During this time, to feed his passion for sound design and ambient music, Dobos created the soundscapes for various commercial installations and public spaces.ĭobos' desire to return to his pure electronic music roots grew, along with his frustration about "the film musi. A compilation album of unreleased tracks in diverse genres and moods,"Transition", celebrated his first, stylistically coherent period of 12 years of composition. Between 19 he released seven electronic and electro-orchestral albums on various labels, including Epic, Tekno Chemistry, and ElectroScapes. These releases, along with several festival-winning original film scores, brought him both critical acclaim and popular success (including a platinum album), Dobos relocated to the United States in 2000.ĭobos spent nearly two decades in the television and film industries as an award-winning composer, synthesist and producer, becoming known for his work on movies such as The "Zookeeper, You Don't Mess with the Zohan", "MallCop", the "DragonBall Z"-series, NCIS and countless other programs. His first album releases, "Connecting Images" and "Mountain Flying" featured Grammy-awarded vocalist Marta Sebestyen, Peter Pejtsik ( AFTER CRYING), numerous high-profile European musicians and a 140-piece orchestra & choir.
His interest in electronic music was sparked by the evolution of ambient and space music in Europe, which later influenced his sonic approach to music composition as he was designing sounds and testing synthesizers for Roland Corp. With nine album releases as of 2016, including a platinum album ("Connecting Images" was platinum-certified in Hungary and neighboring countries), he has become one of the prominent Central-European composers of large-scale electronic / electro-orchestral music to receive international attention.īorn in Budapest, Hungary, in 1976, Julius Dobos has been playing the piano since age 5 and composing since age 9.
Hungarian-American composer Julius Dobos is best known for his electronic, psybient (ambient organic electronic music with strong rhythms, melodic themes, multi-layered soundscapes), ambient and early progressive electro-orchestral music releases worldwide, and for his music produced for major motion pictures, such as "You Don't Mess with the Zohan, Paul Blart: MallCop" and television programs like "DragonBall Z, NCIS" in Europe and in the United States.