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...

Tags: beachball, ferry corsten, sziget festival

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.

Tags: markus schultz, armin

Finally our Lange remix has been released, the single jumped straight to number one on Beatport's Trance charts.

Tags: lange, remix, beatport

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...

Tags: above and beyond, ibiza, amnesia, video, beachball, remix

There's a new addition to our discography: we just finished remixing Jaytech's "Vela" for Anjunadeep.

Tags: jaytech, myon & shane 54, remix

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.

Tags: andy moor, fake awake, anjunabeats

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!

Tags: myon & shane 54

Tags: trapped, myon & shane 54, black hole

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.

Tags: tatw, fake awake, remix

Tags: not a lot left, anjunabeats, myon & shane 54

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.

Tags: andy moor, remix, fake awake

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...

Tags: mr sam

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...

Tags: armin, trapped, asot, black army

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"...

Tags: above and beyond, tatw, radio

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

Tags: depeche mode, wha, simon iddol, dj mix

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...

Tags: godskitchen, mark eteson

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...

Tags: above and beyond, tiesto, radio

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)

Tags: depeche mode, ramdom thoughts, dj mix

Above & Beyond has played our "Secret Garden" Dub in episode 212 of Trance Around The World last night.

Tags: tatw, above and beyond, esmaye, remix

We made an April Chart for Beatport, of course "Secret Garden" is number one atm...

Tags: beatport, chart, black army

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."

Tags: esmaye, remix, black hole, black army

Last weekend we were ultra-busy with Myon, remixing BWO's new single, Barcelona, to be released worldwide sometime late May,

Tags: bwo, remix

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...

Tags: tiesto, club life, lange, black army, remix

Be our friend on Myspace!
www.myspace.com/theblackarmy

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"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...

Tags: black army, gareth emery, podcast, trapped

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...

Tags: black army, trapped, ferry corsten

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...

Tags: tiesto, dvd, laptop dj

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)

Tags: music video

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!

Tags: myon, black army

I have no words,

"69" is at number two now, nice...

(Scroll down for chart history)

Tags: 69, chart position

To be perfectly honest , I had an idea of the Capital of Russian Federation, but the four days we spent there was exceeded all my expectations. My friend Koris (who I went with to play) was already spinning there in August, and he was telling me nothing but good things about our promoter, Vladimir. He was damn right about him.

Arrived on the 30th of December, a day befroe New Years Eve. I caused some surprise with my (very) rusty Russian knowledge, when I was a kid I had to learn "the language" at school: we've been part of the eastern block, we jst had to there was no question.
When we didn't had to anymore, I started focusing on English, and thought I never wil use it ever again in my life. I was completely shocked whenI found out after more than a decade of not using it at all, my never-been-that-good Russian vocabulary started to come back heavily causing alot of laughter amongst the locals. Especially reading russian was pretty easy. It was a great surprise, they've never seen an international dj who could read Russian.



Our hotel, Baltschug Kempinski was just across the river from the Famous Red Square / Kreml combo, it was about 8 minutes walk to go there.
On the very first time we used the elevator, we bumped to Demis Roussos, the legendary greek singer. Bodyguard in the lobby, long limousine outside.



On the first night, we went to a "Kortschma" (pub) to drink "bootleg" vodka (made from different kinds of vodka, very strong) with cucumber. We got pretty drunk, but not drunk enough to be able to drink it with local favourite, "garlic root in pork fat"... Awww!
We've had great russian food (can't remember what it was we were way too drunk).



On the last day of the year we went a bit around the Red Square area. It wasn't the -9 that made us feel miserable, but the wind, what makes Moscow winter horrible. My jacket's hoodie was on my head permanently, I looked a bit like Kenny, and at least I didn't have "MIR" space station falling on my head...
Ok, I took it off for this pic made at the door of Lenin's Tomb.



At early in the afternoon there was a considerably huge amount of people waiting for something at Red Square (according to reports in the evening it was around 700.000). We never knew what they've been waiting for, we had to go to the venue, a sport complex, with and indoor ice skating ring providing the dancefloor. This time there was no ice on it, and it was so huge, about two and a half thousand people could fill it to 80%.
The party was great, even though it was a little bit odd to listen to the Russian National Anthem at midnight with champagne in my hand. Back in the communist era if someone was telling me I will do this once, I've surely laughed. How strange...



The party was great, after playing we headed straight back to Red Square to see how it is like, but we left very fast. That cold is not for humans, and we saw people without hats, proper jackets celebrating new year. A technician was falling off of a 3 meters high stage's backline in front of our eyes, and we were the only ones who asked him if he's fine. He was standing up real fast, and we saw he was so drunk I'm surprised he could even say "No probljem"...

The first of Jan was a very quiet day, we didn't really came out of the hotel, after sleeping for a long long time.

The last day we used the famous Moscow "metropoliten" (underground) to get to the site of the Lomonosov University. Damn, that place is huge!
Our plane started at 8 in the evening, so we had plenty of time to get to the airport. We were sitting 1.5 hours in the plane before taking off, but apart from that, our trip back was completely peaceful.

Vlad told me I have to go back sometime early summer.
Can't wait...

Happy New Year Everyone!

Tags: moscow, gig

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...

I've never had the chance to play in Estonia. so I was extremely happy when I got this request from my friend Alex, to play in Club Central Point in Tallin. I spent about 25 hours in there, but it was so good, if I'll have a chance I'll go back for sure.



As there's no straight flights from Budapest to the Estonian capital, I had to go to Prague first to get a plane to Tallin. The weather was much warmer there than in Hungary (I was expected terrible cold, winds and the like)
The old town look s amazing. On one of the small streets, I saw something that really made me feel warm inside. A Depeche Mode "Baar"!!! When I first saw the sign of the place it made me curious, as the rose from DM's "Violator" album cover was lighting proudly in the semi dark.
It couldn't be a coincidence, there was Depeche Mode in the air...



DM pictures everywhere, some of them proves the band actually been hanging out here some time ago. Martin Gore seemed to enjoy himself a lot on the pics. Depeche Mode concert video on the screen, the carpet has the same rose as the door sign, most likely custom made for the bar. Hats off to the owners from a Depeche Fan. I I was living in Tallin, you could find me there often.



Club Central Point isn't big, but surely close to everything. The sound was great, everyone was enthusiastic, really into the music. It was a night to remember for sure. Everyone knewthe other clubbers, they asked me to play such old tracks or remixes of mine, I don't usually play on gigs, but they wanted to hear those as well, so it was a really special night.
Thanks Alex, hope we can repeat it.

Tags: estonia, tallin, gig

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

Tags: 69, chart position

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

Tags: mixed in key, interview, live, ableton

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:

Tags: jean michel jarre, oxygene, laptop

It's been quite a while I haven't written anything to the blog.

The last couple of weeks were literally a misery, as I - due a series of embarassingly dumb events I wouldn't get into in detail - managed to break my right knee. Walking was nearly impossible for a long time.

This led to other things, like me not going to London for the DJ Mag Top 100 night (which I was looking forward to for ages). When we were filming at Mayday Budapest, I was in a pretty bad shape too (I didn't know then it was broken, so I walked around with a stick), I'm actually surprised we were able to make a decent episode out of it.

I had to go to MR to see what's really inside my knee, that's when it turned out I have some serious stuff going on.
On the photo, that's my knee right there, the thing hanging on the metallic tube isn't a headphone, it is so loud in there - even with my clubby standards - you need ear protecion.

Tags: broken knee, hospital