There are those strange days in a week named Friday and Saturday: the magic Weekend Fairy gives procrastination a guilt-free pass and so we can put our “Look at me, going out!” hats on. Close the .pdfs, stop pretending you’re not facebooking, go! But where to? This information is what our new events section of The CEU Weekly will try to cover, and in our Party Diary series we will tell you where we went.
This week we checked out Snowattack Warm Up Party to provide you with an intellectual, critical, and constructive account on...how awesome this drum’n’bass party was!
Snowattack? Warm Up? Party?
Snowattack? Warm Up? Party?
Before I jump into details of this festivity, I feel the need to explain the title of the party itself. You see, Snowattack is a winter ski and snowboarding festival that takes place in Puy Saint Vincent, France, that basically mixes these winter sports with winter-cool music. Next Snowattack will take place at the end of January of 2013 so you can check it out, make up your mind, and go partying for a week. It’s a pretty nice idea: you don’t need to wait for the summer to go to a festival. We’re saved!
But so the organizers of Snowattack, a group of music and party enthusiasts called MEEX, are based in Hungary and threw this party as one of the many events they have in Hungary. Feel free to use some Google magic to see what else they are getting ready for us.
“There Ain’t No Party Like a Drum’n’Bass Party”
Albeit not entirely original, this line of CAge, a performer accompanying DUB FX, was very much true. A line-up of DUB FX himself, Chase and Status, and our own Hungarian DJ, Andro (finally, we overcame our ignorance and now know a Hungarian artist!) quickly turned the Studio club into a synchronized jumping mass of happy people. There was nothing else left for us to do: we simply had to join in.
“What were you doing last night? Nothing much, just interviewing DUB FX…”
What was perhaps even cooler than the music itself was the fact that we managed to get an interview with DUB FX himself! For the ones confused now, DUB FX is a street performer from Australia who uses live looping, beatboxing and other techniques to make drum’n’bass, reggae, and hip hop pieces. Recording his music live, lots of improvising, lots of energy – just check the guy out. To sum up, the CEU Weekly interviewing a celebrity: we’ve been given some serious credit.
What did we talk about during those minutes we had? A little bit about the van he lives in, about his performances, and so here are a couple of questions from our chat.
TCW: Your lyrics as a whole seem to be about raising the consciousness in the world, which, I would guess, takes some travelling or living abroad to even start thinking about. Was this your case?
DUB FX: That’s very true what you’re saying. Basically, the more experiences you have, the more questions you have. If you’re living in small place, it seems that the universe just ends there but when you travel you expand your universe. I was very lucky: when I was nine years old I went to live in Italy, from Australia – is the other end of the world – different language, different continent, different everything.
TCW: OK, the nicest audiences you’ve had.
DUB FX: I’m not saying it for the camera, but this (i.e. Budapest) is one of them, and even the last time I was in Hungary in that festival (i.e.Volt Festival), they were amazing! Also, Germany this year was really really good, Canada was great, and Georgia – Tbilisi – was really nice.
TCW: Have you ever thought of just saying… how to put it… “screw this, I want a fancier life”?
DUB FX: What do you mean “fancier life”? No, I’m not that rich, really. You know, we’re making enough money to do what we like, like travelling, making music, we don’t need to work in a shop. We (DUB FX and Flower Fairy, his girlfriend) just bought a house, so we’re working on that now, we just spent all our money on it. (TCW: And what country is the house in?) Australia. I have family there, and Flower Fairy really likes the weather.
We thanked Ben (yes, he has a real name) here, said it was a pity Flower Fairy couldn’t come, wished him safe travels and, well, we do hope to see him again somewhere. Maybe the MEEX people will bring him back to us some time in the future.
Post-Interview Joys
After our interview, some intense dancing continued. Chase and Status with their mix of drum’n’bass and dub step and then Andro with his dance-punk/hardcore electro beats: no matter how tired you were, you were moving! And no matter how physically tired you might feel the next day, parties like that with their radiating energy is a brilliant way to mentally recharge after a week of studying. Come on, CEU students, we deserve it!
We talked with one of the organizers of the Snowattack Warm Up party before the event. “Basically, it will be biggest house party in Budapest!” he said. Well, what we can say after having talked to some party-goers in Studio club, is that it definitely felt like one.
Justina Poskeviciute
Photo: Zsófia Cservölgyi
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