Cökxpôn RestArt Ambient and its lifestyle in Budapest
If Ibiza has its Café del Mar, Berlin boasts about its Tacheles cultural centre and Copenhagen attracts thousands of people to the Christania district, the city of Budapest holds one of the most alternative spaces in Europe. Write its name down: Cöxpôn RestArt Ambient. This place is much more than a pub or a restaurant. It´s not just a cultural centre or an exhibition centre; it´s almost like a museum, or so they say on its website: www.cokxponambient.hu
This magical place can be found in one of the most modern districts of Pest. It has four event rooms which hold exhibitions, concerts, film screenings, seminars, workshops as well as works of art and even dance performances. It´s a revolutionary cultural centre and a restaurant at the same time, since it opened in 1999 once communism had disappeared, ten years after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Without doubt, this is a cultural centre that´s a reference in the city of Budapest. Today, it´s one of the most popular places where bohemian people from this city gather. It´s a place that you can´t miss out on if you want to be part of the most chic environment in the city. Hundreds of people in search of something different gather there every day. They also have an area with a big tent and it´s definitely a perfect place to reach your zen state, absolute relaxation. However, Cöxpôn RestArt Ambient has two faces. As well as relaxing in the most pure chill-out state, you can also feel like if you´re at a music festival. And if you like what you hear, the DJs are on Facebook and Myspace. The DJs of this mecca of street art broadcast their own music in a famous online radio station called Tilos Radio, a huge Hungarian underground phenomenon that tourists also delve into more and more all the time, especially those who want to party and experience something different in Budapest. The radio that they´ve created broadcasts live every Wednesday from 3pm until 4pm.
Cöxpôn RestArt Ambient opens every day, although it´s obviously busier on weekends. They look for a very particular lifestyle philosophy, a space where dance, music and fine arts blend into one, and where the mind and body become one.
There´s a special particularity in this place and that´s that´s that there is a trance dance session every Thursday that consists in dancing with your eyes covered to annul the eyesight and awake the rest of the senses, so that the music flows and the body and the mind just have one single focus of attention without any other distractions than the notes flowing inside you. As well as the music, they also have belly dancing classes every Tuesday and yoga ones every Wednesday and Thursday.
You can get to this place quite easily by public transport. Get the M2 metro line and get off at Biaha Luzja ter. By tram, get on the 4, 6 or 7 lines and by bus on the 173 line. It´s very easy.
On their website they publish community job offers and look for voluntaries for all sorts of tasks, so there´s no excuse to not be part of this adventure. Travellers will be gobsmacked, especially those who are visiting Hungary for the first time. Here they will discover another way of seeing life, a philosophy of doing things that was unknown to them up until now.
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Bonusz Festival Budapest : the biggest dance event in Central-Europe.
In October Budapest will host its annual Bonusz Festival, this major event is the biggest dance festival in Hungary that attracts an amount of about 20.000 visitors from Hungary and all over the world.
In origin, Bónusz used to be the well visited after party of the former Budapest Parade. The Bónusz after party became a party so popular that the event now has its own existence in the European dance scene. Today it has grown to one of the major dance events in the Center of Europe.
This popular mega dance party will be offering three great arenas plus a main stage that will be presenting remarkable creations of contemporary electronic/techno/house music. These creative makings by the DJs will be accompanied by professional visual surroundings done by four experts in visuals.
All of this will come together with thousands of people from everywhere, having an awesome party in a great atmosphere. You dont have to worry about the weather as this is an indoor Festival at the HungExpo, a huge fair complex in Budapests “district X”.
This years line up is simply solid offering artists coming from all over the world, completed by the best artists from the Hungarian dance scene. Among the specials are techno artist Richie Hawtin bringing the most innovative and advanced techno, dance-punk icon The Bloody Beetroots, Dutch Superstar Hardwell with Dutch talents Dannic and Dyro promising an exiting set. Britain will be represented by sensation James Zabiela, Max Cooper, last years bomb Yousef and the legendary duo Slam. High quality tech house will be brought by German Loco Dice. Leading Argentinian artist Hernan Cataneo is promising a great set, coming out with a new mix album soon. Icelanders GusGus and Canadian Felix Cartal will be coming with their strong live sets.
Do not hesitate to come join the international party loving crowd of thousands that will be dancing till dawn in Budapest at the Bonusz Festival.
LINE UP
Arena 01
Richie Hawtin, Loco Dice, Chris Liebing, DJ Rush, Slam Live, Hot X, Budai, Coyote, Profile25 Live, Nora Naughty.
Visual by Urbanizer
Arena 02
Bloody Beetroots DJ Set, Hardwell, Felix, Dannic, Dyro, Andro, Palotai, Firedog, Sikztah, Dublic, Stereokillaz.
Visual by Digitalistik
Arena 03
James Zabiela, Gusgus live, Hernan Cattaneo, Max Cooper, Yousef, Michal Breeth, Dandy, Jay Lumen, Chriss Ronson, Poli, Ivel & Tristan.
Visual by BPstreet
Stage 04
Igor DoUrden, Kuhl, James Cole, Naga & Beta, Crossnine Troll, Secret Factory, Bernathy Zsiga Live, Jankex, Jambor & Calman.
When: October 13, 2012
Where: Hungexpo, Budapest
Address: 1101 Budapest , Albertirsai út 10
Ticket: 36 euro to 63 euro, VIP available
Entrance: Gate 1
Open: starting at 19:00, closing at 08:00
Note!: Bring your camera but video cameras are not allowed
Getting there: Taxi or public transport (Train/Metro/Bus)
Train:
- From Nyugati station: M3 (blue underground line) to Deák tér station, transferring to M2 (red underground line) to the final station of Örs vezér tér, from there to the entrance of the Vásárközpont by bus 100
- From Keleti station: M2 (red underground line) to the final station of Örs vezér tér, from there to the entrance of the Vásárközpont by bus 100
- From Déli station: M2 (red underground line) to the final station of Örs vezér tér, from there to the entrance of the Vásárközpont by bus 100
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Amadinda and Gabor Presser in Budapest
Next year will be better, or so they say. On 2012 there are thousands of sensational speculations that have been there for two or three years. Among many, that the Mayan calendar predicted the end of the world for the beginning of 2012. Thats not happened nor will it happen. Maybe, something that the calendar was right about was in the change and the end of many ideas that weve had on reality and its structure, on the inconsistent way in which capitalism hasnt been able to control its networks and, from the United States to Europe and back, due to the bad handling of investments of many thousands of people, as well as political abuse against the working rights of many people, weve reached a global crisis.
The word crisis is today one of the most widely used in global language. This can be translated with some Google and seeing the results on social networks. Inadvertently, the social networks have unleashed a wave of text and information exacerbating the crisis from a problem which was essentially economical. And its not about dis-informing, of living in denial about whats happening or turning ones back on things, but more about understanding that the essence of the problem is in the language, and therefore we have to be alert towards other things such as music, art or travelling. There are ways of getting rid of the problems, which arent necessarily expensive and totally accessible.
The New Years Eve parties are usually a moment of excess around the world. We believe that, getting ridiculously drink and dancing, we will leave behind a year which hasnt gone according to plan with our wishes. But a party is a party and it can happen on any day. Maybe the best thing to do to celebrate and say goodbye to the year gone by is to pay attention to music and see what it says to us, which new options it offers us and think a bit about it. Being drunk and dancing is very easy, but listening to beautiful melodies is more important.
For that, the concert of Amadinda and Gábor Presser on the 31st of December is an option to unwind from the noise of the party and enter another musical dimension. Amadinda is a unique percussion band who began their career in Budapest in 1984, and since then present compositions of contemporary Hungarian music in different formats, from the most traditional to the most minimal. Gábor Presser is another experimental musician who remains classic. He makes electronic compositions of classical and modern pieces. This concert is a chance to get to understand that the frontiers of traditional and improvisation are very light and, on the contrary, can go hand in hand in such an important place like the Palace of Art in Budapest.
It will undoubtedly be a night of the best contemporary Hungarian music. Recommended for fans of international contemporary music and experimentation. For more information visit the following website: http://mupa.hu/en/
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20th International Wine Festival in Budapest
The pleasures of wine are told from remote times. This pleasant drink has accompanied the whole world during millenniums and its a true traditional in a large part of the tables in the Western world. The relation of wine with culture are diverse and deep, as is its symbology that goes from the religious rituals to pagan and profane ones. It is, undoubtedly, the drink that blesses churches and turns into Christs blood, with the sacred elixir that encourages intoxication, poetical deliriums and sexual romance. And theres nothing more exciting that wine to increase the temperatures at the time of making love. Many of the well-known poets have sung odes to wine and its delicacies, the chaos that it provokes, its magical power and the inspiration that it produces.
Charles Baudelaire, father of modern poetry without a shadow of a doubt, is one of the main poets that made of wine a constant subject and from which many lessons can be learned. In his poetry, wine is a powerful narcotic that not only becomes the inciter of lust and passions, the blood of the lamb that spills and drinks to reach those Artificial Paradises that he talked about so much and he provoked with his harmonious and melancholic writings, but at the same time, in the voluptuous condition that, in the intoxication from wine, you can reach states of illumination and sacred pronunciation. Thats how wine provokes visions, brilliant ideas, even miraculous, and its the drink where dark and secret poetry reside.
Thats how the ancestral ceremonies to Baccus are a type of calling to the invocation of the unseen. The stupor that wine generates makes of the body a tame machinery for the gathering of imagination and dreams. And effectively, dreaming under the influences of wine becomes an experience that is blurred and filled with images of many colours. At the same time, wine incites lust and sexual desire in men and women, and is therefore the nocturnal drink that best favours romance. Imagine what it must be like to have some wine in Budapest and in the International Wine Festival. Certainly, a favourable moment for romance and to meet beautiful people who are open to adventure. This international festival takes place every year where thousands of exhibitors from around the world participate, as well as music, meetings and, above all, the animated participation of thousands of people searching for the perfect wine, the sweetest aroma that the mind can manage, romance and, who knows, maybe love too. For more information and the timetables of events of this festival on each day, visit this webpage: http://www.aborfesztival.hu/
Alexa Ray
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Sziget Festival in Budapest
Budapest is delightful. Theres never a lack of beautiful people everywhere, above all the proportionate and exotic Hungarian women, who will captivate you by just looking at them. Budapest carries on growing and, as such, its turning more and more cosmopolitan as we speak. Sziget Festival is an option to listen to some of the best bands on the planet in beautiful Budapest, for five whole days, as well as getting to know people from around the world, who are always searching for adventure, romance and crazy times.
Among the participants in the festival we can find Interpol, the New York band that along the years has known how to capitalize its image, sound and provenance. A band from New York is, at the end of the day, a band from New York and everyone knows that. Despite that, their last album, titled “Interpol”, leaves that band in a very uncomfortable position. To put it simply, if before they were Joy Division, now theyre just U2. Their best song is still “Turn on the bright lights”, a really amazing night-time album which is post-9/11, which managed to portray in their lyrics the isolation, shadow, frivolity and insecurities of the city that never sleeps.
From Australia we receive Empire of the Sun, a band that with their single “Walking on a Dream” from 2008, hasnt stopped impressing and delighting live. They have a pop-rock sound which borders romantic and new wave, with a paraphernalia of clothing and cosmic attire.Their videos are clear homages to nature and the cosmos, generally in remote locations, which create a world of fantasy and colour that seduces and invites one to dance. Its worth seeing their videos and, live, as well as video screens and lasers, the use all sorts of choreography to create a very personal universe.
Amongst the other crowd favourites we can find Pulp, Kate Nash, The Prodigy, The Chemical Brothers, Rise Against, British Sea Powder, Triggerfinger and Peter Bjorn and John. The summer festivals in Europe and around the world today, are a huge way of sound trafficking, trying to save the industry which is plummeting. Despite that, you can have a good time if you want to. Checking out this events website, you dont need much to see the way in which the younger bands sell themselves, generally older is better, and it happens in many of the festivals now. Which will be the new sound to appear? Who knows.
It seems like rock sound would have stopped at some point in nostalgia, where few people still listen to it without having much knowledge that things are changing. The media, internet, Twitter and Facebook are responsible that the final product of any musical or artistic experience is the relay of this information. Its not very important how many times its played but to how many people it can reach. Meanwhile, Sziget Festival is a good place to start. For more information and tickets visit this webpage: http://www.sziget.hu/
Alexa Ray
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