Biography of Moonline |  |
| Real name / | Zoltan Makk |
Nowadays Moonline is one of the most wanted djs in Hungary. However he has just passed 25, the electronic music scene cene claim in unison that he is the most talented nubreed in house music. His name has become inseparable from the quality music. Moonlines specific style is based on his internal ability coming from his soul. His musical taste takes inspiration from everything and anything that he feels. He is the dj whos found the balance in house music.. His legendary sets are so fuckin full of passion and soul and these deep parts are flying on nasty dirty ass-shaking house rhytms. Thats why he is the favourite in really music expert partypeoples circle. The history started in his neighbourhood, where Chriss the biggest icon of the hungarian electronic music lives. They discovered together the magic of epic house and trance music. The first and deeply determinant influences were the Renaissance and northern exposure mixes by Sasha and John Digweed. Moonline fell in love in Sashas melodic epictrance , he was totally amazed and inspired to achieve something like that. He would have been able to play with the melodies and voices, create a long soulful trip for the audience, to reach peoples soul and to revive deep passions in the hearts. These impressions totally changed his life and since then he has been living for the music. He bought his first vinyls in 1996 and not so later he got his first own complete dj equipment. From 1998 Moonline appeared at Chriss parties as the guest dj, which were the most popular epic house party in Hungary that time. He proved as an excellent warm up dj, and with the friends (Chriss) support hes become well-known all over the country. In 2001 Moonline due to success of these clubnights crashed all of the gates front of his own carrier, and a new peirod started in his life. This year he has been invited by all of the famous and important clubs, and reached partypeople from every part of Hungary. From 2001 Moonline has appeared in media, he has played often the principal electronic music shows at radio channels: Radio1-Freeetime, Roxy-Hotmix, RadioJam, Pulzar radio, Radio-Deejay, online-radiogroove, Justmusic.fm-onlineetc. In the end of this year a Legend was born, the DEBUT, the best progressive clubnight ever in Eastern Europe. Monnline has been the main character from the beginning of this miracle. It was started as an underground manifestation with about 300 people in exclusive places. But the passing of time it has become a revolutionary action of the Hungarian progressive house. On the Debuts first birthday were 500 people, and reputation flow over the borders. In the last 3 years Debut presented almost 150 parties, has had residencies in club Flort, in club Newnight, where usually a huge crowd, 1500-2500 people enjoy Moonlines and his guests sets. During this period Debut was invited to big festivals and famous foreign clubs in Central and Eastern Europe. Moonline and the other 2 debut Djs Dandy and Garay played for thousands of people on the EXIT Festival Serbia. Between 2001 and 2002 he showed his other face for his fans. Moonline had a residency at one of the most exclusive bar, called cafe 57, where the fancy and famous people enjoyed his chill out session. For instance Dj Sasha and his friends also appeared in this place. In 2002 the reputation of Moonline legendary sets reached the partypeople of the neighbouring countries. Due to these success he has been invited to the most popular clubs in Slovenia, Slovakia, Serbia, Romania. In summer of 2002 he was the first hungarian dj, who played in Japan. The world famous Dj 19 invited him to his CD launch party in Tokyo. In the end of 2002 PACHA has opened a club in Budapest, where Moonline worked as a Dj and promoter as well. During this period he has goten an excellent work and friend relationship with the resident Djs, the most valuable hungarian house project MONKZ. Monnline got connection Djs like Satoshie Tomiie, Sander Kleinenberg, James Zabiela, Jimmy Van M, Christian Smith, Lee Burridge, Steve Lawler, etc. Next Summer he was invited together with the Monkz into the paradise of house music, Pacha Ibiza. This year Moonline tended to produce own tracks. Due to the friendship with Monkz he started to work with Shootie, the producer of Monkz, Add2Basket etc. on their own projects. Their first track was a remix for Sasha-Motorola with fantastic success. These breakbeat song reached every part of the world and appeared in many Djs toplist, and Moonline has entered the circle of the international well-known producers. The co-operation with Shootie proved so succesful, that the guys are still working together and created such hits like Quasar- Together (Shootie&Moonline remix), and Add2Basket-Without you (Shootie&Moonline remix with the amazing vocal by Eszter Vaczi), which is one of Satoshie Tomiees favourite and has become a club anthem. In his last 3years Moonline played at worldknown clubnights (Renaissance, Bedrock, Subliminal, Pacha, Imprint, Global Underground etc..)alongside worlds class djs like: Sasha, James Zabiela, Lee Burridge, Satoshie Tomiie, Mathew Dekay, Steve Lawler, DJ19, James Holden, Chriss Fortier, Dave Seaman, Sander Kleinenberg, Gabriel&Dresden, Jimmy Van M, Parks&Wilson, Nic Fanciulli, Yunus Guvenen, Low End Specialist, Behrouz, Moshic etc who acknowledged his talent. In the end of 2005 he will start a new project together with Chriss, which involves a half live act performance with Ableton program and effect processors. And the project will compile a 2CD Album, which represents how the guys imagine the clubsounds in 2006.