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Georgi Mateev (Cyrillic: Георги Матеев) better known as DJ Balthazar (born in Sofia, Bulgaria, on 23 September 1977) is a Bulgarian DJ, record producer and events promoter. He established Renesanz, a pioneering company for music events and rave parties, Renesanz Records for electronic music and had a long cooperation since 2003 with JackRock. He produced for various labels in Greece, Belgium, Italy, Scandinavia etc. But he is best known for joining forces with Deep Zone to represent Bulgaria in the 2008 Eurovision Song Contest with the song "DJ, Take Me Away".

Renesanz and cooperation with JackRock

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In 1998 he started to play music in Bulgarian night venues, becoming one of the best-known DJs in Bulgaria. For 2 years he was resident at the biggest techno club in Bulgaria, called Indigo until 2001. He was very popular in festivals with many appearances on radio and television, in big rave parties including the Bulgarian Street Parade and tours in many European clubs. He worked for TechnoBG as well - a very popular website, devoted to the local party scene.

He founded Renesanz, a Bulgarian event management firm promoting many music parties including inviting international artists and DJs to Bulgaria, concentrating on techno and progressive house DJs. It also promoted cultural festivals, launching of artists and a comic club. Four times a year, Renesanz would organize big raves for more than 2000 people promoting electronic music.

In 2003, Balthazar started producing music with JackRock releasing many albums, remixes and compilations and had a number of hit singles. They wrote the soundtrack for direct to DVD film Clinique Noir #2. Some of their releases include chart-topping Rockin' Dancefloor with the Greek label TechHead Recordings, Moonshine (for Belgian label Magura co-produced with the renowned artist Kobbe) later releasing two remixes on the Dutch label Patterns and the Norwegian label Spilo. Tribalero EP (for Muzik Express) reached the top 20 in Beatport charts. Other titles included Minimal Pop (for U.S.B.) and Puerto Rico (for Binary 404).

They produced with Italians Dandi & Ugo Bulgaro Business (for Neurotraxx) supported by a number of international DJs and making to the charts on Beatport. The duo were most active in 2006 to 2008 with more than 30 hits. Together co-founding Renesanz Records, they released Das Zimmer, Donau, and Nu Nu Zaietz Maietz the latter with support from Paul Van Dyk.

Eurovision with Deep Zone

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Balthazar started collaborating with the already famous Deep Zone Project of progressive and house music style releasing the single "Welcome to the Loop". the success of the single led them to take part in selection process for Eurovision with the song "DJ, Take Me Away". Even prior to official selection, the song gained fame in night venues all over Europe. The collaboration culminated in 2 tours of 20 dates each, gathering an audience of nearly 80,000 people. However the performance of the song "DJ, Take Me Away" in Belgrade in the semi-finals of Eurovision on May 22, 2008 did not find the same favour as the song was eliminated before reaching the finals with a total of 56 points in total.

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