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Moonbeam is a Russian electronic music project, founded in 2003 by brothers Vitaly and Pavel Khvaleev. [1] [2] They describe their music style as a mixture of trance, progressive house, atmospheric techno and deep minimal. In 2010, Moonbeam was listed in DJ Magazine's Top 100 DJs at position number 42, becoming the third Russian musician in history to make the list.
In 2016 Pavel and Vitaly announced the closure of the project. After 3 years off downtime, in 2019 Vitaly Khvaleev launched Moonbeam.
Vitaly (born September 17, 1979) and Pavel (born May 27, 1984) Hvaleev were born in the city of Naberezhnye Chelny, Tatarstan, Russia. Pavel's mother is Armenian. In 1996, Vitaly graduated from one of the local schools and enrolled in Nizhny Novgorod State Pedagogical University's geography department, and then continued his studies in graduate school, earning a degree in human psychophysiology. Pavel, after graduating from high school, attended Kazan State Technical University. In 1999, Vitaly moved to Nizhny Novgorod, where he began working as a DJ at Pechora, a local nightclub. Pavel moved to the same city five years later.
As students, Pavel and Vitaly began to create tracks, remixes and arrangements using all sorts of samples, and with the availability of computers pursued this more intensely. While working under the pseudonym "Black & Cap", they wrote several tracks, including a mix of the song "Flow" with Anastasia Sorokina. After a few successful experiments, in 1997 the project changed its name to "Exaltation" and began work with guitarist Sergey Fedotov. Working together in the studio, the team also performed at small parties in Naberezhnye Chelny, Russia. In 2002 a local newspaper published an article about the project, where the brothers spoke about their work and shared their plans for the future, including performances in nearby towns.
In 2003, American vocalist Chris Lunsford came to Nizhny Novgorod; the brothers recorded the track "Raven Gypsy" with him, and then created 2 more works: "Consumption" and "Forgotten Grey". At this time the brothers took a new alias, "Moonbeam". In 2004, they released their first single with Portuguese label Feed Me Records. Pavel and Vitaly then went to Zurich and gave their first official performance at the nightclub Supermarket.
At the end of 2005, Moonbeam created a platform for the release of their own works, the first Russian digital record label Moonbeam Digital.
In 2007 Moonbeam signed contracts with some of the biggest labels in the Netherlands - High Contrast Recordings, which released the Cocoon EP, and Black Hole Recordings, which became home to two new releases, "I Love Mornings" and "See The Difference Inside".
2008 began with a remix of Perfect Strangers' "Ode Ao Sol". Later, Moonbeam published a remix of Marcus Schössow's "Chase My Rabbit" on Black Hole Recordings.
In addition, Markus Schulz includes Moonbeam's remix of Lens' "Beyond The Shadows" in his compilation Amsterdam'08, and Incentive Company and Ministry of Sound signed a contract to produce a remix in the UK and Ireland. In 2008 many of Moonbeam's original tracks and remixes found their way into various collections, such as Mr Sam's "Opus Secundo", Trance Mission, Trance Energy, Ibiza Trance House 2008, and others.
In the spring of 2008, the brothers went on an international tour, stopping in places such as Miami, Japan, and Australia. At the end of the same year, English label SOUNDZ produced the world premiere of the album "Consumption".
2009 saw the release of the single "30 Days Of Drought", which was released on the label Proton Music. This was followed by several more releases on various labels. In late spring Moonbeam took part in a Depeche Mode remix contest. A month later, the duo opened for Tiësto in the "Tiësto Summer Tour" in Kyiv. Many tracks were released during this period, including the single "Angel / Lacula" on the label Black Hole Recordings and several remixes. The group toured in Germany, The Netherlands, India, France, Japan, Australia, Ukraine, and Russia.
At the end of 2009, the track "About You" (ft. Avis Vox) was included in the compilation A State Of Trance Yearmix 2009, mixed by Armin van Buuren.
In late 2009, Moonbeam announced that they would release a new studio album, titled Around the World, on March 22, 2010, on the label Black Hole Recordings.
In 2011, they released a new album called The Secret (Moonbeam Digital).
In 2012, Pavel and Vitaly passed their 200th Moonbeam production milestone. In November of the same year, they released You Win Me, which featured the vocals of Aelyn. The track was the first to be taken from the album The Random, released in 2013 on Black Hale Recordings.
The Random became the studio's first feature-length film, with an original soundtrack written, composed and performed by Moonbeam. The film, whose plot revolves around a mysterious game (the 'Random' of the title), received a limited European cinematic run. It was released on DVD in North America on May 13, 2014.
In late 2014 Moonbeam returned to the studio to record their next international album. The result was Atom, which again followed in the Khvaleev brothers' grand tradition of the untraditional. The first single taken from it, Follow Me, co-produced by Indifferent Guy and sung by Eva Pavlova, was released in mid April 2015, with the album seeing release a month later.
The Random was followed in 2015 by their second motion picture III. The thriller/horror film made Official Selection at a wide range of international film festivals, including FANT & Nocturna, Spain, BIFFF, Belgium and the Imagine Film Festival in the Netherlands. On May 15, 2015, it won the Best Cinematography award at Australia’s prestigious Byron Bay International Film Festival. [3]
In December 2015, they released the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack of III on the label Moonbeam Digital.
On March 5, 2016 at the festival «Trancemission Awakening» Pavel and Vitaly announced the closure of the project and the imminent release of «Eclipse» farewell album. New album "Eclipse" was released on April 25, 2016.
After 3 years off downtime, in 2019 Vitaly Khvaleev launched Moonbeam.
Moonbeam produced, from January 2014 to 2016, "Ticket To The Moon", a monthly one-hour radio show showcasing their own songs as well as those of similar artists. Before that, they had a similar radio show called "Moonbeam Music". In 2019, Moonbeam started a podcast called "New Moon".
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