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Close-Up: Tamás Szabó

Close-Up: Tamás Szabó

Tamás Szabó (Tonyó) is best known for being the front-man of The Moog, one of the very few Hungarian bands that did invest significant amount of energy to establish a presence abroad in the last years and have something to show for it. Even more admirable is the fact that they primarily did this not...
Close-Up: Ádám Lang

Close-Up: Ádám Lang

Here we are with the second edition of our new section where we attempt to map out the Hungarian music scene through a series of interviews with musicians, journalists, promoters, label representatives and various other key- or relevant figures of the local industry. In this issue we are talking to Ádám Lang, the front man...
Close-Up: Route 8

Close-Up: Route 8

Our new section will focus on upcoming or recently established Hungarian acts. The format is an interview with some fixed list question items. Throughout the first quarter of 2012 we will use it to introduce some of the fresh acts popped up during the last one or two years. In the first edition we asked...

late notice

tonight. terrace of A38. Recorder Magazine birthday party. Music. including exclusive DJ set by Piresian Beach facebook

Hungary’s lo-fi revival ended its peak and ready to evolve

A few weeks ago Piresian Beach came out with her third EP titled Fuck your mind. Even if you’re not into this kind of stuff, it proves that what she does, she can do it well and what started roughly a year ago with her first collection of songs is now consolidated into a fresh and...

Polar Dear debuts with broken synths and bullterrier

Polar Dear – Even If I’m Late from Polar Dear on Vimeo. Shot on a single day edited for many, Polar Dear’s fancy debut video even precedes the actual debut single. Directed by Dezső Gyarmati, the crew consisted of close friends including Laszlo Mester known for his twisted fashion shots. Without questions, the highlight of...

Friday comes early

Unlike Igor it’s been going around for a while now, but we’re still in time to tell you about a fresh line of events running under the name “New Beat“. In collaboration with Dürer Kert and Skalar Music Hungary some prominent and young members of the local music scene figured it’s about time to make...

Get your groove on with the Igor Metropol DJ crew!

Igor Metropol official launch party on the 23rd of July will be loud and proud with non-stop music provided by its very own three members taking over the turntable. Straight from Berlin Igor Metropol’s resident DJ Pet For President will lift your mood and make your feet shuffle with a highly danceable set consisting of...

lofi driven by frustration

Ex-cabyouknow member Oleg had enough of spending months on finalizing his songs, while fellow Hungarian lo-fi producers are able to publish their tunes as soon as they put down the mic at the end of the recording session. This song was put together within 1.5 hours and only his love for pristine clear pop hits...