Madwave and Arctic Moon

Thomas Popielarski, aka. Arctic Moon, is one of the DJs I’ve been following since the outset, and watching his music mature and improve over the past years has been an incredible journey. The way that he combines classical, chillout, new age, and rock music into his trance and electronic dance sound is incredibly skilful, and really demonstrates his talent. He’s well known for using minimal recordings in his live sets, and performing the majority of his work onstage for the audience, and as this is becoming increasingly rare for DJs, I was super excited to see him play live.

He opened the set by shouting out to the audience from behind his DJ booth making sure that we were all having a great time, and launched right into his remix of Till The Sky Falls Down, which of course had everyone singing and dancing along from the very start. He played a really great selection of remixes and original tracks, and seeing him mixing live, and using sample and kaoss pads was incredible. He played through sections of Energy Reflect vs. Arctic Moon, his debut album, and intertwined it wonderfully with Adelaide, Afterworld, and some of his other singles. The show was electric from start to finish, and I was super impressed with Popielarski’s performance.