RE: Solymi Birthday stream you are all invited! 11.23.2023 9:00 AM CET requiem for my friend and uncle DJ Palotai
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It was a sad news in the weekend.
From the end of the 90s till mid 2000s, I partied a lot at events where he also played. For me the A38 the place where I can recall lots of parties where I enjoyed his music. Also amazing parties on festivals, especially, on smaller, better ones, SZIN, Hegyalja.
I didn't follow since a decade+, still bad. Lots of great DJs, underground musicians left in this year.
I found this interview with him, when I read about the sad news. It's from last year.
I've been looking for mixes from him for the past few days, but there are very few of them shared on youtube from the stone age. Basically nothing from dnb parties.
Only some Tilos sessions and the unforgettable Abrak a Dubra.
I had abrakadubra on cassette :D and I have the CD too.
About a year ago I met him on the corner of the Mikszáth Kálmán tér, we walked to his flat went up had a beer and he played music he was researching. He spent about 6-8 hours daily just researching new music.
This interview shows how sad the situation in Hungary is rn.
https://www.szabadeuropa.hu/a/vartuk-hogy-teljen-az-ido-palotai-zsolt-dj-palotai/32166493.html
I've been seeing this for more than 10 years, not just in music. And not only in Hungary, but throughout Europe. I call it modern version of soc-comc fascism... "várjuk hogy teljen az idő" and you hardly can leave.
I remember when I got to Fabric and Ministry of Sound in London for the first (and last) time around 2008-10, I had to say that the Hungarian places and parties were 100 times better (early 2000s) .
In the Dél-Alföld around 2000, it was difficult to find a month when Palotai was not playing somewhere, especially in summer. These places were systematically shrunk. Obviously, a lot of things went into this. Population decline, money, interests.
I've seen it for 10+ years, this too has been diverted in the direction of tourism.
The last time, 5-6 years ago, when I went to 'party' in Pest in the summer, I visited 4-5 places, they were full of foreigners, the music was crap, everything was terribly expensive, the atmosphere was repulsive. They were able to reach the western level...(Let's say I was completely surprised that in Pest in 1984, with cameras everywhere, how many big and small hordes were selling their shit on every street corner completely calmly.) Who and why would go out to have fun, even if they had the money for that... or what kind of parent the one who lets his child out into this legally/illegally constructed mafia-controlled night. I suppose, these also played a big role in the aging and declining audience.
I still have good memories of Palotai parties!