A38 Magazine / 2016 April by A38

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Frank Turner and The Sleeping Souls Positive songs from a positive guy If you’re attending to the highly prestigious Eton College, and one of your classmates is none other than Prince William, it’s hard to imagine that one day you’ll become a restless folk punk singer. However, that’s what happened to Frank Turner, who

Charlie Winston

Hurra Torpedo

certainly doesn’t regret choosing this career path. Two years ago, he already brought the house down when he performed, and now he’s coming back with his latest album Positive Songs For Negative People. Interview on page 4.

Middlemist Red

Rodrigo y Gabriela

Bada Dada

Hexvessel /// DJ Bootsie Trio /// Ava Mendoza’s Unnatural Ways /// Albatre Pega Monstro /// Popof /// We Plants Are Happy Plants Boggie /// InFusion Trio /// Ant Antic /// PAUW /// Blahalouisiana Hurra Torpedo /// Elefánt /// Esti Kornél /// NGHTMR /// Cliff Moore

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Ava Mendoza’s Unnatural Ways (US),

Albatre (PT), Sheik Anorak (FR) 07

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One of the best guitarists on the contemporary avantgarde scene is Ava Mendoza, who mixes free jazz with post-punk rawness and trippy psychedelia. She has taken part in several collaborations, but she only released her debut album this year. Mendoza, known for her fantastic technique and her unique voice, is playing in Hungary for the first time with her trio Unnatural Ways. Opening acts Albatre and Sheik Anorak are also playing here for the first time too.

A38 Sessions @ Dürer kert

Hexvessel New Keepers

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of the Water Towers (SE) 01

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DJ Bootsie Trio album launch gig, Ant Antic (AT) 03

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Exciting local instrumental experimental hip hop with folk, classical and jazz elements, and even including soundtrack atmosphere: this is the DJ Bootsie Trio, who on this night receive support from Ant Antic. The Austrian duo is in fact a trio when playing live - their music is melancholy, yet elegant and uplifting, as you can hear in their modern electronic R&B influenced songs.

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The A38 Ship floats next to the Városliget Park on April 1. Not literally, of course, that would be an April Fools joke - the concert of Finnish band Hexvessel at the Dürer Kert will be organized by the A38. Led by Mat McMerney from the UK, the group mixes magical-ritual folk with dark northern psychedelia. The frontman last visited the Ship in September - with his other band Grave Pleasures. Hexvessel are touring their brand new album When We Are Death, released by noted label Century Media.

Noises from the Neighborhood

Popof (Cocoon, Hot Creations - FR) 3 hour long set, Monolit, Klokk & Legars One of the major figures of French techno, Popof, is returning to the A38 Ship! Born Alexandre Paounov and of Bulgarian descent, Popof is one of the most popular DJs in Ibiza, he’s perhaps the biggest name on Sven Väth’s label Cocoon, and he’s remixed several noted artists including Tiga and Depeche Mode. On this special night, he’s going to perform a three-hour-long set for his Hungarian fans.

DÜRER KERT A38 Sessions @ Dürer Kert

Pega Monstro (PT) Camp Koala 14

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A night for duos at Dürer Kert. First, a one man / one woman band from Portugal, Pega Monstro, whose guitar/drum setup is augmented by a bit of electronica. They offer everything from delicate touches to overwhelming energies, and they wouldn’t have been out of place on MTV in the early 90s.

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For the first time in Hungary: Mexico’s most popular musical duo, exceling in both acoustic folk and hard rock / heavy metal, Rodrigo Sanchez and Gabriela Quintero, or, as we better know them: Rodrigo y Gabriela. They’ve appeared on movie soundtracks, they’ve played in the White House and they’ve performed at Glastonbury. The virtuoso flamenco-metal duo, who fill arenas in the USA, are going to play one of this year’s most anticipated gigs on the A38.

HIGHLIGHTS

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Blahalouisiana album launch gig (UK)

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This night will see a concert played by one of the best-known and most exciting representatives of the youngest Hungarian female singer-songwriter scene: Boggie, who incorporates jazz and French chansons in her pop songs, and looper band InFusion Trio, consisting of members who had classical and jazz education. They play the rearranged versions of songs by Daft Punk, Calvin Harris, Maroon 5 and John Newman.

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Discovered by Peter Gabriel, Charlie Winston is multiinstrumentalist who came from folk and the world of theater. He’s competent in playing the drums, the piano and the guitar, and his style is reminiscent of Jacques Brel, Bob Dylan and Tom Waits. Two years after his Sziget visit, he’s returning to Hungary to present his latest album Curio City, and some of his earlier output, fronting his five-piece band.

Fronted by enchanting singer Barbara Schoblocher, Blahalouisiana are one of the hottest Hungarian young bands, who cross modern guitar pop with R&B, soul and sometimes folk rock. Starting out in 2012 and known for their exciting music videos, the band is going to present their album in full for the very first time on this night.

Middlemist Red, PAUW (NL)

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Dutch-Hungarian indie top conference in the A38 Concert Hall, with the participation of two fascinating guitar bands! Middlemist Red count as one of the most important bands on the Hungarian scene, playing the psychedelic, kaleidoscopic music of the 60s. From the Dutch side, we welcome the duo of PAUW (meaning ‘peacock’), who follow in the footsteps of Tame Impala and Kasabian, and play colorful indie pop.

We Plants Are Happy Plants

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Hurra Torpedo

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One of the most exciting, entertaining and experimental electronic acts in Hungary consists of just one person: songwriter-producer Péter Bergmann doesn’t only create his music with digital gadgets - he’s also a multiinstrumentalist, playing the guitar and drums masterfully. On this night, his performance will be augmented by a special film screening.

Usually it’s not much fun when a torpedo hits a ship, but this one is an exception: one of the world’s funniest and most special bands are about to enter the deck of the A38 Ship. The Norwegian band that’s rearranged the greatest hits of pop history on hot plates, fridges and washing machines have started a tour and one of their three foreign concerts is scheduled for the A38. To make it all even more exciting, Hurra Torpedo are going to perform on the Ship’s birthday!

Please note that visitors of A38 Ship consent to their filming and sound recording as members of the audience. By entering the ship you agree to being filmed or photographed which may be used for public broadcast or promotional purposes.

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I’m excited about coming back again Frank Turner interview

It’s almost a decade since Frank Turner went solo following the demise of Million Dead, the hardcore quartet he fronted. In that time, he’s been on a constant upward curve, its momentum propelled forward by a mixture of Turner’s force of will and his effortless craft of song. And as a solo artist, he keeps making waves with his English folk-influenced punk-rock songs, augmented by singalong choruses and emotional charge. After appearing at the Olympics opening ceremony and the O2 Arena, he’s returning to Budapest for another concert. You’ve already been to Budapest two years ago. What kind of memories do you have about that concert? We had a great time, it was my first visit to Hungary. I got to look around the city a little bit and learn a few words of Hungarian, and make some new friends. I’m excited about coming back again. You’ve said about your latest album Positive Songs For Negative People that you wanted to craft it as if it were a debut album. What was about that concept that inspired you and what were your methods for doing so? Often a lot of bands’ debut records are their best, or at least their most exciting. I think part of the reason for that is that the records are basically rehearsed in a live, gigging context. The songs are honed over and over again in front of a live audience over quite a long period of time, and then the band hits the studio and basically plays their live set. That’s the way we put this record together as well, as opposed to just showing up at a studio and hoping things would happen. Your workmates and record label didn’t like the idea of you recording the album as live and extra fast. Why? My workmates - the band, management and so on - were totally fine with it. The label was a little nervous about it, I think they thought I wanted to make a really rough punk record. Which I sort of did, but not as rough as they were afraid of I guess. They wanted me to spend longer on the record, or to work with producers I wasn’t too comfortable with. In the end we worked it out though, and we’re all friends again now. London seems to inspire most of the songs. Would you agree with that? Uh, well, it’s the backdrop for a couple of them. It’s where I live now.

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Frank Turner And The Sleeping Souls (UK) Ducking Punches (UK)

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Looking back at your debut album, Sleep Is For The Week, what are your thoughts on it now? I think it has an endearing naivety to it, which is nice, but it’s pretty rough round the edges in some ways. It’s also too long. When you released PSFNP, you started a Twitter campaign named #FTRAOK that encouraged fans from around the globe to share stories of good deeds which they’ve witnessed or that they themselves have done. Did you have a favorite story from those you’ve read? My favourite was about a guy who bought an antique military sword from a thrift store; it had a name on it, and the guy did some research online to find out more about it. He discovered that the sword had been stolen in the 1970s. He tracked down the owner and gave it back. I thought that was wonderful. Although you have a band with you in the studio and on stage, you still say that making and playing music is a solitary endeavor for you. Could you explain that? Well, I still count myself as a solo artist; I write the songs myself, and this is my project. But it becomes more collective when we arrange, record, and tour the songs. I always wanted that too. I suppose the obvious model is Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band. You like to refer to your act as Frank Turner Hardcore. What does the genre and the scene connected to it mean to you? That’s a logo - which is fun, it’s quite hard to have a logo as a solo artist that makes sense. It started as a joke 10 years ago and it’s stuck. Not that I’m bothered about the association with hardcore punk - that’s where I learned most of what I know about music and the world and how to interact with people. I wouldn’t say I was part of any punk scene any more really, I’m on the move too much, but I’m very attached to the ideals. Did your connections to the genre inspire the Möngöl Hörde project? Can we expect a follow-up to the self-titled debut? Möngöl Hörde is me and some friends having some fun playing heavy music. We’re talking about doing something else sometime, though I couldn’t tell you when exactly.

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Modern traditional Rodrigo y Gabriela

Mexican duo Rodrigo y Gabriela fuses world, rock, and traditional flamenco music for a sound that’s all its own. Having initially come from heavy metal, they wedded their new music to metal’s pyrotechnics and the various folk styles of their native Mexico, creating a new genre in acoustic music. Their take on well-known songs like Led Zeppelin’s Stairway To Heaven or Metallica’s One and the ability to combine fiery Spanish melodies with the power of thrash has made them a favorite at music festivals worldwide, and they even performed at the White House for Barack Obama! But on April 15, they’re going to play for their Hungarian fans – for the first time in a more than decade-long career. After forming the heavy metal band Tierra Acida with his brother in the early 1990s, Rodrigo Sanchez performed in Mexico City for several years, along with long-time girlfriend Gabriela Quintero, before they both left the band in 1997. They moved to Dublin and started busking: first at ruin pubs, and later at fancy hotels. They mostly played cover songs, but their own songs too: that’s when they started to build up their own repertoire. They also became friends with Damien Rice, who invited them to open for one of his shows. In 2001, they recorded a nine-track demo titled Foc – which was re-recorded and re-released a year later as Re-Foc. It already showcased what the two musicians got under their belt: a melodious riff-based sound, impressive, impossibly fast fretwork and lots of mutual, competitive emoting. They also paid tribute to their main influences by covering Metallica’s One and Paul Desmond’s jazz standard Take Five.

all-rock attitude, although the instrumentation remained purely acoustic. (The fact that they didn’t entirely succeed in making a „back to the roots” kind of album is part of what makes 9 Dead Alive so compelling.) Each tune was composed for a different inspiration: authors, philosophers, activists, scientists, and a queen: Harriet Tubman, Antonio de Torres Juardo, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz and so on. It’s safe to say that the album evidenced an expanded the creative reach for the pair. And on April 15, Rodrigo and Gabriela, the two fiery acoustic guitar players are coming to Budapest for the first time to astonish their fans with their virtuosic licks and riffs. They generally succeed and we don’t think that this night will be an exception!

Before the self-titled follow-up, released in 2006, Rodrigo and Gabriela toured the UK with everyone from David Gray to the Buena Vista Social Club, cut a live disc in Dublin and Manchester and met with producer John Leckie. He was able to help them record a studio album that captured the sheer orgiastic excitement of their live gigs: the nine songs on Rodrigo y Gabriela are smoke and fire music, they burns across genres and traditions like a demented passion spirit that takes no prisoners. It is both ancient and futuristic, carnally frenetic and romantically seductive, artfully - and even spiritually - played yet drenched in the vulgarity of street life. Of course the two metal-heads couldn’t resist covering another rock ‚n’ roll hit: Led Zeppelin’s Stairway To Heaven. Rodrigo y Gabriela was followed by extended touring, which resulted in another live album, recorded at Tokyo’s Duo Club. But that was just the warmup for the duo’s third studio album, 11:11, featuring eleven fresh new compositions that are just impossible to ignore. All of them are dedicated to musical artists who had an effect on the duo: Carlos Santana, Jimi Hendrix, Dimebag Darrell (of Pantera, Damageplan), Paco de Lucía or Pink Floyd. They showcased their metal chops as part and parcel of their Mexican heritage. They didn’t simply meld the two, but created an entirely different form of music for the acoustic guitar in the process.Taking all these things into consideration, it shouldn’t be a surprise that they were invited to festivals like Glastonbury, Latitude or T In The Park. In September, 2010, the duo announced a hiatus from touring due to stress injuries caused by Gabriela’s heavily percussive style of playing. However, they did manage to play five sold-out nights at Shepherd’s Bush in London. Next year, they entered the studio with Hans Zimmer to write and record sessions of the score from Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. A few months later, they released their next live album, recorded in five cities during their tour supporting 11:11. And to quote a critic: „The spontaneity, improvisation and interaction between the audience and Rodrigo y Gabriela make Live In France a musical document that exists on an entirely different level than its studio companion.” But that didn’t mean that the band stopped surprising their fans with something new… ...as in 2012, they released Area 52, their first album backed by other musicians. The duo employed C.U.B.A., a thirteen-piece Cuban orchestra, and the diverse talents of several guests, and together they reworked the songs of the previous two studio albums. But that might have not satisfied the fans’ hunger for new songs. They had to wait for two more years, until Rodrigo y Gabriela released their last studio album to date, 9 Dead Alive. It marked a shift from their Latin roots towards a more

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Rodrigo y Gabriela (MX)

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03.16. Selah Sue (BE)

Fotó: Peter Piltner (SE)

news

Petőfi TV is one year old

Financial support for the A38 blog

On March 15, it was a year ago that Petőfi TV got launched on the M2 channel of Hungarian National Television. The A38 Ship is one of the most important locations of Petőfi’s TV program Én Vagyok Itt (I Am Here), and this is where the TV’s control room is located. The concert films of the A38 are also broadcast by Petőfi TV. The A38 Ship has pulled off hundreds of live programs during the past one year, with the participation of thousands of guests and interviewees. Over 250 A38 concert films have been broadcast, and nearly this many radio shows have been presented on Radio Petőfi. Together, we started a series titled Dalszerzők az A38 Hajón (Songwriters on the A38 Ship), which saw the introduction of dozens of excellent Hungarian singer-songwriters, with a completely original concept. In this program, the elements of live broadcasting, exclusive club concerts and interviews are blended. Mutually, the A38 Ship and Petőfi TV have certainly done a lot to make Hungarian pop music more popular.

The Cseh Tamás Program granted financial support for more than twenty Hungarian pop music media in February-March. As well as Recorder, Lángoló Gitárok, Now Magazin and Librarius, the blog of the A38 Ship (blog. a38.hu) also received support to popularize Hungarian pop music.

A38 birthday The A38 Ship will be 30 years old on April 30! We celebrate the birthday of the Ship traditionally together with the EU accession (which is on May 1), and of course with spring, the start of the outdoor programs. The roof terrace of the A38 also opens on April 30, with concerts and parties all summer long. We have organized a complete minifestival around the anniversary, the program of which expresses the versatility of the A38. The scale spreads from classic punk veterans to Norwegian household gadgets joke band and from delicate German electronica to sad Swedish hip hop. Most of the concerts (including the gigs of Toy Dolls and Yung Lean) are already sold out, and there are not too many tickets left for the rest (the concerts of Hurra Torpedo and Nils Frahm), so it is worth purchasing your ticket on time.

With the help of the support, the blog of the A38 Ship has become a lot more diverse and informative - as well as posting several other materials, we premiered the new album of the band Fish! in March. A huge amount of interviews, album reviews, concert excerpts have appeared on the blog, which will soon present even better content. Some of the materials, within reasonable quantity limits, can be read in the printed magazine as well - also in this month’s issue.

EXHIBITION 7

Who’s laughing now?

Exhibition on the 10th anniversary of the death of Bada Dada from the works of Bada Dada and Anna Manna Hornyik The exhibition arranged on the tenth anniversary of the death of Bada Dada is compiled from the works of two artists. Bada and Anna Manna Hornyik were partners not only in creation but also in their private life, and in many cases, their works are blueprints of their special relationship and the time they spent together. Two artists, two worldviews, entangled in each other, among opposites and extremes. What is common in both artists is their tendency to play, improvise and provoke.

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With his suicide ten years ago, Bada Dada irreversibly won on the area of provocation. But did he really? Did the artist who eliminated himself actually win, or did he only take the last step on the ladder of artistic fulfilment? The exhibition presents the humorous, jolly and playful side of the two artists. The works displayed here include pictures of Bada Dada that have never been seen before, for instance his only work together with drMáriás, the Dead-alive Boxer drawing series, and other pieces from his early creative period. The exhibition will be opened by drMáriás. Music will be provided by the band Tudósok. The exhibition can be attended with registration in advance, 11.00-18.00, every day Please contact: +36 1 4643940

INTERVIEW

I’m living the dream // Lazerpunk interview Retrofuturistic synthwave attack from Hungary; that’s how we could describe what Lazerpunk is doing! Mix Kavinsky with Crystal Castles, throw a little bit of Nitzer Ebb’s signature EBM into the pot, and you’ve got it. Tell us about the history of your Lazerpunk alterego. What were your main inspirations in the beginning? I cannot stress it enough that I’m in love with the action heroes of the 80s and 90s. I grew up watching the movies of Stallone, Schwarzenegger, Van Damme, Chuck Norris, etc. And that era was also great if we think about comic books and video games. The 80s and 90s have an endless supply of inspirational characters and role models. As a child I always wanted to be some kind of action hero, and now I’m living the dream. Okay, I’m not fighting supervillains and saving thousands of people, but sometimes I find a wounded animal and take it to the vet. I think it’s a good start.

You’ve already started working on the follow-up to your debut album, Game Over. In what direction will you be going with the new album? Yes, I’ve been working on that album for quite some time, but I wanted to make a music video before I release it. Thing is, I had like half of the footage when I had a motorcycle accident, which I survived with only a few bruises, but my bike got wrecked totally. So we had to take a break from filming. I’m still not sure how I would label this album. It has it’s roots in snythwave, but also has industrial, ebm, and vgm elements. The feel of my music is definitely retrowave, but I don’t think that I have to stick to it at all costs.

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How would you describe your music to someone who hasn’t heard it yet? I never really know how to answer this question. I’d say retrowave, but even though it has retrowave elements, it doesn’t fit into the genre totally. I’ve always been the black sheep of the synthwave scene and I’ve already accepted that. I don’t force myself to keep my music between the borders of retrowave. My inspirations come from there, but I let them take me as far away as they wish. Would you say there’s something like a Hungarian synthwave/ retrowave scene? If yes, who should we keep an eye on? Definitely. Many people think that I was the pioneer of snythwave in Hungary, but Quixotic’s been around for much longer than me. But after I got into the spotlight and did shows with such legends as Perturbator and Carpenter Brut, many other people got into synthwave music. A very important one is Neon Droid who came up with the idea of a charity album named Hungarian Synthwave Allstars. The album featured a lot of new and promising synthwave producers and sold very well. So the Hungarian synthwave scene does exist, and it’s an exceptionally friendly and positive scene.

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8 TITANIC

Titanic films on the A38 Ship This year, we can watch two films on the Titanic International Film Festival aboard the A38 Ship: the documentary New World Towers built around the story of Blur’s 2015 album The Magic Whip, and the Elvis lookalike story Orion: The Man Who Would Be King.

Blur: New World Towers One of the most important musical groups of the past 25 years, the emblematic band of Britpop, Blur, reformed after a long break in 2009 in their classic line-up, including Graham Coxon, who appeared on the band’s then last album Think Tank in only one song, and didn’t participate in the subsequent tour. In 2010, Blur released a new track (Fool’s Day), followed by the film No Distance Left To Run, documenting the band’s 2009 concert in Hyde Park. Two further songs (Under The Westway; The Puritan) came out in 2012, as well as festival appearances, and a year later, Damon Albarn and co. headlined Sziget. In the same year, 2013, the band decided to make a new album after over ten years: due to a cancelled gig, they stayed in Hong Kong and recorded song sketches in a local studio. Additional work was done in London, then Albarn returned to Hong Kong so that he could write the lyrics where the musical ideas were first recorded. Directed by Sam Wrench, New World Towers documents this process, plus two concerts: the 2012 Hyde Park gig, and a Hong Kong show that was held right after the release of their comeback album The Magic Whip.

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Orion: The Man Who Would Be King

Director Jeanie Finlay is certainly no stranger to the hoaxes of pop history as documentary topics. With her work The Great Hip Hop Hoax three years ago, he already presented the absurd and at the same time fascinating story of Scottish rap duo Silibil N’ Brains, who pretended to be Americans in order to get a record contract from Sony. The main character of Orion: The Man Who Would Be King went even further than them - and not only in terms of identity crisis. While the King was alive, Jimmy Ellis couldn’t be more than a singer who’s voice perfectly resembles Elvis Presley’s. The rock and roll legend’s death then changed everything: Ellis received a contract from Sun Records, recorded a bunch of songs, and he appeared, under the name Orion, as a kind of masked Elvis getting out of a casket on the cover of his aptly titled album Reborn (after Gail Brewer-Giorgio’s short story of the same name, in which a superstar fakes his own death). Hallelujah, Elvis is alive! At least that’s what everybody believed or wanted to believe, and it didn’t matter that Ellis was ten years younger and also taller than one of the greatest icons of rock music. The Man Who Would Be King paints an even darker picture of the drawbacks of success and fandom than Searching For Sugar Man, however, given its topic, it’s so absurd and unique that it would be worth watching it even if we didn’t add that it’s even able to say something new about Elvis.

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The Hungarian crowd is very festive

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Popof interview

Hailing from Paris, Popof is one of the most widely recognized names within the world of house and techno. A former member of the Parisian free party underground collective, Heretik System, Popof has since been brought to an international stage with countless tours and a now global fanbase. He’s rocked the Hungarian dancefloors countless times, but this time, he will play a special, three hour-long set. You’ve already played at a lot of Hungarian parties to date, could you share some of your favourite memories with us? I’ve indeed performed many times in Hungary, I cherish truly special memories. I’ve played in so many unusual places, like a decommissioned metro station, a (sort-of) castle, I did the B. My Lake festival. I’ve had a few amazing moments, the Hungarian crowd is very festive. In your opinion, are there any major differences between the European and the American partygoers? In my opinion, Europe and South America boast a common solid electronic music culture. North America is more into EDM and house music. They’re a bit left behind in terms of techno and tech house culture, but things are changing, the scene is currently growing and affirming itself. This time, you’ll play a three hour-long DJ set. For you, what are the pros of these longer sets? Does it require a different kind of preparation from you? I don’t require a special preparation, but I do need to have a large amount of diverse, different tracks in order to provide a mix that suits the crowd’s needs. It’s been a while since you last released something, production-wise – except a track here and there. But last year, you released a whole album, Love Somebody. Could you tell us a bit more about it?

A38 Night/Life pres. Popof (Cocoon - FR) 3 hour long set Monolit, Klokk & Legars

This album project took a long time to make. I composed about thirty tracks of all genres and colors that all sounded housey. Then I started selecting the ones that most fit the style and vibe I wanted to obtain. Instead of Cocoon, Love Somebody was released through Hot Creations. What was about them that made you decide so? Very simply, one day I asked Jamie Jones to check out the tracks I’d made and he liked what he heard, so we handpicked the ones that corresponded the most with Hot Creations’ spirit. Apart from the track Always In My Mind, Arno Joey sings on most of the album’s tracks. That’s not the first time you’ve worked together – what would you say makes him and ideal working partner for you? This entire project happened very naturally, organically. We started working on some tracks together and it went really well. There was a great osmosis between us so we took the project to a whole different level. Love Somebody is not exactly the kind of dancefloor nightclub music one would expect from you. Was this shift intentional or it just happened this way? For me, an LP has to differentiate itself from an EP. The latter has to stay dancefloor since it’s made for clubs. The purpose of the album was therefore different: to offer sweet, sensual music, something groovy you can listen to during the day, nothing purely dancefloor. I think it’s perfect for a before or an after, actually. What are your plans for this year with your label, FORM? Lots of unexpected releases will take place from established Form artists like Julian Jeweil and talented Form newcomers like Animal & Me. Many remixes are also due to happen.

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A38 Ship is located in Budapest, at the Buda side of Petőfi bridge, easily accessible by a few minutes walk from tram 4 and 6 “Petőfi híd budai hídfő” stop or by BKV public transport ships.

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The concert hall is a place for live shows and parties, and several bars ship-wide are open for the audience to chat and have a drink. The restaurant offers a daily menu every weekday from 12h to 15h for 1150 HUF.

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Our roof terrace is closed in the autumn/winter season and reopens in April 2016. For our smoking visitors, we have a heated smoking terrace area with its own bar.

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153 history A38 is the reincarnation of ‘Tripolie’, a Ukrainian stone-carrier ship, built in 1968. The name comes from Artemovsk, which is the ship prototype, and this one was the 38th unit of the ‘Artemovsk’ class. The re-building project lasted for one and a half years. Architects, ship engineers, acoustic designers, electricians, musicians and promoters contributed their skills and experience to make it a both artist and audience friendly place. After years of constant development, A38 has become a cultural entertainment centre with international programme, a restaurant, five bars, one main concert hall, open-air terraces and lounges all in one aboard as one of the most fascinating venues in Budapest. Since its opening it became the flagship of Budapest nightlife, a must-see spectacle on the Danube with scenic view and one of Europe’s coolest clubs, which has been voted ‘The World’s Greatest Bar’ – according to the poll of Lonely Planet in 2012.

A38 – a place for parties, concerts, dinners and drinks on the river Danube. You can find us on

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Opening hours Ticket desk, info: MON-SUN 6:30 to 23:00 or until the end of the events. Restaurant: MON-SAT 11:00 to 00:00