Reset

Reset first got into electronic music in the mid-'90s, at around 12 years old, and around the same time began teaching himself the basics of music production using Fast Tracker II. Club house and speed garage were his biggest influences at the time, but he was already drawn to a harder, more dynamic sound. A year later, he attended his first underground techno event and became certain he'd found the sound that spoke to him.

By then he already knew he wanted to make mixes too, but as a kid he had no way of getting turntables, records, or a DJ mixer. Instead, he added an extra sound card and a cheap mixer to his computer and used that setup to learn how to match beats and blend tracks together. At the time, there wasn't much of a selection of suitable software, and none of it really satisfied his needs, so he programmed one for himself — one he grew so accustomed to that he used it to make his mixes for nearly twenty years.

By the early 2000s, he felt he had found the driving, pumping techno sound he was looking for. Around this time, he was most influenced by Glenn Wilson, The Anxious, Redhead, Henrik B, Patrick Skoog, and Pounding Grooves. At 17, he created his first real track, Untitled 08, which he considered a breakthrough — the first time he'd managed to produce the kind of dynamic energy he knew he wanted to keep building on.

In the absence of harder techno tracks, he picked out the hardest-driving ones available and sometimes played them 20–25 BPM faster, which sharply divided the techno crowd at the time. Still, he felt this direction had a future, so in 2002, together with a DJ friend, he organized his first techno event at Club Kashmir, where he also performed in front of an audience as a DJ for the first time. Although the crowd was split, there was interest in the harder beats, so they later organized one more party of this kind — but internal issues eventually led them to discontinue the series.

Two years later, in 2004, he met KillSwitch — one of the founders of NGoHT (New Generation of Hard Techno), the collective that introduced hardtechno to Hungary — who was likewise searching for a production partner in pursuit of harder beats. After a few tracks together, they realized they worked brilliantly as a team and began producing harder techno nonstop — a sound that had by now crystallized into its own subgenre: hardtechno. They were certain they were on the right path. They sent some of their earliest joint productions to DJ Rush, who took notice of the young talents' work and included two of their tracks in the set he played at the renowned 2004 I Love Techno festival.

A year later, in 2005, their first joint vinyl release came out on Inflicted Records, which also featured one of Reset's solo tracks, Suicide Rusher. Over the following four years, they released seven more vinyls on various well-known labels, including TekkTribe, Combat Skill Records, Slaughter Beatz, and Domestic Violence — among them Reset's own EP, The Smell Of Fear EP, released through their own independent label, NGoHT Records.

Reset's standing as a producer speaks for itself: his tracks were played at the biggest festivals by names like DJ Rush, Pet Duo, Sven Wittekind, Lenny Dee, and many other legendary DJs in the scene. During this same period, his solo and collaborative tracks also found a home on nearly twenty mix albums, including Schranz Total, Schranzwerk, Kick Down, and Pure Passion, mixed by artists such as Sven Wittekind, Misa Salacova, and Miss Djax.

By 2005, Reset had also proven himself as a DJ at NGoHT's events, after which he became a permanent member of the crew. His uncompromising, fast, instantly recognizable sound has captivated fans of the style for more than two decades now. His mixes traveled the world to widespread acclaim, and in 2006 this success led him and KillSwitch to join the Combat Skill agency, opening new doors for the pair to bring their distinctive sound, energy, and determination to audiences beyond Hungary.

Up until 2010, Reset toured nearly all of Europe, from Portugal to Ukraine, showcasing his talent at renowned clubs and festivals such as the Spanish Montagood and H2Zone festivals, Fabrik in Madrid, Blau in Girona, Florida 135 in Fraga, the Apokalypsa Festival in Brno, U60311 in Frankfurt, as well as the celebrated Dutch Decibel Outdoor Festival (2008) and Defqon.1 (2009).

By 2011, though, Reset and his NGoHT teammates felt their favorite style had drifted away from the very qualities that had drawn them to bring it to Hungary in the first place. So, with a heavy heart, they brought their otherwise uniquely successful hardtechno event series, NGoHT, to a close — and with that, the team disbanded.

After this, Reset stepped away from hardtechno for a while and, under the name Beatcoder, began working with deep-dark techno — mostly just for his own enjoyment, something that has remained an integral part of his life ever since. A few years later, in 2015, he took on a few hardtechno gigs again, but didn't feel the style had shifted back toward what had made him love it in the first place, so he stepped away from performing once more.

A few years after that, in the spring of 2022, he took on another booking — this time at the initiative of the enthusiastic HardTechno Hungary (HTH) crew. He quickly found common ground and shared goals with them, and discovered new values within the emerging hardtechno scene. The connection was strong enough that he continues his career as a resident with them to this day, feeling once again that he has something meaningful to add to the events, the style, and the scene — a place where he feels at home.

Reset has developed a clearly recognizable style within hardtechno. He achieves it through the careful selection and mixing of tracks that are relentless, driving, and punchy, packed with dynamics and always danceable — occasionally broken up by short, rhythmic breakdowns. Depending on the mood of the event and the crowd, he steers this core sound in different directions — toward something more upbeat and party-driven, or even toward something wonderfully unhinged — but one thing is certain: no one loses the beat during his sets.

Reset's hardtechno mixes typically only build upward — he's a firm believer in raising the energy gradually and never letting it drop. To pull this off at the level he's known for, he's reworked nearly every track in his arsenal — with smaller or larger tweaks — to fit his own needs, staying true to the dynamic energy he loves pushing to its limits during his sets.

It matters a great deal to him that, even while pushing hardtechno's limits, the sound stays close to techno at its core — because at heart, he's in love with techno's complex emotional world, which hardtechno's distinctive energy elevates to a new, thrilling level.