Arctic Moon is one of the most exciting producers in today’s current trance scene. Having spent the last two yeas inside the DJ Mag Top 200 Djs he is not only a highly talented, respected and loved producer but an entertaining and exciting DJ set to take the next decade by storm.
Hailing from Poland his musical journey began during his childhood when he became fascinated by electronic dance music at an early age. He spent 3 years learning step by step how to produce music and also spent this time experimenting with different sounds until he found the one he was passionate about. In 2007 he decided that Trance was indeed his one true music love and it was then he focused on creating euphoric and uplifting Trance music encompassing elements of classical music, new age, chill out and even rock music.
As the years progressed so has the quality of his music and indeed his international profile. His name is now synonymous with labels such as the massive “Armada Music” and indeed Aly & Fila’s world famous “Future Sound of Egypt Recordings”. The success of his productions lead to him receiving a lot of requests from some of the Worlds top Djs for remixes. Already in his short but successful career he has remixed for 4 Time #1 Dj, Armin Van Buuren remixing his track “Coming Home” for the recent Remix version of his last artist album. Added to Armin Van Buuren he also has remixed Aly & Fila’s massive vocal track “It Will Be OK”, Dash Berlin’s massive single “Till the Sky Falls Down” and “Vast Vision – Ambrosia” while other remix work has featured on labels such as Subculture, Blue Soho, Arisa Audio and more.
As already touched on his own original production’s such as “Adelaide”, “Starships Over Alice”, “True Remonace”, “Dreamers & Dreams” and “Valhalla” have been heavily supported by an always growing and endless list of the Trance DJ Elite inc. names such as Aly & Fila, Bryan Kearney, Roger Shah, Dash Berlin, Paul Oakenfold and Armin Van Buuren and it was this support coupled with a very busy tour diary in 2013 saw his global reputation rise and there is nothing to suggest it will stop in 2014.
2013 seen Arctic Moon travel back and forth across the world playing in countries such as USA, Australia, Argentina, Mexico, UK, Ireland, Holland, Poland, Russia, Singapore, Thailand, Czech Republic ad events such as Tomorrowland, ASOT600, Luminosity, Culture One and many more. With his 2014 diary almost exploding containing numerous festival appearances and club gigs in already visited countries as well as some exciting debuts, Arctic Moon is definitely on his way to being one of the biggest artists of current times.
Name: Arctic Moon
Location: Poland
Dimitri: Can you mention your biggest achievements in your music career in 2014 and your personal life if it is something that you wish to share with our readers?
Arctic Moon: Many quality gigs all over the world, especially in USA including huge events like Escape, EDC, FSOE350. I finally did my first vocal track this year together with Noire Lee, called ‘Revolution’.
Dimitri: 2014 was packed with releases from so many different styles, which Electronic Music style you believe is the absolute Electronic Music Style Of 2014 in the mainstream indifferent if you like it or not. Why you believe this style became so successful in 2014?
Arctic Moon: Bigroom house is still pretty big and deep house is probably the next big thing. Why is it popular? I think it’s because younger generation only looks for something easy to jump to at festivals and don’t really care about melodies or complexity in music.
1) Best Track:
Arctic Moon: I spent 15 minutes thinking and I can’t pick just one.
2) Best Artist (Dj & producer):
Arctic Moon: Standerwick
3) Best Remix:
Arctic Moon: Same answer as to the first question.
4) Best Remixer:
Arctic Moon: Standerwick
5) Best New Talent (Dj or producer):
Arctic Moon: Standerwick (yep, this guy had a pretty good year)
6) Best Electronic Music Album:
Arctic Moon: I really like Porter Robinson – Worlds because he tried something different than his usual style.
7) Best Electronic Music Compilation:
Arctic Moon: I didn’t listen to any compilation this year.
8) Best artwork/cover of an Album or Compilation:
Arctic Moon: Porter Robinson – Worlds had few artworks that where pretty cool.
9) Best Lyrics in an Electronic Music track:
Arctic Moon: DJ Snake, Lil Jon - Turn Down for What (..jk)
10) Best Vocalist/Singer featured on Electronic Music track:
Arctic Moon: Roxanne Emery
11) Best Electronic Music Label:
Arctic Moon: Trance wise – FSOE.
12) Best Electronic Music Video:
Arctic Moon: I haven’t seen many.
13) Best online Funny video related to Dance Music:
Arctic Moon: Video from My Little Pony Convention. It’s from 2013 but it’s still the best.
14) Best Online Social media network:
Arctic Moon: Twitter
15) Best Twitter or Facebook message you received from a fan or friend or you have read on someone else’s account:
Arctic Moon: Too many!
16) Best personal selfie of the year, where, when and under which circumstances you took it?
Arctic Moon: Probably at home. I really don’t care much about taking selfies.
17) Best music composition software:
Arctic Moon: FL Studio.
18) Best Event or Open Air Festival:
Arctic Moon: FSOE350
19) Best personal Dj Gig:
Arctic Moon: Too many to mention.
20) Best Dj set of the year from other fellow Dj:
Arctic Moon: I wasn’t really paying attention to dj sets but there was definitely many very good.
21) Best country that you have visited to perform with the most up for it crowd:
Arctic Moon: El Salvador crowd was really energetic.
22) Best Radio show:
Arctic Moon: I don’t listen to radio shows so I will just put mine here – Afterworld.
23) Best Radio station:
Arctic Moon: di.fm
24) Best Online Record shop that you purchase your music:
Arctic Moon: Beatport
25) Best Website that you visit frequently:
Arctic Moon: Wunderground
26) Best Smart phone/Mobile phone device:
Arctic Moon: iPhone
27) Best Dj equipment (software or hardware):
Arctic Moon: Ableton + Novation Launchpad
28) Best new sound or sample that has been used in Electronic Music this year perhaps introduced first by you?
Arctic Moon: Pryda snare. (.. well obviously not haha)
29) Best tip that you learnt this year for your Djing techniques or music composition:
Arctic Moon: Just do your own thing.
30) Best piece of advice you got in relation to your career in 2014:
Arctic Moon: Count only on yourself.
31) Best hobby or activity that you spent a lot of time in 2014:
Arctic Moon: Watching movies and tv shows.
32) Best holiday destination for 2014 that you manage to visit this year either to relax or to perform in a club or festival:
Arctic Moon: Los Angeles
33) Best Movie of the year preferably related to Electronic Music that may inspire you to compose a track:
Arctic Moon: It has nothing to do with Electronic Music, but best movie for me was Interstellar. Definitely inspiring.
34) Best online/PC/video game of the year that you have played this year?
Arctic Moon: I don’t play video games that much. I prefer oldschool titles.
35) Best piece of News you learnt this year related to Electronic Music Culture:
Arctic Moon: The Prodigy are making new album.
Dimitri: Finally, 2015 is ahead of us would you like to tell your plans with your future releases, tracks, albums, collaborations, Dj gigs.
Arctic Moon: I have 2 new singles almost done, few collaborations planned, and maybe I will start doing remixes again. Idea for an album is there too but this needs more time.
Thanks very much to Arctic Moon for replying to this interview
Thanks very much to Chris Duncan, Artist Manager at Audio Religion Music LTD
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