For 4 years now, we’ve been rustling the reeds, beating the waves, spinning the blades of the cultureplasmagenerator right here in the soul of District Eight.
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LIGHT FACTORY: THE EXHIBITION
Since its 2023 debut, INOTA – set in a decommissioned socialist power plant – has rapidly become one of the most distinctive audiovisual festivals in Central and Eastern Europe. From the very beginning, the organisers have been actively envisioning the site's long-term cultural revitalisation.
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Szelektor Showcase x Telekom Afterwork
The Telekom Electronic Beats SZELEKTOR project is on the lookout for the best young and emerging producers in Hungary, whether they come from the world of pop, club, or experimental music. Many of the artists featured on previous compilation albums have since gone on to shape and enrich Budapest’s electronic music scene with their skills and creativity. This time, Afterwork’s spotlight turns to the characters who took part in the talent-scouting initiative.
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New Stage at INOTA Festival: Periféria Promises a 12-Hour High-Speed Rave
Supported by Telekom Electronic Beats, a new stage is coming to life on Friday, August 29th, within the grounds of the Inota power plant. Peripheria will serve as the home of the fastest, hardest, and rawest strands of free-spirited dance music at this year’s INOTA Festival.
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Consistently Great Coffee at Központ on Madách Square
A few months ago, Központ joined forces with The Principal’s Office, a café concept dedicated to espresso-based drinks and specialty coffee. The founders, Bálint Homonnai Varga and Benjamin Tenner, developed the PO experience in Florence, Italy, where they spent months immersing themselves in the world of third-wave coffee.
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BOGOTÁ x BUDAPEST BRIDGE - GHOSTS Exhibition
Although Colombia and Hungary are located in two distant parts of the world, the sensitivity, vision and artistic expression of the people show surprisingly many similarities. The common starting idea of the two curators is the experience that young contemporary artists honestly see the difficulties and problems of our current world, and are not afraid to honestly reflect on them in their artistic work.
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BOGOTÁ X BUDAPEST BRIDGE
The smoke machines of Budapest and the fire of Bogotá locking into an all-night soundwave. It all started with a checkout trip to Colombia, grew through friendship, and ended up with the two capitals exchanging underground champions like long-lost twins. It couldn’t have turned out any better.
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LUNAR PASS is now available at Turbina!
Our silver-lit Holdturbina nights are in full orbit – weekend after weekend, Holdturbina is glowing brighter, thanks to our peak-form performers and your unwavering presence.
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LIGHT FACTORY: THE EXHIBITION
Reflecting our vision, the project reaches a new milestone in 2025: between August 15–24, the entire area will be open to the public for the first time, marking the launch of INOTA’s first large-scale light art exhibition, open daily from 6 to 11 PM. With this, the power plant is set to become Hungary’s largest industrial exhibition space.
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SURFALONE - RAGYOGJ✨ OUT NOW
There is this cosmic, above us, all-conquering energy that just flows through us, and we have no control over what happens to us. This is what Surfalone's new song Ragyogj✨, recorded together with Laura Döbrösi, is about.
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INOTA Festival 2025
In 2025, INOTA Festival returns to its one and only home: the defunct power plant next to Várpalota. We’re coming back with a powerful lineup of innovative sounds, striking installations, and a previously unused location within our massive post-industrial playground, to make sure this end-of-summer celebration echoes long into the future again.
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TURBINA FREETEK 003
The spring winds are blowing acid: after two strong freetek seances in Turbina, the Ministry of Freethinking Tekno Fun is now hosting a one-man delegation from Italy, Neurotribe, whose musical output is a record of mostly acidic items, and whoever puts a big pile of onions on one of their album covers and a derelict Soviet public institution on another can't be a bad person.
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TURBINA PSYTEK #2 W/ SENSIENT, KRUMELUR
On the debut night of our Psytek series we explored the field of psytechno, but after summing up your energies, the cosmic council decided that we could go a little deeper down the rabbit hole.
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HARDBOILED X TECHLAB.BP W/ VEL, ALPHA TRACKS, SLYM, SZOLIVER, RUENGE, ZSÚR
For the only day of a solar eclipse in 2025, Budapest crews techlab.bp and Hardboiled merge their powers to bring two of the inescapable natural phenomena of futuristic trance to Turbina.
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NVC XX / Központ házibuli
The first child of the NVC team has arrived at Madách Square and is already in full adolescence.
Many of us have found not only our place and a go-to gathering point at Központ, but also the NVC crew.