Budapest Calling pres. Claptone @ Trafiq: 5 essential tracks

Following the high flying birthday party of David K in January, the Budapest Calling crew strikes again with its monthly installment - a spring starter Aquarius carnival - that is promising to be epic.

The headliner of the Thursday evening will be the mysterious Claptone, while Moon will warm up the dancefloor in Trafiq and Blatti will help you to squeeze your last energies in the hours of dawn. As it is becoming usual this year, Budapest Bonkers will help you to get ready for the event by selecting five tracks that will be surely played. Here's the Claptone selection!

CLAPTONE FEAT. JAW - NO EYES
The first selection for this night is way too easy: arguably the biggest production of Claptone to date, selected as Essential New Tune on Pete Tong's radio show and simply being everywhere in 2012, "No Eyes" will be considered as a classic deep house tune with years to come.

CLAPTONE - WRONG
With the second pick I'm going to post my all time favorite Claptone track which is apparently comes from the flip side of "No Eyes" and in fact, is exactly the opposite of its title. Huge, huge deep house action with lots of instruments, if you haven't heard it so far, I bet you will love this one!

PURPLE DISCO MACHINE - NO LIPS
You can never go wrong with a Purple Disco Machine track and the same applies to the releases on Kittball Records too. Let's combine then and you will get the newly release "No Lips" which is featured in almost every Claptone mix lately so you better expect it on Thursday!


ADANA TWINS FEAT. HUMAN LIFE - BLEEDING
Starting from the really early days in 2011, Shur-I-kan's Exploited Records is the home of Claptone so it's not a coincidence that he plays lots of stuff from his imprint. The next Adana Twins tune is no exception either, it will be released next Monday but I'm sure that we will be able to enjoy it on Thursday at Trafiq too!


METRONOMY - I'M AQUARIUS (CLAPTONE REMIX)
And let's save the best for the end: this night will be a carnival for Aquarius people who may already have or will have birthday celebrations in the near future and Claptone was kind enough to think about them and orchestrated this magnificient remix of Metronomy. Party on everyone!


PARTY INFO:

Venue: Trafiq (1051 Budapest, Hercegprímás u. 18.)

Lineup:
CLAPTONE
Moon
Blatti

Entry:
3500 HUF

Facebook event: CLICK

MADNESS presents Dannic @ Club Play: 5 essential tracks

EDM lovers of Budapest will be quite satisfied this Saturday as the renowned MADNESS party series brings yet another Dutch superstar to the city. Currently ranked as #30 DJ on the planet and being one of the most well-known artists of Hardwell's Revealed Recordings, Daan Romers aka Dannic will surely bring a high octane EDM set to the dancefloor of Club Play and as usual, BPB won't miss out on the action.

Here are five tracks that you should check out (if you haven't done so far) before you head out to play.

BYNON & DOMENO FEAT. ALICE BERG - GOLDEN HEARTS (DANNIC RE-EDIT)
One of Daan's favorites over the last two months and what a coincidence: it was released this Monday. This one will be played for sure!


DANNIC & SHERMANOLOGY - WAIT FOR YOU
Dannic teamed up with the Shermanology crew late 2014 to produce an epic party bomb like "Wait for You". Either the original or the Jewelz & Scott Sparks remix, you just cannot go wrong.



MAKO - BEAM (DANNIC REMIX)
This was a huge success in its time and it always works in big rooms. Expect it!



MYDO - PUSH
Revealed Recordings offering a wide selection of brand new talent and based on his latest sets, Dannic seemingly cannot resist to play "Push" by the young Swede, Mydo.



ZOMBIE NATION - KERNKRAFT 400 (W&W BOOTLEG)
And let's leave a classic with a new design to the end: this brand new W&W bootleg can cause a serious havoc on the dancefloor!

PARTY INFO:

Venue: Club Play (1113 Budapest, Daróczi út 2.)

Lineup:
DANNIC
LaCora
Rusty
Jauri

Entry:
1500 HUF for ladies
2500 HUF for gents

LOOP! Birthday with Oliver $ @ Grand: 5 essential tracks

LOOP! Events were responsible for many memorable nights in Budapest and this Saturday (7th February), it's time for them to celebrate again. The simple occassion is a birthday and the invited superstar is none other than Berlin-based beatmaker and last year's Ibiza favorite Oliver $.

Further to taking the house scene by a storm with "Pushing" (alongside Jimi Jules), Oliver established himself a home at Defected Records, took numerous gigs in Ibiza last summer and lashed out some stunning remixes throughout the autumn club season

The party will take place at Grand, the brand new club situated in Óbuda.

Let's scroll through 5 handpicked tracks that will surely define the night.

OLIVER $ & BrEaCh - WATCH ME WORK
Oliver's latest joint just got a release on the 10th anniversary compilation of Dirtybird. Produced along with Ben Westbeech aka BrEaCh, we got some pure house music right over here.



ROMANTHONY - LET ME SHOW YOU LOVE (OLIVER $ REMIX)
Even though this is not the newest work of Oliver, he still manages to play it nearly every time. So does the original, this is timeless as well and will surely work on dancefloors for many years to come.



HERCULES & LOVE AFFAIR - DO YOU FEEL THE SAME (OLIVER $ REMIX)
Oliver's latest remix offering arrived in December and quickly found its way to the top jocks' playlists as well so it's a safe bet to say that this will spin on Saturday night.



ED ED - I GOT (SOMETHING YOU NEED) (OLIVER $ REMIX)
From Berlin, from Defected Records: Ed Ed and Oliver $ makes a really cool team, you better expect this one.



OLIVER $ & JIMI JULES - PUSHING ON
What else could you think of as the last track of this preview? It's an obvious choice, expect to hear it in different versions!


PARTY INFO:

Venue: GRAND (1036 Budapest, Bécsi út 38-44.)

Lineup:
OLIVER $
Lotfi Begi
Chris-M
Vinster

Entry:
Ladies: free
Gents: 2000 HUF

New names announced for Balaton Sound 2015

12 new names have been announced for this year's Balaton Sound festival on Tuesday. Along with the already announced 15, this year's festival quite shaping up to be a legendary one. It's nice to see that Hungary's mainstream electronic music festival is stepping up in the premier league and gathering names that are listed as top tier performers. 

The newly announced artists included some serious superstars, up-and-coming talent and a huge flock of artists from the Spinning Records stable. So, let's take a look at them and what they do when they get to the stage!

TIESTO

DIMITRI VEGAS & LIKE MIKE

AXWELL & INGROSSO

OLIVER HELDENS

LOCO DICE

UMMET OZCAN

DON DIABLO

FIREBEATZ

ALSO PERFORMING ON BALATON SOUND 2015
FLIGHT FACILITIES

BRODINSKI

MOTi

EVA SHAW