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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Rammstein concert in Budapest
The most extreme sounds of the German scene are probably electronica and metal. Its no coincidence that bands such as Slayer, Megadeth, Anthrax, Metallica and Exodus, Thrash Metal greats, swear blind that the European crowd, especially the German one, is much more extreme than the American crowd. Its so much so that in the 80s, after leaving a Slayer concert in Germany for example, you could find a sea of glass, broken bottles, metals and chains, as well as traces of blood of course, on the stages where this extreme band played. In the same way, the quantity of incredible thrash metal bands which have played in Germany along the years is very long, and some of them are already classics: Sodom, Destruction and Kreator.
The history of electro, in Germany, is also long. You just have to give one single name: Kraftwerk. Formed in Düsseldorf under the name of Organisation, later Kraftwerk, the voyage of this band begins with the most experimental Krautrock, with sweet and travelling sounds, until they became Menschmachine, creators of techno before techno, and the rest of inventions which impregnated electronica in the following years. Of course that the debt of Rammstein with acts such as Throbbing Gristle or Einstürzende Neubaten is also, more than obvious. But in the case of these two bands, predecessors the the punk generation, the industrial and the experimentation looked to impact on lacerating levels with the staging and the use of non-conventional instruments, had more to do with a matter which faced the same terms as live performance, outside rock towards the performative.
Now, what Rammstein does isnt exactly metal or electro, maybe something like rap. How to define a band which uses thunderous guitars, quick phrasings, industrial sounds and a German tone of voice which borders opera, to put it in some way. Rammstein today, is like an invention of the 90s, from the Trainspotting generation, and from the years that, for the first time, mainstream became in apparent honest communion with the industry and independent music, which actually never happened of course. Rammstein is part of the Neue Deutsche Härte movement, a term invented for the new genre which they were, supposedly, promoting with other bands such as Oomph!, Stahlhammer, Samsas Traum and Megaherz.
Today, the Rammstein experience is bordering parody, and in many cases its derisory. Rammsteins passage in the musical industry, and with its supposed hard and industrial sound, isnt but the answer that theyre still being distributed by a label like Universal. Theyve sold millions of albums and their apotheosic concerts, full of violent images, drama and special effects, are another live show which is interesting to see if what you want is, of course, that the musical media carries on constructing false gods, false images and generating more sales for artists who arent exactly new or refreshing. For more information on Rammstein and their tour, you can visit the following website:http://www.rammstein.de/
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Translated by: aleixgwilliam
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