 now!!!
05/01/08 01:15
I have no words,
"69" is at number two now, nice...
(Scroll down for chart history)
"69" is at number two now, nice...
(Scroll down for chart history)
Lot to catch up...
30/12/07 09:09
I know there's a lot to catch up, I will do it as soon as I came back from Moscow, where I'll play on a New Year's Eve party.
I'm sure it will rock bigtime...
"69" in the Hungarian Singles Top 5
20/12/07 13:39
Due to a recent Hugarian Digital Release, "69" (with former international adult film star Michelle Wild and Hungarian Dj Junior) has opened at the Hungarian Singles Chart at number 4! Not too bad from a single that has been originally released 4 years ago, and hasn't even been remixed...
Thanks to everyone in Hungary for the support
MIxed in Key Interview
15/12/07 09:46
One of my favourite softwares is Mixed In Key, the creation of my good friend Yakov. I also made a - sort of - audio demo to show the possibilities of harmonic mixing. This 5 minutes megamix (was downloaded more than 200.000 times from their site so far) is the part of the interview we did lately for their site. You can find it here
Jean Michel Jarre and my laptop
30/11/07 23:31
I would consider myself a hardcore Jean Michel
Jarre-fan. His "Oxygene" and "Equinoxe" albums are
encoded into my DNA I guess.
This Friday the Master of All Synths had a quick "Oxygene 30th Anniversary Edition" promo day in Budapest. At the end of his stay he signed my last Equinoxe 4 vinyl, my favourite JMJ cds and my laptop!
To my biggest surprise, he remembered the "Equinoxe 4" cover I did, which made my day really. I'm sure there's tons of E4 covers and remixes he has to hear from time to time, and the fact mine stuck into his mind blew me away.
He was extremely kind to me, an we talked for quite some time, so I had the chance to ask things I've been always curious for.
The most important question was if he's willing to show his studio to the tv show's cameras. I'm proud to report, that he is up for the challenge, once we start filming again, they will find a date for us, then it's just a quick visit to Paris. Amazing...
Until then he made a Laptop Dj ID straight into my phone:
This Friday the Master of All Synths had a quick "Oxygene 30th Anniversary Edition" promo day in Budapest. At the end of his stay he signed my last Equinoxe 4 vinyl, my favourite JMJ cds and my laptop!
To my biggest surprise, he remembered the "Equinoxe 4" cover I did, which made my day really. I'm sure there's tons of E4 covers and remixes he has to hear from time to time, and the fact mine stuck into his mind blew me away.
He was extremely kind to me, an we talked for quite some time, so I had the chance to ask things I've been always curious for.
The most important question was if he's willing to show his studio to the tv show's cameras. I'm proud to report, that he is up for the challenge, once we start filming again, they will find a date for us, then it's just a quick visit to Paris. Amazing...
Until then he made a Laptop Dj ID straight into my phone:
2 new tracks on Myspace!
30/04/07 23:34
The track I mentioned below "Boom" is available for
streaming on my music account on Myspace. I also upped
"Someone Like You", the track I did with Tiff
Lacey, so it's like a double debut...
Bangin' Tried & Tested
23/04/07 11:11
Two days ago on his Radio 1 show Judge Jules played my new track as "Bangin' Tried & Tested". The tune is so new basically he's the only one who has it, such a debut for my song!
Free mix on Beatport
19/04/07 08:55
In Beatport's "preferred
software" section features my friend Yakov's
Mixed In Key. Earlier I made an audio demo to
show it's capabilities, it's available
alongside the description for the program.
This megamix is an example of how to squeeze
37 tracks into 5 minutes, and still maintain
musicality. So far more than 60.000 people
have downloaded it from the MIK site, the
Beatport featurette will gain more for sure...
Interview on Laptoprockers
17/04/07 11:21
Fonogram Nominations!
18/02/07 18:08
Fonogram, the Hungarian Music Industry's annual awards nominations has been announced recently.
I've got two:
Best Hungarian dance / Electronic Album for my "Laptop Dj" album
Hungarian Song Of The Year for "Altass El", for last year's hit single i've had with singer / songwriter Thomas Mester.
It's an honour for me to be in the 5 best albums / songs, i'm thankful to be nominated.
The awards ceremony will be held on Saturday, the 24th of February.
Till then I'm keeping my fingers crossed...