FridayOrsi Kovács & Noémi Mondik's Exhibition @ Gallery Godot, 19:00.
Hungarian artist Noémi Mondik turns a lurid eye onto the world around her, and filters it all through an MS Paint aesthetic. They highlight the trashy and sleazy minutiae of life, like cigarette butts and stuff like that.
Noémi Mondik said that she began drawing out of bitterness about the area where she grew up. Altough all of her works are created in Microsoft Paint, and while they do show the trademark jagged lines and pixelization of this medium, they also show a surprising amount of detail. The artist has already developed a sharp social sense, that's why her pictures resonate with so many people – they aren't just slices of Noémi's life, but their lives too. Maybe after the exhibition you'll also realize that the worst things are the same everywhere.Finnish Film Days:
Love & Engineering @ Toldi, 20:00.
In this film from Finland, a group of largely misguided computer engineers and tech nerds try to unlock the secret of how men and women unite.
Directed by Tonislav Hristov, the documentary boasts an intriguing premise, with the film following Atanas, a Bulgarian 3D engineer with a PhD, who has found the stability and joy of marriage and family, and wants to help his lovelorn colleagues do the same. But to do that, he'll make guinea pigs of them, embarking on a (not very) scientific study of what connects the sexes.
Helping turn the findings into something resembling research, participants include Tuomas (who looks like a thoroughly depressed Matt Damon), who at 30 years old reveals that he's never been on a date; the charming Todor, who just needs a little help with talking to women; and the creepy, self-involved, heavy-metal and video-game loving Markus. Infused with both humor and genuine heartbreak, Hristov does make you feel for these young men who have spent so much of their time online or behind computer screens that the only way they approach the idea of being social is by looking at it as a scientific problem.Super Italo Disco @ Beat On The Brat, 22:00.
The Italian job, AKA the happiest, most uplifting disco classics – not only from Italy. Open a wormhole to the '70s and '80s, and do the dance!
Italodisco is a style of dance music originating in Europe in the late 1970s. Following the decline of disco, it reached its peak level of popularity in the early- to mid-1980s. Italo-Disco was not exclusively confined to Italy, with Germany and other European countries producing music in this style; its name is derived from "The Best of Italo Disco" series of compilations.
Italodisco has a spacy, futuristic atmosphere in comparison to Eurodisco's lightweight, bouncy, and more pop-oriented style. Lyrics are sung in English, which, due to its secondary nature in the European countries where Italo was produced, led to simplistic lyrics sung with thick accents, and therefore more emphasis on melody. Italodisco's popularity had declined by the late 1980s, giving way to dance genres such as Italo house or trance.
8OUNCE & NIGHTDRIVE Present: Seven Davis Jr.
@ Toldi, 23:00.
Raised on a diet of Prince and Stevie Wonder, the teenaged Samuel Davis was headed for mainstream success as a gospel singer, until his growing taste for underground hip-hop, scuffed house, and various strains of funkified cosmic slop lured him far off the beaten path.
Spending the next few years orbiting the spotlight as a hip-hop ghostwriter, session vocalist, scriptwriter, and poet, the LA-based Davis finally got his break through Low End Theory DJ Kutmah, who caught wind of his early Dam-Funk-esque bedroom funk experiments and released them as "The Lost Tapes Vol. 1" last year. But the real head-turner came with 2013′s glorious disco-house gem
‘One’, the track that turned Davis’ 15-year journey into an overnight success story.
After following that up with an EP on Funkineven’s Apron label earlier this year, Jr. has released his critically acclaimed "Friends" and "P.A.R.T.Y.' 12".SaturdayGardrób's Thrift Shop Community & Common Market @ Central Passage, 11:00.
Bring your old too-big too-small clothes, and maybe somebody will buy them, making the day brighter for everyone.
"One man's trash, that's another man's come-up!" – such is the wisdom of Macklemore's famous song. That's what this day is all about: finding your new favorite clothes for a cheap price, selling old duds, buying something for those you love, and having fun. Meanwhile, Common Market offers a wide variety of healthy food, honey, jam, meats, and spices. This is about local farmers who bring food, vegetables, fruits, and everything else – all without manipulated gens, artificial addictions, or anything like that.EPIK NIGHT @ Kraft, 22:00.
Everybody knows that Friday is just the warm-up for Saturday, because that's when the real fun starts. If you have any concerns about what we've just said, go to Kraft and lose your mind.
Luke Bess and DJ Jabin know how to rock the dance floor: they've spent most of their life in clubs, standing behind the decks or rumbling on the dance floor or at vinyl shops, sorting between the hottest new bangers. It's impossible to just stand and watch during their set, when they just drop the finest deep-house tracks one after another. If you feel bad about not making it to festivals like Love Parade or Tomorrowland, here is the antidote!Bladerunnaz Present: Ed Rush, Insideinfo @ Akvárium, 22:00.
Together with Optical, Ed Rush is the godfather of the darkest, deepest, and most futuristically inhumanate you'll hear in drum 'n' bass. The founder of the legendary Virus Recordings is coming to Budapest to test Akvárium's sound system.
An artist synonymous with drum 'n' bass, Ed Rush has become a byword for cutting-edge, forward-thinking beats. Moving through the sounds of hip-hop and electro in his early musical years, Ed Rush soon became big in the London jungle scene.
Showing his innate ability to manipulate chopped breakbeats and piles of sub-low bass, it wasn't long before Ed Rush and Nico dropped the huge 'Bludclot Artattack'. The first classic to Ed Rush’s name, the pioneer soon teamed up within another leading light, Optical; to form what would become one of the most progressive production teams in the scene, paving the way for household names such as Noisia, Bad Company, and many more.
Lost Minute Presents: Technodub Seance @ Lärm, 23:00.
Three Hungarian and two German acts will ensure that there isn't a Saturday night in Budapest when you can't nod your head to deep, hypnotic dubtechno.
Odum is the duo of Krisz Deák and Solomon Zoltán – they are regulars at dubtechno seances, and have never let us down yet! Their hypnotic take on dubtechno will surely help you enter the rabbit hole and get lost in the ocean of sounds. The German guests of the night will be David Schwertfeger and Tazmania, who will represent the up-and-coming Carambolage label – they play only vinyl, and you should know that this is already a good sign! Also: Li & Baco and DJ Naga & Peter Bernath will help to make the fun last longer.SundayKolor Kinema: The Talented Mr. Ripley @ kolor, 19:00.
With Matt Damon's unsettling performance offering a darkly twisted counterpoint to Anthony Minghella's glossy direction, The Talented Mr. Ripley is a suspense thriller that lingers.
The Talented Mr. Ripley features heartthrob Matt Damon cast against type as a psychopathic bisexual murderer. Tom Ripley (Damon) is a bright and charismatic sociopath who makes his way in mid-'50s New York City as a men's room attendant and sometimes pianist, though his real skill is in impersonating other people, forging handwriting, and running second-rate scams. After being mistaken for a Princeton student, Tom meets the shipping-tycoon father of Dickie Greenleaf (Jude Law), who has traveled to the coast of Italy to live a carefree life with his father's money and his beautiful girlfriend, Marge (Gwyneth Paltrow). Dickie's father will pay Ripley 1,000 dollars plus expenses if he can persuade Dickie to return to America. As Ripley and Dickie become friends, Tom finds himself both attracted to Dickie and envious of his life of pleasure. In time, he decides that he would rather be Dickie Greenleaf than Tom Ripley, so rather than go back to his life of poverty, Ripley impulsively murders Dickie and assumes his identity – but how long can he maintain the ruse before friends and family catch on?UH Night – Staer, Poino, derTANZ, Norms @ Roham Bar, 19:00.
Staer's music is comprised of a 100% distorted, octave-pitched meat patty, two piercing blast-beat high-gluten buns, and fresh saladcore. Choose between high-fat ring modulator and cold filtered noise.
Staer is a young Norwegian band that first spread its countercultural wings in 2010, and has since been hailed by various noise acts both locally and internationally. This thundering three-piece from Stavanger has an old-school instrumentation of drums, bass and guitar, but sounds refreshingly new, exciting, and forward-thinking. The incredible biking kids Thore Warland (drums), Markus Hagen (bass), and Kristoffer Riis (guitar) kick out some monstrous future rock that comes across as pure, wild, and energetic as one could imagine. All composing that takes place in Staer is a collective labor, and the young flock definitely already knows how creating music can become an orgiastic mind-enhancing experience for both musician and listener.
