I had my first (electronic) musical experience at the age of 5, thanks to the intro song of the TV- series called Knight Rider. In the following years the films and TV-series of the eighties and their songs had great effects on me (artists like Tangerine Dream, Vangelis, Yoichiro Yoshikawa, Kraftwerk and Pink Floyd).
When I was a boy I spent much time in movie theatres and videotheques – no doubt, I became a movie geek and influenced me film composers like John Carpenter, James Newton Howard, Danny Elfman, Hans Zimmer, Angelo Badalamenti, Pino Donaggio and Mark Isham.
It was the year 1995 which has meant to me the real change in the field of music, I was caught up in the wave of „techno lifestyle”. In 1997 I founded a music fan club consisting of almost 200 people, and I also founded a magazine spreaded at underground scene in 1998. I listened to recordings from Aphex Twin, Way Out West, BT, Cosmic Baby, Moby, Chicane, Future Sound Of London, Apollo 440, Hybrid, L.S.G. (Oliver Lieb) …
I got my first opportunity as a DJ at the local radio on January 14, 2000. In 2001 I started playing DJ-sets at one of West Hungary’s biggest clubs (Club Aztek): at the beginning occasionally, but after a few months I had the opportunity to mixing electronic dance music on every Friday and Saturday with headliner DJ’s. At this club I played some of my early breakbeat/downtempo tunes.
I started composing music in 2001; at the beginning I made drum n’ bass & breakbeat remixes and reworks in order to play them at parties. In this period I was introduced the music of Jose Padilla, LTJ Bukem, DJ Shadow, Erik Truffaz, Global Communication, Brian Eno, and Ulrich Schnauss.
In the year of 2007 the channel of the award-winner american Groovera was the first one which started playing my compositions, followed by numerous other radio stations and podcasts (Ambient Ping, Therealthings, Radio Tilos, Jazzylounge, Proton, Ambientfalls,…). More than ten record labels were interested in my album in preparation, such as one of the U.K.’s leading instrumental musical publisher.
In 2011 the scope of references of international radios and podcast were expanded more, but I got place on such extremely popular compilations like The Chilloutlounge Mix and Guido’s Lounge Cafe.
I created my first sci-fi short-film Interkozmosz in 2014, what are opened the 25. MEDIAWAVE International Film Festival. I wrote music for animation short films (Moonlanding, The Mantle of Saint Martin) television campaigns on the subject environmental (Footbus) and direct to CD-album (The Fountain of Life). Between 2015 and 2020 I worked as a musical selector and organiser, I had live gigs/DJ sets on festivals, and parties (Deep Vision Night, Restart Festival, Wine & Vinyl, Evenings of Angels and Vagabonds). Currently living by lake Balaton and working on my new compositions, plus I manage my Youtube-channel „The Big Chill” – Bela Banhegyi Music.
(Felvétel: Gabi Gombás)