About

SNYL, aka Ferenc Topa, is a Budapest-born indie dance and indie techno producer and DJ whose music resists easy categorization. His sound bends genres in pursuit of a single goal: to move people, but with something they haven’t heard before.

Coming from a small village near Budapest, Ferenc began producing electronic music in 2004 under the ZRG moniker, releasing his first track on the Hungarian compilation The True Sound of FreeE. Over the next decade, under various aliases, most notably Reelaux, he released more than 100 tracks on labels including Natura Viva, Nervous Records, Pacha, and Perfecto, drawing support from Hernán Cattáneo, Paul Oakenfold, and Sonny Fodera. His first international booking came in 2007, in Genova.

The SNYL alias arrived at the end of 2017 with a remix for Kamilo Sanclemente’s Anthe. The breakthrough came in 2020, when his remix of AFFKT’s Bac won the Sincopat remix contest and went on to spend over a year in Sincopat’s Top 10. Years later, Ubisoft licensed the same track for The Crew Motorfest.

As SNYL, his productions have found homes on respected underground labels including Maccabi House, Katermukke, JEAHMON, Selador, and Einmusika. His music has repeatedly hit the Beatport Indie Dance Top 100, and on more than one occasion, the Top 10, drawing support from Solomun, Innellea, Vintage Culture, Yotto, Township Rebellion, and Dubfire, who has named SNYL among his favorite producers.

In the studio, two things drive his process: a rhythm section that just works (kick, bassline, clap, the trinity), or a single distinctive riff. A synth line, a signature sound, something with character. The club is his home, but not the whole story. He writes outside the genre too, often without releasing it. As a DJ, he looks for the same thing in other people’s records.

On stage, SNYL has played in over a dozen countries, from Mexico City, Ibiza, Cairo, and Amsterdam (ADE) to clubs across France, Greece, Austria, Slovakia, and beyond. In Berlin, he maintains a regular presence with appearances at Kater, KitKat, Ritter Butzke, Klunkerkranich, and others. Whether in the booth or in the studio, his mix of melody, drive, and underground sensibility leaves a mark.

Beyond his own work, Ferenc is the founder of KontraKultura, a collective built for the music that doesn’t fit. Tracks that step outside the formulas, artists who don’t compromise to chart. A conscious push against the trend cycle.

He also works as a sound designer, building sample packs and contributing to VST instrument design.