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Budapest, Hungary: Techno Scene (1988–2018)

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This chapter focuses on the Hungarian capital’s techno scene, which has been shaped by its community as well as by governmental decisions over the last 30 years. Budapest’s techno scene initially developed in the 1990s, but it didn’t establish long-standing club culture and venues. Following international trends, the scene began declining in the first decade of the twenty-first century, but this tendency was later reversed due to the activities of new promoter teams whose aim was to regenerate the underground scene. By examining historical moments of the scene and stories of venues, the focus is on cases of gentrification and commodification and their impacts on the local scene.

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    Techno is understood here as one of the genres of EDM, historically coming from Detroit and having different subgenres, such as minimal techno, industrial techno and hard techno.

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    However, the population of the county has drastically decreased due to the decreased birthrate and the continuous emigration of the younger generations.

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    Including related documentations such as journalistic articles, interviews, other online sources (e.g. forums).

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    It also played an important role in the 1995 liberalisation of the airwaves in Hungary (Csejdy 1995).

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    I received this information from the interviewed promoter teams.

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    Many more examples could have been described in this chapter, but due to the limited scope of this research I tried to focus only on the most important ones. However, in the attached map I tried to illustrate the territorial changes by including as many clubs as I could.

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    More case studies are presented in Jankovics (2018) and Memento a nem (2015).

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    Maybe except for the movement Több technót a parlamentbe! (More techno to the parliament!), which started in 2012 and made the request for The National Techno Radio, the need for the right of immunity for the DJs, and the programme Every Town Deserves a DJ at the Parliament (Több technót a parlamentbe! n.d.).

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Jóri, A. (2021). Budapest, Hungary: Techno Scene (1988–2018). In: Darchen, S., Charrieras, D., Willsteed, J. (eds) Electronic Cities. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-4741-0_10

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